History KickTheDog / ComicBooks

* ''ComicBook/CivilWar'':
** Hey, maybe ComicBook/IronMan has a point. Maybe the registration isn't a bad thing. Maybe it's all for the greater good and the corrupt politicians won't manipulate the heroes once they're under their collective thumbs. OMG DID THEY JUST CLONE A GOD AND MAKE HIM KILL GOLIATH!!!?
** On the other hand, dog-kicking is contagious when it comes to Pro-Registration heroes. All right, ComicBook/CarolDanvers, you know that ComicBook/SpiderWoman II/Arachne is a traitor to the Pro-Registration side, you are to bring her down... but seriously, separating her with her dearest treasure (her grade-school daughter Rachel) is just... low.

** In issue 4 of ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', ComicBook/SuperboyPrime cemented his status by kicking ComicBook/KryptoTheSuperdog. You don't tug on Superman's cape, and you certainly '''don't''' kick his dog.

* ''Franchise/TheDCU'''s Maxwell Lord. He shot the second ComicBook/BlueBeetle, Ted Kord, in the head. He made [[Comicbook/GreenLantern Guy Gardner]] flip out at his [[BackFromTheDead revived]] girlfriend, fellow superhero [[AnIcePerson Ice]], for apparently [[ComicBook/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 shooting each other. Their dialogue makes it clear that 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 a story from the 1940s newspaper comic strip of ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', a giant thug is shown caring for a kitten. After attacking Batman and Robin when they show up (and hence causing his boss undue suspicion) the thug's boss breaks the kitten's neck as punishment. While the crime boss ultimately ends up [[KarmicDeath drowning in a swamp]] while his thug stands by, the revenge is soured by the crime boss being able to shoot the thug to death before he's pulled under.

** Scrooge himself... well, [[https://img.fireden.net/co/image/1538/33/1538338907960.jpg just watch]].

* ComicBook/NormanOsborn is master of this. The list of his dog kicking moments he's done to Franchise/SpiderMan 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! In ''ComicBook/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]].

* Black Tom Cassidy killing Squidboy. This was later {{retcon}}ned. Turns out his secondary mutation was making Tom lose it, and his long time friend and frequent partner/henchman Juggernaut called him out on it. He appears to show remorse about the whole incident.

* In ''ComicBook/DeathOfTheFamily'', [[spoiler:Joker infects Harley's hyenas with rabies solely to hurt her. She does not take it well]].
** Earlier, back in ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'', the Joker shot Barbara in the spine in front of her father as part of his plan to drive Commissioner Gordon insane. OK, bad, but it hits home when Joker then tortures Gordon physically and emotionally, this is Joker crossing the MoralEventHorizon. Then he shows Gordon pictures of his defenseless daughter after she was shot, having been stripped naked in order to make Gordon think that [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil he might have done more to her]]. WordOfGod says he didn't actually do anything besides shooting her, but Joker thought it would be funny to make Gordon think he did.

* In ''ComicBook/TheSuperiorFoesOfSpiderMan'', Speed Demon takes a girl's dog while robbing a pet store just because the girl called him stupid. He at least seems to take care of the dog (which he renamed Inspector).

* ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'':

** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': ComicBook/{{Cheetah}} (Pris Rich) kidnaps and mentally tortures a pair of women she'd already blackmailed into working for her, supposedly to make them too terrified to betray her. This ends up having the opposite effect; the missing women alert Wonder Woman to something going on and [[TheDogBitesBack both of them turn on Pris at the first opportunity due to her brutality]].

** In ''ComicBook/JudgmentInInfinity'', the Horseman of War wills a tank to trample over a little girl who was just passing by.

** Considering the various dogs on the Joe team (Mutt, Order, Snake-Eyes' wolf Timber) you think this would actually happen more often...

