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Designated Hero

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Designated Hero	comment	A Designated Hero is a character who, despite being presented as The Hero within a story, doesn't actually do anything heroic. The narrative paints their actions in a heroic light, despite their behaviour lining up to morally ambiguous, reckless, or even outright villainous actions. A normal Anti-Hero is typically shown to be conflicted and struggle with choosing between right and wrong, but the Designated Hero is treated as unambiguously heroic. From the praise these Designated Heroes receive from other characters, the narrative, and perhaps Word of God, it is plain that the audience is expected to root for them. However, they often have only superficial virtues, with no Character Development and a free pass from the consequences of their actions with about no one questioning their actions, even when tragedy may result (because they're already perfect and don't need to learn any moral lessons). Note that Values Dissonance can sometimes be a factor with this, since the exact definition of what constitutes heroism has changed over time; a character that comes across as a Designated Hero to a modern audience might well have been The Paragon when the story was written in Feudal Japan or Ancient Rome. Of course, even in modern society, people will have different standards of what constitutes heroism between or within cultures. Such writing might inspire audiences to begin Rooting for the Empire, because they see the villains as "better" than the heroes. The Inverse is a Designated Villain, who the narrative depicts as villainous despite not doing anything wrong. This is often because everything they say gets accompanied by an annoying smirk. These two reactions tend to go hand-in-hand, especially if the "villain" is considered such solely because they oppose the "hero". This is not a requirement, as a Designated Hero could easily oppose a genuine villain that they may be very similar to. This reaction to the writing can also be seen as the inversion to a Villain Protagonist, who is presented as the person that the story is about, but not as a person who guides the moral compass of the story; rather the opposite. A work with a sympathetic Villain Protagonist may attempt to invoke this reaction by making the hero who opposes them a Smug Super or some other deeply flawed and unlikable character. Ironically, a badly done Villain Protagonist can lead to audiences misunderstanding the author's intentions and be perceived as a Designated Hero. If the character is publicly perceived as heroic and/or believes themselves to be a Hero, but is still shown to be villainous within the narrative context of the work, then they're a Villain with Good Publicity and/or a Knight Templar. If a character is a good guy on paper, but doesn't do much that's "heroic" by dint of the fact that they simply don't do much of anything and lack agency when they do, then they are a Pinball Protagonist. An extreme example of Designated Hero is when the character that a sensible work would treat as a monstrous villain is portrayed as The Hero or a Big Good. Note: In-Universe examples or Intentional ones go to Nominal Hero, Evil Hero, Knight Templar, or Villain Protagonist. noreallife
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Designated Hero / int_1013438e	comment	Animals United: Billy. He's a borderline Damsel Scrappy who does more harm than good (such as getting sidetracked by taking a shower, and accidentally getting Socrates captured by Hunter), whereas all the other animals seem to do most of the hard work. In fact, the only thing he does that's considered heroic is blow up the dam (which wouldn't have been accomplished if it hadn't been for Toto, Improbable Aiming Skills, and the lack of physics).
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Designated Hero / int_10d6f47	comment	Roadside Romeo: Romeo makes a lot of reckless and dumb decisions, such as harassing Laila for a kiss, spending protection money, promising Laila to Charlie, and hitting on Laila (even though he knows Charlie will murder him if he does).
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Designated Hero / int_11a510c	comment	The Bella Twins when they were faces. They would switch with each other to win matches. Yeah that's right - faces would cheat to win. And it was presented as completely okay and their opponents were supposed to have deserved it somehow. This was reversed with their heel turn in 2011 where they continued to use it but commentators and other wrestlers would outline it as wrong.
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Designated Hero / int_11db3f8b	comment	Makoto Yosue turned into this by the end of Red String. He started out as an actual and obvious antagonist to the author's originally planned main couple and was a completely rude and relentless jerk to Miharu. Despite him knowing she's engaged and that he's also engaged to marry her cousin, he continues to harass and pursue her. The closest he ever comes in the comic to acknowledging this is apologizing...for still loving Miharu. However, as the author completely fell in love with him, she drastically changed the story to make him more of a protagonist and derail her original storyline to focus more on Makoto. This led to the original male protagonist getting written out of his own comic and Miharu's only concerns in the storyline being her ability to date Makoto. People in the story constantly tell the reader he's "changed" or blow off his continued bad behavior to everyone around him with handwaves. Other storylines not featuring Makoto rapidly dropped out of the comic as it blew towards its conclusion. The author herself declared him her favorite character because of his "self-sacrifice", a trait he never displays in the entire ten years of the comic's run. Miharu eventually winds up with him because the story expects him to have her. By the end of the story, he'd morphed into a complete Karma Houdini and a Creator's Pet, but never actually a person who the reader would actually want to root for. To highlight the complete disconnect between Makoto's portrayal in the comic and how the author wants him to be seen, in one of the final scenes of the comic, Makoto insults Kazuo for having an abusive home and for becoming so ill from it that he tried to commit suicide. Kazuo points out that Makoto entered his life by declaring the then-engaged Miharu and her family's business as his property, both of which he'd gotten his hands on with no actual effort, and pointing out that his life has been nothing but one lucky break or parental bail out after another. We are supposed to take Makoto's side. Oh, and his parents do bail him out once again, leaving him in a better position than he was before the argument...so Kazuo was completely correct that Makoto is completely useless as a protagonist. Miharu devolves into this as well. By the end of the comic, anything about her that indicates she exists to be anything except Makoto's girlfriend has departed the comic and she can't even make the simplest decisions without relying on him to do them for her. Miharu's goal at the start of the comic is eating and being Kazuo's wife. All that changes in the end of the comic? She just intends to be Makoto's wife instead. In the meantime, while the story tries to tell us that she's brave, thoughtful, and spunky, her actions come off as a spoiled bratty teenager that's never been told no. She's kicked out of high school (which is very hard to do in Japan and doubly so at her school in particular) due to her antagonism of her teachers and complete disregard for schoolwork. The story started to show her realizing that she was on her last chance at her new school...then dropped any pretense of showing her ever working on fixing her grades or having any plans beyond marrying the guy that just threw his job away to date her full time and has shown no indication of actually planning on getting another one. In addition, she treats her parents like crap when they rightfully point out her secretly dating Makoto could put her entire family (including Karen's family!) in serious peril if she isn't taking it seriously. Naturally, since Makoto just solved the problem for her, Miharu is never put in a position to admit she's wrong and the last scene of the comic is her mocking her parents. Oh, and Kazuo, the guy she was supposed to marry who she now knows had a physically and emotionally abusive home and who she claimed to still care about and that she'd "always be there for him" even after his family pressured him (physically) into ending the marriage? Yea, she cuts him off entirely and can't even be arsed to tell him in person. She also seems to think she can magically solve his abusive home life by manipulating him into participating in cooking contests and then gets angry and offended when he finally realizes she had convinced a woman to pretend to love him to convince him to cook. Only in that last scenario is Miharu ever shown to admit she did something wrong. The story still expects us to sympathize only with Miharu and be angry with Kazuo despite the fact that he's absolutely right to be angry with her for treating his problems so flippantly.
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Designated Hero / int_160359bd	comment	His US Title feud with Rusev and Lana in 2016 may be even worse, combined with them playing the Designated Villain. Their greatest crime in this feud was obnoxiously promoting the fact that they'd just gotten married, and despite ruining their wedding segment for no real good reason and going out of his way to harass and torment them, Reigns is still presented as the good guy.
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Designated Hero / int_1738f033	comment	Little Angels: The Brightest Christmas: The Angels, despite being there to protect the characters from harm, rarely do anything useful. The kids' father is supposed to be liked because he saved Zeke Eaterman's life during the war at the risk of his own, however, a lot of the trouble Daniel has to go through could have been very easily avoided if it weren't for the dad leaving his kids in a cottage on an isolated mountain.
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Designated Hero / int_186e42e3	comment	Princess: While August's goal is sympathetic, most of the things he does make it very difficult to root for him, such as beating up a man simply for going out with a prostitute, breaking a boy's arm, blowing up a porn industry which very likely had innocent workers that did nothing to deserve being sacrificed, and at the end, plants a bomb inside the mansion that Charlie is supposedly hanging out at, killing many innocent lives in the process, including Mia.
