History AssholeVictim / ComicBooks

** In ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', Bizarro Luthor gets stomped by the spawn of the monster he summoned to kill SelfDemonstrating/{{Bizarro}} #1, so it’s hard to feel sorry for him. Bizarro #1 certainly does not.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{ThunderCats|1985}}: Dogs of War'', Lion-O tries to get the Doberlord court-martialed for War Crimes, only for Lion-O's nemesis, Mumm-Ra, stab the latter through the chest from behind. When you consider how the mad dog enslaved and or massacred millions, if not billions, universal-wide, it'd be impossible you to have any kind of sympathy for the bastard.

* ''ComicBook/Dynamo5'' [[ZigZaggingTrope Zigzagged]]. The more we learn about Captain Dynamo/William Warner, the more despicable he appears to be. It is revealed in the series that he was a habitual womanizer who cheated on his wife, Maddie Warner, even when it compromised his crime-fighting duties. He also was not above using his shape shifting power to impersonate married women's husbands in order to sleep with them. He had an affair with one of his enemies, a supervillain named Chrysalis, and had a daughter with her named Cynthia, and led a second life to help raise her. The worst thing he did was when he fathered a child with an alien woman that he had met in outer space, after coming to the aid of her malfunctioning starship. When the mother gives him the child because she can't raise him herself, he leaves the infant at a F.L.A.G. research facility, where the child grows up without parents. When one of the scientists bonds with the child and begs Captain Dynamo to free him, Captain Dynamo refuses. However, his wife Maddie Warner and best friend Augie Ford still very much respect his memory and miss him, despite learning about his faults. It is implied that Captain Dynamo/William Warner truly did love his wife Maddie Warner and his best friend Augie Ford and aside from the cheating and womanizing, he took his crime-fighting duties as protector of Tower City seriously.

* ''ComicBook/UltimateGalactusTrilogy'': The X-Men announce that they intend to liberate all those Russian prisoners who had been experimented with and then left abandoned in the bunker. One of those guys, who could turn into a giant, thanks in full SarcasmMode about the hero who comes to liberate them, and gets enraged, thinking that it's just psychological torture.

* ''Marvel Graphic Novel Issue #18'' has ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} Agent Roger Dooley who subjects ComicBook/SheHulk to a number of painful and invasive "examinations" and threatens her boyfriend to make her comply. Dooley ends up being possessed by a group of sentient cockroaches who make him sabotage the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier and he dies when the roaches try (and fail) to possess She-Hulk.

* Anyone the ''ComicBook/SecretSix'' killed in their eponymous series for the exact same reason as the Punisher example above.

* The ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' story, ''ComicBook/DarkVictory'' involves a CopKiller called the Hangman. Among the victims are the {{Corrupt Cop}}s from ''ComicBook/BatmanYearOne'': former commissioner Gillian Loeb, Gordon's former partner Arnold Flass, SWAT Lt. Branden, and SWAT officer Pratt. While Flass and Branden only appear in the mini as corpses, both Loeb and Pratt each get a moment to further cement their asshole behavior before they die: Loeb swings by recently promoted commissioner Gordon's office to gloat about Harvey Dent's transformation into Two-Face and [[Series/Batman1966 Chief O'Hara]] being the first victim of the Hangman (and not-subtly imply he's gunning to get his job as police commissioner back) and Pratt tries to shoot Batman in retaliation for Batman punching him through a wall.

* The ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' story, ''ComicBook/DarkVictory'' involves a CopKiller called the Hangman. Among the victims are the {{Corrupt Cop}}s from ''ComicBook/BatmanYearOne'': former commissioner Gillian Loeb, Gordon's former partner Arnold Flass, SWAT Lt. Branden, and SWAT officer Pratt. While Flass and Branden only appear in the mini as corpses, both Loeb and Pratt each get a moment to further cement their asshole behavior before they die: Loeb swings by recently promoted commissioner Gordon's office to gloat about Harvey Dent's transformation into Two-Face and [[Series/{{Batman}} Chief O'Hara]] being the first victim of the Hangman (and not-subtly imply he's gunning to get his job as police commissioner back) and Pratt tries to shoot Batman in retaliation for Batman punching him through a wall.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{ThunderCats|1985}}: Dogs of War'', Lion-O tries to get the Doberlord court-martialed for War Crimes, only for Lion-O's nemesis, Mumm-Ra, stab the latter through the chest from behind, when you consider how the mad dog enslaved and or massacred millions, if not billions, universal-wide, it'd be impossible you to have any kind of sympathy for the bastard.

** The Comedian, although that had nothing to do with the (primary) motivation behind his murder. By the end of the comic, some readers feel some sympathy for him. But he's still an asshole.

* Speaking of the Joker, he kills Sheila Haywood, Jason Todd's mother in ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily''. She'd lost her medical license for performing back-alley abortions (one of which killed a patient) and was embezzling from her aid agency. She turned over her son to the Joker to save herself ([[IdiotBall instead of using her gun]]), who decided to kill both of them anyway.