* ''ComicBook/MadelynePryor'', is the dog. Originally meant to be Cyclops's happy ending, she got derailed by X-Factor bringing Jean Grey back to life. Scott left Maddie and their infant son, Nathan. She later went insane and was murdered. Jean ended up becoming the baby's mother while Maddie would be forgotten. When she returns in ''ComicBook/Hellions2020'' Maddie was pissed that no-one cared about her to notice she'd come back from the dead. She's shot in the soon after and the Quiet Council refuses to resurrect her because she was Jean's clone ignoring that Emma Frost's clones Esme and Sophie Cuckoo had been resurrected. In the years since her character derailment she's only been treated kindly twice since then. Once in X-Men The End and then during Secret Wars.

* DC's Maxwell Lord. He shot the [[ComicBook/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 [[ComicBook/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 shooting each other. Their dialogue makes it clear that 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.

** On the other hand, dog-kicking is contagious when it comes to Pro-Registration heroes. All right, ComicBook/CarolDanvers, you know that ComicBook/SpiderWoman II/Arachne is a traitor to the Pro-Registration side, you are to bring her down... but seriously, separating her with her dearest treasure (her grade-school daughter Rachel) is just... low. Maybe you've gone apologizing, but your friendship has been strained and if anyone's at fault it's ''you'', Carol.

* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW''
** Zeena does this to Cream, of all characters, in issues 26 and 27. Seeing the rabbit fly towards her and demanding to surrendering the Chaos Emerald, Zeena instead take control of Cream's robot friend Gemerl with her powers. After he breaks free, she uses the power of the Emerald to control him externally. She later '''literally''' kicks Cream then torments her for being the "nice girl", all before attempting to throw her into a Zombot horde. Gemerl saves Cream just in time and after defeating Zeena, the robot punishes the Zeti for the mistake she made of hurting the girl, by throwing ''her'' into the horde.

** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': ComicBook/{{Cheetah}} (Pris Rich) kidnaps and mentally tortures a pair of women she'd already blackmailed into working for her supposedly to make them too terrified to betray her. The missing women alert Wonder Woman to something going on and both of them turn on Pris at the first opportunity due to her brutality.

** Zeena does this to Cream, of all characters, in issues 26 and 27. Seeing the rabbit fly towards her and demanding to surrendering the Chaos Emerald, Zeena instead take control of Cream's robot friend Gemerl with her powers. After he breaks free, she uses the power of the Emerald to control him externally. She later '''literally''' kicks Cream then torments her for being the "nice girl", all before attempting to throw her into a Zombot horde. Gemerl saves Cream just in time and after defeating Zeena,t he robot punishes the Zeti for the mistake she made of hurting the girl, by throwing her into the horde.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': While the Sangtee Empire is violently misogynistic they have a strange sense of morality about children that means female children are not aborted nor enslaved, and are instead raised as boys and allowed to enter society as adults so long as they present and identity as male. The Sangtee politician Bruct disagrees and thinks girls should be killed when their gender becomes apparent as embryos and tries to kill his Emperor (who is physically female) as soon as they're alone together. This acts as the catalyst for changing the Empire's laws.

* ''ComicBook/MadelynePryor'', is the dog. Originally meant to be ''ComicBook/Cyclops'''s happy ending, she got derailed by ''ComicBook/X-Factor'' bring ''ComicBook/Jean Grey'' back to life. Scott left Maddie and their infant son, ''ComicBook/Cable Nathan''. She later went insane and was murdered. Jean ended up becoming the baby's mother while Maddie would be forgotten. When she returns in ''ComicBook/Hellions2020'' Maddie was pissed that no-one cared about her to notice she'd come back from the dead. She's shot in the soon after and the Quiet Council refuses to resurrect her because she was Jean's clone ignoring that Emma Frost's clones Esme and Sophie Cuckoo had been resurrected. In the years since her character derailment she's only been treated kindly twice since then. Once in X-Men The End and then during Secret Wars.

