History KickTheDog / Videogames

** Ink Bendy doesn't have a reason to kill [[PlayerCharacter Henry]], but whenever he catches Henry, he does so.

** In the first game, Max mentions that Vinnie Gognitti, who's cowardly and inept enough to be a borderline IneffectualSympatheticVillain, takes out his frustrations on underage prostitutes and call girls. This ends up being OffstageVillainy, but it's mentioned during the second game's recap of the first game.

* ''Videogame/PillarsOfEternityIIDeadfire'': Maia is originally presented as your bog-standard no-nonsense sniper lady, which is mostly true. However, it soon becomes apparent that Maia is ''horrendously'' racist against Huana, to the point that she actively disapproves of you giving murdered Huana you find what is DueToTheDead instead of leaving the bodies to rot, and makes jokes to your teenage Huana party member's face about their home village (that was in the path of the BigBad) being destryed.

** And as assholish as Kratos can be, his enemies are even worse. Ares and Zeus, his primary nemeses in the series, do much to earn Kratos's (and the player's) hatred throughout the games. The other gods [[JerkassGods are not much better]].

** Joey Drew was very nice and encouraging towards Susie Campbell, assuring her she would be a great voice actress for Alice - and was implied to date her - only to [[spoiler: suddenly replace her with Allison Pendle]], crushing Susie's dream of a big role making her famous. And he didn't have the decency to warn her before. Decades later, she still sobs about the things that Joey did and said to her.

* In ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework'', while blackmailing the protagonist, Dennis tries to convince the whole class that the protagonist and Henry are starting a gay porn streaming site in which they will personally perform together. He only does it because he likes picking on the protagonist.
* In ''VideoGame/LaytonBrothersMysteryRoom'', the culprits are given particular moments where they're shown how horrible they truly are to make them particularly detestable Keys examples include:
** [[spoiler:Goldie, who gets a "new man" while her husband's murder is still being investigated that she literally treats like a dog, complete with a leash [[{{UsefulNotes/BDSM}} (although it seems to be consensual)]]. She even brings him into her interrogation, prompting Alfendi to ask her "friend" to wait outside. Later in her interrogation, she starts going on about how she's owed the insurance money from her late husband's death and it's gonna make her loaded. Lucy becomes particularly irate at how she seems to care more about the money than the fact her husband was killed.]]
** [[spoiler:Strapping already had an affair on his to-be wife, Gloria. After Gloria ends up getting shot dead, he seems more interested in flirting with the detective constable investigating her death than he does anything else, which he does, ''many'' times, and every time said detective constable, aka Lucy, tries shooting him down. The ''actual'' kick the dog moment though, comes when the truth behind Gloria's death is revealed, something that makes even Strapping himself distraught: her heart was broken due to the affair, so she killed herself in an elaborate suicide]].
** [[spoiler:De Bonair, on top of killing a popular radio DJ, murdered a completely innocent 18-year-old woman to boot. The case wastes no time empathizing that said woman was at the happiest moment of her entire life at the moment when he went and murdered her out of nowhere, and how terrifying it must've been for her. The kick the dog moment comes after his guilt has been thoroughly established, when Alfendi asks him if he even knows the name of the woman he murdered. He gets it wrong. Lucy is ''not'' happy at this, and says that he really is a total scumbag. It makes the fact that he was ultimately caught out by said woman's effort to [[DyingClue indicate to investigators that she was murdered]] with her final strength all the more simultaneously satisfying, and bittersweet.[[note]]He tried making it look like a suicide, by holding the poison in a perfume bottle and putting it in her hand. She was bewildered, but she wanted to leave some kinda mark that she was killed so she used her last effort to fling the bottle at a nearby wall. The culprit ends up calling the container a "perfume bottle" before even forensics had managed to work out what shattered pieces originally were.[[/note]]]]
* ''VideoGame/AlanWake'': The first boss-like foe is revealed to have done this, except with an axe, and to a dog that loved and trusted him, in one of the Nightmare manuscript pages, proving the Darkness is really, really mean.
** In ''[[VideoGame/AlanWakesAmericanNightmare American Nightmare]]'', Alan's EvilTwin Mr. Scratch kicks a dog every time he appears on the [=TVs=] in the game. His very first appearance has him strangling a captive with his own tie. "I beat some information out of him earlier, but this part? [[ForTheEvulz This is just for kicks.]]" Later recordings show him slitting the throat of one of Alan's fans and taking great pleasure in stalking Alan's wife.
