Protagonist-Centered Morality as seen in Fan Works.
- Child of the Storm discusses and deconstructs this with the Avengers.
- On the one hand, they are repeatedly noted to be a group of heroes who have rules of engagement while on duty, to capture, not kill. On the other, it is also repeatedly noted and demonstrated that they are capable of being incredibly ruthless, tend to accept no authority but their own, and verge on Revenge Before Reason. Loki, Reformed, but Not Tamed, is the go-to man for interrogation, and at one points methodically murders the entire Red Room - who, granted, made HYDRA look soft and cuddly.
- The narrative points out how this led to a good proportion of the crises of the first two books, directly and indirectly, starting with Lucius Malfoy's HYDRA, which formed because Malfoy (among others) was afraid of Thor/James Potter taking revenge, was far deadlier than its predecessors and, allied with Gravemoss (Ax-Crazy Omnicidal Maniac and necromancer), briefly took over the world and nearly destroyed the universe. Separately, Doctor Doom, a toned down version of his canon counterpart (who is still a ruthless dictator, albeit a benevolent one), is presented as being justified in his wariness of the Avengers' potentially deciding one day just to depose him because they don't like him.
- Similarly, this is deconstructed with Harry and the secretive instincts he picked up off the Avengers (though in fairness, it's implied that a chunk of it came from his mother), as well as the manipulative ones, in regards to how he acts towards Ron and Hermione in Book II. Basically, he does his level best to keep them at arm's length regarding his troubles and disregards their own choices in the process, as well as keeping secrets from them that they should rightfully know. While in terms of the Trauma Conga Line that his exploits usually involve, even they reluctantly admit they can see his point, but it's pointed out that manipulating them into staying out of it is not a good thing. As for the secret-keeping, it's also pointed out that while he does have semi-legitimate reasons for keeping those secrets, he didn't have the right to keep it from them (and he has a nasty habit of keeping them out of habit).
- In Christian Humber Reloaded, Vash kills a hunter after setting off a trap, which breaks on his leg without harming him, and we are apparently supposed to think this is acceptable (the hypocrisy of him doing this despite having set off the trap while hunting is lampshaded in Normalman's webcomic adaptation notes). His actions get worse from there, including killing a girl and everyone related to her for reporting him to the police, and killing all 6 million people at the Super Bowl to show the cops what it means to fight him. The author treats most of Vash's killings as justified, and when the villains commit comparable or even lesser crimes, they're quickly killed, often by Vash himself.
- Fantasia Times: It doesn't matter what Andi, Sera, Scarlett, or their allies do — if you disagree with any of their actions or do anything to upset them, you deserve every last bit of abuse that will come your way.
- Deconstructed in Infinity Train: Knight of the Orange Lily.
- Canonically, Gladion is lauded for the years he spent keeping his sister Locked Out of the Loop regarding the incident that traumatized her and left her with a crippling fear of Pokémon. Here, however, Lilly's regard for her brother shatters once she realizes that he effectively abandoned her, leaving her with Faba — the man responsible for traumatizing her, and who also wanted to keep that incident suppressed, willing to resort to having his Hypno erase her memories. Gladion let him get away with it, refusing to warn her or anyone else about what happened while he ran around training Type: Null and playing the hero.
- This serves as one of the main issues that Gladion is brought onto the Train to address. Over time, he is forced to confront the notion that his choices did more harm than good, and that his sister is not merely a Damsel in Distress who needed to be saved and shielded from the world.
- Knights of the Otherworld:
- Scout Huntsman is a Small Name, Big Ego Expy of Gaston. Gawain shuts him up by threatening him with his Rider's axe, wishing afterwards that he'd actually used it. This is depicted as an understandable reaction to having to deal with such an annoyance, rather than a terrifying lapse of control.
- In the first few arcs, the knights like to ride through the Mirror World in order to make dramatic entrances at social gatherings. It's admitted outright that this tends to terrify witnesses, as it looks just like a Mirror Monster emerging to attack. Yet the knights are never taken to task for scaring their friends half to death this way.
- The Loud House: Revamped: J.D. is obsessed with making the lives of those he deems villainous hell, and will even kill those that he decides deserve death. Despite being a Jedi, he violates the Jedi code constantly, seeking revenge and inflicting horrible cruelties upon people who haven't done anything at all to him.
