History DisproportionateRetribution / LiveActionTV

** "iMeet Fred". Freddie mentions he doesn't think Fred is that funny on video. Fred responds by claiming he won't make videos anymore, which results in social isolation and emotional and physical abuse to Freddie until he took it back. Sam beat him with a tennis racket until it broke. And it turned out it was a publicity stunt by Fred.
** "iHate Sam's Boyfriend": The trio's revenge on Jonah for trying to kiss Carly while he's with Sam? They wedgie-bounce him on iCarly. And he's still left in the device even after the show's over. To be fair though, he was an annoying jerk throughout the episode and the punishment itself could be for everything rather than just the one thing.
** "iParty with Victorious" has probably the most glaring example in the show's history; if not that, then of all Nickelodeon's. Carly and Tori have discovered that their boyfriend Stephen was two-timing each of them with the other. Their response? Exposing him over iCarly so the whole world knows. While what he did was bad, their revenge is [[WhatTheHellHero the equivalent of cyberbullying]].

** Contrasted with an earlier episode where Dukat reveals that he believed he was a merciful administrator during the Cardassian occupation. When Bajoran freedom fighters blew up a Cardassian warship carrying 100 soldiers, he rounded up and executed the same number of suspected Bajoran resistance members. This only strengthened their resolve to fight back.

* ''Series/{{Scandal}}'': [[spoiler: Becky, Huck's girlfriend, kills the entire family that Huck likes to keep an eye on. Why? Because he tried to have her taken down for shooting the President and framing Huck for it]].

** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E73ItsAGoodLife It's a Good Life]]" shows what happens when you combine extreme mental powers with child-level morality. It's basically a constant stream of this, leading to an entire town perpetually beholden to the whims of a little boy.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E117TheIncredibleWorldOfHoraceFord The Incredible World of Horace Ford]]", the title character sees visions of his childhood and one vision shows that his so-called "friends" once beat him to a pulp all because he didn't invite them to his birthday party.

* ''Series/{{Batwoman}}'': Beth Kane ends up on Coryana Island, where she is trained under the tutelage of Safyiah, the island queen. Everything is going well, until she hooks up with Ocean, her trainer. A jealous Tatiana, one of Safyiah's assassins who is in love with her, goes and reports this to her, along with the news that Ocean plans to take some of the Desert Rose seeds to give to the world. Safiyah is so enraged by the betrayal that she gets Engima, a psychologist who specializes in brainwashing, to remove Beth and Ocean from each other's memories. Not only that, she also gets her to remove Beth's empathy and make her completely focused on revenge. This act results in the creation of [[spoiler: Alice!]] Therefore, a lot of people are now dead because of two women's jealousy and heartbreak.

* In ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "The Incredible World of Horace Ford," the title character sees visions of his childhood and one vision shows that his so called "friends" once beat him to a pulp all because he didn't invite them to his birthday party.
** "It's A Good Life" shows what happens when you combine extreme mental powers with child-level morality. It's basically a constant stream of this, leading to an entire town perpetually beholden to the whims of a little boy.

** In 1973, Louis de Pointe du Lac nearly killed Daniel Molloy after the latter merely asked to be turned into a vampire (apparently he was under the influence of drugs at the time, which Louis himself had provided), and Daniel was saved only because of Armand's intervention. [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder 49 years later]], Louis is still pissed off about it because he becomes irate after listening to the cassette recording of their argument and the subsequent attack, and he accuses Daniel of being insolent -- as if that somehow justifies his homicidal outburst.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekStrangeNewWorldsS2E2AdAstraPerAspera Ad Astra Per Aspera]]", when Una refuses a plea deal that would have her Dishonorably Discharged from Starfleet for lying on her application for [[NoTranshumanismAllowed not revealing she was an Illryian]], Starfleet piles on the charges, adding in that they were looking for 20 years in a penal colony. Her council, Neera, points out that they want to MakeAnExampleOfThem for making Starfleet look like fools.

** In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E2AfterThePhantomsOfYourFormerSelf ...After the Phantoms of Your Former Self]]", Lestat de Lioncourt murders an Italian opera singer simply because he sang poorly, and humiliates him first to boot, which Louis dislikes.

** In 1973, Louis de Pointe du Lac nearly killed Daniel Molloy after the latter merely asked to be turned into a vampire (apparently he was under the influence of drugs at the time, which Louis himself had provided), and Daniel was saved only because of Armand's intervention. 49 years later, Louis is still pissed off about it because he becomes irate after listening to the cassette recording of their argument and the subsequent attack, and he accuses Daniel of being insolent -- as if that somehow justifies his homicidal outburst.

** Lestat de Lioncourt murders an Italian opera singer simply because he sang poorly, and humiliates him first to boot, which Louis dislikes.

** In ''Szczyl'' ("Piss"), a 4-year old girl gets kidnapped and it is revealed that the kidnapper wants revenge on her father for snitching on him to the police 15 years ago. Even after ransom is paid, Moskal argues "Money isn't enough; you child will pay for your stupidity!" Thankfully, police rescues her while the psychopath gets arrested again.

** In ''Szczyl'' ("Piss"), a 4-year old girl gets kidnapped and it is revealed that the kidnapped wants revenge on her father for snitching on him to the police 15 years ago. Even after ransom is paid, the kidnapped argues "Money isn't enough; you child will pay for your stupidity!" Thankfully, police rescues her while the psychopath gets arrested again.