History DisproportionateRetribution / LiveActionTv

* ''Series/MastersOfHorror''
** The Season 2 episode “We All Scream for Ice Cream” kicks off with a pretty dark one when [[spoiler:Buster, a [[MonsterClown demonic, undead clown]], gives one of the voodoo ice creams to the son of Kent, one of children that accidentally killed him decades before [[DeadlyPrank after a prank went fatally wrong]]. Kent begs his son not to eat it, but the boy does anyway. And after watching his father literally and graphically ''melt away'' in front of him, Kent's son, with little to no remorse, coldly says, "'''You shouldn't have grounded me'''."]] ''Jesus Christ, kid!'' [[spoiler:While yes, maybe the kid being under Buster's control also had something to do with it, but still...]]

* ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'':

** In "Mr Monk Gets Fired", the JerkAss police commissioner, in response to Monk erasing several years worth of forensic files, has him not only removed from the headless torso/murder case, but even goes as far as his detective license revoked. It's also heavily implied that this was simply an excuse for him to do so, and he was really only doing it because Monk placed his friend, who also happened to be a very corrupt cop, in prison.
** Monk himself nearly did the same thing in ''Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan'', where he almost arrested a busboy at a local restaurant for urinating in public on the subway (which also had him getting lost in New York City in the first place) while arresting a man who killed both his own wife and the Latvian ambassador/his bodyguards.
** In the novel ''Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop'', Monk gets so offended that an exclusive Chinatown beauty salon uses various bird excrements in its cleansing formulas that he calls in a SWAT team and Hazmat team.
** In the novel "Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse", an incident happens where Natalie has to talk Monk out of calling a Hazmat team to decontaminate an entire city block after she simply ''looks'' inside a dumpster.
** In "Mr. Monk in Trouble", there's a small subplot about a man who stabbed his girlfriend for not cooking his steaks correctly.

** Why did Pearl Forrester give Mike and the Bots ''Film/{{Hobgoblins}}''? Because they ''jumped on her rent-to-own couch''.
** There's also the time Tom attacked Crow with a biplane, riddling him and his little spiffy car with bullets. Why? Because Crow kept making UranusIsShowing jokes.
** Another example was in the host segments in ''Film/TheWildWorldOfBatwoman'', based on the short ''Cheating'' - Crow copies Gypsy's paper about why cheating is bad and Tom suggests that Crow should ''die.''

--->"But his bosses didn't like him, so they shot him into space!"

** Ben Finney harbors a grudge against Kirk for ''years'' for reporting a mistake of his. In revenge, he frames Kirk and attempts to get him court-martialed. The pettiness of the grudge[[note]]Accompanied by some unshown letters by Finney detailing his obsession with Kirk and the fact that he named his daughter, Jamie, after James Kirk[[/note]] lead fans to speculate that there were [[HoYay other reasons]] for Finney's bitterness.
** Charlie Evans from the episode "Charlie X". Do anything he doesn't like, even if you weren't trying to hurt him, and he'll whisk you into oblivion, remove your face, turn you into a lizard, etc.
** As mentioned in "I, Mudd" by Harry Mudd; copyright infringement on the planet Deneb V is a capital offense.

** In the episode "Justice", [[CreatorsPet Wesley Crusher]] is [[spoiler:nearly put to death]] by the locals for accidentally crushing some flowers. Worth pointing out that [[AllCrimesAreEqual Death was the only form of retribution]] on that planet.
** "The Long Goodbye" features an alien race called the Jarada, who [[BigCreepyCrawlies resemble giant wasps]] (at least per the script, since the budget kept them from actually being shown onscreen). Starting friendly relations with these creatures requires the applicant to address them in their language, and they consider mispronouncing even a single syllable to be a grave insult, enough to make them hated enemies of the one making the mistake. Fortunately, Picard is able to do it perfectly, despite barely making it to the bridge in time due to a malfunctioning holo-deck.

** In the final episode, the Dominion destroys a Cardassian city, along with its two million inhabitants, in retaliation against an act of terrorism by a small group of freedom fighters. When this eventually prompts the Cardassian fleet to turn on the Dominion fleet, the [[BigBad Female Changeling]] orders the extermination of the entire Cardassian race. Fortunately, Odo changes her mind before the Dominion have finished doing it.

