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** [[CruelToBeKind Meant to keep his friends from following him]] or not, Eren [[spoiler:telling Mikasa, who has loved him from the very beginning, [[HiddenDisdainReveal that he's always hated her]] and completely tearing her apart with a lie that she and the other Ackermans were meant to be slaves, beating the living shit out of Armin when he is very understandably pissed at him for this, and then [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown kicking Armin while he's down]] and having both him and Mikasa taken prisoner at gunpoint by his followers]] was a very, ''very'' low thing to do to them.

** [[CruelToBeKind Meant to keep his friends from following him]] or not, Eren [[spoiler:telling Mikasa, who has loved him from the very beginning, [[HiddenDisdainReveal that he's always hated her]] and completely tearing her apart with a lie that she and the other Ackermans were meant to be slaves, and then beating the living shit out of Armin when he is very understandably pissed at him for this]] was a very, ''very'' low thing to do to them.

** Kaiba himself has done this on at least a few occasions. In one of his [[EstablishingCharacterMoment establishing moments]], he beats up Yugi after getting called out on stealing his grandpa's Blue Eyes White Dragon. In his next appearance, he kidnaps Yugi's grandpa and forces him to duel with the Blue Eyes White Dragon as an ante. After beating the latter, he takes the Blue Eyes and tears it up, sending the poor old man into shock and into the hospital. As if that weren't enough, he gets Yugi and his friends involved by putting them in [[AmusementParkOfDoom the Death-T Amusement Park]], with the former dueling in a life-or-death match.

*** Delivers one to her own father by kicking him out of his own Guild after an enraged Sting nearly kills him, since she believes he's too weak to lead the guild. Later revelations that [[AbusiveParents Jiemma abused her]], as well as Jiemma provoking Sting by nearly killing Lector, however, show this to be a KickTheSonOfABitch moment.

** Also, did Nao really need [[spoiler: to kidnap both Takumi and later Natsuki]]? The worst part is that [[spoiler:Mai, whom Nao tried to kidnap Takumi to hurt]] attempted to [[StandingBetweenTheEnemies stop the fight]] in which Nao [[spoiler:lost her eye]]. [[spoiler: And then Karma, in the form of Shizuru, [[KickTheSonOfABitch bloodily caught up with her]]...]]

* Choji Suitengu does this constantly throughout ''Anime/SpeedGrapher'' (just as often KickTheSonOfABitch, actually). He has people who can't pay their debts [[FinancialAbuse killed and cashes in their life insurance policies]], and [[BreakTheCutie the things he puts the teenaged Kagura]] through would make him a monster, were it not for his FreudianExcuse and PetTheDog moments.

* One of the first things Ping Yang Hou does in ''Manhua/GoddessCreationSystem'' [[spoiler:after becoming king]] is to order [[spoiler:his sister to commit suicide. And... she does.]] It turns out a bit later that he had his reasons, [[spoiler:but it's still the first hint that he's become TheCaligula.]]

* In ''Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess2016'', Zant literally shreds the Golden Wolf apart with his magic when he tries to help Midna. He gets better thanks to being the Hero's Shade, but still...

* Goblins in ''Literature/GoblinSlayer'' hand these moments out like candy. Of particularly nasty note is what they do to the all-female party that attacked the Elven Fortress from Chapter 4 after overtaking them: [[spoiler:first they burn the wizard at the stake, then they tie up the ranger and kill her with her own arrows, and then stuff her entrails into the mouth of the monk who tried to bite out her own tongue in order to kill herself. And as for the Knight who led the party? Not only do they make her watch all of this horrificness, but they then spend three days and three nights raping her and doing all kinds of other unspeakable things before she finally dies, just before throwing her horrifically mangled body into the river for the villagers to find]]. And they did all of this because [[spoiler:they were feeling vindictive about them killing a number of their own in their bid to rescue a village girl that they had taken]].

** In Part 6, [[SinisterMinister Enrico Pucci]] gets trapped behind a locked door during [[RainOfSomethingUnusual a rain of poison dart frogs]], and a guard who comes across him panics and runs to get help instead of opening it as he requested. Pucci [[EvilIsPetty became so indignant at being ignored]] that he threw the frog at him and made it explode in his face, blinding the poor man with its poison and leaving him for dead.

