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An Easily Condemned character is one who has proven his goodwill and built an incredible reputation as an outstanding citizen who everyone loves... and suddenly has his previous actions forgotten by all, from the people he's saved to his friends and family, who'd sooner believe him a monster than accept his claims that he's being set up or that everything was a misunderstanding. For a broader example, think about The Hero whose reputation as an upstanding citizen and paragon of justice's well known all throughout the land. People love him, kids look up to him, the king bows down when he enters the room, and even cats don't scratch him when he rubs their bellies. Then one day, the Big Bad takes a picture of him while he is playing soccer in the Beneficent Center for Disabled Children, and crudely photoshops a puppy in place of the soccer ball, but wait, everyone knows that the hero loves dogs right? Cats, too, and rabbits since he pets them every day, feeds them, and buys them chew toys out of his own pocket money even when he's starving. Everyone knows that, everyone sees him doing that every day, everyone has a pet dog that at least once he took care of while they were traveling, only for them to return later and find the dog was healthier than ever! Silly villain with his silly plots, there's no way anyone would fall for - oh wait, there the populace is, running The Hero out of town with torches and pitchforks. Well, this might fool the ignorant populace, illiterate fools that they are, I suppose, but surely the hero's True Companions will help him clear his good na-nope, they're saying they can't believe the hero did that while they obviously believe the hero did that. It sucks and the hero will certainly rub their noses in it when this all blows over, but at least the love interest, his soul mate, after all those episodes and hardships that only strengthened their bonds, certainly she is now crying in a corner, cursing the Hero's dog-kicking name between sobs, and asking herself how he managed to deceive her all these years. Simply put, any situation where someone's given no benefit of the doubt despite previous actions, and it doesn't matter how obviously out-of-character he or she acts or even how many times he/she's been the victim of Frame-Ups, Malicious Slander, and Insidious Rumor Mill; everyone will often conveniently forget those important details whenever the plot demands it, which the latter can't realistically justify under normal circumstances. Please note that even though the victim's usually The Hero, it doesn't mean that the victim must always be the Hero as any character who has a reputation overturned by a single mistake or lie counts, even in the case of a Villain with Good Publicity who gets booed after the revelation of one single flimsy piece of evidence from The Hero also counts as being Easily Condemned. If a character never even had the public's trust, to begin with at all, it's not this trope as he's just a Hero with Bad Publicity in that case, but that's not to say that a Hero with Bad Publicity can't be this trope as well because if a tight group of True Companions trusted him implicitly up until that point despite the general public's opinion of him and were subsequently swayed by the villain's lie, then he's actually an example of both of these tropes at once as he's now an Easily Condemned Hero with Bad Publicity on top of literally anything else by that point in time. This Trope's quite often combined with both Ungrateful Bastard and Frame-Up for obvious reasons. See also Villains Never Lie and Once Done, Never Forgotten for when a character actually did something bad but not bad enough that it should overshadow his or her past good deeds, and yet it still somehow does so anyway; Never Live It Down is for whenever the viewers outright condemn a character for one single bad deed, and Then Let Me Be Evil is for whenever the hero eventually becomes exactly what he was condemned for in the first place because of how the others around him regularly treat him, and also even compare Mistaken for Murderer. Contrast Easily Forgiven, even though it's always possible for both of these tropes to overlap with one another, and see also Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life. |
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When the Tornado Champion beats up Major Disaster, Red Tornado figures it's a programming glitch that he can probably fix. Batman, Mr. Thou Shalt Not Kill, weighs in that Champion is too dangerous and must be destroyed immediately. Of course, Batman did witness Champion screaming how he was "above human morality" while he was whaling on Disaster, which isn't a good sign in your superpowered robot... and it quickly turns out Champion foresaw someone trying to turn him off anyway. | |
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Manipulative Bastard | |
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Once Lila Rossi takes her place as Marinette's Arch-Enemy in Season 3, a running plot point is how absurdly easy it is for her to manipulate all of the other teens in their class (being The Dragon to Hawk Moth also helps), which she uses to demolish Marinette's previous Loved by All status. In fan works that have appeared as a response to this, it is not unusual to see all of the other characters become Lila's personal Beta Bitch squad and truly horrible bullies to Marinette. | |
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The three protagonists were guilty of this too, in "Spies vs Spies" where they're quick to label Alice, Crimson, and Pam - their older predecessors who have been presumed dead for seven years - are traitors when they find out they're working for an enemy. (Seeing as they themselves tend to be Brainwashed a lot, you'd think they'd have given the older spies the benefit of the doubt. Of course, Jerry firing the three simply so he could rehire his older Spies didn't do much to help the two groups like each other.) | |
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Et Tu, Brute? | |
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In "Ponyville Confidential", the Cutie Mark Crusaders become the wrath of Ponyville after spreading gossip about the residents for a while when their secret identity of "Gabby Gums" was revealed to be them. Their own family and friends however, give them no benefit of the doubt whatsoever; Why a good-intended group of fillies would resort to exposing embarrassing secrets about them went unquestioned. (Diamond Tiara was forcing them to publish these articles.) | |
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Played for Laughs in Crash Tag Team Racing's story mode: during the cutscene, before the player goes to the fifth and last hub, Coco deduces that the person who stole Von Clutch's Black Power Gem and the Park Gems powering the park had a love of Wumpa Whip because it was at the scene of every theft. When everyone sees Crash drinking a cup of Wumpa Whip, they immediately assume he did it, despite him being the unambiguous hero of the series and the gems all having been stolen long before the heroes and villains arrived, causing the real thief to confess and call them all out for jumping to such an idiotic conclusion. Even Crash himself seems to believe it for a moment! | |
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You Have to Believe Me! | |
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In the season 2 finale, Twilight accuses her brother's bride of being evil and brainwashing him (hysterically, admittedly, and without real evidence). However, she gets quickly disproven and banned from the wedding by said brother after the bride runs away in tears. Everyone in the room then ditches Twilight without giving her a chance to properly explain herself, despite all the good she has done for them over the two seasons, has had freakouts several times in the past, and the fact that they learned at the beginning of that same season a moral of not to easily brush off someone's concerns. The revealed Big Bad takes pleasure in mocking everyone for assisting her plan with their distrust during her Near-Villain Victory, leading Applejack to apologize to Twilight. In the same episode, after seeing many uncharacteristic signs of the bride-to-be, Twilight concludes that Princess Cadance must have turned evil, despite having fond memories of her from when she was a filly. To be fair, it's been a long time since then, and the real Cadance made sure she had just the thing to prove that she hadn't. |
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Truth in Television | |
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This trope is Truth in Television. As an old saying goes: "We write men's virtues in sand, their sins in stone", meaning that people are often quick to look past any of the good things that someone has done before ever committing a given bad deed, instead focusing on the one bad thing that they committed, but anger-managing tactics like either counting to ten or even just walking away are effective in part because of this psychiatric phenomenon; rather than escalating a quarrel to the point of no return, simply going quiet and really thinking about it allows one to cool off and also realize that it's probably not worth outright condemning someone for it in the first place. | |
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No Doubt the Years Have Changed Me | |
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In the same episode, after seeing many uncharacteristic signs of the bride-to-be, Twilight concludes that Princess Cadance must have turned evil, despite having fond memories of her from when she was a filly. To be fair, it's been a long time since then, and the real Cadance made sure she had just the thing to prove that she hadn't. | |
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