History Main / NoSympathy

* Wrestling/JamesStorm once got in a feud with Wrestling/{{Rh|yno}}ino after learning Rhino refuses to drink alcohol, which Storm found offensive since he loves beer. When Rhino explained that he does not drink because his father was an alcoholic and it killed him, Storm mocked him and said he did not care about his father, and he would make his life a living Hell for spurning beer.

* Wrestling/JamesStorm once got in a feud with Wrestling/{{Rhyno}} after learning Rhyno refuses to drink alcohol, which Storm found offensive since he loves beer. When Rhyno explained that he does not drink because his father was an alcoholic and it killed him, Storm mocked him and said he did not care about his father, and he would make his life a living Hell for spurning beer.

* Hobbes from ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' never has any sympathy to Calvin when he gets in trouble despite being his best friend, but unlike many other examples on his page, it's actually justified. Hobbes is with Calvin whenever he's planning to do something that will (very obviously) blow up in his face, and will advise against it. After Calvin inevitably ignores his advice, Hobbes will switch gears and instigate the situation either by trolling Calvin or making the problem worse (often capped by Calvin trying to pin the blame on Hobbes when he's busted by his parents). When Calvin's suffering from something that ''isn't'' his own fault, Hobbes will be genuinely helpful and sympathetic.

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* The ''F*ck My Life'' website is part catharsis, part concrete proof of No Sympathy. There are two buttons beneath each post - "I agree, your life sucks" and "You deserved it." Sometimes even the softest hearted reader has to admit they kind of did it to themselves, but even if the original poster was mugged, attacked, humiliated, heartbroken or injured, there will always be a few ''hundred'' people who click the "You Deserved It" button. (though there's [[ForumSpeak G.I.F.T]] to blame too) Especially if the poster has let slip that they are an AcceptableTarget in some way. Though this has been averted in more recent times where stories where the poster couldn't have possibly deserved it have the "You Deserved It" button replaced with "That Could Have Happened To Me". There are also a handful of inversions where people who were clearly at fault still have several people voting "Your Life Sucks" (on top of the fact that a sufficient amount of users had to agree with that statement for the post to make it onto the site to begin with).

For example, here's a quick quiz: It's your birthday, and you have told your boyfriend/girlfriend/other loved one exactly what you would like as a present to mark the occasion. You walk into the living room and find your gift... which has been [[BrokenTreasure broken/ripped into a million little pieces]], although someone has clearly been making a valiant effort to repair it. Moreover, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking it's the wrong color.]] As you're staring at it, your Loved One stumbles in from the kitchen. They have their arm in a sling, their jeans have been ripped by something that clearly has sharp teeth, and they don't seem to have noticed that their hair is on fire. Seeing you, they offer a lopsided smile, and a tired if hopeful "Happy birthday."

!!Examples of plot-related No Sympathy

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* Anime boyfriends seem prone to this, accusing their girlfriends of being "stupid" or "reckless" when it's clear that said girlfriend was trying to help them out. Bikky does this to Carol in ''Manga/{{FAKE}}'', Rei does it to Kira in ''Manga/Mars1996'', and the whole club from ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' do it to Haruhi when she tries to rescue someone from bullies. Often, this ties in with the advice to StayInTheKitchen, and can result in ValuesDissonance.
** It's somewhat justified in the Host Club's case. They weren't scolding Haruhi because she tried to rescue someone, they were scolding her because she tried to rescue someone ''by herself'', with no regard for her own safety and no-one to help her if she got in trouble, even though they were all just down the beach and could easily have been called in as backup.
** And it also happens the other way around, with girlfriends accusing the guys of "perverts" and "the worst" and never letting that go regardless of how many kind moments they have and how much they prove to be nice persons after all. See UnprovokedPervertPayback.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' during the Greenback Jane arc. Jane has a massive case of ItsAllAboutMe going on and is offered no sympathy over her problems. When she explains why a Florida cartel is chasing her (namely that she bailed on them after going massively over budget and past the deadline after being hired as a counterfeiter), everyone agrees that the whole situation is her fault.
* ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', a case where it is PlayedForLaughs happens after defeating [[ArcVillain Kyogai]], Tanjiro and co. rest on and in. While doing so, Zenitsu asks Tanjiro about the demon he was travelling with, which he was defending from Inosuke's attack. When said demon comes out, it turns out to be a cute girl named Nezuko. Just after finding this out, what Zenitsu does? He becomes furious at him for traveling with a cute girl, jumping to conclusions and assumes them to be lovers. Tanjiro tries to tell him she is his sister, who was turned into a demon the same night the rest of his family was murdered, but when you start calling him names and try to attack him, explanations like that aren't going through. When he finally learns that she is his sister not too long afterwards, [[KarmaHoudini his treatment of him was never brought up]].
* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
** At the end of the Saiyan Saga, Chi-Chi refuses to speak or even acknowledge Goku's existence despite him having every bone in his body broken. Even before then, she jumped over Goku to get to Gohan and ignored Krillin when he pointed out that Goku was badly hurt. Her justification, it was ''Goku's'' fault that Gohan was in battle and hurt.
** Gohan himself gets this from Piccolo after he has a freak-out in the midst of battle, chickening out of a combo attack on Nappa and cowering behind a rock. Piccolo furiously chews him out over doing so and calls him a coward, especially when Tien dies mere moments later. Krillin immediately tells him off, pointing out that Gohan is only five, has never been in a real battle before, and shouldn't even ''be'' there in the first place.
** Piccolo gets another moment during the Buu Saga. When Buu continues going on a rampage even without Babidi to control him, Goku is [[SympathyForTheDevil somewhat sympathetic]] and remarks that [[ObliviouslyEvil killing may be the only thing Buu knows how to do]]. Piccolo immediately rebukes it and tells Goku not to make excuses for Buu, stating that even if it ''is'' true, [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse one's background doesn't excuse an act of evil]].
** Bulma also qualifies during the original series. She usually shows little to no sympathy for others, unless it concerns her.
** Vegeta gets this from Krillin during the Cell Saga after he gets his ass kicked by Perfect Cell, and in this case, it's completely justified, since Vegeta deliberately ''helped'' Cell become perfect for the sake of a good fight, arrogantly assuming he could easily beat Cell no matter how strong he got. Krillin only decides to help Vegeta out for Trunks' sake, openly saying that he wouldn't care if Vegeta died, and as far as he's concerned, he ''deserves'' to be killed for being such an idiot.
* In ''Anime/EurekaSeven'', 14-year-old Renton's undying loyalty to the crew of the Gecko State is rewarded with a humiliating fake mission staged for their amusement. Told that it was of 'paramount importance', Renton ''doesn't even realize he's being mocked.'' As the 'mission' starts to fall apart, so does he. In tears, berating himself for his uselessness, the crew watches via secret camera as he delivers a lengthy speech about his admiration for them all, his happiness at being given this critical mission, and above all, ''his trust in them''. They stare, wide eyed, at the screen... and burst into laughter at how idiotic he is. Then they make the mission objectives more ridiculous, photograph him at the most humiliating point of his life, and publicize it on the cover of a globally read magazine. The entire mission is recorded. And shown to his girlfriend. It's actually meant to be amusing. [[DudeNotFunny It's not.]]
** And, for the record, Holland himself watches the video. The last words of the episode are him muttering to himself "I am so uncool."
* ''Manga/FruitsBasket'': Everyone at Tohru's school will participate on a marathon, including Yuki who has a flu, which Tohru was concerned for. Kyo hearing of the news about the marathon, he challenges the already sick Yuki to a race. Tohru tries to warn Kyo about Yuki's flu and he shouldn't force himself, he doesn't listen and prepares the challenge anyway. At the time of the school marathon, Kyo belittles and pressures Yuki, rather than being concerned he is coughing and tiring out due to his flu. He then gets rewarded with Hatsuharu's intervention and Yuki collapsing from fever.
* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': Despite hearing of the Ishvalan genocide at the hands of the State Military, and Mustang insisting Scar's quest for vengeance is justified, Ed blows it off and has no sympathy to spare for him; as far as he's concerned, Scar just likes attacking people because he's a bully that is masking his pain, stating outright that his quest is far from justified because he's still involving innocent people for the sake of his revenge and that he's just candy-coating it by acting self-righteous and calling himself "an instrument of God". Considering the facts that Scar tried to kill Ed and Al, who despite being State Alchemists were ''children'' at the time of the massacre and had nothing to do with it, as well as the fact that his very first victims were [[LoveInterest Winry's]] parents, who [[TheFarmerAndTheViper saved his life]], and what he [[MercyKill did to Nina]], Ed's [[JerkassHasAPoint far from wrong]].
* In ''Anime/TheGirlWhoLeaptThroughSpace'', Nami's depressed state of mind is not helped by her family's complete lack of love and sympathy. Her sisters practically kick her around as some scurvy dog and don't even once wonder why she acts the way she does.
** [[spoiler:Turned by her brainwashed older sister Takane, no less, who actually does care about her--somewhat, anyway. Takane recovers, beats the crap out of Nami and leaves her to die. None of Nami's relatives seem particularly concerned about what happens to her afterward]]. That's rough treatment for ''anyone''.
* This happens disturbingly often in ''Anime/HellGirl''. At least early on in the show, the clients end up sending the target to hell out of sheer desperation since they believe otherwise the target will get away with murder. Why do they believe this? Because for some bizarre reason, the Japanese (as depicted in this show) are very quick to make pariahs out of people and assume ''the absolute worst'' about the client, turning on their supposed loved ones, friends, or acquaintances at the drop of a hat.
** Episode 1's client got photographed in town with a man? Everyone's first assumption is that she's a slut who deserves to be screamed at without being given a chance to explain herself.
** Episode 3's target manages to create the mere ''suspicion'' that the client is the one who murdered his friends? Everyone in town, including the client's family, automatically assumes the client is guilty with no more evidence than that, and the client is forced to run away from town in order to avoid being arrested for a crime he didn't commit.
** Episode 6's client's mother got ''raped'' as part of a blackmail scheme by the target to shut the client's mother up about the adultery the latter witnessed? The client's father's first assumption is that his wife was cheating on him, and he starts screaming at her about it without giving her a chance to explain.
** Episode 11's client's father is framed for murder by an editor? The ''client'' is punished for his father's supposed mistakes by losing his home and his money and basically everything required to function in society, and his friends treat him as a loser the second he no longer has money. For a show that hammers home the futility of holding grudges and angry feelings in one's heart, the Japanese (as depicted in this show) sure seem quick to point fingers and hold others up as shameful pariahs at the slightest provocation.
* ''Manga/HotGimmick'': Hatsumi gets this a lot from her boyfriend Ryoki. In one scene shortly after she had her heart broken and was ''almost raped'' he berates her for crying about it, comes on to her too strong and forcibly kisses her despite her protests.
* In ''Manga/KitchenPrincess'', the main character, Najika, gets no sympathy from anyone except the two lead males and a cafe owner [[ChillyReception when she arrives at her new school]], the entire student body apparently having their ability to empathise surgically removed. Of course, this is to establish her as a PluckyGirl, but the students' levels of empathy continue to seesaw throughout the series.
* ''Manga/KotouraSan'': It's almost comical how fast nearly everybody writes off Haruka as a monster after they find out she has {{telepathy}}. Other then the ESP club, people don't even show any curiosity about her powers!
* Wolfram in ''LightNovel/KyoKaraMaoh'' is always on Yuri's case, accusing Yuri of cheating on him in situations where Yuri was just being polite/trying to avoid death. However, a case could be made that Yuri (among others) is equally insensitive to Wolfram's feelings; Wolfram is often accused of being a brat in scenarios where he was genuinely trying to do something positive.
* ''Manga/LoveHina'': This is one of the many things that happens to Keitaro PER EPISODE. Almost everyone refuses to listen to him in favor of believing he's some kind of lecherous asshole. [[TheWoobie He needs a hug, badly.]]
* PlayedForDrama in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha''. Fate Testarossa, only 9 years old, is told to collect magical artifacts of untold power by her mother, Precia. She throws herself at the task with reckless abandon, exhausting and injuring herself to dangerous levels. Her mother responds by whipping her until she collapses, furious at how slowly Fate's progress has been. It gets worse. [[spoiler:When it's found out that Fate is just a clone, Precia says something to the effect of "That's right. You're nothing but a fake. I never loved you ''once''. I ''despise you''." Fate STILL forgives her, and says that even if she's hated, she'll still protect her mother. Her mother smiles, and replies "How stupid."]]
* In ''Manga/NyanKoi'', the hero suffers from a bad cat allergy. His mother and sister know quite well that he's allergic to cats. They respond by sending their cat in to wake him up in the morning, having the cat sit and eat at the table with him, and complaining that everyone else in the family loves cats, as if his condition that could produce a deadly reaction was a matter of personal taste. No matter how much he clearly suffers, they continue to treat him as if he's just whining.
* Ash occasionally gets this in ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', especially when Misty was traveling with him. Examples:
** "Ignorance Is Blissey", in which he is the victim of a very clumsy Blissey multiple times, to the point where he needs to be treated by Nurse Joy, and when he comments that he never did get supper, both Misty and Brock jump down his throat, though the fact that they didn't get to eat as well may have made them a little testy.
** Another example happens much early when Ash is right on the verge of capturing a Weedle when he is rudely interrupted by a Samurai, who demands that they have a Pokémon match. During said match, the Weedle manages to escape back into its tree and alert the Beedrill, who capture Ash's Metapod. [[{{Hypocrite}} The Samurai berates Ash for making excuses]] and not finishing what he started, [[NeverMyFault even though the Samurai was the one who got them into that mess]], because of [[ItsAllAboutMe his inability to wait a few seconds for Ash to finish capturing the Weedle]].
** Another notorious example happens when Ash loses the Indigo Plateau League. Not because he was defeated, but because his final Pokémon, Charizard, was lazy and refused to follow commands. Not only that but the only reason he had Charizard on him and was forced to use it was because Team Rocket kidnapped him, made him wear down his team escaping and exhaust his Pidgeotto flying back. When he does arrive the referee demands the match begin immediately, not even asking why he's late, let alone why he's arriving in such a weird manner and gives him no chance to swap out his two useless Pokémon for Kingler, Muk or Tauros. When Ash sinks into depression afterwards everyone berated Ash for feeling sorry for himself when he had every right to be disappointed since he worked so hard to get in the League, only to have it snatched away via DiabolusExMachina and the ineptitude of the referee (ie, declaring a Pokémon unable to battle after being afflicted by sleep, a decision that has ''never'' been made at any other time).
** And what about the time they found Togepi's egg? No matter if Brock was the more experienced in raising Pokémon; what rights did he have to snatch the egg from Ash's hands the way he did and then run off with it? Worse, Misty ''gleefully'' supported it, and then she has the luck of Togepi seeing her first as soon as it hatches. This happens a lot to Ash, does it?
* ''Manga/RedRiver1995'' plays with this, having Yuri ''think'' this is the case when the news of [[spoiler: Ursula's death]] reaches her and Kail and everyone but Yuri immediately starts to do important things, like stopping Nakia's private army from continuing to infiltrate the Hadi sisters' home town. Truth is that they are all sad and grieving, especially Kash, they just decide to force on the more important, and still imminent, threats instead of breaking down into tears like Yuri did in schock. This is coupled with DeliberateValuesDissonance and lampshaded by Yuri and Kash later.
* ''Anime/RurouniKenshin'': Kenshin gets wounded in battle, and Kaoru yells at him for getting blood on her favorite scarf, which he happened to be wearing (never mind that the reason he was fighting in the first place was to ''keep his opponent from killing her'', [[TheLadysFavor and she forced him to take it even though he didn't want to]]). For further clarification, during battles she worries very much about Kenshin, even at the risk of her own life. It's only after the battles are over and the dust has begun to settle that [[{{Tsundere}} she fulfills this trope]].
* Hoo, man, ''Manga/{{Shitsurakuen}}''. The manga is based around ''insanely'' abusive boys with equally insane superiority complexes. It's actually a bit difficult to read, simply because a good amount are {{Karma Houdini}}s.
** Hey they're learning the meaning of feelings... well at least [[CharacterDevelopment some of them]]... [[MyGodWhatHaveIdone sort]] of.
* Tends to happen in ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'', usually to anyone who isn't named Lina - she's generally the instigator. The most extreme cases range from ComedicSociopathy (using the chimeric Zelgadis as a boat anchor to catch a dragon in a lake, where he nearly drowns, gets hurt, and nearly eaten) to KafkaKomedy (using Princess Amelia as a bride for fish bait in order to survive on an island in a [[AudioAdaptation radio drama]]; before that she nearly died in the ocean, and in another drama Lina shows no concern for Amelia when she shoves her in a barrel to hide and forgets that she is drowning in a sewer) to genuinely sad moments (neither Lina or Zelgadis show care when [[OrphansOrdeal Sylphiel's father is killed]] or when Amelia's father is thought to have been assassinated).
* ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'', Episode 6, Souta, Kanade's younger brother, makes a mess in the kitchen while making her a present for White Day. Kanade first assumption is that he is fooling around and begins to scream at him about it without giving him a chance to explain. Hibiki was quick to call her out for that.
* In ''Manga/TailOfTheMoon'', Usagi is feeling rather depressed, as she's just learned Hanzo used to be engaged to Sara. Not only that, Sara and Hanzou have just split up over Hanzou's flirtatiousness, and Usagi feels responsible as Hanzou was helping her when he argued with Sara. Hanzo sees that she isn't training, and even though he can see she's got something on her mind, he proceeds to throw her put of the village and lock her out, refusing to let her in even though Sara and several others protest. When he finally ''does'' go to let Usagi in, it's started raining and she's heading back to her village. She's still upset when he catches up with her, but he never apologizes even when she ''does'' return to his village.
* ''Manga/WorldsEndHarem'': Shion Hoshino was one of the most beautiful and popular girls at school and one of the few people who don,t bullies Shota Doi; it implied that Shota had a little crush on her. However, Shion shows that just because she is not one of Shota's bullies does not mean she sympathizes with him. When Shion and two of her friends wanted to eat lunch on their school rooftop and saw Shota being stripped of his clothes and bullied, her friends became uncomfortable and wanted to leave, but Shion, to her friends' shock, said she wanted to eat here and sit down and eat her lunch while ignoring what happening to Shota. Later, when Shion explains to his class why he will be absent because of his disease, she gets a phone call from her boss and just left, not offering him a single word of condolence towards him.