* ''ComicBook/MadelynePryor'', is the dog. Originally meant to be Cyclops's happy ending, she got derailed by X-Factor bring Jean Grey back to life. Scott left Maddie and their infant son. She later went insane and was murdered. Jean ended up becoming the baby's mother while Maddie would be forgotten. When she returns in ''ComicBook/Hellions2020'' Maddie was pissed that no-one cared about her to notice she'd come back from the dead. She's shot in the soon after and the Quiet Council refuses to resurrect her because she was Jean's clone ignoring that Emma Frost's clones Esme and Sophie Cuckoo had been resurrected. In the years since her character derailment she's only been treated kindly twice since then. Once in X-Men The End and then during Secret Wars.

** ''ComicBook/MadelynePryor'', is the dog. Originally meant to be Cyclops's happy ending, she got derailed by X-Factor bring Jean Grey back to life. Scott left Maddie and their infant son. She later went insane and was murdered. Jean ended up becoming the baby's mother while Maddie would be forgotten. When she returns in ''ComicBook/Hellions2020'' Maddie was pissed that no-one cared about her to notice she'd come back from the dead. She's shot in the soon after and the Quiet Council refuses to resurrect her because she was Jean's clone ignoring that Emma Frost's clones Esme and Sophie Cuckoo had been resurrected.

* Franchise/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 Mirror Master refused to kill TheHero's innocent family, even after Buddy's wife gave him a GroinAttack.

* ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye: Overlord has his mind probed by Chromedome and discovers that Megatron is still alive. Overlord frees himself and walks off to the rest of the ship, informing Chromedome that he will kill everyone on it. Onboard, Pipes accidentally bumps into him and apologizes, Overlord stomps on him until he's dead and heads off to the med-bay to go kill some patients.

*** Magneto wants Cyclops to call him "father" when they are near Quicksilver.
** ''ComicBook/UltimateWolverine'': Zoe, that friend of Quicksilver that sells frozen yogurt. She had the Mothervine and he told her the trigger phrase, that gave her an uncontrollable and lethal mutation, just to show off the way Mothervine works.

** Zeena does this to Cream, of all characters, in issues 26 and 27. Seeing the rabbit fly towards her and demanding to surrendering the Chaos Emerald, Zeena instead take control of Cream's robot friend Gemerl with her powers. After he breaks free, she uses the power of the Emerald to control him externally. She later '''literally''' kicks Cream then torments her for being the "nice girl", all before attempting to throw her into a Zombot horde. Gemerl saves Cream just in time and after defeating Zeena, he robot punishes the Zeti for the mistake she made of hurting the girl, by throwing her into the horde.

** Zeena does this to Cream, of all characters, in issues 26 and 27. Seeing the rabbit fly towards her and demanding to surrendering the Chaos Emerald, Zeena instead take control of Cream's robot friend Gemerl with her powers. After he breaks free, she uses the power of the Emerald to control him externally. She later '''literally''' kicks Cream then torments her for being the "nice girl", all before attempting to throw her into a Zombot horde. Gemerl saves Cream just in time and after defeating Zeena, he robot "reminds" the Zeti of the mistake she made of hurting the girl, by throwing her into the horde.

* ''SonicTheHedgehogIDW''
** Zeena does this to Cream, of all characters, in issues 26 and 27. Seeing the rabbit fly towards her and demanding to surrendering the Chaos Emerald, Zeena instead take control of Cream's robot friend Gemerl with her powers. After he breaks free, she uses the power of the Emerald to control him externally. She later '''literally kicks''' Cream then torments her for being the "nice girl", all before attempting to throw her into a Zombot horde. Gemerl saves Cream just in time and after defeating Zeena, he robot "reminds" the Zeti of the mistake she made, by throwing her into the horde.

* In ''ComicBook/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 the issue about the serial killers’ convention, one of the attendees tells another that he got his start by cutting 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.

