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{{quote|'''Buffy:''' ''What are you doing?''<br />
'''Spike:''' ''Making this woman more comfortable. I'm not sampling, I'll have you know. Just look at all these lovely blood-covered people. I could, but not a taste for Spike, not a lick. I knew you wouldn't like it.''<br />
'''Buffy:''' ''You want credit for not feeding on bleeding disaster victims?''<br />
'''Spike:''' ''Well, yeah.''|'''''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'''''}}
 
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* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Spike the erstwhile evil vampire tries to impress Buffy by helping people injured in a roof collapse, and especially wants credit for not drinking their blood.
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Boom Town", Blon Slitheen has a nice chat with a young pregnant woman about family instead of eating her. The Doctor doesn't fall for it.
{{quote| '''Blon:''' I spared her life.<br />
'''Doctor:''' You let one of them go, but that's nothing new. Every now and then, a little victim's spared... because she smiled, cos he's got freckles, cos they begged. And that's how you live with yourself, that's how you slaughter millions, because once in a while, on a whim, if the wind's in the right direction, you happen to be kind. }}
** It's also worth mentioning that said villain's scheme would have ended up destroying the world, making her arguments even more hollow.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* There was a ''[[Zogonia]]'' strip that went something like:
{{quote| '''Kev''': I can't believe you don't trust me! All those times when I was on guard duty, I could have slit your throat while you slept and taken all the treasure, but I ''didn't''! And this is the thanks I get?<br />
'''Domato''': I was never really asleep.<br />
'''Kev''': Yeah, I know. }}
* Belkar in [[Order of the Stick]] prequel, ''On The Origin Of PCs''. He thinks he deserves a reward for the restraint he showed by not killing ''all'' the barmaids in a tavern brawl, and suggests that if humans don't want him to murder people, they should put up a sign saying "Thank you for not killing more than five of us".
{{quote| '''Prison Guard''': We don't want you to kill ANY of us!<br />
'''Belkar''': Now you're just being unreasonable! }}
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* This beauty from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', while the group was talking about Zuko's sudden [[Face Heel Turn]], and citing setting Appa free instead of leaving him to rot as one good thing he's done.
{{quote| '''Sokka:''' ''[Sarcastically]'' Oh, hurray! After a lifetime of evil, at least he didn't add animal cruelty to the list!<br />
'''Toph:''' I'm just saying that considering his messed up family and how he was raised, he could have turned out a lot worse.<br />
'''Katara:''' You're right, Toph. Let's go find him and give him a medal. The "Not-As-Much-Of-A-Jerk-As-You-Could-Have-Been Award"! }}
* In ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'', after [[Anti-Villain|Lance]] saves an elderly lady (out of genuine decency) from a train wreck Wanda caused and the lady richly rewards the Brotherhood, the Brotherhood begins to do "good deeds"--but only for the reward and occasionally engineering the situations in the first place. When their reputation collapses and the rewards vanish, they go back to their typical [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]] routine.
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== [[Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* A gem from [[Chris Rock]] that would make an excellent page quote if not for the, ahem... [[N-Word Privileges|controversial]] language;
{{quote| ''Everything white people don't like about black people, black people really don't like about black people, and there's two sides, there's black people [[Stop Being Stereotypical|and there's niggas]]. [...] You know the worst thing about niggas? Niggas always want credit for some shit they supposed to do. A nigga will brag about some shit a normal man just does. A nigga will say some shit like, "I take care of my kids." You're '''supposed''' to, you dumb motherfucker! What kind of ignorant shit is that? "I ain't never been to jail!" What do you want, a cookie?! You're not supposed to go to jail, you [[Buffy-Speak|low-expectation-having]] motherfucker!''}}
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Inverted in ''[[Mass Effect]]'':
{{quote| '''Shepard:''' Saving my boots from burning lava is part of your job, Joker. We don't give medals to soldiers for doing their jobs.}}
** Only if you choose the [[Jerkass|Renegade]] dialogue option. If you choose Paragon, Joker will comment that he would probably have to shave his [[Badass Beard]] for the award ceremony, and [[Crowning Moment of Funny|no award is worth that.]]
 
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