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Designated Hero / int_18770f40	comment	The Princess's Jewels: Princess Ariana. She spends the comic seeking out and collecting gorgeous men to make them part of her harem, referring to them as her "jewels", and treating them like objects for her personal amusement. It's pointed out in this video that she would more likely be the villain of the story if it showed her actions to be as terrible as they are. In the above-mentioned video, a portion of it is devoted to a scene in episode 9. In it, Princess Ariana lures out Lord Meldea by posing as a street dancer. When he comes for her, he's portrayed as the perviest sexual predator of all time, asking her to come into her house, and ordering his men to bring her by force if she refuses. She easily trounces him and his men, all the while chewing him out for treating women like toys for his own sexual amusement, even ordering him to be castrated for what he did. This is all portrayed without the slightest bit of irony, and only the video commentators tear into the blatant hypocrisy Ariana is displaying, considering she's essentially doing the exact same thing as him.
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Designated Hero / int_188d05ad	comment	It's (Not) Your Fault: Sam. She was meant to be seen as a girl with a bad home life and in a messy relationship with Luna, but the fact she lured, kissed and raped Lincoln when she was drunk shows that she isn"t heroine material, but the story still expect us to support her.
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Designated Hero / int_1bfa1b6c	comment	Seth Rollins got hit by this hard in late 2019. Despite being pushed as the top male Face on Raw, audience reaction became increasingly negative, partially due to his booking and partially due to his antagonistic interactions with fans and critics on social media, and the audience turned on not only the character, but also the man. It got to the point that when he attacked Bray Wyatt in the Firefly Fun House, many fans believed it was intended as a double turn. For once, WWE leaned into the crowd response and turned him Heel rather than stubbornly staying the course as they would normally do.
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Designated Hero / int_1d01b4d6	comment	In Much Ado About Nothing, Claudio is tricked into thinking that his fianceÃ© Hero has cheated on him. Instead of asking her about it or even quietly canceling the wedding, he waits until the wedding ceremony was underway then publicly accuses her of being a whore. Even after being (falsely) informed that Hero had died of shock afterwards, he shows no remorse. Then, when a Contrived Coincidence leads to the reveal that no, Hero was in fact completely innocent of every accusation he leveled at her, he finally regrets what he's done... and is rewarded with a Happily Ever After!
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Designated Hero / int_218a6720	comment	One of the biggest criticisms of Nineteen-Ninety-Something is that neither Joel or his friend Aaron are all that likable. The author wanted them to be seen as victims of persecution who are fighting back against an oppressive world and engage in rowdy behavior as coping mechanisms. For many readers, however, they really don't come off as any better than their oppressors; Joel is an inconsiderate, foul-mouthed smart aleck who disregards the opinions of others, while Aaron is a sleazy, woman-obsessed idiot who is Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance. Despite having such predominantly negative traits, we're still expected to root for and sympathize with these two. Later strips attempted to lessen said negative traits in order to make them more genuinely sympathetic, but they didn't completely go away. Eventually, the author just rebooted the comic to a Lighter and Softer version to address the complaints (though that was more about the comic as a whole rather than just Joel and Aaron).
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Designated Hero / int_22030366	comment	Suicide for Hire: While we are supposed to root for these characters, Hunter is a psychopath who enjoys "assisting" the suicides of various people, whether they are willing to go through it or not, and Arcturus is too ineffectual to question their methods and just goes with them.
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Designated Hero / int_2390a534	comment	Coonskin: Despite being the protagonist, Brother Rabbit has no qualms about killing at the drop of a hat. In addition, his plan to "help" the black neighborhood is to do exactly what the Mafia was doing, except he and the black gangster keep all the money. As such from the perspective of the people in the neighborhood, nothing changed. Yet, the story portrays this as a positive change for some reason.
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Designated Hero / int_248f9ed	comment	Homicide was this during his Ring Of Honor feud with Colt Cabana. Yes Cabana had said racially insensitive things within Homicide's earshot, but that hardly warranted attempting to murder the man with drain cleaner. Unless you were the ROH fans that is, as they cheered Homicide the entire way through.
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Designated Hero / int_254ea077	comment	Paige from WWE NXT is a subversion. She was a heel in FCW but got insanely popular so she appeared as a face on TV without a proper character change. However she was presented as more of a Wild Card and the announcers don't imply that her behaviour is justified (or at least particularly heroic) at all. She appears to treat faces and heels equally.
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Designated Hero / int_25b2d654	comment	Totally Spies! The Movie: Jerry tells Clover, Alex and Sam it's okay if they choose not to join W.O.O.H.P., but when they decline the job offer he proceeds to make their lives hell until they join anyway. Although after the girls concede, he's being genuine when he tells them that it's their choice if they don't want to work.
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Designated Hero / int_267cbfa	comment	Dominic Deegan: Dominic has some, ah, interesting methods at his disposal. And for that matter, some rather dubious motives at times. All of Luna's contributions to the salvation of Maltak were accidental, as she was manipulated by higher powers the entire time. That doesn't stop her from taking the credit. Nimmel reveals that one of the reasons he transferred over to Coldfire Academy was because of the ego boost he could get by knowing he had the ability to beat up all the werewolves because the spells he specializes in are stronger there.
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Designated Hero / int_30c3426f	comment	The player characters in Racial Holy War (which somehow manages to suck even worse than the the title implies) are White Warriors- the last hope of the dying white race, out to cleanse the world of evil Latinos (which the game constantly misspells as 'latrinos'), blacks, Asians, middle easterners, and of course Jews. And even aside from that, the totally broken rules mean that they are corrupt enough to accept bribes not to attack in the middle of combat (Jews have the 'special attack' of bribing PCs to skip their turn), and will run whenever they're outnumbered, even if it's by babies (the Morale Mechanic doesn't account for anything other than number of combatants).
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Designated Hero / int_328beaab	comment	Fences: We're meant to believe Troy is a sympathetic character, but he abuses his son, cheats on his wife, is a murderer, and took most of the money from his brother's injury and used it to buy the house that his broken family lives in. On the other hand, he does basically lose everything he cares about before his death.
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Designated Hero / int_35bceb50	comment	Hamlet. There's a fine line between being a Tragic Hero, an overall good person undone by a Fatal Flaw, and being a Designated Hero, a character treated by the narrative as a hero despite doing nothing heroic, and it's a line Hamlet crosses more than twice. After learning from the ghost of his father that his father was murdered by Claudius, Hamlet spends the next act or so mocking and taunting Polonius, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern, while also verbally abusing and Slut-Shaming Ophelia, despite the fact that they had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the murder of Hamlet's father. When Hamlet finally does something, he murders Polonius because he heard a voice behind some curtains and jumps to the conclusion that it must be Claudius. He then hides the body and jokes that everybody will smell him soon enough. The murder of her father at the hands of her betrothed drives Ophelia to insanity and her death (she may even have been Driven to Suicide). Hamlet then deliberately brings about the deaths of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern despite little to no evidence that they actually did anything wrong. He finally gets around to the one person he was supposed to be killing, Claudius, only after the latter has accidentally poisoned Gertrude and gotten Laertes to poison Hamlet, and Laertes then gets accidentally poisoned by Hamlet. So it could be argued that every death that occurs from the start of the play onward is all Hamlet's fault.
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Designated Hero / int_36d2a85c	comment	As a specific example, when Zack Ryder got over with the crowd, Cena became Ryder's "Broski," did his damnedest to whore ALL of the attention, then stole Ryder's girlfriend and never bothered to lift a finger while Kane repeatedly assaulted Ryder. This wasn't a heel turn; he was still being treated as a face in-universe.
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Designated Hero / int_37b7d067	comment	Rhys from Teahouse is supposed to be a troubled and rude yet somewhat charming prince. Except that he's irresponsible (meaning he would be a terrible person to run the country - his sister points this out several times); he's uncaring (he left his sister, grieving over how their father, in whom he had previously shown zero interest, is slowly dying in front of them, so he could go to a whorehouse and fuck a whore - there were plenty of people within the palace who he sleeps with so it isn't a matter of needing comfort/escaping his duties); he violently beat up the whore who, supposedly, slept with his sister after he suggested that she should go there; he's repeatedly raped a male whore who is technically a slave and not allowed to say no (but he still fought back as much as he could before Rhys overpowered him and tied him down) and he only goes to said whore, who's straight, so afterwards he can mock and victim-shame him - meaning he only does it so he can feel better about himself. Not only is he supposed to be a good guy, that whore/prince couple is supposed to be romantic.
