History DisproportionateRetribution / AnimeandManga

* One fight in ''VideoGame/VariableGeo'' involves Genki ActionGirl Satomi Yajima against Ayako Yuuki. After landing a few LesYay moves on Satomi, and stripping her down with a bladed fan, Satomi retaliates with one of [[KingOfFighters Kyo Kusanagi's]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVhmQ9BNHAE trademarked fire attacks]].

** Consider this: Sailor Moon looked ''utterly horrified'' at Mimet's fate, and it's implied Mimet could have easily killed all the heores in one shot.

* A flashback in ''Manga/ElfenLied'' reveals that Lucy [[spoiler:killed Kouta's sister and father]] just because Kouta [[spoiler:lied about his cousin's gender]]. To be fair, Lucy is rather screwed up in the head due to everyone she's dealt with, from [[KidsAreCruel the kids at her orphanage]] to [[PlayingWithSyringes the researchers at that lab]], being [[HumansAreBastards worse than bastards to her]].

**** For what it's worth, one of the ''original'' unaired episodes of MSG (specifically the ones that were removed due to the series being shortened) depicted Degwin meeting Revil aboard the White Base to discuss armistice, only to encounter Sayla and, upon recognizing her as Artesia Som Daikun, go into a frenzy ''begging her for forgiveness for murdering her father''. You think Garma's death is bad, try Char's actions in ''Char's Counterattack'': he dropped asteroids on Earth and tried to cause nuclear winter (which ran counter to his father's ideals of preserving the Earth) simply to have a final battle with Amuro Ray. That doesn't stop [[FanDumb Zeon fans]] from claiming Char was in the "right" throughout, either through the Earth having it "coming" over the OYW and beyond (9 times out of 10, the Zeeks are usually the ones to start said wars) or Char was legitimately trying to bring peace to the Earthsphere. The latter conveniently omits both [[HumansAreFlawed human nature]] and the fact there were other militarized spacenoid factions besides Char's Neo Zeon, namely the Jupiter Empire and Buch Kozern (the latter of which would later become the Crossbone Vanguard). And that's not discounting the fact Char would have killed the [[MobileSuitGundamUnicorn Zeon remnants]] on Earth alongside everything else.

** Can't forget Misa's [[{{Yandere}} "If I see you with another girl, I'll kill them!"]]

*** Duke's father is a much stronger example of this. He and Solomon Moto played the Devil's Board Game, whose cursed power aged him immensely when he lost. Thing is, they both agreed to play the game (for whatever insane reason), and the rules of the game[[hottip:*:take turns rolling a die moving a game piece that number of spaces towards the center of the board.]] are such that one's opponent has no bearing on who wins the game. Of course, one can't take revenge on the RandomNumberGod, so imprisoning, discrediting, and murdering Solomon's grandson, after forcing him to play the Devil's Board Game, was apparently the next best thing.

* ''Manga/GiantRobo'': The someone enacting this trope is actually [[spoiler: the main cause for most of the events in the OVA.]] It turns out that Dr. Van Vogler, the MadScientist who [[spoiler: nearly destroyed the world in the tragedy of Bashtarl]] actually wanted to [[spoiler: stop this disaster before it even happened; his colleagues just decided to blame him since they managed to get out of there.]] So his [[spoiler: son]] decided to use the [[spoiler: Anti-Shizuma Drive]] to exact revenge on the world that [[BlatantLies "ignored the truth"]] by pretty much destroying society.

