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* Recently in his self-titled comic book, ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (Comic Book)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' has defeated {{spoiler|Dr. Robotnik. Suddenly, Robotnik flipped out, tearing off most of his mustache-Sonic winced in pain seeing that-and collapsed, babbling incoherently.}} When Sally showed up and asked what happened, Sonic didn't know, saying he beat him like normal. Snively then walks up to them and says that Sonic didn't just beat {{spoiler|Robotnik, he broke him. Snivley gives a [[Hannibal Lecture|speech]] where he acknowledges, "eccentrics aside", Robotnik is a genius and master planner, having conquered the planet in a few years. He says that Robotnik was losing his mind as a result of Sonic being the one thing he couldn't figure during his decade long reign, and Sonic winning again just now finally pushed Robotnik over the edge. Snively then asked to be left alone to take care of his uncle. As a result, ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Snively denied Sonic the thrill of victory, and instead made him feel bad about what he did.]]'' }}
** More recently, Mina Mongoose called out the Freedom Fighters for keeping NICOLE around, even after she was [[Brainwashed and Crazy|brainwashed]] by the Iron Dominion, during which time it was shown just how [[AI Is a Crapshoot|big a threat]] she could potentially be.
*** This ended up turning into a [[My God, What Have I Done?]] for Mina when she realizes her doing that allowed the wizard Ixis Naugus to take over Mobotropolis.
* [[Spider-Man]] ends up being so disturbed by [[Iron Man]]'s morally dubious actions (such as imprisoning non-registered superhumans indefinitely without trial) during Marvel's [[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]] crossover that he defects from the pro-Registration side to the anti-Registration side.
** Currently, it seems Marvel has just lined up characters so ''everybody'' can have a shot at this, including Iron Man's old teammates Thor ([[Justified Trope|who both needed an ass-kicking scene early in his new series to establish that he's as powerful and had a very legitimate beef with Stark]]) and {{spoiler|the real Hank Pym.}}
** Hulk also gave one to Tony and the other members of the Illuminati during [[World War Hulk]]. To elaborate, Hulk wanted revenge on the Illuminati for trying to exile him to a supposedly peaceful world, though in reality he ended up on a very hostile world which he eventually brought peace to and found happiness on, only to have the very ship that brought him there explode, ruining the planet and {{spoiler|killing his new wife}}. This was subject to a very blatant [[
* Lately a lot of ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' issues have been dedicated to calling out Professor Xavier for his regular abuse of his powers on the people he cares about. Guess he forgot his [[Mind Over Manners]].
** Cyclops, despite being very harsh on Professor X, has done a lot of morally dubious things himself for the sake of maintaining the ever-dwindling mutant population. He's been called out on it by Wolverine of all people; Beast quit the team in protest over his actions and Nightcrawler was prepared to chew him out thoroughly {{spoiler|before he died}}.
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* Speaking of the JSA, the entire damn team (except Alan Scott, and he's not exactly happy about what's going on either) gives Atom Smasher this when he helps Black Adam wipe out the army of a dictatorial regime. Then they give Hawkman one because ''his'' methods of dealing with ''Black Adam's'' allies was too brutal. Basically, if you kill anyone ever, whether they were good, bad, or neutral, you can expect to get this from the JSA, especially Jay Garrick.
* A nonverbal one occurs in the recent mini ''Beta Ray Bill: Godhunter''. Bill has decided to take fatal revenge on Galactus for destroying the remnants of his people by destroying planets marked for his consumption with weapons confiscated from an intergalactic arms dealer. {{spoiler|One race insists that they will fight Galactus rather than evacuate, but Bill (rather than let them go through a suicidal last stand) is convinced by said arms dealer to infect them with a bio-war agent and use the cure to blackmail them into leaving. They do so, but when next he tries to pick up his [[Drop the Hammer|enchanted hammer Stormbreaker]]...he cannot.}}
* ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]], Chapter 11: The Empire Builder From Calisota'': Hortense and Matilda McDuck leave their brother Scrooge a note chastizing him for attacking the Congo village just to get their land. This plus several [[Floating Advice Reminder|Floating Advice Reminders]] finally make [[Mr. Vice Guy]] realize he's crossed a line and exclaim, "[[My God, What Have I Done?|What have I done?!]]"