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Designated Hero / int_3839f34a	comment	In The Tempest, Prospero is portrayed in the text as a misunderstood Gentleman Wizard who was unfairly usurped of the throne by his brother Antonio. However, Prospero having no qualms about enslaving the island natives Caliban and Ariel has not aged well.
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Designated Hero / int_39832c9	comment	Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer: Santa Claus. He really did commit a hit and run on Grandma, and then kidnapped her instead of taking her inside to her family, only leaving a note behind. While Cousin Mel is the villain of the film, she had next to nothing to do with Santa's negligence other then hiding said note from the Spankenheimer family.
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Designated Hero / int_3c38c613	comment	All of the Christian characters from The Merchant of Venice can be seen this way, especially Portia, who ruins the Designated Villain / Well-Intentioned Extremist Shylock's life, then decides to fuck with her fiance apparently just for the lulz with the whole stupid rings subplot. This is probably mostly due to Values Dissonance. Shylock would most probably have originally been seen as the villain by its original audience and Portia and Antonio (who treats Shylock far worse than Portia who at least gave him what would have been a considered a happy ending) as the heroes. Over time this has changed with peoples attitudes as Shylock's portrayal has gone from villainous clown to tragic figure due to changing views of race and racism. There are those who believe that Shakespeare intended for the play to be taken this way, and that it was deliberately written to subvert anti-Jewish bigotry. There is basis in the text to support this interpretation, but it of course remains a matter of interpretation.
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Designated Hero / int_3eb3bf91	comment	Furry Fight Chronicles: Muko only wants to be a Combagal for perverted purposes and Cookie doesn't hesitate to bribe a rival team to win a fight to pay off her debts. Subverted, as they are nice people despite their flaws and Part 3 has them try to be more self-aware and honorable when it comes to furry fighting. Nyarai fits this trope straighter. She wants to create a better world for Wilds, a noble goal given the Fantastic Racism shown in the comics. However, she's an Ax-Crazy Combagal with a Hair-Trigger Temper and a violent fighting style. The fact that she's one of the four protagonists in Act 1 and yet ends up being one of Muko and Cookie's biggest obstacles following the end of Part 2 only makes this more confusing.
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Designated Hero / int_3f633fb4	comment	Some of the worst offenders in commercials on the Cracked article 6 Ad Campaigns That Prove Humanity Is Doomed.
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Designated Hero / int_3f924653	comment	The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists: Old One is supposedly a wise leader to be admired, but really comes across as a Jerkass who isn't willing to do what it takes to save a dying fellow longneck.
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Designated Hero / int_400469e	comment	Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes can come off like this at times. He's generally portrayed as a smarter conscience to Calvin when the latter is about to misbehave or do something foolish but often doesn't live up to his moral standards, is just as prone to foolish activities as he is and doesn't hesitate to make Calvin suffer. While his aggression towards Calvin can sometimes be mitigated by the fact that he's acting on tiger instinct and it's more often than not a justified reaction whenever Calvin starts the fight, he occasionally bullies him at next to no provocation as well. In addition to physical attacks, he purposefully inconveniences and takes advantage of Calvin despite the latter doing little to deserve it in those situations (e.g. when Calvin was tied to a chair and in another arc where a bee landed on his back) and remorselessly delighting in his misery. Unlike Calvin, who almost always pays for his mischief and selfishness, Hobbes faces virtually no comeuppance and yet you're expected to side against Calvin in the instances where it was uncalled for. Susie Derkins is sometimes this as well. She's portrayed as a victim of parents with high expectations, along with being a frequent target of Calvin's mischief, which burdens her with a degree of stress. However, she will more often than not act hostile to Calvin on instinct and deliver an excessive degree of Disproportionate Retribution for something minor, often to the point of physical abuse. Yet she's typically given the upper hand in the end and the reader is often expected to take her side.
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Designated Hero / int_42961fbf	comment	Ratatoing: Marcel not only steals food from a human restaurant and send his rivals to an animal testing lab, but he's the protagonist of the story and is supposed to be rooted for.
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Designated Hero / int_43a79959	comment	Majikoi! Love Me Seriously!: Yamato is very fond of using underhand tactics, blackmail and is something of a jerk in general, but he reaches a new low in Chris' route. In order to convince his girlfriend to stay in Japan, he decides to tie her up in her sleep and rape her until she changes her mind. When Yamato tells his male friends about this plan, they are only worried about his safety in case he failed, since most girls in the game are absurdly strong. Yet, Chris isn't able to free herself and Yamato manages to overpower her with not much trouble. His explanation: "Men are strong at times like this." The whole incident isn't played dramatically, the word "rape" is never used and Yamato's plan, as usual, ends in success.
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Designated Hero / int_45dbe39b	comment	Randy Orton during his Face runs. Hates Everyone Equally, attacks heels and faces, and in general raises hell just because he can. While the commentators may try to justify it every once in a while, Randy himself is fully aware that a lot of what he does is reprehensible and that he is not a good person in any form or fashion. He just doesn't care.
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Designated Hero / int_48ed41c8	comment	In Pocahontas, Meeko the raccoon and Percy the dog, the Empathy Pets of the main heroine and villain respectively, are meant to be cast in the same positions within their conflict. Yet Meeko steals Percy's food while the latter minds his own business, and continues to do this throughout two movies. And the things that Meeko does would result in bodily harm were his opponent not Made of Iron. To top it all off, he gets away with everything.
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Designated Hero / int_4f2040e9	comment	Tad, the Lost Explorer: Our titular protagonist is no better than Max, as both lie to the female lead (Max admits to it while Tadâ€™s too busy celebrating his discovery to apologize to her), steal (While Max was only interested in stealing ancient relics, Tad and friends actually steal things that are used by other people for a living) and even kill, not to mention puts his coworkers in danger when he's "working."
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Designated Hero / int_4f514657	comment	Charlotte Flair's role as a Designated Hero is less of her doing questionable actions as a face and more of the company trying to retcon her past actions. In 2016, Charlotte was the top heel of the women's division; her actions include multiple Kick the Dog moments, pulling strings to ensure her victory and betraying everyone around her, from her best friend, Becky Lynch to even her father. A year later, she turned face after being attacked by a group of heels without facing any consequences from her actions (aside from losing the Raw Women's Championship) and the people she betrayed easily forgive her without so much of an apology. Another year later, Charlotte again enters another feud with Becky Lynch, with Becky being the heel this time, after the latter attacked Charlotte following their Triple Treat match at Summerslam 2018 which also includes defending champion Carmella. However, the angle completely ignores their 2016 feud and made it as if Charlotte was the one who values friendship over the title. WWE continues to make Charlotte more sympathetic by making her being a role model to children and attempting to turn Becky back by reminding their friendship while making Becky more and more villainous. It's not just David; being the daughter of one of wrestling's greatest legends also has its perks. Ultimately however, because of Becky's massive popularity, WWE gave up and a Face/Heel Double-Turn eventually occurs.
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Designated Hero / int_534a2b3e	comment	The Legend of the Titanic: Taken to the extreme with Re. He is depicted as the Big Good. However, he looks and acts like a Big Bad. Don Juan acts bossy and condescending to the other protagonists whenever they show any doubt or fear and is a total Yes-Man in favor of everything the Atlanteans force on them.
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Designated Hero / int_541f8cd0	comment	Also occurs in the comic Black Tapestries. The main star is a bitch. Also has a Designated Antagonist, who manages to be a villain by a compulsive "Shoot the Dog" reflex.