[[folder:Comic Books]]
* In issue 22 of ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'' Commissioner Gordon and Barbara hunt down a violent criminal who's broken out of prison... [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas to see his dying mother]]. Due to their interference, he doesn't make it in time, and tearfully asks why they couldn't have given him a break so he could have had five minutes with her. [[GoodIsNotSoft Gordon's having none of it]], and coldly tells him that if he wasn't a multiple murderer, he could have spent the last twelve years with her, and none of his victims got the chance to say goodbye to their loved ones.
* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'':
** WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck is his universe's TheChewToy. Girlfriend Daisy is particularly prone to empathy failure. No matter what catastrophe befalls her beau, Daisy won't bother to staunch the bleeding before she sets in with a vicious rant-a-thon.
** After Uncle Scrooge was accidentally pulled through a clothes shop by a hoverbike-thing gone mad, screaming in fear, he was arrested by the police because he got a few pieces of clothes stuck to him and people assumed he stole them.
* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'': Subverted in ''Justice League: The Rise of Arsenal'' after Roy Harper wakes up and learns he's lost both his right arm ''and'' his daughter Lian thanks to the villain Prometheus. While Roy's friends and family ''try'' to be sympathetic to his situation, they do an incredibly poor job and their efforts only make Roy's situation worse. While Roy's acting like a {{Jerkass}} due to the pain in his infected arm and reeling from the loss of his only child, ComicBook/BlackCanary repeatedly tries to be there for him, even despite her own grief, but he proceeds to use her as a punching bag (emotionally and physically), even making a mean-spirited remark about her inability to have children, that when she finally gets to the point she can't do anything more for him, he accuses her of having this and abandoning him.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
** Peter Parker is often the recipient of this kind of attitude. Of course, from the perspective of the characters who usually demonstrate this attitude towards him, Peter is flaky, unreliable and possesses almost no sense of responsibility; the audience, of course, are more than aware of the [[SecretIdentity real reasons]] why Peter acts this way, thus making it particularly painful and unfair for him to be condemned for his behavior when he can't actually reveal the real reasons for it in his own defense.
** To make matters worse, he also gets it as Spider-Man as well; his motivations and actions are often genuinely noble, but the prevailing AllOfTheOtherReindeer mood of the Marvel Universe (helped, of course, by J. Jonah Jameson's obsessive vendetta against him - and since Jonah owns and publishes a newspaper, it's not exactly difficult for him to get his viewpoint wide distribution) means that he's constantly subject to widespread public criticism, condemnation and fear, and even blatant acts of heroism on his part will usually trigger a loud public outcry accusing him of being a public menace. They get him coming and going.
* In the "Homeschooling" arc of ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', an accident results in the team's house getting wrecked and Klara and Old Lace getting buried under rubble. Old Lace dies, while Klara lives and is mostly unharmed, but is so terrified that she loses control of her powers and floods the house with hostile plant life, preventing her teammates from leaving. On top of that, the accident has attracted the attention of a paramilitary unit. In spite of the fact that the team's survival actually depends upon getting Klara to calm down, Chase does nothing except yell at and threaten her... because she won't stop crying about the fact that he's yelling and threatening her.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': Kryptonian criminals Az-Rel and Nadira care for nobody other than themselves. In ''ComicBook/ThePhantomZone'', when Mon-El is explaining how he cannot get out of their dimensional prison because he would die from lead poisoning, both Zoners bluntly tell him they could not possibly care less.
-->'''Nadira:''' He shields his thoughts from no one. His sympathies are with the tactile world-- and with Superman!\\
'''Mon-El:''' Should I apologize for that, Nadira? As a youth, Superman placed me in the Zone to save my life. I'm affected by lead the way Kryptonite would affect you. I can never leave the Zone-- until a cure is found!\\
'''Nadira:''' Look elsewhere for pity, Mon-El...\\
'''Az-Rel:''' ...And for information. You disgust us.