* ''[[War of Kings]]'': Many, many characters has this reaction towards {{spoiler|[[The Inhumans|Black Bolt's]] [[Assimilation Plot]].}} Then it got worse - {{spoiler|he gets one [[What the Hell, Hero?]] from VULCAN!}}
* Carol Danvers a.k.a. Ms. Marvel eventually gives the Avengers an epic verbal beating regarding the events of the infamous Avengers # 200.<ref>The story in question involved Carol being unknowingly impregnated in order for Immortus's son to escape from Limbo. As a result of this, reality starts coming undone and Carol ends up returning to Limbo with the guy who [[Mind Rape|brainwashed]] and raped her. The other Avengers see absolutely nothing wrong with this.</ref> [http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/819915.html Witness it here in all its glory.]
* In the 2003 series, ''Trinity'', which details the first meeting between [[Superman]], [[Batman]], and [[Wonder Woman]], Wonder Woman gives one to Batman when they first meet and Batman uses the [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]] on a mook for info.
* ''[[Kingdom Come]]'' Superman gets stuff sprayed in his eyes by criminals, blinding him. He takes a wild swing, hitting our Superman. He apologizes, saying he was aiming for the crooks, but Supes points out that if that punch had hit anyone else, they would be dead.
* Happens several times in the ''[[Squadron Supreme]]'' limited series, as the Squadron continue their efforts to take over the world. Most of the callouts are given by Blackhawk, but Amphibian gets in a few licks too.
* Done rather humourously in an arc of ''[[Ultimate Spider Man]]'' which sees Peter mind-swapped with Logan by Jean Grey she gets sick of Logan hitting on her. For Peter, the result was as thus: he had [[Humiliation Conga|woken up in Wolverine's body, freaked out, tried to call the X-Men for help (and got laughed at for his trouble,) accidentally cut off his own fingers, got a car flipped over on him, gotten tased, arrested and shot in the face by anti-mutite police, and then had to take crap from Wolverine (who nearly got him kicked out of school, lipped off to Aunt May, tried to get some from Mary Jane and nearly blew Peter's secret identity) about his life.]] Although swapping his brain with Peter was an unintended side-effect, not surprisingly, Peter -- who didn't ask for any of this, has had an utterly shitty experience because of it, and doesn't appreciate Jean's rather glib attitude to the situation -- is quick to give her a rather [[Cluster F
{{quote| God, you know why people hate you? It's not because you're mutants! It's because you're a bunch of %#@&@&%@& *($!$^&&!^$ #&$@$&$#@*!!! }}
** He also chews out Colossus, much to Colossus' confusion.
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* In ''[[X-Force]]'', ''[[Deadpool]]'' openly states that {{spoiler|Fantomex killing Kid!Apocalypse}} was wrong. While {{spoiler|Fantomex was the one who pulled the trigger}} Deadpool is upset that the team he joined supposedly to help make the world a better place crossed one of the few lines he never crossed as an amoral mercenary.
* In one of the ''[[Black Widow]]'' graphic novels, Natalia encounters two thugs, and she warns them that if they don't stand down neither will ever walk again. She kills one and renders the second unconscious. The What the Hell, Hero moment occurs after she proceeds to fulfil her promise by breaking the back of the unconscious survivor, causing a male companion to have a Squick moment which she shrugs off.
* In the last year of ''[[Batman and The Outsiders|Outsiders]]'', Geo-Force (who is both a king and a superhero) has been treating the team as his subjects, and specifically using them as a Markovian special forces team. Black Lightning finally gets fed up of repeating [[What the Hell, Hero?]], and takes half the team back to America.
* Cyclops has given one to Magik in [[New Mutants]], on the account of the fact that in her personal vendetta against [[Eldritch Abomination|Elder Gods]] she manipulated her friends and teammates, almost got them killed and risked the destruction of reality itself without second thought and probably would do that again if she had to, which is the reason why they cannot trust her anymore and she must be restrained, until she'll prove herself not to be danger to the team and all mutants on island. Later, through it happens off-panel, Colossus clearly has told Scott what he thinks about not only the whole idea of restraining his sister but also the fact that he has took most dangerous members of the team to take her down in case she wouldn't accept his terms and send everybody who are emotionally attached to her, one way or another, on a mission, so they wouldn't interfere.
{{quote| '''Dani, about Peter's discussion with Cyclops:''' There was a lot of shouting.}}
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