History AssholeVictim / LiveActionTv

** Also in season 1, arguably, you could make a case for Lester's first wife, Pearl Nygaard. She spends every single second of her screentime berating, insulting, condescending and emasculating her husband. Even when he threatens her with a hammer, she doesn't respect him enough to believe that he's 'man enough' to do anything. When he kills her with said hammer, though a case of DisproportionateRetribution, it's still something of a relief.

* ''Series/Accused2023'': In "Laura's Story" Joanna is a conspiracy monger and huge {{jerkass}} who's claimed murdered children never even existed, with their grieving families being paid liars. As a result of her incitement, her followers harass and dox Laura's family after she attempts to oppose this. [[spoiler:She's murdered by Laura's son for this.]]

** In "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS02E12ActsOfSacrifice Acts of Sacrifice]]" the Narns on Babylon 5 lynch a Centauri who earlier started a BarBrawl with them. Everyone's worried that it's going to start race riots and jeopardize the station's neutrality, but after G'Kar and Na'Toth force the murderer to confess to station security, Londo says that the victim was a troublemaker anyway and requests that the killer's punishment be banishment from Babylon 5 and that his belongings be donated to the Centauri war fund.

** "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E06IntoTheFire Into the Fire]]" Every ''Babylon 5'' viewer would've waved with Vir Cotto at the site of [[spoiler:Morden's head on a pike]]. This was in [[spoiler:fulfilment of Vir's response to Morden's question of "what do you want"]] way back in "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS02E16InTheShadowOfZHaDum In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum]]".
** Applies to the entire Centauri race in [[{{Recap/BabylonFiveS05E18TheFallOfCentauriPrime}} The Fall of Centauri Prime]] considering their actions during the Narn-Centauri War, among others. Earlier in the show, this was the attitude of everyone towards the Narn when the Centauri started beating them in their war since they spent a lot of season one provoking the Centauri. But, that apathy quickly faded as we see more and more of the Narn suffering, especially with G'kar in the forefront of that suffering.

** [[{{Recap/BabylonFiveS04E06IntoTheFire}} Into the Fire]] Every Babylon 5 viewer would've waved with Vir Cotto at the site of [[spoiler: Morden's head on a pike]]. This was in [[spoiler: fulfilment of Vir's response to Morden's question of "what do you want"]] way back in [[{{Recap/BabylonFiveS02E16InTheShadowOfZHaDum}} In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum]].

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E02DinosaursOnASpaceship "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship"]]: Solomon. Killing thousands of defenseless aliens just so he could steal their property made the Doctor very upset. Hurting his friends, killing a friendly triceratops, and enslaving one of his friends (and referring to her as "a precious ''thing''", along with implying he would sexually assault her) only sent him further across the line.

* ''Series/{{Columbo}}'': Many of the murders Columbo investigates involve this sort of victim, from philanderers and homewreckers to [[CorruptCorporateExecutives thieves]] to {{Blackmail blackmailers}} to [[DomesticAbuse abusive spouses or family members.]] A murder needs to have a motive, after all. If there's a second victim, a downplayed version of this trope may take effect, as the second victim is sometimes an originally innocent bystander who has caught on to what happened and [[TooDumbToLive attempted to blackmail the murderer.]]

* ''Series/{{Columbo}}'': Many of the murders Columbo investigates involve this sort of victim, from [[YourCheatingHeart philanderers and homewreckers]] to [[CorruptCorporateExecutives thieves]] to {{Blackmail blackmailers}} to [[DomesticAbuse abusive spouses or family members.]] A murder needs to have a motive, after all. If there's a second victim, a downplayed version of this trope may take effect, as the second victim is sometimes an originally innocent bystander who has caught on to what happened and [[TooDumbToLive attempted to blackmail the murderer.]]

* ''Series/LetTheRightOneIn'': When donating using their own blood was too taxing, instead Mark decided to target sex offenders in the area to drain theirs. However, this didn't work out in residential areas, as he almost gets caught when leaving hastily after murdering one, which makes him back into a car.

** Earth Alliance President Morgan Clark arranged to have President Santiago murdered while Clark was his Vice President so he could become President. He then turned the Alliance into a facist dictatorship and ordered the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent civilians. When it becomes clear in the episode "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E20Endgame Endgame]]" that his government is about to fall decides [[AteHisGun not to hang around]] to face the consequences of his actions. Few on Earth are sorry to see Clark go, and [[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E21RisingStar soon]] after his death someone put the sign traitor to Earth on his body.

