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It wasn't just because he didn't get the crown. Read subtext. His brother was clearly his father's favorite son as when it was revealed he was the attacker, his father said "I didn't expect anything else from you, Trittanus" and throws him in jail without feeling sorry that he has to do that at all. His father also later said "Tritanus is no longer my son" later on after he had escaped from prison, so the way Trittanus reacted is understandable. Parents should always love their children equally and should not have favorites.


** Tritannus from Season 5 takes the cake, though: the reason he [[spoiler: turned his family into minions and tries to turn the oceans toxic resulting in the destruction of the Magical Dimension (which would kill everyone) is... he was passed over for the title of Crown Prince.]]
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** Egghead guns down a theater patron who keeps getting up from his seat in "Daffy Duck and Egghead."
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** Daffy Duck guns down an audience member in "The Ducksters" after the member yells out "You'll be sorry!" to Porky Pig who is being goaded into another humiliating stunt on Daffy's radio game show.
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* ''DisproportionateRetribution/DuckTales1987''
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* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'':
** In "Three Ducks of the Condor", Joaquin Slolei tries to order Scrooge, Launchpad, and Donald killed because he's mad they pressured him into giving up his ancestor's half of the map to the Valley of the Golden Suns. [[LaserGuidedKarma This betrayal comes back to bite him]].
** In "Sphinx for the Memories", the Garbled One sentences Scrooge and the nephews to be "tied down in the desert sun and let the vultures pick their bones" for merely intruding on the lost city of Garbabble. Scrooge talks him into lessening the sentence into ''merely'' having him and the nephews enslaved for life building a pyramid.
*** It's noteworthy that the Garbled One eschews the traditional punishment of being thrown alive in the jackal pit. Moreover, their Garbabble desert guide had tried to get them crushed to death in a death trap en route.
** In "Luck O' The Ducks", trespassing in the Leprechaun king's castle merits being thrown into the snake pit for a hundred years.
** In "Scroogerello", Scrooge's dream had Flintheart Glomgold imprison his childhood servant for life when said servant gave Flintheart cod liver oil for a cold, and imprison Huey, Dewey and Louie for life after their Junior Woodchuck cookies gave Burger Beagle heartburn.
** "Jungle Duck" sees Scrooge and party almost thrown into a pit of boiling oil by hostile natives just for showing up in the natives' territory.
** "The Duck In The Iron Mask":
*** The Count of Monte Dumas's evil twin brother locks him in an iron mask, because said evil twin brother was lost in a childhood game of hide and seek.
*** Scrooge, Launchpad, ''and'' Huey, Dewey, and Louie are sentenced to life imprisonment after Scrooge angrily tears up the fines he's been issued by Captain Pietro.
** "Aqua Ducks" sees Scrooge, Launchpad, Doofus, and Gyro sentenced to 400 years imprisonment for "littering" (Part of the "Catch as Cash Can" four-parter, Scrooge's entire fortune had been sunk into the domain of a group of angry fish folk).
** Similarly, "The Land of Tralala" sees the High Mucky Duck of Tralala '''sentence Scrooge, Fenton, Huey, Dewey and Louie to death''' for "the high crime of littering".
** "Allowance Day" sees Scrooge and Fenton sentenced to death, again. Scrooge had angrily shaken General Chiquita, the dictator of The Banana Republic, by the coat.
** The theme of "trespassers will be murdered" appears yet again in the episode "Bubba's Big Brain Storm". Scrooge, his nephews, and Bubba are shot down by the dimwitted descendants of the [[PunnyName Ancient Thinkas]]. The dimwitted natives lock Scrooge and company in a pyramid to starve to death.
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** One or more of the Eds routinely find themselves being punished for what the other Eds do -- most frequently Eddy is the cause and the other two end up suffering for it, but occasionally the other two are responsible.

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** One or more of the Eds routinely sometimes/often find themselves being punished for what the other Eds do -- most frequently Eddy is the cause and the other two end up suffering for it, but occasionally the other two are responsible.

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*** A throwaway line in the Season 2 premiere hints that Lisa was sold out to the Church by the village's old medicine woman, who was pissy that Lisa's more modern and efficient medicinal practices were stealing away her old customers.

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*** ** A throwaway line in the Season 2 premiere hints that Lisa was sold out to the Church by the village's old medicine woman, who was pissy that Lisa's more modern and efficient medicinal practices were stealing away her old customers.customers.
** "[[Recap/Castlevania2017S2E5LastSpell Last Spell]]": When talking with Isaac, Dracula recalls an episode where a group of forty merchants insulted him. He responded by setting their town on fire, slaughtering them all, and staking their mauled corpses by the ruins for their families to see.

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* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Generally, [[VillainOfTheWeek akumas]] tend to respond to whatever slight got them akumatized with overblown actions as part of the transformation. For example, when Nathaniel was akumatized into Evillustrator after being mocked by [[AlphaBitch Chloé]], he quickly set about trying to murder her.

