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You'd be wrong.

 

 

This is true even if it's a forced [[Enemy Mine]] situation, and he never even acknowledges the service rendered or is grateful, much less gets [[Character Development]] or a change in their relationship to [[Reset Button]]. This might be done either to show how utterly evil (or at least callous) the enemy is, and [[Status Quo Is God|avoid having the show's formula change]] with the [[Big Bad]] growing unable to kill or hate someone who has saved them so often.

 

 

Contrast [[Grudging Thank You]]. Probably not related to the [[Inglourious Basterds]] kind. See also [[Entitled Bastard]].

 

== Anime & Manga ==

** At least he stopped trying to kill him in the manga. His opinion of Yugi did eventually change, but that was in episode 223, and it took seeing Yugi {{spoiler|destroy ALL THREE EGYPTIAN GODS in one move}} for that to happen.

{{quote| '''Lolly:''' {{spoiler|What is she... What... She's... She's... Like a monster...!?}}}}

** This may not have been an increase in hatred, but shock/fear at realizing the full extent of Orihime's powers (Not everyday you meet someone who can {{spoiler|bring people back from the dead.}}) Considering that Hollows/Arrancars/Espada/etc. are born from spirits of the dead that have remained in our world and become increasingly more corrupted, then this counts as {{spoiler|pretty much seeing what Hollows would consider ''an [[Eldritch Abomination]] at work.''}}. Quite the [[Fridge Brilliance]] there.

** Another ''Z'' example would be a bit earlier in that Saga, when Gohan grabs a badly-wounded Vegeta to get him out of the way of [[Boisterous Bruiser|Recoome's]] incredibly powerful [[Breath Weapon]] (which probably would have instantly killed him). Just ''why'' Vegeta yells at him depends on the translation, but he's pissed off about it.

** Vegeta has a history of this. When he intentionally wounds himself to the point of near-death, thinking Dende will heal him and make him stronger, he's horrified to find Dende refuses to do so (due to the rather-reasonable argument that Vegeta has killed a lot of Namekians). When Dende comes back and finally obeys, Vegeta punches him in the stomach, with a cry of "You little turd!"

* In ''[[Buso Renkin]]'' , Kazuki risks his life to protect the Hayasaka Twins (the series' [[Sympathetic Villain|sympathetic villains]]) from Tokiko, who wants to kill them simply because they work for L.X.E. Shusui "thanks" Kazuki by trying to kill him. Kazuki gets better (thanks to Ouka), but even so...

** Also, the treatment of Naruto by the villagers. If the Kyuubi hadn't been sealed inside him, it would have destroyed Konoha, but he is a pariah because of it. Over time, this gets better as they see how much Naruto has accomplished and start regarding him as a hero.

** Also Lampshaded when Ash saves the Team Rocket trio. While Jessie claims it doesn't change anything and begins ranting at the heros for saving them James interupts saying that he, at least, is thankful. This doesn't stop him doing villian stuff a few seconds later.

* In one episode of ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'', the trio supposedly meet Xavier III whose trying to spread Christianity to Japan. However he turns out be nothing but a con man taking advantage of the locals. A girl name Yuri, whom he mercilessly abused, has him at gunpoint and is all set to kill him. But she eventually just tells him to get lost and spares his life. He respond by trying to kill her. Karma however stepped in when after a brief fight a giant cross gets dropped on him.

* In one of ''[[Genzo]]'''s story arcs, a limp old man named Yasuke asks Genzo to made an artificial leg for him. As soon as Yasuke get his new limb, he tries to chop the puppetmaster with his [[Evil Weapon|Yamiganemaru blade]].

* In a sense, Villetta Nu of ''[[Code Geass]]'' could be considered this for convincing Ohgi, whose love she finally accepted, {{spoiler|to lead the charge of the Black Knights in turning on Lelouch}} because of some rather questionable evidence of Geass. Yeah, even though she had been keeping surveillance over Lelouch because of said power, which she must have known had limits, and that Lelouch saved Ohgi from execution via Britannian firing squad, which he had to do by going under Villetta's radar. Now alright, Lelouch didn't necessarily do it for Villetta's sake, but talk about a complete lack of class.