* In ''VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves'', during a briefing in the "Cold Alliance" episode, Bentley remarks that he saw bad guy General Tsao "kick a puppy, ''twice''!" Tsao also [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain shows himself to be a misogynist]] when Sly confronts him about his plans to marry the Panda King's daughter in a ShotgunWedding.
-->'''Sly:''' She doesn't want to marry you!\\
'''Tsao:''' She's a woman, she doesn't know up from down.
** Ironically enough, the Panda King got a moment of his own in [[VideoGame/SlyCooperAndTheThieviusRaccoonus the first game]] when he caused a village to be destroyed by an avalanche when testing out his fireworks.
** Later in the third game, Pirate Captain L'Fwee threatens to behead Bentley ''after'' he kicked the poor turtle out of his wheelchair.
** A particularly cruel example in ''VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime'' is [[spoiler:Penelope insulting Bentley behind his back, stating that's "he's kinda cute when he's being dumb"[[note]]In this case, she was meaning Bentley was choosing to aid his best friends, whom she is plotting to murder out of jealousy, in another heist instead of helping her invent weapons to sell on the black market for billions, and using the money to TakeOverTheWorld[[/note]], unaware that he was in the rafters and heard ''everything'', confirming their relationship was abusive. She ends up kicked out of the Cooper Gang, and a fugitive actively hunted by Interpol for countless crimes]].
* ''VideoGame/Portal2'': The first thing [[BigBad GlaDOS]] does when she wakes up is crush the personality core Wheatley who's been helping you. [[spoiler: Keep in mind this is before he takes over the facility and [[FaceHeelTurn tries to]] [[ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil kill you.]]]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'': You're told to get an important MacGuffin from a bandit leader named Krom. You know nothing about him except for that. Problem is, he's the first major villain that doesn't wear a mask, so players might think he has some secret, sympathetic past. What's the very first thing he does when you see him? Shoot a cowering Claptrap in the face and push it off a cliff. He. Must. Die.
** A possible LampshadeHanging of this trope occurs when Patricia Tannis tells the protagonist that their next target, Baron Flynt, [[spoiler: stole the last Eridian Artifact]] and punched her dog.
** ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'': [[SmugSnake Handsome]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Jack]] kicks the dog so much, you'd probably imagine he has them taped to his shoes, which makes his constant insistence that he is a hero all the more hypocritical. One of his biggest KTD moments is [[spoiler: killing Mordecai's longtime animal companion, Bloodwing. ''After'' performing horrific experiments on her, and turning her into a massive monstrosity]]. And this is ''before'' we learn [[spoiler:just what he has been doing to his own daughter Angel for the sake of getting to the Vault he wants to open, treatment so painful and horrific that she wants the Vault Hunters to kill her in order to end it]].
** Jack's girlfriend, the Sheriff of Lynchwood, did this during the fall of New Haven by [[spoiler:killing Brick's puppy with her bare hands RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM]], proving her to be just as evil as Jack.

* ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters'':
** At one point you meet Hawthorne, an influential merchant; his daughter, Tricia, is an archer who joins your party. But then you find out that [[spoiler:Tricia is the most recent of about half a dozen "daughters" Hawthorne ''bought from a child slavery ring'', the others all having "disappeared" sometime before their 17th birthdays]]. It does make you feel a little better about [[spoiler:Hawthorne being killed in front of you]]. This plotline only gets worse in the [[spoiler:Demon Path]].
** The Thurists (cultists who worship a World Eater) [[spoiler: infect towns with a deadly plague because their "god" tells them to]]. But the real KickTheDog moment comes where Kanan reveals that [[spoiler:10 years ago she killed young Danette's parents]]. Then [[ViewerGenderConfusion he]] laughs about it.
** [[spoiler: Levin]], whom you originally believe is your ally, [[spoiler:attacks Layna, reveals that he's a World Eater and reveals that he killed his sister Euphoria]]. Then, to add insult to injury, [[spoiler:he resurrects Euphoria just long enough to rub in the fact that she was a soulless puppet and Endorph was a chump for falling for her. On top of the shaming and asskicking Gig and company dish out before this insult, he wins the grand prize from Endorph afterward -- one [[VideoGame/PhantomBrave Psycho Burgundy]] to put him to final rest.]]
