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* ''[[American Gangster]]'' has [[Villain Protagonist]] Frank Lucas, normally [[Affably Evil]] [[Neighbourhood Friendly Gangsters|Neighbourhood Friendly Gangster]] completely lose his shit when the cops raid his mansion, and one of them slaps his wife. He starts to leave, clearly with murder on his mind when his frail, elderly mother steps in front of him.
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'''Frank Lucas:''' [ignores her pleas as he escorts her outside] [[Blatant Lies|All right, Mama. I'm not going to, I promise you. I'm not going to shoot anyone.]]
'''Mama Lucas:''' I never asked you where all this stuff came from, because I didn't want to hear you lie to me. Please...
'''Frank Lucas:''' [talking over her] Ma, I understand. I don't want you to worry about it. Now come on, I have to go...
'''Mama Lucas:''' Don't LIE to me! [[Armor-Piercing Slap|[slaps Frank roughly]]] Don't... don't do that. Do you want to make things so bad for your family that they'll leave you? Because they will.
'''Frank Lucas:''' [dismissively] No. No, Ma, I understand...
'''Mama Lucas:''' [points towards his wife] She will leave you. ''I'' will LEAVE you! }}
** It wasn't just the slap. The corrupt cop [[Shoot the Dog|shot his dog]] for no good reason.
* In ''[[Ever After (
* ''[[Dirty Harry]]'' got called out on the tactics that he used to bring Scorpio in, including his full-on [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique|Jack Bauer style interrogation]] on the football field. Granted, Harry was absolutely furious after Scorpio revealed himself as a [[Complete Monster]] (who didn't feel like revealing the location of his [[Buried Alive|hostage]] after all), but it still qualified as [[What the Hell, Hero?]] in the eyes of Harry's superiors.
* ''[[The Joker]]'', of all people, pulls this on ''[[Batman]]'' in ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', as part of his [[Hannibal Lecture]].
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** In the same way, during the Joker's "social experiment", {{spoiler|the [[Scary Black Man]]}} calls the leader of the police officers on not {{spoiler|throwing away the detonator}} immediately.
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** Prior to this, ''[[Batman]]'' pulls this on Harvey Dent after Dent {{spoiler|hijacked an ambulance where the gunman who apparently killed Gordon was awaiting transport, tied him up in a chair, and threatened to shoot him if a coin landed on tails the longer he didn't talk. The coin turns out to have two heads, but he still abducted and threatened at gunpoint a mentally ill man--and no matter whether or not you intend to shoot someone with it, no gun is 100% safe unless it's not loaded (Even then, are you sure it's not loaded?)}}. Batman calls him out on this breach of ethics, saying that Gotham deserves better from its "White Knight", and asks him what would happen if it got out.
** Batman himself receives one of these from Lucius Fox concerning {{spoiler|the sonar technology he secretly circumvents into a mass-spying device designed to catch the Joker.}}
** While the hero part is debatable, Harvey does this to {{spoiler|Ramirez after she delivers Rachel to the Joker.}}
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* [[James Bond (
** Vesper Lynd also asks Bond at one point if he was ever disturbed by the fact he'd had to kill a number of people to complete his mission. Earlier, Bond comforts her when she is greatly disturbed following the brutal killing of a warlord and his minions by Bond.
** In ''[[
* Zoe calls Mal out near the beginning of ''[[
* In ''[[Hellboy (
** In the first film, Tom Manning accuses Hellboy of causing several BPRD [[Red Shirt]] deaths with his poor field leadership, and hits Red's [[Berserk Button]] by calling him a monster.
* Though not exactly a Hero, in ''[[
* Kirk gets a big one in ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture
** Of course Kirk didn't relinquish command and instead assigned Decker, the rightful captain of the ship, to an advisory role. Decker remains rather bitter about it throughout the rest of the film.
