Times where characters are left questioning Dude, Where's My Respect? in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- Avengers of the Multi-verse: In Night of the Beyond, the Box Ghost is revealed to be the only evil ghost not recruited by the Cabal, much to his indignation and anger. This is why he chooses to warn the Avengers about the Cabal stealing the Infi-Map in order to access Legerdomain, to get his revenge vicariously through them.
- This trope is downplayed with Ragna in Bonds Beyond the Boundary. While he hardly gained any respect from his peers back in his world, he gains a lot of admiration from the members of Fairy Tail. Even when Tager and other characters from the BlazBlue world come in, they're all far more courteous and respectful with him than usual.
- The Chaotic Masters:
- Jade really wishes she and her family could get recognition for all their heroics, which makes it more hurtful for her when Raven persists in not believing her about her adventures, and why she's so happy when the Big Hero 6 do believe her. She also turns out to have a lot of resentment towards Uncle for refusing to teach her magic despite her natural talent, which turns to outright anger when she finds out that he never even considered her as a student because he views her impulsiveness as proof that she's not worthy.
- Wuya is enraged to learn that an almanac of ancient evils doesn't even mention her, even as it includes the likes of Morgana le Fey and Chrysalis.
- Alexander from Cruel to Be Kind probably counts. After liberating Earth from the Espheni in the Falling Skies universe, Alexander was returned with bickering distrust from the natives over his technological field advantage, and including Tom Mason (acting as advisor for the American delegation) who has a hardon for democracy and was quite critical over how Alexander was running things on Terra Prime.
- In Danny Phantom Vs American Dragon Jake Long: The Novelization, Jake Long starts to grow jealous of Danny Phantom because Danny actually gets some respect for all of his heroism, while Jake gets none despite performing similar heroic feats.
- Halloween Unspectacular: Watchmeh: Bill Cipher complains about this in "Angry Fandom Shelter". After he initiated Weirdmageddon, he thought the fandom was going to respect and/or fear him for how well he planned it out...only for the fandom to instead start fighting about who enabled him to start Weirdmageddon, completely ignoring him in the process. He wasn't happy, to say the least."All over Tumblr, people were blaming literally everybody but me! Sixer, Pine Tree, Shootin' Star, Blendin, Gideon — heck, I saw one guy trying to say it was Manly Dan. Manly Dan! That guy couldn't plan a fishing trip, never mind a total galactic apocalypse!"
- Just an Unorthodox Thief: Zenigata can't catch a break from his fellow cops in the Fuyuki police department, who keep harassing him over his inability to nab Lupin.
- In Mythos Effect, the Volus are furious that after basically creating the galactic economy and managing the Turians' own, the Turians take them for granted and force them to use their own money and troops in the war against the NEF (which they see absolutely no point in), and the Asari and the Salarians snub them in their petition for a Council seat.
- The Night Unfurls:
- Alicia and Claudia dislike Kyril for not showing respect towards the Goddess Reborn, as well as their authority as part of the Seven Shields. They are not alone in this regard, though - the fact that Kyril saw no difference between classes draws the ire of the nobility. Not that he cares, though.
- In the remastered version, Vault is described as "a man who demanded respect from all that encountered him, friend or foe". Naturally, he is not happy to see Kyril disregarding him from the first day they met, ranging from his blatant statement that he will lose in a match between the two, to his dismissal about the critical state of one of his men.
- Uncertainty Principle has Rhen return to Veldarah after her epic journey to become a teacher in Shadwood Academy, only to find that no-one was even aware of the perils she just saved the world from, and she spent her early period of her Ahriman-free life as an unpopular assistant teacher whom the students and her superior think very little of.
- Death Note: The Abridged Series (kpts4tv):
- Mikami.Mikami: ...and I was class president. I like to think I was tough but fair and respected by all...
Bullies: Nerd! He's wearing glasses, kill him! Burn the Witch!
Mikami: Of course people showed respect differently back then... - Also when Matsuda solves the Kira case and everyone ignores him.
- Mikami.
- In the AU Those Who Stand for Nothing Fall for Anything, Prime Minister Light Yagami wants to know this. Also L doesn't get the respect that he deserves (i.e. absolute best at his job with a 100% win record/never lost a case) because he's openly gay.
- In An 'April Fool's' Errand, one of the reasons Persephone hates attending Olympus's springtime celebrations is because she has no say in the decorum or how the celebration is managed despite spring being within her domain.
- Varric gets a bit of this in I Must Be Going, an installment of Skyhold Academy Yearbook in which he has rewritten The Princess Bride to be about his friends and colleagues at the eponymous school. He's reading the story out loud, but only ever gets so far before someone interrupts with a question or criticism, and as the story continues it's clear that he's getting more and more annoyed. He finally reaches a (very mild) breaking point, at which he asks the others, "Do you have any idea how hard this was to write?" Since the whole point of the story is to comfort one particular student, whose parents are absent for an anxiety-inducing reason, the others realize they're being a little too hard on the resident author and back down.