** [[spoiler:Gamma and Joules' entire HannibalLecture, which is followed by their attempt to devour Feinne purely for power]].
** The entire Demon Path is basically an endless sequence of dog-kicking for the main character, but one in particular stands out: [[spoiler:At one point, he saves the life of a child ''solely to later murder him in front of his sibling'', for maximum psychological effect.]]
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' has several; all of the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Desian Grand Cardials]] get at least one involving doing some manner of nasty stuff to an InnocentBystander, and [[spoiler:Mithos]] gets a particularly {{anvilicious}} one when he's revealed as a villain by nearly killing one of his former TrueCompanions and [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown kicking him while he lies defenceless on the floor]] while [[EvilLaugh laughing evilly]].
** This game also features a literal version of this trope as [[spoiler:Colette kicks a dog after having lost her humanity at the Tower of Salvation. This is not done to portray her as a Heel, but to underscore the fact that her personality is gone, as she is the game's dog lover.]]
* If the vicious and violent Sync the Tempest isn't bad enough for you in ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss,'' just wait until he [[spoiler: speaks to Anise in Ion's voice after Ion's death.]] [[PlayerPunch That was a low freaking blow.]]
* In ''VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}'', a pair of the titular RidiculouslyHumanRobots attempt to search Katrina's house for a list of Snatcher-run hospitals hidden there. When they fail to find it, they slaughter her dog, Alice, gut it violently, and throw it through Katrina's window, entrails hanging out. In the original Japanese, uncensored version, [[{{Squick}} it's still twitching]].
* ''VisualNovel/MinotaurHotel'': The main thing that decides which route you are in is how many times you send Asterion to the valley. Never send him to the valley at all and you're most likely going to get the main route. Send him once and you'll get the Lukewarm route. Any more than that and you'll get the Ruthless route. Why is sending Asterion to the valley such a terrible thing? The valley is filled with terrible monsters, and they ''will'' go after Asterion regardless of what he does. Convincing him that you won't ever send him to the valley in the main route is a big reason why he becomes ''very'' friendly towards you.
* In ''VideoGame/JakIIRenegade'', the Krimzon Guard -- a fascist organization led by Baron Praxis -- that holds Haven City in the grip of oppression at least seems to have a redeeming trait in that they keep it safe from the monstrous Metal Heads. Then, partway through the game, you find out that they've been [[MonsterProtectionRacket bribing the Metal Heads to make ineffectual attacks for them to thwart]] -- rather than staying quiet until they can stage an effective assault -- in order to justify their brutal rule as necessary in face of this danger. Because, y'know, just being fascists who tortured the main character for two years didn't make them bad enough.
** And in the first cutscene after Jak escapes prison, you get this little gem.
--->'''Krimzon Guard:''' By order of his eminence, the Grand Protector of Haven City, Baron Praxis, everyone in this section is hereby under arrest for suspicion of harboring underground fugitives. Surrender and die!\\
'''Daxter:''' Ahh, excuse me sir, don't you mean surrender ''OR'' die?\\
'''Kor:''' Not in this city!
* ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'': Mitsuki Konishi, resident passive-aggressive [[TheBaroness Baroness]] crushes Beat's cute pet Noise into a pin [[spoiler:just ''minutes'' before we found out said pet Noise was Rhyme after being BlessedWithSuck so that Beat could resurrect her in human form]]...[[PsychoticSmirk All with a grin on her face]], before proceeding to use the pin as Beat's "entry fee." [[spoiler:As she's dying]], she cryptically hints that while Rhyme's memories of Beat were Beat's entry fee, Rhyme's were something else, thus making her point that while Rhyme was most important to Beat, Rhyme didn't feel the same way about him.

* In the John Woo game ''VideoGame/{{Stranglehold}}'', BigBad Mr. James Wong is shown early on to be an utter bastard when he reveals during his meeting with Tequila that he intimidated his own daughter Billie into breaking up with the CowboyCop on pain of death eighteen years ago while she was still pregnant with their daughter Teko -- and ordering a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on Tequila on top of it. Eighteen years later, after charging Tequila with the task of rescuing her and Teko from the Zakarovs and the Golden Kane, Wong decides to stick the knife in by [[spoiler: ordering Tequila's own partner Jerry to betray Tequila by murdering Billie after Tequila took out Damon Zakarov and trying to kill him as well, both to protect his syndicate (Damon had threatened to force Billie to reveal everyone on the payroll of her father's syndicate in order to keep Damon from killing Teko) and to deny Tequila the woman he loved forever in true rat bastard fashion]].
