Don't You Dare Pity Me! in Visual Novels.
- In Corpse Party D2: Fatal Operation, this applies to Naomi, as well as the Big Bad Machi's main motivation for "living again". Why? Seiko's mother pitied her, even when Machi was killing her.
- Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc:
- During Hifumi Yamada's Free Time Events, he mentions how he believes that some girls are only "nice to the fat nerdy kid to feel good about themselves," and he mentions how he angrily drove them away. Naegi doesn't think this is a very nice thing to do, making it something of a deconstruction of this trope by showing how people who reject acts of kindness come across to others.
- Toko Fukawa's serial killer alternate personality, Genocider Syo, warns (or threatens, take your pick) Makoto not to pity her, as having dissociative identity disorder has its advantages, namely the fact that she can remember things that Toko can't, and vice versa.
- In Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!, when Yuri and Sayori are just getting to know each other, Sayori tries really hard to make Yuri happy as with everyone else — by reading a rather difficult book with her — and this makes Yuri think Sayori's not treating her like a normal person but going out of her way to help the socially unskilled weirdo. It escalates when Yuri's reaction (together with Sayori's own feelings of inadequacy) makes Sayori try even harder the next day, which of course feels even worse to Yuri, leading to a brief enraged "I don't want your pity!" reaction, although Yuri immediately feels awful about it and knows she's not communicating what she's actually thinking and feeling.
- During the summer, the protagonist of Double Homework tries to hide what he’s actually been doing while he’s been out of school. Johanna helped by feeding all his friends a story that he was training somewhere. However, Dennis figures out the truth and ends up leaking it over the internet.
- A flashback in Fate/stay night reveals that Shinji's Start of Darkness was at least partially due to this. He was originally content with being a descendant of a magus family, even though he lacked magic circuits, until Sakura apologized for taking his place as heir and showed pity for displacing him. Any other action would have been fine, but pity enraged him.
- In Heart of the Woods, Tara acts this way during the ending in which Morgan sacrifices herself to defeat Evelyn. Despite clearly being in pain, she feels uncomfortable with Madison's pity, and tries to act as though everything is fine, which only serves to widen the rift between her and Madison.
- Kakouton in Juuzaengi reacts in this way every time the heroine shows concern towards him.
- Katawa Shoujo:
- Surprisingly, Hanako Ikezawa. She is well aware that her being The Woobie is why Hisao is initially interested in getting closer to her. She doesn't like the idea of him and Lilly seeing her as a child that needs protecting. For the most part, she doesn't say anything about it until her bad ending, where she explodes in rage when Hisao tries to coddle her and throws him out of her room while screaming at him for being her white knight.
- Similarly, Emi Ibarazaki has a similar distaste for "white knights", but is much more outspoken about it. The key to getting her good ending is to have Hisao realise and then successfully explain that he's not with her out of pity, but out of genuine love.Emi: So you want to fix me, Hisao? Wanna swoop in on your white charger and save the day? Stop the nightmares, the phantom limb pains? Restore what's lost? Well, you can't. Nobody can. Nobody will.
- Hisao himself feels this way in Lilly's route, becoming annoyed when she tries to mother him.
- Lilly also feels this way on a lesser scale. She laughs when people quickly apologize over using expressions that include "see" in them and later says, in all seriousness, that she doesn't like being pitied. She's also aware that she has been overprotective of Hanako in the past and tries to remedy this — not listening to her advice will get you the Neutral or the Bad Ending.Lilly: If you'd pitied us, I would have been quite offended.
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney:
- Edgeworth to Phoenix in case 3-5, after he faints because of an earthquake and the defendant escapes from him; echoing the same reaction he had in the 4th case of the first game, where his aversion to earthquakes is explained. Fortunately, his adopted sister Franziska is around to literally whip some sense into him.
- Phoenix himself says it to Edgeworth in 2-4 when the latter offers to have the police look for Maya, who's been kidnapped.
- Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane:
- Eris towards Tyrion near the end of case 5. He pities her because, as a demon, she envies humanity's ability to choose between good and evil while she can only be evil, and is never even satisfied or fulfilled by the evil actions she performs. Eris responds by trying to kill him, for the first time in the entire game.
- In case 5, Tyrion tells Beatrice that he can still try to dispute the Blood Contract she has, and free her soul. She tells him that it would be next to impossible, as the document is airtight and has little room for interpretation.Tyrion: ...I'm sorry.Beatrice: Don't be. You defeated me. I won't suffer your pity.