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Generally, [[VillainOfTheWeek akumas]] tend to respond to whatever slight got them akumatized with overblown actions as part of the transformation. For example, when Nathaniel was akumatized into Evillustrator after being mocked by [[AlphaBitch Chloé]], he quickly set about trying to murder her.her.
** Some Akuma examples are overblown in pettiness even by the standards of the series. Someone wanting to get even with Chloé for all of the bullying she does makes sense (even if it is disproportionate). Chloé's mom (who is a bigger AlphaBitch and her FreudianExcuse) essentially deciding to go on a killing spree because she could not get first row tickets to a fashion display... even Chloé shows a rare display of standards by thinking she is going too far.
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* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack: The Series'', Jay runs afoul of a HiveMind race that wants him dead for accidentally killing one of their own. When Kay blows his nose and shows them the mucus-covered handkerchief, they decide to let Jay go and take ''him'' instead.

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* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack: The Series'', ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries'', Jay runs afoul of a HiveMind race that wants him dead for accidentally killing one of their own. When Kay blows his nose and shows them the mucus-covered handkerchief, they decide to let Jay go and take ''him'' instead.



* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug:'' Generally, [[VillainOfTheWeek akumas]] tend to respond to whatever slight got them akumatized with overblown actions as part of the transformation. For example, when Nathaniel was akumatized into Evillustrator after being mocked by [[AlphaBitch Chloé]], he quickly set about trying to murder her.

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* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug:'' ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Generally, [[VillainOfTheWeek akumas]] tend to respond to whatever slight got them akumatized with overblown actions as part of the transformation. For example, when Nathaniel was akumatized into Evillustrator after being mocked by [[AlphaBitch Chloé]], he quickly set about trying to murder her.

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* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'':
** In "The Sad Story of Henry", [[spoiler:Henry gets bricked up in the tunnel supposedly forever, all because he refused to move out of the tunnel. The narrator even says that he deserves his punishment]].
** The trucks in "Percy's Predicament" decide to push Percy around because they didn't like seeing him at the quarry instead of Toby.
** In "Granpuff", Smudger, [[AndIMustScream gets turned into a generator]] for misbehaving.



* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' episode "Past Tense", Dr. Venture, Brock, Mr. White, and Baron Underbheit are kidnapped by an old acquaintance, Mike Sorayama, who has devised a complex revenge plot with the intention of killing them all...in vengeance for a variety of minor pranks they all played on him in college, most of which revolved around his pathetic unrequited crush on a girl called Leslie Cohen. It turns out that Venture didn't even ''do'' what Mike claims he did (sleep with the girl -- although Brock did), although he does lampshade the overall ludicrousness of Mike's obsessive vendetta with what he ''thinks'' Mike blames him for:
-->'''Doctor Venture:''' Oh ''come on''! You're gonna kill me for having fake sex on graph paper with a girl who barely spoke to you in real life?!

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In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' the episode "Past Tense", Dr. Venture, Brock, Mr. White, and Baron Underbheit are kidnapped by an old acquaintance, Mike Sorayama, who has devised a complex revenge plot with the intention of killing them all...in vengeance for a variety of minor pranks they all played on him in college, most of which revolved around his pathetic unrequited crush on a girl called Leslie Cohen. It turns out that Venture didn't even ''do'' what Mike claims he did (sleep with the girl -- although Brock did), although he does lampshade the overall ludicrousness of Mike's obsessive vendetta with what he ''thinks'' Mike blames him for:
-->'''Doctor --->'''Doctor Venture:''' Oh ''come on''! You're gonna kill me for having fake sex on graph paper with a girl who barely spoke to you in real life?!



* A harmless version in the ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' ChristmasEpisode had Spyke and his father throw a couple of snowballs at ComicBook/{{Storm}} (with poor accuracy). Storm logically responds by creating a small snowstorm to show them why one should never pick a snowball fight with someone who can control the weather.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' episode, "The Sad Story of Henry", [[spoiler: Henry gets bricked up in the tunnel supposedly forever, all because he refused to move out of the tunnel. The narrator even said that he deserved his punishment.]]
** The trucks in "Percy's Predicament" decide to push Percy around because they didn't like seeing him at the quarry instead of Toby.
** In "Granpuff", Smudger, [[AndIMustScream gets turned into a generator]] for misbehaving.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RockAndRule'', Mok's EvilPlan to summon a demon to eat the audience at his next concert is meant to be payback for...his previous concert not being ''completely'' sold out. And according to Lou Reed, the singing voice for Mok's VillainSong, there were only '''two empty seats'''.

