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: ''Anime/CrossAnge'':

** Alektra is a very beleaguered, borderline sympathetic case. Having been outed as a Norma as a child, and failing with Libertus and her comrades against Embryo, she has had a long standing vendetta against the World of Mana, to the point she'll use anyone. When Ange returns and offers the idea of allyship with the [=DRAGONs=], she accepts, but her idea is to use them as CannonFodder against Embryo, [[ShameIfSomethingHappened using Ange's loyal maid Momoka as leverage]]. Ange rightfully seethes with indignance, calling her out for [[HeWhoFightsMonsters becoming as bad as Embryo]].

* ''Manga/OnePiece''

* Famously happened in the ComicBook/{{Batman}} / ComicBook/CaptainAmerica crossover comic book. Since Red Skull is a Nazi, Red Skull is held equally in contempt not only by the heroes, but by ComicBook/TheJoker as well (since, by Joker's own admission, Joker is still a proud American even if he is AxeCrazy).

* Runaway synths (ArtificialHuman) in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' truly have it bad from everybody. The Institute that made them considers them to be malfunctioning equipment which must be forcibly subdued, brought back and mind-wiped. Synths are ''terrified'' of this prospect, seeing having their mind wiped as akin to death. However, the wasteland they escape to isn’t welcoming of them either, due to long standing paranoia about synths being part of the Institute’s KillAndReplace manipulation of society, as well as possibly being OmnicidalManiac types, owing to a decades-old massacre. The only people sympathetic to their plight, the Railroad, have to work in secret.

* Runaway synths (ArtificialHuman) in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' truly have it bad from everybody. The Institute that made them considers them to be malfunctioning equipment, which must be forcibly subdued, brought back and mind-wiped. Synths are ''terrified''of the prospect of having their mind wiped, seeing it as akin to death. However, the wasteland they escape to, isn’t welcoming of them either, due to long standing paranoia about synths being part of the Institute’s KillAndReplace manipulation of society, as well as possibly being OmnicidalManiac types, owing to a decades ago massacre. The only people sympathetic to their plight - the Railroad, has to work in secret.

** Donquixote Homing [[DefectorFromDecadence decided to part ways with the rest of the Celestial Dragons in order to live as an ordinary human, but found that the common people despised the Celestial Dragons so much that they sought brutal revenge against him and his family. Meanwhile, the other Celestial Dragons looked down on Homing and refused his request to have his sons reinstated as nobles. This culminated in Doflamingo killing Homing in a futile attempt to return to the nobility.

* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': Ketran (a Yeerk) has some difficulty convincing the Animorphs that there is such a thing as peaceful Yeerks who oppose taking unwilling hosts, as they've known nothing but Yeerks trying to kill them. Meanwhile the militaristic Yeerks see the peace movement as traitors to the cause and hunt them down.

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', the Seven Warlords of the Sea are pirates who work with the World Government in exchange for a certain amount of license to operate with impunity. Law-abiding citizens hate them for being criminals who went unpunished for their crimes and are likely plotting against the government, while pirates consider them "government dogs" who sold out. As a result, [[spoiler:virtually no one complains when the World Government dissolves the Seven Warlords system and immediately moves to capture the remaining Warlords]].

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', Those Who Slither In The Dark, an antagonistic faction, end up drawing the contempt of both sides of the war between [[spoiler:the Adrestian empire and the rest of Fodlan]]. Their allies despise them and only work with them out of convenience, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness disposing of them after the war ends in [[spoiler:the route in which Byleth joins Edelgard]], and leaving behind instructions to ensure their defeat in [[spoiler:the Golden Deer and Church routes]].

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', the Seven Warlords of the Sea are pirate who work with the World Government in exchange for a certain amount of license to operate with impunity. Law-abiding citizens hate them for being criminals who went unpunished for their crimes and are likely plotting against the government, while pirates consider them "government dogs" who sold out. As a result, [[spoiler:virtually no one complains when the World Government dissolves the Seven Warlords system and immediately moves to capture the remaining Warlords]].

