History KickTheDog / ComicBooks

* TheFlash: Villain Mirror Master (II) disguised himself as Pied Piper (Hartley Rathaway) and murdered Hartley's parents, framing Piper for it in the Crossfire arc. This is a contrast to ComicBook/AnimalMan where he refused to kill TheHero's innocent family, even after Buddy's wife gave him a GroinAttack

* TheFlash: Villain Mirror Master (II) disguised himself as Pied Piper and murdered Hartley's parents, framing Piper for it in the Crossfire arc. This is a contrast to ComicBook/AnimalMan where he refused to kill TheHero's innocent family, even after Buddy's wife gave him a GroinAttack

* In volume 3 of ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'', after Queen Chrysalis reveals her evil plan to the CMC, [[spoiler:that involves killing Twilight in front of her friends and using them as a source of food later,]] she proceeds to brutally slaughter an innocent kitty in front of the fillies to watch.

** In DarkReign he adds some new ones like: [[spoiler: shooting two kids because one of them's wearing a Spider-Man mask, impregnating his son's ex-girlfriend (he must really enjoy stealing younger guys' girls) and making his son believe it's his baby, so Norman could manipulate him and kill him in the near future for the biggest benefits (HIS OWN SON!). There's also the possibility that the guy he's using as a guinea pig in his laboratory is his other son, Gabriel Stacy.]]

* ''DeathOfTheFamily'': [[spoiler: Joker infects Harley's Hyena's with rabies solely to hurt her. She does not take it well]].

* In the volume 3 of the comic book adaptation of [[FriendshipIsMagic My little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]], after Queen Chrysalis reveals her evil plan to the CMC, [[spoiler: that involves killing Twilight in front of her friends and use them as a source of food later,]] she proceeds to brutally slaughter an innocent kitty in front of the fillies to watch.

* ''ZipiYZape'': Peloto does this a lot. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic Literally.]]

* ''DeathOfTheFamily'': [[spoiler: Joker infects Harley's Hyena's with rabies solely to hurt her. She does not take it well]].

* In {{Wolverine}} #18 (2011) the villain Jade Claw is introduced being served by beefcake men, using a servant as table and with the following food: '' "Dinner is served, Madame. Cantonese noodles with seared hummingbird hearts and caramelized butterfly brains. Grilled bull elephant tongue with shitake mushrooms and bald eagle hollandaise. Curried Tyrannosaurus Pate, imported fresh from the Savage Land. Baby Seal Soufflé a la mode. And Bacon wrapped tiger eyes sautéed, as always, in the tears of your enemies." ''. The "dinner" starts out ridiculous, goes on to involves mostly very endangered species and serves the plot not for a single inch. Jade Claw later goes on how doves are plucket for her pillows and her feet are washed in the blood "of women who dared presume themselves more beautiful than I." This is so over the top, it isn't kicking a puppy, it is kicking a puppy pack.

* Just so you know Rev. Stryker is evil before you even meet him, his legions kill two unarmed six-year-olds and leave their corpses in a playground for other small impressionable children to see. Then once we do meet him, turns out he murdered his wife and child, his most loyal henchperson, and tried to kill Shadowcat, who at the time was a cute teenage girl.

* Various villains KickTheDog throughout ''KingdomCome'', but Vandal Savage [[NeckSnap snapping the neck of a secretary]] for putting the wrong amount of sugar in his coffee kinda takes the cake.

* [[StarWarsExpandedUniverse Count Dooku]] has a long list of KickTheDog moments. He's a Sith Lord, after all. But one in particular really takes the cake. Before hiring Jango Fett to clone an army, he does an extensive background check on the man, including ''kidnapping one of his last living comrades and torturing him endlessly''. The poor man finally cracks and tells Dooku about his memories of Fett. When he's finished, Dooku orders the interrogation droids to stop his heart. As tears stream down his face, the man begs Dooku not to tell Jango that he betrayed him, and you know what that bastard says? [[MoralEventHorizon "I can't make any promises. Goodbye."]]

* [[CompleteMonster Junior]] from SecretSix: "Kill him. Leave body for his family to find. Also believe he had a dog. Kill dog."

* In the ''{{Sandman}}'' issue about the serial killers convention, one of the convention attendees tells another that he got his start by cutting off the heads off of kittens. Notably, the guy was the most sympathetic person in the convention. He clearly understood he was sick, but lacked courage to turn himself in. It's implied that he was looking for peer support for just that.

* In the first Punisher MAX volume, Frank Castle's old ally Microchip helps a CIA black ops team capture him in an effort to get him working for them. The Punisher gets loose when a mob hit team attacks, but Micro is badly injured. Frank takes him with him to question him and learns that the head of the CIA group gets his funding from heroin deals, thus making Micro an indirect part of the heroin trade. He gives him a chance to leave, but Micro knows that Frank will need his help dealing with what's coming and stays to cover him. After the battle is over, Frank returns to Micro, who tries to talk him out of what's coming next. Castle cuts his pleas off, then blows his head apart with a shotgun.

