Times where somebody asked "What the Hell, Hero?" in Fan Works.
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- Phoenix is hit with several of these in A Complete Turnabout. The problem is, he has no idea what he did to deserve them because he's in the wrong universe.
- In Phoenix Wright: The Baby Shower
Pearl gets a big one from Phoenix for accidentally throwing Iris from a ten-story balcony. - Subverted in Phoenix Wright: Ghosts of the Past. Phoenix is going to give one to Iris after she punches Trucy in the face (it was an accident, but he didn't know that yet), but when he sees that she's already in full My God, What Have I Done? mode he changes his mind and tries to help fix things instead.
- Living in a Frog World:
- Frank is understandably furious with Anne for stealing from his family's store. It was only being sent to Amphibia that stopped Frank from going further.
- Hop Pop furiously tells off Anne and Frank for their ingratitude towards him in Chapter 3, which is a rewrite of "Cane Crazy".
- Trade Us for the World: Sprig and Polly are less than pleased when Marcy treats their first adventure together like an Escort Mission, trying to solve all the challenges herself. This makes Marcy realize that she'd been treating all the residents of Wartwood like NPCs rather than actual people since they didn't look human, and fuels her resolve to change that.
- Blackbird:
- When Sara first came home, she went to the Queens to tell them that Oliver was dead and apologized for not having any good news. Thea angrily asked if she'd apologized to Laurel, which hit a lot closer to home than Thea was expecting.
- Sara gets another one after telling the truth about Laurel to Oliver. She does acknowledge Oliver is right to be angry with her but nonetheless rebukes him, because she's already plenty angry at herself.
- Both Tommy and Thea give Sara a silent one of these after they learn the truth as well.
- After Laurel gets Oliver to release Nyssa from the League, Nyssa lets Laurel have it. Pointing out that that was Laurel's desire, not hers, and it has lead to her losing the only life and home she has ever known.
- A key element of Never Be Silent is Team Arrow confronting Team Flash about the methods they used to contain metahumans, as the Pipeline cells amount to psychological torture given the minimal facilities. While Oliver and his allies concede that Barry, Caitlin and Cisco were basically manipulated into taking such extreme measures by Thawne-as-Wells and conventional prisons had no means of containing such prisoners when Barry started out anyway, Barry and his allies are still ashamed to realise they went so far that they didn’t even tell a woman that her son was dead.
- In The Defector, Major Sarah Inviere-Adama- a Number Six who revealed her true identity and married Commander Adama before the Fall of the Colonies- calls out Roslin and Lee on separate occasions for their attempts to treat Cylons as things, drawing attention to the fact that she is currently pregnant with a half-human child herself, forcing Roslin and Lee to face the fact that they're basically advocating the murder of Sarah's child.
- In Did I Make the Most of Loving You?, after Lee’s memories of the future are restored, he gets this from most of the other time-travellers when he starts blaming Roslin for the fact that he died alone in the original history before he’s reminded that she lost her entire family in both timelines.
- In Downfall, we see this from both sides of the Seireitei/Hueco Mundo war — and BOTH sides have called the other out on it at one point or another.
- A Protector's Pride: Ichigo is called out by Yamamoto for trying to go to Hell to save the souls of his mother and sisters, saying he's placing three people over the safety of the world. Then Ichigo fires back and points out that they can be saved, but Yamamoto is too Lawful Stupid to see it, and that the above happened on his watch.
- To Undo it All: After the twins Homura and Shizuka take Rukia and erase everyone's memories of her, Ichigo goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge, killing both of them the moment he sees them. Rukia furiously calls him out on murdering a pair of innocent children who just wanted to have names, all because he was too angry to bother talking them down even though he could have. Ichigo admits she was right but their actions caused him to forget traveling back in time from the Bad Future and the two women he loved to forget him entirely, something Rukia admits sounds horrible.
- Vow of the King: Ichigo calls Uryu out on his unwillingness to let go of his pride over his Quincy heritage when he and the others are called in by Nemu to listen to what she has to explain about the spiritual worldUryu: How dare you?! First you Shinigami try to genocide my people and now you try to dictate when I can and cannot use my powers?! I won’t stand for it! I have my pride as a Quincy, and I will not be ordered around by a Shinigami!Ichigo: Shut the fuck up, Ishida. Your Quincy bullshit is what caused the trouble two days ago. Your fucking pride caused you to unleash a horde of Hollows on our town rather than listen to reason. Far as I'm concerned? Your "pride" can go die in a ditch. So get your head out of your ass and listen up!
- In Childhood's End, after the main characters leave Oedon Tomb, Eileen takes Djura outside of the chapel to call him out on taking the girls back into Central Yharnam.Eileen: You were safe at the tower! All you had to do was stay there until sunrise, instead of – of dragging them out onto the streets – gods’ blood, Djura, what was so bloody difficult about that, that you couldn’t – you couldn’t just–''
Djura: They were so frightened. I didn’t – I thought if we just got the music box, that–
Eileen: That you’d prove yourself right? That you’d show all of us wicked hunters that you’d been right all along, that if you give the beasts a sweet lullaby they’ll be gentle as lambs?
- The Bolt Chronicles: Rhino calls out Bolt's callous treatment of Mittens in "The Blood Brother." The dog later repents and tearfully apologizes to the cat.
- In As It Should Have Been, Angel gives one to all of the Scoobies in response to their bringing Buffy Back from the Dead, especially since they just automatically assumed her soul had gone to Hell without any actual proof. When he tells them that the first thing Buffy said to him was "Is this Hell?", the Scoobies realize they pulled Buffy out of Heaven and suffer a My God, What Have I Done? moment; Willow in particular breaks down in Tears of Remorse.
- Bring Me To Life:
- This is Buffy's response to finding out that Angel had his team remove his soul and bring Angelus back in order to find out info on the Beast.
- Several occur in chapter 28:
- First, there's Kennedy's Conspiracy Theorist rant against Buffy as mentioned above, which earns her a punch in the face.
- Kennedy gets one right back when Willow, royally pissed off, telekinetically lifts her off of the ground and slams her against the floor, pointing out that she told Kennedy about Buffy's history with Angel and Angel's past in complete confidence.
Willow: I trusted you with one of my secrets, and this is what you did with it?!- Robin also gives one to Buffy near the end of the chapter for lying to them about Angel, as well as threatening everyone with death should they harm either Angel or Spike. Disgusted, he explicitly tells her that she's a disgrace to the Slayer line and goes home to Sunnydale to continue his job, but not before telling Buffy that she's fired and that he never wants to see her face again. Of course, several chapters later, Buffy approaches him and convinces him to return to the fold.
- Spike is beyond pissed at Buffy when the failed attack on the vineyard leaves Faith captured by the villains.
- Willow gets one each from Xander, Cordelia, and Buffy in Echoes of the Fallen after she casts the spell to re-ensoul Angelus. Xander because he explained what a bad idea it was and made Willow promise she wouldn't try the spell again. Cordelia because Willow lied to her and Oz that Xander said it was okay for her to try again. And Buffy because Willow's actions forced Buffy to send the man she loved to hell.
- “In My Veins” has Buffy protest that Giles and Xander basically wasted her and Willow’s time sending them all the way to Los Angeles to try and break a potential thrall link between Buffy and Angel. Not only do they have the more immediate problem of an ancient entity abducting young Slayers, but when Buffy has already thrown off the influence of the Master and Dracula on her own, she finds it frankly insulting that Giles and Xander think that she couldn’t resist the thrall of a vampire Angel’s age after five years if that was what was actually happening. Willow notes that she didn’t believe they were dealing with a thrall situation herself- particularly since Buffy has confirmed she only has a connection to Angel to the point that she experienced nothing when Angelus was briefly in control- but she still needs to temporarily block their connection while Buffy is focused on the current threat.
- A Letter to Riley:
- Dawn used magic to try and send Riley what she thought was a letter Buffy wrote him about their relationship, but in reality the letter was about Buffy confessing that she still loved Angel, with Dawn's spell sending the letter to Angel and Riley (the spell was meant to send the letter to Buffy's true love, but it essentially became "confused" as it was addressed to Riley). Dawn tries to argue that she did the right thing as it led to Buffy and Angel getting back together, but Buffy counters that her actions still hurt Riley, who she cares about enough that she didn't want to hurt him emotionally.
- Buffy criticizes the rest of Angel Investigations when they spent weeks with Angel as he became obsessed with Darla and never suspected a thing, and yet it took Giles less than an hour to work out that Angel's focus on Darla was due to him being under a spell even though he hadn't seen Angel for the better part of a year.
- The Substitute Teacher- which features Doyle arriving in Sunnydale mid-Season Three- sees Cordelia of all people giving one to Giles when he reveals that there are such things as good demons when he's always acted as though demons are automatically evil, prompting Giles to awkwardly admit that he just never brought it up because the Hellmouth would normally be avoided by the more benevolent demon races out there.
- In Taaroko's Season 8, the Scoobies have this moment when they realise that new foe Nyx is a former Slayer who was turned into a vampire on her Cruciamentum; the original gang are all amazed that the old Council would continue to perform the ritual on later Slayers after it went that badly.
- Variations on a Scene:
- Xander bitterly calls out Buffy over never thanking him for saving her life after she uses him to make Angel jealous.Xander: Yeah, it would have been nice if you'd thanked me for saving your life, Buff. But since none of the other cockteasers around here who I've helped save from 'gang members on PCP' have ever thanked me, either, it's really not that much of a surprise that you didn't. I always thought you were better than the rest of those tramps. But I guess I was wrong. Too bad.
- A later chapter has him chew out Buffy and Willow for admitting they'd sacrifice their friendship with him if their respective boyfriends demanded it. The latter he finds especially galling given that he and Willow have been best friends for twelve years.
- In chapter 35, Cordelia's canon wish is changed to all men on Earth disappearing except the dumb and easily controlled ones. Alternate Faith flips upon learning that Cordelia caused the deaths of over two billion peoplenote all because she was mad at her ex-boyfriend. Gwendolyn Post points out that because of Cordelia "just lashing out", the human race is facing near extinction for at least the next fifty years.
- Xander bitterly calls out Buffy over never thanking him for saving her life after she uses him to make Angel jealous.
- In Worlds Apart, there are two particular examples;
- Xander gets one from Buffy, Willow and Giles when they realise that he never told Buffy that Willow was going to try the curse again, Buffy and Willow believing that she might have been able to avoid sending Angel to Hell if she knew the plan and Giles observing that, regardless of his own issues with Angelus, Angel did not deserve to go to Hell with his soul intact just because Xander didn't like him.
- Wesley expresses a low opinion of the gypsies who originally cursed Angelus, arguing to their descendants that their actions condemned an innocent man to suffer for decades with the guilt of sins he technically was never responsible for, while Angelus not only never suffered during that time but actually escalated his actions once he regained control.
- Xander tries to give one to Buffy when she tells the gang that Angel's back, but it's cut off when he learns that she only learned Angel was back the day before and wanted to wait until "the nasty, narrow-minded Council guys went away" to tell anyone else.
- Calvin & Hobbes: The Series: After three seasons' worth of progressing from Lovable Coward to Dirty Coward, Hobbes finally gets called out on it by Calvin in "Thunderstorm", thus making more of an effort in later seasons.
- “Revelations of the Ultimate Kind” features the Elders getting this at various points, due to their decision to fake Prue’s death and erase her memory, and then later taking the resurrected Andy away from Prue when she’s reunited with her sisters on the grounds that he was just intended as a ‘gift’ for her in her new life, even though that means taking Andy away from his and Prue's four-year-old daughter Molly.
- Blackened Skies: In the wake of the first trial, Kaede faces the natural consequences of the way she conducted herself during it. Namely the fact that she kept secrets and lied about what she knew, a good chunk of which got exposed over the course of the trial anyway. Tsumugi's especially mad since Kaede's withholding information nearly led to her being convicted rather than the actual culprit:Tsumugi: ...To be honest... I plainly don't think I can trust you anymore.
Kaede: I understand—
Tsumugi: I don't think you really do. You didn't just lie to us, Kaede. You convinced everyone I was lying when I was telling the truth. Do you have any idea how horrible it is to have no one believe you when you're not doing anything wrong?
Kaito: Hey, that's not fair! Kaede helped me prove you innocent, remember?!
Tsumugi: But she's also why people suspected me in the first place. If you didn't remember that noise, she would've said I was the culprit. We all would have... [...] I'm just not comfortable with Kaede being in charge anymore. So... I don't think she should be.
Kaito: Seriously?! Come on, Tsumugi! Everyone gets accused in the trials at some point! That's not Kaede's fault!
Gundam: While that is true, Luminary, we also cannot forget that many of our follies in that trial were born of the Siren's deceptions. Regardless of her reasons, had she simply confided the same trust in us she expected us to grant her, much of our debate would not have happened. Hifumi's killer could have been discovered with far less tribulation on us all. - Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Denial:
- Gundam becomes bitterly disappointed with Teruteru when he realizes the chef had an ulterior motive for asking him to help him deal with the traumatized and broken Kazuichi: he wanted the mechanic to fix something for him.
- Following the second trial, Togami confronts and calls out Teruteru for how he encouraged Nagito to drink poison.
- Danganronpa 2/3 Redux: Return Unto Death: Mahiru's outraged to learn that all twelve of Rantaro's sisters were lost while trying to follow him on his various adventures, lamblasting him. However, her anger cools when he sullenly agrees, declaring that he's the "Ultimate Useless Big Brother".
