Jaime Reyes does it accidentally when he asks Batman "what psycho-nutjob supervillain built" Brother Eye (Batman did, during a period when his trust issues went out of control). After a moment's silence, Batman asks him not to repeat it to Green Arrow.
Birds of Prey: Oracle also got a calling out after Huntress realized her "missions" were really a covert therapy session. Offended that Barbara was trying to "fix" her, she left the team, but not without giving one last parting shot:
Huntress: You left Gotham because you wanted to get away from Batman's influence. But you turned out just like him. Oracle: Huntress... I... Huntress:Just. Like. Him.
Huntress herself gets a rather pithy one from The Question at the end of Cry for Blood after she kills her own father: "Damn you." What makes it so effective is that she admits that it's true, saying it happened a long time ago.
Barbara gave Red Hood one of these in Batman: Three Jokers, calling him out for killing a Joker. It failed utterly, especially when Jason pointed to a thrown batarang embedded on the wall, which she threw just as he was firing his gun, and asked her when was the last time she missed.
During the Red Robin/Batgirl (2009) Collision crossover, Stephanie Brown delivers a rant to Tim Drake, after hearing he led the League of Assassins, about his hypocrisy and moral ambiguity. Then he admits that she is entirely correct, and he'll try to be better in the future. This is this trope when it actually works - Superboy did several subtle hints around this theme in a earlier issue Red Robin and Tim brushes them off.
During Batman: No Man's Land, Commissioner Gordon angrily tells Batman real friends don't walk out on you in the middle of your sentences. Humbled, Batman doesn't Stealth Hi/Bye him for the rest of the story.
Even earlier than that, following the events of Knightfall and its associated aftermath including Prodigal, Gordon was royally pissed at the Batfamily about being kept out of the loop about Azrael and Nightwing filling in for Batman. Gordon also got pissed about Azrael letting Abattoir die, which in turn led to Graham Etchison's death.
In Batman: Curse of the White Knight, after Joker reveals that his own daughter was Batgirl, Jim gives her and Batman a serious dressing down for not telling him and for Bruce backing out on his promise to unmask himself to the public.
When Batgirl freezes in terror and does not stop Mirror from killing somebody, the cop on the floor screams that, since Batgirl could have stopped him but didn't, she is just as much a murderer as Mirror.
Black Canary calls out Batgirl for attacking Huntress for no reason.
Black Canary: Stop it. She's not with them, can't you see that? Batgirl: You don't know. How can we know that? Black Canary: Because, Ms. Normally Pretty Rational, she is covered in weapons... but she's not fighting back.
All-Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder: Both Robin and The Green Lantern call out Batman for his Bat-shit crazy behavior. Ironically, Batman also gets to call out Robin when Robin crushes Green Lantern's throat.
In Robin And Batman, when Alfred learns that Bruce did not send Dick to meet the other kid sidekicks because it would be good for him to meet people his own age he has something in common with, but with orders to assess them as threats and come up with plans to take them down if necessary, he doesn't even bother with the Servile Snarker routine, just says "You bastard" and walks out of the cave.
At the very end of the Superman story "The Sound The Sound of One Hand Clapping," after Superman foils the Joker's bombing plot and annoys him into turning himself into the police by telling him he's just not funny, Superman flies to the Batcave to confront Batman. When Superman asks Batman how did Joker make it to Metropolis without him knowing, Batman admits to Superman that he allowed Joker to go to Metropolis as a test to his limits, and flat out tells Superman he failed because he threatened to kill the Joker. Not amused, Superman smashes the Batmobile, and bluntly tells Batman that he's not as smart as he thinks he is, and it was luck more than anything else that the Joker decided not to do anything more brazen that ended with innocent people getting hurt or killed. Superman ultimately warns Batman to not test him again, and that if he lets the Joker return to Metropolis, then it's very likely Joker won't make it back to Gotham City.