** While we're at it, how about ZAFT's reaction to the Junius 7 attack? Deploy [[AppliedPhlebotinum N-Jammers]] on the Earth and shut down every single power plant. That includes ''the ones belonging to ZAFT's allies on Earth''.
*** Speaking of Gundam, there's also Camille from ''ZetaGundam''. His career as a pilot started because some space-fascists made fun of his name. In real life, there are a few extreme examples of kids who got pushed around and then took a gun and shot up the school. Camille takes a Gundam and shoots up an entire space colony!
*** Then there's Char Aznable from {{Mobile Suit Gundam}} who takes it upon himself to avenge his father's death by killing all of the Zabi family, despite no full proof evidence coming forth that Degwin really did murder Zeon Deikun. Of course, it can be argued that Gihren was a CompleteMonster and Kycilia was TheBaroness. However, the murder of Garma Zabi, Char's own best friend, definitely counts. Seeing that Garma was actually [[AntiVillain a really decent guy]] to both friend and foe and [[BloodBrothers trusted Char completely]]. Char's own sister, Sayla, comments in disgust about Char's revenge. And later on Char himself even admits it was wrong to take Garma's life and that he isn't motivated by revenge anymore.
**** For what it's worth, one of the ''original'' unaired episodes of MSG (specifically the ones that were removed due to the series being shortened) depicted Degwin meeting Revil aboard the White Base to discuss armistice, only to encounter Sayla and, upon recognizing her as Artesia Som Daikun, go into a frenzy ''begging her for forgiveness for murdering her father''.
**** Hell, you think Garma's death is bad, try Char's actions in ''Char's Counterattack'': he dropped asteroids on Earth and tried to cause nuclear winter (which ran counter to his father's ideals of preserving the Earth) simply to have a final battle with Amuro Ray. Of course, that doesn't stop [[FanDumb Zeon fans]] from claiming Char was in the "right" throughout, either through the Earth having it "coming" over the OYW and beyond (Note: Nine times out of ten, the Zeeks are usually the ones to start said wars) or Char was legitimately trying to bring peace to the Earthsphere. The latter conveniently omits both [[HumansAreFlawed human nature]] and the fact there were other militarized spacenoid factions besides Char's Neo Zeon, namely the Jupiter Empire and Buch Kozern (the latter of which would later become the Crossbone Vanguard). And that's not discounting the fact Char would have killed the [[MobileSuitGundamUnicorn Zeon remnants]] on Earth alongside everything else.

** The case: Ranma, in female form, has been kissed by [[HandsomeLech Mikado Sanzenine]]. The crime: Ranma is actually a straight boy, with Mikado not knowing either that it was Ranma's first kiss or Ranma's true identity. The response: Ranma (who, keep in mind, has enough SuperStrength that he can split boulders without trying too hard) turns into a male and hits Mikado over ''500'' times leaving Mikado unconscious on his feet.

* A flashback in ''Manga/ElfenLied'' reveals that Lucy [[spoiler:killed Kouta's sister and father]] just because Kouta [[spoiler:lied about his cousin's gender]]. To be fair, Lucy is rather screwed up in the head due to just about everyone she's dealt with, from [[KidsAreCruel the kids at her orphanage]] to [[PlayingWithSyringes the researchers at that lab]], being [[HumansAreBastards worse than bastards to her]].

** Another one would be Tousen. His closest friend was killed by her shinigami husband. So what does he want to do? [[spoiler: Get rid of all the shinigami, all who have pretty much ''nothing'' to do with his friend's death]].

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', the island of Ohara was subjected to the Buster Call, which is basically an assload of warships pelting the place with giant cannons until there's nothing left. Their crime? Researching the history of the world.

** Danzo could be a WellIntentionedExtremist version of this. [[spoiler: He had a very black and white viewpoint about how ninja should operate, to the point that seeking a Heroic Sacrifice is one of the best ways to prove one's worth. In his backstory during his death, he has the slightest of hesitation to fill that role during the last war. The Second Hokage refuses both his and Sarutobi's offers in order to do it himself, picking Sarutobi as the third. What does he do as retribution? He creates a martial faction of the Anbu which he uses to hide numerous secret enhancements to his body which came as a result of connections to known criminal Orochimaru, all of which lead up to him using mind control in order to take control of the village and eventually attempt to control the ninja world. He's found out, however, and is told that if he had done things nicely, he'd have probably gotten his way anyway, but because of his brainwashing, he can't be trusted. What's worse, before his hacking into being Hokage, he basically waited while Pain was destroying the village. If Naruto hadn't won the fight, there wouldn't have been anything left for him to rule over in the first place.]]

** One target in the third season literally gets sent to hell so the client can avoid potential minor embarrassment.

** The part where [[spoiler: Charles basically kills his brother V.V. for lying to him for the second time]] seems like disproportionate retribution, even considering the pact they had, but doesn't seem so disproportionate once you find out [[spoiler: what V.V. lied about the first time.]]

* In ''Manga/TwentiethCenturyBoys'' by the same author, [[spoiler:second]] Friend is ready to annihilate mankind as "unworthy to live" because [[spoiler:one of his childhood friend once committed a petty theft and let him take the blame]]. Keep in mind they were about nine years old at the time.
** It should be noted that the consequences of the above were that [[spoiler: Friend was symbolically executed and everyone pretended he was dead. This was done so thoroughly that, as adults, everyone from that clique thought he was really dead.]] Which should be considered DisproportionateRetribution as well.