- Despair Arc: Execution Failed?: When Hinata manages to wrest control back from Kamukura, Komaeda immediately rips into the Reserve Student for agreeing to get involved with the Kamukura Project. Ironic, given his own obsession with talent.
- Swimming in Terror: Saionji, of all people, tells Hibiki that "Someone died, and all you care about is yourself!"
- System Restore:
- During the first trial, Nanami gently calls out Togami on pressuring Hinata while he's having difficulty wrapping his mind around the fact that Komaeda had been plotting to murder somebody at the party. As she points out, with so many people participating in the class trial, it's unfair to place the burden of 'solving the case' on one person alone.
- Following the first trial, Sonia and Chiaki attempt to call Byakuya out on his attempt to offer himself up in place of the culprit. However, Byakuya counters with an Armor-Piercing Question.
- Once the culprit of the second murder is exposed, nobody is happy with them, their motivations or methods. Byakuya and Mahiru are especially vocal, as Sonia twisted Togami's advice and killed Pekoyama to protect Koizumi.
- In the second part of Chapter 3, Hinata calls out Kuzuryuu, blaming them for the murder:Hinata: You knew what playing that game would do and you did it anyway. You put everyone's lives in danger. Pekoyama and Sonia are dead, and if you knew what happened yesterday—
- Later on in Chapter 3, Mahiru tears into Hiyoko for bullying Mikan and Kazuichi so much, calling her out on doing so when one of them has just been murdered and the other is barely clinging to life after a brutal assault.
- In The Return Of Dani Phantom, Sam gets called out by Danny for her insensitive comments about Danielle. Those hurtful words result in Danielle running away, getting captured, Danny heading in to rescue her, and nearly getting killed in the process. Needless to say, it comes back to bite her.
- Angel of the Bat: At one point, Stephanie Brown unloads her frustration with years of being treated like a second-rate sidekick onto Batman, expressing that she never felt cared for or encouraged by him and her fear he feels just as dismissive about the then-missing Cassandra.
- In All You Need Is Love, Naomi epically calls out L for being such a deadbeat to the Wammy's orphans.
- A Cure for Love: Mello and Near to L when they discover the nature of L and Kira's relationship.
- L's Proof is a big Take That! against fanfic clichés involving L's morally ambiguous investigation, focusing on the police officers' reactions to the unethical ways L would "prove" that Light is Kira, such as calling Light "Kira" when he's half-asleep or when chaining him to the bed and having his way with him.Aizawa: I think Light would have admitted to being Santa Claus at that moment. That really doesn't prove anything. Except that you're a pervert.
Matsuda: And a rapist. Did you hear Light-kun at the start? He was saying no!
L: Unconventional methods are sometimes necessary to get a confession.
Aizawa: Except we don't have any evidence pointing to Light being Kira, aside from your personal opinion. - In Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami, Soichiro is outraged when L tests the Death Note on his wife, having her tell Dark to meet him at the warehouse while claiming to know that he is Kira, but L uses a Life Note on her after she dies, reviving her.
- In A Posse Ad Esse: Dub, Secret Weapon masquerading as The Team Normal, is bound by promise and circumstance to not tell the villain he happens to have a crush on about his hidden powers. Naturally, since Love Makes You Dumb, he does, and Dolly chews him out for it.Dolly: But nae, ye hink th' rules - th' one rule, dornt goddamn tell Wood abit th' goddamn secrit weapon - dornt apply tae ye. Ye hink yoo're abuv th' system.
- In The 10 Doctors, The First, Second, Second-and-a-halfth (long story) and The Seventh Doctors give one to the Ninth as he almost sacrificed Rose in order to destroy The Supreme Dalek a.k.a. the daleknized Tenth Doctor.
- In The Choices of Earth, Jack gets one from the Doctor about his role in the original deal with the 456 when the Doctor and Martha Jones get involved in the events of Torchwood: Children of Earth. However, Martha in turn calls the Doctor out on how he will criticise Jack for his past actions but offered to try and help the Master or Davros when they’ve done far worse, the Doctor trying to defend himself by arguing that he expects more from his companions than he does from his enemies.
- “New Doctor, Who Dis?” features the new Tenth Doctor (fancast as Bella Ramsey) more openly criticising Harriet Jones for shooting down the retreating Sycorax ship, explicitly telling Harriet Jones that Earth shooting down a retreating ship that had already officially surrendered isn’t going to do humanity’s reputation on the intergalactic stage any favours, as such an act gives humans a negative reputation as killers who won’t respect terms.
- The Lord Inquisitor delivers one to the Lady Inquisitor in All This Sh*t is Twice as Weird when she conscripts the Grey Wardens instead of exiling them. This, coupled with her Crisis of Faith, leads to a horrible OOC Is Serious Business moment a bit later, making him wonder if he went too far.
- The dwarven noble gets some of these in Dragon Age: The Crown of Thorns. One of them leaves him with broken ribs and a snapped jaw. He expected it and let it happen, but it still hurt because healing magic didn't work on him until recently. And even now it's not a given.
- What If Goku Married Bulma?: Bulma is completely furious when she discovers that Goku and Vegeta undid all the hard work the heroes did to seal Buu away because they wanted a rematch.
- In Never Had a Friend Like Me, Timmy eventually calls out the Fairy Council about their Fantastic Racism after Bob was defeated by a variety of magical creatures rather than just fairies.
- In Blue-Ribboned Dog: The Story of Brianna (a work-in-progress fic), Brian sets up a cutaway to his daughter, Brianna, of how Vinny broke off the fight between Lois Griffin and Donna Tubbs-Brown. He flips out and reads them the riot act for their ruining Susie Swanson's birthday party and making things a total disaster because of their fight. This prompts the two to apologize to each other and set aside their differences.
- In Family Guy Fanon's rewrite of "Love Thy Trophy/Love Your Trophy", Lois scolds Meg for using Stewie for tips and getting him taken away by Child Services.Meg: [quietly] Hey.
Lois: Meg, what did you honestly think you were trying to achieve? Do you have any idea how much stress you put me and your dad through?
Meg: I just wanted a new Prada bag...
Lois: A-and so what, you decided to go behind our backs and use your own baby brother to get it? After we explicitly told you it was too expensive.
Meg: I-I just thought I'd be able to impress people by showing off a fancy new one.
Lois: Well, I'm very Disappointed in You, young lady, I thought we taught you better than that! I trusted you to look after Stewie. I thought it was nice that you two were spending so much time together, but now I find that my own daughter went behind me and your dad's backs, and that she used her own brother while lying and exploiting the goodwill and kindness of others. And because of that, Stewie got taken away by Child Services. Did you even think of how terrified me and your dad were, or the hell we had to go through to get Stewie back? Did you even care about Stewie's safety and what he was thinking? No you didn't, you put your own selfish needs before your own family!
Meg: Mom, I'm really sorry.
- In Cissnei's Path: Cissnei chews Cloud out for working with AVALANCHE in bombing the reactors because not only did the collateral damage affect everyone from hospital patients to employees, but he was tarnishing Zack's memory.
- In The Fifth Act: Cloud is called multiple times throughout the story for wanting and attempting to kill Sephiroth for the actions done by original timeline!Sephiroth when Sephiroth is no near the monster the other one became thanks to Cloud's actions. Cloud later gets called out for attempting a murder-suicide with Sephiroth during the story's climax.
- A Flower's Touch: Aerith gets this quite a bit throughout the story.
- The biggest comes when she invites herself into SOLDIER, despite not having any of the prerequisite training or going through the proper channels and, as Sephiroth angrily points out, circumventing his authority.
- He himself gets one later from another SOLDIER, a far more polite one, but it still fits, for not utilizing Aerith's healing abilities earlier.
- Us and Them: After Aeris decides to run off to the Forgotten Capital, Sephiroth catches up to her and gives her a piece of his mind for running off and worrying everyone and isolating herself while Jenova is running loose. He then decides to escort her there himself.
- In Forward, the crew calls Mal out when he spaces one of Niska's captured henchmen. A couple of story arcs later, Mal again gets called out for refusing to support Book's plan to save Simon's life by taking him onto an Alliance ship and using Book's ID card. And of course, Mal calls himself out on nearly every other decision he's made.
- In Frozen Hearts (Sakume), these are exchanged when Prince Hans's brothers are discussing going to the king to ask for a pardon. The group in favor of doing so is accused of forgetting the seriousness of Prince Hans's crimes, as well as their impact on the kingdom. The group opposed to doing so is accused of forgetting that he is their brother, and of having some overly cruel ideas for punishment.
- build your wings on the way down:
- Hughes is angry at Roy for endangering an eleven-year old kid (Ed) on the train by having him fight terrorists, even though Ed is a talented alchemist, because Ed was strangled and hurt and could have been hurt worse since Ed was by himself.
- Hughes also gets angry at Roy for allowing Ed to attempt to to save Nina, as Roy firmly believes that Ed will not only fail, but kill Nina in the process. Roy expects this to teach Ed some humility, while Hughes is understandably pissed off by Roy trying to twist such horrible circumstances to his advantage.
- There are a lot of these to go around in the Set Right What Once Went Wrong Peggy Sue fic The Raven's Plan.
- Two notable ones happen in Chapter 7.
- Bloodraven angrily calls out Bran for casting the spell that turned back time and not stopping to consider the possibility that something could go wrong with it (in this case, the spell winds up working too well, sending back the memories of way more people than originally planned). Bran argues back that he did what was necessary to undo the Others' Near-Villain Victory by making sure Westeros can be better prepared with a do-over.
- Ned absolutely tears into Catelyn for her handling of the War of the Five Kings and her own mistakes within their family. It shows Ned can get terrifying when angry, and after Remembering the events that led to his own death and finding out the horrible things his beloved children suffered in the aftermath, he has every good reason to blow his lid.
Ned: [in a low angry voice] What were you thinking, Cat?
Catelyn: [timidly] My lord?
Ned: What madness possessed you? You took Tyrion Lannister hostage! You forced me to act! You knew things were already precarious in King's Landing and yet you still did it! I had to act, otherwise, I would have weakened my position... such as it was. You took precious time away from me to deal with the Lannisters. You usurped my authority! And for what?
Catelyn: I am sorry my lord... I couldn't allow him to escape free for what he did to Bran.
Ned: And for that, you doomed us to war? So you defied me and acted. Acted against me?
[a long tense moment passes]
Catelyn: [stammering] Forgive me, my lord... I did not think.
Ned: No... no, you did not think. And it is a recurring issue with you. After all these years together I see that you are still a Southern Lady. You have not embraced the North as I once thought. From the Sept to the raising of our daughters and your treatment of Jon... you have not grasped the way of the North. And we all suffered for it.
Catelyn: [tearful] Ned... that is too far. I know I made some mistakes-
Ned: [Suddenly Shouting] Some mistakes?! You undermined our son with his own bannermen! In a time of war! In the North, men have been executed for less! What were you thinking releasing Jaime Lannister?! He should not have been released... not even for our daughters! Aye, Robb made a mistake with this Talisa, but you should never have promised him to Walder Frey in the first place. Nor Arya. I married you to secure the Riverlands, the entirety of the Riverlands, not a single House's loyalty. An entire kingdom. It was the right choice at the time. Robb and Arya? That promise you made with the Freys was not. By the god's Cat! You have to think more! Think of the consequences of your actions! If you had, could the Red Wedding have been avoided? Robb went from having three important Lannister hostages to two and then none! That first action freed up Tywin's hand. He could afford to be utterly ruthless and treacherous! While Robb held Jaime, he was paralysed, unable to truly act against Robb! He would never have dared risk so much if Jaime's life still lay at a knife's edge! - In Chapter 41, Jon calls out Bran for not warning him that the Night King has been blocking his visions of the Others and might remember too. Bran counters that telling him wouldn't have made a difference.
- Benjen calls out Ned for keeping Jon's parentage and Lyanna and Rhaegar's true relationship a secret from him, especially considering the fact that as brothers, they should trust one another. Ned cannot find a good response to this.
- Two notable ones happen in Chapter 7.
- In Boys und Sensha-dō!
- Akio pulls Maho aside while they're visiting Miho in the hospital and expresses his belief that she is not there for Miho enough by saying "If I had a sister, I’d be there for her all the time. Not just when she’s in the hospital." Of course, he does so unaware that Maho's primary reason for being the Nishizumi heiress, which unfortunately forces her to be distant from Miho at times, is so that Miho can live her life her own way, and unfortunately, he persists in this opinion after Maho protests Miho being disowned and sends her money to cover her rent.
- Akio, Maho and Miho's father all are quite upset with Shiho when she disowns Miho.
- "Becoming What You Pretend to Be" opens with the revelation that Harry is actually 'Gabriel Bowman', a muggle-born who was 'rescued' by James and Lily after the deaths of his parents and basically left as a decoy while the Potters fled with Harry. While everyone from Dumbledore to Ginny is quick to assure Harry/Gabriel that they still respect him as a friend and student regardless of his name, many people are angry at what the Potters did, with Sirius in particular being outraged that James left him to rot in Azkaban just to keep his son safe. Even Snape makes it clear that he considers the Potters the villains in this situation, as obviously 'Gabriel Bowman' couldn't have done anything on purpose.
- In The Black Bunny, Snape has some choice words for Dumbledore:Snape: Why did you never save Tom Riddle from that muggle orphanage, Dumbledore? You must have known there was something wrong with him even then. Considering the time and place as well as many other factors... you left my Lord in a hell hole time and time again. You left a young wizard to rot in the middle of a muggle war. And why, in the ten years Harry remained with his relatives before Hogwarts did you never go and check up on your supposed Savior? Had you never seen the minuscule space he'd been forced to live in for ten years? The space under the stairs? Did you never see that there was nothing within the Dursley home to show there was in fact two boys growing up there?