[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'': Ritsuko has zero sympathy or compassion for the pilots and their plight. In chapter 6 she shows she doesn't care at all for their reactions to a possibly upsetting situation:
-->''Ritsuko coolly went back to her typing. "We need Children like this, in order for us all to survive. They'll deal with it or they won't."''\\
''Misato half-glared at her. "Your compassion is heartwarming, Doctor! I'm the one who has to tell them about this!"''
* ''Fanfic/AngerManagement'': Lynn Sr., Luna, Lana, and Lincoln's friends are all impressed that Lincoln "stuck it" to Lynn and barely seem to care that she's injured.
* Among the great many [[BadBoss morally]] [[DisproportionateRetribution outrageous]] [[SerialKiller acts]] of the titular character of ''[[https://www.wattpad.com/story/93525786-the-daimyo%27s-grandchild-a-saniwa%27s-tale The Daimyo's Child [a saniwa's tale[=]=]]]'', her response to a child grieving over the murder of his grandfather is to ''beat him up'' for being "useless" and unable to save his grandfather.
* In ''Fanfic/DecksFallEveryoneDies'', most anyone who is not a main character gets this treatment (at one point, Yami is throwing bottle glass at a down-and-out Rex Raptor for attempted deck theft). Kaiba also falls victim to this trope. Not to mention the fact that everyone's situation (mass economic depression due to the fall of card games) is played for laughs.
* ''Fanfic/EpicTheThirdSurvivor'': In chapter 12, it's stated outright in the narration that Claire has no sympathy to spare for the mutated abomination William Birkin has become, since he infected Sherry with the G-virus and was responsible for the Raccoon City outbreak.
* ''Fanfic/FailureToExplode'': None of the adults around Katsuki sympathize with how his failure to get into U.A. impacted him. Mostly because he refused to make any backup plans, arrogantly assuming he wouldn't ''need'' any because he was so sure he'd get into his dream school. As his parents put it, his plight is entirely self-inflicted; [[IWarnedYou both had warned him to have a "Plan B" or two in place]], but he completely blew them off.
* This is the ''Modus Operandi'' in most of the [[http://gungemaleceleb.blogspot.com.au/ Gunge Male Celeb]] stories. Celebrities getting their '[[DisproportionateRetribution Just]] [[HumiliationConga Desserts]]' will often have not even one person feeling sorry for them or their plight. Ever. Even the narration gets off on their misery sometimes:
-->''[[SincerityMode ...but boy did he deserve it!]]''\\
''If anyone deserved a wedgie, it was Justin Bieber.'' [[note]][[http://gungemaleceleb.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/story-new-years-resolution.html By the time the story was published,]] Bieber had become a controversial figure, so in context, he was more of an AcceptableTarget than most of the other celebrities presented on the site.[[/note]]
-->''...[he] was due for a much needed comeuppance.''
* In ''Fanfic/HeatedStormYieldsAWildHorsesHeart'', no one has any sympathy for Ryoga when he admits he didn't make it to his duel with Ranma until four days after they were supposed to meet, with Kuno stating being a single hour late is unacceptable. Upon learning he might have knocked Ryoga into a Jusenkyo pool, Ranma initially sympathizes but Nabiki points out that no one made Ryoga chase Ranma all the way to China just to settle a duel over bread of all things.
* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'': Despite the claims of Chloe and Goh being best friends, Chloe points out that Goh has ''never'' been there for her and obsesses more on Mew, Pokémon and Ash. When she bitterly asks where the hell he was when she was bullied and teased at school, he snaps back that he was chasing his dreams, claiming she can't understand that because she doesn't '''have''' any dreams of her own. Chloe takes this as proof that he really doesn't care about her, spurring her running away and winding up on the Infinity Train.
* ''Fanfic/TheKarmaOfLies'':
** Adrien couldn't care less about how Lila is isolating Marinette from the rest of their class, or how she's [[ConArtist tricking his friends]] into donating to her FakeCharity drives and doing other 'favors' for her. When Marinette desperately tries to get him to see how much she's hurting everyone, he dismisses her concerns and tells her to stop making such a big deal out of everything.
** The bulk of Marinette's classmates also don't care about how much they're upsetting Marinette by isolating and ignoring her. When they finally figure out that they've been tricked, the majority expect to be EasilyForgiven, never expressing a lick of remorse for how they treated her.
** On the flip side, Marinette reaches the point where she StoppedCaring about Adrien and the rest of her {{False Friend}}s, cutting them out of her life. While she admits to Luka that she ''does'' feel some pangs of guilt over the whole situation, the fact remains that [[IWarnedYou all her warnings fell on deaf ears]]. What's more, with the majority refusing to ''learn'' anything from the situation, insisting that [[NeverMyFault they didn't do anything wrong]] and that she '''owes''' them her forgiveness, she ultimately can't ''afford'' to help them.
* ''Fanfic/LilasLament'': Lila, ever envious of Adrien’s luxurious lifestyle of a child star, has zero empathy towards him being a LonelyRichKid with a MissingMom. To her, Adrien is just being whiny and not appreciating the luxuries of his life in stead of a mother’s love, and even directly mocks him when Plagg tries to reason with her over this.
-->'''Lila:''' "Oh, boo hoo, Adrien's mommy left him in a big house with lots of money and a bedroom with an arcade and a skate ramp built in! Wah wah, poor baby."
* ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'': Over the course of the story, [[JerkSue Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way]] feels little sympathy towards her own boyfriend Draco, often making completely absurd explanations for situations in which he suffers.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' in some [=NaruHina=] fanfictions; his friends and the adults know that his childhood was hell but they're '''''constantly''''' mocking him and calling him dense for not noticing Hinata's feeling when she stutters and faints.
** Averted in some fics that have his childhood discussed and his friends discover how crappy he had it. Like in ''Fanfic/AGrowingAffection'' where Naruto, Hinata, Lee, Tenten, Neji and Ino are undercover at a beach but are allowed to goof off (to keep their cover as teens on a school-trip):
--->'''Naruto:''' ''[enthusiastically]'' Come on guys! Let's build sand castles! It'll be fun!\\
'''Ino:''' Ugh. Sand castles, really? What are you, five?\\
'''Naruto:''' ''[defensively]'' NO! ''[quietly]'' I never got to be five. ''[awkward silence]''
** Other fics seem to imply it's more of a matter of not wholly comprehending or understanding the situation. In the fic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3183054/1/ ''Tempered In Water'']], Naruto requests another C-Ranked mission to help pay for expenses, much to the surprise of everyone (the premise is that Haku has survived ''her'' wounds and latches onto Naruto. She has moved in and thus putting a strain on his finances.) When Sakura accuses him of being greedy, he yells back that he's not before saying he ''needs'' the money (his insecure side showing), making Sakura have a revelation on what being an orphan truly entails, especially in a Ninja Village where becoming genin essentially means adulthood and not having the same availability to welfare as civilians would.
* In ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionGenocide'', Dr. Ritsuko Akagi doesn't care at all about the pain she's put the [[ChildSoldiers pilots]] through.
%%* ''Fanfic/ScarTissue'': Asuka has little sympathy for people target her and Shinji in the post-apocalyptic world, saying that she made her best and fought to the end to prevent it -even if she was fighting for herself-, and anyone can return if he or she has the will for it. Therefore: You beloved person has not come back from the Sea yet? No her fault and no her problem.
* At one point in ''Webcomic/ScarletLady'', the eponymous [[NominalHero Nominal Heroine]] complains about Chat Noir keeping secrets from her, which he later passes onto Master Fu. Both of them completely shrug it off with a dismissive “sucks for her.” Completely justified in this case, as Chloe/Scarlet Lady is an [[TheLoad incompetent]] [[GlorySeeker glory-hound]] who’s more interested in looking good than actually doing her job, and thus cannot be trusted with the secrets of the Miraculous.
* ''Fanfic/SinsOfThePast'': When Marinette confides in Adrien all of the hell that Lila has put her through, revealing how she threatened to completely isolate her and take all her friends away, and seems to be ''succeeding'', Adrien responds by scolding her. Doesn't she realize that if she exposes Lila, she'll cause her to get akumatized? Why, she's nothing more than a ''bully!''
* ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'': Shinji is very emphatic, but he has very little sympathy. He can understand other people's troubles but he does not usually give a damn about them, and he has little sympathy for those that whine about their troubles but do nothing to fix them.
* ''Fanfic/TotalDramaAllStarsRewrite'': Almost no one cares about Courtney falling victim to infidelity anymore. Most of them write it off as Courtney failing to get over something that happened two years prior. Even Gwen, who does feel bad about it, wishes Courtney would let it go already.
-->'''Gwen:''' I am literally THIS close to snapping! I mean, it’s bad enough that Courtney hates my guts, does she HAVE to keep harmonizing about me! ...And you know what’s sad? It’s been like this for two years! TWO YEARS!!! ''(growls)'' So uncool it burns!!
* ''Fanfic/TowardABrightFuture'': After an intense discussion involving the [[{{Seers}} psychic]] teaching assistant Y/N getting a vision about a dramatic final exam involving All Might, she gets another one, this time involving Present Mic. However, this time she just pats his arm comfortingly and reassures him that he's strong and he'll survive, [[NothingIsScarier without telling him what he's in for]]. His panicked demands for a change in student opponents goes ignored, much to the amusement of his colleagues; Eraserhead is particularly unapologetic.
-->'''Eraserhead:''' You’re the best suited opponent for them, so you’ll just have to deal with it. Besides, you heard her. You’ll survive, so what’s the problem?\\
'''Present Mic:''' Physically maybe so, but what about my mental health?! Does that not matter to you?!\\
'''Eraserhead:''' Meh.\\
'''Present Mic:''' SHOUTA!
* ''Fanfic/TradeUsForTheWorld'': Marcy's parents swing back and forth between sympathizing with their daughter's depression over being made to move away from her {{Only Friend}}s and complaining about how she's not helping anything with her moping. The critical tipping point comes one week after the move, when she loses an expensive textbook. Her parents ream her out and make clear that as a result of having to replace it, she won't be allowed to buy a ticket back to LA and visit her friends over summer vacation. Shortly thereafter, she finds the music box and opens it, disappearing into Amphibia.
* ''Fanfic/WeightOfTheWorld'': [[PsychopathicManchild Russia]] has no patience for America's PTSD, depression, trauma, and touch aversion. Nor does he have any interest in understanding the intricacies of mental illness. He tries to force America to get over it by roughly [[TraumaButton grabbing]] and attacking him. It doesn't work, and only makes America feel worse. Russia is annoyed by America's "weakness" and taunts him about it, saying he will continue with this "game" until America stops flinching at his touch. He also admits he is doing this out of boredom.
* A justified example occurs in ''Fanfic/{{Xendra}}'' when [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] complains about how all her boyfriends have been jerks. Xander has no sympathy for her because she only ever dates "bad boys" and is then surprised when they treat her poorly. He even notes that she dumped NiceGuy Owen for being "too caring, too smart, and too interested in what she did with her life".
* The entire story of ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/119688/1/you-obey/the-interrogation You Obey]]'' occurs because Chrysalis doesn't care if she has to use torture to achieve her ends, nor does she care what it does to her own underlings.
* ''Fanfic/YouSeeThem'' has the Phantom Thieves reacting this way to [[EvilCounterpart Goro Akechi]] gaining the ISeeDeadPeople ability that he was previously jealous of [[PlayerCharacter Ren]] for having and realizing that he's been BlessedWithSuck because [[spoiler:he can now perceive how mad all the people he killed are with him, and how their decision for what to do with him now that he can is that he has to help them all finish their UnfinishedBusiness so they can pass on peacefully, on pain of being haunted by them until he's done]]. Of course, it's justified considering that, well, [[spoiler:he killed every last one of those people himself, including the mother and father respectively of two of the Thieves]].
* The story described in [[http://community.livejournal.com/fanficrants/9759827.html this]] fanficrant.

[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'': Zigzagged. During the Bad Guy Anon meeting, Ralph shocks everyone by saying he's tired of being the Bad Guy. It's justified when we later learn that Turbo did the same thing during his backstory, refusing his programmed role and the ensuing consequences. Ralph says he just wants one day where he's not treated like garbage, and that he can receive a slice of pie. A zombie bluntly replies that there's a price to getting what you want, even if it's as little as a bit of appreciation. Then the villains talk about how they understand Ralph's perspective, but you can't find outer validation for your job especially when you are meant to be the villain. It has to come from within. Ralph doesn't understand until the end of the movie.

[[folder:Films — Live-Action]]
* Stories about the in-laws-from-hell usually feature the bride's parents (and many of her other associates, and in some cases ''the bride herself'') having No Sympathy for her husband. The OverprotectiveDad in particular is ill-inclined to give his son-in-law an inch. ''Film/MeetTheParents'' and ''Series/TheWorstWeekOfMyLife'' are two examples.
** Of course, in ''Series/TheWorstWeekOfMyLife'', absolutely ''everyone'' has No Sympathy for Howard Steele.
** ''Film/MeetTheParents'' plays with this however, since while the protagonist is successfully disgraced by the OverprotectiveDad, the bride and her mother call him out for his vindictive treatment, especially since they know he drove her previous fiance away with the same crap. Both characters are made to clean up their act for the wedding to continue, even if the father is clearly still begrudging about it.
* In ''Film/{{Because I Said So|2007}}'', the girl accidentally broke a glass that the RomanticFalseLead owned (and was his grandmother's as he related after the fact), who immediately insulted her, and gave her a cold shoulder despite her extremely sincere and distressed apologies, including offers to buy a replacement.
* In ''Film/TheColorOfMoney'', Eddie teaches Vincent not to show any sympathy for the marks they hustle. When Vincent throws a pool game against a man with a tracheotomy, Eddie sets up a pool hall brawl to teach him a lesson.
* In the Disney movie, ''Film/GoFigure'', the heroine is chewed out as a failure by her skating coach for not showing up to practice. The coach never gave her a chance to explain that the AlphaBitch locked her in a supply closet, despite the fact that she was covered in purple paint and had apparently been through something.
* In the Lifetime Movie ''Film/HomeByChristmas'', the main character is evicted from her apartment immediately after being mugged, robbed of her savings and hospitalized.
* In ''Film/HomeAlone'', Kate, the mother, initially acts rather ignorant towards Kevin's problems, namely how [[BigBrotherBully Buzz]] had provoked Kevin into attacking him by [[EnemyEatsYourLunch eating the pizza that Kevin had wanted]] and didn't defend him when her brother in law called Kevin a "little jerk" and Jeff called Kevin "a disease" and then [[RejectedApology refusing his apology]] when she sends him to bed. She has a JerkassRealization when she realizes that she left Kevin at home.
* ''Film/LatePhases:'' Officer Lang does not show any inclination to investigate things and compares the constant fatal "animal attacks" to an Act of God without a hint of shame.
* In ''Film/TheOtherGuys'', Detectives Hoitz and Gamble try to talk some sense into a suicidal jumper [[ItMakesSenseInContext through an ice cream truck microphone]], and Hoitz has this to say to the guy:
-->'''[[Creator/MarkWahlberg Hoitz]]:''' Listen. We all know you're a scumbag, and nobody cares about you.
* ''[[{{Film/Rush2013}} Rush (2013)]]'' has [[UsefulNotes/FormulaOne Scuderia Ferrari]], which team is considered early on as purely business-minded. The employers' reaction to Niki Lauda's [[ItWasHisSled near-fatal accident]] is promptly hiring another driver to take up his spot. Lauda is not pleased by this.
--> '''Clay Regazzoni''': "'The Ferrari family'. 'Our good friend Clay Regazzoni'. You are family and friend to the Commendatore as long as you win. The minute you don't... ciao-ciao"
* In ''Film/SenseAndSensibility'', Fanny complains that Marianne and Margaret Dashwood have been cold to her after she swooped in and took over the house (her husband, their half-brother, inherited it). Her brother Edward tries to point out that they've just lost their father and their lives have changed forever, but she just says that's no excuse.
* {{Subverted}} at the end of ''Film/SevenPsychopaths'', when the protagonist gets a phone call from one of the titular psychopaths threatening to kill him, because he forgot to insert a specific line into his script that the character had asked him to. The protagonist, still broken from the events of the film, responds with a resigned acceptance of his fate. Despite the caller being the kind of person you absolutely ''would'' expect to behave like this, he instead recognizes from the protagonist's tone that he's been through hell and takes it back.
* ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'':
** The biggest part of Mary Jane's [[TheScrappy scrappydom]] in the movies is her behavior in ''Film/SpiderMan2''. Even though Mary Jane does not know at this point that Peter is Spider-Man, you'd think most people would understand that a full-time college student who struggles to avoid falling back on rent for his studio apartment might not have as much free time as a retiree (Aunt May), a jobless loser (MJ's dad) or a wealthy heir (Harry) would to go and see her play, and yet she treats him very coldly and cruelly based on this fact alone and refuses to hear his legitimate reason for missing it (the usher refused to admit him, to say nothing of the fact that his motorscooter was ''destroyed in an accident'' that wasn't his fault, as he was dealing with two crooks being chased by police). Yeah, yeah, he promised her he'd see it, but you know what? Sometimes circumstances prevent people from keeping their promises, and [[ItsAllAboutMe grown-ups are expected to understand that]].
** It gets even worse in ''Film/SpiderMan3'', where she accuses Peter of this because he's happy that for the first time his life doesn't completely suck while she has to put up with getting a bad review and has to get another job.
* No one in ''Film/StickIt'' seems to care ''why'' the main character ducked out of the Worlds Competition a few years prior, only that her team lost, even people who weren't remotely involved in the competition. [[spoiler:She ducked out because moments before her routine, she learned her mother was having an affair with her coach and caused her parents to get a divorce]].
* In ''Film/TheTimeTravelersWife2009'', Clare chews Henry out for disappearing for about two weeks. Almost the entire plot is how Henry time travels involuntarily and frequently, and she is aware of this. And he has to go apologize afterwards.
* ''Film/TheWorldOfKanako'': [[spoiler:Kanako]] does not care when Ogata commits suicide, seemingly not caring for the weak. The same goes with the narrator who is manipulated into a fate even worse.
* ''Film/AGoodWomanIsHardToFind'': Sarah's mother acts annoyed by her still mourning her husband, saying she had a whole future ahead before the two got married (he wasn't a good match in her view). Naturally, this makes Sarah angry. Later on though she apologizes for this, implying she'd been jealous as Sarah is the only person she'd ever really loved.