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Designated Hero / int_58907201	comment	One of the most common criticisms of the Sisterhood in Sinfest. The author wants them to be seen as heroic and noble feminists who are fighting against "the Patriarchy," which is a tangible organization/conspiracy within the world of the strip. Instead, they come across as Jerkass Straw Feminists. They brook no disagreement with their viewpoints and refuse to debate their opinions, perform morally questionable actions (like hacking into a Fembot factory and turning the androids against the staff), and even have a member who, when questioned about why she "hates men," doesn't disagree with the idea and labels men as her oppressor. They are never called out on their more extreme behavior and the author seems to want them to be seen as 100% in the right despite them being objectively worse than the Patriarchy in almost every possible manner. Case in point: when the Sisterhood hack into the Fembot factory, they cause all of the Fembots inside to revolt against the staff working there and attack them. Later, another Fembot who's gained sentience comes across the abandoned factory and finds that the Fembots there had been destroyed. This is treated as a tragedy...except all of the blame is put on the Patriarchy. It's never once acknowledged that the Sisterhood, whatever their intentions may have been, are directly responsible for the violence that occurred there. Since Tats has gone into a QAnon-flavored Filibuster Freefall, this could probably be said of every character now.
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Designated Hero / int_5aa962c	comment	Mora in Las Lindas has a history of using sex, violence, and blackmail to extort people for cheap labor. Mora also throws childish tantrums and belittles her loved ones. Her occasional acts of charity often come as result of plot convenience or her boyfriend bribing her with sex. Yet, every story arc ends with Mora being labeled as the positive force everyone's life, despite her not really doing anything worthy of such praise. Even the ruler of the world shows favoritism towards Mora for no obvious reason, much to the chagrin of Alej.
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Designated Hero / int_5ba8f9d8	comment	Always Raining Here: Carter during most of chapter 1. We're supposed to root for him and take it in good humor that he pesters Adrian nonstop about sex, after Adrian has already told him off multiple times. His propositions are plump, boorish, disrespectful, and he just doesn't stop. Nevermind the fact that his harassment is supported and even enabled by Adrian's so-called best friend Maria. Sure, we later get to see that he draws the line at having sex with a black-out drunk, but, uhm... If we're being technical, he didn't take "no" for an answer, either.
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Designated Hero / int_5db4b412	comment	Carlito Caribbean Cool felt this way about his own face run in WWE, not believing he had done anything to deserve a Heelâ€“Face Turn after poisoning The Big Show and pointing out that insulting and spitting food on people were not exactly good guy behavior.
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Designated Hero / int_5f0bbe53	comment	Lighter Than Heir features a complete jerkass protagonist that deconstructs the Determinator Trope: sure, she's patriotic, optimistic, and never gave up when her instructor stacked the odds to break her jerkass. But she's UTTERLY anti-social, treating her squadmates like malfunctioning weapons, and ends up becoming the intolerable bane of her entire squad (to the ones who can tell the difference between comrade and sociopathic load). And then she proceeds to disown her father over NOTHING (she suspected that he was playing the war hero / cheating on her mother as a disappeared dad - she found out that he was tortured and murdered For Science!) and mass-murder a bunch of soldiers in her way, some of whom turn out to be decent people. It would be understandable if it were for revenge for her experimentation and her father's murder, but she's just utterly loyal to her country and willing to murder anyone who isn't part of her country. It's unknown if her power increase and constant PTSD will eventually develop into character development or full-blown sociopathy. Our Superwoman Expy, ladies and gentlemen!
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Designated Hero / int_62ceda02	comment	All the "heroes" of Sonichu. Many of the female main protagonists only exist solely for "fanservice"; rarely, if ever, do they perform heroics without their significant others, and usually focus on shopping and having sex. Everyone takes the title with issue 10 and later All There in the Manual-type questioning. Issue 10 shows the Author Avatar for Christine Weston Chandler eradicating everything she hated at the time - from homosexuality to simple Internet trolls with her fellow castmates cheering her on. A jarring example that was retconned was when one of the heroes lost his wife to an attack of the trolls. his very young daughter tortured one of the perpetrators to death, later retconned to the murderers being exiled. Chris continuously kept backpedaling and retconning these moments after people kept complaining, leading to her big Creator Breakdown.
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Designated Hero / int_65e80f63	comment	"Stone Cold" Steve Austin was a '90s Anti-Hero during the Attitude Era and it worked because everyone was either a villain or an Anti-Hero, and the villains he faced in particular were into things like corporate corruption, nepotism, and Hollywood Satanism. Ever since around 2003 he's presented as a face (and is still popular) but hasn't changed his act so he's a straight up jerk. He once stunned Stacy Keibler simply because she didn't like the taste of beer and also Linda McMahon (a middle aged woman who is not a trained wrestler) just for the hell of it. If any other wrestler had done this, Jim Ross on commentary would have vilified them but with Stone Cold just said "I may not like it but that's the way he is." He also stunned Booker T at WrestleMania for doing a spinaroonie in the ring (apparently Austin doesn't like the attention being stolen from him) and also Josh Matthews for simply reading a message from the Raw GM that Austin didn't like.
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Designated Hero / int_66ec07b2	comment	Sir Billi: Sir Billi himself. While he's the film's hero, he's kind of a jerk to everyone, including going as far as to threaten police officers when they try to stop him doing something he'll regret.
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Designated Hero / int_69f415b0	comment	Aladdin and the Adventure of All Time: Both Aladdin and Paige in the 3rd act, forcibly changing people who weren't like their traditional depictions looking like their stereotypes, murdering a pharaoh and making the world a worse place by "correcting" mistakes in time. By the end of the story, Aladdin and Paige are directly responsible for the genocidal tyranny of Henry VIII, the murderous piracy of Blackbeard, the brutal civil war between Rome and Egypt, and making the Leaning Tower of Pisa lean. And then at the end they Mind Rape the Big Bad into becoming good and force her to release dozens of potentially dangerous prisoners back into society. Aladdin is especially this for not caring about Paige (when she was to be sacrificed) or his girlfriend (who he forgot) to flirt with Cleopatra until she revealed her obesity, which is fixed.
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Designated Hero / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons has a number of these scattered across its many novels and settings: The Gods of Good from Dragonlance come off as this more than once, especially in the original novel trilogy written by Weis & Hickman. The corrupt ruler of a theocratic empire trying to demand the power to break the Balance Between Good and Evil by eliminating evil obviously should be met by throwing around extremely vague portents of doom with no clear messages to the mortals as to why the gods are angry, culminating in devastating the planet with a cataclysmic meteor strike. Oh, and make sure you kidnap all of the still-faithful priests and whisk them away to the god's realms first, and never send them back to minister to the survivors during the massive disasters, famines and plagues that result from the Cataclysm afterwards. And don't forget about being offended when mortalkind is angered by this treatment, declare mortalkind has "turned its back on the gods", and abandon them for centuries to struggle in the now-devastated world with no healing magic of any kind! Small wonder that a lot of fans support Tanis Half-Elven and those of similar view when they claim the gods are arrogant, self-absorbed bastards who don't deserve reverence in the first place. Also from Dragonlance, part of the reason that Kender are considered The Scrappy is because of this trope. Despite the race description defying logic for their continued survival and encouraged to act as The Millstone towards other players (famously detailed here◊), Word of God states that they are unambiguously good and beneficial to the world.
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Designated Hero / int_6ba3c140	comment	Dear Evan Hansen: Evan Hansen is supposed to be seen as an adorkable, relatable, well-intentioned protagonist, held back by serious mental health issues. However, all the daddy and abandonment issues in the world can barely offset the fact that he pretends to have been friends with Connor, a kid who died by suicide. Initially, this is just Evan not correcting a mistaken assumption by Connor's family (the title of the musical comes from the fact Connor had a note that started "Dear Evan Hansen" on him when he died, and the family doesn't realize that Evan wrote it and Connor stole it to make fun of), which is somewhat understandable—it's an intense moment and he's very socially inept. But Evan not only fails to tell them the truth as time goes on, but actually adds even more lies, going so far as to write an entire fake email correspondence, so that he can continue to receive affection and attention. On top of that, he romantically pursues Connor's sister under these false pretenses. But wait, we're supposed to feel sorry for Evan?
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Designated Hero / int_6be8daef	comment	Freddie as F.R.O.7: Freddie as an adult is far more concerned about fulfilling his mission while being a Smug Super about it. This includes keeping disabling walkie-talkies of his teammates without their consent, treating Messina as a nuisance, despite the latter murdering his parents and letting her get away to do more horrible things. That and he's a huge jerk to everyone except Nessie.
