History JerkassRealization / WesternAnimation

* Quite a few WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck shorts involves the titular character going overboard in punishing his nephews for an imagined slight, only to realize that they've been trying to do something nice for him the entire time. One such cartoon has his guilt causing him to [[ShamefulShrinking shrink so small]] that he escapes meekly through a knothole.

* The original ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' show had its moments too.
** In "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlss2E11TwistedSisterCoverUp Twisted Sister]]", all three girls have this when Bunny dies after saving them from a mob of escaped prisoners, especially because [[PartingWordsRegret the last thing they said to her]] was "Bunny do bad!" for letting them out in the first place.
--->'''Bubbles:''' She was good all along. ''We'' were the ones who were bad.
** And again in "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS3E10TheHeadsuckersMoxyEqualFights Equal Fights]]", when they realize that Femme Fatale had tricked them into becoming raging misandrists like her so they wouldn't stop her from committing crimes.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'': In "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS10E8TobysAfternoonOff Toby's Afternoon Off]]", Toby finishes his regular jobs early and is hoping for an afternoon off so he can go to Farmer [=McColl's=] farm and visit the animals who live there. However, Sir Topham Hatt has three important jobs for Toby to do since Toby was the first engine to get all his jobs done early. While Toby ordinarily likes being useful, he worries that he won't have time to go to the farm afterwards as a result of doing all those jobs, so he decides to ask one of his friends to help him on just one of his jobs. Unfortunately for him, Mavis, Thomas, and Salty are all too busy to help him. Fortunately for Toby, his last job is delayed until the next morning because the ship he was supposed to help Cranky unload his cargo from had been caught in rough seas, meaning he does have time to go to the farm after all. On his way to the farm, Toby comes across Henry, telling him about his desire to go to the farm and complaining to him about how Mavis, Thomas, and Salty were all too busy to help him, as he thought friends helped each other. When Henry tells Toby that Mavis, Thomas, and Salty were all helping him because he had broken down, this gets Toby to realize that his friends were helping another friend after all, but he hadn't thought about it at first because he was too fixated on his own desire to go the farm. To make it up to Henry, Toby decides to take his empty coaches back to Knapford Station for him. Henry tells Toby that if he does this, it means he won't have time to go to the farm, but Toby tells him that it doesn't matter to him, since helping a friend is much more important.

* During the 4th season of ''WesternAnimation/MonkieKid'', Macaque seems to have his own one of these in regard to his long-standing hatred towards Monkey King. When he and Mk join forces to traverse the broken Scroll of Memory and rescue Monkey King. They watch the memory of the argument that broke their friendship, he visibly shows regret over his past accusations towards his former friend. Realizing he was wrong to ever view Monkey King as a backstabber who would willingly discard his friends.

* During the 4th season of ''WesternAnimation/MonkieKid'', Macaque also seems to have his own one of these in regard to his long-standing hatred towards Monkey King. When he and Mk join forces to traverse the broken Scroll of Memory and rescue Monkey King. They watch the memory of the argument that broke their friendship, he visibly shows regret over his past accusations towards his former friend. Realizing he was wrong to ever view Monkey King as a backstabber who would willingly discard his friends.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "The Cooler", Flame Princess finds out that Princess Bubblegum has been spying on people with hidden cameras and gives her a ReasonYouSuckSpeech. This appears to sink in, as PB takes down her surveillance system. [[spoiler:But then in "Graybles 1000+" it's revealed she was just replacing that surveillance system with a new slightly less invasive one that tracks chips implanted in her citizens' teeth, though she can only monitor their movement and can't actually see what they're doing.]]