- In My Huntsman Academia, Izuku ends up discussing this with Ozpin when the latter asks him if he'd be willing to kill someone like Adam Taurus if it meant saving lives. Izuku responds that he adheres to Thou Shalt Not Kill whenever possible because he doesn't feel it's right to act as judge, jury, and executioner. The moment a Hunter believes that they can kill anyone they please for being "like the Grimm" is the moment a Hunter stops being the protector they've sworn to be. Ozpin calls the response admirable, but naive, bringing Nana Shimura, the seventh holder of One For All, to mind.
- A New World, A New Way: One of the standout examples is Belle constantly threatening to Mind Rape anyone she disagrees with. When she actually follows through with her threats on Hastings, it's treated as heroic that she didn't go all the way through with it. The author eventually gave in to fan pressure to punish her, while attempting to paint her as the victim in the whole scenario.
- Note that just a few chapters earlier, Mewtwo accidentally mind-raped Luke... and while it was acknowledged to be a bad thing there, Mewtwo still got off scot-free since he's a Legendary Pokémon.
- Of State: In a case of Deliberate Values Dissonance, while warring against the Northern Alliance for their Rape, Pillage, and Burn of the Barbaric Archipelago, the United Norse Kingdom's army engages in similar behavior when they attack the city of Radvo.
- snipers solve 99% of all problems plays with this: the chapters from the perspective of Harry and his friends are written this way. When the Amestrians get to react to whatever they've done, they're generally shown to be unimpressed.
- Snuggles the Symbiote: Alexandria accuses Ashley of this, stating that she's arbitrarily deciding what right and wrong are and trying to brute force the world into going her way after Ashley blackmails (and later Penance Stares) her into submission. Given what Alexandria does on a daily basis, however, she's being rather hypocritical with her accusations.
- In Ace Attorney Transplanted Character Fic Tales of Attornia
, Maya accidentally blows up a town when suffering from Power Incontinence and is hunted for it by Phoenix. When Morgan (Evil Aunt in canon, but in no way this is shown here) gives them a lead on her, they track her fully intending to kill her on the spot. However the moment Phoenix finds out that Maya is Mia's sister, he changes his mind intending to put her on trial instead. Morgan on the other hand is killed on the spot because she tried to convince Phoenix to kill Maya, which she claims note she did because Maya blew up that city (and Phoenix knows Morgan was one of three people who survived, so her claim should be believable). - Discussed in Thieves Can Be Heroes!, as over time, characters start to question whether it's truly moral for the Thieves to force people to repent for their crimes against their will.
- Deconstructed in The Wedding Crashers. Most of the The Twilight Saga cast consider themselves to be wonderful people; in reality, they're incredibly self-absorbed narcissists who have convinced themselves that they're better than everybody else, treating anyone outside of their little circle as unimportant trash. By the time the story hits its climax, Dean is all for slaughtering the lot of them, but Claire suggests they use Cruel Mercy instead.
- The Adventures of John Phoenix: The narrative is always quick to excuse everything John Phoenix does, no matter how questionable. Such as knocking out a teacher, locking the classroom they're in, and setting fire to the building, which is handwaved as okay since he alerted the proper authorities. He later goes on a rampage with his psychic powers, attacking courthouses since they stopped letting him dictate the entire legal system. He even outright murders an entire crowd of people, only for the narration to insist that everyone involved was bad.
- How I Became Yours:
- Mai learns that Katara was pregnant with Zuko's child and hid the letter from him for a few years. She says it was because she was trying to prevent a civil war from breaking out, due to the news that the Fire Lord had not only cheated on his fiancée and eventual wife, but also created a bastard child with a member of an opposing nation and destabilizing their already fragile Fire Nation. Zuko never sees anything wrong with what he did, physically assaults Mai and runs off to be with Katara. Consequently, Katara reveals to Zuko that she was planning to hide her child's existence from Zuko for the same reasons, but she is treated as being very considerate and kind for doing so.
