History Main / TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong

May overlap with SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers or SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids if the majority judges a character for their cynical/idealistic beliefs. Can easily overlap with FourthWallMyopia, if the complaint was perfectly reasonable in-universe, but seems unreasonable from the audience's perspective. It can also overlap with MadeOutToBeAJerkass when the complainer is complaining about another jerkass. Compare TallPoppySyndrome and ObsessivelyNormal. Contrast with JerkassHasAPoint, TheDissenterIsAlwaysRight, IgnoredExpert, OnlySaneMan, and ProperlyParanoid where the complainer is right. When this trope is inverted, the Complainer becomes a BlitheSpirit. Also contrast PeerPressureMakesYouEvil, where the Aesop is that you ''shouldn't'' go along with the group. See also ForgottenBirthday, where the person who bottles up his complaints about his birthday being forgotten is often found to be in the wrong in the end; also see UnacceptableTargets, wherein you are always wrong if you do not like the UnacceptableTarget.

* ''Series/WhoWantsToBeASuperhero'' kinda flip-flopped on this sort of thing. Both US seasons had a point where the entire team was given new costumes designed by Creator/StanLee himself -- except that one contestant got a really dorky-looking suit. In the first season, said contestant was eliminated because he wouldn't admit to Stan that he didn't like the costume; in the second, the contestant was eliminated because he ''did'' tell Stan that he didn't like it.

* ''Series/ICarly'': iMeet Fred. Freddie is bashed with a tennis racquet because he said Fred [[OpinionMyopia wasn't that funny]]. And then tossed out of a treehouse. Among other things. This is HarsherInHindsight when you consider that Fred is considered ''highly'' divisive out-of-universe.

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* It were likely so in all militaries, but all I know about is a relative's reports of life in the French Foreign Legion and the British Army c.1940: in both, any complaint was dealt-with by punishment designed to be noticeably more painful than the original cause for complaint, in the Legion with intense and prolonged physical exercise, by the Brits a stern talking-to with the promise of worse to come if the complaint persisted. [[/folder]]

* ''Anime/RingingBell'': Deconstructed quite a bit. Even though Chirin does not complain much around the sheep, he leaves the group after the death of his mother, one of the reasons being that he does not want to be like the other sheep. Instead, he turns into a demonic ram in an attempt to become a wolf. He then tries to kill ''all'' the sheep after becoming a demonic ram. He doesn't do it, causing him to be thrown out permanently and left to go die somewhere. Even though this story is meant to be a cautionary tale warning people to not be the complainer, ValuesDissonance sets in because Japan believes that the group trumps the individual, while the West believes that the individual trumps the group.

* {{Subverted}} in ''Literature/TheHobbit.'' When the men of Lake-town see fire burning on the mountain most of them think that Thorin and the other dwarves have retaken it and lit their forges, with only Bard suggesting that, you know, ''maybe it's the dragon that's been living there for almost two hundred years?'' Everyone tells him to stop being so gloomy but he raises the alarm anyway, so it's thanks to him that the town even survived long enough for him to kill Smaug.

* This trope seemed to become a running gag in ''Anime/SonicX'', a recurring situation would come in which Knuckles would object to a team mission plan, usually leading the gang to use peer pressure and goad his ego and bravery until he gave in (just for ComedicSociopathy humor, even normally sweet characters like [[{{Moe}} Cream]] or unrelated background ones would join in bullying the poor guy). This was only worsened by the fact that a lot of times [[StrawmanHasAPoint he turned out to be right to doubt their plans]] (like the idea of gambling a Chaos Emerald in a baseball game that Eggman surely wouldn't cheat in) yet oddly Knuckles rarely ever called them out on it nor did [[BecauseISaidSo they really give much of an argument against it]] outside that [[MilesGloriosus he was a gutless hack]] for not agreeing to go along with their plan. Also led to MoralDissonance since the gang also spent a lot of time explaining to Knuckles how he shouldn't constantly fall for Eggman manipulating or tricking him into working for him.

May overlap with SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers or SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids if the majority judges a character for their cynical/idealistic beliefs. Can easily overlap with FourthWallMyopia, if the complaint was perfectly reasonable in-universe, but seems unreasonable from the audience's perspective. It can also overlap with MadeOutToBeAJerkass when the complainer is complaining about another jerkass. Compare TallPoppySyndrome and ObsessivelyNormal. Contrast with JerkassHasAPoint, IgnoredExpert, OnlySaneMan, and ProperlyParanoid where the complainer is right. When this trope is inverted, the Complainer becomes a BlitheSpirit. Also contrast PeerPressureMakesYouEvil, where the Aesop is that you ''shouldn't'' go along with the group. See also ForgottenBirthday, where the person who bottles up his complaints about his birthday being forgotten is often found to be in the wrong in the end; also see UnacceptableTargets, wherein you are always wrong if you do not like the UnacceptableTarget.

May overlap with SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers or SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids if the majority judges a character for their cynical/idealistic beliefs. Can easily overlap with FourthWallMyopia, if the complaint was perfectly reasonable in-universe, but seems unreasonable from the audience's perspective. It can also overlap with MadeOutToBeAJerkass when the complainer is complaining about another jerkass. Compare TallPoppySyndrome and ObsessivelyNormal. Contrast with IgnoredExpert, OnlySaneMan, and ProperlyParanoid where the sole complainer is right. When this trope is inverted, the Complainer becomes a BlitheSpirit. Also contrast PeerPressureMakesYouEvil, where the Aesop is that you ''shouldn't'' go along with the group. See also ForgottenBirthday, where the person who bottles up his complaints about his birthday being forgotten is often found to be in the wrong in the end; also see UnacceptableTargets, wherein you are always wrong if you do not like the UnacceptableTarget.