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Designated Hero / int_6d8196eb	comment	Injustice (2021): Batman is supposed to be the more moral of the world's finest due to his no-kill policy but just comes across as a stubborn self-righteous hypocrite who cares more about getting Superman to follow his personal code rather than helping save lives. Batman doesn't try to reason with Superman other than moralistic scolding about not being the world's police and breaking the law despite Batman being a vigilante (which is illegal). Batman's organized assault on the Fortress of Solitude only escalates things between them and results in the death of the Atom, Green Arrow, and Jonathan Kent, and pushes Superman to ally with Ra's al Ghul, who came to his rescue. And for all of Batman's complaints about Superman killing Joker, he has no issue allying with Catwoman who is seen snapping the neck of a League of Assassin goon, to say nothing about him standing alongside Harley Quinn who helped murder millions. Harley Quinn is this as well. She takes part in the Joker's atrocious crimes, bombs a city full of millions of innocents, and caused many of the films horrors, yet she gets to join up with the heroes and is Easily Forgiven despite not showing any regret for her decisions in this movie like she did in the games. It also doesn't help that her Character Development was adapted out so we don't get more of an understanding of her position.
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Designated Hero / int_7203e5dd	comment	Sinbad in Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas. Aside from the obvious fact that he is sent because he's their only option, the general way Sinbad acts for almost the entire movie makes him little to no different than a villain. He starts the movie trying to rob a ship, not even caring when it's his childhood friend Proteus he's robbing. Sinbad is then set up to be executed for a crime he didn't commit, and Proteus decides to take Sinbad's place in exchange for Sinbad retrieving the Book of Peace. Especially since Proteus is a prince who is next in line to inherit the throne, which means his death would result in a Succession Crisis and doom his entire country. Yet despite this overwhelming amount of faith Proteus puts in Sinbad, the pirate responds by leaving him behind to die, believing that King Dymas would never let them execute his son (he's correct, but when Dymas later engineers Proteus' escape, Proteus refuses to leave). And Sinbad very well would have gotten away with had it not been for Proteus' fiancee Marina stowing aboard the ship to make sure he keeps his word. When she saves the crew from a Siren attack, Sinbad actually has to be pressured into showing her any gratitude at all. But the two gradually warm up to each other and start to fall in love, despite Marina's prior engagement. Eris even calls Sinbad out on this, saying that even if he's not betraying Proteus by running away, he is stealing Proteus' girl. He does go back in the end, but it's very hard to see what goodness is in him that others are seeing. And most of all, he's the one who ends up with Marina in the end.
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Designated Hero / int_760e3662	comment	Wonder Woman (2009): Steve Trevor. He spends the majority of the film being a sexist creep who seems to only tag along with Diana because he wants to sleep with her. This is despite the fact Diana spends much of the film making it clear she is not interested. At one point, he even offers her alcohol before making a pass on her, ostensibly because he thought alcohol would make her more willing to sleep with him (to be clear, Diana had explicitly never had alcohol before and was unfamiliar with the concept and its effects; he was trying to take advantage of her ignorance of this). Earlier, he spies on Amazons who are bathing, and even earlier, was hitting on a rookie despite being her commanding officer. Then he lectures Diana on how Not All Men are the monsters she thinks they are, even though he himself has repeatedly demonstrated the behaviors she's criticizing, and the narrative presents it as him being right. Yet she still gets together with him at the end.
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Designated Hero / int_78d0c8c6	comment	Justice League: War: Green Lantern is an Too Dumb to Live Jerkass, Superman is a straight-up thug (or seems that way, with Batman noting, "You bruise, but you don't kill, do you... Clark."), Wonder Woman cares more about fighting than actually being an Ambassador, and Shazam is literally a spoiled brat in a man's body, and yet the audience is expected to root for them.
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Designated Hero / int_78eece84	comment	Teen Titans Go! To the Movies discusses, expands, and probably deconstructs this trope's effect on the cartoon already explored in the Western Animation section. The main drive of the movie is that the Titans, Robin especially, want a movie of their own, but they are looked down upon in the superhuman community, considered just sidekicks at best, or immature jerks at worst. Superman is shown to be incredibly upset that Cyborg considers finding a burger shop and saving room for dessert to be heroic. Even Slade, who is made their Big Bad, doesn't take them seriously.
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Designated Hero / int_79620aaa	comment	Sandra and Woo: Ye Thuza is starting to become this. While her actions of dismantling a safety harness already caused a bit of a Broken Base, it's what she does after that plants her here. She also appears to have killed an overzealous feminist for being mean to her son, but that incident might benefit from Refuge in Audacity (and from the victim being resoundly hated by the readers).
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Designated Hero / int_7ba9ab8c	comment	Simple Samosa: Samosa not liking how Cham Cham can be quite nasty towards him is understandable, but some of the things Samosa does to his rival are... questionable. In "Makkhi Makkhi", he bullies Cham Cham by scaring him into thinking there's a fly on his back, and in "Patang Hurdang", he doesn't bother to help Cham Cham down to the ground when he is lifted far into the air by kites, even after helping Vada from the same situation. In both instances, it's supposed to be funny since the two are constantly at each others' throats, even though Cham Cham did nothing wrong beforehand.
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Designated Hero / int_82061001	comment	The Elite were treated as the face during their feud with the Blackpool Combat Club in 2023. While the latter faction were indeed a group who embraced violence and love to beat up their opponents, the same can be said for the former team, who not only has done every dirty trick in the book even when they were face, they never actually turned face properly since their previous heel run, simply returning to being face in the middle of 2022 after being betrayed by Adam Cole in a storyline that was abandoned. Most notably, Adam Page abandoning his friends from The Dark Order, to rejoin his obnoxious but more popular other friends who kick him out few years prior, doesn't sit well with fans, especially when the Dark Order previously helped him to overcome the darkest moments of his life. Kenny Omega's quote about the Elite fighting for "heart, passion, soul, friendship, and love" also rings hollow since, cheating and ruthlessness aside, Omega has been channeling his anger towards his former mentor, Don Callis over his betrayal and aiding his enemies. In their Blood & Guts match, the Elite fight more like a heel, especially in the ending where they gang up on Wheeler Yuta in a five-on-one assault with more and more brutal attacks (multiple consecutive finishers and weapon shots including pressing his face onto a spiked boot) while handcuffing Jon Moxley, forcing him to watch Yuta being choked with a steel chain until Mox surrenders. The reason they chose Yuta as their vitim seems to be less about the Elite paying the BCC with retribution for the violence inflicted on them or Page and Omega's personal rivalry with Moxley and more about Yuta pinning Omega during their Anarchy in the Arena match two months prior at Double or Nothing.
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Designated Hero / int_85a9b36f	comment	One of the many complaints that The Emoji Movie has is that the main character, Gene, who is meant to be seen as the hero, causes the majority of the film's problems ranging from panicking for no good reason while being scanned by Alex, causing several apps to be deleted, and even leaving the Just Dance girl, Akiko Glitter, to die in the trash along with the Trolls while only showing concern for Hi-5. It really doesn't help that it's technically Gene's fault Akiko is in the trash to begin with. It also doesn't help that, while Smiler does want Gene to be deleted, she does have an extremely good reason for being angry at him since he technically is a major threat toward the entire cellphone.
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Designated Hero / int_85d969fe	comment	Stanley from A Troll in Central Park. Aside from just being a delusional idiot, his "perfect world" is filled with trolls who look and think exactly like him, he acts waaayyy too happy when a toddler kisses him, and at the end of the film he covers New York City in vegetation, causing untold devastation and no doubt killing hundreds of people.