- Eventually, Katara ends up killing Mai. It happened during the heat of a battle, which would lend to the idea of justified self-defense (Mai having attempted to have Katara killed prior, before trying it herself) but that part is never actually considered. And Sokka flat out says it was heroic of Katara to commit murder. Through bloodbending, something that she canonically hated doing. In fact, bloodbending would have allowed Katara to control Mai long enough to take her into custody, so there was no reason to kill her.
- The CATverse:
- Those who antagonize the trio of Captain, Al and Techie sometimes get killed off or brutalized. In one case, this happens purely because they were rude to the girls.
- The trio is also very forgiving of Crane's behavior, showing more compassion and sympathy for him than for the innocent people he tortures. One of the only times they don't immediately dismiss his actions is when he tortures his own sister Marilyn because he believes she was their mother's favorite. But while they're shown to be disturbed at the time, the incident is never mentioned again.
- Scars Are Forever suffers from this: Near the end, Nutsy goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge after Jeromy almost kills Shifty and goes to confront him. She ends up being kidnapped and nearly subjected to a Cold-Blooded Torture, but Danny Dingo shoots him before he can go through with it, and Nutsy destroys his corpse, claiming it's her revenge on Shifty. When Shifty learns this, he's distraught, but while he brings up that his brother and girlfriend did a crime, he's more upset that Nutsy put herself in danger. Then we get a scene of Nutsy feeling bad, but not for worrying her mother or committing murder (admittedly, Jeromy was an Asshole Victim, but still), but for breaking Shifty's heart. Afterwards, in court, Shifty gives Nutsy a letter that makes the judge reconsider in what's supposed to be a Heartwarming Moment, but with all the above, as well as Nutsy essentially being a Karma Houdini, it's difficult to find it really heartwarming.
- Code Geass: Mao of the Deliverance:
- Mao goes to increasingly violent and exploitative lengths in his quest to find and save C.C. from her death wish, which he constantly excuses by insisting that C.C. is the only person in the world who truly matters.
- Lelouch has much the same attitude in regards to his sister Nunnally.
- Dangan Ronpa: Assassinating Friendship: Hope Springs Eternal delves into the thoughts of someone observing the mutual killing game, who seems to subscribe to this. Out of all the survivors, the only one they really dislike is Hijirihara, as they lament how they killed somebody they considered to be perfect main character material. This is despite the fact that said would-be protagonist had one of the highest body counts out of all the participants.
- In Rachel Stevens Revisits da Bungalow, written to rectify a missed gunging on the series, Rachel is constantly berated by the narrative for avoiding said gunging (by calling her 'Diva Stevens' and 'Stroppy Stevens), yet Dick and Dom are never seen as bad guys for basically sabotaging someone's TV show, and humiliating the host. At the end, even Rachel succumbs to the present morality by yelling she was a 'bad sport' for evading the previous gunging.
- In Dragon Ball Z Abridged, after Android #17 survives Piccolo's Hellzone Grenade attack, he complains about how Piccolo's attempt to kill Goku was all fine and dandy but not theirs. Piccolo counters that when he did it, it was for revenge, but #17's doing it for shits and giggles. #17 counters, telling Piccolo that when his creator tells him to "kill Goku" over and over again in his subconscious for a few years, he can ride that high horse all he wants. Piccolo stops and just gets a major sense of nostalgia at that.
- Shinra High Soldier: When Sephiroth hears that somebody is on the verge of death after being ambushed, he considers it to be their own fault for walking through a bad part of town at night. Then he finds out that the victim was Julia. When Laura subsequently expresses the exact same sentiment he had earlier, he viciously chews her out.
- Gray Whirlpool Series: Defied in Fire. Throughout the fic, Corrin is upset with herself for continuously causing death and destruction, until she finally breaks down in her mother's Afterlife Antechamber.
- In The Ariana Black Series:
- Ariana's nemesis, Maria, becomes Gryffindor's new Seeker after Harry graduates. During one game, she—wait for it—dodges a Bludger so that it hits a Slytherin friend of Ariana's instead! This is treated as so bad that even one member of Maria's Girl Posse turns against her. Granted, the kid was injured, but treating this as some sort of horrible act kind of ignores the point of Bludgers—you dodge them and try to get them to hit your opponents instead. Apparently, Maria was expected to suck it up and take one for the (other) team.