- In Blank Slate, after James and Lily are revealed to have been alive but amnesic for the last fourteen years, after Lily's memory is restored and she learns about Snape's reputation as a teacher, she confronts him about his reasons for being so harsh on Harry, asking him to at least try and treat Harry like other students rather than single him out for particularly harsh treatment.
- Several of these are handed out to certain characters in the Deconstruction Fic Brutal Harry.
- Harry gives one to McGonagall after she chides him for not following procedure when the troll attacked the school, telling her that she might as well be saying that he should've let the troll continue on its rampage and likely kill Hermione just to uphold the rules.
- McGonagall gives an especially vicious "The Reason You Suck" Speech variant to Snape for his petty Jerkass behavior, taking his grudge against James Potter (which he still refuses to let go of even though it's been more than a decade since the man's death) out on his innocent son Harry (who had never done anything wrong to him personally), and for his unprofessional behavior as a teacher (particularly his blatant favoritism of the Slytherins).
- Right after calling out Snape, McGonagall then proceeds to thoroughly rip into Dumbledore over putting Harry into the Dursleys' care, as he had ignored her warnings about them being "the worst kinds of Muggles" she'd seen but still left Harry with them out of the incredibly naive assumption that Lily's sister Petunia wouldn't do something as terrible as abuse her nephew out of petty childish resentment and enable her husband and son's abuse of him as well. She also gives him a tongue-lashing for letting several issues that have been plaguing the school (Snape's unprofessional behavior and the bullying problems, just to name a few) get as bad as they have. She does it third time after he reveals the prophecy to her, as well as Voldemort's past, to explain his actions with regards to Harry, pointing out that there was no way Harry would've realistically learned The Power of Love in such an abusive environment and adds that they're very damn lucky they didn't end up with another Dark Lord in the making on their hands since Harry's background very closely resembles that of Voldemort's.
- Dumbledore gets one from Harry himself. After learning just how badly Harry was abused by the Dursleys, Dumbledore is heartbroken and horrified and goes to apologize to Harry... only for a furious Harry to throw it back in his face, making it clear that he will never forgive or trust the Headmaster for what he was put through. He also further rebukes Dumbledore for being a hypocrite in apologizing for causing Harry's own abuse, yet still enabling the exact same environment to occur in Hogwarts with the bullies and corrupt staff never being held accountable for their abusive actions.
- The Choices That Make Us: When Mad-Eye Moody tries to convince Sirius not to go to the Department of Mysteries, Sirius tells him to shut up, saying that Mad-Eye owes him this after he and the rest of the Order let him rot in Azkaban without even giving him a chance to deny the allegations against him.
- Disrespect Authority features Ginny, Sirius, and Arthur all calling Dumbledore out over his decision to force Harry to learn Occlumency from Snape. Ginny is indignant when Dumbledore's attempt to conceal the truth from Umbridge involves a lie that forces Harry to attend another week's detention with Umbridge, Sirius (backed by Remus) points out that part of Occlumency training requires complete trust between teacher and student when he would never trust Snape with a secret and knows Harry wouldn't either, and Arthur affirms that Ginny is right to be concerned given her own experience of mental abuse after her time with the Diary. When Dumbledore tries to argue that they are doing their best to keep Hogwarts safe, Ginny not only points out how often Hogwarts has been infiltrated in the last few years, but also takes the opportunity to call out Professor McGonagal on how she and the other teachers were apparently willing to let Ginny die just to get Lockhart out of the way by suggesting that he go after the "monster" in the Chamber of Secrets when they all had to have realised by then that Lockhart was useless.
- The Price of Victory is an AU fic where Harry never attended Hogwarts and Ginny was basically forced to marry Draco Malfoy after the war ended. At one point, Hermione attempts to call Ginny out for marrying Malfoy and apparently enjoying it, but Ginny counters by making it clear that she's stuck in an abusive marriage and hasn't had any choice in anything since the wedding.
- Trouble: Dumbledore is on the receiving end of this constantly.
- When Harry arrives at Hogwarts and hands McGonagall the papers from his parole officer in Chapter 3, she reams Dumbledore out for having Harry raised with the Dursleys when their abusive behavior is bad enough that he had to commit crimes just to be treated like a decent human being.
- McGonagall and Snape both call Dumbledore out for wanting to keep the whole Voldemort issue secret from Harry since they saw his wraith. Snape also adds that Dumbledore works with Mundungus Fletcher, but has a problem with Harry's criminal past and tells him to rethink his priorities.
- Daniel Greengrass reams Dumbledore out in Chapter 7 when finding out from his eldest daughter about the Cerberus, but also the fact it was in a corridor where everyone who ventures "will die a most painful death", after a troll had broken in and the staff were literally nowhere other than an obviously long dead Quirrel and had decided to try and kill six students, one of which having nearly died a month prior from faulty brooms.
- In Chapter 13, the school board parents and the bulk of concerned parents scream and ream Dumbledore out for not only keeping all of them Locked Out of the Loop over the Chamber of Secrets being opened, but intentionally doing nothing about it until after Ginny and Daphne disappeared. The Greengrass, Davis and Weasley families were the most pissed, as Dumbledore sent Lockhart (who everyone knows is utterly useless) to fight the Basilisk, knowing he would run away and let Daphne and Ginny die, then intentionally throw Ginny under the bus and claim that her possession was a lie after their youngest daughter and only daughter had to help Harry in a rescue operation that nearly killed him. This culminates in them doing a vote of no confidence before Amelia arrives to demand Dumbledore's presence at the Wizengamot.
- In Chapter 19, Dumbledore is convicted when he reveals what he was planning to do to Harry. Many of the adults were willing to look over the shadier morals, but upon finding out he was setting Harry up to be sacrificed to Voldemort, they are all disgusted. Furthermore, it was highly likely his plan would've rendered Voldemort invincible, as if the prophecy was true, then Harry was the only one who could kill Voldemort.
- In Dragon Me To Hell: R.J. is a newly arrived sinner who cannot think of a single thing he did bad enough to warrant being sent to Hell in the first place, as demonstrated by his repeated self-assurance that "I'm a good person". However, in Chapter 6, this mindset gets him hit twice with this trope back to back:
- When Pentious comes to the Hotel under suspicious circumstances, R.J. grabs a major Jerkass Ball by not only keeping quiet on it but using it as an excuse to get back at Angel Dust for bullying him. Eventually, Angel gets fed up with it and tells R.J. that if he really cared about the hotel's mission like he claimed to, he'd be honest with Charlie about his suspicions towards Pentious, among other things. R.J. is pissed at Angel and spends the argument dissecting some of Angel's own flaws as well, but can't argue with that particular point and resolves to tell Charlie about his worries. Which leads to...
- When R.J. tells Charlie about Sir Pentious lying about his intentions, Charlie slips into a Tranquil Fury and asks him if he thinks she's stupid, as well as if he thinks The Hotel's mission can work. She points out that R.J. is so sure that he's a good person and that his damnation was a mistake that he treats his salvation as already earned, and is thus putting himself before other sinners, who he (understandably) looks down on. After a major Heroic BSoD (as well as seeing Charlie forgive Pentious when he turns out to be a spy for Vox), R.J. decides to pull his head out of his ass and do the real work, not just for himself, but for other sinners at the hotel.
- In Unmade, after being locked in a Company cell with Sylar for an indefinite amount of time, Peter comes to agree that when they get out of here, Sylar can slice up Adam (who "deserves it") for his regeneration power instead of Claire (his "innocent" niece). Sylar calls him on it: "It's bloodthirsty... for someone like you."
- In Feverish, America calls out England on forgetting who a very ill Canada is. England gets his chance later, when America storms the Canadian embassy and attacks several employees, without considering the consequences of his actions. And England, America, and France call themselves out constantly on overlooking symptoms of Canada's increasingly-dangerous sickness.
- Heart of Fire: After Thorin refuses to listen to Kathryn's pleas not to try to kill Smaug and risk the death of countless innocents in the name of his gold and homeland, she has eight parting words for him:Kathryn: May your greed be your doom, Thorin Oakenshield!
- Hivefled: Gamzee's Spirit Advisor duo, Laneen and Sennir, chew him out both for allowing himself to slip into his ancestor's evil ways and for beating himself up for not being able to escape sooner.
- In Ghosts, Hiccup, instead of being awed and amazed by Valka's appearance, is upset and furious at Valka for abandoning him for 20 years and expecting to just waltz back into Hiccup's life.
- In A Thing of Vikings:
- In Chapter 104, Ruffnut delivers a variation of this to Gothi when she learns that the tribal healers have knowledge of the healing properties of the Buffalord dragon and haven't shared this knowledge with anyone out of fear of it being abused like other healing secrets, Ruffnut countering that suppressing such knowledge is just as bad as killing potential patients themselves.
- In Chapter 164, Stoick gives both Gothi and Nanna one about not telling the tribe that being hit with Nadder quills can cause miscarriages. When they try to justify themselves, Stoick points out they could have warned pregnant woman so they wouldn't have lost so many babies before they were born.
- In Njal Gets Burned, Kolskegg gives his brother Gunnar an extended calling out over allowing his feuds to spiral out of control, leading to them both being expelled from Iceland. Gunnar protests that it wasn't his fault, but Kolskegg is having none of it and storms out despite legally being Gunnar's sidekick.
- Like a Wheel Ever Turning:
- Act 2: Corpse (Centre Stage) opens with Siffrin getting killed by a Booby Trap. After examining his body, Odile wants to move on so they can gather more information before cycling back — but Bonnie, who isn't aware that Odile's stuck in a "Groundhog Day" Loop, objects to the prospect of leaving his body behind. Loop also yells at Odile for this before belatedly realizing that they hadn't informed her that she wouldn't have to return to the very beginning of every loop.
- The first chapter of Act 2: Ad Libbing has Odile chuck a pineapple at Loop's head before calling them out on how they'd neglected to bring up the fact that Siffrin was deathly allergic to pineapples until it was too late.
- Happens again in the last chapter of Act 2: Ad Libbing when Odile learns that Loop knew about the King's One-Hit Kill attack, but didn't see fit to warn her about its existence:Odile: I... you... really did know The King would... bring us to our knees in a single attack?
Loop: Why wouldn't he?
Odile: You knew and... didn't... want to warn me.
Loop: Didn't think I needed to warn you the king was dangerous – and... if I had known how to make him less dangerous... I would have shared that.
Odile: ...even if there was nothing you could think to say prepare me to die less violently – HA! Was there truly NOTHING you could have thought to say to warn me about how brutally they'd be – you knew I'd have to do that and... didn't care–? YES, I know you think I should be able to compartmentalise, but I can't- [cuts herself off abruptly, choking on her words]
- The New Adventures of Invader Zim has several examples:
- In Episode 6, the senior Swollen Eyeball agents chew out Dib for his actions in the previous chapter (breaking into their secret library to get a certain book, something they ordered him not to do).
- Later in the same chapter, Dib chews out Steve and Viera for letting their personal feud get in the way of fighting Tak, resulting in an Epic Fail on their part.
- Episode 9 has Norlock, of all people, chewing out Dib for using the Dream Walker spell to spy on people.
- Webwork: Jackie is less upset at the fact that Jade is now a pregnant spider demon than he is when Uncle informs him that Paco's attempt to cure her harmed the eggs she carrying, and her by extension, which he compares to hitting a pregnant woman in the stomach.
- Jonathan Joestar, The First JoJo: Jonathan gives Older Joseph a verbal tongue-lashing regarding his affair with Josuke's mother, Tomoko.
- Jolyne chastises Jotaro for his treatment of Jonathan, which led to him getting deaged by Alessi.
- Fibbing: Sharon comes to Josh asking for him to pick up medicine from town, as Spanner is very sick. Josh, knowing that Spanner had been Playing Sick earlier, responds with a sarcastic remark. Sharon gets angry with him for not taking her seriously and cries, tipping off to Josh that Spanner has gotten sick for real.
- In Reconciliation, it is revealed that Lilly was angry with Hisao for disregarding her advice about Hanako, checking on her when she didn't want to see anyone, triggering the Bad Ending (in which Hanako angrily declares that she hates Hisao and Lilly) and leading to Hanako distancing herself from Hisao and Lilly for eight years out of guilt. Averted when Hanako expects to receive a response like this from Lilly, but does not.
- In All I Really Want, Shego explicitly calls Kim out on being fine with using mind control on her twice. Kim protests that the use of the mind control shampoo was just in the heat of battle and she didn't do anything more than tell Shego to go away and wait until it wore off, but her reaction to the Attitudinator turning Shego into Miss Go is more complex; while Kim didn't cause the incident, she also didn't do anything to turn Shego back to normal, and when Kim tries to point out that she seemed happier as Miss Go than as herself, Shego asks if Kim thinks Ron was genuinely "happier" as Zorpox.
- Littlefoot of Twilight Valley gets called out by Pterano for assaulting Ms. Maia, who is the leader of a guard division. Ms. Maia later turns traitor.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- In LXG 2: Above & Beyond, Sawyer openly asks why Skinner didn’t step in to fight Thomas Marvel (the other invisible man) when the other man was attacking Sawyer while pretending to be Skinner, and the spy is left dissatisfied with Skinner’s explanation.