** Of course, Krieg did give everyone in the restaurant time to evacuate before he took it over; still [[Jerkass]] behavior, but quite a concession coming from him. A better example would be when Don Krieg himself was starving. Everyone else present loudly and proudly declared their intent to just let him keel over and die, with only Sanji willing to step forward with food for him. Once Don Krieg is done eating, the first thing he does is get up and punch out, of all people, ''Sanji''. '''For absolutely no reason'''.

** The Longarm tribe, who {{spoiler|Brooke}} decides to work with and proceeds to earn them a lot of money and fame, repay him by {{spoiler|turning him over to the Navy when Brooke tells them that he plans to retire and return to piracy.}}

** Myosgard, after just having his life saved by Queen Otohime, he tries to shoot her. Then again after he is healed up, all he shouts is his disgust towards having to be with them. And lastly, he voices his anger when Otohime wishes to come with him on his ship.

 

 

== 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 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).

 

 

== Films -- Animation ==

* ''[[The Incredibles]]'' has superheroes go into hiding to escape being sued by the people they saved. To be fair, the ones we see ends up hurting most of them pretty badly.

* 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.

* Lieutenant Dan in ''[[Forrest Gump]]'' is not only ungrateful, but downright angry with Gump for saving his life. This was mostly a pride thing, though, as he was the first in his family not to die in battle and didn't know what to do with his life afterwards, especially after losing his legs. If anything, by the end of the movie he becomes grateful to Gump for not just saving him, but giving him a reason to live.

{{quote| "I never thanked you for saving my life."}}

* In ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]'', "Steamboat Willie" is spared by the platoon... only to rejoin the Nazis, {{spoiler|help kill the main character, and actively kill the Jewish squad member. No wonder shortly after he surrenders [[Obligatory War Crime Scene|he gets shot]]. By the same guy who convinced Capt. Miller to let him go, in fact, right after he tries to get him to do the same thing again.}}

* In ''[[Jurassic Park|Jurassic Park: The Lost World]]'', [[Designated Villain|Ingen's dinosaur capturing party]] rescues Ian and his team after a T-Rex destroys all of their equipment and leaves them dangling off of a cliff. They then provide all of the information Ian and co. need to get help and personally escort them there, despite heavy losses to their own ranks(most of which directly caused by [[Too Dumb to Live|Ian's group]], of course). Despite all of this, Ian's team still feels the need to spend every minute of screen time possible heckling and sabotaging them. They even steal the bullets from them as they leave the island, leaving Ingen's team helpless against the attacking dinosaurs. That's ''manslaughter'', or at the very least depraved indifference.

* The Jedi in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|EU]] are consistently feared by the Galaxy. And while this fear is warranted (the Jedi have had multiple civil wars, singular Jedi who go dark can wreck an entire galaxy, they have special powers), for a few examples, during the Vong War, a large portion of the New Republic felt that the best thing to do would be to appease the Vong by giving them the Jedi. As of this post, the New Republic (Galactic Alliance) is more fearful of the Jedi than the remnants of the ''Empire''. Despite saving the Galaxy again and again, the Jedi just can't seem to catch a break.

** Blame DelRey for keeping an [[Idiot Ball]] in the [[Mooks]] of the galaxy to continue to write huge, galaxy spanning stories despite quality taking a nosedive. The most egregious examples are ''[[New Jedi Order]]'' and ''[[Legacy of the Force]]'', especially on the latter {{spoiler|where the idiots in the alliance elect a War Criminal to be their Chief of State who goes on to exile the Galaxy's savior, Luke Skywalker.}} [[What an Idiot!|What stupid fucking idiots.]]