In Batman The Brave And The Bold 2023, in a retelling of Batman's first encounter with the Joker, Bruce Wayne subtly goads mobster "Brute" Nelson into challenging the murderous clown. Alfred tells him about going fishing with Thomas Wayne, and how Dr Wayne would always insist on baiting the hook himself. Because if you're going to kill something to use as bait, the honorable thing to do is to kill it yourself.
Poison Ivy (2022): In issue #11, Ivy is able to take control of Janet and other women at a wellness retreat thanks to an evolved form of the lamia spores. Under Ivy's command, they try to blockade an oil refinery and nearly get run over by the workers in the process, only avoiding death because unlocks a new power. Janet chews out Ivy for putting herself and others in danger for her agenda.
Pretty much the entire Justice League (minus Wonder Woman who didn't know, and Superman because MAYBE he didn't know) gets taken down a peg by Batman after finding out about Identity Crisis (2004).
Infinite Crisis: Wonder Woman has to face the wrath and disappointment of her own teammates and the public when she kills Max Lord.
Speaking of the JSA, the team (except Alan Scott, and he's not exactly happy about what's going on either) gives Atom Smasher this when he helps Black Adam wipe out the army of a dictatorial regime. Then they give Hawkman one because his methods of dealing with Black Adam's allies was too brutal. If you kill anyone ever, whether they were good, bad, or neutral, you can expect to get this from the JSA, especially Jay Garrick.
JSA Classified: The long reformed meta-human criminal Jonathan Waddill (Johnny Mimic) is pissed when Green Lantern shows up at his house to ask him to use his powers despite their decades long agreement. He's even more pissed to learn it's because a government official is going to come in and take Johnny by force, even threatening Johnny's wife, if he doesn't agree.
Baloney. The top brass in Washington never had clean hands. Just ask the survivors of Dresden or Hiroshima. It was Mystery-Men like you who stood for something better, even the hoodlums looked up to Green Lantern. You were the super-man before there was a Superman! The world only seemed to make sense back then because guys like you set the standard! And now you're gonna let this Father Time putz drag you down to his level?"
Superman is horrified at Wonder Woman's behavior when he learns that she didn't stop a group of Indochinese women from killing the men that murdered their families, held them captive, and repeatedly raped them... Only to have Wonder Woman throw it right back at him.
Wonder Woman: These women have reclaimed their home and their dignity. I've decided to train them to survive the oncoming war. Surely you see the virtue in that. Superman: You're supposed to set an example! But to allow cold-blooded murder, and then to celebrate... Wonder Woman: What, hand them a smile and a box of flags? Their families, their mates... their children were murdered before their eyes. This is civil war. I've given them freedom and a chance for justice. The American Way. Take a good look around. There are no rules here. Just suffering and madness. I want you to go tell your undersecretary that. There's the door, spaceman.
Wonder Woman gets one in return when she returns to the States, learning that she nearly caused an international incident because of her actions, forcing her to realize that barging into everything all willy-nilly won't work anymore.
There was a run in the Bronze Age segment of The Dark Age of Comic Books where Green Lantern and Green Arrow went traveling America together, confronting issues of the time. What kicks this off is when an elderly black man accuses Hal Jordan of saving alien races of all different skin colors but doing nothing for those in his home.
Green Lantern: The Lost Army: Guy is thoroughly pissed at the way John decides to deal with Krona's questions by lying that they're there to help, to the point that he very nearly attacks him.
Who the hell are you?[...]Because the John Stewart I know wouldn't pull something like this! You didn't even give us a chance to weigh in! [...] Spare me the 'Burden of Leadership' speech, all right? You know what bugs me, that story about us being here to help Relic, it just rolled right off your tongue, like you were born to lie.[...]You know what's at stake for these people. Their universe is dying. Because guys like us used up all the light.
Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps: Soranik Natu delivers a particularly scathing one to Kyle Rayner in issue #24 for hiding from her that Sarko, the villain that he'd killed earlier and whom she was just done autopsying, was actually their Kid from the Future.
Soranik: You forget that I'm a Natu by name, but a Sinestro by blood. Fear is the family gift. I feel it throbbing inside you. The fear that made you keep your secret. Fear that I wouldn't want to be with you. Fear that I'd be the love you let slip away. You fear a wounded heart! You can't hide from your fear, alley rat.