- Generally in the series, Ariana using her "Empath powers" to assault Maria (or Draco, occasionally). This never has any repercussions, teachers never find out and punish her for it and her friends always act like she did something awesome, but when Maria and her friends hit Ariana with a spell that causes Ariana to have an allergic reaction, they get four months detention, letters home and are banned from Hogsmeade for the rest of the year.
- Bastard: Subverted by Gil; despite knowing that Harry, Ron and Hermoine are the future heroes of the Wizarding War, he still deducts points from their house for theft, attacking Crabbe and Goyle, and brewing illegal Polyjuice.
- The Last War: Ron relentlessly beating up Hermione is naturally depicted as a bad thing. Yet when Harry slaps Ginny while fighting over a divorce, it's portrayed as positive.
- A Question of When: After gaining access to Mental Time Travel, Romilda Vane uses this power not to warn the Wizarding World about Voldemort's return, but to groom Harry Potter for a relationship with her.
- Steve Rogers suffers from this in The Days of Reckoning Are Upon Us. Whenever somebody he doesn't know dies as a result of his actions, whether directly or indirectly, Steve tends to brush it off as "You can't save everyone." Anyone he says this to reminds him that The Dead Have Names and are more than just collateral damage.
- A Father's Son: So far as Jarvis is concerned, if something is good for Tony, it's good period. Since the Maximoff twins weren't fans of Tony in the original timeline, Jarvis murders them both well before they can become any kind of threat.
- Parallel Realities:
- Shepard spends much of the story ranting about how evil Cerberus is, and is pissed off at being forced to work with them. Yet he also lashes out at and criticizes anyone who's hesitant to trust him while he's aligned with Cerberus.
- Shepard also rails against the Council for not doing anything about the Reapers. When the Mass Effect 3 arc begins, he and his friends choose not to act when the Reapers start harvesting life from batarian colonies. When Earth gets attacked, they don't bother attempting to warn the planet of what's coming; they simply rescue Shepard and kill the Reaper that shoots down the shuttles.
- In the wake of "Chameleon", Salt Fics became exceedingly common as fans expressed their frustration over the episode's events. Over time, this extended to general dissatisfaction in the overall direction the series was taking its plot and characters, leading to the rise of several forms of this:
- "Saltinette" fics featured Marinette turning on Adrien, Alya, and anyone else whom the author decided wasn't worthy of remaining friends with her after falling for Lila's Blatant Lies. The most extreme of these stories completely changed Marinette's personality, turning the "Everyday Ladybug" who went out of her way to help others into an Ice Queen who Stopped Caring about her former friends, deeming them to deserve whatever Laser-Guided Karma they got.
- At times, Marinette would Become Her Own Antithesis, employing tactics on par with Chloé or Lila herself in order to ensure her former friends suffered. Such as using her connections to ruin their reputations — Alya wants to become an Intrepid Reporter? Better warn Nadja that she's not very good at "checking her sources" and shut down any chance of an internship!
- In line with this, several of these "Saltinette" fics make the extent of her former friends' betrayal far worse, demonizing whichever characters that the author didn't care to "redeem" by having them actively bullying Marinette, destroying her property, and even trying to kill her outright.
- On the flip side of this, anti-Salt/Saltinette fics frequently demonized Marinette, accusing her of suffering from this canonically by painting her as a straight-up Stalker with a Crush. Such stories tended to ignore the hypocrisy of whomever was calling her out, such as Adrien (with his Dogged Nice Guy pursuit of Ladybug) or Alya (who actively encouraged many of Marinette's worst offenses and shoved her towards Adrien over her protests).
- "Saltinette" fics featured Marinette turning on Adrien, Alya, and anyone else whom the author decided wasn't worthy of remaining friends with her after falling for Lila's Blatant Lies. The most extreme of these stories completely changed Marinette's personality, turning the "Everyday Ladybug" who went out of her way to help others into an Ice Queen who Stopped Caring about her former friends, deeming them to deserve whatever Laser-Guided Karma they got.
- Deconstructed in The Karma of Lies: This is how Adrien believes the world works. Not simply because he's a Lonely Rich Kid whose views are heavily influenced by the media he's consumed, but because he's used to being shielded from the long-term consequences of his actions. As a result, he shows a stunning Lack of Empathy for others; as long as he's not directly impacted by things like Lila conning their classmates, Chloé's bullying, or Hawkmoth terrorizing Paris, he simply doesn't care about it.
