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* Rocket Raccoon from ''[[Guardians of the Galaxy (2021 video game)|Guardians of the Galaxy]]'' is presented as a [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold|lovable asshole]] whose heart is in the right place, but [[Jerkass|the execution]] makes it hard to like him, let alone love him. He constantly whines, bitches, and complains about everything Peter "Star Lord" Quill does, and won't hesitate to throw tantrums that compromise the team's missions. ''Every single time'' the Guardians hit a snag in their plans he'll chew out Peter, culminating in him {{spoiler|''briefly ditching the team'' in the middle of an important mission}}, and even after {{spoiler|he rejoins}} he'll still loudly complain and tear into Peter over the smallest thing. While you can have Peter call him out at multiple points, he often doubles down on his obnoxious behavior and [[Never My Fault|never genuinely apologizes for the way he acts]], making him feel like every bit the manchild that Peter is often accused of being.
* The fall of Repliforce in ''[[Mega Man X4]]'' is treated as a tragedy, one where its members are wrongfully accused of going Maverick and are killed thanks to the manipulations of Sigma and the paranoia of humans and Maverick Hunters alike. But while individual members like General and Iris ''are'' easy to feel bad for, that doesn't quite work for the rest of them. After suspicious circumstances place Repliforce at ground zero of a terrorist attack, Colonel refuses to disarm and come in for questioning. He instead decides to declare war, making him responsible for everything going wrong out of a sense of stubborn, pigheaded pride. Shortly afterward you have Repliforce start what's essentially a robot ethnostate in outer space, on an orbital space station with a ''planet-busting superweapon pointed directly at the Earth''. And when you go after members of Repliforce causing trouble around the world, they're usually outright ''giddy'' at the prospect of going to war and fighting X and Zero. In the case of Jet Stingray and Storm Owl, a few of them are even leading military assaults on civilian populations, with Stingray being noted to have destroyed an ''entire city'' before you get to him. It's really hard to buy Repliforce as victims of circumstance when they go out of their way to act like a bunch of murderous, warmongering assholes.
* ''[[Crusader of Centy]]'' paints its monsters as innocent, misunderstood victims of discrimination from humans, with the [[An Aesop|Aesop]] being not to judge or hurt those who are different from you. Now while you ''do'' see examples of monsters being unfairly attacked by humans ([[Hero of Another Story|Amon]] attacking the Slime family unprovoked, monsters being imprisoned in the king's dungeons without doing anything bad), the problem is that it's usually the monsters that are attacking people and animals for no good reason. Whether it's the Big Bad Wolf trying to kill and eat a defenseless old woman,
* This trope is why Therese is [[The Scrappy]] of ''[[Octopath Traveler]]'': despite knowing just how [[Oblivious to Love]] Cyrus is, she's so jealous of Princess Mary trying to make romantic advances on him that she decides to ruin his life out of petty revenge by spreading rumors of him being guilty of ''sexual misconduct''. This gets him fired from Atlasdam's Royal Academy, and while he's okay with it since it gives him an excuse to leave and set out on a hunt for a stolen [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]], it doesn't change the fact that, in her own words, she just "wanted to get (him) in a little trouble". Trouble that, given how Princess Mary is ''royalty'', could easily end with him scheduling a date with the headsman's axe if word of his "misdeeds" made its way to the king.
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