** In the episode "So Funny, I Forgot to Laugh", Arthur starts to make fun of Sue Ellen due to her wearing a wooly sweater to school. He constantly makes a bunch of jokes about how Sue Ellen looks like a sheepdog and even draws a picture of Sue Ellen with a sheepdog's body and sticks it to her locker. Arthur finally goes too far when he photoshops a sheepdog's head over a photo of Sue Ellen and emails it to her, and when Sue Ellen sees it, she is reduced to tears. It isn't until Arthur hears that Sue Ellen is thinking about switching classes that he realizes that he was being a bully to her and he finally apologizes.
** There is also the episode "Draw" where Fern gets mad at Francine for calling her a "mouse" and she decides to get back at her by creating a bunch of mean drawings about her and gets all the others to join in. They soon find out that they went too far after they hear Francine telling Mrs. Macgrady about the whole thing and she's done talking, she starts to cry.
* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'': Throughout the episode "In Charm's Way," Kevin acts like a complete dick to Gwen, openly accusing her of not even trying to find a way to fix his mutation after their ill-fated attempt to hack the Omnitrix, which makes him a prime target for Charmcaster's manipulations. At the end of the episode, he gets hit with a big-time helping of this trope when Ben gets fed up with his attitude and tells him that Gwen has in fact been spending ''all'' of her spare time since the accident trying to find a cure for him:

** Played for laughs in the episode, "One If by Clam, Two If by Sea". An inmate at a jail who was about to stab Joe, [[spoiler:who along with Peter, Quagmire, and Cleveland was in prison for arson]] stabs himself with the knife to know what his victims felt. Then he says "Is that what I've been doing to people?! ...I ''belong'' here."
** In the episode "Brothers and Sisters," Lois plays RelationshipSabotage between her sister Carol and Mayor West, firmly believing that the relationship will end badly like Carol's previous marriages. When West finally gives up and plans to leave Quahog, Peter [[DumbassHasAPoint calls her out on her bitchiness]], pointing out that no one else believed their own relationship would work. Lois retorts that Carol supported them, and she never would have had the confidence to marry Peter if it weren't for that... [[ExplainExplainOhCrap and now that Carol needs]] ''[[ExplainExplainOhCrap her]]'' [[ExplainExplainOhCrap support, Lois is turning her back on her]]. Cue realization.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "The Late Phillip J. Fry", Fry misses a date with Leela on her birthday due to a mishap with the Professor's new time machine (which can only move forward) which strands him in the distant future, and the video birthday card he was recording for her falls out just after the time machine launches. Leela thinks he ditched her for a party that was being held the same night (and during which an accident killed almost everyone) and spends decades being angry at him... at which point the video card flies out of the time machine, hits Leela in the head, and after viewing it Leela realizes she spent her entire life being mad at Fry for something that wasn't his fault.

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': In the episode "Clash," Superman gets hit with this when he realizes that he's been treating the newest member of the team, Captain Marvel, incredibly unfairly and uncharitably after learning during their battle that he's a child. Unfortunately, this realization comes too little, too late, and Captain Marvel quits the team after delivering a [[ReasonYouSuckSpeech brutal verbal takedown of Superman and the League]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' it's happened several times to Lincoln, after he realises that whatever ZanyScheme he concocted came at the expense of his sisters, and will ether find a way to make it up to them or will accept whatever they do to him to get even.
** In "Driving Miss Hazzy", tired of having to do menial chores in exchange for Lori to drive them somewhere, the other Loud siblings try to teach [[DumbBlonde Leni]] to drive. After realising what they are trying to do, Lori sabotages Leni's driver's test by giving her incorrect information. When Lincoln tells her that what she did may result in Leni getting into an accident, Lori rushes to the [=DMV=], worried about her sister.
** In "Net Gains", [[CompetitionFreak Lynn Jr.]] is forced to join the worst team in the local basketball league, and tells the other girls to just pass her the ball when they get a chance. After Lynn Jr. wins the game, the other girls lament that they barely got a chance to play, to which she responds "a win's a win, no matter who plays." When their next game ends in defeat, she brings in some older girls to help her out. When the older girls win the game, Lynn Jr. calls them out for hogging the ball, to which one girl replies, [[IronicEcho "a win's a win, no matter who plays."]] At the championship game, Lynn Jr. is more supportive of her teamamtes, and though they don't win, she's happy that they all got to play and have fun.

* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': In "Radical Rescue", Rad starts to realize that he's a bad influence on K.O., just like [[ToxicFriendInfluence Bell Beefer and Mega Football Baby]] were a bad influence on him, and he needs to stop worrying about people thinking he's "lame".

** Buttercup spends the first few minutes of "Painbow" disrupting the class by making jokes at Ms. Keane's expense. Later on in the episode she realizes she's been a jerk when seeing her sisters brainwashed by Allegro and acting the same way she did.
** Bubbles has one in "Strong Armed". After she threw a fit that caused Packrat to fall into toxic waste and becomes a monster, this is what gets Bubbles to find out that being so overly-dependent on her robotic cast is what caused this problem.
** Bubbles has another one in "Little Octi Lost" during [[spoiler:Buttercup's DisneyDeath. Having refused to forgive Buttercup for losing Octi up to this point, she comes to the realization that if she had just pardoned her that none of this would have ever happened.]]
** Bubbles suffers one ''again'' in "Horn Sweet Horn" due to her impulsiveness costing her her friendship with Donny after he's turned into a beast from the transmogrifier.
** Blossom in "Presidential Punchout" upon hearing Matt Manser's speech on how he'll make the school better, which causes her to realize that she was no better than Princess due to doing what Princess had done to sabotage her.
** Blossom again in "Puffdora's Box" when she gets the message that her bossiness does not always help and that she should do other people's way of things sometimes.
** Buttercup and Blossom in "The Stayover" after they find out that their sugar-induced antics had caused problems for the orphanage.
** Buttercup and Blossom again in "Tiara Trouble" after all their pressure on Bubbles causes the latter to crack under the pressure.
** Buttercup in "Man Up 2", when her looking for a bottle cap rather than helping her sisters caused them to get captured by Man-Boy.

** In "Twisted Sister", all three girls have this when Bunny dies after saving them from a mob of escaped prisoners, especially because [[PartingWordsRegret the last thing they said to her]] was "Bunny do bad!" for letting them out in the first place.

** And again in "Equal Fights", when they realize that Femme Fatale had tricked them into becoming raging misandrists like her so they wouldn't stop her from committing crimes.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'', "Stimpy's Fan Club": Ren becomes jealous of Stimpy getting all the fan mail, so when he finally gets one, he reads it to Stimpy to rub it in his face (even literally rubbing the letter in his face), all the while adding comments on how Stimpy is finished and how he is now the most loved. Then he gets to the end and realizes the letter is from Stimpy himself. And to drive the point home, [[MetaphoricMetamorphosis he briefly turns into a person's ass.]]

* In the Christmas episode of ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', Rocko decides to throw a Christmas party with his new elf neighbors. Mr. Bighead however feels left out when he doesn't get an invitation, and starts a rumor about the elves that blows out of proportion, resulting in no one showing up. Mr. Bighead later finds out that Rocko ''had'' in fact invited him, but his invitation got lost in the mail and he's left feeling incredibly guilty.

** In the episode "Not So Purrfect Paitent", Dongwa takes advantage of Sagwa by forcing her to clean the clubhouse by himself, but is soon caught faking being still hurt, so [[LaserGuidedKarma Dongwa had to do the chores by himself]].
** In the episode "Precious Gift", the Alley Cats tricked Sheegwa to giving them Tai-Tai's necklace. But when the necklace broke to pieces, they see this and realizes they went too far.

** In "Radioactive Man", after being rejected for the part of Fallout Boy, Nelson points at his reflection and delivers his trademark laugh. He then remarks, "Hey, that hurts. No wonder no one came to my birthday party."
** In "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy", Grandpa Simpson also realizes his jerkiness after he tells Homer that his birth was an accident.
** During "The Boys of Bummer", the entire town of Springfield harasses Bart endlessly simply because [[DisproportionateRetribution he accidentally cost them the Little League championship]], eventually causing him to suffer SanitySlippage and [[BungledSuicide attempt suicide only to end up in a coma]]. When they all gather outside his hospital room purely to chant about how much Bart sucks, {{Ma|maBear}}rge finally puts her foot down and chews out the entire town for their actions, pointing out the billboard that labels Springfield the "Meanest City in America" and how their treatment of Bart proves it right. At that, the entire town gets the message and make up for their jerkassery by restaging the game so Bart can win.
** In "Lisa's Pony", Homer breaks down upon realizing what crappy father he's been towards Lisa and in a desperate attempt to win her back over to his side, buys her a pony that he has to work himself to near death at a second job to afford. [[spoiler:She choose to let it go for his sake.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In "Splatty Tomato" Heidi Turner realizes how horrible she has become because of Cartman's influence.