* 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 the Jerk Is Missing]]''. The title character is rude and insulting to her rescuers when she's found. "I like you better tied up and muffled," one of her rescuers says.

{{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.

* In ''[[Warrior Cats]]'', Brokenstar plots with {{spoiler|Tigerstar}} to take over Thunderclan, even though the same clan gave him shelter when he was blinded and '''saved him from being murdered''' by two other clans. Even his own clanmates don't treat him with the same kindness as Thunderclan.

** Draco Malfoy. Ron even lampshades it:

{{quote| "And that's the second time we've saved your life tonight, you two-faced bastard!"}}

* Anyone who has read [[Stephen King]]'s ''Everything's Eventual'' will know that [[Ungrateful Bitch|Diane]], the character from the short story ''Lunch at the Gotham Cafe'', is '''definitely''' this trope. You would think, that even after her husband just saved her life from a psychotic waiter, even after she treated him very coldly, not to mention demanding a divorce, would at least warrant a "thank you" from her!

* ''Sisterhood'' series by [[Fern Michaels]]: The protagonists, of all people, are these! ''Payback'' has Mark Lane save Julia's life, and instead of being grateful, Charles Martin sends three men with presidential gold shields to intimidate Mark, and the three men perform a [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]] on Mark's friend Jack Emery. In that book ''Deja Vu'', almost all the men working with the Vigilantes up and leave, and Charles has to explain to the ladies that their men risk their lives, careers and reputations on a daily basis for them, and they have never shown any sort of gratitude for their men! Unfortunately, the ladies do not take that to heart, because the men successfully find the ladies' target, point out his location, and the women respond to this by performing a No Holds Barred Beatdown on their target in front of their men, without even allowing the men to have a piece of him! [[Ungrateful Bitch|Ungrateful Bitches]]!

* A fairy tale example. The Brothers Grimm story ''[[The Bremen Town Musicians]]'' features a donkey, a cat, a dog and a rooster who are all past their prime years and no longer able to perform their services for their masters. Instead of allowing the animals to spend their final years in peace, each animal's owner plans to simply dispose of their beasts and replace them with newer animals. The animals decide to set off on their own.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* ''[[The Jeffersons]]'': Unlike what the episode title may imply, "Sorry, Wrong Meeting" is not a funny little story about accidentally walking into the wrong meeting, although the plot is most certainly about walking into the wrong meeting. To determine how to handle a series of burgalries in the Manhattan high-rise where the Willises and Jeffersons live, Tom plans a meeting; in the elevator, he runs into a man (who has just moved into the building) and his son, who are planning their own meeting. Tom -- unknowing that the gentleman is the master of the local Klu Klux Klan chapter, and unknowing that the meeting is about running the Jeffersons out -- offers to come. George, Tom and Mr. Bentley (also a white man) arrive and discover that they have the wrong meeting. A loud argument eventually ensues, with George's natural talent of wit (along with Tom's reasoning and Mr. Bentley also using sarcastic wit) thwarting the leader's racist reasoning at every turn. Eventually, the KKK leader suddenly passes out, and George -- the only one who knows CPR -- manages to revive him and save his life. However, when the man's son tells him that George had saved him, the leader promptly tells his son that "You should've let me die!" (The audience gasps in disbelief at this point.) His attitude makes the other members realize what they're doing is wrong and, when his assistant tries to resume the meeting, the others all leave the club en masse, with the son -- who had once admired his father and was starting to become the very racist image of him -- apologizes and takes a look at his own values.

* Played straight and averted in ''[[Stargate SG-1]].'' Despite various team-ups with the likes of Apophis and Ba'al, both continuously try to destroy the SG-1 afterwards. Averted with Lord Yu, who was at least honorable enough to respect their deals, though admitedly [[Even Evil Has Standards|he held to a higher moral standard]] than most Goa'uld, for instance being the only System Lord to vote against readmitting Anubis into their ranks. It's notable he was the only one still alive from the time Anubis was expelled, making him one of the more successful ones too.