* ''ComicBook/Dynamo5''[[ZigZaggingTrope Zigzagged]]. The more we learn about Captain Dynamo/William Warner, the more despicable he appears to be. It is revealed in the series that he was a habitual womanizer who cheated on his wife, Maddie Warner, even when it compromised his crime-fighting duties. He also was not above using his shape shifting power to impersonate married women's husbands in order to sleep with them. He had an affair with one of his enemies, a supervillain named Chrysalis, and had a daughter with her named Cynthia, and led a second life to help raise her. The worst thing he did was when he fathered a child with an alien woman that he had met in outer space, after coming to the aid of her malfunctioning starship. When the mother gives him the child because she can't raise him herself, he leaves the infant at a F.L.A.G. research facility, where the child grows up without parents. When one of the scientists bonds with the child and begs Captain Dynamo to free him, Captain Dynamo refuses. However, his wife Maddie Warner and best friend Augie Ford still very much respect his memory and miss him, despite learning about his faults. It is implied that Captain Dynamo/William Warner truly did love his wife Maddie Warner and his best friend Augie Ford and aside from the cheating and womanizing, he took his crime-fighting duties as protector of Tower City seriously.

* ''ComicBook/Dynamo5'' [[ZigZaggingTrope Zigzagged]]. The more we learn about Captain Dynamo/William Warner, the more despicable he appears to be. It is revealed in the series that he was a habitual womanizer who cheated on his wife, Maddie Warner, even when it compromised his crime-fighting duties. He also was not above using his shape shifting power to impersonate married women's husbands in order to sleep with them. He had an affair with one of his enemies, a supervillain named Chrysalis, and had a daughter with her named Cynthia, and led a second life to help raise her. The worst thing he did was when he fathered a child with an alien woman that he had met in outer space, after coming to the aid of her malfunctioning starship. When the mother gives him the child because she can't raise him herself, he leaves the infant at a F.L.A.G. research facility, where the child grows up without parents. When one of the scientists bonds with the child and begs Captain Dynamo to free him, Captain Dynamo refuses. However, his wife Maddie Warner and best friend Augie Ford still very much respect his memory and miss him, despite learning about his faults. It is implied that Captain Dynamo/William Warner truly did love his wife Maddie Warner and his best friend Augie Ford and aside from the cheating and womanizing, he took his crime-fighting duties as protector of Tower City seriously.

* ''ComicBook/Dynamo5'' [[ZigZaggingTrope Zigzagged]]. The more we learn about Captain Dynamo/William Warner, the more despicable he appears to be. It is revealed in the series that he was a habitual womanizer who cheated on his wife, Maddie Warner, even when it compromised his crime-fighting duties. He also was not above using his shape shifting power to impersonate married women's husbands in order to sleep with them. He had an affair with one of his enemies, a supervillain named Chrysalis, and had a daughter with her named Cynthia, and led a second life to help raise her. The worst thing he did was when he fathered a child with an alien woman that he had met in outer space, after coming to the aid of her malfunctioning starship. When the mother gives him the child because she can't raise him herself, he leaves the infant at a F.L.A.G. research facility, where the child grows up without parents. When one of the scientists bonds with the child and begs Captain Dynamo to free him, Captain Dynamo refuses. However, his wife Maddie Warner and best friend Augie Ford still very much respect his memory and miss him, despite learning about his faults. It is implied that Captain Dynamo/William Warner truly did love his wife Maddie Warner and his best friend Augie Ford and aside from the cheating and womanizing, he took his crime-fighting duties as protector of Tower City seriously.

* Notably averted in Tom King’s ''ComicBook/MisterMiracle2017'' run. Orion acts like a total {{Jerkass}} to Mister Miracle and Big Barda for most of the story, culminating in [[spoiler:trying to have the former executed out of fear he may be infected by the Anti-Life Equation]]. Yet when [[spoiler:Darkseid brutally kills him]], Miracle is ''horrified'' and nearly collapses in grief; Orion may be a total dickhead, but he’s also Scott’s brother and Scott will always love him as one.

* In ''ThunderCats: Dogs of War'', Lion-O tries to get the Doberlord court-martialed for War Crimes, only for Lion-O's nemesis, Mumm-Ra, stab the latter through the chest from behind, when you consider how the mad dog enslaved and or massacred millions, if not billions, universal-wide, it'd be impossible you to have any kind of sympathy for the bastard.

* As he's moved to being a more heroic and [[RuleOfFunny less serious]] character, ''{{Deadpool}}'' often ends up with these kind of targets when he's working as an assassin.
* Much like for the Punisher, the people {{Spawn}} kills usually are douches, making it easier for the fans to cheer as he dismantle them gruesomely.

* Subverted in ''ComicBook/TheMask'' comics: the fates [[AxCrazy "Big Head"]] inflicts on people are often [[DisproportionateRetribution so extreme]] that even when the victims are assholes, it's usually more horrific than cathartic.