History ProtagonistCenteredMorality / WesternAnimation

* WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}: The narrative tends to portray the mishaps Anne and the Plantars cause in various episodes as PlayedForLaughs and BlackComedy purposes, while Sasha and Marcy's mistakes are taken seriously and both have to endure punishment and hardships for their huge mistakes and betrayals. But Anne, Sprig, Polly, and Hop Pop have often made similar mistakes, and their choices made can range from being questionable to CrossesTheLineTwice. For example; Anne convinces others to lie and steal even if it's for good reasons, once sells Sprig to marry Maddie for pizza dough, and later forces him to date Ivy while he's still engaged to Maddie. Sprig tried to send Hop-Pop's girlfriend Sylvia to her doom just to spend time with Hop Pop, and later devices a scheme to be together with his girlfriend Ivy during a super important mission to avoid 5 minutes of separation. Polly often gets into fights with people, and will even beats up babies. Hop Pop has implied to have killed someone in his past, and has even commented manslaughter in one episode. They even summoned a eldrich chicken god that can breath fire and turn people to stone, just to cover up a simple mistake. If not for Maddie having an antidote to unpetrify the turned stone townsfolk, they probably would've been cold stone forever. But nobody cares that they were almost as good as dead, as long as Anne and the Plantars learned their lesson. Cause again; it's all PlayedForLaughs. Thought, episodes like "The Plantars Last Stand" and "After the Rain" do play realistic outcomes for their (namely Hop Pop's) actions in later episodes, but their other mistakes often don't have any lasting consequences and is rarely brought up again.

* WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}: The narrative tends to portray the mishaps Anne and the Plantars cause in various episodes as PlayedForLaughs and BlackComedy purposes, while Sasha and Marcy's mistakes are taken seriously and both have to endure punishment and hardships for their huge mistakes and betrayals. But Anne, Sprig, Polly, and Hop Pop have often made similar mistakes, and their choices made can range from being questionable to CrossesTheLineTwice. For example; Anne convinces others to lie and steal even if it's for good reasons, once sells Sprig to marry Maddie for pizza dough, and later forces him to date Ivy while he's still engaged to Maddie. Sprig tried to send Hop-Pop's girlfriend Sylvia to her doom just to spend time with Hop Pop. Polly often gets into fights with people, and will even beats up babies. Hop Pop has implied to have killed someone in his past, and has even commented manslaughter in one episode. They even summoned a eldrich chicken god that can breath fire and turn people to stone, just to cover up a simple mistake. If not for Maddie having an antidote to unpetrify the turned stone townsfolk, they probably would've been cold stone forever. But nobody cares that they were almost as good as dead, as long as Anne and the Plantars learned their lesson. Cause again; it's all PlayedForLaughs.

** The majority of the time Peter is handed AnAesop, Lois is designated as the StraightMan and supposed to be considered of higher moral ground, despite the fact that, in later episodes at least, [[{{Jerkass}} Lois only has a vague margin of scruples over Peter]], and many of her lectures or arguments with him are full of hypocritical or self serving behaviour (perhaps the most exaggerative examples include when she ''raped'' him to prove how misguided his vow of abstinence was, or when she chastised him for saying he hates his kids, despite once outright advising Meg to commit suicide out of apathy for her).

* Deconstructed in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse''. [[BigBad Emperor Belos]] feels all of his actions are justified ''because'' he thinks he's the hero of the story. In his eyes, everything from turning himself into a horrible monster by consuming Palismen to [[spoiler:[[SiblingMurder stabbing his own brother Caleb to death]]]] is justified by the idea that [[spoiler:he's saving humanity from the evils of witchcraft... by ''[[FinalSolution orchestrating a continental genocide]]'']]. Even [[spoiler:cloning Caleb only to abuse those clones into perfect obedience and kill them when they stop being useful is described by Belos as an attempt to "save" Caleb by making a better version of him.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', Padme is treated as a honorable moral center of the Senate, but during the Clovis arc she aids a plot to bomb the Banking Clan (a neutral planet in the Clone Wars) and steal all their financial records in the ensuing chaos. When they find out, all Padme gets is three days in a cell before being bailed, and everyone is appalled by what the financial records reveal then that Padme good as carried out a terror attack on peaceful territory. A few episodes later, Dooku attacking the Banking Clan is treated as an immoral breach of treaty, and grounds for a Republic assault.

* Invoked in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS14E13CoonVsCoonAndFriends Coon vs. Coon and Friends]]".

* The finale to ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' has become infamous for this:
** In particular, the last few minutes shows [[spoiler:Earth and Mewni fused together. Despite all the humans running and screaming in fear from the monsters, all the destroyed stuff, how hard it will be for everyone to adapt to the new world, the mostly unresolved racism between monsters and regular Mewmans, the fact that people who have been ruled by a monarchy for their entire lives now having to coexist with countless different world governments, and that Star and Marco will never see their friends who didn't live on Mewni again, this is still treated as a good thing and a happy ending because it means Star and Marco get to stay together]]. In other words, who cares how many billions of people have had their lives uprooted as long as our leads get to stay together?