(Hated Trope) Characters who think their problems are more important than everybody else’s

Chloe Price (Life Is Strange): The game does everything in its power to make you want to side with Chloe and will treat you like an asshole if you don’t. When David catches her smoking weed, she’ll get pissy with Max if she doesn’t put her academic future on the line for her even after she told her to hide. When Kate calls Max, she treats it like she’s cheating on her. She almost gets run over by a train because she was dumb enough to lay on the tracks and got stuck. She tries to steal money from a fundraiser for handicapped students to pay off a debt that she got herself into. When she isn’t bringing her problems upon herself, she’s using her dead dad as an excuse for her behavior. The worst part is that if you actually want Max and Chloe to kiss, you have to enable her shitty behavior.

Marcus Yallow (Little Brother): Like Chloe, he brings his problems upon himself. He’s a known hacker who uses his skills to screw around at school, destroyed property to play hooky right before a terrorist attack, and stubbornly refused to let his interrogator look through his phone even though he had nothing incriminating on it, and he’s surprised that the Department Of Homeland Security suspects him of being a terrorist. Instead of going through the effort of clearing his name, he declares war on DHS and uses his hacking skills to economically sabotage San Francisco. Why? Because he had his privacy violated, and that’s clearly the bigger tragedy than the thousands of people that died in the terrorist attack that kicked off the story.

Dante Hicks (Clerks III): I know people complained about Randal’s behavior in this movie, but not enough people give Dante flak. We’re supposed to see Randal as in the wrong for using his heart attack as an excuse to be a dick, but you can at least say that his traumatizing incident happened fairly recently. Dante is still moping over his wife after she had been dead for 16 years. I know people grieve differently, but I’d say over a decade and a half was plenty of time to mourn. I mean, when my dad died, my mom remarried three years later. Even Becky’s ghost tells him to move on and encourages him to film the scene at the Mooby’s that instigated his crash out with Randal. He calls Randal out for using his tragedy as an excuse for his behavior, but Dante basically does the same thing during his rant.