** In ''[[Star Trek VI:
*** Spock gets this from Kirk and most of the crew when he "volunteers" them to meet for the first peace talks with the Klingons. This seems exceptionally stupid considering the Klingons had earlier accused Kirk of developing the Genesis device as a superweapon and had killed his son. {{spoiler|The conspirators have no problem leveraging Kirk's reputation to derail the peace process.}}
* And then in ''[[Star Trek: First Contact
* ''[[The Guns of Navarone]]''. Miller blasted Mallory {{spoiler|for giving Franklin false info about the mission which he hoped he would feed to the Nazis in case they torture him.}}
* In the B rated movie ''[[
* In one scene of ''Babylon AD'', when the protagonists are attacked, a wrestler (motivated mostly because of an attraction to Aurora) steps in and helps them. Right after the thugs are taken out, [[Vin Diesel]] savagely beats and murders the wrestler for no reason other than to be a dick. Aurora calls him out on it, "He was trying to protect me!"
** Ah no, Vin did it because he was trapped in a cage with a punch-drunk boxer.
* In ''[[The Other Guys]]'' a reporter asks Highsmith and Danson if it was worth the remarkable amount of property damage to capture a few men who, after a spectacular car chase, turned out {{spoiler|to only have committed the crime of possession of a very small amount of marijuana}}.
** The same thing happens at the beginning of the ''[[Starsky and Hutch (
* In [[Avatar (
* Loomis himself realizes what an asshole he's become in Zombie's ''[[Halloween (
* Jason is given this treatment on several occasions by his friends in ''[[Mystery Team]]''.
* In the 2005 Will Ferrell movie ''Kicking & Screaming'', Phil Weston (played by Ferrell) starts employing draconian measures in the training of his Little League soccer team in order to get them into the finals, including sending his own son Sam onto the bench and preventing him from contributing (an act his own father pulled on him in his childhood). Weston's wife Barbara finally gets fed up and calls him out on his newly-acquired [[Jerkass]] behavior.
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'''Barbara:''' He'd ''love'' to play for you! But every time he tries, you end up putting him ''on the bench''. ''(gives Phil a look)'' Sound familiar?
'''Phil:''' But I just wanted to get us into the finals.
'''Barbara:''' Well, congratulations. You made it. ''(walks away in disgust)'' }}
* Doubling as a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], Fozzie delivers one to all the Muppets in ''[[The Great Muppet Caper]]'' when they all try to back out of Kermit's plan to catch the thieves who framed Miss Piggy red-handed.
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* In ''[[Friday the 13th]] Part VI: Jason Lives'', Tommy Jarvis demands to know why the sheriff didn't incinerate Jason when they recovered his remains. The sheriff gives him this reply in a very curt manner toward {{spoiler|Elias Voorhees}}:
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* The whole plot of [[Orgazmo]] involves Elder Joe Young, the protagonist and a Mormon missionary, getting involved with porn acting to make enough money to pay for a temple wedding for himself and his painfully wholesome fiancee, Lisa, as well as get them a nice place when they're married. {{spoiler|Lisa herself}} unfortunately finds out about his acting in pornos when she decides to pay him a surprise visit. She is not happy about it and tells him so.
* ''[[Contagion]]'' Everybody jumps on Cheever for alerting his wife to get out of Chicago before the quarantine goes into effect, even though if she was sick, she'd have infected a lot of others.
* ''[[Indiana Jones and
** [[Played for Laughs]] with Henry and Indy.
** Played straight near the end of the film, when Jones Sr. gets free in the Nazis' tank, then takes control of one of its cannons and blows up a pursuing Jeep full of Nazis. Brody is horrified at this, but Jones Sr. curtly replies that "this is war".
** Also, an instance of "What The Hell, Anti-Villain?" when Indy confronts Elsa in Berlin:
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'''Indy:''' My father didn't want it incinerated.
'''Elsa:''' Is that what you think? I believe in the Grail, not the swastika.
'''Indy:''' And yet you stood up to be counted with the enemy of everything the Grail stands for. Who gives a '''DAMN''' what you think?!
'''Elsa:''' You do! }}
* In ''[[Kamen Rider]] x [[
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