** Even when he claims to be doing things for the greater good, Sinestro always takes the time to kick a puppy or two along the way. One example that is close to a MoralEventHorizon would be [[spoiler: killing Kyle Rayner's mother via the living virus Despotellis and calling her a cow to Kyle's face -- all to turn him into Parallax's next host.]]

** In ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton'', Franchise/{{Superman}} blames Batman and Wonder Woman for [[Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]] getting kidnapped by Darkseid when she should have remained in Metropolis with him. When Wonder Woman reminds him that her sisters nearly sacrificed herself to protect her, Superman retorts if it was Jason Todd or Donna Troy, they wouldn't even be arguing about this. Batman states Kara isn't dead, and the three of them get quiet. Superman realizes he crossed a line mentioning Jason and Donna, and near the end of the story arc, he apologizes to his friends. Ironically, a year later both Jason and Donna came back.

** In ''ComicBook/TheThirdKryptonian'', Amalak sends out his minions to kill all Kryptonians on Earth, including [[ComicBook/KryptoTheSuperdog Krypto]] since his hatred for Kryptonians extends to animals. Subverted in what ''they'' get ''mauled'' by Krypto.

** Also in ''Sandman'', Desire does a unique kick the dog moment that doubles as a demonstration of what a MagnificentBastard he/she is: he/she casually tells a random party-goer how she can win and cruelly break another woman's heart. Apparently, he/she can determine such things just by looking at people.[[note]]But then, he/she literally IS desire. Anything pertaining to desire is innate to him/her.[[/note]]
* DC's Maxwell Lord. He shot the [[ComicBook/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 [[ComicBook/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 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.
* Not that Jody from ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'' needed any further proof of his unredeemable bastardry, but in a feat fitting for the trope, he went beyond kicking Jesse Custer's pet dog Duke when it made the mistake of humping his leg: ''he nailed it by the head on a fence''.
** Ironically, in their final fight, Jesse would nail Jody in the head with a piece of the fence. In both terms. The fact Jody no-sells it gives one last demonstration of [[TheDeterminator how inhuman he is]].
* In a story from the 1940s newspaper comic strip of ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', a giant thug is shown caring for a kitten. After attacking Batman and Robin when they show up (and hence causing the his boss undue suspicion) the thug's boss breaks the kitten's neck as punishment. While the crime boss ultimately ends up [[KarmicDeath drowning in a swamp]] while his thug stands by, the revenge is soured by the crime boss being able to shoot the thug to death before he's pulled under.

* The first appearance of Franchise/TheDCU villains the Reach (evil super-advanced alien race, enemies of the third ComicBook/BlueBeetle) has the Reach negotiator stress how they're there to 'save the earth' and that the Reach 'come in peace'. The very next page introduces the Reach Negotiator's adorable minions... and he crushes one of their heads with his bare hand. Just so the audience wouldn't believe the whole 'we come in peace' thing.
* Various villains KickTheDog throughout ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'', but Vandal Savage [[NeckSnap snapping the neck of a secretary]] for [[DisproportionateRetribution putting the wrong amount of sugar in his coffee]] kinda takes the cake.

** Scrooge himself... well, [[http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i212/Kerrah_photos/ScroogeDishonest.jpg just watch]].
* In the 4th 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 (and the [[NoRespectGuy No Respect Girl]] before him). Then he tries 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]].]]

* In ''ComicBook/FinalCrisisAftermath: Run'' #1, the Human Flame--the archetypal small time thug who had ComicBook/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. 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!