*** In the April Fools Day episode, had enough of [=SpongeBob=]'s annoying pranks on everyone, such as one of which only putting [[ExactWords one ice cube in a drink where the patron asked for a couple of them]]. Eventually, Squidward gets so fed up that he decides to get revenge on [=SpongeBob=] by showing him what a "real" prank is. He then sets up an elaborate, physically painful, and rather cruel prank on [=SpongeBob=] that causes the latter to leave the Krusty Krab in tears. After all the customers [[WhatTheHellHero call Squidward out on this and storm out in disgust]], Squidward looks around as he sees the damage his "harmless" prank did to the Krusty Krab and [=SpongeBob=] then realizes he went too far.

*** In the Christmas special, cruelly mocks [=Spongebob=] after Santa fails to come like he thought he would. Not long afterwards, he realizes how much of an asshole he was, complete with a VisualGag of a photo of a donkey, to show how he was being a jackass, after he gave him a homemade clarinet as a present. He spends the rest of the episode trying to make it up to [=Spongebob=] by acting as Santa.
** In the episode "What Ever Happened to [=SpongeBob=]?", ''all'' of [=SpongeBob=]'s friends get exasperated with his clumsy behavior, call him "idiot boy," and bluntly tell him to get lost. They're left in tearful remorse when they discover that [=SpongeBob=] has run away as a result and do everything they can to find him and bring him home... except for Squidward, who's ecstatic that he's gone.

** In "On The Run", Amethyst takes Steven to the Prime Kindergarten, the place where Amethyst was born. When Pearl finds out, she's ''furious'' that Amethyst told Steven about the Kindergartens, because as it turns out, the Kindergartens were part of a [[PlanetLooters resource extraction project]] that, had it continued, would've destroyed Earth and killed all life on it; an AwfulTruth that the Crystal Gems didn't want Steven to know about. The resulting argument results in Amethyst lashing out violently and attacking Pearl. The fight gets interrupted and Amethyst runs off, and Pearl is surprised and confused that criticizing the aforementioned project upset Amethyst so badly. It turns out Amethyst hates herself for having been created by such a horrible and evil project, and Pearl's condemnations of the Kindergartens felt like a condemnation of Amethyst herself. Pearl tries to explain that she wasn't saying that Amethyst's birth wasn't a bad thing just because the Kindergartens were bad, but when she puts her explanation into words Pearl realizes that that was ''exactly'' what she was saying. This realization prompts Pearl to give a heartfelt apology and ask for Amethyst's forgiveness.

** In "Keystone Motel", Garnet ends up accompanying Steven and Greg to they nearby state of Keystone on an errand as an excuse to leave the house after her huge fight with Pearl in the prior episode. However, not long before they arrive at the motel, she ends up splitting into Ruby and Sapphire, who are arguing over whether or not they should forgive Pearl. Throughout the trip, the two's arguing and hostility stresses Steven more and more until they descend into shouting in the diner the next day, causing Steven to crack and leave the restaurant after dropping his plate. Ruby and Sapphire immediately stop fighting and follow him outside, where Steven just vents out how horrible everything has been because of all the tension before even musing [[GuiltComplex if it's his own fault]]. The two are immediately stricken with remorse and the shock is enough to force them to talk things through and confess their own feelings on the matter before fusing. It hits Sapphire especially hard because her [[{{Seers}} future vision]] lets her know their feud will eventually end, and thus she thinks she's being the bigger Gem by accepting this outcome while Ruby continues to throw a tantrum. She's [[TearsOfRemorse driven to tears]] when she realizes how [[InnocentlyInsensitive insensitive]] she's being to Ruby because of this. Similarly, the shock is enough to get Ruby that in her frustrations, she's been making the problem worse and hurting everyone else, while also forgetting that while Sapphire may be acting calm about the thing, [[DidYouThinkICantFeel she's also upset about what Pearl did.]]