* ''Manga/LoveHina'' is full of this trope. So Keitaro ends up walking in at a time that he shouldn't, so he gets beaten up and humiliated by the residents (all female) at the Hinata inn (as well as at least one Death Threat). Said incidents include when they are changing or at a bath. Heck, even when it is actually one of the girls who walks in on Keitaro when he's changing, he gets beaten up anyways.

* ''CaptiveHearts'': Because a thief tried to rob the Kougamis centuries ago, his descendants were forced to serve the Kougamis for the next hundred generations.

*** Kaiba's revenge wasn't ''just'' for his defeat, it was because of the Penalty Game that the Pharaoh put him through after he lost. For the crime of stealing his card and threatening him for it, the Pharaoh trapped Seto in an illusion where he experienced his own death. This was actually perhaps the most ''merciful'' that the Pharaoh's Penalty Games have been. In this case, he ''meant'' for the experience to help change Kaiba's ways. What actually happened is that Kaiba was traumatized enough to have recurring nightmares about the experience. In fact, in order to make his revenge more complete, he built a technological version of the penalty game, using holograms, to subject Yugi to. Eventually, the Pharaoh got sick of all the revenge schemes, and just blew up the evil part of Seto's mind. He came out of it a sort or changed man. Granted, it put him into a ''coma'' for nearly a year, but still.

** When Luffy punches a World Noble named Charlos for shooting Hachi, Charlos's father and sister call in the Marines, including Admiral Kizaru, to the island, and Charlos declares his intention to starve the men of the crew to death while working them as slaves and have the women stuffed, overlapping this with KnightTemplarParent and MoralMyopia.

* In ''SaintBeast'', Zeus' insane punishments are made all the more clear by the DoubleStandard treatment certain angels get. Shiva leads a demon into heaven to kill Shin and gets a warning. Judas and Luca start a war against Zeus and get banished to hell. Those three angels who happened to be really arrogant? Purged, and their resentful ghosts trapped in a dark pit.

** In response, Keroro himself sometimes goes into this when he plans revenge against Natsumi. One episode has her throw soybeans at him and call him an oni, which is admittedly nasty--but [[YourMileageMayVary maybe]] not nasty enough to turn her into an oni and relentlessly bombard her with soybeans until she surrenders the household.
* In one of the most disgusting examples of this trope, an abusive man in ''{{Anime/Gantz}}'' [[MoralEventHorizon beats his girlfriend's two year old son]] [[HarmfulToMinors to death]] ''for eating the last pudding cup.''

* In the first episode of the second season of the ''[[Manga/BlackButler Kuroshitsuji]]'' anime, [[CreepyChild Alois]] [[EyeScream stabs one of his maidservants in the eye]]. ''With two of his fingers''. Why? "A maid should never look directly at her master!" The other servants [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel understandably]] have an OhCrap moment, but are then commanded to clean up the bloody mess.

* ''{{Manga/Narutaru}}'' villains love this trope. For starters, Satomi Ozawa develops a murderous grudge against the heroine that started just because she ''made fun of the name of her school''. Later in the manga, [[{{Ubermensch}} Naozumi Sudo]] shoots two delinquents to death just for throwing a bag of trash in a river... and [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel let's not]] get into what the ''minor'' villains do.

* The supposed god Tezcatlipoca in the manga version of ''Spriggan''.

* Both the grievance and the response are delivered accidentally in ''Kyou No Go Ni'''s first episode. When Yuki and Megumi get hit on the head (accidentally) by two high-bouncing "Superballs", and then hit again on the upbounce of another round, cue an argument ending with Yuki accidentally slipping on said superballs in such a way as to deliver a perfect GroinAttack to Ryouta. Needless to say the matter is considered settled after that.

* ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' played with it by Kabupu forcing his team to patrol the city in super suits. Cue StuffBlowingUp for minor offenses, like littering and flirting.

* ''{{Anime/Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' is notorious for this. Yugi was the target of several ill-conceived vengeance plots throughout the various seasons. One particular example had the daughter of one of Yugi's grandfather's friends challenge him because his grandpa "stole" her grandpa's rare card.