*** The Klingon Duras [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice meets his maker]] in the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E7Reunion Reunion]]" after killing Worf's mate K'Ehleyr. This is after he and his allies on the council [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E17SinsOfTheFather frame]] Worf's father Mogh as a traitor, attempt to have Worf's brother killed, and force Worf to become an outcast from Klingon society. Picard is not happy that Worf took matters into his own hands and formally reprimands him, but he doesn't have too many tears to spare. Most Klingons are happy that Worf killed Duras, and even Lursa and B'etor weren't sorry to see him go.

** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E9FinalMission Final Mission]]", Dirgo is dismissive of both Crusher and Picard, is abrasive and rude, doesn't pack proper emergency supplies, drinks alcohol that could be better used for medicinal purposes, and ultimately gets himself killed, endangering the others in the process. Nobody, including the audience, is sad to see the back of him.

*** There are several asshole victims in the series finale ''Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E25E26WhatYouLeaveBehind''.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E9FinalMission Final Mission]]", Dirgo is dismissive of both Crusher and Picard, is abrasive and rude, doesn't pack proper emergency supplies, drinks alcohol that could be better used for medicinal purposes, and ultimately gets himself killed, endangering the others in the process. Nobody, including the audience, is sad to see the back of him.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E18BusinessAsUsual Business As Usual]]", Quark briefly started working for his cousin Gaila, a freelance arms dealer. The money was good but Quark found himself perilously close to the MoralEventHorizon. Finally, when Gaila made a deal with the Regent, a tyrant who planned [[AMillionIsAStatistic to kill 28 million of his own people to quell a rebellion,]] Quark decided to intervene, setting up an "accidental" meeting between the Regent and the rebel leader. The Regent ended up killed, and Gaila was forced to go on the run. Neither Quark nor Sisko shed any tears:
-->'''Quark''': The Regent's dead?!\\

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS1E1Caretaker Caretaker]]", Cavit, Voyager's original first officer, and the unnamed chief medical officer are quite dickish and frankly unprofessional to Paris, which doesn't make anyone too sorry when they die. Possibly this trope was intended to be in effect with Stadi, the original conn officer, but Paris ''was'' hitting on her, and as a Betazoid, she probably wasn't too pleased with his thoughts either. In the novelization Janeway makes a mental note to speak to Cavit later about his unprofessional behavior.
* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'':
** Bjayzl is a greedy, callous psychopath who runs a criminal operation that kidnaps and butchers former Borg drones (including [[spoiler:Icheb]]), and sells the technology on the black market. No audience member shed a tear when she's vaporized by phaser fire.
** Because [[spoiler:Narissa]] had murdered [[spoiler:Hugh]] and numerous other xBs in cold blood, no one was upset when she meets a DisneyVillainDeath.

* In the ''Series/AlienNation'' television series, most of the Kleezantsun (Overseers) who survived the ''Gruza'' crash-landing on Earth and who meet with unfortunate ends often engender little sympathy from their former slaves, humans, and even other of the more remorseful Kleezantsun who regret what they did.

** Yet ''another'' episode had the prosecutors desperately trying to keep the case from going to trial because the victim, Michael Webber, was a deadbeat dad who never visited his son with leukemia and owed his ex-wife $100k in alimony and child support. The killer was Webber’s former father-in-law who was trying to collect the money owed to his daughter and grandson. The DA’s office knows full well they’d be facing an acquittal if this case got inside a courtroom. Ultimately subverted when its revealed that the child was never his.

*** Rolo Haynes is very similar in that he regularly trick people into becoming his guinea pigs for dangerous experimentations and some of which he trapped their minds in a permanent AndIMustScream state. He even went so far as to make sentient copies of an innocent convicts conscience and set them in a literal endless state of electrocution. [[spoiler: Then the protagonist tricks him into the very same fate.]]

** Tim Kono was universally loathed by all his neighbors. At the condo meeting where they pay their respects to him, no one spoke fondly of him and everyone was more upset that a neighbor's ''cat'' had died than him.
** Deconstructed with Zoe, one of the Hardy Boys members who died prior to the start of the series. From what little we see of her, she is a conceited and elitist person who could treat her boyfriend and [[spoiler: Theo Dimas]] nastily, both whom did not deserve it. However, her death only made things worse for everyone involved and the fallout led to destroying the friendship of the remaining Hardy Boys.