* Most of the later assassins in ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' enjoy kicking the nearest canine. Since the viewpoint character isn't exactly a friend to all living things, this is probably there to justify the bad guy's eventual gory deaths.
** Number 2, [[spoiler:Bad Girl, states that she feels no remorse about killing anyone while slaughtering clones for fun]], Number 3, [[spoiler:Speed Buster, kills a major trainer in a rather messy manner]], and Number 7, [[spoiler: [=DestroyMan=], cheats so consistently it's remarkable.]]
** As a twist, a good bunch do ''not'' kick the dog, however. In comparison...
* In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'', every single Templar that you're assigned to kill gets at least one KickTheDog moment (breaking a test-subject's legs, pushing somebody into a pile of burning books, murdering a priest out of paranoia, etc.) before you kill him.
** Except for the slave trader. Because do you really need any other reason to kill a slave trader?
*** Apparently horrible living conditions for the slaves. "Even Altair seems vaguely appalled."
** [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII The sequel]] goes further and gives each of the Templar assassination targets a "Kick The Dog" video profile showing why each is a ''very bad person'' (with the tragic exception of Dante Moro). The sequel to that though eschews this, being seemingly content to have [[spoiler:Cesare Borgia kill a helpless Mario Auditore]], with the subsequent sin of the Borgia regime and troops being guilt by association.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Overlord}}'', you have a tower, which, naturally, is your base of operations, housing an armory, a forge, even a private chamber for your mistress. It also features a jester, (a brown in a jester's outfit, kinda like a toned-down MonsterClown,) who will laud your various accomplishments, and whom you can kick in the head. It serves no purpose, has no effect on your corruption meter, and if you do it enough, the jester will cower in fear of your mighty boot, and later comment on how mean you are to jesters. But you are supposed to be an EvilOverlord, and the fact is, the game lets you do some pretty, ''ughh'', [[AntiHero heroic deeds]]. So you need to kick the jester, to prove to yourself that you're still evil.
* In ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans 2'', Crypto panders to the Black Ninjas by saying that the Furon god Arkvoodle (Or "Darkvoodle," as the ninjas put it) is so evil that he eats kittens for breakfast, and that he's hungry now and wonders if they have any kittens. The Black Ninjas are unimpressed, saying that they eat babies for breakfast.
* In ''VideoGame/TheBardsTale'', if you decided to adopt the cute puppy that the Bard will show some actual affection for -- a Druid stops the group to allow their Griffith to stomp on the dog, breaking the poor thing's spine as it gave a pained cry. A literal KickTheDog and PlayerPunch in one swoop.
* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty 4: VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' makes it a point to ensure the player won't feel any sympathy for either Khaled al-Asad's revolutionaries or Imran Zakhaev's Ultranationalists. Al-Asad's troops do such pleasant things as mass-executing civilians in broad daylight, publicly executing President Yasir al-Fulani on national television, and [[spoiler: detonating a nuclear bomb inside his own city.]] Zakhaev's Ultranationalists routinely murder civilians, bomb civilian villages indiscriminately, and conduct another mass execution in a village for no apparent reason except to be complete bastards.
** [[spoiler:The nuke starts off as a KickTheDog moment (very dramatic but otherwise unimportant to the campaign, aside from giving the US, England, and Russia reason to cooperate) but eventually escalates into a legitimate plot point, as it serves as General Shepherd's StartOfDarkness for his MagnificentBastard villainy in ''Modern Warfare 2''.]]

* The first thing a minor villain does during his introduction in ''VideoGame/FableII'' is kick the player's dog.
** That bit-part bandit is nothing compared to Reaver's puppy-punting spree. Upon his introduction, [[spoiler:he kills a sculptor and an artist trying to capture his likeness, sends you off to get your soul drained by ancient demons so he can stay eternally youthful, kills a character you've known since childhood, and then informs you cheerfully he's just betrayed you to the very person who...dammit, Lucien needs a new section.]]