* ''Series/TheWubbulousWorldOfDrSeuss'': This was the A-plot for many of the episodes of the second season. Usually, the Cat in the Hat and the Little Cats will engage in some kind of fun activity, but Terrence [=McBird=] will refuse to try it at first. He is then pressured by them to like it. Towards the end of the episode, he finally does and finds out it wasn't as bad as he thought it would be.

* About 30% of ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' comics follow the formula of "customer has negative opinion about Hasbro, politics, a movie, something nerdy/store staff arrive on the scene to correct negative and therefore wrong opinion/customer would rather not change mind/store staff are frustrated at customer for his audacity to continue holding a negative opinion."

* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' has a episode where Stella is adamant that the deceased is a murder victim; while everyone else, including ME Sid Hammerback, is convinced the woman had committed suicide. The detective spends a good bit of time miffed at them and trying to prove her point. Then, an off-hand comment the ER doctor who had examined the victim makes to Mac leads to proof that Stella was right all along.

* ''Series/{{Psych}}'' Detective Lassiter is consistently portrayed as dismissive of Shawn and Gus despite their proven track record as valuable assets to the police department.

* Finnish band Eppu Normaali has a song called "Rääväsuita ei haluta Suomeen" ("We don't want hooligans in Finland"). The song is mostly about the conflict between right-left-left-right-whatnot factions in politics during 70's, but the main message of the song can be sang through times.

* Creator/HenrikIbsen was generally not fond of this trope (perhaps because, as a critic of Victorian society, he ended up being shouted down a lot) and used pretty much every one of his plays as a celebration of individualism and subverting The Complainer Is Always Wrong. Especially ''Theatre/AnEnemyOfThePeople'' is particularly harsh in criticizing such form of thinking, despite the complainer ending up something of a DoomedMoralVictor.

* Marco in ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' can either be this trope played straight or subverted. His cynical side is often useful for finding traps and not having the group rush in recklessly. One the other hand, despite being the best tactician of the team, he often ends up wrong simply because luck and the demands of the plot conspire to make him look stupid. So most of the time, he's just a wiseass, but a smart one.

* The titular Milieu in the ''Literature/GalacticMilieu'' trilogy believes this, whether the author agrees with them is unknown.
* An illustration for one of the ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' books is a big poster with such inspirational phrases as "Be like everyone else!" and "Individuality causes pain!".

** The third CompilationMovie's take on these events have Ohgi fall under this when [[spoiler: he wants to give Zero a chance to explain himself and tell the truth, and objects to Schneizel's men preparing to shoot until they actually have their answers.]]

* Lampshaded in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' -- during her trial, [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20170425.html Galatea argues she's being unfairly shoved into this sort of role.]]

May overlap with SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers or SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids if the majority judges a character for their cynical/idealistic beliefs. It can also overlap with MadeOutToBeAJerkass when the complainer is complaining about another jerkass. Compare TallPoppySyndrome and ObsessivelyNormal. Contrast with IgnoredExpert, OnlySaneMan, and ProperlyParanoid where the sole complainer is right. When this trope is inverted, the Complainer becomes a BlitheSpirit. Also contrast PeerPressureMakesYouEvil, where the Aesop is that you ''shouldn't'' go along with the group. See also ForgottenBirthday, where the person who bottles up his complaints about his birthday being forgotten is often found to be in the wrong in the end; also see UnacceptableTargets, wherein you are always wrong if you do not like the UnacceptableTarget.

* ''St. Therese and the Roses'' is a fictionalized account, marketed to children, of the life of St. Therese of Lisieux. Her sister Léonie, the middle child, is depicted as brooding and melancholic while the other girls are cheerful and outgoing. If the father suggests an outing, the other girls respond gleefully, but Léonie isn't in the mood, it is portrayed as her not being as good as her sisters. She promises her dying mother she would "try to be better," which meant trying to be more cheerful like her sisters, and later in life won't even join the same strict convent the others do, because she feels she isn't as good as they. Even HarsherInHindsight: the real Leonie was [[http://cloisters.tripod.com/leonieleague/id8.html learning disabled and possibly autistic]]. She's even the last to get her cause for sainthood turned in to the Vatican.

* Ren in Volume 8 of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' points out that their group is made up of teenagers who lack the knowledge, experience, and equipment to deal with the current problem. He is promptly shut down by Yang and later Nora.

* Subverted in ''Manga/NaruTaru''. The Complainer is a girl named Miyoko Shitou who is a part of a group of girls, led by [[AlphaBitch Aki Honda]], that bully the local LonelyRichKid, therefore she's a complainer who's actually ''right''. [[spoiler:And she's the only one of the group who survives said LonelyRichKid's reprisal when she gets her Shadow Dragon.]]

This is a surprisingly common [[AnAesop theme]] in children's shows, especially in TheEighties when MoralGuardians promoted it as the primary "pro-social" moral. The essence, as summed up in [[http://www.newsfromme.com/?s=the+complainer+is+always+wrong this article]] by Creator/MarkEvanier, who wrote for cartoons of the time, is this: ''the group is always right; [[TropeNamer the complainer is always wrong]]''. Thus, you should always agree with your friends and go along with whatever they want to do without argument -- unless it has to do with {{drugs|AreBad}}, of course.[[note]]And even then, they'd go through [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer some pretty gnarly mental gymnastics]] to get around this particular instance of self-contradiction.[[/note]] In extreme cases, ThePowerOfFriendship can even be contingent on [[PeerPressureMakesYouEvil making the holdout agree with the majority]]. The problems with mindless conformity encapsulated in the JumpOffABridgeRebuttal never come up, since, you know, everyone jumping off a bridge together is ''social'' and LonersAreFreaks.