Ungrateful Bastard: Difference between revisions

* No matter how many times [[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]] saves his school, the students of Hogwarts will still turn against him on a moment's notice on the strength of lies purported by the government. Meanwhile, Harry never shows any gratitude to Snape for saving his life in the first book, or for attempting to save him and his friends from Sirius Black (at the time believed to be a mass murderer), or for saving their life ''again'' in ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (novel)|Order of the Phoenix]]''. Of course, Snape's a dick to Harry, but you'd think saving his life would merit at least a "thank you" from a kid whose defining characteristic is love.

* ''[[Discworld]]'' heroes often get this, especially the ones who saved the world from certain destructuiondestruction, because people become a lot less certain about how certain it was. In particular, we're told in ''[[Discworld/Eric|Eric]]'' that there was some talk of building a statue of Rincewind after he saved the world from the Dungeon Dimensions (again) in ''[[Discworld/Sourcery|Sourcery]]'', but as the wizards became more determined to [[Let Us Never Speak of This Again|pretend it never happened]] (since they were the ones who started a magical war and opened the rift in the first place) this became a comemorativecommemorative plaque, then a commendation on the roll of honour, and finally an official reprimand for being improperly dressed.

** To Alliance players, the Nightborne - particularly Thalyssra - comes across this in ''Battle for Azeroth''. Here’s how it goes down during the ''Legion'' expansion (short version): The player first finds Thalyssra as a Nightfallen, starving for lack of mana and assaulted by Withered. After finding her sanctuary and saving her from ''becoming'' a Withered - clearly a [[Fate Worse Than Death]] - the player finds her fellow outcasts Oculeth (which requires using malfunctioning teleporters and fighting his insane apprentice) and Valtrois (which requires solving a mirror puzzle) and keep ''them'' from starving. Next follows a long campaign where the player has fight through mobs of spider-demons to find a seed to plant a new Arcan’dor, then sneak into the Surumar vineyards gain mana wyrms (needed to keep vermin away from the young Arcan’dor). What follows then is a long string of quests where the player has to continually infiltrate Surumar in disguise (risking death if it falters) find mana to keep his three allies from starving ''and'' pay a pricey informant, all while saving citizens - including children - from slavers, interrupting a public execution, spreading slander among nobles to rig an election, and even delving into the Emerald Nightmare itself. Eventually, the Arcan’dor blossoms and the Nightfallen are cured of the cursed state, but it’s not over yet. After raising an army (managing to get the Alliance and Horde to cooperate, for petes' sake), training soldiers, and fighting the Legion again and again, Surumar is finally freed. (Causing the player to gain the well-deserved [[Good Samaritan|Good Surmerian achievement]]. After all this, one would think you’d have a friend and ally for life, but that’s only the case if you’re Horde, because when Battle for Azeroth starts, Thalyssa sides with them, simply because Tyrande makes ''one'' rude comment. Clearly, members of the Alliance would see such an act as cruel betrayal, and the worst thing is, this is far from the only example of this that the new expansion has caused.