** In "Dewey Wins", Steven, having unexpectedly returned from Homeworld after previously giving himself up to save Connie, Onion, Jamie, Lars, and Sadie from being taken to a PeopleZoo, doesn't understand why Connie is unhappy with him for doing so. While he had a good reason (Mainly the fact that one of the Gems who came for them could stop [[FusionDance Alexandrite]]), she feels that he forgot about their training together for these kind of situations. The following day, he tries to help Mayor Dewey keep his position as Mayor when Nanefua decided she would like to be elected. After she brings up better points than his own, he resigns, and Steven catches himself responding in a similar way to Connie, now realizing how he made her feel.
** In "The New Lars", when Steven spends the whole day in his body. Lars was depressed and shocked to find out what Steven and everybody (including his own parents) liked the "new" him and didn't noticed or missed him at all. That when he decided to still act like himself but more nicer and open about his feelings.

** In "New Girl in Town," Raph repeatedly criticizes Leo's leadership skills and methods, eventually leading to an exasperated Leo giving him the leader position to see if he can do it any better. It doesn't take long for Raph to [[TheChainsOfCommanding crack under the pressure]], leading to Mikey getting injured by Snakeweed; when they get back to the lair, Raph gets hit with this, acknowledging that he's not fit to be the leader and now realizes [[TheChainsOfCommanding how tough Leo has it]].

** In "A Foot Too Big," Donnie finds himself the recipient of [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Bigfoot's]] [[AbhorrentAdmirer unwanted advances]], and complains about how she keeps bugging him and following him everywhere, to which [[JerkassHasAPoint Raph]] remarks that that's exactly [[StalkerWithACrush what Donnie himself does to April]]. Donnie gets hit with this, and by the end of the episode vows to dial it back.
** In "The Croaking", after scolding Mikey for a mess he made and sees that he ran away, the boys complain about cleaning up after him but April told them about how completely inconsiderate they were too him. Also, April tells the boys that they don't truly appreciate Mikey for who he is or what he does for them, especially Raph. Realizing that April was right, the boys felt remorses as they tried to be more respectful and understanding towards Mikey.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'': In "Toby's Afternoon Off", Toby finishes his regular jobs early and is hoping for an afternoon off so he can go to Farmer [=McColl's=] farm and visit the animals who live there. However, Sir Topham Hatt has three important jobs for Toby to do since Toby was the first engine to get all his jobs done early. While Toby ordinarily likes being useful, he worries that he won't have time to go to the farm afterwards as a result of doing all those jobs, so he decides to ask one of his friends to help him on just one of his jobs. Unfortunately for him, Mavis, Thomas, and Salty are all too busy to help him. Fortunately for Toby, his last job is delayed until the next morning because the ship he was supposed to help Cranky unload his cargo from had been caught in rough seas, meaning he does have time to go to the farm after all. On his way to the farm, Toby comes across Henry, telling him about his desire to go to the farm and complaining to him about how Mavis, Thomas, and Salty were all too busy to help him, as he thought friends helped each other. When Henry tells Toby that Mavis, Thomas, and Salty were all helping him because he had broken down, this gets Toby to realize that his friends were helping another friend after all, but he hadn't thought about it at first because he was too fixated on his own desire to go the farm. To make it up to Henry, Toby decides to take his empty coaches back to Knapford Station for him. Henry tells Toby that if he does this, it means he won't have time to go to the farm, but Toby tells him that it doesn't matter to him, since helping a friend is much more important.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "The Cooler", Flame Princess finds out that Princess Bubblegum has been spying on people with hidden cameras and gives her a ReasonYouSuckSpeech. This appears to sink in, as PB takes down her surveillance system. [[spoiler: But then in "Graybles 1000+" it's revealed she was just replacing that surveillance system with a new slightly less invasive one that tracks chips implanted in her citizens' teeth, though she can only monitor their movement and can't actually see what they're doing.]]

