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* ''Series/{{Accused}}'': Kenny's friends were equally guilty, but the only evidence against them is Kenny's confession, so the jury acquits them. Alison's husband isn't arrested for raping her, as she didn't report it, but is for other crimes. Tina's rapist is also not arrested for the same reasons.

%%* Servalan in ''Series/BlakesSeven'', presumably.

** Arguably TheMaster is one. While he usually gets his comeuppance, his JokerImmunity means he'll always escape whatever inescapable situation he's left in and return to threaten the universe again. Davros was the same until the show DroppedABridgeOnHim.

** L.T Anita Van Buren shot and killed an unarmed black teen because she suspected he was going to rob her while she was withdrawning money from a ATM machine at night. It looked like everything was going downhill for her during the episode, but she is able to get out of it by pleading to the boy's mother, asking for her forgiveness. She succeeds and evetually she is let off the hook.

* ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'': Karl, the villain of the three-part episode "Chillogy". At the end the heroes believe that one of the miniature figures they're burning in the fireplace has to be Karl, but it turns out he escaped the destruction of Karlsville unharmed. The episode ends with him laughing evilly at his apparent luck.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E4TheKrotons "the Krotons"]]: Eelek takes advantage of the Krotons' deception to arrange a coup, plans an attack that will get his people killed, and ultimately betrays the Doctor and Zoe to the Krotons. Although rightful ruler Thara vows to get rid of him, he remains in power at the story's close.

* ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'':
** [[TheDragon Vera]], for the villainous example. She did plenty of horrible things, like kidnap Trudy, and many fans were crying out for her karma. In the end, however, she literally was just told to walk offscreen and that was the end of it.

* ''Series/{{Survivor}}'': Russel has gone through at least two seasons making CombatPragmatist UpToEleven. He ''admits'' acting the bad guy deliberately. Some of the first few things he did when he originally joined was burn one guy's socks and empty the camp's water supply so that one started to wonder that why didn't they [[JustEatGilligan just send him to home after the first chance]]. They did that to [[EnsembleDarkhorse Yau]]-[[CombatPragmatist Man]] on his second attempt, even though the guy at least had some shades of being nice! Also, Russell is a millionaire who joined because he wanted to practically tell everyone that he's an evil bastard. The only thing that allows us to put a real person here is the fact that [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential we don't really know if he's evil in real life, too]].

** Dexter. While it's all in the service of the community (as he sees it) and while it gives him no end of trouble, he does kill people and avoid getting caught. He even got to pin most of his murders on Doakes. In the series finale, Dexter :fakes his death and starts a new life elsewhere, and his dark secrets are never even exposed. However, many fans consider the fact that he lost everyone he cared about and must spend the rest of his life in isolation a FateWorseThanDeath. The upcoming reboot may also invalidate Dexter's KarmaHoudiniWarranty.

* In ''Series/TheBoys'', [[spoiler:WonderWomanWannabe Queen Maeve was a more neutral figure compared to IncorruptiblePurePureness Starlight, and had purely selfish motivations for joining [[CapeBusters the Boys' crusade]] against [[EvilInc Vought]]. As a result, in the season 3 finale she betrays them (save Butcher) for her RoaringRampageOfRevenge against Homelander and irresponsibly ''[[DestructiveSavior throws a can of nerve agent into the streets of New York]]''. [[SubvertedTrope In spite of the clear setup for]] a RedemptionEqualsDeath, she's given PlotArmor that allows her to survive ''two'' back-to-back fights against Supes leagues stronger than her that should have killed her outright, and gets a happy ending where she's PutOnABus with her spontaneously-reappearing girlfriend while [[WellIntentionedExtremist Butcher]] gets LaserGuidedKarma in the form of [[YourDaysAreNumbered brain cancer]]. According to WordOfGod the writers gave her special treatment because they wanted to avoid a BuryYourGays situation.]]

-->'''Raymond Holt''': I wonder what he's doing now.
-->'''Madeline Wuntch''': He's got a much higher paying job in the private sector.
-->'''Raymond Holt''': Yes, the world is horrible.

* ''Series/LawAndOrder'': Several of the defendants manage to wriggle out of well-deserved punishments. Uncoincidentally, most of those who do are [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney filthy rich]].

* ''Series/ControlZ'': Bruno never gets any punishment for his involvement with [[spoiler:Raúl]] as the hacker since he escaped from his lair, never to be seen again.

* ''Series/OnceUponATime'':
** Regina Mills, the Big Bad of Season 1, has killed countless people, spent a lifetime trying to kill her stepdaughter or otherwise ruin her life, abused her adoptive son in the first ten years of his life, murdered a man whom she had essentially raped for decades, and robbed Emma of her childhood due to her curse separating her from her parents as an infant. However, due to a change of heart in later seasons, she manages to get off scot-free.
** Not a true KarmaHoudini though due to the amount of crap the Creators put her through to justify her being a KarmaHoudini and entitled. She was adored by the fandom while she was a villain due to her tragic backstory and an actually completed goal even if her victory was undone, but after she completed her HeelFaceTurn and the faux love triangle and overall entitledness to a happy ending turned her into TheScrappy. Then they decided to kill her love interest, have her evil half of her try to murder her, her very obvious BPD, her other lover dying before they could establish a relationship.

* ''Series/ColdCase'': ''Very'' rare, and when it does occur, it's almost never the main perp. Examples are few and far between, but include the second killer in "Late Returns" (his devoted sister took the rap for both murders even though she only committed one), the victim's pedophile dad from "Fly Away" (statute of limitations was up, and while he appeared to have become TheAtoner over the years, the dude still [[{{Squick}} gave his eight-year-old gonorrhea]]), the crooked nun who sold babies on the black market in "The Good-bye Room" (only evidence against her was the tape-recorded testimony of a dead woman), and the black widow from "The Runaway Bunny" (the only person who could prove she did it, her stepdaughter, was being hidden away for her own safety; the woman even gives Lilly a wink and a smug grin as she leaves the station, knowing she's untouchable).

* The killer in the ''Series/MurdochMysteries'' episode "Belly Speaker". It's not the only time an episode doesn't end with the perpetrator being brought to justice, but usually they're either {{Sympathetic Murderer}}s or recurring foes who get caught eventually. The murderer in this one was not the former, and (given this was back in Season 1) shows no signs of being the latter.

* ''Series/StepByStep'' had an episode, where JT and Cody were tricked into signing over the right to their TV show to a network. But as they had legally signed a contract, they couldn't do anything about it. And to make the whole thing even worse, they were even unable to get any money from the deal!