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* Cera in the first ''[[The Land Before Time]]'' movie. Littlefoot's mother saves her and Littlefoot from being eaten by Sharptooth. Even after this [[Jerkass|she]] ''[[Too Dumb to Live|remains]]'' racist against "longnecks", even going so far as to call Littlefoot's mother stupid.
** She gets better eventually.
* {{spoiler|[[Southern Gentleman|Lotso]]}} in ''[[Toy Story (franchise)||Toy Story 3]]''. {{spoiler|Basically, [[The Hero|Woody]] and [[The Lancer|Buzz]] risk their lives to save him near the end, then when he has a chance to save them with no risk he deliberately leaves them to die in the incinerator.}}
** Woody has his moment in ''Toy Story 2''. Buzz and friends go to great lengths to get up to the apartment and rescue him from toy collector Al, who is preparing to send him to Japan. The most prominent expression of this is when Buzz gives a heartfelt speech about how he once taught him that [[Toy Story (franchise)||life was only worth living if he was loved by a child]] and he came to rescue him because he believed him. His response? "Well, you wasted your time."
* Stoick the Vast in ''[[How to Train Your Dragon]]'' could count as this when he finally finds out about Hiccup and Toothless. {{spoiler|After inadvertently endangering Hiccup and ''seeing Toothless rescue him'', he attacks the dragon and orders him captured ''after Toothless spares his life when Hiccup begs him to.'' Then he tells Hiccup that [[I Have No Son|he's not his son just because he befriended a dragon]], then he doesn't listen to his son's stories about how big the queen dragon is and brings what is apparently most of the village on an inadvertent suicide mission.}} [[Sarcasm Mode|Great parenting skills, Stoick.]]
* [[The Napoleon|Sykes]] in ''[[Shark Tale]]'' demands that [[Idiot Hero|Oscar]] pays him.
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* In [[Anne McCaffrey]]'s ''[[Tower and The Hive|Talent]]'' series, early on the Talents provide a warning that saves the life of, among others, a Senator who's arguing vehemently to deny them legal protection—even though it also risks the life of their strongest defender. Undaunted, the Senator not only accuses them of perpetrating a hoax but also insists that real psychics would have known better.
* Steve from the ''[[The Saga of Darren Shan]]''. Darren saves him by sacrificing most of his humanity after an accident. And how does Steve repay him, by becoming a vampire slayer and vowing to kill him. All because he thought Darren stole ''his'' original dream of becoming a vampire.
* ''[[Jennifer
{{quote|'''Jennifer:''' Oh, yuck! Malcolm Wylie, what are you doing here? I was hoping to be rescued by some handsome cop or maybe a federal agent or something. }}
* Palicrovol in ''Hart's Hope,'' so much so that {{spoiler|the book consists of a plea by another character for him not to kill Orem.}} It doesn't help that he contributed to the problem by raping the [[Big Bad]], Beauty, when she was a child. So once {{spoiler|Orem frees him and his closest friends -- including the narrator -- from their various curses, at the cost of Orem's beloved son, Palicrovol sets out to kill him due to Orem's time as Beauty's second-string consort}}. Discovering that Orem is his son (by a different woman) only prompts him to add incest to his list of charges.
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*** To be fair, Mordecai and Rigby lied to them... all the episode.
** Rigby, after being saved by his friends from a doppelganger, manages to be a [[Beyond the Impossible]] Ungrateful Bastard at ''Temp Check"
{{quote|'''Doug:''' ''[[Villain Has a Point|...A guy like me, doesn’t have a lot to be thankful, but you, you got friends, a job, a nice work bed. You’ve got a good thing going here, never forget that]]''.
'''Rigby:''' ''What a windbag!, I thought he’d never shut up. I can’t believe you guys thought he was me. You must feel like idiots, right?'' }}
* Gobsmack from ''[[Pearlie]]'' is the pickiest bastard in the show.
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** For most of its history North Korea depended on foreign aid from [[wikipedia:Communist states|Communist states]] to keep the economy running. However, this was never officially acknowledged. The Soviet Union ignored this ungrateful behavior because they needed North Korea as a [[wikipedia:Buffer state|buffer state]] and did not want them to ally with China. After the Soviet Union collapsed North Korea suffered economic disaster as Russia and China began demanding that any payments be on time and all friendship prices were revoked.
* Similar to the Canadian example above: in the buildup to the Iraq War, France was accused by the United States of betrayal and cowardice for not agreeing to send troops to aid in the war effort. This accusation flew in the face of over 200 years of strong relations between the two nations, from the American Revolution to the fact that France had sent troops as part of the coalition effort in Afghanistan less than 2 years prior.
** YMMV on that one. Many Americans have long considered the French to be the [[Ungrateful Bastard]]s, since France has long been one of the most anti-American countries in the Western world, despite the fact that America rescued France in both [[World War
** Furthermore, whatever debt of honor the US owed France for the aid given us in the Revolutionary War would be to the French monarchy, which France overthrew in 1789. France is trying to cash in a marker owed to a previous regime that they themselves rejected the legacy of. (Justifiably so, really, but still.) Can't have it both ways, France.
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