[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/BekaCooper'': In the second book, Beka is jumped by a couple of thugs and almost beaten to death in payback for arresting their brother. She wakes up to a very angry Goodwin who promptly tears her a new one for always going out the front door of her lodgings, while the healer tells her to lay off. Beka agrees with Goodwin, since Dogs have to be ProperlyParanoid if they want to do their jobs and survive. Tunstall thumps her for it later, but this time Goodwin tells him to back off since Beka's learned well enough.
* In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'', men are rare and kept protected. When Ren, Eldest Whistler, and Captain Tern along with a company of soldiers come across one who was kidnapped and raped, and then died after his tongue was cut out, Ren is horrified. Whistler [[YouMustBeCold covers his body with her coat]], furious, and then feels an intense fearful need to get back home and [[BigBrotherInstinct protect her brother]]. The Captain and the soldiers are largely unmoved. When Ren demands to know how anyone could do something like this, if you got pregnant from the act what would you tell your daughter, Captain Tern shrugs and says it's like how you never describe a visit to the [[SexSlave cribs]]. Ren concludes that a woman needs to have had [[RaisedByDudes a loving father]] to really be horrified by this.
* The ''{{Literature/Caliphate}}'' series ends the secondary storyline on this note as Germany is strong-armed into becoming a Islamic state after its democracy is hijacked by radicals. The narrative's protagonist Gabrielle attempts to flee to the USA alongside her daughter (who was disfigured by thugs for not wearing a veil). Unfortunately, the [[AssInAmbassador American consulate]] turns them down in part because America has turned into a [[TheEmpire Christian theocratic empire]] and has cut ties with the European Union prior to this event. To twist the knife, the ambassador also chides her for not taking action in the first place and its their own fault they are in this current situation, abandoning her and her daughter in a [[NoWomansLand hell for women]].
* One ''Literature/ChickenSoupForTheSoul'' entry had a high school sophomore go on a date with a popular older student, and, owing to her inexperience, she accidentally bit him when she kissed him, to which he said was okay. However, the next night, some of the boy's female classmates appeared outside of her home, [[TeensAreMonsters yelling obscenities at her, egging the house and writing on her garage door, "You kiss like a horse"]], in ''chocolate syrup'' no less, and yes, it didn't wash off. Finally, after more bullying from her classmates including calling her a whore and harassing phone calls, she confronts the boy about why he caused all this, who then replied to her, [[NeverMyFault "Look, I don't know what your problem is, but it doesn't have anything to do with me"]] [[JerkAss and left her with her ruined reputation]].
* In ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', Virgil appeals to his acquaintance with Cato's dead wife to convince Cato to let him into Purgatory. Problem is, since his wife was damned, Cato has forsaken his unconditional love for his wife in favor of unmovable apathy and Virgil's appeal has no effect on him. The only reason Virgil doesn't get sent back to Hell is because {{God}} wills his journey and Cato complies.
* Bernard Mac Laverty's ''Father and Son'' has a pretty breathtaking example of this. A recently bereaved father struggles to care for his son after the mother of the family dies. Said son repays him by running away for two years until he gets ill and has to be rescued by the father, who nurses him back to health. Rather than being grateful for the rescue, and the subsequent sacrifices his father had to make for him, the stupid little twit cuts him no slack, whining constantly about his father's lack of masculinity (since it's now dad who does the housework), drawing violence and illegal activities into his dad's house, and throwing a fit whenever his dad asks him where he's going when he leaves the house. All right, the son was going through his own mucked-up grieving process, and the theme of the short story was the isolation of grief and PoorCommunicationKills, but you may be left feeling that the son [[DownerEnding deserved everything he got]], especially when you consider that the father constantly tries to bridge the gap between them.
* ''Literature/TheIronTeeth'' web serial is full of bandits, mages and goblins who won't ever care for anyone other than themselves unless there is a good reason behind it. Blacknail, the goblin protagonist, has a twisted logic where he would never admit that others can be good for him even if he was just saved by them.
* This tends to crop up amongst various characters in the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' series. One oft-cited example in ''Eclipse'' is when Jacob forcibly kisses Bella, upsetting her enough that she punches him and breaks her hand in the process. She comes home visibly angry and with her injured hand, only for Jacob and Charlie (who was previously characterized as an OverprotectiveDad) to basically exchange high-fives. Charlie does later show more sympathy, but it's still less than one would think a guy would have for his assaulted daughter.
** Another example would be the treatment of Leah throughout the series. Her first transformation into a wolf accidentally causes the death of her father, her fiancé leaves her for her cousin; as a member of her former fiancé's pack, she has to constantly hear his thoughts about how happy he is with her, and her other cousin Jacob is constantly pining over a girl who he clearly has no chance with. Leah is understandably a bit bitter about all of this. The rest of the pack generally treat Leah as a horrible shrew for being upset about these things, up to and including treating her like an idiot for not being able to put Sam behind her, but coddling Jacob for acting even more pathetic over a girl who was never his girlfriend.
* Creator/JacquelineWilson's heroines usually have friends prone to this (and occasionally do it themselves). A blatant example is Literature/TheGirlsSeries heroine, Ellie. Throughout the series, Ellie has to bail out best friends Nadine and Magda when they pick up the IdiotBall and run with it... and in gratitude, they're quick to abandon Ellie in favor of whichever boy they're pursuing at the time. However, when Ellie tells them she's thinking about going to her boyfriend's dance rather than to a concert with Nadine and Magda, they get ''very'' catty and accuse her of abandoning them, despite the fact that Ellie shows far more regard for their feelings when they do for hers. Occasionally, this can verge on (non-)ComedicSociopathy, as when they accuse Ellie of overreacting when [[spoiler:she finds a drunken Magda lip-locked with Russell, Ellie's boyfriend, at a party]].
* The world of the Creator/MarquisDeSade's infamous novel ''Justine'' (and indeed, his other works) is one where human decency doesn't seem to even ''exist''. The high point of this tale is Justine recounting how at the age of twelve, she asked for shelter in a man's house and was told that she could only stay if she would have sex with him. Rather than acting like any normal person would in this situation, the person that Justine is telling this to ''screams at her'' for being a "parasite" who wanted something for nothing. And it does not get better for the poor girl.