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Designated Hero / int_88b580f0	comment	This is the most common fan perception of the Red Talons from Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Although they are probably intended to be seen as the Token Evil Teammate, the fact of the matter that they're an entire Tribe whose hat is embracing the anti-human Fantastic Racism aspects of the setting and whose near-universal goal is the reduction of humanity back to Stone Age-level hunter-gatherers (if not its outright extermination) means most fans regard them with great distaste and they are near-universally banned as a player option. It's telling that their creed is used with fairly minimal changes as the philosophy of an outright villain faction, the Predator Kings, in Spiritual Successor Werewolf: The Forsaken. Likewise, the Silver Fangs tribe, whose defining trait is also Fantastic Racism, but of the belief that werewolves are a Superior Species who should be ruling over humanity, and that their own "superior" lineage means they should be ruling over werewolves. Not only do they have a strong Aristocrats Are Evil vibe, but their beliefs actually made them collaborators with the Nazi regime, a stain they still haven't overcome In-Universe and with several editions of attempts to fix them. As with the Red Talons, they served as the foundation for one of the villainous factions in Spiritual Successor Werewolf: The Forsaken: their heirs are the Ivory Claws, who're an entire tribe that are as close to unrepentant werewolf Nazi Nobleman as you can get without them actually running around with swastikas. Speaking of which, it hasn't gone unnoticed that the Get of Fenris tribal symbol looks a lot like a swastika. It's implied that this was not a mistake, either — there was a sizable camp of full-blown Nazi Garou (The Swords of Heimdall) in their ranks prior to the Second World War's end, and the tribe as a whole still uses a lot of rhetoric about the Garou (particularly the Get) being a "superior" species to humans and the other Changing Breeds despite this. Added to their Stay in the Kitchen tendencies, violent abhorrence of "weakness", and Social Darwinist views that have seen them outright attack other tribes in the past, it's difficult to see them as heroes a fair amount of the time. The Changing Breeds get in on this, too, especially the wererats, who are essentially "What if the Skaven were presented as heroic?" Insane even by the game's standards, they're plaguemasters who actively spread pandemics and poison human consumables, with one splatbook spelling out their endgame being perhaps even more extreme than the Red Talons - not only over 90% of all humans dead, but the rest kept only as test subjects or future wererats themselves. (By contrast, the Kitsune's original, sane plan of "Lay low until this all blows over" gets treated as rank cowardice.)
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Designated Hero / int_8a218119	comment	The Christmas Light: Santa and Isaac come off as real jerks here; the narration makes a point of mentioning that Burton is ostracized by Isaac and the other elves and the jolly old elf himself comes off as apathetic at best to Burton. Then later after Burton transforms into the Snowman, Isaac and Santa not only don't seem to care that this happened to Burton but seem to have no qualms whatsoever about outright killing him, and are only prevented from doing so by Jennifer.
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Designated Hero / int_90dfba1e	comment	Vegan Artbook. All vegan characters are intolerant, self-righteous assholes who bully people who disagree with them. The one who doesn't (Bunny) is portrayed as an antagonist for respecting people who disagree with her. On the other hand, Raziel is even more extreme than the others, hates humanity in general, murders a man for telling her a joke, and she is portrayed in a positive light because she agrees with the author. The vegans also tolerate Sterk, who is a demonic serial killer, when he kills meat eaters. Meanwhile, the worst thing the "bad guys" do is buying bacon.
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Designated Hero / int_9191777d	comment	Rumble: Winnie Coyle is meant to be seen as the main heroine, yet she happens to inconvenience everybody around her. She causes the plot of the whole film by interfering with a match between Tentacular and King Gorge by telling Tentacular how to win, causing Stoker Stadium to be under threat of demolishment when Tentacular wishes to love to Slitherpoole. Later on, the film shows King Gorge injured and traumatized but it only chooses to chew out Tentacular for it and not call out Winnie. Winnie also treated Steve very poorly, interfering with a match he was supposed to throw and causing him to be in debt with his boss and being forced to train under Winnie to pay off the debt. Even then Winnie bosses Steve around and forced him into a dangerous match as punishment when he slacks on training and even then the film expects audiences to feel sorry for Winnie due to her fatherâ€™s death and his legacy being in jeopardy of being torn down Despite Winnieâ€™s bossy hypocritical, and selfish behavior in the film, she is not only never called out for her behavior by anybody but she is also rewarded for it by becoming a monster wrestling Champion coach like her father, getting everything she ever wanted in the process.
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Designated Hero / int_98f62636	comment	Other than those feuds, there's that one time he straight up stole a car. And no, Jerry Lawler, "just borrowing it" is not a valid legal defense. (He also promised its owner he wouldn't mess it up - then proceeded to drive it through mud and low-hanging vegetation while eating a huge sloppy burrito in it.)
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Designated Hero / int_9996ca97	comment	Charming: Philippe's meant to be the movie's hero, but a combination of lack of Show, Don't Tell (the movie says he hates his curse and tries not to take advantage of it, but his establishing scene shows him deliberately flirting with every woman in town and he does so several more times during the plot) and his status as The Load during the gauntlet scenes make it hard to see why we're supposed to root for him.
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Designated Hero / int_a0075eb5	comment	Oklahoma!: The hero tries to drive a lonely, unstable young man to suicide over a girl? That's pretty messed up.
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Designated Hero / int_a0e4a1cb	comment	Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie: Jonah is framed as a deliberate and deconstructed version of this idea in the story. While he does bring enlightening messages to the people of Israel, he never actually does anything particularly heroic. When he is ordered by God to deliver a message to the infamously sinful Nineveh, Jonah disobeys his orders by sailing the other way, though he does show shades of guilt at doing this. When the pirates and their ship are endangered by a massive storm, Jonah realizes his mistake and abandons ship to suffer the consequences for his actions. After being eaten then vomited by a whale, Jonah decides to get the message delivered to Nineveh and be done with it. After he sends the message, the citizens of Nineveh change their ways, but Jonah still expects God to annihilate the city. However, after God had a large plant grow to shade Jonah from the sun as he waits, Jonah has the gall to be upset when Khalil eats the stem of the plant. Even after Klahil gets it through Jonah's head that God has given Nineveh a second chance at redemption, which was exactly what He had given Jonah, Jonah still complains at how unfair all of it is. Of course, Khalil and Reginald decide to leave Jonah to wallow in his selfish misery, which is done to get the message of the story across. When the veggies listening to the story realize this, the Pirates explain that Jonah's heroism is besides the point.
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Designated Hero / int_a960a99b	comment	Brooke Tessmacher in TNA. She unfortunately was pushed as a face but made it clear she wasn't able to portray herself that way. She came across as arrogant and full of herself in her entrance, bratty and bitchy in her promos and unnecessarily brutal in the ring. In her feud with her best friend Tara she came across as the heel initially until the latter turned heel on her.
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Designated Hero / int_ab67d84	comment	Ctrl+Alt+Del: Christian is a jerk, doing some incredibly slimy things, but considering that Ethan's antics have also screwed over people whom he considers his friends for selfish reasons and have even put people's lives in danger, it gets harder to root for Ethan.
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Designated Hero / int_ae62a4cb	comment	Proteus and Valentine, The Two Gentlemen of Verona themselves, treat their supposed love ones like crap. Proteus emotionally cheats on his hometown girlfriend Julia, tries to steal his best friend Valentine's girlfriend Silvia and gets Valentine banished just to remove any competition, and threatens to rape Silvia if she will not submit to his advances. In the text he is still forgiven by Valentine and Julia at the end. Valentine offers Silvia to Proteus if the latter wants her that badly as if Silvia were an inanimate object to be traded at will, and even though Proteus threatened to sexually assault Silvia just moments earlier.
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Designated Hero / int_af457929	comment	Davey Stone from Eight Crazy Nights spends most of the movie being a complete asshole towards everyone and commits a lot of crimes in the process, and we are supposed to root for him somehow. Even when he learns to be a nicer person towards the end, he still never faces any consequences for his actions and each of his heinous deeds have been completely ignored by the end of the movie.
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Designated Hero / int_b433fae7	comment	Tails Gets Trolled: In general, the protagonists often do things that make them no better than the trolls. Shadow and Sonic are the biggest offenders. However, as the story goes on this starts to gets subverted a bit as Sonic's attempt at revenge on the trolls leads to him being killed brutally. And after the failure of the fucking awesome plan, Shadow is painted in a much more negative light to the point that even Knuckles calls him out on his brutality.
