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[[File:Orderofthestick 9699.png|link=The Order of the Stick|frame|Approval from a teammate whose evil is measured in "[[Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure|Kilonazis]]".]]
{{quote|''"You know, applause from you makes me wanna shower."''
|'''[[Spider-Man]]''', ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]''}}
So our once-spotless protagonist has just performed a bit of [[Dirty Business]]. Or worse, in a moment of weakness, they've done something [[Moral Dissonance|unambiguously wrong]], perhaps even [[Not So Different|lowering themselves to the level of the villain.]] Either way, their [[Fatal Flaw|character flaws]] have just been [[What You Are in the Dark|laid bare.]]
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{{examples}}
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* In ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'', Sôsuke gets this way (in a more [[Berserk Button|violent, angry way]]) whenever Gauron starts describing how beautiful, wonderful, or [[Gaussian Girl|saint-like]] Sôsuke is when he nonchalantly kills people. Especially when Gauron refers to him by "Kashim"—his past alias and what Gauron clarifies as being his "Assassin-Saint" persona. Sôsuke's reactions to this tend to range from angrily yelling that [[That Man Is Dead]] (despite the fact that he still works as and has the personality of a Stoic assassin mercenary) to violently trying to kill Gauron. This Your Approval Fills Me with Shame reaction tends to only be provoked by Gauron, since Gauron is pretty much the person that disgusts Sôsuke the most in the entire series.
* In the ''[[Bleach]]'' anime, Uryu utters a similar phrase when he gets praised by [[Punch Clock Villain|Nel and her Fraccion]].
* [[Inukami!]] Keita is disgusted by the genuine respect minor antagonists like underwear theif and Peeping Doctor and can't stand the title they refer to him with: King of Nudity. Although he IS just as perverted as they are, and did such an act in the episode, the title is actually Yohko's fault.
== Comedy ==▼
* Jim Gaffigan has a bit about this. He claims that his skin is so white and pale that strangers will come up to him and tell him racist jokes. "Gee, thanks for reminding me I look like Hitler's wet dream."▼
* Dara O'Briain used to tell a joke about Elton John's homosexuality as part of his act. He defended the joke when a gay rights group called 'Outrage' targeted him with a letter-writing campaign, but a letter of support from a homophobic organisation that congratulated him on "Standing up to the forces of sodomy" persuaded him to remove the joke from the act.▼
** He mentioned this incident in a later show and accompanied it with a fear of the image of him playing golf with Jim Davidson (a British comedian widely despised among his peers for being a lowbrow racist).▼
* Stewart Lee has a routine about [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]], where he mentions that he refuses to make jokes about Islam because he doesn't want the sort of people who find Islamophobic humor funny to be a part of his target audience.▼
== Comic Books ==
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* In [[The DCU|DC]]'s [[Elseworld]]s' ''The Golden Age'', Al Pratt, The Atom, is among those stunned to learn that the would-be icon Dyna-Man, the former Dan The Dyna-Mite, is not at all who he seems. Pratt, who has never questioned the ever more sinister tone of the movement he's been in, is complimented by Dyna-Man, saying he would have made a perfect Nazi. Note that Pratt was a member of the [[Justice Society of America]] and had been actively fighting the Nazis in [[World War II]].
* In ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'', Jody tells Jesse Custer that he's proud of him. Jesse seems less ashamed and more royally pissed.
== Fan Works ==
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* According to Rufftoon on [[Deviant ART]], [http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/101/4/c/seal_of_approval_by_rufftoon-d4vvis4.jpg Zhao] [http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2he0wieVQ1rsbbifo1_500.jpg approves] of [[The Legend of Korra|Korra]].
* In ''[[Over the Hedge (animation)|Over the Hedge]]'', the evil bear compliments RJ when he let his friends get captured by Animal Control.
* [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in ''[[Aliens]]'', when Burke expresses serious disappointment in Ripley wanting to destroy the Xenomorphs.
{{quote|'''Ripley:''' Happy to disappoint you.}}
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* Played with in ''[[Revolutionary Road]]''. The protagonist couple, after they tell their plans of the husband quitting his job and moving to Paris so that they can have a dream bohemian life with only the wife working to support them, the only person who approves it is the mentally challenged son of his neighbors. Later, they both wonder if it means something that the only one who agrees with them is mentally unstable.
* Near the end of the Vince Vaughn/Reese Witherspoon vehicle, ''Four Christmases'', Vaughn's character Brad tells his misanthropic father (who often belittles him and questions his masculinity) that he just broke up with his girlfriend Kate because she wanted to settle down and have children. The father says, "Good for you! I didn't know you had it in you!" and invites him in for a beer. Brad stops and realizes that he's made a terrible mistake, and later returns to ask for Kate's forgiveness.