Barda: I had to scrape you off the floor. Cry with strangers in an E.R. I made %$#@ life work, while you were too... whatever you were to do anything! When do I get to escape, Scott?!
The Outsiders: In the last year of Outsiders 1985, Geo-Force (who is both a king and a superhero) has been treating the team as his subjects, and specifically using them as a Markovian special forces team. Black Lightning finally gets fed up of lecturing him, and takes half the team back to America.
Kingdom Come Superman gets stuff sprayed in his eyes by criminals, blinding him. He takes a wild swing, hitting our Superman. He apologizes, saying he was aiming for the crooks, but Supes points out that if that punch had hit anyone else, they would be dead.
In Superman/Shazam!: First Thunder Supes plans to give Captain Marvel one of these after he went on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge over the death of a young boy. After he a.) finds Cap crying, b.) learns that the murdered boy was his best friend, and c.) learns that Cap is actually a ten-year-old boy, he calmly asks how he got his powers...and gives one of these to the Wizard instead, demanding to know how he could choose a ten-year-old boy as his Champion. To his credit, the Wizard acknowledges the point, and asks Superman to mentor Billy for him.
In the wake of the New Krypton event, a woman chewed Superman out for being offworld when her husband died of a brain tumour, claiming that he could have saved him. Nonetheless, she does not explain why Superman's heat vision is superior to all medical technology for the purposes of removing inoperable brain tumours, or why she is chewing Superman out when there are other heroes with abilities perfectly capable of removing the tumor, and she also dismisses the fact that Superman was occupied at the time trying to prevent a war between New Krypton and Earth (meaning that the woman is yelling at him for being distracted by humanity committing genocide against Superman's species)...even though the other people around when the woman lays into Superman point out that it wasn't exactly as if he was just dicking around twiddling his thumbs as her husband died. Regardless, her rant leads Superman to attempt to reconnect with humanity by Walking the Earth in Superman: Grounded.
In The Death of Superman: Reign of the Supermen, Steel was very prone to delivering speeches to everyone during the second month of events. He chastises Superboy for his showboating and gets the Eradicator to back down for his Well-Intentioned Extremist actions.
In Superman: Earth One Volume 3 Superman lets out a very loud "WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING?!" to the United Nations for siding with General Zod. Granted, he realizes he was just a little bit overboard in the collateral damage department in the first two volumes, but them siding with someone like Zod was something that he just had to question the world leaders.
In Krypton No More Supergirl gets angry at her cousin and chews him out when he refuses to undertake a space mission to save a planet from an Alien Invasion because he is too busy dealing with Earth stuff.
In War World, Martian Manhunter scolds Superman angrily when Mongul makes off with the key to control a super-weapon.
Martian Manhunter: Is this how you intended to "handle" Mongul, my friend? Superman: Forgive me, J'onn... Looks like I failed you! Martian Manhunter: No, not me, Superman —It's the entire universe that will have to pay the price of your failure! I warned you that you were dealing with forces beyond your comprehension — but you were just too overconfident — too egotistical — to listen! Superman: I — I thought I could deal with it! After all, I'm Superman... aren't I? Martian Manhunter: Super or not, you're still a man — and men are fallible! Now, because of you, Mongul has the key that can unlock chaos — and I demand to know what you intend to do about it!
In Red Daughter of Krypton, Supergirl calls both her cousin and her Red Lantern team out on keeping things from her and making plans about her without thinking about what she wants:
Supergirl: You don't understand. And neither do you. I'm not a piece of luggage. I'm not a problem for the grownups to solve. Superman: It's not like that. We all just want to help you. Supergirl: You're doing it again. Who says I need any help?
Batgirl: Pay attention — you are violating my borders. Leave now, and you'll avoid further pain. Supergirl: What?! Lex Luthor is being tortured somewhere in Gotham, and you're attacking ME? Is keeping me out of Gotham worth his life? Batgirl: You know the rules. No paranormals in Gotham. Supergirl: You're sick! This is Lex Luthor we're talking about! Or are people who live in Gotham the only ones worth protecting?