- What If Krillin Became a Saiyan?: When Goku, Krillin, and Piccolo work together in order to take down Raditz, the Saiyan spends his dying moments acknowledging that Krillin earned his respect. Goku then focuses on encouraging Krillin, leaving Piccolo feeling slighted and like he's not getting credit for how his plan and his Special Beam Cannon saved the day.
- Shattered Reflection: Robin and Rose work their tails off to win battles for the Shepherds and do everything they possibly can to keep as many people alive as possible. Nonetheless, due to their Plegian origins, none of the Shepherds save Chrom ever offer them the approval they've earned, with the rest either being blatant and unironic racists, or just showing utter indifference to their efforts and the troubles they're going through. They have, for the most part, just gotten used to it.
- Most of the Shepherds do eventually get better about it.
- In Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race, ProtoMan calls Mega out on this in episode 11; despite the heroic things he's done, he gets no respect and little trust for it.
- In Miraculous Ladybug Salt Fics, it is common to see Marinette's classmates ignoring her (or worse) yet taking all the stuff she does for them (clothes, babysitting, parties, etcetera) for granted.
- The Karma of Lies:
- When Lila sees that her classmates have brought all of the clothes that Marinette made for them to her Fake Charity drive, she notes to herself that none of them really appreciate how hard she worked. After all, as Adrien tells her when Marinette sees and gets upset, she can always make more, right?
- Played With when Chat Noir's reputation takes a nosedive. Adrien complains that he's not getting the respect he deserves after everything he did for Paris, only for Plagg to point out that he cared more about flirting with Ladybug and joking around than actually defending people, relying upon his partner to carry the day. He also skipped the Final Battle with Hawkmoth, and crashed a live interview to try and force his views upon others, enabling the public to see him harassing Ladybug, dismissing the impact of Hawkmoth's terrorizing the city, and accidentally revealing that he didn't care about the damage done or the lives lost because he treated Ladybug's Miraculous Cure as a magical Reset Button.
- The Paragon: Adrien feels dejected that Paris repeatedly overshadows his work as Chat Noir in favor of Ladybug, so much so that he chucks the Black Cat Miraculous out his window in frustration. It's little wonder he got akumatized into the Paragon.
- In Scarlet Lady, Chat Noir has to effectively fight most of the akumas solo because Scarlet Lady prefers not to get involved, only showing up so she can use Lucky Charm to 'save the day'. Unfortunately for him, she also controls the narrative: since he's often exhausted or on the verge of de-transforming after battle, she's able to give interviews and play to the media, painting him as her 'reckless and destructive' sidekick.
- In know what i've made by the marks on my hands, Izuku's reward for restoring Eraserhead's Quirk is being arrested and interrogated.
- Mastermind: Strategist for Hire: After being forced to work for Overhaul, Izuku is treated like a regular Mook rather than a genius strategist, given assignments that anybody could complete rather than work geared towards his specialties — the very same skills he was nabbed for in the first place.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Alicorn: Rainbow gets plenty of respect from regular ponies for being Crown Princess, but captain Tristar of the royal guard treats her with nothing but disdain. Justified because Tristar is a colossal Jerkass who hates Rainbow for being a bastard child of an earth pony (the fact that her other parent is Princess Celestis only made Tristar more resentful). While Rainbow could throw her weight around and get Celestia to reprimand Tristar, she doesn't want anyone to fight her battles for her.
- This is Deconstructed in Circus Days, where after being disregarded for so long, Spike finally hits his breaking point, after Twilight and her friends outright forget about him while they're at the circus, despite noticing they have one extra ticket, and harshly chews them out for how much they take him for granted and ignore him.
- Averted in Dash's New Mom, when Rainbow Dash needs to get past a couple guards, she simply uses her status as Element of Loyalty to strong-arm them into letting her through.
- The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: In the sequel Picking Up the Pieces, it's revealed that Sweet Surprise feels that every single Guard has been laughing at her and questioning her competence since the skimmer incident (when the new Bearers managed to escape Canterlot, leading her on a wild chase in the process) in the first story and has been working overtime to try and prove herself ever since... on top of that, she fears that others, once they found out about her husband and wife, would treat them with the same lack of respect as they're treating Sweet, and doesn't want that to happen.
- Sophistication and Betrayal:
- Mostly Averted — aside from an incident where some guards fail to recognize Twilight and Rarity, it's made clear that both Ponyville and Equestria fully recognize and appreciate what the Bearers of Harmony have done for them.
- Inverted by Cashmere, who dismisses Rarity's achievements as meaningless and undeserving of the respect she's garnered, out of jealousy over the other mare's fame.
- Referenced throughout The Twilight Child. Rainbow Dash and Rarity get the worst of it though. Rainbow Dash gets snubbed by Spitfire a day after saving her and the rest of the Wonderbolts from Changelings. Rainbow Dash takes this one pretty hard, though Spitfire's lecture on how she's "not a team player" doesn't help. Rarity, meanwhile, buys a magazine after Shining Armor and Cadence's wedding to see what it says about her work... and it doesn't mention her in the slightest. Just to add insult to injury, this magazine was focused entirely on the royal wedding and everything involved in it.