== Literature ==
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* [[The Dark Tower/The Gunslinger|The Dark Tower]]: When the two finally meet, Walter, the man in black, congratulates Roland {{spoiler|on letting Jake fall to his death in order to reach his goal}}. Roland's responds by attempting once again to shoot Walter.
* In L. Jagi Lamplighter's ''[[Prospero's Daughter|Prospero Regained]]'', {{spoiler|Eramus}} is unsettled when {{spoiler|Antonio}} congratulates him on everything he's most ashamed of.
*In the ''[[1632|Ring of Fire]]'' novel ''The Austro-Hungarian Connection'', there is almost an [[Inverted Trope|Inversion]] -- something more like "Your Disapproval Fills Me with Admiration". Janos Drugeth, a Hungarian [[Cavalry Officer]] with an code of honor appropriate to a [[Knight in Shining Armor|Christian warrior]] of the type that rarely appears outside [[Chivalric Romance]] is given the strange duty of escorting some up-time traitors to Vienna. An American girl comes across them and has to be [[He Knows Too Much|held prisoner]] until they are safe. At one time the traitors almost [[The Mutiny|Mutiny]] and Janos is forced to kill one. The Mutineers then thank Janos for not killing another who is so weak he could not possibly ''imagine'' killing and Janos is embarrassed and perplexed. Later the American captive, when they get a chance to rest, asks Janos why he ''did'' kill the man he did kill at which the response was that he was in a hurry to quell [[The Mutiny]], and he didn't like it much himself. That was about when he started to [[Love Across Battlelines|fall in love]] with her.
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Ally McBeal]]'': Ally is horrified that Nelle joins Cage&Fish because of Ally's description of the law firm. Later, Ally is seen as wonderful by Ling, something that upsets her.
* ''[[Frasier]]''. This happens every time Bulldog [[So Proud of You|expresses pride]] in any one of Frasier's embarrassing public sex scandals.
** In "The Adventures of Bad Boy and Dirty Girl", Frasier has just had sex live on the air, making the papers ("I Won't Fink Says Kinky Shrink").
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* Played for laughs on ''[[The Red Green Show]]''. On the rare occasions when Red does something that his nephew Harold is proud of him for, he's typically even more ashamed than he was in the first place.
* On an episode of ''[[Babylon 5]]'', Ivanova is trying to persuade a race of [[Social Darwinist]]s to [http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/034.html ally themselves] with Earth. When they stumble onto the station's "down below" slum, they assume it was deliberately planned in an effort to separate the "genetically inferior" humans from their superiors. [[It Got Worse|Then they start talking about implementing a similar system themselves.]] The look on the Jewish Ivanova's face is priceless.
* On the PETA episode of ''[[Penn
* Invoked in ''[[Parker Lewis Can't Lose]]'' when Parker is running for [[Student Council President]]. After he notices his opponent would actually be a better president than him, he makes it look like [[Dean Bitterman|Ms. Musso]] endorses him.
* When [[Boston Legal|Alan]] fears that he is sexist, Denny's deeply chauvanistic attempt at reassurance does not help one bit.
* In the June 5th 2002 episode of ''[[Coronation Street]]'' Roy apologizes to Fred, noting that he has done so in large part because their tiff earns him the approval of Les Battersby.
== Recorded and Stand-up Comedy ==
▲* Jim Gaffigan has a bit about this. He claims that his skin is so white and pale that strangers will come up to him and tell him racist jokes. "Gee, thanks for reminding me I look like Hitler's wet dream."
== Sports ==▼
▲* Dara O'Briain used to tell a joke about Elton John's homosexuality as part of his act. He defended the joke when a gay rights group called 'Outrage' targeted him with a letter-writing campaign, but a letter of support from a homophobic organisation that congratulated him on "Standing up to the forces of sodomy" persuaded him to remove the joke from the act.
* [[Formula One|In the 2010 German GP]], [[wikipedia:2010 German Grand Prix#Team orders|Felipe Massa was not-so-subtly told to give the victory to his team mate Fernando Alonso]], who was better placed in the drivers' championship. Such blatant "team orders" are banned because they're a bit dickish. Under a barrage of criticism, Ferrari found a defender—none other than Michael Schumacher, their legendary former driver. But he's famous for two things: winning lots and lots of races—and playing very dirty to do so. In fact, this instance drew parallels to the 2002 Austrian GP, when Rubens Barrichello was ordered to let Schumacher past for the win.<ref>This is the incident that led to the team order ban in the first place.</ref> Congratulations, you have the blessing of the anthropomorphic personalization of "the ends justify the means". However, [[Laser-Guided Karma|karma was not]] [[It Got Worse|finished with Ferrari]]. They got the backing of one of two people in the known universe who could make this worse—Nelsinho Piquet, Renault's ex-driver. He is ''considered unemployable'' because he [[wikipedia:Renault Formula One crash controversy|intentionally crashed his car during the 2008 Singapore GP]], to benefit (wait for it...) Fernando Alonso, his teammate at the time. ''It's OK guys, you can [[Stop Helping Me!|stop helping now...]]'' What makes that second one even worse was that the Singapore crash had taken the race's leader at the time all the way down to a 13th place finish, who ended up losing the overall world championships that year by ''one point''. Said screwed leader? Wait for it…''Felipe Massa''. So, the guy who screwed Massa for Alonso the first time '''congratulated Massa's own team on feeling the need to do it too.'''▼
▲** He mentioned this incident in a later show and accompanied it with a fear of the image of him playing golf with Jim Davidson (a British comedian widely despised among his peers for being a lowbrow racist).
