History KickTheDog / LiveActionTV

*** Tyrion's trial is a prolonged HumiliationConga orchestrated by her to inflict as much psychological pain as possible (though in her view it's KickTheSonOfABitch, as she mistakenly thinks that Tyrion murdered her son).

* ''Film/{{Arachnicide}}'': The cartel trapping L9 Commando to be eaten by giant spiders as opposed to a more practical way of killing them.

** In "[[Recap/FireflyE01Serenity Serenity]]", Agent Dobson's [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown hits of an already-unconscious Shepherd Book]], according to the the commentary track. [[note]]When Mal heads back on board and guns Dobson down without a second thought, it goes down much easier with the audience, as intended.[[/note]]

* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'': Many of the villains act in this way, killing or assaulting many civilians without much provocation. The one time that it is at the expense of a real dog, it happened courtesy of Oswald Cobblepot in Season 2, where he actually poisoned his father's lap dog, but it was zigzagged as it wasn't a random act of cruelty this time. Rather it was him testing a beverage about which he had a fleeting, horrible suspicion that it was really a poison that his stepfamily used to kill his father and it's at the moment that he uses the dog as a guinea pig and then starts laughing hysterically at the sight of his foaming corpse that Penguin has come back for good.

-->"Never been in a duel before, I take it. It's quite simple, really -- pointy end goes in the other guy."

** In Season 4, [[TheDragon Wyatt]] [[spoiler: kills Mahone's son, a ten-year-old boy, and makes his mother watch when he does]] in the first episode he appears in.

* ''Series/{{Scandal}}'': [[spoiler: Becky, Huck's girlfriend, has the President shot and leaves Huck to be the fall guy. There are attempts at justification for this. However, when Huck tries to take her down, she responds by murdering the entire innocent family that he keeps an eye on. There is no real justification for this]].

* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': John Watson was on the receiving end of one in "[[Recap/SherlockS02E03TheReichenbachFall The Reichenbach Fall]]", after [[spoiler: Sherlock is taken for questioning, Sally Donovan gloats about taking in John's best friend, and the chief inspector insults Sherlock in front of John -- ''in his own home''.]] Needless to say, many fans wanted to punch both characters in the face -- [[spoiler: luckily John himself took care of one of them.]]

** ComicBook/LexLuthor kicks so many various metaphorical dogs that it isn't even funny. Most of the times it is some faceless minion of his, but he really crossed the line in [[spoiler:"Freak". He has his people abduct Chloe to his secret lab then experiment on and painfully humiliate her. Chloe figures out she is the next in line to be killed and orders Clark to burn a hole in her shoulder to remove the tracking device and is about to stab herself before Clark is forced to comply. At the end of the episode, Lex watches a video of Chloe stripped naked and strapped to the experiment table. As she struggles, he delivers this line with a hint of PsychoticSmirk:]]
-->'''Lex''': [[spoiler: [[WhamLine Regarding our most recent subject...keep a close eye on her.]]]][[note]]Surprising because he gave no reason that he knows that Chloe is captured and held in his lab before, and that zero-remorse look is just disgusting.[[/note]]
** Doing that kind of thing to anyone is definitely on the MoralEventHorizon, but the fact that [[spoiler:she's a fan favorite]] definitely angered a lot of fans. Aided by the fact that [[spoiler:''Freak'']] is directed by Michael Rosenbaum, Lex's actor, who always wanted Lex to be evil. There are also many moments where Lex and other villains do this to the other main characters:

* ''Series/TheBoys'': Homelander hands these moments out like candy, but one particularly assholish moment from Season 2 is when he destroys the ears of Blindspot, a blind Daredevil-style hopeful for the Seven.

* ''Series/TheBoys'': Homelander hands these moments out like candy, but one particularly assholish moment is when he destroys the ears of Blindspot, a blind Daredevil-style hopeful for the Seven.

* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' has this done several times.

* In 'Series/TheDarkCrystalAgeOfResistance'', Mayrin is unsympathetic to the plight of a pair of poor farmers who cannot make the Skeksis' tribute. She allows the Scroll-Keeper to shame them into giving up a necklace that has great personal significance to the farmer's family. Later she's seen wearing it, having accepted it as a gift from the Skeksis with no intention to return it to the impoverished people it was taken from. The act causes Brea to lose faith in her mother and when Mayrin makes her Heel–Face Turn she cites the bribes she willingly took from the Skeksis as a failure on her part to be a good ruler.