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'''Sugou:''' (exasperated) Ah ha ha, sir, that's not my name. That was the brand of briefcase I put all the money in.\\

-->'''Elsa:''' Is that what you think of me? [[NotInThisForYourRevolution I believe in the Grail, not the swastika]]!
-->'''Indy:''' You stood up to be counted among the enemies of everything the Grail stands for. Who gives a '''DAMN''' what you believe!
-->'''Elsa:''' You do!

* In ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', [[spoiler:Dr. Emma Russel]] is regarded with disgust and mockery by both the [=MONARCH=] scientists she defected from, who call her insane for twisting their pro-{{kaiju}} beliefs into justifying borderline genocide "for the sake of Earth's survival", and the {{ecoterrorist}}s she joined up with, who mock her as weak-willed and hypocritical for not only accepting the true horror of their plans but for also getting cold feet once her daughter gets in danger trying to stop her plan.

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->''The Count of Morcerf was no favorite with his colleagues. Like all upstarts, he had had recourse to a great deal of haughtiness to maintain his position. The true nobility laughed at him, the talented repelled him, and the honorable instinctively despised him.''
-->-- ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo''

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* Politics create this situation all the time. For example, UsefulNotes/BernieSanders calls himself a democratic socialist, and as a result, his political opponents frequently frame him as a [[RedScare commie-loving dictator in the making]]... while more hardline socialists accuse him of not being socialist ''enough.''[[note]]His policies are actually closer to social democracy than anything else, i.e. capitalism with extensive welfare policies.[[/note]]
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* In ''Film/GodzillaKingOfMonsters'', [[spoiler:Dr. Emma Russel]] is regarded with disgust and mockery by both the [=MONARCH=] scientists she defected from, who call her insane for twisting their pro-{{kaiju}} beliefs into justifying borderline genocide "for the sake of Earth's survival", and the {{ecoterrorist}}s she joined up with, who mock her as weak-willed and hypocritical for not only accepting the true horror of their plans but for also getting cold feet once her daughter gets in danger trying to stop her plan.

->The Count of Morcerf was no favorite with his colleagues. Like all upstarts, he had had recourse to a great deal of haughtiness to maintain his position. The true nobility laughed at him, the talented repelled him, and the honorable instinctively despised him.
-->--''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo''

** ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'': Vimes finds himself on the receiving end when he investigates the attempted murder of the Klatchian envoy, finding evidence everywhere that somebody tried to make it look like a Klatchian did it. It actually was [[spoiler:the Klatchians (deliberately badly framing themselves)]], but Vimes was railroading himself into looking for Ankh-Morpork guilt because doing otherwise would make him appear to side with the racist {{Upperclass Twit}}s (most of which already look down on him for not being of sufficient breeding and daring to think he can actually arrest them) and unthinking lowbrow hotheads in the city.

** ''Discworld/GoingPostal'' has Gilt and Vetinari exchanging a look after UpperClassTwit Horsefry (one of the clacks executives) demonstrates his crass ignorance of Thud (used to demonstrate that SmartPeoplePlayChess):

** ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'': Ridcully finds himself having to rebuke an unpleasant ObstructiveBureaucrat without looking like it to preserve his authority but let Nutt continue coaching the team.

Compare CategoryTraitor, YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame and StopBeingStereotypical (the middle character's perception of the extremists), NoTrueScotsman (the extremist's perception of the middle character), TheHorseshoeEffect (where the more extreme opposing positions are, the closer they are to each other), MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch, WithUsOrAgainstUs, TheOneThingIDontHateAboutYou, and BlackAndWhiteInsanity. Frequently seen alongside RewardedAsATraitorDeserves.