- In Blind Man's Bluff, Nick pulls an absolutely devastating one on Coach when he accidentally sets a horde on them due to his inability to control his anger after seeing the Charger.
- In Mad World, Trick uses his powers to write that the Garuda will be defeated by a champion (who turns out to be Bo). The Garuda is aware of this, and knows that Lauren will be involved. So it and Thane utterly destroy her life trying to prevent it. Thane murders 19 of her colleagues/friends before murdering her; she is then brought back by the Fae, forced into slavery to them, and then Thane returns and subjects her to Mind Rape and horrific torture. She is distinctly unamused when Trick confesses his role in it, and calls him on it in the sequel.Lauren: What right did you have to play God?
Trick: Lauren...
Lauren: I am so... sick of explanations of the greater good. I get it from the Ash, from the Morrigan, from you. Everything that happened is for the greater good. I am tired of my life being nothing more than a trivial afterthought to you people. I had a life, a good life before it was taken from me. I died and was resurrected because that would help the Fae. I have lived the last five years at the mercy of the Light Fae while most of them treat animals better than they treat me. So, to answer your question Trick, I'm not alright. I haven't been alright for five years and now I'm just sick of putting up with it.
Trick: Lauren, I'm sorry.
Lauren: Keep your apologies. If you want to help me, you'll write a new Fae future that I'm not a part of.- There's also a failed one. Lauren finally kills Thane (after said torture); Amara, while happy that Thane is dead, is deeply upset that Lauren killed him. She feels that a Fae who sacrificed himself to resurrect Lauren (who was also her brother) was a pure and superior fae, and that Lauren has destroyed said purity by killing someone. It comes off as petty and arrogant given everything that has happened, which was likely intentional.
- Ace Savvy: A New Hope: When Nova saves Ace Savvy from Tetherby's guards, she chews him out for the terrible decision he made to rush in to stop him despite being warned against him and, as a result, causing massive property damage and getting Clyde badly injured.
- Academy Blues:
- Hayate attempts to pull this on Takashi for killing all the Lords of the Circles, but rescinds it once she realises what the "victims" were planning on doing to her and hers.
- Natalia's grandmother gives her one for her betrayal.
- In The Arctic Front, Steve is outraged and incredulous when Peggy not only has Black Widow Konstantina Fyodorova locked up, but keeps Fyodorova separated from the infant Natalia Romanoff even though that means separating a three-year-old from her only guardian. Peggy only justifies her actions with talks about age-regression and the risk of a potential threat that Steve finds ridiculous when they’re talking about a toddler.
- In the Avengers: Endgame Fix Fic Backwards, both Peggy and Sharon lay a heavy one onto Steve for basically leaving Bucky and his other friends in the 21st century behind, for trying to get back together with Peggy in a way that would make the children (and grandchildren) she had with Daniel become Ret-Gone, and for the way he had treated Sharon like a Replacement Goldfish, with the latter topping the whole thing off with a hard slap to Steve's face.
- "Constant Variable" features a version of Tony Stark being pruned by the Time Variance Authority because he chose not to try and perfect the use of time travel via the quantum realm. He initially assumes that the TVA are essentially good-intentioned given how the Prime Timeline involves undoing the Snap, but he turns against the agency when he witnesses them prune a Thanos from a timeline where Thanos chose not to kill Gamora to retrieve the Soul Stone.
- Several in Multiverse of Madness: Clea Cut (an AU where Wanda was redeemed through her friendship with Peter Parker);
- Several characters are angry when Strange is forced to admit that he didn't check as many futures on Titan as he claimed, to the extent that he deliberately misled others because he was guaranteeing a future where he survived to be brought back by the Snap, even when that meant that Vision and Stark would die.
- 199999-Peter is particularly outraged to learn that the Avengers of Earth-717 basically chose to let everyone killed in the Snap stay dead and only bring Thanos and his minions back to life so that the world could see the Black Order get punished.
- In Split, Bucky talks to Steve about the changes the latter made to the timeline before confronting Steve about not saving him from HYDRA.Bucky: And I know it won't matter in a few weeks or however long it will take for all of this to be over, but did you even come back for me? Or did you just... leave me. For seventy years. To Hydra.
- The Spider-Man fic Jackpot (ShadedSteel) has a couple;
- While there is no sign that Peter delivered this statement to Tony Stark directly, he's incredulous and disgusted to discover that Tony has moved Wilson Fisk into protective custody after Peter beat Fisk up for his role in May's death, as Tony failed to provide adequate security for May in the first place and is now protecting the man basically responsible for her death. Peter is further outraged when Tony confronts him in a new armor specifically designed to take down Spider-Man, using tech derived from the Spider-Slayers, outright asking how Tony can consider himself the good guy when he's resorted to these kind of methods.
- When Cindy suggests that Peter and his partners leave New York to avoid a repeat of the pheromones incident, Gwen shoots that down by pointing out that they all have lives, family and friends in the city while Cindy has no strong ties herself, so if anyone should leave the city it should be Cindy.
- In The Measure of a Man, Peter Parker gets to deliver one to the rest of the Avengers and other heroes when he asks them how they couldn’t have realized Ock was in control of his body for the last few weeks, only realising the truth when Carol Danvers returned from space and asked Doctor Strange to investigate possible reasons for "Peter's" odd behaviour.
- In A Prize for Three Empires, Carol Danvers calls the Avengers out on letting her rapist walk away with her, as she did in Avengers Annual #10.And she told the Avengers what had really happened to her, leaving out only the elder Immortus's part in bringing her back to Earth.
About that incident, she was having less and less problems connecting it to what she felt.
"I never wanted to see you—any of you—again," said Carol. "I hated you. Because when I needed you most, you betrayed me."
She told them of what she had felt when they made their jokes. She told them of what she had felt, or hadn't felt, when they didn't question a thing that Marcus had told them, just letting her go with a smile and a wave.
"That was your mistake," she said. "For which I paid the price. My mistake was trusting you." - In Risen, Professor Xavier disowns Scott after the latter ditches his secret identity to testify in a trial against an anti-mutant bigot. As a result, Jean Grey even refuses to talk to her former professor, and even Magneto calls his old friend out on Scott because his student did what Xavier himself was too afraid to do.
- In Mass Vexations, Author Avatar Art gets chewed out by Shepard for purposefully splitting a salarian STG unit on Virmire, thus forcing Shepard to make a choice between him and Ashley and nearly getting the salarian unit killed. And that's not including how he gets yelled at for insubordination.
- And then, this trope pretty much kicks Art's ass all over the place in the sequel. Let's just say creating a Conveniently Unverifiable Cover Story and then hiding the truth from Commander Shepard was not one of his better ideas.
- Weightless:
- Garrus chewed Shepard out for rejecting him after he had abandoned everything for her while she had led him to believe that she did feel something for him (she did, but didn't want to admit it to him). They snapped, ended up fighting, and she decided to kick him out after they're done with Saren.
- Thane called Garrus out for constantly shutting himself off to wallow in the past and ignoring Shepard after Garrus had promised to never leave her side again.
Metamorphosis
- A Series of Fortunate Events: Saki Yoshida, while shopping for groceries with her daughter Hana, was shocked to meet her mother, who she had not seen since her mother threw her out of her house when her husband lied to her mother saying that Saki seduced him when he in fact molested and forced his daughter to sleep with him. To Saki's shock, her mother grabbed her and hugged her crying. Saki asked her mother why she was talking to her; Saki's mother told her daughter that her husband told her the truth, that while drunk, he accidentally revealed that he forced himself on Saki. Saki's mother begs for her daughter's forgiveness. While Saki does not feel anger or resentment towards her mother, she is still hurt by her mother's actions and cannot forgive her. Saki told her mother that she had to go and leave with her daughter. When Saki's mother said that she would've never kicked her out if she had no the truth earlier, Saki told her that while she was glad that her mother knew the truth, her mother still left her when she needed her the most; she can't talk to her mother now in front of her own daughter.Saki Yoshida Mother: Saki, please! I wish I knew the truth earlier. I would've never kicked you out, dear.
Saki Yoshida: Saki shook her head, holding back tears. "You... You left me when I needed you the most. I always came to you whenever I was sad. And... I trusted you. I'm glad that you know now, but... I can't. Not in front of Hana."
- In Perfection Is Overrated, Mai explodes at Mikoto after she (while Brainwashed) kills Bachiko and Meiko while they're fighting Mai and acts like nothing has happened. Mai is less disturbed by the action than the way Mikoto acts with regards to it, especially considering that the enemies were SUEs with the power to alter their victims' personalities.Mikoto: Mai... What... happened here?
Mai: Don't play dumb, Mikoto! You killed Bachiko and Meiko, don't you remember?
Mikoto: I did? I don't remember. I saw you... in trouble... and the next thing I knew, the two of them disappeared.
Mai: [after a pause] I'm sorry, Mikoto. I just... don't know what's happened to you. Obviously it's not the SUEs' influence, but you... didn't seem yourself in that moment. You're a kind girl who makes friends with everyone, not some ruthless killer, even if it's my enemy you're fighting.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Dozens of MLP fanworks love to heap this sort of thing onto Princess Celestia for her actions throughout the series. Most notably always sending her student and her friends to deal with the conflicts in-show instead of sending her own soldiers when there might be clear danger to their lives, and never issuing an on-screen apology for her failures or shortcomings, especially after the Changeling Invasion.
- Pinkie gives Twilight a long and painful one in Asylum (Daemon of Decay) after the latter let her frustration with Pinkie's reluctance to help her get the best of her and struck her:Pinkie: You're a bad pony.
Twilight: What?
Pinkie: You tricked me into doing something I didn't want to. You stole something from Doctor Rose. And you hit me. You didn't used to do that. Whatever Doctor Rose did to you made you all different and stuff, and now... now you're a bad pony.
Twilight: Now Pinkie Pie, you can't really believe that. We're best friends, remember? We're fighting to save Equestria. We're the good guys.
Pinkie: I don't like fighting this evil shadow. I liked it better when we were knights. That was more fun. When I was Lady Pinkie of the Order of Pie, and you were Princess Sparkle, the Wizard in the Tower, and we fought monsters and saved stallions in distress and had fun. You never got angry then. Can't we go back to doing that?
Twilight: Pinkie. Have you believed anything I told you?
Pinkie: Of course I believe you! You're my bestest friend, and bestest friends never lie! It's just... we used to be knights, and scientists, and librarians. We had fun. But ever since this shadow thing turned up, everything has changed. Now you're lying to the doctors, and sneaking into offices, and getting all meany-face, and it's just not the same! I don't think this shadow pony thing is changing your friends. I think it's changing you, making you a bad pony. My Twilight wouldn't yell or lie or steal or hit me! I want my Twilight back. - Bitter Tears: An Anon-A-Miss Fic:
- Twilight tears the Humane Five and the CMC a collective new one for how they treated Sunset, practically breaking down in the middle of it from sheer frustration and disgust. She also calls out Sunset for keeping her in the dark about what was really happening for two months, worrying her immensely to the point where she thought Sunset was dead.
- In the penultimate chapter, Sunset finally chews out the Humane Five for abandoning her the second they thought she was Anon-A-Miss on flimsy evidence, and says that she can no longer trust any of them because of that.
- Once Celestia and Luna learn about the physical assault and sheer extent of the bullying that the CMC had been through over the past two months, the former tells off the entire school for their behavior and makes it clear how absolutely disgusted she is about it.
- Applejack is noticeably horrified at Rainbow Dash punching Scootaloo, and she (along with Pinkie) immediately leaps in to hold her back from beating her even more.
Applejack: Dash! Have you lost yer cotton pickin' mind?! - The Dear Sweetie Belle Continuity: In What's Done in the Dark..., Twilight chews out Shining Armor after his affair with Luna becomes public knowledge, but unfortunately most of it is defused when Shining lets her know that their mother already did that.
- Discord's New Business: A light version. Rainbow Dash and the Apple family aren't happy at all to see Applejack be a Workaholic, using her freebie transformation to make it easier for her to do more work.Rainbow Dash: AJ... I am disappoint...
- A Future of Friendship, A History of Hate: Rainbow Dash gets chewed out several times in Episode 3 for putting herself in danger — first, when breaking up a thunderstorm in The Teaser with a dangerous technique, then with her insistence on fighting Fury Cross alone.
- Rainbow Dash herself rips Rarity a new one in Episode 4 for blowing off her friends to spend time with Regal Rule. Rarity brushes her off, which makes her feel even worse when she has her My God, What Have I Done? moment later on and realizes Rainbow Dash was completely right.
- In Jericho, the eponymous main character, Jericho, has this happen to him when he gets attacked by an angry townspony. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it fight, Jericho knocks the guy out, only to have the guy's wife and little daughter both rush to his aid. They yell at him, and then he has a WTHH moment on himself.Jericho: Oh, you mean the side-neck chop? That's just a martial arts move. I mean, yeah, if I'd done it wrong, it would have killed him via cardiac arrest, and so, in hindsight, that was highly irresponsible of me to do but... I'm not helping my case any, am I?
- Loved and Lost, an extended retelling of the second season finale, has a few of these.
- After the Changelings are stopped by Twilight using a spell to shrink them, Prince Jewelius ceases the heroes' rejoicing by blaming Celestia as well as Twilight's friends and brother for the invasion, revealing to everypony how they refused to listen to Twilight's suspicions regarding Queen Chrysalis. He then forcibly removes all the other heroes but Twilight from power by destroying their reputations, drives them away from Equestria, and takes the throne for himself. This example ends up becoming a double subversion because Jewelius acts as the Big Bad for the rest of the story (and is revealed to have been rotten all along and convinced Chrysalis to take over Equestria with him before double-crossing her), but the ashamed heroes nevertheless admit he's right about how badly they screwed up.