Subverted in Demon Spawn. Villainous sorceress Nightflame shouts at Supergirl that her actions are destroying the Innerverse and killing its denizens. However, the Innerverse, its inhabitants and Nightflame herself are manifestations of Kara's dark side, and they are dying because she is growing up as a person, so she isn't sorry about it:
Nightflame: This is Innerverse! It exists upon one of the atoms that make up your own brain! It is a world of sorcery! A dying world... dying because your goodness is eating away at the evil this microcosm is composed of! [...] Look! Look at what you've done! Look at all the decay, all the destruction! Our people are dying — They are being dragged down by a planet that no longer supports them!
Lana Lang gets angry with Kara when the depressed teenager won't even investigate an explosion.
Lana: You're telling me you're not even going to go look? At all? What if someone needs your help? What if someone's hurt? Look around, Kara. People out there need you. You can use your gifts to — Kara: "Gifts"? These "gifts" make a target, Lana. They make me dangerous to everyone around me. And as you'll recall, the last time I tried to help someone, I got a planet full of my people blown up — Lana: That wasn't your fault and you know it — Kara: It doesn't matter whose fault you think it was, Lana! 80,000 people were put in danger because of something I did... and then Supergirl couldn't save any of them. Lana: Fine. You wanna wallow in self-pity and guilt while people need you? You want to ignore these people crying out for someone to help them? That's great. You do that, Kara. Just don't expect me to support you while you do it.
Bizarro Jimmy and Bizarro Lois chew Bizarro out when he tries to flee rather confronting an enemy.
Bizarro Jimmy: You am... leaving?! Bizarro Lois: Running away am not like Bizarro. That am more like Clark Kent! You don't want to be like Clark Kent, right, Bizarro? Bizarro: Rrr... Bizarro Lois: No, Bizarro #1! You can't run! You can't leave Bizarro World in hour of need!
At the beginning of Crucible, Superman tries to convince Supergirl that pursuing a normal life is not a good idea right now because her uncontrollable powers are a danger to her and everyone else. Given that he had been recently turned into Doomsday, Kara is not amused.
Superman: Kara, what are you doing here? It's not safe for you, and it's not safe for the people around you... You're still learning how to control your powers.[...] Supergirl: "Not safe"?... I'm not the one who turned into an uncontrollable monster whose path of destruction led to a Kryptonite bomb being dropped! And I did reach out to you. Why do you get to judge me? Superman: I don't come here to fight, Kara... Supergirl: Good. I don't want to either. Superman: ...But the fact remains that you'd be better off learning and training with people who could help you. A place like S.T.A.R. Labs or a government research center— Supergirl: For better or worse, this planet is my home now. I want to live among its people. Real people living real lives. The lives we've fought so hard to protect. Or did you forget that?
Subverted in The Great Phantom Peril when Faora Hu-Ul chides Superman for hitting one woman. Since she is a super-powerful serial killer who is attempting to kill him, her lecture is quite ineffectual.
Faora: "My, my, I'm surprised at you, Superman... I always thought you were a gentleman! After all, just because I'm from Krypton and invulnerable like you— that's still no excuse to hit a woman!"
The Strange Revenge of Lena Luthor: After finding out she is Lex Luthor's little sister, and Supergirl knew all along, Lena calls her friend out on keeping the truth from her for years.
Death & the Family: After saving Lana Lang, Supergirl says she is moving out of her home because her surrogate aunt lied to her for one whole year, and people -including Lana herself- died because of it.
Supergirl: "When you started...mentoring me, the whole goal of it was to teach me more about being human. We built a trust. For a year, I told you everything. You knew all the stuff that was wrong with my life. [...]But you lied to me, Lana, that entire year. You didn't trust me, and people in that hospital died because of it. You died because of it. I saw you die. Because you were scared to tell me something was wrong."