* In ''Film/GodzillaIIKingOfMonsters'', [[spoiler:Dr. Emma Russel]] is regarded with disgust and mockery by both the [=MONARCH=] scientists she defected from, who call her insane for twisting their pro-{{kaiju}} beliefs into justifying borderline genocide "for the sake of Earth's survival", and the {{ecoterrorist}}s she joined up with, who mock her as weak-willed and hypocritical for not only accepting the true horror of their plans but for also getting cold feet once her daughter gets in danger trying to stop her plan.

* Urd in ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' is held in contempt by both [[{{God}} the Almigthy One]] (because Urd is the AntiChrist) and by [[{{Satan}} Hild]] (because Urd is half-angel, and this makes her noble and heroic and thus [[AntiAntiChrist not a proper harbinger of the Apocalypse]]).

* In the aftermath of ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'', Arcade's attempt at showing he's a worthy contender in the villain circle backfires hard: all of the other heroes out there want his blood in retaliation for forcing a bunch of teenagers into a DeadlyGame but don't really give more of a damn about him, and all of the other villains think even ''less'' of him now because they believe he's incredibly stupid because he had to go after teenagers ("easy targets") to make a plan that worked and they also consider said plan to be copycat crap (Arcade himself acknowledged InUniverse that he [[PlagiarismInFiction "borrowed" the idea]] from ''Literature/BattleRoyale'').

Note that Bob can be meant to be sympathetic (for example, if Alice is a FanHater, Charlie a FanDumb, and Bob a non-obsessive fan of the same work) or unsympathetic (Alice is resisting her country's invaders, Charlie is one of the invaders, Bob is TheQuisling, David just wants the fighting to stop).

Compare CategoryTraitor, YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame and StopBeingStereotypical (the middle character's perception of the extremists), NoTrueScotsman (the extremist's perception of the middle character), MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch, WithUsOrAgainstUs, TheOneThingIDontHateAboutYou, and BlackAndWhiteInsanity. Frequently seen alongside RewardedAsATraitorDeserves.

** ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'': Vimes finds himself on the receiving end when he investigates the attempted murder of the Klatchian envoy, finding evidence everywhere that somebody tried to make it look like a Klatchian did it. It actually was the Klatchians (deliberately badly framing themselves), but Vimes was railroading himself into looking for Ankh-Morpork guilt because doing otherwise would make him appear to side with the racist {{Upperclass Twit}}s (most of which already look down on him for not being of sufficient breeding and daring to think he can actually arrest them) and unthinking lowbrow hotheads in the city.

** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'': Harry puts himself between Sirius Black trying to murder Peter Pettigrew to avenge the murders of Harry's parents and Sirius' imprisonment. Harry does this not because he has any sympathy for Pettigrew (he rejects his sniveling attempts at gratitude) but because he wants to think his father wouldn't have approved of his friends killing each other (not to mention the leaving Pettigrew alive to face trial is a CruelMercy).

* Downplayed to mutual ignorance in Creator/DaveBarry's ''Money Secrets'', where one of the reasons newspapers are failing (according to newspaper editors) is that young people don't read the papers, thus changes must be made to make it more enticing, mostly involving giving less actual news, more pieces on celebrities, tattoos, skateboarding, etc. This has the two-pronged result of making older readers cancel their subscriptions (as the paper now looks like a hybrid between a tabloid and a comic book) and younger readers not subscribe (because as noted earlier, young people do not read newspapers).

* Politics create this situation all the time. For example, UsefulNotes/BernieSanders calls himself a democratic socialist, and as a result, his political opponents frequently frame him as a [[RedScare commie-loving dictator in the making]]... while more hardline socialists accuse him of not being socialist ''enough.''[[note]]His policies are most similar to social democracy than anything else, i.e. capitalism with extensive welfare policies.[[/note]]

* Politics create this situation all the time. For example, UsefulNotes/BernieSanders calls himself a democratic socialist, and as a result, his political opponents frequently frame him as a [[RedScare Commie-loving dictator in the making]]... while more hardline socialists accuse him of not being socialist ''enough.''[[note]]His policies are most similar to social democracy than anything else, i.e. capitalism with extensive welfare policies.[[/note]]