* ComicBook/NormanOsborn is master of this. The list of his dog kicking moments he's done to Franchise/SpiderMan 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!
** In ''ComicBook/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.]]
* In ''Superpatriot'' a [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi]] kicks one while in a good mood. You can see it [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_most_evil_man_alive.jpg here]]/
* In ''{{ComicBook/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.]]
* Hey, maybe ComicBook/IronMan has a point. Maybe the registration isn't a bad thing. Maybe it's all for the greater good and the corrupt politicians won't manipulate the heroes once they're under their collective thumbs. OMG DID THEY JUST CLONE A GOD AND MAKE HIM KILL GOLIATH!!!?
** On the other hand, dog-kicking is contagious when it comes to Pro-Registration heroes. All right, ComicBook/MsMarvel, you know that Spider Woman II/Arachne is a traitor to the Pro-Registration side, you are to bring her down... but seriously, separating her with her dearest treasure (her grade-school daughter Rachel) is just... low. Maybe you've gone apologizing, but your friendship has been strained and if anyone's at fault it's ''you'', Carol.
* ''ComicBook/GodLovesManKills'': 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. While everything else he does is justified or serves some useful purpose, at least [[MugglePower from his own point of view]], the initial act of villainy is a quite glaring instance of pointless StupidEvil.
* Black Tom Cassidy killing Squidboy.
** This was later {{RetCon}}ned. Turns out his secondary mutation was making Tom lose it, and his long time friend and frequent partner/henchman Juggernaut called him out on it. He appears to show remorse about the whole incident.

** Kevin went around eating women and [[spoiler: forced Lucille to watch as he ate her hand.]]

* In ''ComicBook/{{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 about how doves are plucked 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's kicking a whole ''litter'' of them!

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

* ComicBook/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 Mirror Master refused to kill TheHero's innocent family, even after Buddy's wife gave him a GroinAttack.
* In the short story in ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries'' Issue #3 [[spoiler: Spike, does this to Hayseed.]]
* ''ComicBOok/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' is built on this. The comic is made up of the world kicking as many dogs as possible to drive Superman insane, while the second half seems to building up to Superman kicking as many puppies to make Batman try to stop him more.

** X-23 ''is'' the dog. Any sympathy the reader might have for [[UsedToBeASweetKid the sweet and innocent toddler]] Zander Rice after ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} kills his father is pretty effectively squashed twenty or so years later the moment he shoves the ''seven year old'' Laura into a radiation chamber to forcibly activate her HealingFactor, then straps her down and tears out her claws ''one by one'' without anesthesia to bond them with adamantium.

* Various villains KickTheDog throughout ''ComicBook/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.

** The 6th 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]].]]

*** Wraith and the Weapon X guys enjoy to shoot Wolverine in his cell, because with his healing factor he always gets better. They had once doused him with gasoline and set him alight, and he was still combat ready for an operation two days later.

** ''ComicBook/UltimateWolverine'': Zoe, that friend of Quicksilver that sells frozen yogurth. She had the Mothervine and he told her the trigger phrase, that gave her an uncontrollable and lethal mutation, just to show off the way Mothervine works.
** ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'': The first thing that Norman Osbourne does with his powers is to kill his wife, try to kills his son Harry, and as he escaped he tries to destroy the whole high school he was in to finish the job. He had very limited HulkSpeak at the time, so no reasons were ever explained.

* Franchise/GreenLantern: Dex-Starr's origin story is a conga-line of kitten-kicking.

* Cobra Commander did it in a panel of the ''GIJoe'' comic. The shot was so popular it was eventually redone as a pin-up some years later (the pin-up version can be seen at the top of the [[KickTheDog main page for the trope]]).

* [[ComicBook/{{Transformers}} Megatron]] one-ups it by ordering the dog [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Murdered_puppy shot to death.]]
* [[Anime/TransformersSuperGodMasterforce Wilder]] kicked the dog himself ''and'' killed it because it annoyed him.

* In issue 4 of ''Comicbook/InfiniteCrisis'', Comicbook/{{Superboy}}-Prime cemented his status by kicking Comicbook/KryptoTheSuperdog. You don't tug on Superman's cape, and you certainly '''don't''' kick his dog.
* In ''Comicbook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton'' Franchise/{{Superman}} blames Batman and Wonder Woman for [[Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]] getting kidnapped by Darkseid when she should have remained in Metropolis with him. Wonder Woman reminds them her sisters nearly sacrificed herself to protect her. Then Superman said if it was Jason Todd or Donna Troy, they wouldn't even be arguing about this. Batman tells him Kara isn't dead. The three of them got quiet. Superman realized he crossed the line mentioning Jason and Donna. Near the end of the story arc, he apologizes for it. Ironically, a year later both Jason and Donna came back.

