History KarmicDeath / LiveActionFilms

* ''Film/Thursday'': The police officer at the start of the film is given a free coffee by the killers, and he leaves the convenience store. However, his greed makes him return to claim a free pastry (there is an offer giving customers who purchase a coffee a free pastry). Even though he clearly didn't buy the coffee in the first place, he returns to demand a pastry, and is killed by Nick & Dallas this time around.
* In ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'', a memorable OneSceneWonder baddie named Dr. Kaufman is a professional assassin who uses his professor-level knowledge of forensic medicine to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident. His original plan was to [[spoiler:kill poor Paris and then kill Bond in a way that makes it look like Bond committed a MurderSuicide. Bond overpowers Kaufman and then makes the professor shoot himself in the head, turning Kaufman into the victim of his own plan and covering up Bond's tracks instead.]]

** Earlier in the film, Carver kills one of his goons [[PsychicAssitedSuicide by ordering him to shoot himself, and then Pushing a memory saying the gun is empty]]. [[spoiler:At the end, Kira kills him the exact same way]].

* In both ''Film/{{Le Bossu|1959}}'' and ''Film/OnGuard'', Philippe de Gonzague eventually perishes by the Botte de Nevers, the very fencing move that was personal to the man he killed to usurp his wealth and get his widow, his cousin the Duke Philippe de Nevers. The fencing trick ends with the sword planted right between one's eyes.

* ''Film/{{Push}}''. Nick's final battle with Victor, TheDragon. He gets a chance to kill him but doesn't, for unknown reasons. Victor is killed seconds later by a [[SuperScream Bleeder]] though.

* ''Film/{{Push}}''. Nick's final battle with Victor, TheDragon. He gets a chance to kill him but doesn't, for unknown reasons. Victor is killed seconds later by a [[MakeMeWannaShout Bleeder]] though.

--->''"Do you feel like an animal, Jason? Like meat?"''

** In ''Film/JurassicPark'', Nedry sabotages all the security measures of the island and unleashes nearly all of the very dangerous dinosaurs to help cover his escape. He gets lost, crashes his jeep and eventually gets eaten by a ''Dilophosaurus''.

* In the 1959 ''Film/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth'' film, Count Saknussem tries to mislead and kill the heroes, but is eventually caught and sentenced to death. However, no one wants to kill him, so they take him along. Sometime after they reach the center of the earth, however, Saknussem eats Gertrude, Hans's duck. Shortly afterward, he falls against a boulder and is killed when several heavy rocks fall upon him.

* In ''Film/DistrictNine'', cruel and sadistic mercenary Koobus Venter survives pretty much everything... until the end where he finds himself surrounded by a pack of those Prawns he despises so much and which he killed by the dozens. He ends up ripped apart and eaten.

* The ''Film/GhostRider'' movie. After taking the San Verganza contract and powering himself up with a thousand corrupt souls, Blackheart meets his end when Ghost Rider turns the Penance Stare upon him. It didn't work the first time due to the fact that Blackheart did not have a soul, but taking the contract had not only voided this immunity, but made him ''extra'' vulnerable. Whoops!

* In ''Film/TheIslandAtTheTopOfTheWorld'', The Godi causes his own death by shooting a [[ArrowOnFire flaming arrow]] into the dirigible causing it to fall covered in flames. Especially ironic as he had been proclaiming the appearance of the airship as a portent of doom.

* In ''Film/RoadHouse1989'', the evil [[SmugSnake Brad]] [[CorruptHick Wesley]] basically runs the town the movie is set in, forcing the local businessmen to pay him and trashing their shops if they refuse. In the final showdown with Dalton, it's not Swayze who kills him (as the latter did, graphically, to his [[TheDragon Dragon]] Jimmy), but the aforementioned business owners, filling him with enough lead to take down a bear. Can also overlap with TheDogBitesBack or AdaptationalSelfDefense.

* Carl, the [[SmugSnake villain]] of ''Film/{{Ghost}}'', dies after he swings a hanging hook at the hero, in a massively futile attempt to halt Patrick Swayze's ghostly offensive, smashes the window behind him, and ultimately winds up impaled on the very [[SoftGlass un-soft glass]]. And as if that wasn't enough, the film becomes terrifying. Carl only gets to experience his first few seconds in the afterlife on that plane before shadows boil out of everywhere and [[DraggedOffToHell drag him off screaming to Oblivion or whatever hellhole or damnation the viewer can only imagine]].