- One of his biggest self-justifications for being The Load and occasionally The Millstone as Chat Noir is that his partner has the Miraculous Cure, which lets her restore everything destroyed by the akuma she purifies. Including bringing back anyone who was killed during the fight. Hence his willingness to let all of Paris drown during the Syren incident and senselessly sacrifice himself for 'bonus points'. After his father is exposed as Hawkmoth and arrested, Adrien even legitimately tries to argue that he shouldn't be charged for murder, terrorism, treason or anything else since the horrors inflicted by his akuma were magically erased.
- At the same time, Adrien also expects to be handsomely rewarded for his service as Chat Noir, arguing that Paris owes him for everything he did as a superhero. Despite how he refused to take said responsibilities seriously, to the point of skipping the Final Battle with Hawkmoth due to his Skewed Priorities. In a lovely bit of Double Think, he argues that the only injuries and deaths that 'count' are those Hawkmoth's akumas inflicted upon him, even though they were erased/reversed by the Miraculous Cure as well, and that he deserves compensation for his suffering while simultaneously rejecting the notion that anyone else might deserve acknowledgement of their suffering.
- Alya suffers from her belief in this as well. After Marinette breaks off their friendship with her and the rest of the class after how they effectively abandoned her, she's the loudest about how Mari needs to forgive them, even while also bragging about her intention to hold this over her head forever.
- Recursive Fanfic Tales of Karmic Lies Aftermath has Alya so convinced that she's meant to be a superheroine that she plots to steal a Miraculous from one of the actual heroes, completely ignoring that this would make her just like Hawkmoth and Mayura.
- LadyBugOut: The series branches off from canon by defying this: Alya is questioned about the picture she posted on her Ladyblog of Ladybug and Chat Noir Kissing Under the Influence of their Oblivio-induced Laser-Guided Amnesia, deliberately omitting the context. While fully aware that she's misrepresenting the situation, Alya angrily defends herself, claiming that it's simply the price Ladybug has to pay for being a public figure. Marinette disagrees, and is inspired to start her own blog to debunk those lies, ruining Alya's reputation.
- Alya stubbornly clings to the notion that this should apply to her throughout the series. So far as she's concerned, Ladybug betrayed her by sharing her perspective and revealing how she'd intentionally misled her audience, and so did Marinette by helping the superheroine set up and run her blog. Even after she's no longer able to deny that Lila deceived everybody, she continues insisting that she doesn't owe Marinette any apologies for ignoring her warnings — the only one who needs to apologize is MARINETTE!
- Adrien also subscribes to this mentality, failing to see how his constant harassment of Ladybug as Chat Noir is just like how Chloé and Lila force their "affections" upon him. It takes Marinette providing an explicit example by briefly mirroring his behavior and pretending that she wants to force a kiss onto him like he'd previously done to Ladybug for him to finally grasp how he was treating her the same way as his own unwanted admirers.
- The Lament Series (ChaoticNeutral): Chloé's Lament picks apart this attitude by depicting it as one of Chloé's Fatal Flaws: thanks to how she was constantly shielded from any consequences for her actions by enablers like her father and Ms. Bustier, she sincerely believes that she deserves special treatment and to have the world bend to her every whim. This turns her Wish into a Self-Inflicted Hell, as Chloé is unable to accept that her Karma Houdini Warranty no longer applies in the new reality. Or that Marinette, now in her former position, avoids abusing her status as Mayor Sabine's daughter, as Chloé can't comprehend why she'd see anything wrong with that.
- Leave for Mendeleiev shows the innate selfishness of such an attitude through Adrien, who thinks nothing of how his actions might affect others. While Selectively Oblivious to Aurore's crush on him, he's horrified when Marinette isn't one of his adoring fans. Once he decides that they don't hold the key to him learning Ladybug's Secret Identity, he breaks off their friendship without a word, and gets annoyed at anyone calling him out on this... while believing that having his own crush go unreciprocated is the worst possible thing.