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'', this was one of the signs that Tully was having a bad influence on George. George came home to find Annie scared and quiet and Mitchell furiously kicking Tully out (both of which were drastically out of character for the two, and should have tipped him off that something really upset them) and instead of asking what happened, declares that he won't let Tully be sent away. Mitchell eventually outright tells George why Tully is being sent off - because he sexually harassed and frightened Annie. George still sides with Tully, much to the shock of Annie and Mitchell. (George later comes around, thankfully, and apologizes.)
* Bernard Black, the bookshop owner in ''Series/BlackBooks'', has a deep contempt for Manny Bianco, his assistant, and responds to almost anything he does with anger:
-->'''Bernard:''' So you admit you deliberately stepped in front of the bullet?\\
'''Manny:''' ''[softly]'' Yes.\\
'''Bernard:''' And wantonly sprayed blood from your head wound across the shop?\\
'''Manny:''' ''[softly]'' Yes.\\
'''Bernard:''' Before going to waste time writhing around on an 'emergency operating table'?\\
'''Manny:''' ''[softly]'' Yes.\\
'''Bernard:''' ''[hands Manny an affidavit and a pen]'' Sign here. [[BadBoss No wages for seven years.]]
* ''Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}''
** ''Series/{{Angel}}'': In mid-Season 3, Wesley is duped by a [[PropheticFallacy fake prophecy]] that claims Angel will kill his newborn son Connor, so he conspires with Angel's old enemy Daniel Holtz to kidnap him and spirit him away. When he enacts this plan, however, he winds up in the hospital with a SlashedThroat courtesy of Holtz's [[TheDragon Dragon]] Justine, kick-starting a series of events that lead to Holtz and Connor being trapped in the demon dimension Quor'toth. Despite acknowledging and accepting that Wesley was tricked and did it with the best intentions, Angel is still pissed as hell at Wesley and tries to kill him with a VorpalPillow in the hospital, and the rest of the Angel Investigations crew agrees with him and boots him from the team. Cordelia and Gunn in particular openly state that they don't ''care'' about Wesley's side of the story or why he stole Connor; all that matters to them is [[TreacheryIsASpecialKindOfEvil he betrayed them]].
** ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
*** The Scoobies and Joyce all suffer this in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E2DeadMansParty Dead Man's Party]]". Buffy was tormented for ''months'' by Angelus, kicked out of the house, expelled from school, accused of murder, and had to sacrifice her boyfriend to save the world. So, it's only natural that she leaves Sunnydale. But none of the Scoobies, or even her ''own mother'', actually care about her emotional turmoil and spend most of their time ignoring her out of spite for running away, before openly calling her out on it during the party.
*** Xander is the worst of them all in that regard during Seasons 2 and 3. Having always hated Angel, Xander is ecstatic that now that he's evil, he finally has an excuse and repeatedly urges Buffy to kill him, uncaring that Buffy still loves him and it's very hard on her. When she returns in "Dead Man's Party," rather than be even remotely sympathetic for her need to mourn Angel, he gripes about how she "ruined his life" by running away and dismisses the months of MindRape she suffered at Angelus' hands as "boy troubles."
*** In Season 4, Spike is captured by [[CreatureHunterOrganization the Initiative]] and implanted with a [[RestrainingBolt cerebral microchip]] that prevents him from harming humans; he [[EntitledBastard turns to the Scoobies for help]], and they all take great delight in tormenting him and mocking him to his face, except for [[NiceGirl Willow]], who [[SympathyForTheDevil pities him]]. It reaches a head in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E11Doomed Doomed]]": Xander is pissed that Spike [[InterruptedSuicide tried to commit suicide]] simply because he wanted to stake Spike himself, and Buffy's line when they go to the high school says it all for her:
--->'''Buffy''': Why is he even here? It's not like he can fight.\\
'''Willow''': If we leave him alone, he'll stake himself.\\
'''Buffy''': And that's bad because...?
*** Willow herself gets this in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E9SomethingBlue Something Blue]]", which focuses on her moping around after her boyfriend Oz leaves Sunnydale. Despite the fact that Willow was cheated on and left by her first main relationship and neither of them are strangers to long bouts of moping, Buffy and Xander end up complaining they're tired of putting up with her self-pity.
* On ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'', Laura gets called out for this in the WholeEpisodeFlashback "The Attempted Marriage." Rob is waylaid on the way to their wedding and goes through hell to get there. When he finally arrives late, all Laura can do is bawl him out over his supposed utter insensitivity. Rob takes a surprisingly large amount of abuse before announcing that he's decided not to marry a woman who -- when her fiance' arrives disheveled, covered in mud, and hopping around on one foot from a sprained ankle -- can't be bothered to even ask what happened before piling on. After piling on, she tries to leave, but he physically prevents her from doing so in order to explain himself. By the time he's finished, she is a bit more forgiving.
* In ''Series/DocMartin'', the title character has a tendency to miss appointments or other important meetings because the villagers of Port Wenn seem to time their medical emergencies to happen at the least convenient moment. This does not stop the people he no-showed from complaining about having their time wasted, even if he was performing lifesaving first aid (which is usually what happens).
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E7TheLongGame "The Long Game"]], the Doctor has no sympathy for Adam Mitchell after what he does in the episode. The Doctor is tolerant of companions who pick up the IdiotBall because they're ConstantlyCurious. After all, [[BirdsOfAFeather he's made a career out of it]]; in this very episode he says that making mistakes is part of the fun of time travel. A companion who's more interested in lining his pockets than exploring the wonders of the universe, on the other hand, gets dumped back on Earth with technology in his head that would [[TheyWouldCutYouUp get his brain dissected]] by TheMenInBlack if anyone found out.
* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': Daphne tries to {{def|iedtrope}}y this one in "Daphne Does Dinner"; after trying to throw a normal dinner party without the Cranes screwing it up as usual, she of course manages to screw it up, but when the offended guests start to collect their coats, she gives an impassioned speech about trying to salvage a nice, civilized dinner despite all the hijinks. Just as she's talked them round, a bed falls through the ceiling.
* ''Series/{{House}}'' seems to go out of his way to invoke this in other people, just so he can protect his ego. For example, take the Tritter thing; being tripped was humiliating, sure, but the other characters might have had more sympathy for him if he had actually told them about that instead of keeping it to himself. (Of course, he also tends not to show sympathy for others; sometimes it's a deliberate act, and sometimes it's, well, [[DrJerk the premise]].)
** Subverted in "97 Seconds" when House asks for sympathy after electrocuting himself and being hospitalized... even though he electrocuted himself deliberately as part of a self-indulgent experiment involving [[NearDeathExperience near death experiences]].
** This does happen a lot to him. He's addicted to Vicodin ''because'' he's in chronic pain, but it was established in the first season that House was an addict with a history of drug-seeking behavior already when he had his infarction. Cuddy and Wilson already knew him then. But nobody else seems to think of the pain when they criticize his addiction and tell him what a jerk he is, either.
** In season four finale, he had been in an accident and had a head injury, but still Wilson asked him to do a potentially fatal test on himself to save Amber's life, since Wilson was dating her. When House did it anyway, and Amber died anyway, Wilson stopped being friends with him for a while (although this is suggested to be just Wilson dealing with the grief).
* ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'': Several times, Nels Oleson to his wife, Harriet, after she has gotten her comeuppance and she tries to cry on her husband's shoulder, insisting that she had been treated unfairly and horribly. Nels will simply remind her that she got what she deserved. This happens in "Harriet's Happenings" (when Laura and Albert give her a taste of her own medicine by switching the printing plates to create inaccurate stories about her (Mrs. Oleson) and Nellie; he simply reminds her that she had a duty to report the truth) and "Crossed Connections" (when Mrs. Oleson is convinced to place the entirety of her savings into the stock market and invest in a failing company ... which goes bankrupt in short order; Nels makes her go back to work to earn her money back, this as penance for her having spread a rumor that nearly ruins the marriage of one of Nels' closest friends, Jonathan and Alice Garvey).
* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'': The characters in general usually have little to no sympathy for others, including and especially each other, but Al and Peg are most likely to display this attitude. One episode has Al obsessed with learning the name of an old song he loves and listens to the radio to try and catch it, but at one point he complains about the [=DJ=] "whining" about a massive and deadly car pile-up ("12 dead! 12 dead! 12 dead!"). Another episode has Al gaining success as a topless bartender until Jefferson shows him up and he winds up fired. As he cries to Peg about the embarrassment he suffered, she instead complains about him losing his job, being broke and expecting her to be a sympathetic ear ("God, what a ''woman'' you are!")
* The use of this trope is often detrimental to the characters of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' (making them occasionally come off as unlikeable sociopaths) because of the way the show shifts between comedy and drama, the tone determining whether there will be sympathy or not and the audience disagreeing with the writers' sense of humor.
* The heroes of ''Series/OnceUponATime'', often display this to Rumplestiltskin, following his HeelFaceTurn in the middle of the fourth season; regardless of how involved he actually is in a BigBad's plot...
* ''Series/{{Psych}}'' sometimes if not often have the characters show shades of this, and the entire thing is usually played for laughts whatever misfortune it is. [[JustifiedTrope However, Psych is primarily a comical show]] so laughing at bullet wounds/kidnapping/near death escapes is pretty common. In short, the characters seem to mysteriously know whether the danger is real or not.
** Also very much subverted whenever the show decides to get serious (such as the Yin-Yang trilogy.) Whenever things get serious, there is a definite level of camrederie and support, especially when some of the protagonists reach their limits in dealing with the crises. Examples include [[spoiler: Lassiter comforting Juliet after her kidnapping in the Season 4 finale during her breakdown, Juliet trying to keep Shawn out of harm's way when he is on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge when an old family friend is revealed to be a DirtyCop who shot his dad and even Lassiter gives Shawn some support because of that.]]
* Kate from ''Series/RobinHood'' spends a lot of time whining about her dead brother, who was killed by Guy of Gisborne after [[NiceJobBreakingItHero her botched rescue attempt]]. She doesn't seem to care that she is surrounded by fellow outlaws who have ''also'' suffered at the hands of Gisborne: Little John had his wife and son tortured, Much lost the woman he loved, Allan had to watch his brother get executed, and Robin's ''own wife'' was ''murdered''. But, nooo, all Kate can moan is: "E keeled mah bruvvah!"
* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'':
** JD and Turk both seem to be frequent victims of this. Carla, and most of the girls JD dates, seem ready to pounce on any perceived failure or flaw, regardless of the circumstances.
** There was another rather bizarre instance of this in season six, where J.D's friends were getting frustrated at his apparent whininess (although they didn't say this to his face). This felt a little odd given that what they viewed as {{Wangst}} was caused by the apparent death of his unborn child, his losing his girlfriend, his lack of an apartment and having to sleep on a deck, his developing an odd medical condition which caused fainting spells, and his getting a DUI (admittedly, the last two took place a bit later). Granted, a lot of his complaints took place offscreen, so it's hard to judge how annoying it would be in real life, and it's possible that a lot of time had passed within the show since what happened with Kim, but considering that Elliot never provoked any hostile reactions from her friends when she was going through similar problems in the earlier seasons, it still seems [[DoubleStandard a tad unfair]].
* ''Series/TheXFiles'': In "[[Recap/TheXFilesS05E12BadBlood Bad Blood]]", Mulder comes in late at night, exhausted and covered in dust. Scully shows a reasonable amount of curiosity and sympathy in [[TheRashomon her version of events]], but in Mulder's version she whines about being hungry and tells him not to sit on her bed.

[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
* ''Literature/TheBible'': In the ''Literature/BookOfJob'', this is the treatment that the eponymous character receives from his friends Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar. They claim that him sinning must be the reason why all these [[LaserGuidedKarma bad things have happened]], although in actuality, it was Satan who had taken away Job's wealth and children and putting boils on him to test his faith. Despite this, Job protests to his friends that he has been upstanding for all of his life and during his suffering, he remains faithful to God.