*** The stories around Lord Lucien in your childhood depict him as a noble, if somewhat eccentric man. In fact, he even offers to adopt you and your sister, both homeless orphans... [[spoiler:unless he gets exactly the result he does get from a simple test which reveals that the two of you have the blood of heroes, at which point he shoots your helpless, unarmed sister in the chest, and then shoots you in the chest, sending you out a window in a tall tower while Rose is still alive enough to hear]]. You get better. After this point, he becomes a fairly standard BigBad, but at the end of the storyline he reveals that [[spoiler:again, to try to cut off the heroic bloodline, he's personally murdered your spouse and any children you have, and then [[ShootTheDog kills your dog]] when it takes a bullet to save your life.]]
** Sometimes when a villager sees your dog, he/she will taunt your dog and then kicks the dog in the face.
** Creator/PeterMolyneux has said in interviews that this trope was one of the main purposes of the dog in Fable 2 - the dog is designed to [[EmpathyPet make the player grow attached to him]], so attacks against him become the player character's BerserkButton.
** The sequel also uses the literal meaning in the DLC. [[spoiler:After being strapped to an electrical chair by the person who you thought was helping you, having him suck out your powers as a Hero, him transforming into an exact copy of you in order to destroy the crown, he shoots your dog with a magical fireball. Unfortunately, that was a bad idea, considering that the Hero loves that dog more than anything and after yelling "Never. Hurt. My. Dog!", breaks free of the chair and then goes on to kill him. ]]
* In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration 2'', Archibald Grims (a recurring enemy character for the first part of the game) merely comes off as a minor {{Jerkass}}. It's not until you've fought him a few times that you find out that he actually is a sociopath -- his solution to digging up a rumored lost-technology giant robot is to bomb the area, blasting away the sand covering the robot as well as the pesky civilians who were digging it up the hard way. A subordinate even tries to reason with him, and Archibald seems to consider for a moment.
--> "I see. Yuuki, are you trying to say you don't like unnecessary bloodshed?"
--> "Not in this situation, Sir."
--> "What a shame. But I do. Especially from non-combatants!" (Cue maniacal laughter and screamy civilians)
** Axel Almer also performs this when he tore Alt Eisen's arm just so he can get a trophy and proof for beating his nemesis. This only happens in the GBA version, though. In the remake, [[JustifiedTrope he just does that as a precaution if this Kyosuke is the same with Beowulf.]]
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': Choose a blood elf in ''The Burning Crusade'', and you're required to kick many dogs (or cats, as it may be.) Play a death knight in ''Wrath of the Lich King'', all you do under the Lich King's control is kick dogs -- [[spoiler:oh, and kill your best friend]].
** Also in the opening cinematic, a blood elf cuddles with a small magical creature, only to destroy it so she can absorb its mana.
** At the Argent Tournament, a woman takes the confessions of champions from both factions. An undead champion informs her that he punched a penguin in the face just so he could see her expression when he revealed it.
** The bombing of Theramore is a kick the dog moment for Garrosh. Prior to that, he had been characterized as a hothead who was quick to act and not quick enough to think, but he at least had a concept of honor. Theramore totally changed his characterization by portraying him wanting to conquer Kalimdor at all costs, and willing to *dishonorably* kill anyone who stands in his way. He made it appear to his allies that he wanted an honorable military victory at Thermaore, only to lure all of the alliance commanders/forces into the center of the city (by feigning a withdrawal) where they were hit by what amounts to a magical version of a nuke. This was the authors attempt to make him into an unlikeable character (since we fight him at the end of Mists of Pandaria).
* ''VideoGame/{{Bioshock|1}}'' does this indirectly in an event that could also be considered a MoralEventHorizon. Dr. Suchong [[spoiler:forces the protagonist, Jack, who was a genetically conditioned child in Rapture to snap his new puppy's neck. Jack is mentally conditioned to obey him, even though the child protests profusely.]] This just demonstrates how much of a huge dick Dr. Suchong was.
** Then there's the fact that he was so abusive with a Little Sister. [[spoiler:At least that resulted in him getting mauled by the Big Daddy. You can even see a huge drill in his belly when you find his corpse.]]
*** For extra dickery, the little girl referred to him as Papa Suchong.
* The ''Franchise/MegaMan'' series has some examples:
** ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'':
*** In ''VideoGame/SuperAdventureRockman'', Shadow Man mocks Quick Man when the latter [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices his life]] to save Rockman as he realises what's happening. Shadow Man gets his comeuppance when he gets torn to pieces by the gunfire Rockman unleashes from his [[ArmCannon Mega Buster]] in retaliation.