- Cadance provides a subtly downplayed example; while sad over the way Twilight was treated at the rehearsal, she's understanding and never angry with Shining Armor and the others. However, she reveals to him how Twilight helped them to become a couple years ago and asks him to make amends with Twilight before they get married. Though she says this gently, he takes it for an ultimatum.
- When Celestia, Shining Armor, the Mane Five and Spike secretly return to Canterlot with Cadance in order to make amends with Twilight, Cadance ends up being injured by Jewelius. Twilight — having been manipulated by Jewelius to stop trusting her brother, mentor and friends after they walked out on her at the wedding rehearsal — mistakenly believes her former foalsitter was injured because her former loved ones brought her back to Canterlot. Sad and angry, she lashes out at them before allowing them to be taken prisoner.Twilight: How could you have let her be put in danger? Hasn't she been through enough already?
Celestia: Twilight, we didn't know what would happen.
Twilight: [becomes extremely angry] Yes, you didn't know. Just like you didn't know about the bad behavior she was showing during the planning for the wedding! Just like you didn't know about the strange spells she was constantly casting on my brother, which obviously weren't headache-healing spells! Just like you didn't know what that display of crocodile tears at the rehearsal was meant to do! Just like you didn't know she was imprisoning ponies who were becoming obstacles in her plan in the caverns underneath the castle, like me! And just like you didn't know that she was the EVIL queen of an army of shapeshifting insect-like monsters bent on devouring all the love in Equestria! Well, I know one place that they won't be able to find any real love!
Shining Armor: Twily, I-
Twilight: You know, King Jewelius was going to let her back into the kingdom. It would've been easy and nopony would've gotten hurt. But you all had to follow your own selfish instincts and mess everything up again! Well no more!
[Twilight imprisons her former loved ones in a magic dome]
Applejack: Twilight, please don't do this!
Fluttershy: We're your friends!
Twilight: No you're not! You only hang out with me because my connections could help you. You never cared about me or anypony else! I can't believe I fell for it for so long.
Shining Armor: Twily-
Twilight: And you can forget about me calling you my BBBFF anymore! In fact, I don't even have a brother. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go check on the princess.
Celestia: Twilight, I-
Twilight: You have a lot to think about. - In the 12th chapter, the disgraced heroes are reproached by Canterlot's angry citizens who are captivated by Jewelius' half-truths and feel themselves betrayed by their former idols. The original bridesmaids Lyra Heartstrings, Minuette, and Twinkleshine — who were hypnotized to keep Cadance and Twilight contained in the caverns — are also along to voice their disbelief over the fact that only Twilight cared about their disappearance and that everypony else just took Chrysalis' word for it.Lyra Heartstrings: And you five had the nerve to steal our positions as bridesmaids when we disappeared!
Pinkie Pie: We didn't steal anything!
Rarity: They were given to us by the bride!
Minuette: You mean the fake bride! As if it was hers to give.
Twinkleshine: We went missing! Didn't anypony besides Twilight find that suspicious? Didn't anypony try to look for us? Why would none of you think to look into that?!
Shining Armor: She said she fired you all because you were only interested in meeting Canterlot royalty.
Twinkleshine: How could you believe that lie? I never did anything to anypony! [starts sobbing while Shining Armor is glared and booed at]
Shining Armor: I didn't mean to hurt her feelings!
Twilight: But you did! Just like me.
[Shining Armor lowers his head in shame]
- In The Meaning of Harmony, Sunset calls Princess Celestia out on using Destiny magic to view and influence Twilight's choices in life.Sunset: Twilight idolizes you. There's nopony she respects and loves more than you, and this is what you’ve done to repay her?! Or did your machinations cause her to idolize you? Did you decide that I'd been too rebellious, so you would just make sure your next student was a bit more devoted to you?! I can't believe this. The benign, just ruler of Equestria using Destiny magic to make sure her student remains loyal. And you think I would have been a tyrant?
- In No, I am Not a Brony, GET ME OUTTA EQUESTRIA!!!, TD epically calls out the Mane Six sans Fluttershy for how they've treated him over the last couple of days: Pinkie punished him for breaking a Pinkie Promise - after he'd apologized - by setting him on (harmless) fire; Rarity cast a freezing spell on him to keep him from running out of the boutique when he thought she was going to make him something ridiculous - then used him as a mannequin - rather than simply explain that she would show him her designs and get his approval before making anything; and Twilight, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash attempted to beat the crap out of him less than an hour after he'd woken up in the hospital - admittedly, he had just punched Celestia in the face for accidentally bringing him here, but as he points out, their actions were completely disproportionate to any damage he could have done to an immortal sun goddess.
- History repeats itself in Chapter 13, when Celestia informs him that she has no way of sending him home, despite her best efforts. While he tries to restrain his anger, a confrontation with the Princesses and Blueblood in the middle of the Gala gets out of control and ends with Celestia getting punched again and Luna snapping TD's spine in retaliation. After Celestia heals him, he silently returns to his house in Ponyville. When the Princesses show up the following morning, he rejects their offer of help and angrily calls out Luna on her actions:TD: Thanks for the game of 'head on a stick' with me and the back of that chair. I always wanted to know how it feels to be a quadriplegic.
Luna: We... We are sorry for what We did to thee. Our reaction was disproportionate.
TD: You think? What's with you ponies and thinking Celestia needs protecting from me anyway? If whatever I do is unwarranted, then she can execute me herself.
- History repeats itself in Chapter 13, when Celestia informs him that she has no way of sending him home, despite her best efforts. While he tries to restrain his anger, a confrontation with the Princesses and Blueblood in the middle of the Gala gets out of control and ends with Celestia getting punched again and Luna snapping TD's spine in retaliation. After Celestia heals him, he silently returns to his house in Ponyville. When the Princesses show up the following morning, he rejects their offer of help and angrily calls out Luna on her actions:
- Parting Words:
- In Chapter 1, Twilight demands more information before being sent to the Crystal Kingdom. Princess Celestia lets slip that she intended to use this as a Secret Test for her student. Twilight calls her out on her Skewed Priorities:Twilight Sparkle: I don't care what it is you're 'testing' me for. Forget it, I don't care! The welfare of other ponies is supposed to come first for a ruler, no matter what. So either tell me everything I need to know, or find somepony else to do this, because I'm not going to imperil hundreds or even thousands of innocent ponies trying to get a gold sticker from you on a TEST!
- In Chapter 3, the Cutie Mark Crusaders call Applejack out on how she completely failed to adequately help them whenever they were being bullied by Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, which was part of the reason why they didn't come to her for help regarding Babs - they didn't expect her to do things any differently this time around.
- In Chapter 1, Twilight demands more information before being sent to the Crystal Kingdom. Princess Celestia lets slip that she intended to use this as a Secret Test for her student. Twilight calls her out on her Skewed Priorities:
- The Pony Psychology Series has an entire chapter devoted to Celestia lecturing Luna on the true consequences of the environmental and ecological effects of an endless night (with frighteningly accurate scientific references and detail), mostly in an attempt to quell any doubt that Nightmare Moon might have been doing them a favor.
- In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Alternate Universe Fic, Rainbooms and Royalty, in which Rainbow is Celestia's personal student instead of Twilight, Rainbow directs this towards Princess Celestia after she and the rest of the Mane Cast defeat Nightmare Moon. She is enraged to discover how Celestia manipulated her and her friends behind the scenes since their foalhood in her plan to redeem her sister. Interestingly, she's not upset about being used, she's upset that Celestia did not trust her enough to be forthright about her intentions, because she would have gladly aided Celestia. She's also incensed that Celestia was willing to risk her and her friends to redeem Luna, rather than confronting Luna herself, and, if necessary, fighting her. She says that she still loves Celestia, but she cannot forgive her yet. Fortunately, after both the princess and Rainbow have a chance to talk with other ponies, they reconcile quickly.
- Rainbow Dash, Please Report to the Principal's Office revolves around most of the students at Canterlot High getting increasingly obsessed with figuring out why Rainbow Dash keeps getting called to Celestia's office. After it's revealed that the principal was giving her a private space to grieve over losing her grandmother, Dash furiously calls everyone out on how far they were willing to go to invade her privacy. (Aside from Sunset, Fluttershy, Twilight and Pinkie, who weren't involved in any of the Zany Schemes or rumor mongering.)
- In The Vinyl Scratch Tapes, Vinyl gets one from Princess Luna when Vinyl not only insults Prince Blueblood (who may be a jerk, but by that point Vinyl's campaign to get back at him was so successful he's turned to drinking to help deal with the fact that ponies send death threats to him on a regular basis) in front of her but also reveals she's the one who humiliated Princess Celestia by guilt-tripping her for banishing Luna during her Nightmare Moon phase, causing Vinyl to enter a Heroic BSoD. Later, Luna is forced to apologize for the latter (but refuses for the former). However, Trixie then busts out of a trash can (It Makes Sense in Context) and accuses all the assembled ponies who gathered to make Vinyl feel better that they are all hypocrites for treating Blueblood like a pariah for being a jerk, but pretending Vinyl's own jackassery is charming (especially since this jackassery involves hiring a known criminal and a slaver and bringing him into the heart of Canterlot).
- Whispers: Nightmare Moon tries this in the form of an Armor-Piercing Question when Celestia is about to seal her with the Elements of Harmony. Celestia doesn't buy it.
- This comic calls out Princess Cadance for destroying the fake crystal heart before rallying the Crystal Ponies for the sake of a good laugh.
- Black Flames Dance in the Wind: Rise of Naruto:
- Sasuke of all people calls out a pair of Konoha ninja for trying to kill each other over one having an affair with the other's wife while all of them are currently on break from searching for survivors in the aftermath of the worst attack on Konoha since the Kyuubi. The other shinobi around admit he was right and that they would've stood back and let it happen.
- Asuma once raged at Ino for throwing live steel around the training grounds instead of the foam-tipped practice ones she's supposed to as she could easily injure or kill someone if she misses her target. He likewise chewed out Shikamaru for using his shadow technique to throw off her aim because he was sick of Ino's boasting. As punishment, Asuma threw kunai around the training grounds and each one they failed to catch meant they had to run a lap around the entire village.
- When Kakashi tries to capture Kurama for abducting Naruto in Blackkat's Reverse, a furious Kurama declares that Kakashi has no right to pretend he cares for Naruto, as he refused to raise the kid or doing anything to stop Konoha from treating him as an outcast.
- Androgyninja's A Drop of Poison:
- In the Forest of Death, Sakura rips Naruto a new one for recklessly dragging them into a fight with an opponent who clearly outclasses them, angrily reminding him that they are dealing with people who can and will kill them if the opportunity arises.
- Following the preliminaries, Kakashi takes Naruto aside and takes him to task for the above incident, as well as how he refused to let Sakura opt out of her match, overriding her wishes because he didn't want her to quit.
- After the Konoha Crush, Kakashi and Sakura both confront Sasuke over being a Glory Hound who ignored orders to chase after the retreating Gaara. Kakashi does so calmly; Sakura busts his nose and combines it with a "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
- Naruto attempts this after learning about how Sakura has killed several enemies, only for Sakura to turn it back around on him and call him out for being naive.
- Naruto and Kushina trade these in Eroninja when they're sent to the past. Kushina (taking the place of the Kyuubi) suggests Naruto inform Minato about the future so they don't die and Naruto can grow up with his parents. When Naruto insists they can't as it's impossible to tell whether they can even change time and that if they succeed, the results would be unpredictable, Kushina angrily accuses him of sacrificing his parents to protect his harem lifestyle. Naruto retorts that she's asking him to sacrifice himself and his family for the sake of her and Minato. If Naruto was raised with his parents, he'd likely be a completely different person than he is now.
- In A Father's Wrath, Orochimaru (who is Naruto's father in this work) calls out Tsunade and Jiraiya when they meet again, asking them why they weren't around when Naruto was growing up and he needed someone to look after him and guide him.
- Surprisingly, Inner Sakura calls out the real Sakura in A Growing Affection when she starts bullying Hinata.
- In Kitsune no Ken: Fist of the Fox, Naruto gets called out a total of four times throughout the story. The first three times (coming separately from Ino, Neji, and Shikamaru) concern an incident where he almost killed an attacker and was willing to ignore his friends' urging to spare the person's life, then proceeded to avoid his friends after the fact. The fourth occasion is during his tribunal for being a member of the Kyuushingai who contributed to a year's worth of chaos across the country, where both Judge Utatane and prosecutor Yugao chew him out for his subsequent "I Did What I Had to Do" attitude regarding that period, even when he explains that he did all he did in an effort to stop Gaara's plot to take over the government.Naruto: From what I was able to learn, your honor...cities’ worth of people would have been put at risk with what Gaara was planning.
Judge Utatane: And yet, by your actions on the night of the New Year's celebration in Kumo City, isn't that what ended up happening anyway--that cities were subjected to multiple homicides? - Orochimaru calls out Tsunade in Of Ramen and Wooden Skates for constantly borrowing money from him and Jiraiya for gambling and never paying them back. Not only does she owe Orochimaru more than he makes in a year at his part-time job, but Jiraiya had to move in with him after he couldn't pay his rent.
- Ino apparently gave Chouji one offscreen in Team 7's Ascension after his refusal to kill a downed enemy results in her being temporarily crippled and Akamaru killed.