* Nothing demonstrates one's evil properties quite like [[http://www.superdickery.com/oneshot/23.html trying to destroy a city of orphans]].
* Colonel Boris/Jorgen is generally considered ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'''s most unpopular villain. Why? He kicks Snowy down the rocket chute in ''Explorers on the Moon'', breaking the poor thing's leg. To quote the Captain: "Monster! Vivisectionist!"

* ''Comicbook/TheDeathOfSuperman'': Doomsday has several, including crushing a small bird and beating up a little boy and his cat. To be entirely fair, though, it's not like he can help it, as he was raised to see anything and everything as a threat that must be destroyed. Then again, [[http://www.actionfigurepics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Doomsday-kills-a-bird.jpg he laughed his ass off when he crushed that little bird...]]
* The first appearance of the DCU villains the Reach (evil super-advanced alien race, enemies of the third ComicBook/BlueBeetle) has the Reach negotiator stress how they're there to 'save the earth' and that the Reach 'come in peace'. The very next page introduces the Reach Negotiator's adorable minions... and he crushes one of their heads with his bare hand. Just so the audience wouldn't believe the whole 'we come in peace' thing.

* In ''King of Klondike'', the eighth chapter of ''Comicbook/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 Scrooge went berserk and trashed the entire steamboat they were on.

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

* Even when he claims to be doing things for the greater good, Sinestro always takes the time to kick a puppy or two along the way. One example that is close to a MoralEventHorizon would be [[spoiler: killing Kyle Rayner's mother via the living virus Despotellis and calling her a cow to Kyle's face -- all to turn him into Parallax's next host.]]
* [[Franchise/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."]]

** ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'''

* Black Tom Cassidy killing Squidboy. Although that was a [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome CMOA]] for Squidboy, I don't think a nigh-immortal tree-god should have been that intimidated.

* In ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis Aftermath: Run'' #1, the Human Flame--the archetypical small time thug who had ComicBook/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. 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!

* ''ComicBook/UltimateWolverine'': Zoe, that friend of Quicksilver that sells frozen yogurth. She had the Mothervine and he told her the trigger phrase, that gave her an uncontrollable and lethal mutation, just to show off the way Mothervine works.

* ''Something Different About Dad: How to Live With Your Asperger's Parent'': [[HollywoodAutism Mark]] ''literally'' does this to Jason and Louise's pet dog Buster in Chapter 4 during his (Mark's) meltdown. Mark's ranting while going off his rocker in Chapter 4 in general, to be more precise.

-->''He started shouting and shouting. He shouted at Louise, saying really mean things--that the baby would cry and ruin our holiday, just like how Barney had ruined last year's holiday. He said that Louise was ''stupid'' for having another baby, when she couldn't manage the ones she had already... He started shouting at Lily and Barney... And he ''kicked'' Buster... Buster was howling, Lily and Barney were screaming, and Louise started to cry... Then, Dad just ''lost'' it. He just shouted and shouted and wouldn't stop. I had ''never'' seen him this angry before. He told everyone to {{get out}} of the house.''

* ''Something Different About Dad: How to Live With Your Asperger's Parent'': Mark ''literally'' does this to Jason and Louise's pet dog Buster in Chapter 4 during his (Mark's) meltdown. Mark's ranting while going off his rocker in Chapter 4 in general, to be more precise.

* ''Something Different About Dad: How to Live With Your Asperger's Parent'': Mark ''literally'' does this to Buster in Chapter 4 during his (Mark's) meltdown. Mark's ranting while going off his rocker in Chapter 4 in general, to be more precise.