** Also subverted quite cleverly at the start of the Loguetown arc. When we first meet new villain Smoker, he is walking down the street looking generally sinister. A little girl running around with an ice cream cone accidentally bumps into him and ruins his Marine uniform by getting chocolate all over his pants. Smoker gives the girl an intense, hard look... and then sweetly apologizes for bumping into her. He even gives her money to buy even more than she lost. Especially effective since up to this point, all the villains in ''One Piece'' had been irredeemable bastards; Smoker is the first antagonist with real moral complexity to him.

** Griez spends his short screentime slagging off [[spoiler:Sasha]], [[SpeakIllOfTheDead who recently died]], saying disgusting things about her right in front of her parents and the guy she loved, shortly before [[spoiler:Yelena blows the asshole's brains out]].

** [[CruelToBeKind Meant to keep his friends from following him]] or not, Eren [[spoiler:telling Mikasa, who has loved him from the very beginning, [[HiddenDisdainReveal that he's always hated her]] and completely tearing her apart with a lie that she and the other Ackermans were meant to be slaves, and then beating the living shit out of Armin when he is very understandably pissed at him for this]] is a very, ''very'' low thing to do to them.

** The Marleyans' horrible and very Nazi-like treatment of the Eldians in their territory in general very much smacks of this, especially when it's revealed that [[spoiler:their Warrior program explicitly brainwashes and turns Eldians against their fellow Eldians on Paradis before turning them into the Titans that everyone on Paradis has been having to deal with]]. Not even the reveal that [[spoiler:Eldia was once a cruel empire and that Marley originally started out as rebels against it]] does anything to offset this cruelty, which comes back to bite them hard when [[spoiler:Eren unleashes the Rumbling on them and the rest of the world]].
** Griez spends his short screentime slagging off [[spoiler:Sasha]], [[SpeakIllOfTheDead who recently died]], right in front of her parents and the guy she loved, shortly before [[spoiler:Yelena blows the asshole's brains out]].

** The Marleyans' horrible treatment of the Eldians in their territory in general very much smacks of this, especially when it's revealed that [[spoiler:their Warrior program explicitly brainwashes and turns Eldians against their fellow Eldians on Paradis before turning them into the Titans that everyone on Paradis has been having to deal with]]. Not even the reveal that [[spoiler:Eldia was once a cruel empire and that Marley originally started out as rebels against it]] does anything to offset this cruelty, which comes back to bite them hard when [[spoiler:Eren unleashes the Rumbling on them and the rest of the world]].

** [[spoiler:King Fritz I]], the founder of the Eldian Empire, stands out as probably ''the'' most horrible character of all of ''Attack on Titan'', and pretty much did ''nothing'' but kick dogs. Of particular and horrific note was his treatment of [[spoiler:his queen Ymir Fritz, who he treated as little more than a BreedingSlave, and who he fed to his own daughters after her death]].

** Griez spends his short screentime slagging off [[spoiler:Sasha]], [[SpeakIllOfTheDead who recently died]], right in front of the guy she loved, shortly before [[spoiler:Yelena puts a bullet in Griez's skull]].

** In ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'', King Vegeta has the titular Saiyan exiled to the planet Vampa without his father Paragus's consent out of fear for the boy becoming strong enough to overthrow him. And even ''that's'' an act of decency compared to [[Anime/DragonBallZBrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan the non-canon film]], where he ''stabs Broly to near-death'' [[WouldHurtAChild not even an hour after he was born]].

** In ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'', King Vegeta has the titular Saiyan exiled to the planet Vampa without his father Paragus's consent out of fear for the boy becoming strong enough to overthrow him. And even ''that's'' an act of consolation compared to [[Anime/DragonBallZBrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan the non-canon film]], where he ''stabs Broly to near-death'' [[WouldHurtAChild not even an hour after he was born]].

** In ''Anime/DragonBallSUperBroly'', King Vegeta has the titular Saiyan exiled to the planet Vampa without his father Paragus's consent out of fear for the boy becoming strong enough to overthrow him. And even ''that's'' an act of consolation compared to [[Anime/DragonBallZBrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan the non-canon film]], where he ''stabs Broly to near-death'' [[WouldHurtAChild not even an hour after he was born]].