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* A harmless version in the ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' ChristmasEpisode had Spyke and his father throw a couple of snowballs at ComicBook/{{Storm}} Storm (with poor accuracy). Storm logically responds by creating a small snowstorm to show them why one should never pick a snowball fight with someone who can control the weather.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' episode, "The Sad Story of Henry", [[spoiler: Henry gets bricked up in the tunnel supposedly forever, all because he refused to move out of the tunnel. The narrator even said that he deserved his punishment.]]
** The trucks in "Percy's Predicament" decide to push Percy around because they didn't like seeing him at the quarry instead of Toby.
** In "Granpuff", Smudger, [[AndIMustScream gets turned into a generator]] for misbehaving.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RockAndRule'', Mok's EvilPlan to summon a demon to eat the audience at his next concert is meant to be payback for...his previous concert not being ''completely'' sold out. And according to Lou Reed, the singing voice for Mok's VillainSong, there were only '''two empty seats'''.
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** The episode Mr Right is a great example of this. Francis gets the punishment of a scorpion sting, wasp nest attack & being beaten by a pro wrestler. Francis then at the end gets revenge but in a pretty extreme way by pretty much doing a bit more than same. As along with the scorpions, wasps nest & the pro wrestle he joins in on the vicious beating.
** Lights Out has Timmy being chased by “Scary Fairies” for scaring Poof. They chase Timmy in the pitch dark night on the premise they will eat him. They even eat Mr Crocker viciously lacerating his body even further than when he in the episode gets mauled by a pack of tigers.
** Take and Fake ending with Timmy getting catapulted
** Dad overboard with them getting the wrong directions and having a gag of driving into a volcano sometimes getting burned by dragons.
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* In the Disney CompilationMovie ''Once Upon a Halloween'', [[SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs the Evil Queen]] is plotting to do something evil while her talking cauldron tries to talk her out of while showing her clips of various Disney movies. In the end the villain decides she doesn't want to go through her plan anymore, but the cauldron kills her anyway for even attempting it in the first place.

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* In the Disney CompilationMovie ''Once Upon a Halloween'', [[SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs the Evil Queen]] is plotting to do something evil while her talking cauldron tries to talk her out of while showing her clips of various Disney movies. In the end the villain decides she doesn't want to go through her plan anymore, but the cauldron kills her anyway for even attempting it in the first place.
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* In the Disney CompilationMovie ''Once Upon a Halloween'', [[SnowWhitewAndTheSevenDwarfs the Evil Queen]] is plotting to do something evil while her talking cauldron tries to talk her out of while showing her clips of various Disney movies. In the end the villain decides she doesn't want to go through her plan anymore, but the cauldron kills her anyway for even attempting it in the first place.

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* In the Disney CompilationMovie ''Once Upon a Halloween'', [[SnowWhitewAndTheSevenDwarfs [[SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs the Evil Queen]] is plotting to do something evil while her talking cauldron tries to talk her out of while showing her clips of various Disney movies. In the end the villain decides she doesn't want to go through her plan anymore, but the cauldron kills her anyway for even attempting it in the first place.
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* In the Disney CompilationMovie ''Once Upon a Halloween'', [[SnowWhitewAndTheSevenDwarfs TheEvilQueen]] is plotting to do something evil while her talking cauldron tries to talk her out of while showing her clips of various Disney movies. In the end the villain decides she doesn't want to go through her plan anymore, but the cauldron kills her anyway for even attempting it in the first place.

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* In the Disney CompilationMovie ''Once Upon a Halloween'', [[SnowWhitewAndTheSevenDwarfs TheEvilQueen]] the Evil Queen]] is plotting to do something evil while her talking cauldron tries to talk her out of while showing her clips of various Disney movies. In the end the villain decides she doesn't want to go through her plan anymore, but the cauldron kills her anyway for even attempting it in the first place.
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* In the CompilationMovie ''Once Upon a Halloween'', a villain is plotting to do something evil while her talking cauldron tries to talk her out of while showing her clips of various Disney movies. In the end the villain decides she doesn't want to go through her plan anymore, but the cauldron kills her anyway for even attempting it in the first place.

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* In the Disney CompilationMovie ''Once Upon a Halloween'', a villain [[SnowWhitewAndTheSevenDwarfs TheEvilQueen]] is plotting to do something evil while her talking cauldron tries to talk her out of while showing her clips of various Disney movies. In the end the villain decides she doesn't want to go through her plan anymore, but the cauldron kills her anyway for even attempting it in the first place.
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* ''WesternAnimation/FourEyes'': It can be safely assumed that Emma must have done something very stupid to get her to repeat the fifth grade, but what's with the sending her to another planet?
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** Anais could have been nicer about rejecting Billy in "The Friend". His reaction to this to is to [[LovingBully bully the absolute shit out of her]].

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** Anais could have been nicer about rejecting Billy in "The Friend".Egg". His reaction to this to is to [[LovingBully bully the absolute shit out of her]].