** 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 ''[[Crossing Jordan]]'' Garret Macy found out that a dead victim is alive and paralyze near death, said victim happens to be his old friend who sets his life in ruining the entire cast. When he was paralyze he said in his mind that he would change as a better man if they saved his life. But when he got out of the hospital he decides to sue the team for negligence. On the way to his car he was killed for real when he was hit by an ambulance.

* Ingrid in ''[[Young Dracula]]'', especially in season three. She's trying to distract {{spoiler|her brother}} so one of her vampires can kill him. She decides the appropriate distraction is to thank him for when he saved her life the previous episode.

 

 

 

== Theater ==

{{quote| '''Tin Man:''' And the lion also has a grievance to repay, if she'd let him fight his own battles when he was young he wouldn't be a coward today!}}

* ''[[Cyrano De Bergerac]]'': Cyrano lampshades, invokes and tragically averts this trope as the supreme aspiration in his work: [[Freudian Excuse|After being bullied all his life]], Cyrano distrust everyone who claims to help him, and coldly reject any intent of [[False Friend|friendship]] or [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!|any help from a powerful person (De Guiche and Cardenal Richelieu at Act II Scene VI]]). He does not suspect that Christian will help him in his love life, and that averting this trope will be [[Tragedy|his downfall]]. Lampshaded at Act II Scene VIII.

 

== Video Games ==

* Good god, ''[[Phantom Brave]]''. Most of the population believes Marona is "the Possessed One" who can kill them all. So not only do they berate, insult, and hiss at her...they hire her services to save their bacon, and then stiff her on the payment. They get better, but geez.

** The fairies are a prime example, but really, EVERYTHING in the game that accuses Serge and company of wrong doing is full of itself. Especially the Green Aesops toward the game's ending. The dwarves get on Serge for killing the Hydra. Said dwarves are also the guys who have been trying to kill you, no questions asked, since you got into the Marsh. Then said dwarves go off and slaughter the fairies. Save the fairies, and they act like you're the murderers. Then there's the whole "Reptites evolved more closely with the planet!" Which is a load of crock, since the Reptites were building giant castles and actively waging war, while the humans had been peaceful, and lived in harmony with nature. Nevermind the parts where the dragons try and blame you for Lavos' crimes. Especially since it was HUMANS who fought to take care of Lavos, while all other good for nothing races in all the other good for nothing time-lines just sat around doing nothing. Chrono Cross takes place in a WORLD of ungrateful bastards.

* {{spoiler|Scott Shelby a.k.a The Origami Killer}} from ''[[Heavy Rain]]'' can be this in one of the scenarios played out. {{spoiler|During the fight on a conveyor belt against Jayden. If you did the button prompts right, Shelby gets knocked off and hanging for his life. You can choose to let him drop or hoist him up. Choose the latter, and he ''still'' tries to kill Jayden. Not surprisingly this leads to Shelby's downfall after one last struggle.}}

* The weeping willow in ''[[King's Quest V Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder]]''. When you turn her back into her human form, she carelessly tosses aside her harp (the sole comfort she had the whole time she was a tree), calls her fiancé, and struts off with him without so much as a word of thanks to you. As [[Paw Dugan]] put it in his [[Let's Play]], "YOU'RE WELCOME, YOU UNGRATEFUL '''''BIIIIIIIITCH!!'''''"

** The [[Bratty Teenage Daughter]] Lady Celeste in ''[[King's Quest VI Heir Today Gone Tomorrow]]''. After all the time it took Alexander to save her from the Minotaur, too.

** Moore served in Operation Sunburst a few years prior, which saw the NCR and Brotherhood in a state of open war and in which the NCR incurred massive casualties before wearing the Brotherhood down via sheer weight of numbers. Her unhappiness over an alliance with them is understandable, even if not exactly agreeable. Likewise, the Great Khans ''boast'' about their open antagonism towards the NCR and although they've fallen on hard times lately, even a cursory look at their recent past paints them as little more than opportunistic raiders who killed and stole whatever they pleased. A former Great Khan who was present at the Bitter Springs Massacre even says the tribe got what was coming to them.

* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', the player can rescue {{spoiler|Magatha Grimtotem}} from the Twilight's Hammer cult, but she responds with a promise to kill the player if they ever meet again.

* At the end of ''[[Crash Bandicoot|Crash: Twinsanity]]'' Dr. Neo Cortex {{spoiler|learned from his mistake and goes back to being Crash's arch rival}}.

* Knight Commander Meredith in ''[[Dragon Age II]]''. Even if you side with her during The Last Straw, she will still try to kill you. Also Grace, the apostate mage that you help earlier in an Act I quest, returns in Act III convinced that her own failure to escape the templars is your fault.

** In the [[Dragon Age Origins|previous game,]] you recuse Queen Anora from Arl Howe's estate. On your way out, you're confronted with Ser Cauthrien and a number of guards who charge you with breaking and entering and murder of the Arl. You'd think having the captive Queen on hand would get you to get out of the situation without bloodshed, but drop her name and reveal her and she instead pins her kidnapping on you and your companions.

*** In the third, you'll be surprised that Shepard doesn't ''name'' this trope. Council Tevos's [[Exact Words]] are:

{{quote| ''The cruel and unfortunate truth is that while the Reapers focus on Earth, we can prepare and regroup.''}}

** There are several demons who will allow you to begin negotiations with them, ask them to be your demon, make demands of you... and then ''refuse to join you anyway''. These demons are all of either the Law or Chaos alignments (they include Angel, Oni, and Lilim), and will not pull this on you if you're of the same alignment. Thankfully, there's a Sub App called "Tea Amity" that forces them to reconsider their refusal; once they reconsider, they will ''always'' agree to join you.

* At the End of [[Saints Row the Third]] {{spoiler|if you rescue Shaundi, she berates you at first asking why he lets so many of his other friends die. She gets a cold "Shut Up" from The Boss afterwards showing that he really took that personally.}}

* In ''[[Bad Machinery]]'' when Archie saves Linton from drowning he comments that it probably only saved him so it could kill him itself. Jack then claims to be phoning the dictionary to ask for a stronger version of the word "ungrateful".

* In ''[[Impure Blood]]'', [http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Issue4PAGES/ib079.html apparently the appropriate response to help is to arrest Roan]. (Then [[Who Will Bell the Cat|someone would actually have to arrest him.]]) [http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Chapter005/ib026.html A fact deeply according with the past of his people.]

* ''[[Thistil Mistil Kistil]]'': [http://tmkcomic.depleti.com/comic/ch02-pg20/ Loki's interpretation.]

* In ''[[Erstwhile]]'', the bride orders Maid Maleen [[Bride and Switch|to take her place at the ceremony]] under threat of death, and Maid Maleen returns as soon as the ceremony is done. [http://www.erstwhiletales.com/maidmaleen-25/#.T298etm6SuI The bride snaps at her.]

 

 

== Western Animation ==

** Zuko was an [[Ungrateful Bastard]] pre-[[Character Development]]. Aang saves his life twice in the first season (though the first may have been a simple qui-pro-quo since Zuko freed him) and once in the second season. His uncle even points out to him that he's only alive because of the Gaang's mercy, but he still chooses to help bring him down in Ba Sing Se.

** Early in season two, Zuko was on the receiving end of this trope in "[[Villain Episode|Zuko Alone]]". He comes into an Earth Kingdom town as [[The Drifter]], stands up to the bullying soldiers oppressing them, and saves the kid who [[Hero Worshipper|hero worshiped him]], but because he does the last bit after revealing his identity, the entire town, including the kid, shuns him.

** Early on in the first season episode "Imprisoned", there's an Earth Kingdom village being occupied by the Fire Nation, which outlaws all earthbending. While Katara is talking with Haru, an earthbender who practices in secret, they find an old man who is trapped in a landslide. Haru saves his life using his earthbending, only to be repaid by the old man turning him in to the Fire Nation.

