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* Arseface from ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'' got his distinctive looks by trying to kill himself by putting a shotgun under his chin; he was trying to emulate Creator/KurtCobain's suicide. His father's first words to him in the hospital? "Shoulda put it in your mouth, you dumb little fuck."

* In ''Film/TheOtherGuys'', Detectives [[Creator/MarkWahlberg Hoitz]] and [[Creator/WillFerrell 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:
-->'''Hoitz:''' Listen, we all know you're a scumbag, and nobody cares about you.

--> '''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/TheOtherGuys'', Detectives [[Creator/MarkWahlberg Hoitz]] and [[Creator/WillFerrell Gamble]] try to talk some sense into a suicidal jumper [[ItMakesSenseInContext thorugh an ice cream truck microphone]], and Hoitz has this to say to the guy:

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': In "Arthur's Big Hit", Arthur gets punched by Binky after the latter gets gloated by his {{Jerkass}} friends into doing so. When Arthur's parents hear about this, their response is to tell him that it's justified 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]].

* 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/Arthur'': In "Arthur's Big Hit", Arthur gets punched by Binky after getting gloated by his {{Jerkass}} friends into doing so. When Arthur's parents hear about this, they tell him, "That's how D.W. felt when you punched her." Even worse, [[{{Hypocrite}} they told him earlier that "two wrongs don't make a right" when he punched D.W. after thoughtlessly destroying his model plane, yet they believe that it was right for]] ''[[{{Hypocrite}} him]]'' [[to be punched as a "lesson"]].

* Any villain who says "YouHaveFailedMe" likely has this... and any villain who suffers those failures to live can be argued to have a bit of [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation empathy]] (or at least pragmatism at the effects of killing off his own troops, or perhaps [[EvenEvilHasStandards standards]]). Darth Vader has done this at least once and nearly twice on-screen.

* ''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.
* ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'': Shinji is very empathic, 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 make nothing to fix them.

* 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.

* Clap-Trap 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. NoSympathy is the rule, rather than the exception, in Borderlands, which runs on ComedicSociopathy, but everyone steps up their game at least one more notch to crap on Clap-Trap.

** 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 "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:

** Willow herself gets this in the episode "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.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13156407/5/Heated-Storm-Yields-a-Wild-Horse-s-Heart Heated Storm Yields a Wild Horse's Heart]]'', 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.

** Other fics seem to imply it's more of a matter of not wholly comprehending or understanding the situation. In the fic ''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.

* ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', a case where it is PlayedForLaughs happens after defeating [[ArcVillain Kyougai]] , 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, but when you call him names and try to attack him, explainations 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]].

* ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', a case where it is PlayedForLaughs happens after defeating [[ArcVillain Kyougai]] , 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 her sister, but when you call him names and tries to attack him, explainations like that aren't going through.

A character who displays this trope can be and often is turned into TheScrappy, as audiences hate them for being nasty and spiteful pricks to people who've usually suffered enough to become TheWoobie. This is the central conceit of the UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist - the audience enjoys seeing them suffer because they usually deserve it.

* In one issue 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.

* ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'': After defeating [[ArcVillain Kyougai]] , 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 her sister, but when you call him names and tries to attack him, explainations like that aren't going through.

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': In the early seasons, Penny was constantly harassed by [[CasanovaWannabe Howard]]. When she finally stands up for herself, he goes into a depression that Leonard, Raj and Sheldon all blame Penny for, not even considering how she feels about it. Leonard himself even tells Penny that she owes him for going to get her television back from her ex-boyfriend, Kurt. This is ignoring the fact that Leonard would not have gone to this trouble had Penny not been attractive and, if Howard was a muscular jock, Leonard would have taken Penny's side.

* ''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.

* In the lifetime Movie ''Film/HomeByChristmas'', the main character is evicted from her apartment immediately after being mugged, robbed of her savings and hospitalized.