*** Worth noting that while Dukat's estimation of his own benevolence was seriously exaggerated, things like this would be considered ''extremely'' proportionate compared to what many other Cardassian leaders would have done. The Cardassians as a whole are implied to be partial to DisproportionateRetribution
** Several of Garak's explanations for why he was exiled (i.e. tax evasion) would qualify if it weren't for the fact that, in typical Garak fashion, these claims have absolutely no basis in reality.
** In the original series episode "The Trouble With Tribbles", the Klingons' EvilPlan is foiled with the tribbles' help, as they react angrily to Klingons and were able to detect the one disguised as a human. Apparently, the Klingons took their anger out on the tribbles ''badly''. In the ''DSN'' episode "Trials and Tribble-ations", where the crew of DSN have to use TimeTravel to return to that era to prevent an assassination attempt on Kirk, Worf tells Odo that the tribbles did so much damage to the Klingons' agricultural base (no doubt after Scotty beamed them aboard their ship at the end of the original episode) that they were considered "a mortal enemy of the Empire", and ultimately they were hunted down and exterminated. Specially trained warriors were sent to kill every tribble in existence, and an armada of Klingon vessels obliterated the tribbles' homeworld. (Odo thinks that's absurd, telling Worf sarcastically, "Another glorious chapter in Klingon history. Tell me, do they still sing songs of 'The Great Tribble Hunt'?") Of course, in Worf's defense, he had no idea when he told Odo this that there was any personal vendetta involved, thinking the Klingons only had pest control in mind due to the tribbles' appetites and uncontrollable reproduction rate. (The greatest irony of this is, at the end of the episode, the crew of DSN brought some tribbles back with them to their time, re-establishing the species and undoing their extinction, making the Klingon's long and likely costly campaign of vengeance against them ultimately pointless.)

* An episode of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' had B'Elanna on trial with a potential FateWorseThanDeath sentence. Her crime? Being annoyed when someone bumped into her. This society is a race of telepaths who have eliminated violent thoughts, and so she was inadvertently spreading violent thoughts to innocent people, who are overwhelmed by them since they rarely have these thoughts. [[spoiler:But it turns out that there is a black market for violent thoughts on the planet, and the incident with B'Elanna was planned.]]
* On ''Series/Stargirl2020'', the high school coach benches star player Artemis Crock for her hot temper and attacking her own teammates. Too bad he doesn't know her parents are super-villains Sportsmaster and Tigress, who, while twisted, love their daughter...so much so that they murder the coach. And it turns out he's the ''third'' coach they've killed over the years for what they feel isn't allowing their daughter to be a star.

** 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 still 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.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Lestat kills an Italian opera singer simply because he sang poorly, and humiliates him first to boot, which Louis dislikes.

** Another example was in the host segments in ''Film/TheWildWorldOfBatwoman'', based off the short ''Cheating'' - Crow copies Gypsy's paper about why cheating is bad and Tom suggests that Crow should ''die.''

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall "Spyfall"]]: [[spoiler:It turns out that the Master razed Gallifrey after discovering an AwfulTruth about the species' history and origin ''so'' bad that it [[HorrifyingTheHorror horrified]] ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards him]]''. He laid waste to the planet so thoroughly that it's implied he didn't just kill the government, but ''everyone there'', including civilians and children who likely had nothing to do with the secret of the Timeless Child.]]

** Charlie Evans from [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries the first series]] episode "Charlie X". Do anything he doesn't like, even if you weren't trying to hurt him, and he'll whisk you into oblivion, remove your face, turn you into a lizard, etc.

* ''Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents2017: Esmé Squalor assists Count Olaf in plotting to kill the Baudelaires and steal their family's fortune because [[spoiler:their mother]] once stole a sugar bowl from her.

* In ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', [[spoiler: Moriarty]] murdered Carl Powers by poisoning his foot cream with ''Clostridium Botulinum'' so he'd drown at the swimming pool.

** The [[MonsterOfTheWeek Freak of the Week]] would usually murder someone in the [[TheTeaser Cold Open]]. What was [[Characters/SmallvilleMeteorFreaks Ian Randall's]] reason for killing his shop teacher? He gave Ian a C.
** He then went on to try at kill Chloe and Lana at once for... er... possibly noticing his MesACrowd powers... which probably won't happen if he didn't date them both at the same time...

* On ''Series/Stargirl2020'', the high school coach benches star player Artermis Crock for her hot temper and attacking her own teammates. Too bad he doesn't know her parents are super-villains Sportsmaster and Tigress, who, while twisted, love their daughter...so much so that they murder the coach. And it turns out he's the ''third'' coach they've killed over the years for what they feel isn't allowing their daughter to be a star.

** There was also the episode where Eliane lost her boyfriend, her friends, AND her job all because she didn't like ''Film/TheEnglishPatient.''

