History Main / NoSympathy

* 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 TheLibby locked her in a supply closet, despite the fact that she was covered in purple paint and had apparently been through something.

* Ash occasionally gets this in ''[[Anime/{{Ptitlei015gc004kw4}} Pokémon]]'', especially when Misty was traveling with him. Most egregious example: "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.

** Hey they're learning the meaning of feelings....well at least [[CharacterDevelopment some of them]]...[[MyGodWhatHaveIdone sort]] [[OrIsIt of]]

* c) Throw a hissy fit at their failure to secure the correct colour of gift, rant and rave at their clumsiness in breaking it, then toss them out of the house [[strike:when]] before they set off the sprinklers?

This is an odd trope; it's often seen in comedies, but many viewers' reactions are basically DudeNotFunny. If the viewer is expected to side with character giving the hero such a hard time, the audience may feel that the writers are [[ViewersAreMorons insulting their intelligence (and morality)]]. Tolerance varies from "I get annoyed if it's overused" to "[[PetPeeveTrope I will hunt down the writers and eat them if I see this trope one more time]]." It's not always comedic though, and can be a real sucker punch if the protagonist undergoes tremendous hardship only to have his friends [[EtTuBrute berate him]].

* KingOfTheHill: In the GrandFinale, Bobby joins a meat grading team. (Don't ask) 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.

This is an odd trope; it's often seen in comedies, but many viewers' reactions are basically DudeNotFunny. If the viewer is expected to side with character giving the hero such a hard time, the audience may feel that the writers are [[ViewersAreMorons insulting their intelligence (and morality)]]. Tolerance varies from "I get annoyed if it's overused" to "[[PetPeeveTrope I will hunt down the writers and eat them if I see this trope one more time]]." It's not always comedic though, and can be a real sucker punch if the protagonist undergoes tremendous hardship only to have his friends [[EtTuBrute berate him]].

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* Hoo, man, ''{{Shitsurakuen}}''. The ENTIRE manga is based around ''insanely'' abusive boys with equally insane superiority complexes. It's actually a bit difficult to read, simply because ''everyone'' is a CompleteMonster, and a good amount are [[KarmaHoudini Karma Houdinis]].

** [[spoiler:Turned by her brainwashed older sister Takane, no less, who actually does care about her--somewhat, anyway. Takane [[IGotBetter gets better]], 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''.

* Ash occasionally gets this in ''[[Anime/{{Ptitlei015gc004kw4}} Pokémon]]'', especially when Misty was traveling with him. Most egregious example: "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.
* ''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.

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* 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.

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** subverted in 97 Seconds when house asks for sympathy after electrocuting himself and being hospitalized.... even though he electrocuted himself deliberately as part of self indulgent experiment involving {{near death experiences}}

* The use of this trope is often detrimental to the characters of ''{{NCIS}}'' (making them occasionally come off as unlikeable sociopaths) because of the way the show shifts between comedy and drama, the tone determining whether their will be sympathy or not and the audience [[YourMileageMayVary disagreeing with the writers' sense of humor]].

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* Most women in Robert Jordan's ''{{Wheel of Time}}'' 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 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.

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* Collin Sri'Vastra and Fox Maharassa of ''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 realised 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 crueller - 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 demoralise 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.]]

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**** Leaving the kid in that "safety" thing tied is a bad idea, but [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DisproportionateRetribution even still...]]

** subverted in 97 Seconds when house asks for sympathy after electrocuting himself and being hospitalized.... even though he electrocuted himself deliberately as part of self indulgent experiment involving near {{death experiences}}

* ''{{Naruto}}'' in some NaruHina fanfictions his friends and some adult 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.

* Count D of ''PetShopOfHorrors'' probably had a certain amount of BlueAndOrange morality 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.

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."

* c) Throw a hissy fit at their failure to secure the correct color of gift, rant and rave at their clumsiness in breaking it, then toss them out of the house [[strike:when]] before they set off the sprinklers?

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 colour.]] 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."

* c) Throw a hissy fit at their failure to secure the correct colour of gift, rant and rave at their clumsiness in breaking it, then toss them out of the house [[strike:when]] before they set off the sprinklers?

* PlayedForDrama in 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."]]

* 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 {{FAKE}}, Rei does it to Kira in ''MARS,'' and the whole [[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.

** 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 afterall. See UnprovokedPervertPayback.

* [[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 behaviour when he can't actually reveal the real reasons for it in his own defence.

* The use of this trope is often detrimental to the characters of NCIS (making them occasionally come off as unlikeable sociopaths) because of the way the show shifts between comedy and drama, the tone determining whether their will be sympathy or not and the audience [[YourMileageMayVary disagreeing with the writers' sense of humour]].

* Timmy Turner in the recent episode "Bad Heir Day". In this episode, he is babysitting Poof for Cosmo and Wanda who have gone off dancing. Poof bounces out of the stroller and Timmy spends the entire episode looking for Poof who is with Crocker. Timmy risks his life trying to find his godbrother including nearly getting blown up in a dynamite factory and being attacked by rabid alligators. Poof finally appears in Timmy's home (Crocker had voluntarily given him up) without a scratch. Timmy appears scratched, burned, dirty, and clothes ripped, clearly being a BadlyBatteredBabysitter. Timmy apologizes to Cosmo and Wanda and describes all he went through trying to find his baby godbrother. Wanda, uncharacteristically, gives him no sympathy and then poofs back him into the ''same'' alligator pit that he was at earlier. Keep in mind that Timmy is a human being, a mortal, while Poof is a fairy, essentially immortal. This means Timmy was in much more danger than Poof ever was, so... yeah.

-> '''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.

* Ron Weasley of HarryPotter. As Hermione excellently puts it, he has the emotional range of a teaspoon.

** However, it was heart-warmingly averted at the end of season 3 when Buffy gets an award for being class protector or something similar.
*** Er, What?

** Though to her credit, she gets better in the third film now that she knows he's Spider-Man. This time around, it's Peter's overinflated ego that creates friction between them in their relationship.

* In FateStayNight's Heaven's Feel route, Sakura is accusing Rin of [[spoiler:living happily while Sakura herself.. um, [[AbusiveParents was]] [[RapeAsBackstory not]]. [[BodyHorror At all]].]] [[{{Tsundere}} Rin]] acknowledges that Sakura had it rough, but still shows her No Sympathy. Because Sakura has essentially turned into [[spoiler:a SuperPoweredEvilSide WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge]], this bites Rin in the ass in a certain bad ending. '''[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Very. Hard.]]'''