History Main / NoSympathy

* 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 enraged Batista's demand to return. Losing to Cena in three straight pay-per-views already made Batista angry but Bret's lack of concern towards his injuries was the [[VillainousBreakdown last straw]] for him to follow through with [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quitting the WWE]].

* 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 enraged Batista's demand to return. Losing to Cena in three straight pay-per-views already made Batista angry but Bret's lack of concern towards his injuries was the [[VillainousBreakdown last straw]] for him to follow through with [[ScrewThisImQuttaHere quitting the WWE]].

* Wrestling/ScottSteiner has no "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfvGECYB6Gs sympy]]" 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]].[[/folder]]

* ''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.

* 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/{{MARS}}'', and the whole [[Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub Host Club]] 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.

* In ''Anime/SoraWoKakeruShoujo'', 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.

--->'''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]''

* 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 the episode "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.

* ''Series/TheXFiles'': In "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.

** In "[[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.

* The ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "[[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.
** "Dying For Pie": 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. However, when Spongebob does not explode as expected, instead of being happy, Squidward is ''angry because his time was wasted.''

* ''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, 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 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, 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]].

* 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 almost always 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.

** A minor example comes from the episode "Secrets and Pies", where Rainbow Dash laments over decieving 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.

* 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/{{Arthur}}'': In "[[Recap/ArthurS4E1DWsLibraryCardArthursBigHit 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 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]].

* ''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, 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]].

* 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/MARS}}'', and the whole [[Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub Host Club]] 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.

* ''Manga/AnatoliaStory'' 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.

* [[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.

* 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.

* Over the course of ''FanFic/MyImmortal'', [[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.

* ''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.
* 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.
* 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.

** 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):

* ''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!''

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': In "[[Recap/ArthurS4E1DWsLibraryCardArthursBigHit 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/{{Bumblebee}}'', Sally often acts this way towards her daughter Charlie, berating her for being "mopey" over her father’s death and siding against her when she gets in trouble by the government through no fault of her own.

* ''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.
** 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 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.

* 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 {{c|omicallyMissingthePoint}}. And even after [[OnceAnEpisode Kenny gets killed by a pile of bricks]], the AlphaBitch in charge continues to mock them and call them names.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS12E15HerpeTheLoveSore 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.

* Every ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' "Buttons and Mindy" short ends this way. After [[BadlyBatteredBabysitter practically killing himself]] to save the life of [[TooDumbToLive the world's most annoying little girl]], Buttons' reward was a verbal dressing-down for some minor fault incurred along the way, plus the loss of a treat. [[DudeNotFunny It didn't work as comedy]] and it was often the only thing resembling a comedy beat in the short. 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.

* 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 [[Music/{{Nirvana}} Kurt Cobain]]'s suicide. His father's first words to him in the hospital? "Shoulda put it in your mouth, you dumb little fuck."