- In Team 8, Kurenai calls Hinata out on pushing herself as far as she did against Neji, which almost resulted in her death and upset Naruto to the point where he nearly forfeited his own match by being unwilling to leave her side, suggesting that she had no regard for her safety or her friends' feelings when she did so.
- What You Knead:
- Jiraiya attempts this when confronting Kakashi, giving him grief over daring to retire from active service in favor of starting the Ryouken Bakery. Kakashi turns the tables by pointing out the ero-sennin's blatant hypocrisy — that he's spent years running away from Konoha and all his problems there, abandoning Naruto in the process... despite how the boy is meant to be his godson.
- Iruka confronts and calls out Kakashi after learning he taught Naruto the Kage Bunshin, a forbidden technique.
- Both Gai and Iruka corner and confront Kakashi after he nominates Team Seven to take the summer Chuunin Exams, pointing out that he's only had his genin team for a few months. Gai specifically cites how he waited a year before making his first bid.
- The Child of Love:
- From Misato to Asuka after the latter attempts to commit suicide.
- Teri also chewed Asuka out via telepathy by nearly killing them both.
- Asuka gave one to Shinji when he got so frightened, thinking he could not protect her, that he broke up with her.
- A minor, humorous example when Shinji complains Asuka has gotten heavier, she replies it is Teri’s fault and he asks whether she is seriously blaming their unborn daughter who can’t speak on her behalf.
- Evangelion 303:
- In chapter 2 Asuka punched Shinji because during a training duel because he had pulled a suicidal move and he had got her nearly killed. Misato yelled Asuka that, even if Shinji's actions were wrong and punishment-worthy, striking a fellow pilot was completely unacceptable and it would not be brooked.
- Meanwhile Ritsuko lectured Shinji that pulling suicidal moves during a friendly duel or training, only because you are determined to win, may be a stupid way to waste your life.
- In chapter 6 Shinji tells during a pillow talk that he has no many reasons to live rather "exist". Asuka angrily retorts that no one can live without self-preservation instinct, she could never go into combat with someone that will not try to fight for his life, and there is a lot of other people -such like herself- that depends on him to live.
- Saburo felt ignored by Kaworu and broke up with him due to a fit of jealousy. Kaworu moved on but Saburo did not, and he resented that Kaworu went out with other people. In chapter 7 he warned Kaworu against wasting his "forgiveness". Kaworu was not amused:Kaworu: Forgiveness? You dumped me in a fit of jealousy fanned by the flames of your own imagination. There never was anything to forgive.
- In chapter ten Gendo lectures Shinji about spending his entire free time watching over a comatose Asuka, and reprimands him for neglecting his duties and being more concerned with Asuka than with saving millions of innocent lives. Shinji replied that he knew nothing about "duty".
- After Unit-04's crash and spending several months in a coma Asuka blamed herself for the failure of the mission and her friend's death, and she hated herself. To cope with her pain, she started to lash out at everyone, especially Shinji. In chapter 12 she is going through an inner turmoil and her rational side lectures her harshly about her actions:Asuka: Nobody understands what I’m going through!
Asuka: Do YOU understand?
Asuka: ?!
Asuka: Do you see what you are doing? What you’ve been doing ever since you woke up? You wrap yourself up in this warm blanket of hate because it makes you feel powerful! It’s the only way you can feel powerful again without the help of others! But it’s only a drug. A quick chemical that hides your troubles! Meanwhile they’re still there GETTING WORSE. So, once again, the great Asuka Langley Sohryu is retreating from her troubles armed with a medicine cabinet of powerful-looking narcotics! My, how self-reliant you are! - In chapter 15 Asuka and Mari were supposed to take part in a training session. However, they started dog-fighting. Misato chewed them out, stating that she had no use for pilots who still have to prove that they can do their jobs.
- Ghosts of Evangelion:
- After Asuka turns his Love Confession down, accusing him from lying to her, Shinji says she shouldn't tell him how he's feeling, or treating her friends like that.Shinji sat down, regarding Asuka with a mixture of hurt and anger. His fingers twitched, before closing into a fist. "You need to start listening to what I say," he said softly. "I may be an idiot, but I know how I feel. Better than you do, anyway."
She nodded.
"I don't mind being hurt sometimes," he went on. "That doesn't mean I like it, but I can deal with it. It means you're being honest with me and I appreciate that. But this morning, you went too far."
"I know," she said.
He leaned on the table. "When you got back from Kyoto, you said you wanted to be friends with me. Don't you remember that?"
Asuka's eyes were watering. "Yes."
"Is this how you treat your friends?" His voice was tinged with anger. "Are things really so terrible between us that you would say something like that?"
She squeezed her eyes shut, tears rolling down her face, and shook her head. "I'm sorry," she said. "I—" - Asuka berates Misato for letting her down and abandoning her right when she needed badly someone who cared for her.
- After Asuka turns his Love Confession down, accusing him from lying to her, Shinji says she shouldn't tell him how he's feeling, or treating her friends like that.
- Going Another Way sees Gendo Ikari get called out twice over for being a Manipulative Bastard.
- First, after the Bardiel incident leaves Shinji in a Heroic BSoD from what the Dummy Plug almost did to Maya, Rei slaps him when they're alone in an elevator.
- Second, when the aftermath of the Zeruel battle leaves Yui able to communicate with NERV through computer screens, she verbally tears Gendo a new butthole for everything he did to the pilots.Gendo: Yui...is it really you?
Yui: Gendo...
Gendo: Yui? W-what is wrong, why are you angry?
Yui: I think I haven't heard right! Gendo Ikari, I know what you did to our son! Not to speak what else I learned you did! How could you?!
Gendo: Y-you don't understand that I had to do it!
Yui:Oh no! I DON'T understand! You left him, a boy of three years, in the most hurtful way possible! And if that's not bad enough, you went out of your way to further hurt him in ways I wouldn't have thought possible! Oh yes, I remember that monstrosity of auto-pilot all too well! Shinji was traumatized by what YOU did!
Gendo: Yui, I...
Yui: Oh no, don't even try to excuse yourself! What about the future?! You destroyed all we did work so hard for... And for what? You've been chasing an illusion the entire time.
Gendo: W-what?
Yui: What happened to the man I married? I don't recognize you. Your cruelty is breaking my heart.
Gendo: Yui, please... I... I did it for you.
Yui: For me? FOR ME? I'm ashamed that you did all those things to Shinji in my name! And not only him! Rei, the poor girl you treated so bad that you almost destroyed her very soul! Mana, who almost died because you wanted to prove a point! Everyone who had suffered under your disregard for those around you! I wanted to create a safer world with EVA, not endanger it! You destroyed everything I fought for!
Gendo: Yui...I did it because I l...
Yui: No, don't say it! Because I won't believe you! That's not love, that's obesssion! If you really loved me, you would have given our son your love over all these years... Your heart has gone cold. What happened to you?! I'm to saddened and angry to speak with you anymore. Think about what you have done. The man who I love would never have done all these horrible things... I have nothing more to say to you until you redeem yourself.
- In The Gospel Of Malachel, Shinji calls Terry out on saying Asuka is unfit to pilot an Evangelion even though he will not lift a finger to save her life.Terry: Shinji, what do you think you're doing?
Shinji: I'm moving back to Misato's.
Terry: Why?
Shinji: I don't know if it matters to you but Asuka just tried to kill herself. Someone needs to be there to watch her, to make sure that she stays safe.
Terry: Just wait until Misato hears about this.
Shinji: [hissing] You will say absolutely nothing to Misato!
Terry: Are you insane, Ikari? She just tried to kill herself! What if an Angel was to attack tomorrow? Do you really want her in an Eva?
Shinji: You're unfit to pilot for exactly the same reason! You wouldn't have grabbed Asuka's hand if she hadn't been about to pull me over too. You would've let her die. If an Angel attacked right now, I would rather have her by my side than you, because I know that my life holds some value to her! - Higher Learning (Strike-Fiss): After Shinji left, encouraged by his teacher's words, Misato confronted Kaoru about it. When he accused her of treating Shinji as a war tool she said angrily she does not care about NERV and she cares about Shinji more than she will ever care about Kaoru, but as long as the war lasts, neither of them has the luxury of leading a normal life.
- Despite him apologizing after realizing what he said, Shinji still calls out Misato in Neon Metathesis Evangelion for sending Rei into a volcano after a dormant Angel and sending her Eva not only several hundred meters past the maximum safe depth, but another three hundred meters past the maximum allowed depth, all to kill an Angel. Furthermore, she redeployed both him and Asuka while they were still unconscious after their first sortie with Ramiel.
- An entire chapter of Tower of Babel (NieR) is devoted to the overseers and Nier’s team condemning each other’s choices.
- In the fourth one-shot called Truth from the Darkfic Hands (OMORI), When Sunny confessed to what Mari did to him and to killing her, Hero at first tries to deny it, claiming that Sunny's only saying all of it because he's still delirous from the fight with Basil last night. This absolutely angers Aubrey and Kel (albeit to a lesser extent than her), while Sunny, horrified at Hero refusing to believe him, runs off to the hospital roof and tries to end himself.“Sunny… Sunny’s still recovering from the fight with Basil,” Hero said, sparing a glance at the still unconscious boy. “He might have a concussion, or maybe he’s still delirious from whatever medication they put him on.”
“Maybe!?” Aubrey snapped.
Her yell made Sunny back up further away. She cast him a sad, apologetic look before turning back to Hero. “You think that’s fake?” She asked, in a milder tone.
- In This Bites!, everyone is all but shouting at the SBS during the events of Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island, as they listen to the Straw Hats slowly turn on each other. Through no fault of their own though.
- In The Raven & the Owlet, in a shocking twist, All-Loving Hero Luz calls out her Love Interest Amity for dismissing Boscha as being Beyond Redemption and telling Luz she should stop trying to befriend her. Amity was just as bad a bully as Boscha for years, and the only reason she's grown out of it now is because Luz had faith in and befriended her, so it's hypocritical of her to say that Boscha doesn't deserve the same chance.
- In Common Sense, Delia gives one to Misty and Brock for being unable to protect Pikachu from the Rocket trio at Porta Vista, and generally relying on Ash to do most of the battling even though they are both older and Gym Leaders.
- In Jessica, Bianca and Cheren give these to Cameron at Celestial Tower:Bianca: Cameron... how could you do such a thing...?
Cheren: You... I looked up to you... how could you betray me...? - In a sidestory of Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, Red gets lectured by Ultima for not paying enough attention to his Clefairy's Ax-Crazy tendencies, especially after learning that it has acted like that before and he hasn't done anything to find out why or try to solve it.
- Steven gets this treatment in Pokémon Strangled Red after he captures Missingno. Most NPCs won't talk to him, and most of the trainers he meets on the way turn their backs when he passes.
- Pokemon Take Two, a Send Your Original Characters fanfic, gives us one in chapter seven. Actually, that entire chapter is pretty much dedicated to telling our main character how much she sucks as a person, and how she really needs to get her act together.
- In Poké Wars: The Subsistence, Tracy gets yelled at by the entire cast after he tries to assault Jessie, James, and Meowth after their Heel–Face Turn.
- Least Expected:
- Doey gives one to Poppy when her plan ropes in a six year old girl into a tangled mess of nightmares. Even when Poppy explains the letter was meant for her father, Doey is even more enraged at this, because it meant Poppy roped her into a dangerous game.Doey: Are you insane?! A child?! This is the one that you want to help defeat the Doctor?! The Prototype?!
Poppy: She wasn't who I was expecting! The letter was for her father!
Doey: And yet you still went ahead and made her a part of your plan! I'm not letting you send this child to her death!
Poppy: But we need her!
Doey: NO! You need her! You're gonna need a different plan because I'm not letting that kid step foot in No man's land! - When Poppy tries to explain to Doey and Dogday that Hazel needs to go to No-Man's Land to retrieve the Omni-Hand from Dr. Sawyer, they both refuse, with both of them calling her out for not only roping her into a deadly game, but trying to show The Hour of Joy to her. Dogday adds that the only reason Hazel got past Huggy, Mommy and CatNap was because they gave her mercy while the Doctor and the Prototype won't.
- Doey gives one to Poppy when her plan ropes in a six year old girl into a tangled mess of nightmares. Even when Poppy explains the letter was meant for her father, Doey is even more enraged at this, because it meant Poppy roped her into a dangerous game.
- Crimson Rising:
- Jason (Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers) basically has to give Kimberly one of these when she almost refuses to join the Rangers' campaign against the return of Ivan Ooze, although she changes her mind once she learns the scale of the casualties in Ooze's assault so far.
- Will Aston (Power Rangers Operation Overdrive) gets a few of these after he betrays the other Rangers to join the anti-Ranger government organisation Sector Nine, with Adam Park in particular affirming that he's ashamed to share a colour with Will even if Will doesn't care about the legacy at that point.
- Backwards through the snow:
- No Significant Harassment is called out by the other Iterators when Five Pebbles informs everyone that the messenger he sent to revive Looks to the Moon had Rot. NSH explains that the Rot was developed by accident, but he deliberately chose not to remove it.
- NSH gives a scathing rant to Seven Red Suns over their obsession with Pebbles and walking all over their boundaries for their twisted idea of "fixing things".
- In With Strings Attached, the four (specifically George) decide to abandon Jim Hunter to his mind-sucking BFS because they don't want to risk their lives trying to get it away from him. They feel guilty, but they do it anyway. Luckily for both him and them, the ruthless ploy results in Jim's being able to release the sword, so he thinks it was just a brilliant maneuver on George's part. No one is in any hurry to tell him differently.
