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** In episode "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS2E9LookWhosPurging Look Who's Purging Now]]", the pair need help from a lighthouse keeper who insists on reading Morty his [[StylisticSuck ridiculously clichéd]] screenplay, then ''demands'' honest feedback. After quite a bit of coaxing, Morty reluctantly offers some very mild and constructive criticism, saying that he wasn't a fan of the story's HowWeGotHere device, he thinks stories generally work better when they start at their actual beginning. This, however, is enough to enrage the lighthouse keeper, who treats the not-particularily biting criticism as an unforgivable insult, and he attempt to throw Rick and Morty out of the lighthouse. Things go downhill from there.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': No matter how many times he's told that he's the evil one or that he's plain wrong, Belos dismisses everyone's arguments as [[{{hypocrite}} crazy talk]] -- even from [[spoiler:fellow human Luz]], who tells him that [[spoiler:the inhabitants of the Boiling Isles aren't a threat to humanity]]; he responds to this by trying to kill her on the spot.

* This is Light Yagami's biggest flaw (springing directly from his overwhelming {{Pride}}) in ''Manga/DeathNote''. Suggesting or outright stating that what he is doing as Kira is wrong or evil is a very good way to wind up with your name in his Death Note. He also walks out on a family meeting where [[ObliviousGuiltSlinging his father is calling Kira nothing but a murderer]] and later he looks visibly upset when [[spoiler:the Kira Taskforce begins to (rightly) doubt his innocence again.]] In fact, when Lind L. Tailor insulted him on national television, calling what he was doing evil, Light's [[BerserkButton immediate response]] was to use the Death Note to kill him on the spot, writing his name ''extra big'' in there!

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': [[Characters/BobsBurgersLindaBelcher Linda Belcher]] has forbidden her family from criticizing her sister for anything she does due to how fragile she is. If even the slightest hint of criticism is picked up, she nearly breaks down. Even when she asks for an honest opinion, she still adds in that she hates criticism.

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': Criticism to Peggy Hill is something she ''never'' considers or contemplates in later seasons, being too much of a KnowNothingKnowItAll to even consider her faults. If anything it just makes her more determined to prove her arguments are right. [[FreudianExcuse This is because her mother constantly criticized her a whole lot and never saw any good in what she did, so whenever she's criticized, her determination to prove her naysayers wrong stems from her mother issues.]]

* [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicApplejack Applejack]] from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has shown on a couple of occasions that she is very defensive when criticized, whether the criticism is constructive or harsh.

* ''Series/BreakingBad'': In "Say My Name", Mike Ehrmantraut massively chews out [[VillainProtagonist Walter White]] for his {{Pride}} and ego getting in the way of the meth business. Walt's response? [[spoiler:He gets pissed off and shoots the hitman inside the latter's car.]]

* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': Frasier himself tends to be incredibly thin-skinned, often obsessing over criticism, whether warranted or not, for days, if not longer. Somewhat ironic, given one of his earliest appearances in ''Cheers'' has him trying to tell Diane to take a joke.

* ''ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}}'': Deconstructed by [[Characters/IrredeemablePlutonian The Plutonian]]. Back when he was a hero, he had an intense need for affection and to be liked and while he had millions praising him, he could not shake off the thousands of critical comments at him. The deconstruction comes from the fact that his SuperSenses are ''so powerful'' he could hear ''every single one.'' Even if it is not much criticism, being able to hear it by the thousands is still psychologically damaging. Worse still was when he escaped to the moon for a few minutes of peace and quiet... which led to an outbreak of a fatal disease spread by children screaming. All due to a minor error in judgment he made (trusting a scientist with a small piece of alien tech to study). When [[KidSidekick Samsara]] [[BrokenPedestal loses faith in Plutonian for this]], [[FaceHeelTurn it's the last straw for him.]]