* In ''{{Anime/xxxHoLiC}}'' Watanuki and Doumeki accidentally broke a spider web while doing some garden cleaning. The spider took her revenge by [[EyeScream stealing Doumeki's eye]]. Considering that it takes about one hour for a spider to construct a web we could say that [[MinorInjuryOverreaction she overreacted]] a bit.

* The entire point of ''Anime/DeathNote'' is Light's belief that capital punishment (generally via heart attack) is the only appropriate punishment for ANY crime. His idea of "crimes" range from murder to... laziness. That's right, he was planning on punishing people who don't work hard enough with death. Light IS this trope.

* ''WolfGuyWolfenCrest'': Haguro beat his NobleDemon subordinate Chiba within an inch of his life, biting off his tongue, and then raping him for good measure to the point that Chiba ends up dying from a combination of ruptured organs, blood loss, and broken ribs. Thankfully, Inguami gave Chiba some of his blood which ended up bringing Chiba back to life. Why did Haguro do such a thing? Because Chiba ended up encountering Inugami out on the streets and talked to him for maybe 15 minutes when Haguro wasn't around.

** [[spoiler:Natsume and Miko's grandfathers killed the families of Aya's parents, so they started the Martial Hearts tournament specifically to target their children. One generation later, Natsume and Miko themselves, upon learning what the fuck had gone down, orchestrate the aforementioned copycat crime ring just to get back at Aya for what had happened to ''their'' mothers. This fucks up her brain ''so badly'', the series ends with her trying to put an end to the CycleOfRevenge once and for all before it gets any worse than ''just'' "an eye for an eye [leaving] everybody blind".]]

** Another had [[EstrogenBrigadeBait Duke Devlin]], a would-be game developer, challenge Yugi to a duel because he thought Yugi cheated to beat Pegasus (which is debatable--Pegasus was already using his Millennium Eye to cheat, first with the Mind Scan, then with a Shadow Game that injured Yugi, so whether or not Yugi and Yami's Mind Shuffle counts as cheating is pretty YMMV) and killed him (which he didn't), thus ruining his chance at getting his designer game produced (the fax green-lighting it came in less than an hour after the duel), with the stakes being his friend's freedom, his champion title, and his right to play the show's SeriousBusiness card game forever. To Duke's credit, he does get the hint and eventually forms part of the show's extended cast, helping out at times.

* Many {{Shoujo|Genre}} mangas have this, where the protagonist attracts the attention of the [[{{Bishonen}} "School Prince"]], causing all of the female students in the school to [[YokoOhNo kidnap her and attempt to beat and cut her up]].

** Light's followers are sometimes this, occasionally even more so than Light. Misa once murdered a cop simply for doing his duty as an officer of the law and trying to save people. Light did not approve.(Despite the fact that he murdered several F.B.I. agents for the same reason.)

* In ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'', Ran is always thinking of new ways to torment her initially oblivious friend, Lum, because Lum constantly got her in trouble as a child (sometimes on purpose, sometimes not, but never maliciously) and accidentally stole the [[MurderTheHypotenuse guy she likes]].

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' has a number of things like this, but the most ridiculous is probably the time that Asuna managed to nick Evangeline's cheek. Eva's response? [[http://www.onemanga.com/Mahou_Sensei_Negima!/182/12/ Lick the blood off and encase Asuna in a block of ice.]] Keep in mind that Eva is a vampire who can regenerate any damage anyway, that this took place during a ''[[TrainingFromHell training exercise]]'', and that if it weren't for Asuna's AntiMagic, she would have been ''encased in ice '''[[http://www.onemanga.com/Mahou_Sensei_Negima!/182/15/ for ten years]]'''.''

* The fate of several girls in ''Anime/MasterOfMartialHearts'': if the sheer fact that every fight in the ''Platonic Heart'' tends to turn into a death match, it gets worse [[spoiler: when you're made aware that actually the losing {{Action Girl}}s suffer AFateWorseThanDeath itself. They're actually saved, nursed to health and then mindraped to the breaking point and sold into sexual slavery. Just to get sure, many of them get their voice box removed, thus explaining how one of the previous generations loser, after escaping her destiny, became little more than the resident CuteMute and harmless HotMom. Tinged with MisplacedRetribution, since Natsume, the daughter of the aforementioned CuteMute, organized a second edition of the ''Platonic Heart'', thus reaping a whole bunch of completely random strangers, just to lure out the daughter of the organizer of the tournament costing her mom her voice and freedom]].