- Also, they refuse to rescue or even contact Lyndess after they deliver the Vasyn, pretty much saying that she can go fuck herself... despite her having saved their lives at the end of the First Movement.
- In The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World, the four are very reluctant to perform heroic deeds, to the point where they start refusing requests to save small children and the like. As George and John frequently point out, they're not cops, and why aren't the city guards doing these things? They get called out on this a few times, most notably by Spectrem of the Guardians after George and Paul resist the call to search for a missing person in Chandalla.
- The Massive Multiplayer Crossover (but mostly Ruroken) fic Blood and Revolution has Aoshi massacre the Cabinet and most of the Diet in 2015. Absolutely no one was happy about this and he was given various levels of confrontation for it - from Kenshin's "How could you...?" to Hiko's beheading him.
- Can One Change Fix All of RWBY?: Calxiyn says that during this universe's version of the Atlas arc, Robyn Hill of the Happy Huntresses would verbally rip into the heroes when she learns that they were helping the people of Mantle in order to cripple the villains' goals in the bigger picture, not because they specifically cared about the people of Mantle's impoverished and downtrodden plight.
- The Choices We Make: Both Jaune and Qrow give each other a tongue lashing after the fight with Tyrian goes wrong. Qrow lectures the kids for coming back and specifically calls out that Ruby's insistence on returning almost got all of them killed; in return, Jaune lectures him for piling on to her when she's clearly already tearing herself up over it, then lays him out with a punch while pointing out that his plan would've gotten Penny killed if she'd been human.
- Coeur Al'Aran:
- The Beast of Beacon: Adam originally enrolled in Beacon to prove to Blake that he wasn't the monster she thought he was, but after Blake stands by and does nothing while racist students prank him and eventually assault him, it's the final nail in the coffin which convinces Adam that he doesn't know who she is anymore and ends their past relationship, though not before Adam chews her out for her behavior.
- Null: Jaune despises Blake with a passion for leaving him for dead in the middle of Vale despite knowing full well of his and his family's plight and being trusted by him intimately, and whenever they meet up afterwards, Jaune doesn't miss a single chance to needle Blake over her downright vile actions and cowardice. He also repeatedly chides Blake's teammates for their moral hypocrisy, and for them directly getting his mother killed through their carelessness.
- Professor Arc: The titular character criticizes Glynda for asking Pyrrha, one of the students they're supposed to be protecting, to become the new Fall Maiden, which deeply infuriates Glynda as she makes it clear she wouldn't be resorting to this if there was any better recourse available. Offscreen, Oobleck gives Jaune a dressing-down for using a national tragedy (the destruction of a school in Vacuo) as the basis for his conveniently unverifiable cover story.
- A Rabbit Among Wolves: Coco gets an earful for flirting with Jaune, who is technically still a terrorist.
- Raise: Elm and a Mistralian doctor both subtly chide Ironwood that his methods of protecting Jaune, while sincere, were completely counter-productive after Jaune has passed out.
- Service with a Smile: Ozpin calls Qrow out for using Jaune — a civilian in this AU — as bait to lure out Salem's forces, pointing out that the core job of huntsmen is to keep civilians safe rather than put them in the line of fire.
- Sister Complex: A disgusted Jaune calls out Qrow to his face, and by extension Ozpin, on the fact they know Raven's bandit tribe are destroying villages and kidnapping survivors (with Qrow having repeatedly seen the caged captives with his own eyes during his contact outings with Raven), not all of whom have the money or living family to be ransomed back to their loved ones, yet they're doing absolutely nothing about it even when Raven is explicitly a non-ally to them. Qrow is flabbergasted.
- Wise as an Old Qrow: Qrow recalls that just after the canon incident at the shack where a young Ruby and Yang were almost killed by Grimm before he saved them, the first thing he did after taking them home was literally knock some sense into Taiyang for neglecting them to wallow in his grief to such a point where that incident was able to happen in the first place, until Tai finally summoned the willpower to fight back against Qrow.
- Done from both sides of the equation in Five Minutes to Midnight regarding Tai saving Cinder from the Madame and her daughters. Ironwood calls out Tai for doing what is tantamount to kidnapping and a severe violation of Atlesian law, while Tai calls him out on how corrupt and broken the laws at Atlas are if they allow for what is essentially child slavery and how he's done nothing to fix them despite his position.
- I Rewrote RWBY Volume 8:
- A caption notes that when Team RWBY and their allies are squabbling over whether or not to rescue their loved ones in Ironwood's custody, Ruby makes a snip about how Blake and Yang went behind hers and Weiss's backs to tell Robyn about Amity, and in doing so are in large part responsible for Ironwood losing trust in them and turning against them in the first place.
- Blake gets called out by her friends for her increasing codependence towards Yang, constantly following Yang's lead instead of thinking for herself even in the heat of a life-or-death situation. Blake internalizes this, acknowledging that this behavior is a habit she retained from her first abusive relationship with Adam, and she prioritizes overcoming it throughout the rest of the rewrite.
- Whitley calls out Winter on how both she and Weiss left him behind in their family's abusive household to fend for himself: while they got to forge their own paths out in the world for themselves, he was left with no emotional support, no way out and no options except to embrace their father's grooming and expectations of him. He furthermore calls out how, even after Jacques' arrest, neither of his sisters bothered to come back and try mending bridges.
- Ruby and Ironwood both call each-other out when they see each-other again. Ruby calls Ironwood out for keeping everyone in the dark about his plans for Amity while taking Mantle's much-needed resources, and for going after the Happy Huntresses whom were the only people actively standing up for Mantle. Ironwood in turn calls out Ruby for her and her friends actively keeping him in the dark and deceiving him, which is what destroyed Ironwood's ability to trust or have faith in anyone else and led them to their current situation, and that it proves Ruby and her friends weren't as morally superior to Ozpin as they thought they were in Volume 6.
- Penny's dark alternate personality representing her repressed rage and resentment chews Ruby and her friends out on how they're ultimately just as guilty as Ironwood and Atlas are of not giving Penny the basic right to make her own choices and instead choosing for her while acting like they know better, having refused to let her selflessly sacrifice herself to save others when it's what she chose to do.
- After Clover recovers from his injuries inflicted by Tyrian, he gives the other Ace-Ops a dressing-down for wasting precious time and energy continuing to fight Team JNR, whom want to save the people in Atlas and Mantle just as much as they do, while their shared true enemy Salem is imminently about to launch a full-scale assault on the kingdom.
- In Massages (Link), the girls make Jaune give them massages, because he is really good at them. Ren calls them out on doing this whenever they feel like and running Jaune ragged, and on not noticing that Jaune's hands were slowly getting damaged with each session. They are deeply ashamed and apologize. Later, when Jaune gets kissed by Velvet, the girls get jealous and yell at him, only for him to point out that they don't have any right to decide who he dates.
- Miya gets a couple in the early chapters Ashikabi of Thunder and Lightning. First, Uzume snaps after Miya scolds her for making a dirty joke. Uzume accuses Miya of bullying the other Sekirei into following her own "prudish lifestyle". While Miya is shown to have a point (sex before their power matures stops a Sekirei from growing stronger), Uzume is still upset that Miya bans all forms of sexual contact and refuses to share any information with the others even if it'd be useful.
- Later, after Miya accuses Takami of using her own children as pawns, Takami angrily responds that as Miya has "removed herself from the board", Takami has been forced to do what she can to limit Minaka's mad schemes. Takami further demands to know just what will force Miya to actually become involved in things instead of sitting everything out.
- Deliver Us from Evil Series:
- Inspector Patterson is subjected to this several times by Lestrade and Gregson, typically over Patterson's attitude/actions regarding Sherlock Holmes or Dr. Watson.Gregson: ...Now what in bloody blazes d'you mean they've found a body?!
- A chapter later...Lestrade: You knew it was probable that Sherlock Holmes was dead, and you allowed them to hope by being uncertain? My God, man, have you no compassion?
- Inspector Patterson is subjected to this several times by Lestrade and Gregson, typically over Patterson's attitude/actions regarding Sherlock Holmes or Dr. Watson.
- In the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf alternate timeline story "Tapper And The Iron Gospel", Empath calls out Tapper, who in this timeline calls himself Pastor Nevin, for his increasing authoritarianism when he uses his godly power to make the ground shake beneath the Smurfs' feet when they threw a party without him knowing about it.
- The North Remembers: When Jaime Lannister is sent into a trap set up by the Brotherhood without Banners after being led there unwillingly by Brienne, he is given the standard Kangaroo Court before setting out to hang him. Like Sandor Clegane before him, he calls them out on this behavior, specifically to Lem Lemoncloak.Jaime: You smell marginally less bad, you potentially have better table manners, and you're more likely to be mistaken for the hind end of an aurochs rather than a goat, but for the life of me I can't see how you're different from the Bloody Mummers. At least they only had the decency to take my hand, but you won't be satisfied with anything less than my soul. Haven't you thundering imbeciles worked out by now that there's nothing there to give? Kill the Kingslayer, very well. Then you'll be a hero. Will that make you immortal, or set to rights the wrongs you're supposedly avenging, or do anything besides make you just as much a murderer as me? I don't care what god you pray to or what high-and-mighty purpose you claim. You still think you're the only ones to lose something in this war, and that makes you at least as blind as my sweet sister. Drop those breeches, Pisscloak, grace us all with the delightful aroma of your shit.
- In the eight season of Sonic for Hire, Tails furiously calls Sonic out for dropping his status as The Creator to solely ruin Sonic Mania's popularity.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
- No One Breaks My Heart Like You: As Peter moves into his new apartment, Mary Jane talks to him. Peter says goodbye and tells Mary Jane he wish things could have been better, to which a disappointed Mary Jane tells Peter that they can be better, but "You just didn't want to try." She leaves him alone after saying that.
- In The Legend of Spyro: A New Dawn, Sparx of all people calls Cyril out on him saying that rescuing the kidnapped eggs wasn't worth putting the rest at risk by dividing their forces... right in front of Cynder, who was in a Heroic BSoD over the fact her adopted egg was among them.
- Aen'rhien Vailiuri: Jaleh calls out Morgan for killing her prisoner Maje Tillih, up to and including cussing her out. Morgan, however, doesn't think she did anything wrong (Deliberate Values Dissonance is in play).
- In Flaihhsam s'Spahkh, when the very anti-Federation Senator Vreenak says that the Federation cannot be trusted not to use the USS Defiant's cloaking device against the Romulan Star Empire, Morgan points out that the Federation has historically gone out of its way to keep the peace and that most of the violations of the Treaties of Alpha Trianguli and Algeron were the Romulans' doing.
- Last Rights: Nobody ever misses an opportunity to call out the Kobali for using living Vaadwaur soldiers locked in stasis as reproductive stock (something they did in the canon Star Trek Online story).
- Star Trek: Lower Decks fic “Beneath the Surface” opens with Boimler and Mariner being abducted by a race of squid-like aliens, with Boimler enduring the worst of the subsequent torture before the Cerritos rescues them a few days later. When a later away mission sees Boimler settle into his hotel room while watching Ferengi shows ("Parth Ferengi's Heart Place"), Ransom sends a couple of Ferengi law enforcement officers to drag him out, thinking it would just inspire an amusing future anecdote, only for the experience to cause Boimler to have flashbacks and a panic attack. When Ransom has to call in Mariner to calm Boimler down, as he's currently sobbing on the transporter pad while basically naked apart from a blanket, Mariner berates Ransom for forgetting that the last time Boimler was dragged anywhere it was a prelude to being brutally tortured, Ransom’s protests that he didn’t expect the Ferengi to get that violent being ignored.
- "Stay With Me" opens with Mariner and Boimler having had a Friends with Benefits relationship for a few months, but Boimler becomes depressed when Mariner's reaction to him all-but-explicitly saying that he loves her prompts her to withdraw. When he ends up admitting what's been going on to Rutherford and Tendi, Tendi actually goes to Mariner and starts hitting her for hurting Boimler like that, making it clear that Mariner has to either admit how she feels or stop stringing Boimler along like she has been so far.
- Strange Times Are Upon Us: Brokosh calls out Meromi on killing a pair of slave hunters and potentially polluting the timeline. Meromi, however, retorts that he thinks Orions are all the same, and she hates slavery because she was given to a Klingon nobleman by Melani D'ian as a "housewarming gift" at the age of fifteen.
- The Wrong Reflection: The fic is set a few weeks after a Noodle Incident (explained in another to-be-published fic) in which Eleya lost it at a conference and cussed out "three ambassadors, a rear admiral, and the Proconsul of the Romulan Republic." She avoided being cashiered outright by dint of being a Bunny-Ears Lawyer ("I kinda helped save Earth Spacedock after."), but she still ends up with a massive black mark on her service record that means she'll probably never make admiral. (Granted, she wasn't interested in being an admiral anyway.)
- Blood and Honor: Vette calls Sanguis out on her actions several times, questioning the Sith's unforgiving treatment of Jedi, disinterest in the welfare of Jaesa Willsaam, and participation in the entrapment and murder of a Dark Council member.
