It will always bug me when audiences take an unreliable narrator at total face value.

As the title states, I have a bit of a problem when audiences take a character's words at total face value and don't consider the idea that they either had a mistaken understanding, are actively lying, or any sort of reason. I've got 2 separate examples. The first is from The Incredibles. People say that Bob was a big old meanie who brushed Buddy away for not having superpowers. Except, that's not what happened. Syndrome was an annoying little kid who kept invading Bob's privacy, including an active supervillain fight, wouldn't take no for an answer, and nearly got himself killed due to his total lack of situational awareness. And as the linked video shows, in Syndrome's recollection, the villain Bob was fighting isn't even there and Bob is just rudely blowing him off. It plainly shows that Syndrome refused to take responsibility and made the whole thing all about himself. And the other examples come from Persona 4. For a game where the main message is finding the truth amidst a fog of deception, people are super unwilling to entertain the idea of falsehoods. The first are Shadow selves. Shadow selves do represent an actual thought or feeling from their original selves. However, Shadow selves are one note, flanderized versions of said thoughts and feelings that remove any sort of nuance or context. And as Shadow Kanji, Rise, and the hospital scene with Nametame all show, Shadow selves are at least partially influenced by how other people perceive you and your issues. And the other example is everything Adachi says. There are people who legit think that Adachi was unfairly punished for a small mistake and sent to Inaba. But consider 2 things: Adachi is an arrogant, irresponsible asshole who has been lying to your face the entire game, and he tried to force himself on a woman he felt entitled to after an apparently short amount of time in Inaba. So it probably wasn't some "small mistake" that got him sent to Inaba, but a total fuckup/straight up crime where he's lucky to even still have a job.