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* Manly Dan in the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode [[Recap/GravityFallsS2E11NotWhatHeSeems "Not What He Seems"]] rams a humvee carrying Dipper and Mabel off the road after Mabel wrote on a fogged-up window that the BoyBand Sev'ral Timez is overrated. The twins and the agent driving the humvee survived without injuries, but it could've been worse.
** "A Tale of Two Stans" reveals an [[spoiler:18-year-old Stanley accidentally broke the perpetual motion machine in a fit of rage, which ruined an opportunity for Ford to get enrolled in his dream college, West Coast Tech. His father responded by disowning and kicking him out of their home and telling Stan to never come back until he made a fortune.]]

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** In "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E11NotWhatHeSeems Not What He Seems]]",
Manly Dan in the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode [[Recap/GravityFallsS2E11NotWhatHeSeems "Not What He Seems"]] rams a humvee carrying Dipper and Mabel off the road after Mabel wrote on a fogged-up window that the BoyBand Sev'ral Timez is overrated. The twins and the agent driving the humvee survived without injuries, but it could've been worse.
** "A "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E12ATaleOfTwoStans A Tale of Two Stans" Stans]]" reveals that an [[spoiler:18-year-old Stanley accidentally broke the perpetual motion machine in a fit of rage, which ruined an opportunity for Ford to get enrolled in his dream college, West Coast Tech. His father responded by disowning and kicking him out of their home and telling Stan to never come back until he made a fortune.]]fortune]].
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* ComicBook/LexLuthor's actions in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' can be considered this as he describes it to The Question (while beating the crap out of him), who's trying to stop him from becoming president to keep from fulfilling a future where Superman kills him and turns evil.

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* ComicBook/LexLuthor's Lex Luthor's actions in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' can be considered this as he describes it to The the Question (while beating the crap out of him), who's trying to stop him from becoming president to keep from fulfilling a future where Superman kills him and turns evil.evil, in "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E9QuestionAuthority Question Authority]]".
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* Discussed in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/MissionHill'' when Kevin accidentally starts a fire by masturbating in a store bathroom ([[ItMakesSenseInContext just take it at face value]]) and is content to blame the fire on two burgulars who were robbing the store at the time, partly because he's too embarrassed to tell the truth and partly because the two thieves truly ''are'' gigantic pieces of shit who everyone hates. He feels guilty about it enough to confide in Andy about it, but is largely content to let them take the blame because he feels they shouldn't have robbed the store. Andy ''furiously'' counters that the punishment they'll get for taking the blame is far too severe for just shoplifting.
--> '''Andy:''' They took ''fifty-three dollars!!!'' Now they're on the hook for ''attempted murder!!!''
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* This is the primary motivation for Chip Whistler from ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens''. He bit into a fake apple, broke his tooth, and blamed the Green family for it despite the fact that Cricket warned him not to eat it, but he ignored him. Naturally, Bill predicted something like this would happen.
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* A lot of the complaints people have over ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' is Jerry's tendency to do this to Tom.

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* %%* A lot of the complaints people have over ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' is Jerry's tendency to do this to Tom.Tom. - ZCE; uses Audience Reactions in place of an actual example

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* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'': In [[Recap/BeavisAndButtheadS5E37Tired "Tired"]], Todd beats up Beavis for... making him (Todd) spill a drop of beer on his jeans.
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* ''WesternAnimation/OscarsOrchestra'':
** When he was 6 years old, Thadius got humiliated at a concert because Oscar accidentally revealed he was playing himself. As a result of this, he developed a hatred for all musical instruments, abused Oscar, and banned all music from the world forever when he became leader of the world. Yep, ''totally'' justified.
** He probably got it from his mom, as the episode “A Fight at the Opera” shows Thadweena had Reena imprisoned in an ice cube and castaway on the mountainside for what was supposed to be forever. . . because Reena, a professional opera singer, was deemed a better opera singer in a contest Thadweena commanded her to come to.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}'': PlayedForLaughs. Warden Tiny Smalls will execute ''anyone'' who so much as laughs at his name, [[BadBoss even his workers]].
-->'''Warden Smalls:''' Electric chair!
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** Doof also teleported a guy to another dimension because he [[OverprotectiveDad hit on Vanessa]].

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** Doof also teleported a guy to another dimension because he [[OverprotectiveDad [[KnightTemplarParent hit on Vanessa]].
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--->'''Carrie:''' It was TEA!

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--->'''Carrie:''' It was TEA!He got frostbite and nearly lost three toes over a TEA!?
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* ''WesternAnimation/HitMonkey'': Lady Bullseye’s EstablishingCharacterMoment has her killing people for causing her minor inconveniences. A flight attendant asking her to put her tray table up? A hotel clerk telling her her room isn’t ready? A guy hitting on her? All violently killed.

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