*** [[Recap/CommunityS2E14AdvancedDungeonsAndDragons "Advanced Dungeons and Dragons"]] takes this UpToEleven. When the study group chooses not to invite him to a ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' game that they know he wouldn't like and that they're using to help a bullied (as in borderline suicidal) student, he bullies his way into the game anyway and derails it as the villain. At the end, [[FriendshipMoment the bullied kid tells Pierce he had fun]].

** In "Locked Up", while it's subverted when the chancellor not only sentences Tori to ''four years in prison'' all because of her shoe malfunction that blinded him, it's then taken UpToEleven when he then sentences '''the entire rest of the gang''' after Robbie accidentally kills his electric clock and octopus!

* ''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.

** The antagonist of the season 11 episode "Just My Imagination" is a woman who, after her imaginary friend inadvertently and accidentally caused the death of her twin sister, decides to hunt and kill all of their kind, without a single care about what it would do to the children in their charge who ''found their bodies'', or that they're one the few (if not only) PureGood creatures in the entire show.

** In the episode "A Shade of Gray" the Unsub turned out to be a nine-year-old boy who choked his little brother to death because he accidentally broke a model airplane he was working on.

** Ben Finney harbors a grudge against Kirk for ''years'' for reporting a mistake of his. In revenge, he frames Kirk and attempts to get him court-martialed. The pettiness of the grudge[[note]]Accompanied by some unshown letters by Finney detailing his obsession with Kirk and the fact that he named his daughter, Jamie, after James Kirk[[/note]] lead fans to speculate that there were [[HoYay other]] [[FoeYay reasons]] for Finney's bitterness.

** In one episode, a homeless man murders a Buddhist monk for offering him a spoon while he was at the soup kitchen, [[DontYouDarePityMe on the grounds it was disrespectful because "I can get my own damn spoon!"]] He then tries to murder Bayliss because he found his incredulity at the guy's motive similarly disrespectful.
** Another episode had a man kill someone because he wouldn't give him a pen on the grounds that he could buy the pen anywhere for $4.00. It's justified, as the man was mentally unstable and actually turns himself in out of guilt.

* ''Series/OurMissBrooks'': In ''Spare That Rod!'', it's mentioned that disproportionate retribution is Mr. Conklin's modus operandi as principal of Madison High School. When Conklin discovers that some students had wrote "Old Man Conklin is a Pinhead" on Miss Brooks' blackboard ''after'' school, he orders ''Miss Brooks'' to inspect and clean ''all'' the blackboards at Madison High School.

** Not to mention Regina, who goes to extremes to destroy Snow White and all Snow holds dear because she blames Snow for the death of her lover Daniel, which was actually her mother Cora's fault. Even given that Snow was the one who revealed that Regina was in love with Daniel (which prompted Cora to murder him), she honestly thought she was helping because Cora told her Regina's happiness was her priority and Snow believed she'd let them be together instead of forcing Regina to marry Snow's father, and ''she was a kid''. Launching a vendetta against a child and turning into an OmnicidalManiac over this makes Regina utterly pathological.
** Taken even further by Cora. As a young woman she's humiliated by a bratty teenage princess. In response, Cora kicks off a 40+ year blood feud against the princess and her family, and royally screws up her own daughter by dragging her into it. In the spin-off ''Series/OnceUponATimeInWonderland'', she also brands Alice as a murderess and sends her guards to kill her because she tried to steal one of her weeping willow from her garden.
** This trait seems to run in Cora's family. The Wicked Witch of the West/Zelena is intent on [[spoiler: destroying Regina's life by ''wiping her out of existence'' by changing history, simply because Cora chose to keep Regina and abandon Zelena, and Rumpelstiltskin chose Regina to cast his curse. What makes this disproportionate is that firstly, Regina has no idea and whilst she has a questionable past, she has done nothing to deserve Zelena's hatred except '' being born''. Secondly, Zelena seems to idolise Cora and believe if she changes history, Cora would value her, when Zelena's whole problem is Cora's own self-serving actions. Furthermore, even if Cora had kept her, Zelena's life probably would have just ended up like Regina's. So, rather than blame Cora, she assigns her hatred to Regina, who apparently got everything Zelena didn't, never mind the fact that Zelena seems to have had a fairly decent adoptive mother.]]
** Zelena also takes it out on anyone who gets in her way, turning people into flying monkeys, or causing [[spoiler: Neal to die, when he hardly deserved to, simply because Zelena wanted to perversely prove herself to Rumpelstiltskin and make him suffer for not choosing her.]] The whole thing smacks of childish psychopathy.