▲* Stewart Lee has a routine about [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]], where he mentions that he refuses to make jokes about Islam because he doesn't want the sort of people who find Islamophobic humor funny to be a part of his target audience.
== Video Games ==
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* In ''[[Warcraft III]]: Frozen Throne,'' Varimathras compliments Sylvanas on her plan to form an [[Enemy Mine]] alliance with a human warlord, then [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|stab him in the back once she controls the city of Lordaeron,]] telling her she has cunning that would rival a dreadlord. Sylvanas is not impressed.
==
* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' is the [[Trope Namer]], where we find several characters shamed to receive [[Token Evil Teammate|Belkar's]] approval over the course of the story.
** [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0171.html Here] we find the comedic variant—Roy is less than thrilled at Belkar's support for his plan to punish two minor villains, a father and his sorceress daughter, [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|simply by forcing them to spend family time together]].
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{{quote|'''Marten:''' Pintsize said the same thing. I hope you're proud of yourself.
'''Steve:''' Pintsize is a chill bro. }}
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' had a scene with Gil and Martellus throwing the same barb at Tarvek [[Finish Dialogue in Unison|in a choir]]. «Well, ''that'' takes all the ''fun'' out of it.»
== Web Original ==
* ''Shamus Plays [[World of Warcraft]]'' is told from the perspective of a [[Chaotic Evil]] demon who got suckered into becoming the familiar of a warlock who tries to be [[Lawful Good]]. After he admits that he fulfilled the requirement of becoming a warlock ("kill a virgin") by bringing a virgin sheep to a butcher to be slaughtered, the demon compliments him for being "a devious cheat". [https://web.archive.org/web/20101114130413/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/shamusplays/8304-Shamus-Plays-Into-the-Bandits-Den.4 This trope is invoked].
* The entire concept behind ''[[wikipedia:Pedobear|Pedobear]]''. While often simply insterted into images of running or frightened children as a simple joke, adding Pedobear to advertisings and similar indicates that it includes over-sexualization of minors or implied pedophilia. Taken one step further with the '''"Pedobear Seal of Approval"'''.
== Western Animation ==
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* [[Inverted]] on ''[[Futurama]]:''
{{quote|'''[[The Straight Man|Leela]]:''' As unclean as it makes me feel, I agree with [[Comedic Sociopathy|Bender]]. }}
== Real Life ==
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* As a general rule of thumb, liberals that agree with a conservative pundit or conservatives that agree with a liberal pundit will have a case of this. [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|That's all that needs to be said on the matter]].
* During most election cycles, controversial organizations and individuals will endorse mainstream candidates. It's usually a case of [[Enemy Mine]], but it still causes headaches for said candidates and their PR teams.
▲=== Sports ===
▲* [[Formula One|In the 2010 German GP]], [[wikipedia:2010 German Grand Prix#Team orders|Felipe Massa was not-so-subtly told to give the victory to his team mate Fernando Alonso]], who was better placed in the drivers' championship. Such blatant "team orders" are banned because they're a bit dickish. Under a barrage of criticism, Ferrari found a defender—none other than Michael Schumacher, their legendary former driver. But he's famous for two things: winning lots and lots of races—and playing very dirty to do so. In fact, this instance drew parallels to the 2002 Austrian GP, when Rubens Barrichello was ordered to let Schumacher past for the win.<ref>This is the incident that led to the team order ban in the first place.</ref> Congratulations, you have the blessing of the anthropomorphic personalization of "the ends justify the means". However, [[Laser-Guided Karma|karma was not]] [[It Got Worse|finished with Ferrari]]. They got the backing of one of two people in the known universe who could make this worse—Nelsinho Piquet, Renault's ex-driver. He is ''considered unemployable'' because he [[wikipedia:Renault Formula One crash controversy|intentionally crashed his car during the 2008 Singapore GP]], to benefit (wait for it...) Fernando Alonso, his teammate at the time. ''It's OK guys, you can [[Stop Helping Me!|stop helping now...]]'' What makes that second one even worse was that the Singapore crash had taken the race's leader at the time all the way down to a 13th place finish, who ended up losing the overall world championships that year by ''one point''. Said screwed leader? Wait for it…''Felipe Massa''. So, the guy who screwed Massa for Alonso the first time '''congratulated Massa's own team on feeling the need to do it too.'''
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