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Life Isn't Fair
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"Life isn't fair. Deal with it." Fiction Isn't Fair and neither is Real Life. Another one of those Stock Phrases, usually particularly irritating to the character it's being told to. Another way of saying "deal with it". Sometimes used to respond to an accusation that the character wasn't fighting fairly. Often said by a character guilty of going out of their way to make things unfair, as their way of Evil Gloating and rubbing the victim's nose in their plight. | |
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This is seen earlier in Mort when protesting the unfairness of someone's death. | |
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In Zero Time Dilemma, this is Zero II’s catchphrase and entire worldview, which he goes to great lengths to enforce on the characters in his Decision Game, by presenting them with one Sadistic Choice after another. As it turns out, he has a really good reason for thinking this way. | |
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Carlton in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air combines this with a Shout-Out: | |
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Dimension 20's "Misfits and Magic" campaign has a rare example where this is said out of sympathy. Evan tearfully reveals to Nurse Stichnit that his powers have made his life a living hell, and he'd give anything to not have magic. Stichnit reveals that removing one's magic is totally possible, but urges Evan to really think about it before he decides, because if he has no magic, he'll be sent away from the wizarding world, and his friends, forever. Evan desperately tries to bargain, even offering to become a janitor at the school so he can earn his keep and stay, pointing out that, partially thanks to his powers' destructive tendencies, he has no family, no other friends, and nowhere he can go. Stichnit tells him it just isn't how things are done in the wizarding world, and Evan dejectedly points out that this just isn't fair. The nurse sadly agrees that it really isn't, but that life rarely is. | |
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Sky High (2005): Will has a surprisingly deep observation on the subject when Layla complains that the idea of Power Placement (where incoming freshmen to Sky High are sorted into "Hero" or "Sidekick" based on how cool Coach Boomer thinks their powers are) isn't fair: | |
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In Pokémon Live!, Giovanni says this to Ash in the climax. | |
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In Monster Rancher, Tiger tells Genki a speech during their first meeting, while he and his Wild Pack are robbing the other Searchers; | |
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Steven from Pokémon Strangled Red invokes this to argue with those who tell him that he shouldn't resurrect his deceased Charizard: | |
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Lampshaded in Calvin and Hobbes | |
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Referenced in a Tom the Dancing Bug strip where Harvey Richards, Lawyer for Children, suggests an effective rebuttal to this argument in an advertisement: | |
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Discworld: In Soul Music, Crusty Caretaker Albert explains that Susan is the only eligible replacement for Death, and being a typical teenager at heart Susan eventually resorts to complaining "It's not fair!". Albert retorts, dripping with sarcasm, that she can go explain that to the universe at large and see how far it gets her. This gets referred back to at the end of the book when she's trying to save Buddy: This is seen earlier in Mort when protesting the unfairness of someone's death. Also averted in Hogfather, in which Albert justifies not giving people everything they want with the reasoning that Life Isn't Fair. Death points out he is not life and Loophole Abuses this fact to great effect. |
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In Kage, Miranda has this opinion (for a justified reason), as she tells Jade in the 12th chapter. | |
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Papa Roach in "She Loves Me Not": | |
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Labyrinth: She learns it after that, however. When Hoggle seems to think it's different when it's unfair in her favor, she quickly reminds him. |
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On Quantum Leap, the first part of "The Leap Home" sees Sam as his younger self at a time when his family has yet to endure assorted tragedies (the deaths of his father and brother, his sister marrying an abuser, etc.). Sam tries to do whatever he can to prevent these things, but his warnings just create strain and problems. Sam laments that it's not fair he can Set Right What Once Went Wrong for complete strangers but not the people he loves most. Conversely, Al thinks this situation is actually extremely fair; he says Sam is lucky to get to spend a few days with his family and that he would give anything to see his own father and sister again. | |
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Inverted in Something*Positive when Faye died: | |
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Life in Farscape pretty much sucks, as noted by Crais. And John expresses the sentiment later when Chiana is upset that she can't see her long-lost (and previously presumed dead) brother. |
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On Young Hercules, Hades knows of the special protection that Zeus grants Hercules. He expects Herc to be some kind of privileged son and is surprised to learn that the guy has never even met Zeus. | |
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Many times in The Princess Bride. | |
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Tali's stance in Mass Effect 2 : | |
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Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: | |
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In Steven Universe, when Peridot starts to complain that she won the battle and is irritated that Pearl gets praised instead, she gets a variant of this from Garnet: | |
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Twilight: | |
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Billie Eilish in her Bond theme "No Time to Die" | |
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Dunkirk sees Alex telling Tommy that "Survival's not fair!" when he and his regiment try to throw Tommy and Gibson out of the trawler they’re using to escape. | |
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Shows up in the Hindi movie Lagaan, where the Captain Russell puts the natives in an impossible position - play a cricket game against an experienced team and win to avoid taxes for the next few years - or lose and pay three times that amount. His sister calls him out on it. This comes back to bite him in the ass later. |
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: | |