---->'''Shadow Man:''' What a show he put on for my blade!\\
Rockman screams in a rage and readies his Mega Buster.\\
'''Rockman:''' Shadow Man! I will not forgive you! Come! Victory or defeat!\\
'''Shadow Man:''' You can only escape death once! (Shadow Man jumps back and readies his Shadow Blade.) This is your final burial!
** ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends'':
*** In the Japanese dub, when you reach a scene where you have to get the dog Paprika away from Tron, players have the option of just merely kicking the dog, causing him to scamper away. In the English dub, however, players only have the option of "telling" the dog to go away.
*** Mega Man also had the option to kick cats and shoot birds in the Japanese dub which would slowly cause him to turn "evil": his armor would get darker and if you made him evil enough you'd trigger a hidden cutscene where Roll, in her sleep, worries about all the horrible things Mega Man is doing and would ultimately [[LaserGuidedKarma cause her development costs to double]], while doing good things like giving her presents would turn him lighter again. This can still be done in the English dub, but only by kicking soda machines to steal drinks, kicking garbage into the Jetlag Bakery, or stealing money.
*** This is also your warning that [[FinalBoss Mega Man Juno]] is no joke. While the [[GoldfishPoopGang Bonne Family]] were willing to give threats, steal, and destroy the town itself, they drew the line before actual murder. When Juno announces his plan to "purge all the island inhabitants", the Bonnes are [[EvenEvilHasStandards disgusted by this]] and come to Mega Man's aid.
* It's the first thing you see the Postal Dude of ''VideoGame/Postal2'' do after he gets out of his trailer on Monday morning. And then it gets better. It's that kind of game.
** You can even get an achievement trophy for kicking 30 dogs and killing 10 dogs with a kitty-silenced shotgun.
* ''VideoGame/AceCombat'':
** ''VideoGame/AceCombat04ShatteredSkies'' has a cutscene where the Erusean invaders set up an anti-air gun post on top of a hospital in the narrator's hometown. It also reinforces Yellow 13's AntiVillain status by having him be disgusted by this.
** And earlier in the same game is the "Escort" mission, wherein Erusean fighters go after a pair of civilian airliners, which the player must defend.
** Some Leasath chair forcers from ''VideoGame/AceCombatXSkiesOfDeception'' rain bombs on a defenseless city [[ForTheEvulz just because they can spare the ordnance]]. The Hamlet special forces unit goes as far as to unleash a biochemical agent on Santa Elva in what may be a crossing of the MoralEventHorizon.
* In ''VideoGame/AirForceDelta Strike'', the OCC launch a major air assault against a lone, stranded and disabled hospital ship of no tactical or strategic value. Ruth Valentine tries to prevent the ship's destruction, but the mission is a HeadsIWinTailsYouLose mission.
* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' series: Throughout the [[VideoGame/SaintsRow2 second game]], Boss, the character you play, does a ''lot'' of this. This goes to show you that s/he's losing out his/her sense of morality, all because of the explosion that s/he survived from.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'': [[TheMafia Mafiaesque]] Team Rocket was the lightest villain group in the games, bar none. It didn't prevent from doing it lots of times. Whacking a few {{Mons}}, running a casino and the Viridian Gym as legitimate business ventures, taking over a city, intermeddling with the Lake of Rage, and hijacking the Goldenrod Radio Tower were pretty big for their day. The worst of their crimes was killing a mother Marowak in Lavender Town. And yet compared to more recent organizations they're ''still'' small fries.
** Much hyped in the continuity is ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'''s Team Galactic, who slid right up the SlidingScaleOfVillainEffectiveness by bombing Lake Valor, extracting the gems from the Lake Trio, and using the gems to shackle Dialga and/or Palkia in an attempt to rewrite reality. Unfortunately for them, the {{Mooks}} are plain dumb, the Lake Valor explosion was pure shock value, and the lion's share of bad intentions come from emotionally stunted Cyrus, who believes that living spirit is an imperfection that needs to be scrubbed away. If it weren't for his leadership and the effectiveness of the commanders, even the Rockets would have someone to laugh at.