* In Wolverine #18 (2011) the villain Jade Claw is introduced being served by beefcake men, using a servant as table and with the following food: '' "Dinner is served, Madame. Cantonese noodles with seared hummingbird hearts and caramelized butterfly brains. Grilled bull elephant tongue with shitake mushrooms and bald eagle hollandaise. Curried Tyrannosaurus Pate, imported fresh from the Savage Land. Baby Seal Soufflé a la mode. And Bacon wrapped tiger eyes sautéed, as always, in the tears of your enemies." ''. The "dinner" starts out ridiculous, goes on to involves mostly very endangered species and serves the plot not for a single inch. Jade Claw later goes on how doves are plucket for her pillows and her feet are washed in the blood "of women who dared presume themselves more beautiful than I." This is so over the top, it isn't kicking a puppy, it is kicking a puppy pack.

* [[MemeticMutation When no-one was looking]], LexLuthor [[MemeticMutation stole forty cakes. That's as many as four tens.]] [[AndThatsTerrible And that's terrible]].

* A satirical ''MadMagazine'' feature from 1956 proposed "Dog Kicking" as a manly sport analogous to bullfighting. The preferred dogs are Cocker Spaniels "because they yelp louder and longer and are harmless." As for the men who KickTheDog, "they must possess a rare nobility of soul, unflinching courage and a burning desire, a fever in fact, to Kick Dogs." The Kicking is further divided into three parts, or ''Tercios'': ''Clobbers'', ''Boots'' and finally the ''[[FinishingStomp la Stompa]]''.

* In ''{{ElfQuest}}'', the Wolfriders bond with wolves, and the Gliders with giant birds. Just before the two groups meet, Strongbow spots one of the giant birds and shoots it down for a meal. It becomes an inter-tribal incident that sticks half the tribe in slavery and Strongbow in psychic torture for a couple weeks, before the tribes' leaders meet to discuss it. One of the proposed solutions is to kill Strongbow's bond-wolf: "My mount was slain while testing its wings! Why should the killer's mount live?" One of the Wolfriders protests that they cannot order the execution of the wolf -- "You might as well command us to kill our own children!" This is a little bit remarkable in that the death was caused by the good guys out of ignorance and not malice.

* In ''King of Klondike'', the eighth chapter of ''TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'', Soapy Slick kidnaps Scrooge, steals his plot of land and reads his mail. When a letter from home reveals that Scrooge's mother had died, the villain mocks the young duck for it and tells his cronies to kill him. No wonder [[BadAss Scrooge went berserk and trashed the entire steamboat they were on]].

* [[CompleteMonster Junior]] from {{Secret Six}}: "Kill him. Leave body for his family to find. Also believe he had a dog. Kill dog."

* Dex-Starr's origin story is pretty much a conga-line of kitten-kicking.

* Nothing demonstrates one's evil properties quite like [[http://www.superdickery.com/oneshot/23.html attempting to destroy an entire city of orphans]].

* In the fourth volume of ''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}'', we see the mastermind who turned the 'Capies' award ceremony into a deathtrap discovered by the titular superheroine. Upon the revelation of his identity, he gives a MotiveRant that seems tailor made to win sympathy from any reader who has bothered following the title (not to mention the [[NoRespectGuy No Respect Girl]] before him). Then he attempts to use the lives of Emp's lover and her best friend to extort sexual favors out of her. Empowered is not pleased, [[spoiler: and her suit is [[NotSoHarmlessVillain rather more intact]] [[CurbStompBattle than it appears]].]]
** The sixth volume of said book presents [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Deathmonger]]. [[spoiler: Collecting the various [[OurZombiesAreDifferent SuperDead]] and taking control of them to use as (un)living weapons is his entire shtick, we get it. However going out of his way to leave them [[AndIMustScream self aware]] while [[PeoplePuppets controlling thier every move]] goes [[MoralEventHorizon over the line into needless sadism]].]]
* In ''FinalCrisis Aftermath: Run'' #1, the Human Flame--the archetypical small time thug who had MartianManhunter killed--returns to his family's home, embraces his wife, and tells her how much he had missed her and their daughter. This is all a pretext to steal his car, with the daughter's bike still attached, while the wife is tied to a kitchen chair. Note that the Flame had already crossed a MoralEventHorizon by leading a shootout through a BrandX Chuck E. Cheese. But just when it looked like writer Matt Sturges was humanizing him as at least a loving family man, whammo!

** If memory serves, this was later {{RetCon}}ned. Turns out his secondary mutation was making Tom lose his shit, and even his long time friend and frequent partner/henchman Juggernaut called him out on it. He appears to show remorse about the whole incident.

* [[StarWarsExpandedUniverse Count Dooku]] has a long list of KickTheDog moments. He's a [[CompleteMonster Sith Lord]], after all. But one in particular really takes the cake. Before hiring Jango Fett to clone an army, he does an extensive background check on the man, including ''kidnapping one of his last living comrades and torturing him endlessly''. The poor man finally cracks and tells Dooku about his memories of Fett. When he's finished, Dooku orders the interrogation droids to stop his heart. As tears stream down his face, the man begs Dooku not to tell Jango that he betrayed him, and you know what that bastard says? [[MoralEventHorizon "I can't make any promises. Goodbye."]]