** Thankfully averted in the third-season episode "The Painted Lady". After Katara (who has been masquerading as the eponymous spirit) drives the Fire Nation army away from the town and blows up their factory, one of the townspeople recognizes her. The rest of the town gets mad and it looks like they're going to get run out of town, only for Sokka to step in and yell at them about how ungrateful they're being, since the factory is destroyed, the army is gone, and the people can make their village prosperous again.

** "The Dark Side of the SWAT Kats" features what might be an amazingly fitting inversion involving ''the same character''. When the SWAT Kats find themselves in a [[Mirror Universe]] where their equivalents are evil, they plead with Feral to check out Pumadyne labs to see that a bomb detonator was stolen by that universe's evil SWAT Kats. [[Reasonable Authority Figure|He comes to believe them]] enough to check it out, and when the evil SWAT Kats show up and attack, admits they were telling the truth. He still thinks the Enforcers can handle it alone, though; and he might have a point, in a setting where a lone Enforcer helicopter reacts to animated skeletons by casually obliterating them with [[Gatling Good|Gatling fire]].

*** This is possibly justified by Feral's rigidly [[Black and White Morality|Black And White]] view of justice. In "Metal Urgency", he refuses to let the Metallikats tell them who the SWAT Kats really are. When Callie Briggs calls him on this, he simply says he won't deal with criminals on any level.

**** It's not like Feral's wrong. The SWAT Kats have massive firepower, cause huge amounts of collateral damage, refuse to follow the rules and are generally reckless. (Example: in "The Giant Bacteria" they dropped Morbulous because it was more fun than just handing him over, thus allowing him to escape before the Enforcers could get him again.) And he's not completely ungrateful, he just greatly disapproves of them and their methods, and you can pretty much tell which episodes he'll be sympathetic/grateful to them because they'll add in a different character to take up the unsympathetic role.

**** Feral didn't like them when they were Enforcers either: on their first day (as shown in "The Wrath of Dark Kat") they saved the city but destroyed Enforcer HQ, which got them fired and on Feral's blacklist for life.... Which wouldn't have happened if he hadn't interfered in the first place.

** Just to be clear, Jameson isn't fond of Scorpion either. It only took about half of his origin episode for JJJ to realize he screwed up, and he even goes so far as to admit that Spider-Man is the lesser evil of the two.

** Sideshow Bob still tries to kill Bart, even teaming up with his brother Cecil on one occasion, despite that Cecil previously tried to kill them both and it was Bart who saved him.

** The Astronaughts as well. When Rigby points out they saved the city, their only response is to [[It Makes Sense in Context|throw the grilled cheese in their face]] and threaten their lives.

*** To be fair, Mordecai and Rigby lied to them... all the episode.

{{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]]''. <br />

'''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?'' }}

* Gargamel the wizard in ''[[The Smurfs]]''. Despite many a [[Save the Villain]] moment by the Smurfs, he still never returns the favor and is still plotting his revenge against them. Even his cat Azrael, when Natural Smurf shows him mercy, is that ungrateful.

* Wasp from ''[[Transformers Animated]]''. Ever since the day [[Kid Appeal Character|Bumblebee]] accidentally sent him to prison for a crime Wasp did not commit, Wasp has since then vowed revenge on Bee for betraying him and wants to kill him one day. When Wasp because of his obsession with revenge on Bumblebee for framing him, accidentally gets mutated into a technorganic monster, Bumblebee is now horrified by Wasp's hideous new look, and immediately apologizes to him. Wasp's response:

{{quote| '''Wasp''': (in his pre-organic voice) Wasp... forgive... Bumblebot... (brief pause, now in his "normal" voice) [[That Man Is Dead|...BUT WASPINATOR ''NEVER'' FORGIVE!!!"]]}}