-->'''Jazz''': Hmm, let me guess. [''mimicking Jack''] "Hey, Maddie, let's destroy the ghost!" [''mimicking Maddie''] "No, Jack, let's ''dissect'' the ghost." [''mimicking Jack again''] "I know, let's catch the ghost and rip it apart molecule by molecule!" [''normal voice''] [[SarcasmMode You guys are]] ''[[SarcasmMode so]]'' [[SarcasmMode understanding]].

-->'''Lois''': Oh, my God! Peter, I've made a terrible mistake!

-->'''Franklin:''' I think I've made a big mistake, Snail. Bear ''is'' my best friend.

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': In the Episode "Clash," Superman gets hit with this when he realizes that he's been treating the newest member of the team, Captain Marvel, incredibly unfairly and uncharitably after learning during their battle that he's a child. Unfortunately, this realization comes too little, too late, and Captain Marvel quits the team after delivering a [[ReasonYouSuckSpeech brutal verbal takedown of Superman and the League]].

* Throughout most of ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'', Wirt is quick to blame his younger brother Gregory for the trouble they get into, even when [[NeverMyFault the problems are caused by Wirt's wishy-washiness and refusal to take responsibility]]. In fact, a flashback in the penultimate episode reveals [[spoiler: Wirt's inaction nearly got him and his brother killed, and led to them getting stranded in the Unknown in the first place]], and it's at this point Wirt realizes how much he is to blame for their predicament.

'''Wirt:''' [[spoiler: I was never any good to him when I was alive...]]

** During "The Boys of Bummer", the entire town of Springfield harasses Bart endlessly simply because [[DisproportionateRetribution he accidentally cost them the Little League championship]], eventually causing him to suffer SanitySlippage and [[BungledSuicide attempt suicide only to end up in a coma]]. When they all gather outside his hospital room purely to chant about how much Bart sucks, [[MamaBear Marge]] finally puts her foot down and chews out the entire town for their actions, pointing out the billboard that labels Springfield the "Meanest City in America" and how their treatment of Bart proves it right. At that, the entire town gets the message and make up for their jerkassery by restaging the game so Bart can win.
** In "Lisa's Pony", Homer breaks down upon realizing what crappy father he's been towards Lisa and in a desperate attempt to win her back over to his side, buys her a pony that he has to work himself to near death at a second job to afford. [[spoiler: She choose to let it go for his sake.]]

--->'''Squidward:''' ''[sighs]'' Why is it whenever ''I'm'' having fun, it's ''wrong''?

** In "Keystone Motel", Garnet ends up accompanying Steven and Greg to they nearby state of Keystone on an errand as an excuse to leave the house after her huge fight with Pearl in the prior episode. However, not long before they arrive at the motel, she ends up splitting into Ruby and Sapphire, who are arguing over whether or not they should forgive Pearl. Throughout the trip, the two's arguing and hostility stresses Steven more and more until they descend into shouting in the diner the next day, causing Steven to crack and leave the restaurant after dropping his plate. Ruby and Sapphire immediately stop fighting and follow him outside, where Steve just vents out how horrible everything has been because of all the tension before even musing [[GuiltComplex if it's his own fault]]. The two are immediately stricken with remorse and the shock is enough to force them to talk things through and confess their own feelings on the matter before fusing. It hits Sapphire especially hard because her [[{{Seers}} future vision]] lets her know their feud will eventually end, and thus she thinks she's being the bigger Gem by accepting this outcome while Ruby continues to throw a tantrum. She's [[TearsOfRemorse driven to tears]] when she realizes how [[InnocentlyInsensitive insensitive]] she's being to Ruby because of this. Similarly, the shock is enough to get Ruby that in her frustrations, she's been making the problem worse and hurting everyone else, while also forgetting that while Sapphire may be acting calm about the thing, [[DidYouThinkICantFeel she's also upset about what Pearl did.]]