- In the Salt-Shot A Price to Pay, Adrien doesn't see anything wrong with helping his father rip the Ladybug Earrings right off of Marinette's ears and make his reality-altering Wish, even after Marinette warns him that his father likely intends to ensure the life claimed as fuel for said Wish will come from HER family. After all, he's still the hero, right...? And Marinette is destined to be his, no matter what. He's so convinced of this that he accuses her of "being petty" for not accepting the token apology he dashes off after learning that she retained her memories of the original world... and that her father was, in fact, killed by his father. None of that matters so much as the fact that the Wish didn't turn out the way he wanted.
- Two Letters, penned by the same author as The Karma of Lies, deconstructs the concept of "Saltinette" by exploring a scenario where Marinette is pushed to the point that she not only retires from being Ladybug, but deliberately chooses a Sketchy Successor to "be the hero that Paris wants and deserves". While Luka recognizes that being Ladybug was a thankless job, he's increasingly disturbed by just how much Marinette has Stopped Caring about anything other than her own happiness with him.
- but you gotta get up at least once more explores this from an outsider's point of view. Ochako's attempts to investigate what happened between Katsuki and Izuku are well-intentioned, but since she barely knows Izuku here, she sees nothing wrong with constantly harassing him, pushing and prodding for answers. To make matters worse, when she finally drags the truth out of him, her first instinct is to reject it because it's hard for her to accept the notion that her friend has constantly abused Izuku for years. Izuku does not take this well, calling her out on hounding him for so long only to casually call him a liar after dragging the Awful Truth out of him, simply because she doesn't like it.
- Cain uses Katsuki to turn this into a Deconstructed Character Archetype. Katsuki firmly believes that he's The Hero, and that everything he does is ensure that All Might doesn't make the "terrible mistake" of making Izuku his successor is completely justified... when in reality, he's nothing more than a massively egotistical Barbaric Bully who simply can't stand the notion of his favorite victim catching a break. Fortunately, outside of the toxic environment of Aldera, where the staff have spent years coddling and building him up as a Big Jerk on Campus, he rapidly finds that reality simply doesn't work the way he expects... though he completely ignores this.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- The Weedverse doesn't run on this; instead, it operates on Black-and-Grey Morality. However, this comes up in the narration of Eigengrau Zwei: Die Welt Ist Grau Geworden. Dim dismisses any crimes he commits, but considers them to be much worse when he's the victim.It was funny when Dim did it, but the idea of such a thing being used against him... unpleasant.
- Echoes (Kagaseo):
- Kazama adopts this stance, willingly ignoring the negative actions of allies like Sasori, while anyone whom he considers an enemy or has done things that aren't in his best interests is labeled evil regardless of their motivations. Part of the reason he adapts this utilitarian mentality is because Amatsu Mikaboshi slowly corrupts him.
- Naruko judges anyone who agrees with her idealistic ideology to be 'good', and turns a blind eye towards the faults of others.
- Over the course of the fic, this is noted, Lampshaded, and gradually Deconstructed.
- Walk on the Moon averts this, being a Deconstruction of the Self-Insert genre. Rei is a heavily flawed protagonist who has a major Heel Realization when it hits her that she's currently strangling a ten-year old girl purely because it amuses her.
- For Better or For Worse: As lampshaded with the title and by Luffy himself, much like in canon, he only cares for his friends, and his ultimate goal is to ensure their survival and happiness, for better or for worse. The fact that this includes stopping a massive war is incidental.
- In Betrayal Brings Out the Best in Us, Harley uses the Destiny Bond move against May's Pokemon Manaphy, and it is treated as if Harley is a Dirty Coward who uses dirty moves instead of a legitimate strategy. He even gets assaulted by Ash with no repercussions.
- In the world of Cori Falls's fanfiction, the quickest way to gauge if someone's a good person is whether or not they agree with the morals of the protagonists. If you don't think Rex Raptor did the right thing or that Jessie and James's actions weren't justifiable, you're clearly evil. What's really ironic about this is that she accused the Pokemon anime canon of doing this with Ash, despite this clearly not being the case.
- Subverted in Dear Diary: The main characters despise Morta for killing Prima before being caught and becoming part of the team, but are fine with Mauve's Sympathetic Murder Backstory, since she didn't kill anyone they knew... until Mauve herself calls them out on it.