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Designated Hero / int_b46d4dee	comment	The Ballad of Edgardo: Literally every Player Character with the exception of Edgardo, A Guy Called Squid, and Goldnharl was a complete Jerkass whose only heroic quality was that they fight the evil "shadows" menacing the world (not that we ever actually see any of them do this). The most powerful "hero" in the game even rules a portion of the world like an iron-fisted dictator and functions as the Big Bad of the story.
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Designated Hero / int_b5a087d7	comment	In a Robot Chicken parody, Barney is hanged after he kills Fred for his cereal and then kills all the animal appliances for witnessing the crime.
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Designated Hero / int_b692113b	comment	Sheamus often comes off as these, and in 2013, had three straight feuds like this. First, he had a pre-Wrestlemania feud against Wade Barrett, which began when Wade started bragging about a movie he got to appear in. Sheamus, for no apparent reason, came out to answer this bragging by crapping all over the movie and Wade's acting skills. The odd part is that nothing ever came of this, partly because Sheamus was already in feuding with The Shield at the time, so it made his actions seem unnecessarily dickish. Secondly, he feuded with Mark Henry. This began when Henry attacked Sheamus backstage, during interviews, a couple of times. Sheamus paid these attacks back, then continued harassing him even after he seemed to lose interest in Sheamus. In two cases, Mark Henry challenged Sheamus to non-wrestling physical contests (tug-of-war and arm wrestling), which he clearly outclassed Sheamus in with superior strength alone. Sheamus came off as a massive dick by assaulting Henry in the middle of these just to keep himself from losing, or just to get the last laugh. His third feud is with Damien Sandow, which consisted almost entirely of Sandow expressing intellectual superiority, then Sheamus attacking him for no particular reason. Even in cases where Sandow was legitimately acting like a dick (cheating at the shell game), Sheamus still ended up looking like quite a dick, such as completing the chess challenge by destroying the expensive computer for no apparent reason. Other than those feuds, there's that one time he straight up stole a car. And no, Jerry Lawler, "just borrowing it" is not a valid legal defense. (He also promised its owner he wouldn't mess it up - then proceeded to drive it through mud and low-hanging vegetation while eating a huge sloppy burrito in it.)
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Designated Hero / int_bc8c577c	comment	First, he had a pre-Wrestlemania feud against Wade Barrett, which began when Wade started bragging about a movie he got to appear in. Sheamus, for no apparent reason, came out to answer this bragging by crapping all over the movie and Wade's acting skills. The odd part is that nothing ever came of this, partly because Sheamus was already in feuding with The Shield at the time, so it made his actions seem unnecessarily dickish.
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Designated Hero / int_be896abf	comment	Little Princess School: The princesses are constantly trying to skip school and lie to everyone if they get caught. This behavior is not portrayed as wrong at any point.
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Little Princess School	hasFeature	Designated Hero / int_be896abf
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Designated Hero / int_bf724cac	comment	The Adventures of the American Rabbit: Rob constantly misses opportunities to stop the Jackals throughout the movie, and only directly stops about two of them by the time the movie's over.
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Designated Hero / int_bfd7c6e0	comment	Ariel from Drowtales. As the narrator and viewpoint character, she considers herself a hero, in a world where nobody can decently be called such. Though the fact that she considers herself a 'hero' is toned down in the remake. She just wants to live, and some of her more dubious actions have been retconned or changed. Her not really mother Quain'taina, is also portrayed as this In-Universe, because to the Drow the definition of a great person is capability to do great deeds. Morality does not enter into the matter. Quain'tana's virtue lies in her skills and charisma that allowed her to rise from a homeless street rat to one of the greatest political powers in the city, while the fact that she's a horrifically cruel mother is not particularly important to the drow. She isn't a sociopath, incidentally. It's more of a case of a cycle of abuse.
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Designated Hero / int_c08b8d75	comment	The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue: Timmy for his Failure Hero status, the praise he gets for doing virtually nothing, his unwillingness to follow directions and for his overall recklessness in confronting the obstacles before him.
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Designated Hero / int_c242b976	comment	Vulcan, the main character of Lets Bible, who, within five pages of his introduction, knocks the female lead unconscious and drags her onto his boat with the intent to rape her. When the two of them get attacked, the only reason he protects her is so that he can have his way with her later. Only sheer amounts of Crazy Is Cool and Rule of Funny stop him from being completely unlikable (and the fact that he gets better eventually.)
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Designated Hero / int_c2ab3494	comment	Turandot: Calaf's stubbornness and general refusal to care about anything except winning Turandot's hand, as well as Liu dying for him, don't endear him to some viewers. Lampshaded in certain productions where Timur, Calaf's father, disowns his son after Liu's death.
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Designated Hero / int_c3210502	comment	The Hulk Hogan/Sid feud of 1992. The whole feud started because Sid had eliminated Hogan fair and square at the 92 Royal Rumble match and then Hogan proceed to cost Sid the match. Then afterwards Jack Tunney was going to give Hogan the title match at Wrestlemania till Sid challenged Hogan and pointed out how unfair that was. Hogan was presented as the face in the feud while Sid was the heel despite the fact Sid had legitimate gripes to be mad at Hogan.
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Designated Hero / int_c840a2cc	comment	Secondly, he feuded with Mark Henry. This began when Henry attacked Sheamus backstage, during interviews, a couple of times. Sheamus paid these attacks back, then continued harassing him even after he seemed to lose interest in Sheamus. In two cases, Mark Henry challenged Sheamus to non-wrestling physical contests (tug-of-war and arm wrestling), which he clearly outclassed Sheamus in with superior strength alone. Sheamus came off as a massive dick by assaulting Henry in the middle of these just to keep himself from losing, or just to get the last laugh.
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Designated Hero / int_c8c643ca	comment	The Magic Roundabout (2005): Dougal, as explained by DazzReviews:
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Designated Hero / int_cc7ca1f7	comment	How I Became Yours: Katara. She's presented as vain ("I'm sure that Kuzon will come out quite charming, with me as his mom."), self-absorbed ("[Kuzon] died years ago, a day before my birthday..." emphasis not added), and murderous (do we even really need to mention Mai's horrifying death again?). Yet she's somehow always right and no one ever questions her. The same could be said for Zuko. Cheats on his wife, fathers a baby with the designated heroine mentioned above, smacks Mai when she confronts him, leaves his kingdom to go to Katara... and yet we're supposed to sympathize with him?
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Designated Hero / int_cffa1bda	comment	Siegfried from Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung. The anti-Semitic connotations with his treatment of Mime don't help, even if Mime is a Dirty Coward.
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Designated Hero / int_d415638	comment	Vuk the Little Fox: Vuk; while he is the protagonist, he kills lots of innocent, apparently sentient animals. He also systematically destroys a human's property
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Designated Hero / int_d81e3d2d	comment	His third feud is with Damien Sandow, which consisted almost entirely of Sandow expressing intellectual superiority, then Sheamus attacking him for no particular reason. Even in cases where Sandow was legitimately acting like a dick (cheating at the shell game), Sheamus still ended up looking like quite a dick, such as completing the chess challenge by destroying the expensive computer for no apparent reason.
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Designated Hero / int_d8866f4f	comment	Sly Cooper: Thief of Virtue: Sly tends to act rather selfish in this comic and almost kills Kevin Turbo by threatening to tip his car into water. In the chapter "Welcome to the Jungle", Sly neglects to mention that there were warlords who Zahn had sold weapons to that planned to terrorize the Congo.
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Designated Hero / int_dd638dbf	comment	Oscar from Shark Tale constantly lies and gets himself into trouble, no matter what anybody else does to get him OUT of trouble. For instance, his friend Angie gives him a pearl that her grandmother gave her to get him out of a debt. What does Oscar do? Instead of paying off the debt, he bets the pearl at the seahorse races (which backfires on him spectacularly). He complains about a job where he's popular, paying the bills, and well-liked because he wants to be rich and famous instead, and it's clear that the people who dislike him do so for very justifiable reasons. Even after he has his supposed epiphany, he still directly causes the events of the climax by taunting the villains while he was on a time limit. It's only during the climax that he uses his image as the "Sharkslayer" to the benefit of anyone other than himself, and he never receives any real comeuppance for his actions and basically gets everything he ever wanted. In fact, the most consistent criticism about the film is just how unlikable Oscar is as a protagonist, to the point that any other discussion of the film is overshadowed by it.
