History KickTheDog / Literature

* ''TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'': Captain Nemo is implied to have destroyed before ships with civilians and military crew, but the act of following with the Nautilus the horrible death of all the unnamed ship’s crew ''on purpose, without losing any detail'', is when Nemo crosses the MoralEventHorizon.
** Captain Nemo [[{{KickTheDog}} KicksTheCachalots]] in a terrible massacre:

--> "She took ssso long to die little Elvesss. So long it seemed that it would take forever. Would you like to know what we did to her, when The Morgawr gave her to ussss?"

* The title witches of RoaldDahl's ''TheWitches'' are singularly nasty, what with their scheme to turn little children into mice, but when one of them expresses her reservation about getting rid of ''all'' of them, the Grand High Witch disposes of her in nightmarish fashion.
-->''A stupid witch who answers back must burn until her bones are black!''
-->''A foolish witch without a brain must sizzle in the fiery flame!''
-->''An idiotic witch like you must roast upon the barbecue!''
-->''A witch who dares to say I'm wrong will not be with us very long!''

* The easiest way to figure out who the villain is in the ''HonorHarrington'' books is to see who has the most misogynistic internal monologue, with frequent use of phrases such as "that bitch" or "putting her in her place."

* Cree Bega of ''TheVoyageOfTheJerleShannara'' specialises in Kick TheWoobie. He forces Elven Prince Ahren Elessedil to watch while The Morgawr devours the minds of an entire ship's crew, and later, during their final battle, smugly informs Ahren of his crush's torture and suicide, then taunts him for being unable to save her. There is no reason for Cree Bega to do any of this, it doesn't serve to advance [[BigBad The Morgawr]]'s plans or his own; no he just likes to hurt people.

* Dear god, The fate of perhaps the one and only half decent character Mr. Fish, in the novel [[{{Hells Children}} Hell's Children]] by Andrew Boland, at the Hands of the protagonist's. And then theirs Acheri’s childhood, which is not work safe, by a long shot.
* In ChungKuo, deVore blows up the dog with explosives in an infamous scene. Apparently this is to make it clear that even though he is one of the rebels, he is to be seen as a villain

** Another StephenKing example: in ''Dark Tower: The Waste Lands'' Gasher not only kidnaps Jake and takes him on a journey during which he threatens and beats him so much it's virtually all one long KickTheDog moment, but he ''starts'' the journey by instructing him to throw Oy, his newfound pet [[NonHumanSidekick Billy-Bumbler]], off a suspension bridge, and then he literally takes a kick at Oy as he runs away. Needless to say, he gets his KarmicDeath as it's Oy that leads Roland to the lair of Gasher and his buddies.

* TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea: Captain Nemo is implied to have destroyed before ships with civilians and military crew, but the act of following with the Nautilus the horrible death of all the unnamed ship’s crew ''on purpose, without losing any detail'', is when Nemo crosses the MoralEventHorizon.
* In [[MorrisAndChastainInvestigations Black Magic Woman]], CompleteMonster Walter Grobius plays this trope completely literally: upon hearing that his evil plan was completely thwarted, in anger, he requests that a servant buy him a dog so he can kick it to death.

* Dear god, The fate of perhaps the one and only half decent character Mr. Fish, in the novel {{Hells Children}} by Andrew Boland, at the Hands of the protagonist's. And then theirs Acheri’s childhood, which is not work safe, by a long shot.

* TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea: Captain Nemo is implied to have destroyed before ships with civilians and military crew, but the act of following with the Nautilus the horrible death of all the unnamed ship’s crew ''on purpose, without losing any detail'', is when Nemo crosses the MoralEventHorizon.

* Pierre Brossard, the VillainProtagonist in "The Statement" by Brian Moore, kicks the dog he bought his ex-wife years before in order to force his way back into her affections. By that time though he's already established as a sociopathic ManipulativeBastard.

* Dear god, The fate of perhaps the one and only half decent character Mr. Fish, in the novel Hell’s Children by Andrew Boland, at the Hands of the protagonist's. And then theirs Acheri’s childhood, which is not work safe, by a long shot.

* Lolli in [[ModernTalesOfFaerie Valiant]] kicks her cat under a train when she gets sick of it's mewing. [[MoralEventHorizon I imagine she lost a lot of fans at that point.]]

* In Jo Clayton's ''Moongather'', [[EvilSorcerer the Noris]] uses [[MagicKnight Serroi]] (then about ten) as a conduit by which to suck the life force out of various animals and transform them into demons. The doomed menagerie includes a litter of [[CallARabbitASmeerp puppies]].

* Lolli in {{ModernTalesOfFaerie Valiant}} kicks her cat under a train when she gets sick of it's mewing. [[MoralEventHorizon I imagine she lost a lot of fans at that point.]]

--> "She took ssso long to die little Elvesss. So long it seemed that it would take forever. Would you like to know what we did to her, when The Morgawr gave her to ussss?"

* [[HarryPotter Rita Skeeter]] does this so much in the ''first book'' she appears in that she is probably one of the most hated characters in the series. She embellishes a story about how Harry feels about being in the Triwizard Tournament (it's established from the start that she puts words in peoples' mouths and has nothing nice to say about anyone but herself) and once called ''Albus. Freaking. Dumbledore.'' an "obsolete dingbat". She also wrote a scathing article about Hermione being a ''gold digger'' because Hermione had the guts to criticize her, then wrote an article about Harry apparently going crazy or just being an AttentionWhore due to his scar hurting more and more lately. She also revealed Hagrid's half-giant heritage to all of the UK, using people like the ''Malfoys'' as quote sources. She gets hers at the end, though, with Hermione holding the information that she's an unregistered Animagus (being unregistered is illegal and violators are subject to a few years in Azkaban) over her head, making her quit the ''Daily Prophet'' and stop writing nasty stories. In book 5 she actually does some good, though, getting the truth out about Voldemort through ''The Quibbler'' since the ''Prophet'' can't be trusted due to the Ministry attempting to discredit Harry and Dumbledore at every turn.

* ''TheLordOfTheRings'' has Saruman consistently doing this to Wormtongue until finally,it [[TheDogBitesBack backfires magnificently]]

* Done in ''[[{{Twilight}} Eclipse]]'' by the Volturi to the newborn vampire Bree Tanner. Despite her being able to control herself, surrendering, and not knowing the laws of vampires, the Volturi kill her even after the Cullens had volunteered to take her in.

* Dear god, The fate of perhaps the one and only half decent character Mr. Fish, in the novel Hell’s Children by Andrew Boland, at the Hands of the protagonist's. Oh god. And then theirs Acheri’s childhood, which is not work safe, by a long shot.

* ''TheLordOfTheRings'' has Saruman consistently doing this to Wormtongue until finally,it [[TheDog backfires]] [[BitesBack magnificently]]