- The Longest Road had a pretty bad case of this in Chapter 28. Ramping up the already problematic characterization of Erika in the anime, she's made out as the villain because she kicked Ash out of her Gym for not liking her perfumes. In turn, Ash outs her as a lesbian after finding out that LGBT people aren't allowed to be Gym Leaders, getting her fired, along with all of her employees. This was portrayed as a "proper punishment" for her Disproportionate Retribution. The author later rewrote the chapter to remove this element due to the resulting backlash.
- In Pedestal, the protagonist breaks the main antagonist, a terrorist, out of jail. The morality of this is discussed surprisingly little in the fic compared to other issues.
Protectors of the Plot Continuum
- Fledglings, or: Everything's Better With Penguins: Deconstructed with the missions of Tawaki Penguin. While Agent Tawaki went on many missions to combat poorly written fanfics and Mary Sues, the stories about his various exploits have issues of similar caliber, such as overly simplistic prose and Tawaki being single-handedly responsible for multiple events that led to massive losses of PPC personnel. This lack of regard for anything nonessential to a Tawaki-centered narrative is one of the factors that leads Agents Mallory and Anis to classify him as a Gary Stu.
- Resident Evil: Stay Alive: The Self-Insert is completely unaffected by the deaths of Edward and Richard, dismissing them as being doomed to die regardless.
- "Or Something" Series: An Affair or Something largely focuses on Jaune's perspective, with only a few random mentions here or there of others reacting to what's happening. Until it's Subverted near the end as Ruby's perspective is revealed, showing that many of Jaune's worries stem from misunderstandings and dramatic escalation on both sides.
- I'm Here to Help:
- Emerald's stated goal (to stop Crystal Tokyo's creation, to prevent its people from being brainwashed) is noble enough, but the fic gives virtually no evidence of brainwashing (life seems to go on perfectly normally, from what we hear of it), and his main reasons for not liking life in Crystal Tokyo boil down to that he thinks it's boring. The same goes for Pluto, at the end. The only reason she gives for having her timeline erased from existence — sending countless unsuspecting people and her own friends into Nothingness — is because Crystal Tokyo didn't turn out how she liked it. No specific reasons, just that.
- After Serenity came to power, Emerald joined a group of rebels who tried to overthrow her. While their efforts were portrayed as heroic (if doomed to failure), none of them seemed to consider ever trying non-violent means of shaking Serenity's public support, instead opting to launch an incredibly brutal attack on her and her friends. Emerald decries the decreed fate of the rebellion's survivors — banishment from Earth — and hates that the senshi consider it magnanimous, except that sending them to live elsewhere is a pretty light sentence for trying to kill a ruler.
- A later chapter has Jupiter and Mars discussing the last time they fought Emerald. They are portrayed as being unfeeling about attacking two children that Emerald brought as helpers, while it's ignored that Emerald was the one who brought the children along in the first place.
- Storm Hawks Fan 3rd Season: The Storm Hawks despise and insult the Murk Raiders, while ignoring the fact that the Bladed Gunners are also pirates, as they got to witness the good side of the latter group, but not the former.
- Discussed and analysed to a greater extent than canon in Bonne Foi; where Bella was shown easily accepting how even some of their vampire allies fed on humans in canon, one chapter focuses on her dealing with her own guilt about how she can accept Edward’s recent victims because he wouldn’t be with her if he hadn’t killed them.
- Intentionally used in the badfic The Kronicals of Rebecca Swansin. At one point, for instance, Rebecca follows a hot guy into the boys' locker room, accuses him of being a pervert for "flashing her" — when he hadn't even noticed her presence — and uses her anti-rape knife against him. When a bunch of guys come out of the shower to see what all the commotion's about, she accuses them of trying to rape her as well.
- Tough Love features Charlie putting his foot down and calling Bella out on her self-serving attitude and how she believes this applies to her, taking the kindness and compassion of others completely for granted and not caring one whit about how her behavior hurts those around her.
- Tsunami received a lot of complaints because of the author's tendency to do this. One standout example involved the OC and their friends complaining, which was depicted as just how teenagers typically react at the prospect of being forced to do some hard work. Two chapters later, Scott and Jean make an offhand remark about how hard their current task is... and are promptly bashed for being 'so lazy'. While ignoring how the OC had made a much bigger deal about the exact same thing.