[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
* Wrestling/ScottSteiner has no "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfvGECYB6Gs sympathy]]" for Wrestling/KevinNash and his allegedly-injured leg. This might also qualify as a character trait, as Steiner never displays sympathy for anyone, preferring to instead [[YouAreFat call them fat]].
* Wrestling/BretHart towards Wrestling/{{Batista}} on the May 24, 2010 episode of ''Raw'' after the latter got badly injured losing to Wrestling/JohnCena in an "I Quit" match at ''Over the Limit'' the night before. Despite knowing he's badly hurt (and in a wheelchair no less), Bret offers Batista another shot at Cena for the WWE Championship if he qualifies for a fatal-four-way match at the pay-per-view of the same name against Wrestling/RandyOrton to be held ''right away''. When Batista twice points out his condition and threatens to quit if he continues to have him take the match, Bret names Orton the winner via forfeit and leaves, ignoring an outraged Batista's demand to return. Losing to Cena in three straight pay-per-views already made Batista angry enough but Bret's lack of concern towards his injuries was the [[VillainousBreakdown last straw]] for him to follow through with [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quitting the WWE]].
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Claptrap from the ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' games is a ButtMonkey, being used as target practice by bandits, a torture doll by one of their leaders, having his entire product line exterminated by Handsome Jack making him the LastOfHisKind, being abandoned in a frozen wasteland, and having nobody but the Vault Hunter show up for his birthday party. Despite all he's been through, he is universally treated like an annoying (his voice is programmed to sound [[{{Keet}} that way]] -- he's actually quite depressed) pest. No Sympathy is the rule, rather than the exception, in Borderlands, which runs on ComedicSociopathy, but almost everyone steps up their game at least one more notch to crap on Claptrap.
* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace3'': Ellie’s breakup with Isaac is seen as this by some. Throughout the series, Isaac has (among other things) witnessed countless people be brutally slaughtered and warped into Necromorphs, helplessly watched his last girlfriend kill herself, been manipulated and betrayed numerous times and subjected to MindRape by the Markers more than once. All of this and more has understandably left Isaac with ''extremely'' severe trauma and PTSD. Instead of, say, getting Isaac the help he clearly needs, Ellie coldly leaves him after calling him a coward for not just getting over it, and later insults him for not wanting to rejoin the search for the Markers (aka the source of all his trauma).
* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryTropicalFreeze'': When Funky accidentally causes Bashmaster's Popsicle to be eaten by piranhas, he crosses his arms and makes a "hey, shit happens" kind of look.
* Early in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'', the kingdom of Damcyan is attacked. The king and queen die, as does Anna, Tellah's daughter and Prince Edward's love, and numerous {{Red Shirt}}s. When the party finds Edward, he's flattened with grief because everyone he loves is dead... so Tellah attacks him.[[note]]Which he was probably going to do ''anyway'' since he didn't approve of Edward and Anna getting engaged in the first place and now blamed him for getting her fatally wounded.[[/note]] When Anna gives her last words and dies, Edward is even more devastated. Rydia and Cecil immediately lay into him for being a selfish weakling, moping over the deaths of everyone he's ever loved when there are some strangers here who want a favor! [[JerkassHasAPoint While it's true that Edward is the ruler of Damcyan, thus needs to be strong to lead the country]], Rydia's reaction is a tad hypocritical -- her reaction to the same circumstances was to summon Titan to whoop Cecil and Kain's backsides, but apparently it is wrong for a man to be temporarily paralyzed by the deaths of everyone he's ever loved. Understandable, since she is JustAKid after all, and had underwent a bit of CharacterDevelopment.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'' give us Soren most frequently but [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Ike most famously]].[[note]]Which is completely out of character for the man who would even show sympathy to his father's killer.[[/note]]
** It makes more sense if you interpret Ike's [[MemeticMutation now-legendary]] "You'll get no sympathy from me" as something more along the lines of "I'll show you no mercy" (there was possibly some translation fudging involved), which would be true to how Ike was genuinely sympathetic toward many of his old allies and their plights in ''Dawn'' but unwilling to go easy on them as they now found themselves on opposite sides of a war. It would then also double as a MythologyGag to the Greil Mercenaries' run-in with slave traders in Chapter 14 of ''[=PoR=]'', where, after their leader Gashilama refuses to surrender, Ike states, "In that case, we've no choice. [[PreAsskickingOneLiner You'll receive no mercy from us!"]]
* ''VideoGame/PacManWorld'' infamously ends with Pac-Man hearing the defeated final boss Toc-Man [[spoiler:reveal himself as a sad ghost who goes on a MotiveRant about how he tried to imitate him because "nobody loves a ghost," only to eat him in response.]] To be fair, the guy did kidnap his entire family. Regardless, the ''Re-PAC'' remake softened this by having him instead [[spoiler:hold out his hand in forgiveness,]] but only if you rescue all his family members.[[note]]This was made optional specifically for the remake, and not doing so gets you the original ending.[[/note]]
* In the ending of ''[[VideoGame/SonicStorybookSeries Sonic and the Black Knight]]'', Sonic explains to Amy about how he missed their date due to being sent to Arthurian times. Amy thinks he's just making up excuses for missing their date and proceeds to chase him with her hammer. Granted, randomly being summoned to Arthurian times is a bit far-fetched.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': Boxbot only wants to help, but is hampered by the fact that he's a badly programmed box with arms. He is consequently terrible, a fact that the characters and author are extremely willing to share.
* In ''Webcomic/WarbotInAccounting'', nobody ever has sympathy for [[TheWoobie Warbot]]. At [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/07/07/warbot_009-the-yutani-account/ one point]], he tries to [[DrivenToSuicide commit suicide,]] fails, and ends up chastised by his colleague for skipping work.
-->Everyone pretty much thinks you're a jerk.
** This is, of course, [[KafkaKomedy the point]]. After that page was posted, the writer received an e-mail from his mother claiming the page wasn't sad enough, and Warbot should have gotten a bill for repairing the damage he did to the street by landing on it headfirst.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''WebVideo/TheVeronicaExclusive'' features a particularly harsh and depressingly realistic example. After Martha tries to kill herself, the comments on her video suicide note are filled with her long-time bullies either making fun of her or expressing ''disappointment'' that she didn't actually die.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* The woman in front of Stan in line to the doctor in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' refused to let Stan cut in front of her, despite the fact that he was clearly heavily wounded and bleeding to death because "My elbow feel funny. My elbow feel ''strange.''"
* Every ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' "Buttons and Mindy" short ends this way. After [[BadlyBatteredBabysitter practically killing himself]] to save the life of his owners' careless daughter Mindy, Buttons would almost always get a verbal dressing-down for some minor fault incurred along the way, plus the loss of a treat. Shortly thereafter, Mindy would usually lavish a bit of toddlerish affection on Buttons, which seemed to comfort him at least a little. The earliest shorts didn't even have that silver lining but luckily, in [[WesternAnimation/WakkosWish the movie]] he was rewarded handsomely with a big 'ol plate of steak.
** Relatedly, a lot of the Creator/WarnerBros animation stable relies heavily on our KarmicTrickster lead(s) having no real boundary when it comes to revenge or just being jerks.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': In "[[Recap/ArthurS4E1DWsLibraryCardArthursBigHit Arthur's Big Hit]]", Arthur gets punched by Binky after the latter gets goaded by his {{Jerkass}} friends into doing so. When Arthur's parents hear about this, their response is to tell him that it's a justifiable punishment for punching D.W. (he did so after she thoughtlessly destroyed his model plane), [[{{Hypocrite}} even though they previously told him violence is never justified]].
-->'''Mr. Read:''' Well, maybe that's how D.W. felt when you punched her.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE25TheClockKing "The Clock King"]], Temple Fugate's StartOfDarkness begins after he arrives late to his hearing and the judge ruled against him for being late. Even when Fugate’s clothes were soaked and torn and he was obviously distressed and disheveled. (And what made it even ''more'' unfair was that Fugate had ''always'' been on time for appointments up to this point, and was [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin only late this time because Mayor Hamilton Hill (then a lawyer) had suggested he take a break for once]].) When Fugate looked at his lawyer, he simply shrugs it off and retires.
-->'''Fugate:''' ''No, you can't, I'll be ruined!''\\
'''Judge:''' Then perhaps this will teach you to be on time for a change.
* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': Anytime Bob gets the short end of the stick on something, other characters will either make wisecracks about it or not make a big deal out of it like he does. PlayedForLaughs of course.
* ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'': In "Dirt Nappers", when Samson gets a new vacuum cleaner, he cleans up all the dirt in Camp Kidney, leaving the other Bean Scouts unable to do any activities on the leftover bedrock. Making matters worse is that without dirt, Chip and Skip will go into a century-long hibernation, so they need to get it back before that happens. When they see that the dirt was taken by the Squirrel Scouts for use for mud treatments, they explain their situation to them and Patsy cheerily informs the boys that they don't care.
* Lucien from ''WesternAnimation/TheCrampTwins'' suffers an allergic reaction from the vest he's wearing while in class, and takes it off to reveal a huge red rash covering his torso. Miss Hissy, Lucien's teacher, responds by giving him a detention for removing his top.
* In one episode, ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' was goaded into throwing a rock at a house scheduled for demolition and this small rock ends up collapsing the entire house. Patti comes by and when Doug brags to her about the good shot she tells him he's "terrible" and walks off angry. For most of the episode Patti avoids Doug like the plague without giving an explanation and Doug is left wondering why she would be angry at him for wrecking a house that was going to be torn down soon anyway, even Bebe won't answer him when he asked her to find out why Patti is mad at him. He doesn't find out why until Skeeter off-handedly mentions that it was the house Patti lived in when her mother was alive, something which Doug would not have known since everybody knows he'd just moved to Bluffington. Subverted in that Patti actually apologises after Doug gives his side of the story.
* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': In the episode "Little Ed Blue", Ed, who is usually a NiceGuy, is in a bad mood and terrorizes the cul-de-sac kids. Edd and Eddy go to cheer him up, but with different ways. Whereas Edd tries to cheer Ed up kindly, Eddy really doesn't seem to care about Ed's predicament. He belittles him, shows him very little in the way of patience or empathy, and even causes him to reach his RageBreakingPoint by smacking him upside the head and telling him to get over himself. Eddy's [[OhCrap reaction]] afterwards shows he regrets pushing Ed too far.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'': Rayla is angry at Callum for using dark magic despite his saving her life, and spends her time in the last two episodes chastising him for doing so. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when she realizes how serious Callum's fever dream, or dark magic coma, actually was; she ends up clutching Callum in a bone-crushing hug, begging Callum not to die. Rayla's initial reaction is justified by the fact that dark magic is ''very'' SeriousBusiness for elves; the current divide in setting between humans and the mystical beings of Xadia is rooted in humanity's discovery and usage of dark magic to begin with, as it explicitly involves killing magical creatures to harvest their LifeEnergy and has severe corruptive effects on users. Humanity was exiled from Xadia for such things, so seeing a friend use dark magic would be incredibly upsetting for Rayla from a cultural standpoint.
* A (likely unintended) driving pivot of the feud in ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone''. Most of Zordrak's Urpney minions (especially Frizz and Nug) hate their job, only going through with it due to Sgt. Blob and Urpgor press ganging them, or Zordrak threatening to ''execute'' anyone who defies him. The heroes seem aware of this (and the Urpneys are rarely shrewd about how unwilling they are) but still see the Urpneys as evil scum for trying to steal the Dreamstone and give them nightmares, usually handing them a righteous verbal lashing and cartoonish beatdown. Later episodes at least tried to make the heroes' treatment of the Urpneys more proportionate to the peril they put them through, but they remain firmly in this trope, their unwilling nature never remotely acknowledged.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS12E16HerpeTheLoveSore Herpe, the Love Sore]]", Peter and friends run away from the guys who bullied them out of their booth. This earns them the scorn of the town and their families. Their attempt to take it back fails with them getting beat up. Even when they get the booth back, it's only because the guys who bullied them reveal themselves to be soldiers who are shipping back to duty the next day. Said guys are hailed as heroes, while Peter and the gang still get no respect.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E1ISecondThatEmotion I Second That Emotion]]", the crew became so annoyed with Bender's lack of sympathy for anyone, that they installed an emotion chip to his head, which made him feel everything Leela (whose pet, Nibbler he flushed down the toilet) felt. [[MoralMyopia Also applied to Leela herself]] that very same episode, as she showed no concern for Bender nearly getting cut by the can opener, getting angry at him for scolding Nibbler for the predicament, or Nibbler eating the cake Bender had made (which may not seem like much, but Bender had spent ages making it, and Nibbler ate it ''before'' anyone else had seen it), which partly led to the critter's flushing.
** Given the kind of show it is, the characters tend to show little to no sympathy for each other, depending on the situation. One can usually tell if a line has seriously been crossed, because one or more characters will feel sorry for another.
** In "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E10TheWhyOfFry The Why of Fry]]" Fry is in the middle of trying to pick up Nibblers monstrously heavy dark matter droppings when Officer Smitty orders him to pick it up. When Fry proves he clearly can't the officer still gives him a ticket.
* In ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'' this ends up being the cause of Mark and Amber's breakup, as she constantly [[TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife holds his refusal to disclose his secret identity against him]] and acts like it's some kind of betrayal despite how obviously he's torn up about it. When he's hospitalized after losing a fight to a villain (with his cover story being that he was hit by a bus), she shows little concern for his well-being when he eventually gets out and instead complains about not being told which hospital he was at. [[spoiler: She does get better about it though, as she breaks into tears when seeing him get beaten to a pulp by his ArchnemesisDad and takes him back.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Twilight of the Gods" this is Franchise/{{Batman}}'s reaction to Franchise/{{Superman}}'s initial refusal to help Darkseid due to [[ContinuityNod what he did to him]] in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''.
** Batman's non-stop trash talking of Superman after the fact later comes back to bite him in the ass.
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': In the GrandFinale, [[ItMakesSenseInContext Bobby joins a meat grading team]]. He is initially regarded as a prodigy. At the team's state qualifying tournament, he answers almost every question and single-handedly pulls his school into second place, thus qualifying for the state championship. He answers the last question of the tournament incorrectly, thus dropping his team into fourth place, which is still high enough to qualify for state. His teammates and coach immediately turn on him, declaring him an incompetent choke artist who will drag the school into the gutter. When a rival team hijacks their bus, Bobby is the only member of the team at the finals and performs flawlessly, but when the rest of the team shows up they shove Bobby aside and tell him to sit out before he ruins their chances. It isn't until Bobby asserts himself and keeps the rest of the team from making a tourney-losing mistake that they accept him again.
** A major snag with Hank and Bobby's relationship is that Hank often has trouble sympathizing with Bobby over any of his problems. It's played a bit more realistically than in many other examples on this page; Hank isn't necessarily being cruel or a {{Jerkass}} (at least not intentionally), but he and Bobby are so fundamentally different that Hank just can't understand it when Bobby is upset. When Bobby hates being a towel-boy for the football team, he hates it because he's yelled at by the coach, laughed at and mocked by the players, and stuck doing thankless, disgusting grunt work while everyone celebrates. Hank is happy he's at least "part of a team" and convinced the hard work will make him a better person, and is utterly baffled when Bobby quits. When Bobby is being stressed out to the point of having a panic-attack from studying for a Quiz Bowl, Hank finds him stressing over such a trivial thing ridiculous, stating that Bobby's life is so easy there's nothing for him to feel stressed about.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': This is the root of the estrangement between Toph Bei Fong and her daughter, Lin. Toph's HandsOffParenting combined with her refusal to speak of Lin's father, who Lin wanted to know, drove them apart. The nail in the coffin was when Toph destroyed a police report to protect her other daughter Suyin from jail time then sent her away from Republic City, when Lin was the one that arrested her and earned a nasty scar in the process of doing so.
* One episode of ''Literature/TheLittles'' had a one-off character whose father (an implied [[EducationMama "education parent"]]) had threatened to send her to a private school where her "friends (wouldn't) be such a bad influence on" her if she didn't get straight A's on her report card. After seeing one B and one C on her report card, she decides to [[TheRunaway run away]] from home, fearing that her father would give her this trope.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has Lord Tirek, who is obviously this due to his [[ItsAllAboutMe greed]]. As he is overly focused on stealing all the magic from Equestria he insists that everyone surrender to him, ignoring any consequences that his enormous ego has caused.
** A minor example comes from the episode "Secrets and Pies", where Rainbow Dash laments over deceiving Pinkie Pie regarding her pies, but Twilight and Applejack don't offer their condolences on the matter, as Twilight points out she's not only lied to Pinkie, but the others as well. This prompts Applejack to ask Rainbow if she's lied about anything else, and the latter sheepishly admits she couldn't think of anything off the top of her head.
** Pretty much anyone who doesn't believe in ThePowerOfFriendship gets zero sympathy from the heroes. They were willing to let ''everything'' Discord, Starlight Glimmer, and Queen Chrysalis did, [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope which was a lot]], [[EasilyForgiven slide without consequence]] if they gave friendship a try (though Chrysalis [[RedemptionRejection soundly rebuked the offer]]), while they gave Cozy Glow permanent incarceration in [[DraggedOffToHell Tartarus]] without a second thought and later laughed about [[TakenForGranite sealing her in stone for all eternity]] after she effectively said "screw friendship" when her evil schemes were foiled.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/SagwaTheChineseSiameseCat'' Baba Miao repeatedly makes Dongwa write scrolls without giving him ''any'' sort of break. Later, when he catches Sagwa doing Dongwa's work, he accuses Dongwa of making his sister do his work (despite the fact that Sagwa could have refused, but being generous, didn't) and worse, accuses Sagwa of "helping [Dongwa] decieve me", and then grounds them both. He never apologizes to Sagwa and only apologizes to Dongwa after a nightmare about his childhood in which, ironically enough, he was treated the same way.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', the girls challenge the boys to a sled race. They needed Cartman's weight for their sled to even move, and when he gets wrongly thrown in jail, the girls start gloating and saying that they'll never win without him. And even after [[OnceAnEpisode Kenny gets killed by a pile of bricks]], the AlphaBitch in charge continues to mock them and call them names.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E4DyingForPieImitationKrabs Dying For Pie]]", this is initially quite averted with Squidward, who is quite guilt-ridden to learn that [=SpongeBob=] will supposedly die at sunset because of him and willingly joins [=SpongeBob=] in a variety of ridiculous (and even dangerous) activities to make his last hours as meaningful as possible. [[AllForNothing However, when [=SpongeBob=] does not explode as expected, instead of being happy, Squidward is angry because his time was wasted]].
** "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS7E11OneCoarseMealGaryInLove One Coarse Meal]]" has Plankton being driven insane by Mr. Krabs's relentless torment by dressing up as a whale (Plankton's biggest fear). Karen shows absolutely no sympathy whatsoever to Plankton's situation, instead acting like her usual DeadpanSnarker self. Averted with [=SpongeBob=] [[SympathyForTheDevil who actually does feel sorry for Plankton]] and calls out his boss for taking this ''way'' too far.
* This pretty much happens almost every time in ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' as well as in ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'' novels. Whenever there's an engine who laments about their unpleasant situations to others, they will always make belittling and smug insults to them about it. However, this mistreatment on the engine depends either if the engine [[LaserGuidedKarma brought it upon themselves due to their misbehavior]] or that the unsympathetic engine is being rude for their own sake, in which case something will likely lead them to get ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine shortly afterwards.
** Henry often got this problem following his increasing illness in the first season. Other engines usually ignoring his moaning until he starts effecting their own work schedule (Thomas in particular chewed out Henry for making him late, and only saw his ill bout as an opportunity to pull his train in his place). Only his crew and Sir Topham Hatt shown concern for his health and took measures to repair him, leading him to get the last laugh on some of the apathetic engines from before when he starts to outclass them. Subverted in later seasons after his sickness reappears, where the others are usually shown to be very concerned about him.
*** Reused and reasoned in "What's The Matter With Henry?". When Henry moans he is sick again, Thomas and Percy mock him and even give him their own workload as a prank. Emily is concerned about Henry however, and upon investigating, discovers he has broken down. When Thomas and Percy realize this, [[JerkassRealization they are remorseful]], explaining they thought it was just [[{{Hypochondria}} Henry being his usual self]]. The engines learning to treat Henry's wavering health more seriously is among the few Aesops that have stuck since then.
*** There are times where he'll dish this to the other engines. In "Something in the Air", after Thomas explains that his lateness was due to some fish falling into his boiler and the high tide was damaging the rails, Henry brushes off this reason and rudely tells him to attach the other vans to his Flying Kipper. He does apologize to him for this in the end, however.
** In the earlier episodes, Thomas himself often displays this treatment towards other engines who were late for his passenger trains. Along with the example with Henry as mentioned above, he shows this to Henry and James in "Better Late Than Never", dismissing their reasons for their lateness due to the viaduct being in repairs and believes it's just an excuse for laziness. Then in "Woolly Bear", he berates Percy for being late and brushes off his excuse being the hay.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': Courtney gets no sympathy from her fellow contestants after Harold tampers with the votes to get her kicked off. Her teammates simply wave goodbye while brushing off the fact that most of them didn't vote for her, and the ex-players straight up don't care and tell her to get over it. The kindest thing she gets is Lindsay telling her that she'd have been voted off legitimately in a different challenge for being bossy and rude. Little wonder she TookALevelInJerkass in later seasons...
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!!Examples of No Sympathy as a character trait:

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* Klaus of ''Manga/FromEroicaWithLove'' has no mercy for his alphabets...not even with regard to basic human needs like eating and sleeping. ''He'' can stay awake for two days straight, so he expects his team to do the same. Because Klaus' life is entirely based around his job, he's equally ruthless with their private lives, thinking nothing of exiling them to Alaska without taking into account the small matter that many of them have ''families...''
* It's hard to tell if Kalos of ''Anime/KaleidoStar'' is a fairly cruel example of No Sympathy as a character trait or if he just exemplifies the ethos of Kaleido Stage. Sora gets injured and becomes nervous about performing stunts? Tough luck - he'll fire her if she doesn't get over it, fast. Her confidence and self-belief are knocked after deeing the devious nature of the International Circus Festival? [[spoiler:He terminates her contract]]. Harsh.
* Count D of ''Manga/PetShopOfHorrors'' probably had a certain amount of BlueAndOrangeMorality as an excuse, but in certain stories he comes across as having the No Sympathy trait instead. T-chan is a straighter example, having no time for weakness.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'': Arseface got his distinctive looks by trying to kill himself by putting a shotgun under his chin; he was trying to emulate [[Music/{{Nirvana}} Kurt Cobain]]'s suicide. His cold-hearted father's first words to him in the hospital? "Shoulda put it in your mouth, you dumb little fuck."
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[[folder:Comic Srips]]
* Hobbes from ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' never has any sympathy to Calvin when he gets in trouble despite being his best friend, but unlike many other examples on his page, it's actually justified. Hobbes is with Calvin whenever he's planning to do something that will (very obviously) blow up in his face, and will advise against it. After Calvin inevitably ignores his advice, Hobbes will switch gears and instigate the situation either by trolling Calvin or making the problem worse (often capped by Calvin trying to pin the blame on Hobbes when he's busted by his parents). When Calvin's suffering from something that ''isn't'' his own fault, Hobbes will be genuinely helpful and sympathetic.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* Socrates of ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' is this, threatening Hobbes with a PieInTheFace if he doesn't stop crying (in a real TearJerker moment), though he ''does'' have his [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold golden-hearted]] moments.
* [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/119688/1/you-obey/the-interrogation You Obey]] firmly establishes Queen Chrysalis as this mixed with YouHaveFailedMe.
* {{Downplayed}} in ''Fanfic/MissingMiraculousLadybug''. Due to an akuma [[LaserGuidedAmnesia erasing Ladybug's memories of being Marinette]], she no longer reacts to others the way that she used to when she remembered her personal connections to them. For instance, she recognizes Alya as the Ladyblogger, who was previously akumatized into Lady [=WiFi=], and a member of that one class that seems to frequently attract akumas... but ''not'' as the girl Marinette considers to be one of her best friends. This causes her to act much more distant and curtly professional with her, much to her surprise.
* In ''Fanfic/ThisBites'', the only response of the Five Elder Stars after [[spoiler:listening to the Straw Hats' horrific ordeal against Lily Carnation]] are how they'd lost a potential anti-pirate weapon, which didn't even take out one of the biggest thorns in their side. Even Sengoku, a man who is NecessarilyEvil while trying [[NeverMyFault to downplay or outright reject the "Evil" part]], is grateful the thing is gone.
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* As an EstablishingCharacterMoment, ''[[Series/{{Blackadder}} Blackadder Back and Forth]]'' reveals that Blackadder once told his friends he was dying of kidney failure, so Darling gave him one, only for Blackadder to reveal it was a joke and the kidney being thrown away. Everyone else at the table bursts into laughter at the recollection.
* ''Criminal'' (an English-language remake of Nine Queens) has Creator/JohnCReilly's con-artist character Richard established as much less sympathetic than Creator/DiegoLuna's con-artist character Rodrigo.
-->'''Richard:''' I don't feel anything for them, okay, they're marks. And some of them are dumber than fuckin' pets.
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* ''Literature/TheCatWhoSeries'': In book #12 (''The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal''), Dennis Hough's wife feels none whatsoever when she learns her husband (whom she was planning on divorcing) just killed himself out of grief over her rejecting him, and tells the police officer on the phone that she wants nothing to do with him, alive or dead.
* Part of what makes [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]] a JerkWithAHeartOfGold is that when people don't heed his instructions and warnings he is not particularly sympathetic to their resultant plights, ''especially'' if they are [[SkewedPriorities compromising his factory's operations as a result]]. In the original novel, Mrs. Gloop is horrified to find him ''laughing hysterically'' after her son Augustus gets sent who-knows-where via the factory's pipe system. Still, if it's possible to save these fools (who are just plain jerks most of the time), he will put a rescue plan into action.
* ''Literature/TheMillenniumTrilogy'': Lisbeth Salander subscribes to the "PayEvilUntoEvil" school of BlackAndWhiteMorality and is such a {{Determinator}} that other characters ''call'' her the Franchise/{{Terminator}}. As such, she's unsympathetic towards those who don't take matters into their own hands. In the first book, after the discovery that [[spoiler:Harriet Vanger faked her own death to escape a life of sexual abuse from her SerialKiller father and brother, which left the latter free to keep killing women]], Mikael is very sympathetic, while Lisbeth is totally contemptuous, since she would simply have dealt with her abusers herself. (And has.) Though she gets slightly better over the course of the books, Lisbeth generally remains intolerant of any weakness, and it takes ''a lot'' to get her to pity someone.
* Most women in Robert Jordan's ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' are afflicted with this. Main hero Rand al'Thor is their typical ButtMonkey: He has a never-healing wound that causes him pain every waking moment, he is in danger of [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity going mad from the tainted magic he uses]] (and in fact may have already done so), and, oh yeah, he has the responsibility of {{Saving the World}}. But most women around him for some reason feel that the most sensible way to help him save the world is by making his life as miserable as possible, and doing such things as criticizing him for being rude while trying to stop everyone else from being idiots and prepare for the last battle already. Being [[WouldntHitAGirl a total pussy]], Rand just accepts it. Possibly because practically all his male friends and allies give him shit if he does something like, for example, not kowtowing immediately to Aes Sedai demands for the very good reason that they are a bunch of manipulative [[JerkAss Jerkasses]] in the midst of their own civil war, so it isn't as if he should know which ones advice to follow even were he so inclined.
** Rand's friend Mat Cauthon gets it even worse: his distress at being ''repeatedly [[RapeAsComedy raped at knifepoint]]'' is laughed off by the female characters as his just desserts because he can be a bit of a [[TheCasanova womanizer]]. One who would never dream of forcing himself on a woman and who never continues to pursue one who gives him a firm "no." [[WhatTheHellHero Deserves rape.]] Apparently.
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* ''Series/BreakingBad'': Ed Galbraith the vacuum repairman and Saul's "disappearer", who takes his job of giving criminals new untraceable identities seriously and purely as business, and doesn't show the slightest affection to any of his clients, because as he sees it, someone looking for a new untraceable life probably did some ''really'' bad things in their current life to require it. Walt offers him ten-thousand dollars to stay with him for two hours because he's going stir-crazy isolated in his cabin, but Ed will only stay for one. After Jesse bails on his first disappearing before it even starts, Ed demands ''double'' the normal fee when Jesse needs it again in ''Film/ElCamino'' because he never got the money for the first time, which he still counts, and isn't at all swayed to lower the price by Jesse's torturous sob story.
* Frances from ''Series/TheLibrarians2007'' lives and breathes this trope. Particularly towards Dawn. [[spoiler: Whom she was responsible for crippling.]]
* The Cat in ''Series/RedDwarf'', as a result of his belief that "ItsAllAboutMe", is largely incapable of giving a shit about anyone but himself, no matter what state they're in. In "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIConfidenceAndParanoia Confidence and Paranoia]]", Lister comes down with a mysterious illness, and the Cat not only won't interrupt his lunch to pick Lister off the floor, but eats the gifts he got him and steals his pillow and blanket when he wants a nap.
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* Medoute of ''VideoGame/BlazeUnion'' is usually a nice enough person... until she gets into pushy mentor mode. She believes very firmly that there is only one Right Way to handle life--and that is to be detached and to deal with things rationally, stifling any emotional or knee-jerk reactions in order to be objective. This stems from her own coping mechanism of avoidance. Sometimes her input is helpful to the other characters, but other times it's markedly less so. Oh, so your subconscious is trying to block out the fact that your best friend since toddlerhood needs a MercyKill, since you might not be able to handle the idea just yet? Stop crying and man up to the truth! What are you, a baby?! In the A route, where Medoute's own objectivity is compromised by FantasticRacism, this devolves into [[KickTheDog puppy soccer]] against Gulcasa--who is grieving, sick, and can only lean on someone who's taking advantage of his inability to think straight. Medoute, unwilling to empathize with or condone his emotional distress, chooses to interpret his behavioral changes as JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope [[spoiler:and tries to kill him]]. PoorCommunicationKills applies heavily.
* ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar 2'': When reviving a fallen hero, heroes have quotes usually along the lines of QuitYourWhining due to the grimdark setting. And then there's the orks...
--> Just stick da bone back in!\\
There's a fight and ye're ''sleepin'!?'' What kinda ork iz ya?\\
Get up! Ye're an embarrassment to da whole ork species!
* In ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', there is a side quest in which the player character, who is pretending to be a Sith student, is captured by an insane former Sith teacher who puts them through a sadistic test of Sith philosophy with pain and eventually death as the price for wrong answers. This being [[DarkSide Sith philosophy]], the right answer can always be found by choosing the most evil and cruel option, which the teacher will then rationalise as somehow being the most rational one in terms of maintaining your power. Hence, when one question is something like "You have a loyal and capable subordinate who hasn't failed you once before, but now does due to bad luck, what do you do?" the right answer is in the lines of "[[YouHaveFailedMe Kill them right away]], because we mustn't allow any weakness." In general, the Sith philosophy works like this elsewhere in the game and at least some parts of the Expanded Universe as well.
** Paradoxically and by contrast, Darth Bane in his own novels that tie in with the game and whose writer was involved in writing them bears no grudge over a failed attempt to ''assassinate him'', [[InevitableMutualBetrayal since that's what Sith are supposed to do]].
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* The "heroes" of ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'' display a lot of this. Thief is out solely to enrich himself at the expense of every other living creature in the cosmos, Red Mage is delusional narcissist, and Black Mage is so evil the only avatar that was fit to represent just how evil he was, was a mirror image of himself. Only [[TokenGoodTeammate Fighter]] shows any sympathy for others out of the four, and even then, he's usually too stupid to register any need for it. A running joke is for one of them to reference some atrocity (usually one of the several times they destroyed Onrac) that they (usually Black Mage) had caused, only for one of them (usually Black Mage) to either say that the victims deserved it, or that it wasn't really their fault through some ridiculous contrivance.
* Being something of a {{Jerkass}}, it's no surprise CK of ''Webcomic/CommanderKitty'' would display this on occasion, [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2011/06/26/bedside-manners/ particularly when he sees Nin Wah sprawled out on a hospital bed with an oxygen mask]] and immediately starts complaining about how ''his'' day went.
* Collin Sri'Vastra and Fox Maharassa of ''Webcomic/FriendlyHostility'' are an odd case of both sides of No Sympathy. Fox was the sweeter natured partner, but was empathically useless, needing to have a person's problems spelled out for him before he realized there ''was'' a problem. After being made aware of a situation, he was quick to offer support - but if no-one bothered to explain things to him, he was cheerfully oblivious and steamrolllered their feelings. Collin, on the other hand, was more sensitive, but also crueler - appealing to his emotions was a lost cause if you weren't his nearest and dearest, and occasionally he [[ManipulativeBastard actively targeted]] someone's weak spot to demoralize them, as he did to Kitty in the "Pirates!" storyline. The endgame of the story is brought about when these two sides of the same problem clash - [[spoiler: Collin becomes unhappy, and Fox moves from being the one person he opens up to, to just about the only person he refuses to voice his problems to, preferring to bitch to his friend, Arath, and flirt with newcomer Leon rather than do something sensible like ''talk to Fox''. Fox carries on oblivious, until even ''he'' can't deny something has gone badly wrong.]]
* In ''Webcomic/WeakHero'', Gray makes it clear that he holds no sympathy for those who follow a bully's orders out of fear of being hurt. His lack of sympathy is elaborated on in a flashback; not only did he show sympathy towards the boy who'd end up responsible for hospitalising Gray's best friend, but his classmates all stood back and let it happen out of fear that they'd be targeted next. From then on, he reasons that sympathy is highly unnecessary.
-->'''Gray:''' Delusional idiots who think their situation will improve, if they just follow the orders of their oppressors without even trying to fight back. I haven't a drop of pity for such idiots.
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* Carl Casagrande in ''WesternAnimation/TheCasagrandes'' is only eight years old, yet he is the only Casagrande who [[KidsAreCruel doesn't care when he sees Bobby upset]], [[UngratefulBastard even though Bobby himself is nothing but nice to him]]. Two examples that stand out:
** "[[Recap/TheLoudHouseS3E9TheMadScientistMissedConnection Missed Connection]]": The Casagrandes find Bobby bitterly weeping over the prospect of his LongDistanceRelationship with Lori failing. But instead of trying to comfort him, Carl, who's trying to give himself a clear shot at Lori, tries to convince Bobby that he and Lori should split up. Later, Carl even sabotages one of Bobby's attempts to help his relationship with Lori in an effort to make Lori like him.
** "[[Recap/TheCasagrandesS1E6StressTestHowToTrainYourCarl Stress Test]]": After four failed attempts to pass his AchievementTestOfDestiny, Bobby returns to his apartment with tears running down his face. While everyone else tries to comfort Bobby, Carl, who only wants to eat some celebratory cake, tries to slap Bobby silly with a newspaper, which earns him a ShoeSlap courtesy of Abuela Rosa.
* Max Goof on ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-Zags]] this in regard to his best friend, PJ, the [[NiceGuy kind]] but [[AbusiveParents maltreated son of Pete]]. In the pilot episode, he explicitly shows him sympathy and goes out of his way to give him a chance to be happy and have fun. Later episodes have a mix of that, seeming obliviousness to his feelings--that is, not noticing why (or even ''that'') PJ might be upset at being treated inconsiderately, nervous about a plan (especially one involving his dad), or annoyed that Max complains about his [[GoodParents (much nicer)]] [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents dad]] in front of him--and actively accusing him of being a bad friend based on circumstantial evidence when PJ is either obviously contrite or actively denying the betrayal. When the last one shows up, Goofy tries to get him to be more sympathetic.
** It's fairly obvious that Max is [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff the Ferris Bueller to PJ's Cameron Frye]], and we're supposed to sympathize with Max more simply because he's way more fun and cool.
* Zig-zagged in ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow''. This was Creator/JohnKricfalusi's original concept for Ren, and he is portrayed this way in some episodes, but ExecutiveMeddling on [[Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} the network's]] part forced him to tone Ren down into a more empathetic character in other episodes (especially in the infamous [[Recap/RenandStimpy2x07SonofStimpy Son of Stimpy]] episode). Ironically, after Kricfalusi was removed from the production, this mandate was removed, with Games Animation regularly playing Ren's callous antipathy for Stimpy at ''full throttle''. Often to the point that even Kricfalusi himself thought their dynamic had gotten too mean spirited.
* Even more so is Homer Simpson in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' who routinely abuses his son Bart almost every season with very little signs of changing for the better.
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* Many employees are treated this way when calling in sick for work. Places of business usually require a doctor's note even when the employee in question may either be too sick to visit a doctor on their own or not have an illness severe enough to warrant a doctor's visit. Justified, however, in that without a doctor's note anyone could feign sickness in order to skip work.
* Donald Knuth discusses a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX TeX]] error in ''[=The TeXbook=]'':
-->'''Interwoven alignment preambles are not allowed.'''\\
If you have been so devious as to get this message, you will understand it, and you will deserve no sympathy.
:: :It should be noted that this can be interpreted to mean all of "to get this error, you're probably intentionally trying to get [=TeX=] to crash or output impossible objects", "further description would require several pages, and because the error is so arcane, we'll just save space by not describing it", and "figuring out how to get this error, and why it is an error, is a sign of your mastery of [=TeX=]".
* The ''F*ck My Life'' website is part catharsis, part concrete proof of No Sympathy. There are two buttons beneath each post - "I agree, your life sucks" and "You deserved it." Sometimes even the softest hearted reader has to admit they kind of did it to themselves, but even if the original poster was mugged, attacked, humiliated, heartbroken or injured, there will always be a few ''hundred'' people who click the "You Deserved It" button. (though there's [[ForumSpeak G.I.F.T]] to blame too) Especially if the poster has let slip that they are an AcceptableTarget in some way. Though this has been averted in more recent times where stories where the poster couldn't have possibly deserved it have the "You Deserved It" button replaced with "That Could Have Happened To Me". There are also a handful of inversions where people who were clearly at fault still have several people voting "Your Life Sucks" (on top of the fact that a sufficient amount of users had to agree with that statement for the post to make it onto the site to begin with).
* In RealLife, telling someone suffering from depression to "buck up" or "get over it already" are examples of this trope. In practice it's just as absurd as telling them to "just get over" a broken arm, although provided you've taken the right steps early on the broken arm will usually sort itself out in time, while the depression will probably be something they have to deal with their entire lives.
** It's especially bad for people who are constantly told [[AppealToWorseProblems their life could be worse]], as if that's supposed to make them feel better. If you're truly depressed, you are physiologically incapable of seeing any hope in your situation.
* Although disability fraud (pretending to have a debilitating condition so you can get government benefits without working) is real, some cases of alleged disability fraud may result from this trope. Consider the following: Bob has degenerative disc disease (a back condition, look it up [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerative_disc_disease here]] if you like), and is unable to work because of it. Alice, his wife, sees that he has plenty of time on his hands and expects him to do some home improvement. In addition, Junior, their son, wants Bob to play with him, running races, playing ball, among other physical games. Bob knows that, if he spends so much as a few hours doing what his wife and son expect of him, he will be laid up for weeks. (The legal standard for disability is that if you cannot work for eight hours a day, forty hours a week, on a regular and continuing basis, you are entitled to benefits). Nevertheless, his family keeps nagging, and he finally gives in. Unfortunately, a local journalist doing an exposé on disability fraud picks that exact moment to stop by Bob's house, with a camera. The ensuing scandal is compounded by the fact that people will only see Bob apparently working hard or having a good time, and will not see the weeks of misery that follow, even aside from the popular misconception that to be disabled you have to be completely unable to do anything at all, not just on a regular and continuing basis as defined above.
* People with chronic illness often get this trope from people who don't see them very often. Chronic illness sufferers often have days where they're better than normal and can get a lot done, and deliberately use these days to power through chores they couldn't do otherwise; alternatively, knowing a big event is coming up, many people with a chronic illness will lie low for days before hand to save up energy to go to it. People who don't have to deal with the illness often get exasperated that the friend or colleague who used to do so much no longer participates so much and it's common for people with chronic illnesses to be accused of faking it because "you were fine yesterday".
* Talk to people who have had careers in law enforcement, and you will often get shades of this. Years of seeing people commit horrendous acts then play the victim diminishes their ability to empathize with certain types of people.
* Unfortunately, this has been known to happen in schools. In one of many hypothetical examples, a student who takes great care to follow the rules ([[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight within reason]]) studies for a test, but (supposedly)[[note]]In some cases, it may be perceived this way, but it may or may not actually be the case.[[/note]] misbehaves and is sent to the corner / detention / etc. while the test is going on. By the time the student gets out, the test is over, but the student is not allowed to take a makeup test for whatever reason, and in some cases faces having to repeat the grade the student was in, all because the student somehow "should have thought about that before" he / she "misbehaved". This is especially bad if the student was punished unfairly, especially if the teacher is manipulative or otherwise abusive. It could even include another student causing it all to happen, and either getting away with it, or getting them both punished[[note]]In some cases, the student may have to face the "life / the world isn't fair" explanation.[[/note]].
* This can also be a trait of [[EducationMama "education parents"]] who expect their sons or daughters to have high grades for whatever reason.
* A particularly horrifying example: When Timothy [=McVeigh=], the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing Oklahoma City bomber]], learned that [[WouldHurtAChild 19 little kids died in his bombing]], he chillingly replied "I have no sympathy for them" and described them as [[WeHaveReserves "Collateral damage"]]. Needless to say, the jury quickly returned a guilty verdict and recommended the death penalty.
* People with sensory processing issues can undergo meltdowns, where their systems go haywire, unable to properly assimilate the information it's been given - a loud, sudden noise, a repetitive droning sound, a crowded party with flashing lights, disruptions to their routine, etc. Meltdowns activate the same parts of the brain as physical pain. They are often met with NoSympathy by people who think they're being dramatic, faking it for attention, or throwing a tantrum to get what they want.
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--> '''Lila:''' "Oh, boo hoo, Adrien's mommy left him in a big house with lots of money and a bedroom with an arcade and a skate ramp built in! Wah wah, poor baby."

