Ungrateful Bastard: Difference between revisions

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Heroes save people, [[Save the Villain|even enemies.]] What's more, if a hero saves a [[The Rival|rival]] or villain enough times, you'd expect them to change their attitude towards the hero into one of at least [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You|grudging]] respect or having [[Noble Demon|honor dictate]] [[You Will Be Spared|that they]] [[I Was Just Passing Through|"owe them one".]]

== Fan Works ==

* In ''[[Team 8]]'', Naruto's team of himself, Shino, Hinata and Kurenai fights a team of missing-nin that kidnapped Konohamaru and Hinata's younger sister Hanabi. After being released, Hanabi shows little gratitude toward her rescuers, particularly her older sister Hinata, and expresses disdain toward her for getting knocked out first.

* In ''[[My Immortal]]'', "Dumblydore" saves the lives of [[Designated Hero|"good"]] characters at least twice. They respond by constantly insulting and deriding him for [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|not being "goffik" enough]]. Also, whenever anything big goes wrong, Ebony and friends [[Entitled Bastard|go to Dumbledore and expect him to fix it for them]].

* In one ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' fic, Link finishes up saving a village only for the mayor to throw him out because of the amount of damage Link caused. Link himself knew he was going to cause damage and was willing to fix it up, but the mayor's reaction sends him into a minor [[Heroic BSOD]] (He gets better).

** Much as the show liked to forget it, every Goa'uld was holding a host captive. Even if they weren't menacing anyone else, merely letting them "live their lives in peace" was an unacceptable situation—as proven by the trial over the Goa'uld and Skaara.

* The living Ancients in the ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' episode "The Return" fall squarely within this trope. After their hyperdrive failed in the void between the Milky Way and Pegasus, they set their ship up to travel at .999 percent the speed of light. Thanks to relativity, they're still alive 10,000 years later when the Atlantis expedition finds them and brings them home. Their thanks? Kicking the entire human population out, including the people on the mainland, so they could be "alone" and have "time to adjust". Despite repeatedly stating their gratitude, they never actually ''show'' it. Arguably they could have had a chance had they not been killed within weeks of reclaiming the city, but there's really no excuse for just how unreasonable they were behaving at the beginning.

* In ''[[Misfits]]'', when Nikki receives a heart transplant that saves her life, she tells the doctor she doesn't want her new heart, and orders him to take it out and give her a different one. In her defense, along with the new heart she had inherited the "gift" of spontaneous teleportation (her first trip resulted in her finding herself in the morgue, lying on top of the frozen corpse of her heart donor) but she couldn't really ''tell'' the doctor that part without sounding batshit crazy.

* One episode of ''[[Lois and Clark]]'' had Superman facing a [[Frivolous Lawsuit|lawsuit after rescuing a rock musician who claimed Superman injured his hand in the process and that he couldn't play guitar anymore]]. Turns out the guy had history of suing people at the slightest provocation.