** Nelson points at his reflection and delivers his trademark laugh. He then remarks, "Hey, that hurts. No wonder no one came to my birthday party."
** Grandpa Simpson also realizes his jerkiness after he tells Homer that his birth was an accident.
** During "The Boys of Bummer," the entire town of Springfield harasses Bart endlessly simply because [[DisproportionateRetribution he accidentally cost them the Little League championship]], eventually causing him to suffer SanitySlippage and [[BungledSuicide attempt suicide only to end up in a coma]]. When they all gather outside his hospital room purely to chant about how much Bart sucks, [[MamaBear Marge]] finally puts her foot down and chews out the entire town for their actions, pointing out the billboard that labels Springfield the "Meanest City in America" and how their treatment of Bart proves it right. At that, the entire town gets the message and make up for their jerkassery by restaging the game so Bart can win.

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': In the Episode "Clash," Superman gets hit with this when he realizes that he's been treating the newest member of the team, Captain Marvel, incredibly unfairly and uncharitably. Unfortunately this realization comes too little, too late, and Captain Marvel quits the team after delivering a [[ReasonYouSuckSpeech brutal verbal takedown of Superman and the League]].

** In "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E4TheSockOpera Sock Opera]]", EldritchAbomination Bill Cipher gives a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Mabel, who's staging a puppet show to attract the boy she has a crush on. Bill points out that Mabel is so obsessed with her project that she's broken her promise to help her twin brother Dipper, who has sacrificed a lot for her. [[NiceJobFixingItVillain This backfires big time]]; Mabel immediately realizes how selfish she's been and goes to save Dipper, abandoning her show (and defeating Bill) in the process.

** In "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E4TheSockOpera The Sock Opera]]", EldritchAbomination Bill Cipher gives a ReasonYouSuckSpeech to Mabel, who's staging a puppet show to attract the boy she has a crush on. Bill points out that Mabel is so obsessed with her project that she's broken her promise to help her twin brother Dipper, who has sacrificed a lot for her. [[NiceJobFixingItVillain This backfires big time]]; Mabel immediately realizes how selfish she's been and goes to save Dipper, abandoning her show (and defeating Bill) in the process.

---->[[spoiler:'''Twilight''' It's not your fault. She fooled everypony.]]

---->[[spoiler:'''Twilight''' It's not your fault. She fooled everypony.

** In "The Croaking", after scolding Mikey for a mess he made and sees that he ran away, the boys complain about cleaning up after him but April told them about how completely inconsiderate they were too him. Also, April tells the boys that they don't truly appreciate Mikey for who he is or what he does for them, especially Raph. Realizing that April was right, the boys felt remorses as they tried to be more respectful and understanding towards Mikey.

*** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E22HurricaneFluttershy Hurricane Fluttershy]]": Rainbow Dash learns this very fast after realizing that her brusque manner of coaching and motivating the other pegasi is only terrifying her friend early in the episode, and makes an effort to be much calmer and praises her when she really improves, despite the improved level still being a bit low. Played both ways, since Fluttershy first agrees to training out of guilt when a dejected Rainbow Dash submits to her refusal to take part. To a lesser degree, when RD's forcing a visibly sick Thunderlane to participate in training results in him getting several other ponies sick and unable to attend the main task.

* ''WesternAnimation/CraigoftheCreek'': After Craig calls her out for the way she's been treating him, her bird mating dance confession to him, and working together with him so they can get off the island, Wildernessa finally apologizes to Craig for always tearing him down and gives him her dog whistle.

* ''Literature/{{Franklin}}'': In "Franklin's Favorite Card", Franklin and Bear have a disagreement about whether Bear lost Franklin's Carl Cougar card or not and decide to not be best friends anymore. On his way home, Snail asks Franklin if the card was ''really'' more important than being friends with Bear, causing Franklin to remember how good friends he and Bear were.