* The world of the Creator/MarquisDeSade's infamous novel ''Justine'' (and indeed, his other works) is one where human decency doesn't seem to even exist. The high point of this tale is Justine recounting how at the age of twelve, she asked for shelter in a man's house and was told that she could only stay if she would have sex with him. Rather than acting like any normal person would in this situation, the person she's telling this to ''screams at her'' for being a "parasite" who wanted something for nothing. And it does not get better for Justine.

* In ''Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw'', Jennifer claims the reason for her being a SuperiorSuccessor to Bruce is that she had it harder than he did and had more experience controlling her anger [[TheUnfairSex from mild inconveniences like catcalling and "mansplaining"]]. Meanwhile, Bruce himself had [[ParentalNeglect a neglectful father]], [[PowerIncontinence risked losing control from any increase in blood pressure or heart rate]], and had his life turned upside-down by his powers to the point he was DrivenToSuicide.

* In ''Film/TheTimeTravelersWife'' movie, Clare chews Henry out for disappearing for about two weeks. Almost the entire plot is how Henry time travels involuntarily and frequently, and she is aware of this. And he has to go apologize afterwards.

Compare UngratefulBastard. If a character is deliberately stated to be ''incapable'' of sympathizing with the feelings or viewpoints of others, that's LackOfEmpathy. For when nobody seems to find women enacting random violence towards men for non-existent reasons at all unusual see UnprovokedPervertPayback. RashomonStyle shows frequently have contrasting examples of this: someone who got hurt will usually report callousness and lack of sympathy from the other characters, while each one describes him or herself as the one who acted most effectively and compassionately to the injury. For a fitting StockPhrase regarding this trope, it's QuitYourWhining. For the audience version, see AngstDissonance. If this sort of attitude is aimed at characters who hold a grievance, then it's NoSympathyForGrudgeholders. For characters rejecting sympathy instead of being given the lack of it, it's DontYouDarePityMe.