-->'''Billy:''' "Waaah! Billy no like you anymore! Billy go back to gang! (Runs off crying)* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'':

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'':

--->'''Michael:''' I just haven't met anybody who's not self-absorbed and impossible to have a conversation with.\\
'''Lucille:''' If that's a veiled criticism about me, I won't hear it, and I won't respond to it.\\

-->...for it is a rebellious people, faithless children, children who refused to heed the instruction of the LORD; who said to the seers, "Do not see," to the prophets, "Do not prophesy truth to us; speak to us falsehoods, prophesy delusions. Leave the way! Get off the path! Let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel!"

-->I answered, "Who would listen if I spoke to them and warned them? Their ears are so closed that they cannot hear! Indeed, what the Lord says is offensive to them. They do not like it at all."

-->"Stop preaching!" they preach. "That's no way to preach; shame shall not overtake [us]. Is the House of Jacob condemned? Is the LORD’s patience short? Is such His practice?"

** Whenever Ramsay is resisted or challenged, he reacts with poorly-suppressed rage.
** [[TheCaligula Joffrey]] hates having his authority challenged, and will often punish someone cruelly if they do so. When someone beyond his power to punish undermines his authority, however, it typically results in a temper tantrum.
** Any attempt to call Cersei out on her poor decisions or dysfunctional plans will result in [[NeverMyFault her brushing it off]] or entering a state of cold rage.

* Creator/BobChipman: In his three-part video "The Apu Trilogy", [[WhatTheHellHero he took]] ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' [[WhatTheHellHero creator]] Creator/MattGroening [[WhatTheHellHero and the]] ''[[WhatTheHellHero Simpsons]]'' [[WhatTheHellHero producers and writers to task]] for their petty responses to the criticisms raised by the documentary ''The Problem With Apu'' during the season 29 episode "No Good Read Goes Unpunished", saying that they were so used to being "the good guys" as a relatively progressive show for so long that actual legitimate criticism from "their own side" was a complete shock. Thus, [[NotHelpingYourCase their response was unnecessarily defensive]], [[StreisandEffect and only proceeded to put even more of a spotlight on the issue]].

* In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' storyline ''ComicBook/LastDaughterOfKrypton'', Jor-El warned his brother Zor-El that his biological experiments were dangerous and could incur the wrath of the planetary Science Council. Zor-El took great offense and refused to meet or talk to his brother ever again, even though he knew their -and their planet's- days were numbered.

* Megatron from ''ComicBook/Transformers2019'' proves to be a particularly monstrous version of this trope. His primary goal is to get the Cybertron High Council to overturn the long-standing Nominus Edict, a rule that's caused the planet to become stagnant. His means, however, are [[spoiler: secretly founding a terrorist group that he controls to carry out acts of violence in order to scare the population, and has effectively taken over the faction of his mentor simply to claim power for his own]]. Any criticism of his plans, or of his motives, lands the first bot to do so a quick thrashing.

** In ''Moons of Fate'' chapter 6, Rimi gives Minoru a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, telling him point-blank he's a horrible Captain of the Guard and hasn't done anything worthy of praise, unlike Yamato. Minoru's response is to lose his temper and ''[[WouldHitAGirl backhand Rimi across the face]]'' while chewing her out for her "blatant disrespect"... which [[LaserGuidedKarma immediately bites him in the ass]] when [[PapaWolf Ansem]], having seen everything, fires him on the spot.

** By the same token, as a ''professional'' critic themself Jim takes a very, ''very'' dim view on creators who attempt to ''censor'' criticism of their work through such dishonest methods as false DMCA strikes on [=YouTube=] reviews. Digital Homicide tried to [[FrivolousLawsuit take them to court]] to sue them for ''$15 million'' because of "damage" their criticisms of their shitty games had supposedly done to their business. In the following year, Digital Homicide would proceed to attempt to sue one hundred ''customers'' for bad reviews (which got Digital Homicide kicked off of UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}), but they continued to try to sue Jim until Jim's lawyer convinced them that they would never win the court case.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': More than a few people on both sides of the law fall victim to this, but the ones who take this the furthest have to be the Celestial Dragons, people "of noble blood" so haughty and full of themselves that they encase themselves in dive suits so they don't have to breathe the same air as normal people. They're also the power behind the World Government. Needless to say, when someone like Luffy comes along and calls them on their bullshit, they don't take it well.