- In Padawan's Return, when Ahsoka Tano finds herself sent back from the time of the Empire to the time of The Phantom Menace, she has a few:
- Her first such moment is a silent one towards Qui-Gon when she witnesses the canonical scene where he claims that Obi-Wan is ready for knighthood after he volunteers to train Anakin. She notes that it sounds very insincere, looking less like he thinks his Padawan is ready and more like he wants to get rid of Obi-Wan so he can train Anakin. And while Obi-Wan tries to mask it, it's obvious that Obi-Wan thinks the same. It was later revealed to be a case of Qui-Gon being Innocently Insensitive due the timing and the context of the situation.
- Later on, Ahsoka has a confrontation with the still-Jedi Dooku where he admits his plans to explore the power of the Dark Side and asks Ahsoka to join him, believing that she would sympathise with his goal. Ahsoka makes it clear to the still-Jedi Dooku that his belief that he could use the Dark Side like a tool is foolish at best and stupid at worst, mentioning her own experience with his future self (while not naming any names) to make it clear that if he attempted something like that, he would just get himself killed while accomplishing nothing.
- Tarkin's Fist: Edward Galloway, Johnathan Harris's predecessor as President of the NAU, is disturbed by the erosion of civil liberties at home and appalled at the violence used to get unwilling individuals and countries to join up with the new Confederacy of Earth Nations. Harris's deputy Chief of Staff blatantly threatens Galloway's family if he refuses to toe the line. Galloway reluctantly remains silent.
- In Guarding Pandora’s Box, Jack and General Hammond each make it clear to the Tok’ra that they won’t countenance any attempt to try and probe Daniel’s mind for the Harcesis knowledge because of the risk of the unlocked knowledge also unlocking the personality that apparently came with it. When one of the other Tok'ra suggests that Daniel's "sacrifice" may be worth it, Jack explicitly compares that attitude to the Goa'uld, telling the Tok'ra to stop acting like the Tau'ri are totally expendable just like the Goa'uld care nothing for their hosts.
- Two key examples in It's All in the Details:
- During the police station siege, Castiel points out to Sam that he was actually prepared to attempt a spell that would involve him killing an innocent woman and cutting out her heart based on the word of a demon, which prompts Sam to get over Ruby’s attempts to manipulate him.
- When Dean and Sam learn that Travis was going to kill Michelle because she’s pregnant with Jack’s child, Dean informs Travis that they won’t be party to him killing an unborn baby and its innocent mother.
- On Trial: Varian gives his father one when Quirin suggests that Cassandra's mysterious disappearance is a good thing. Quirin states that some of Cassandra's crimes, such as kidnapping and drugging him, are hard to forgive. Varian states that, while what Cassandra did was wrong, he did things that were just as bad when he was a villain. He finishes by asking why he's worthy of forgiveness, and Cassandra isn't.
- Beast Boy gets this a lot in the first two chapters of The End of Ends, though his actions justify the calling out (they range from stalking one school girl to raiding Raven's room to downright beating up two school girls), though since it's one of those fanfics, they're portrayed as the Titans being mean to Beast Boy.
- In the 2012 series fic Inside and Out, when April and Donatello switch bodies, April calls Raphael out for jokingly complimenting Donatello's tits; as April points out, Raphael wouldn't talk to her like that if she was still the one in her body, so he shouldn't say it to Donatello either despite the bizarre circumstances.
- In the 2014 film fic Raphael's Big Mistake, Raphael gets this from his entire family after he abducts Taylor, partially because he kidnapped the wrong person, note and partially because he resorted to kidnapping in the first place.
- Later, when Leonardo takes Taylor to their new lair for her safety, Raph does this to Leo because he basically pulled a more polite version of what Raph did in the first chapter (as Raphael was the only one to notice how terrified Taylor looked when she walked in).
- Two Shades Of Blue: After Rise Leonardo's panic attack/Trauma-Induced Nightmare, the 2012 Turtles sit with him on the couch until he and all of them (except Raph) have fallen asleep. When Casey and April come in, Casey's first reaction to seeing a stranger on the couch is to shoot a hockey puck at him. It misses and hits Raph in the side of the head. While he's fine, Raph yells at Casey for not taking in the situation before acting.
- The oneshot The Worst Medicine is an answer to the 2012 episode Monkey Brains. Donnie's brothers still fall about laughing when they find out he was attacked by a lab monkey, however this time he calls them out on it, saying he's never laughed at them when they've been hurt.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
- In Fair is Foul, John is criticized by Sarah and Derek for telling Cameron that Kyle Reese is his father, even when Cameron herself clarified that she was told that information by Future John rather than present John and even John himself didn't know Cameron was aware of his personal history until she brought it up.
- In 'Old Habits Die Hard'', after hearing that James spent the day being rude to Philip, holding up four engines and only apologised because he was ordered to, Molly gives him a downright savage one when he meets up with her.
- Sodor: The True Stories: Sir Richard Topham Hatt delivers this to the engines at Knapford Harbor Shed in "A Fowler's Afoul", calling out Tim for pulling a prank on James as petty retaliation for absentmindedly bragging to Ruby, Iris for not speaking up and stopping the prank from happening in the first place (she gets a lesser punishment due to not being involved), and the others (Chloe, Ruby, Yang, Blake, and Weiss) for helping to plan the prank, also calling out the fact they often act like they're the mafia (James even referred to Tim as The Don of the shed) and specifically calling out Blake for slipping back into old habits (referring to her time in the Knights of Steam), and punishes them all accordingly, while bringing in Class 37 diesels from West Coast Railways to cover for the six and Colin from Didcot Railway Center to cover for Iris as Knapford station pilot.
- In the Things We Don't Tell Humans, Sentinel Prime seems to collect these as a hobby.
- He resurrects a friend for a job and fails to realize the friend is suicidal after the job is over. Ratchet and the friend’s young son call him out on it.
- He doesn’t reveal that he’s become a Nay-Theist (he’s supposed to be a Priest King) until the revelation almost derails the crowning of the next Prime. Ratchet and the young son (now grown up) call him out on that, too.
- He breaks into Optimus Prime’s office and then lies about having called ahead when he accidentally interrupts a private moment between Optimus and Elita-One. Elita, Optimus, and Megatron all call him out on that.
- Transformers Victory: Leozack, of all characters, complains to Victory Leo when he's willing to leave Holi and Jean for dead.
- All the main characters in Shatterheart gets one and at seperate occassions:
- Real!Syaoran is called by Fai for keeping his relationship with Kurogane a secret from him and not telling Sakura the truth. In the Nihon Arc, Kurogane calls him out on his indecisiveness when he wanted Syaoran to make clear whether Syaoran would stay with him or Syaoran would continue to pursue Sakura.
- Sakura is called out for treating Real!Syaoran like an non-entity and for shunning him for him not being his clone when Syaoran wanted to know her.
- Fai is called out for hating and shunning Real!Syaoran and for emotionally blackmailing Syaoran to end his relationship with Kurogane, which at the time was his only positive relationship. Kurogane and Syaoran let him have it when they find at the end of the Infinity Arc he was going to backstab them the entire time.
- Kurogane is called by Fai for agreeing with Syaoran's offer for a sexual relationship because the latter was emotionally vulnerable and still in love with Sakura. After he breaks up with Syaoran, Fai calls him out on the brutal way he ends their relationship. In the Nihon Arc, all his friends call him out that he lets his anger get the better of him and he doesn't let himself feel his own emotions when he brutalizes Syaoran and misses the obvious cues that Syaoran was trying to calm him down.
- Turning Red: Secrets of the Panda:
- Mei completely snaps at Xia Lee, after she realises that she was the one who took away her panda spirit.Mei: Wait a minute, did you say you remove pandas from people? Which means it was you who took my panda away, not Jason. That panda was part of me, and now you stole it!
- Xia later gets another one from Howard, who calls her out for her horrific experiments on people. This actually gets her to break down over the realisation of her cruel her experiments were.
- Mei completely snaps at Xia Lee, after she realises that she was the one who took away her panda spirit.
- In Before The Dawn, when Bella reveals the full circumstances of her turning (she was raped and impregnated by the vampire Joham and only got away after her newborn son turned her while he was being born), Rosalie is initially outraged that Bella abandoned her own child and declares that Bella deserves what happened to her. Emmett quickly steps in to assure Bella that she in no way deserves the brutal treatment she endured from Joham, and Rosalie apologises once she's had time to calm down.
- Features heavily in Double Trouble- a spin-off of The Wolf in me- which sees alternate versions of Jade and Tori (referred to as Jadelyn and Victoria to distinguish them from the "local" versions) transferred into another reality where Jade and Tori are dating. At one point, after Victoria is rejected by Jadelyn, she and Tori get drunk enough that they decide to give Jade a Twin Threesome Fantasy, but later on Tori realises that Jade was sober enough that she agreed to this with the goal of basically throwing the relationship Jadelyn could have with Victoria in her counterpart's face. Tori is outraged that Jade did something like that to hurt another version of herself when Jadelyn has already been through a harsh life.
- In Everqueen, that's Isha's reaction once she sees what kind of Flawed Prototype the Thunder Warriors are. She actually snaps at the Emperor before catching herself.
- The Mortal Son: When an Ork WAAAGH! starts bearing down on Balor, Vownus starts preparing to get the hell out of Dodge, because Lucian and his prophecies are too important to risk getting krumped by Greenskins... Lucian himself then publicly calls him out for being a Dirty Coward, claiming he's ready to fight and die for the Imperium. Vownus concedes he has a point (and/or doesn't want to seem weak in comparison to a child), and decides to stay and fight.
- Here Comes the New Boss:
- Glory Girl briefly tears into Elpis for her excessive use of violence and setting Mush on fire, even if he wasn't seriously injured.
- Spitfire lashes out at Elpis for seemingly leaving her to fend for herself while she was out fighting the Empire Eighty-Eight during the raid. She even goes so far as to leave Taylor's team and join the Wards. They get better in 6.2, with Taylor unmasking herself to Spitfire and Ironclad, with the latter two following suit.
- Amy tears strips off Taylor for letting her anger loose and brutalizing the Travellers after she thought Amy was killed by them, insisting that Taylor was supposed to be better than this. Taylor doesn't deny her mistake, just asks Amy to deliver the contingency letters, which takes the wind out of Amy's sails.
- Mr Fixit: Sarah very angrily (and apparently violently) calls out her sister Carol for not only basically forcing Amy to attend Endbringer battles despite never attending them herself, but for also telling her adoptive daughter to "get over it" after she has to deal with the aftermath of the Slaughterhouse Nine creating a town of Technically Living Zombies and the PRT and Protectorate being forced to kill them. The final straw is Carol admitting that she sees Amy as a villain in the making like her father.
- Where We Don't Belong: Mio and Sena do this to Cammuravi when they see he's joined Torna, who from they know at this point are just a bunch of terrorists, and is aiding Akhos on his attack on Garfont, since the man they knew from Aionios was far more "honorable" (though they don't mention Aionios specifically). He, since he lacks memories from Aionios, is rather confused by the personal call-out, getting particularly angry when Sena mentions his "Warrior's Way", and answers that the world isn't deserving of him to fight for it.
- The Judgement of the World (5Ds):
- Jack gets called out by Yusei for trying to keep the latter out of the loop regarding Rua fainting getting a concussion during a duel.
- Martha leaves multiple messages scolding Jack and Crow after realizing they lied to her earlier about visiting a nearby town to buy D-Wheel parts and that the two instead likely went on a dangerous mission that they've purposely kept Rua and Ruka in the dark about.
- While his reaction is somewhat muted, Yusei is clearly unhappy that Aki tricked him into agreeing to be her partner in a tag team duel at her school without telling him it was a lovers tag duel until the last minute, as it effectively announces to the school that they're a couple when they aren't even officially in a relationship. He gets over it rather quickly, however, as Aki explains she only did this to help Asuka get Judai's attention (the two formed the opposing tag team) and simply didn't know how to tell Yusei that. Moreover, despite his discomfort with the whole thing, Yusei is nevertheless relieved that Aki didn't ask anyone else to be her partner and reasons that being her teammate in a lovers tag duel would at least keep other guys away from her.
- Ryo gives this to Honest for lying to him and his friends and manipulating their memories regarding Yusuke for years.
- Many characters have this reaction after learning that Judai is responsible for Yubel's rampage due to sending the latter into space, though some do concede that they can't exactly blame him when they didn't even know Duel Spirits existed until fairly recently. Yusei and Aki, at least, take it back after learning Judai's actions was due to misunderstandings caused by his young age and naivety at the time.
- Yusei accuses Yugi Muto of treating the former's timeline as an Expendable Alternate Universe and only grows more incensed when the latter confirms it with a casual shrug. Yugi responds by pointing out that most don't understand what it's like to be a god and have to respect free will, even when it results in tragic consequences.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Forever: Yugo (the main character and the son of Yugi) gets called out on three separate occasions by different characters:
- The first time, one of his Five-Man Band snaps at him for behaving like a Jerkass toward their mutual friend and for attacking her during their duel, in such a way as to potentially cause her injury (which Yugo did because she inadvertently pushed a sensitive button for him).
- The second time, he goes off to Egypt to face the arc's villains alone in order to protect his friends from being killed by them. His chief rival is not pleased, and follows Yugo to Egypt to punch him in the face and yell at him for not trusting more in his friends' ability to aid him.
- The third time, during the story's final arc, most of the adult supporting cast verbally rips him for making a two-edged deal with the Big Bad in order to save the aforementioned and now-brainwashed rival, a deal that could end in either Yugo's own death or the deaths of thousands of innocent people.
- Kindred Souls: During the last part of the story, Jermaine chews out Quinn's so-called friends (Logan, Lola, and Zoey, in particular) for making fun of her even though she was helping them with the upcoming robot battle.