The Plague of the Antibiotic Man: As Superman fights Nam-Ek, Amalak tries to keep him confused and unfocused by pointing out that his opening attack nearly killed him.
Amalak: "You are a fool, Superman! So disturbed by the prospect of having killed Nam-Ek that you have become careless! Why, you almost killed me just now! When you burst into this pressurized cabin, the oxygen in it began to escape...until an energy-patch appeared over the puncture to seal it! I might have suffocated...If not for the oxy-aura around me now! You would have had another death of your conscience! Face it, Kryptonian— You are not the hero you think you are!" Superman:"He's attacking me psychologically— trying to confuse me! And he's nearly succeeding—"
Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot: When Deadman complains that nobody acknowledges or even knows about his good deeds, Kara flatly asks if he is a hero only because he wants to be famous and beloved. Although she is not berating him directly, Deadman can hear the disappointment in her voice.
A later issue plays with it; when Wonder Woman raises the point to Superman again in condemning Batman, Superman points out that while he and she can afford to be a bit gentler in their methods seeing as their words and actions are backed up with superpowers, Batman is essentially an ordinary guy playing on the same playing field as them with what basically amounts to a handful of gadgets to compensate, and so needs to take a more sharp-edged approach or else he might be killed. Superman also admits that in light of Batman's undeniable courage into throwing himself into these kinds of situations despite this handicap, he can't bring himself to get self-righteous over Batman's methods no matter how much he disagrees with them, since he sometimes finds himself wondering whether he'd have Batman's courage if he didn't have superpowers. Wonder Woman concedes that Superman has a point.
Wonder Woman (1987): Diana tears into her mother when she realizes that Hippolyta orchestrated The Contest to ensure another Amazon would die in place of her daughter, before flying off to try and save Artemis. Their relationship never fully recovers from this as Diana never fully trusts her mother again.
After Infinite Crisis, Wonder Woman decided to retire for a while and took off for parts unknown without explaining to her sidekicks Donna and Cassandra why. In issue #2, Cassandra vents her anger on her:
Cassandra: Diana...? Is it really you? Diana: It's really me, Cass. You okay? Cassandra: Am I okay? Let's see... The gods abandoned us. Paradise Island disappeared. My boyfriend was murdered... and the person I looked up to more than anyone else in the world... left without saying a word. Diana: I was trying to protect you. Cassandra: You deserted me. Me AND Donna. And now, for all we know, she could be dead.
Hercules tried to call out Wonder Woman during One Year Later after he found out that she had run away from being a superhero. His own blatant misogyny and questionable acts make his words fall rather flat.
The Powerpuff Girls story "Bow Jest" shows Blossom as an unconfident blubbering fool after her hairbow is stolen. Of all people, it's Bubbles who dresses down Blossom about her behavior.
Bubbles: It's just a stupid bow! You're still a Powerpuff Girl whether you have it or not!
In issue #8, Dream catches up with Death as the latter is feeding bread to pigeons. After a little small talk, she throws her baguette at him and yells at him because during his 70 year imprisonment he could have summoned Death at any time to help release him, but he let his realm go to crap for decades because he was too proud to ask for help.
Watchmen: The Comedian and Rorschach both live across the line, and the other heroes feel appropriately uneasy about them. And no one's exactly thrilled with what Ozymandias does either.
Interestingly (and to some degree, ironically) enough, the Comedian actually gives one to Dr. Manhattan after he protests his murdering a Vietnamese woman; he notes that Manhattan could have stopped him, but chose not to.
"Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Pregnant woman. Gunned her down. Bang. And y'know what? You watched me. You coulda changed the gun into steam or the bullets into mercury or the bottle into snowflakes! You coulda teleported either of us to Goddamn Australia... but you didn't lift a finger! You're drifting out of touch, Doc. God help us all."
The Tales from the Dark Multiverse issue about Dark Nights: Metal sees its version of Duke Thomas, now calling himself the Final Knight, rightfully pissed off with Tempus Fuginaut for just sitting around while things in the series went to hell. Not only did Duke call him out of this, he proceeded to hand Fuginaut his ass.