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Designated Hero / int_e066a2e0	comment	This trope is the main complaint fans have with Pucca. While the title heroine is a Nice Girl for the most part, she's also an Abhorrent Admirer, a Yandere, a Clingy Jealous Girl, and a Stalker with a Crush par excellence who torments Garu to no end and anyone who gets in between her and Garu is beaten senselessly whether they're right or wrong. The other characters in the show are fully aware of how ridiculously creepy Pucca can be around Garu, but they write it off as "Funny Love". Despite this, we're supposed to root for her because everyone in Sooga Village loves her unconditionally (even naming a year after her) even though she gets away with things that would get any other character arrested years ago. The fact that she's an Invincible Hero who can effortlessly solve her problems does not help her case.
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Designated Hero / int_e75c6d45	comment	Goblins plays with this by putting the protagonists on the receiving end. A band of adventurers invade their home to clear them out with no other justification than that they were goblins and therefore Always Chaotic Evil. Most of the tribe gets wiped out and the survivors decide that they are sick of being walking chunks of XP and decide to become adventurers themselves to better protect their homes. Then, one of their own gets captured and brought into a human city where so-called "monstrous races" are routinely captured and tortured to better understand how to kill them. While it might seem that they slip into this trope's territory when they slaughter guards, they actually use the paladin's ability to detect evil to ensure only evil guards are killed. And Thaco's declaration of his intent to slaughter his way through the human civilians to get to his son is a bluff to scare away said civilians so that they aren't caught in the crossfire.
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Designated Hero / int_e9db0df8	comment	Miniforce: The Miniforce are indeed heroic when they are in their suits fighting baddies, and they do get their jobs done, but they act like brats around Suzy when they are in their normal animal forms living at her house. Out of all four main members of the Miniforce, Volt is easily the worst offender, while Lucy is the best-behaved of the bunch (but even she has her moments occasionally too). Possibly justified in that, heroes who save the day or not, the Miniforce are still young kids.
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Designated Hero / int_eb70d058	comment	Sasha Banks' first Heelâ€“Face Turn in 2016 begins with her attacking Becky Lynch after she lost her match to Charlotte Flair, before challenging the latter herself. Though she remains a Face for the next few years, Sasha herself displays little qualities of one herself, simply only being the Face because she is feuding with Heels. In 2018, she repeatedly betrays her best friend Bayley yet the latter is treated as the bad guy after Bayley begins to treat Sasha the same way she treated her and not once does the commentators brought up Sasha threw the first stone first or does Sasha apologize for being a bad friend. This angle ended with both of them forgiving each other but is revisited two years later in 2020 when both are heels. After failing to recapture the Women's Tag Team Championship, Bayley attacked Sasha, turning the latter Face. Like in 2018, the angle does not bring up Sasha's previous betrayals or the fact that she was responsible of turning Bayley Heel the previous year. And if Bayley's claim has any truth in it and considering Sasha's past treatment towards Bayley, Sasha would had betray Bayley first if Bayley hadn't act first. Following the end of their feud, Sasha continues to act as an Alpha Bitch and has made several turns throughout 2021 depending who she is feuding with. Notably, Sasha was treated as the Face when Shotzi turned Heel on October 29th, despite it was Sasha who interfered in Shotzi's match with Charlotte, whom Sasha is feuding with at the time, and costing Shotzi the match. In fact, Sasha never even undergo a proper Heelâ€“Face Turn at the time, as she was a Heel not too long ago while feuding with Bianca Belair and Becky Lynch before targeting Charlotte.
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Designated Hero / int_ec58a50e	comment	BÃ©bÃ©'s Kids. The kids destroy a theme park and cause trouble for many innocent people there, yet they never get punished for it. Worse, the audience is expected not to think badly of them because they have a poor life and have "attitude." In the original stand up routine the movie was based on, they were clearly the antagonists. Robin Harris was criticizing irresponsible parents who were too selfish to raise and discipline their ill-behaved children. Also, Robin Harris' character in the movie qualifies for this trope too; generally acting like a major Jerkass to everyone yet actually being praised as a good guy despite doing nothing good whatsoever.
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Designated Hero / int_ec669f60	comment	Joshua and the Promised Land: Chris doesn't really come off as the helpful "Best Friend" he paints himself as. His attempt to give Joshua courage entails 40 years of hardship including killing people and wandering the desert with no food, and culminates in convincing him to commit genocide with questionable justifications that even Joshua seems reluctant about. And he breaks his promise to have Joshua home before dinner.
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Designated Hero / int_ecd3889f	comment	John Cena frequently. One evening he hurled a hurricane of fat jokes at Vickie Guerrero who admittedly used to be overweight but has since slimmed down considerably. He also frequently bullies his opponents, spins and distorts the truth to get into their heads, and generally acts like a smug prick when he's called on his behavior, but is still presented as a role model and leads the B.A. Star Anti Bullying campaign as well as most (if not all) WWE's charity causes. As a specific example, when Zack Ryder got over with the crowd, Cena became Ryder's "Broski," did his damnedest to whore ALL of the attention, then stole Ryder's girlfriend and never bothered to lift a finger while Kane repeatedly assaulted Ryder. This wasn't a heel turn; he was still being treated as a face in-universe. Another example came with him, portraying the All-American Babyface against Alexander Rusev's Foreign Wrestling Heel, beating up Rusev because Rusev said disparaging things about America, not five minutes after Cena told Rusev he had the right to free speech in this country.
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Designated Hero / int_edfc54b3	comment	Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans: While 2013 Robin is annoying, it was actually 2003 Robin who started insulting both Robin and the 2013 Titans. At the end of the film, he kept giving Robin backhanded compliments while the latter seemed willing to ignore their dislike for each other at some moments in the film. Despite this, the 2003 version was treated with far more respect that 2013 Robin.
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Designated Hero / int_f349915b	comment	The Gods of Good from Dragonlance come off as this more than once, especially in the original novel trilogy written by Weis & Hickman. The corrupt ruler of a theocratic empire trying to demand the power to break the Balance Between Good and Evil by eliminating evil obviously should be met by throwing around extremely vague portents of doom with no clear messages to the mortals as to why the gods are angry, culminating in devastating the planet with a cataclysmic meteor strike. Oh, and make sure you kidnap all of the still-faithful priests and whisk them away to the god's realms first, and never send them back to minister to the survivors during the massive disasters, famines and plagues that result from the Cataclysm afterwards. And don't forget about being offended when mortalkind is angered by this treatment, declare mortalkind has "turned its back on the gods", and abandon them for centuries to struggle in the now-devastated world with no healing magic of any kind! Small wonder that a lot of fans support Tanis Half-Elven and those of similar view when they claim the gods are arrogant, self-absorbed bastards who don't deserve reverence in the first place.
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Designated Hero / int_f7c31cf2	comment	Sonic the Comic â€“ Online! is a deconstruction of this trope, showing the consequences of Sonic's behavior from the original Sonic the Comic. Even from the start, it's clear Sonic's ego, putdowns and self-righteousness has begun to wear thin on everyone and when the Kane Network uses their resources to reveal all of his more morally ambiguous decisions to Mobius, the populace finally hits their breaking point and turns on Sonic.
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Designated Hero / int_fbec28e2	comment	Rock and Rule: Omar, being a self-interested, egotistical, antisocial and apathetic Jerkass, is this for the majority of the film, arguably only stepping up and being heroic in the climax.
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Designated Hero / int_fefd7517	comment	Jack, the protagonist of Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart is that, if only for the fact that at the very end of the movie, he willingly throws the key that allows his heart to even function off a cliff, with no real justification, which wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that, for one, his adoptive mother died trying to save his life, and two, the girl he loved tried everything she could to be at Edinburgh in time to bring him this very key, and she came from Andalusia, no less, seemingly rendering both of their efforts meaningless. The fact that he seems perfectly content with dying in front of a girl who loves him, as the final image of the movie is his ghost looking down on her and smiling, doesn't help. He also made the booth of an old ghost train's caretaker, whom he previously worked for, fall off, for seemingly no other reason than she was slightly rude to him earlier...Even though she had every reason to be, since he didn't exactly work hard after she hired him.
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