- Ultra Fast Pony: In spite of saving the world multiple times, Twilight Sparkle is one of the most-hated ponies in Ponyville. Even her friends frequently snub her. Of course, when Twilight isn't saving the world, she's usually being an insufferable know-it-all — that probably has something to do with it.
- Eroninja: Played for Laughs with Konohamaru. While he's a chuunin, rank is the only thing he holds over Naruto, who is still a genin.
- What You Knead: Kakashi has loyally served Konoha since he was five years old, despite how his father was shamed and Driven to Suicide for prioritizing keeping his teammates alive over a mission. This doesn't stop fellow ANBU Sparrow from immediately blaming him for Itachi slaughtering the Uchiha Clan, calling him 'Friend-Killer Kakashi'. Hearing this causes him to realize how easily his father's story could repeat with him, driving him to retire from ANBU and active duty in order to avoid burning himself out.
- Long Time No See: After several years, Misato managed to pull enough strings to get the pilots a retirement pay. Asuka is still pissed at Nerv taking so long before acknowledging their efforts had saved the world.Shinji: "If Misato hadn't helped us out by getting us a nice 'fund for extraordinary employees' from NERV, I guess I'd still be working as dishwasher in some cheap restaurant."
Asuka: "So that's where that money suddenly came from. I was just angry that it took them so long to honor my work for them properly." - Discussing the matter with Mana in Neon Metathesis Evangelion, Asuka realizes that she doesn't really receive the respect she is owed as multiple saviour of the world. Everybody seems to just take it for granted that the pilots will enter painful life-and-death battles for their sake. Nobody thanks them, nobody really respects them for it. They still have to be normal school kids living in a normal apartment. Following that realization, Asuka begins to aggressively demand respect.
- In the Porn with Plot fic Science: Saving Humanity Without Regard to Morals or Ethics has Ritsuko, Misato and as well as the Bridge Bunnies Maya, Aoba, and Hyuga realize that despite saving them from two of the Angels, everyone has taken Shinji's actions for granted, forgetting that he's an eighteen-year-old who initially didn't want to pilot will probably still be hesitant without some positive reinforcement. This, along with the titular science in the form of a retrovirus meant to bolster humanity's declining fertility by using the pilots as test subjects, culminates in Shinji having intimate relations with Misato, Rei, an alternate Mari Makinami, Maya and Asuka, with the implications of more to come.
- In The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World, the four attempt to have an audience with an important wizard. They are rebuffed:Majordomo: Only the bravest and most puissant individuals are worthy of his attention. You must prove your worth to him by doing something heroic.
John: Of course we do, just bein' chosen by the gods to fight the Black Tower's not enough to prove anythin', is it.
- Initially Played Straight in The Dragon Cub
when Kevan Lannister is disappointed and angry at Jaime for making Gerion Lord of Castermere instead of him despite all of his hard work, but immediately Subverted when Jaime grants Kevan a more important position as the Lord of the newly created seat of Lannisport and admiral of the Lannister fleet. - The King Nobody Wanted: Ser Tytos Clegane is not a famous knight, despite a series of awe-inspiring exploits in the War of the Ninepenny Kings and his tourney duels with Barristan Selmy. He's graceful about it for the most part, but that doesn't mean that he's happy about it.Ser Tytos: I performed a deed of renown, and, well, I expected a measure of renown. It didn't come. Partially because others did greater deeds of renown, and partially because...I am not well-loved by my lord, and he seeks to bury me and my name. And yes, Sir Alyn, it is tiring to do great deeds, and know they will coming to nothing because the greatest deeds in my life have been done, and that is what they came too. And yet still I try because to do otherwise is not to be a man, much less a knight.
- A Gem, a Human, and a Baby: Out of a sense of attachment to Blue Diamond and scientific curiosity of witnessing the birth of the first Gem/human hybrid, Pearl wanted to be there when Steven was born. However, Blue Diamond would not let her there on the ground of it "being no place for a Pearl." Additionally, while Greg regularly expresses appreciation for the many tasks that Pearl does, Blue Diamond does not comment unless she did something wrong or not well enough.
- In Daughter of Fire and Steel, Kara is a highly accomplished Kryptonian warrior, having successfully defeated and subdued Doomsday and also serving as General Zod's sub-commander. Despite this, the Black Zero crew doesn't give her any respect due to her flawed genetics.
- In Imperfect Metamorphosis, Kotohime gets nothing but flak for running Gensokyo's first police force. The youkai hate her because the GPF largely protects humans from them and tries to involve themselves in youkai affairs, when they've always handled things amongst themselves, and the humans hate her because they also protect youkai from humans and hire some youkai. Even Yukari, who enabled her to start the GPF in the first place, treats Kotohime as a disposable lackey.