* In the fourth volume of ''{{Empowered}}'', we see the mastermind who turned the 'Capies' award ceremony into a deathtrap discovered by the titular superheroine. Upon the revelation of his identity, he gives a MotiveRant that seems tailor made to win sympathy from any reader who has bothered following the title (not to mention the [[NoRespectGuy No Respect Girl]] before him). Then he attempts to use the lives of Emp's lover and her best friend to extort sexual favors out of her. Empowered is not pleased, [[spoiler: and her suit is [[NotSoHarmlessVillain rather more intact]] [[CurbStompBattle than it appears]].]]

* Just so you know Col. Stryker is evil before you even meet him, his legions kill two unarmed six-year-olds and leave their corpses in a playground for other small impressionable children to see. Then once we do meet him, turns out he murdered his wife and child, his most loyal henchperson, and tried to kill Shadowcat, who at the time was a cute teenage girl.

* In the fourth volume of ''{{Empowered}}'', we see the mastermind who turned the 'Capies' award ceremony into a deathtrap discovered by the titular superheroine. Upon the revelation of his identity, he gives a MotiveRant that seems tailor made to win sympathy from any reader who has bothered following the title (not to mention the [[NoRespectGuy No Respect Girl]] before him). Then he attempts to use the lives of Emp's lover and her best friend to extort sexual favors out of her. Empowered is not pleased, [[spoiler: and her suit is [[NotSoHarmless rather more intact]] [[CurbStompBattle than it appears]].]]

* DC's Maxwell Lord. He shot the [[BlueBeetle second Blue Beetle]], Ted Kord, in the head. He made [[Comicbook/GreenLantern Guy Gardner]] flip out at his [[BackFromTheDead revived]] girlfriend, fellow superhero [[AnIcePerson Ice]], for apparently [[BlackestNight trying to kill him]] (it wasn't really her, but Maxwell "pushed" Guy into thinking it was). If that wasn't dickish enough, he mind controls two police officers into shoooting each other. Their dialogue makes it clear that [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel they don't know what's going on]]. What makes it even worse is that he could have just mindwiped the police officers instead of killing them.

** [[spoiler: Ava Lord]] tricked a former lover into killing her husband so she could inherit his wealth.

* In the 2010 relaunch of DoctorSolarManOfTheAtom, corporate executive/BigBad Tanek Nuro is introduced receiving bad news from an underling, who, having anticipated his disappointment, has already prepared a couple of "punching bags" for him to vent his frustrations. The next panel reveals that what Nuro uses for "punching bags" are people from third world countries whose families desperately need the financial support he sends them.

* Norman Osborn is master of this. The list of his dog kicking moments he's done to {{Spider-Man}} alone is very long, and contains thing like [[spoiler: having sex with Peter's girlfriend Gwen, making her pregnant and killing her after she gave birth to his children; making those children believe that Peter's their father who abandoned them; killing Peter's unborn child and stealing its body; kidnapping Peter's aunt May and replacing her with an actress, and revealing it after that actress died. All this so Peter could suffer.]] Oh, and he started the infamous Clone Saga too!

* DC's Maxwell Lord. He shot the [[BlueBeetle second Blue Beetle]], Ted Kord, in the head. He made [[GreenLantern Guy Gardner]] flip out at his [[BackFromTheDead revived]] girlfriend, fellow superhero [[AnIcePerson Ice]], for apparently [[BlackestNight trying to kill him]] (it wasn't really her, but Maxwell "pushed" Guy into thinking it was). If that wasn't dickish enough, he mind controls two police officers into shoooting each other. Their dialogue makes it clear that [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel they don't know what's going on]]. What makes it even worse is that he could have just mindwiped the police officers instead of killing them.

* In ''[[{{Hellboy}} BPRD 1946]]'', cute little girl (and head of the Soviet counterpart to the BPRD) Varvara shows her TrueColors when she [[spoiler:brutally murders Audo, a disfigured and mentally unwell little boy.]]

** [[spoiler: Ava Lord]] tricked a former lover into killing her huisband so she could inherit his wealth.

** [[spoiler: Ava Lord]] tricked a former lover into killing her huisband so she could inherit his wealth.

* In the first Punisher MAX volume, Frank Castle's old ally Microchip helps a CIA black ops team capture him in an effort to get him working for them. The Punisher gets loose when a mob hit team attacks, but Micro is badly injured. Frank takes him with him to question him and learns that the head of the CIA group gets his funding from heroin deals, thus making Micro an indirect part of the heroin trade. He gives him a chance to leave, but Micro knows that Frank will need his help dealing with what's coming and stays to cover him. After the battle is over, Frank returns to Micro, who tries to talk him out of what's coming next. Castle cuts his pleas off, then blows his head apart with a shotgun.