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A suicidal woman tells this to Superman in the Grounded storyline. Much to her surprise, Superman agrees with her but then adds that it isn't "unfair" either. | |
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The Lion King (1994): Scar has this to say to a mouse he's caught: | |
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In one episode of The Brittas Empire, Tim goes up to Brittas to complain that the game they were playing was unfair (as he was getting worse off despite being sensible with his money whilst Gavin was spending money like crazy and is still rich). Brittas, who is suffering from some personal issues (he has just been given a Sadistic Choice of keeping his job but seeing his wife get put in jail for taking petty money or resigning and taking the blame for something that his wife did) replies with this: | |
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Also averted in Hogfather, in which Albert justifies not giving people everything they want with the reasoning that Life Isn't Fair. Death points out he is not life and Loophole Abuses this fact to great effect. | |
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In the Batman: The Animated Series episode "What is Reality?", the Riddler's final challenge to Batman before his virtual world shuts down is: "If the planet were equitable, I'd still have my old job." This actually has a double meaning; since he previously had told Batman that his criminal career was a personal matter (in the previous episode he appeared in), he's saying if life were fair, his old employer would never have cheated and fired him. But it's also a riddle that tells the hero where he is: The sentence can be rephrased to say, "If the world was fair, I'd still have my ex-position", meaning he's at the World's Fair Exposition. | |
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In Macross Plus, Isamu snaps at Myung's self-pity by telling her that sometimes life isn't fair and that she needs to deal with it, instead of feeling sorry for herself. | |
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In the second season of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (the dub only) Sartorious' henchman X tells Jaden this, telling him that you can't always get everything you want, emphasizing it by saying that when he was Jaden's age, he used to dream of being a pastry chef. (Of course, this sort of comes off as a Broken Aesop considering the type of person X is, and considering that he seems to love his actual job a little too much, that of an Amoral Attorney who is willing to use cruel and underhanded methods to crush the will of his opponent.) | |
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Despicable Me: Shortly after Gru obtains the shrink ray back from Vector, Margo gets on his case for skipping all the cookie deliveries after Vector's house, to which Gru responds: | |
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A variation in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Will complains that Jack only won their fight by cheating, and that he'd have lost a fair fight. | |
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The Incredible Jessica James: One of Jessica's students, Shandra, tells her that she's thinking of going to Six Flags instead of the writer's weekend. Jessica gets mad and tells her that she doesn't care what Shandra does. Shandra says that isn't fair, to which Jessica snaps that life isn't fair. | |
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Jason feels the need to bring this up to a recently orphaned girl in Mystery Team. | |
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Many times in The Princess Bride. | |
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Played with in Beetle Bailey. Beetle complains that he's got kitchen detail again, and Sarge tells him that no one ever said that life was fair. Beetle points out that Sarge is the one deciding who gets put on kitchen detail, and Sarge tells him that no one ever said that he (Sarge) was fair, either. | |
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Blackadder the Third gives us this: | |
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A line from the song "Empath's Ballad" in the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf novel, sung by Empath about how unfair his life is. | |
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Vince McMahon sums up this trope in this promo. | |
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In The Order of the Stick, Lien, one of the last surviving paladins of the Sapphire Guard after the downfall of Azure City, takes this position in life, reasoning that there wouldn't be a need for paladins otherwise. | |
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"Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boatride", the fourth-ever episode of South Park brings this up when Mr Garrison gives Stan an A- for an incredibly half-assed oral report on ancient cultures (he literally made it up on the spot and said that "ancient cultures have plagued our fragile Earth for many years"). Cartman, who turned in an equally half-assed report but got an F, complains bitterly, and Mr Garrison says that Stan gets preferential treatment because he's the star quarterback of the football team. This is especially ironic considering Cartman's Character Development in later seasons where he'll move heaven and Earth if he thinks he's been even slightly wronged. Butters bitterly complains about this to himself in the episode "Professor Chaos", after he's been "fired" as the boys' fourth friend, thinking about how he did all the humiliating, painful things they asked and they still rejected him. As such, he decides to take on the mantle of Tin Tyrant supervillain Professor Chaos (and is joined by the equally mistreated Dougie as General Disarray) as a way to take revenge on the world. Unfortunately for Butters, he really IS just as lame and and wimpy as the boys think, and all his evil plans just amount to pathetically minor acts of vandalism like switching around soup orders in a diner or trying to flood the world with a garden hose. |
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In Soul Music, Crusty Caretaker Albert explains that Susan is the only eligible replacement for Death, and being a typical teenager at heart Susan eventually resorts to complaining "It's not fair!". Albert retorts, dripping with sarcasm, that she can go explain that to the universe at large and see how far it gets her. This gets referred back to at the end of the book when she's trying to save Buddy: | |
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In Transmetropolitan, when Spider meets with The Beast before the election, The Beast invokes this in spirit when Spider points out how unfair some of The Beast's views are. | |
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Snape to Harry in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: | |
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In one episode of Babylon 5, Marcus the Ranger expresses a rather enlightened outlook on the subject: | |
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