** Cipher makes Poochyena kicking, if not [[MoralEventHorizon molestation]], its modus operandi. In the events of ''VideoGame/PokemonColosseum'', they were running all of Orre from the shadows of the criminal underworld, with even its most affable Admin, Miror B., holding the mayor of Pyrite Town around his pinky while distributing Shadow Pokemon shipped from the Under to people at the Pyrite Colosseum. [[TheBrute Dakim]] was the enforcer who put everyone else in line, [[DarkChick Venus]] was the pretty face that kept the people of the Under out of Cipher's affairs with her gaudy entertainment programming, and [[EvilGenius Ein]] corrupted the stolen Pokemon that Team Snagem and other criminal organizations paid Cipher as tribute for use as weapons. The place was hell on earth in a near-literal form until Wes waged his two-man war, and five years later during the events of ''Pokemon XD'', changes in personnel aside, Cipher's at it ''again'', and the loss of support from Team Snagem is merely a setback to their greater operations.
** This is done in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' with Team Plasma. Initially, Team Plasma's goals sound like they are actually reasonable. Players might originally find themselves intrigued by them. However, in the player's first direct encounter with Team Plasma's grunts, they are kicking a Munna, hinting that their intentions may not be all that genuine. It gets worse from there, with two grunts stealing a little kid's Pokémon and later Bianca getting her Munna stolen; it becomes clear very quickly that Team Plasma are just as bad, if not ''worse'' than Team Rocket with the added bonus of being [[MoralMyopia myopic]] {{Hypocrite}}s.[[note]]It should be noted that some of Team Plasma [[NecessaryEvil genuinely believe that they're doing the right thing]], while others are [[WolfInSheepsClothing clear-cut human monsters]].[[/note]] [[spoiler:The ending is a long series of KickTheDog moments, from the grunts in N's Castle rubbing in how [[ManipulativeBastard Ghetsis]] has been manipulating the hearts of Unova's citizens to a scientist referencing how they're going to release all of the Pokémon stored in the PC boxes. Then, after you beat [[UnwittingPawn N]], Ghetsis hurls insult after insult at both him and you.]]
*** [[spoiler: Ghestis's insults even cross over into MoralEventHorizon for many; Ghetsis wasn't even a TautologicalTemplar like many of the Plasma Grunts, he was just a power-hungry jackass who invented this rhetoric in a bid to take advantage of people's better nature and take over the world as the only trainer left. He then proceeded to ''emotionally cripple his own son'' as a step in this plan and ''gloats'' about it to you while rubbing in N's face that he never actually cared about him and considered him a pathetic failure of a human being.]]
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'' is quite fond of this trope. Saren shoots keepers (which can't fight back) when [[spoiler: he attacks the Presidium]]. He also attacks a peaceful human colony then tries to utterly destroy it, just so he can use the Beacon. The sequel gives us Warden Kuril, who casually guns down the prisoners in his care and orders vicious beatings and is eventually revealed to have a sideline of selling choice prisoners into slavery.
** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', after [[spoiler:Thessia falls to Reaper forces]], Shepard is emotionally devastated, [[ItsAllMyFault convinced that s/he failed and that it was all his/her fault.]] Kai Leng, who you've probably got plenty of reasons to hate by this point, rubs it in by sending Shepard a message backing that up, telling him/her that [[spoiler:Thessia fell]] simply because s/he wasn't good and strong enough to prevent it.
** Hell, Shepard him/herself can do this on occasion, mostly in the third game, In particular, there's one part where [[spoiler: Samara will attempt to kill herself so she won't have to kill her daughter.]] If Shepard doesn't prevent this, then s/he has the option of [[spoiler: killing the daughter anyway, simply because she might be a threat later on.]]
** [[spoiler:Clone!Shepard]] from the Citadel DLC is full of [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech vicious comments]] to give to Shepard and his or her crew, some of which strike pretty damned low.
--->''"Like you, Garrus Vakarian. You're nothing but a burnt-out cop past his prime."''\\
''"Like you, Dr. T'Soni. You're nothing but a college cheerleader pretending to be a soldier."''\\
''"Like you, Tali'Zorah vas Normandy. I'm not sure whether to kill you with a bullet or just take off your helmet and cough."''\\
''"Like you, Major Alenko/Lieutenant-Commander Williams. [[spoiler:I would have picked the other one on Virmire. Ashley/Kaidan-something?]]"''
** The Citadel DLC BigBad also throws Shepard's hamster cage (with the poor hamster still inside) in the trash can, with a note attached requesting it be sent to an animal shelter to be euthanized. Needless to say, Shepard is ''[[BerserkButton pissed]]''.
--->'''Shepard:''' "Please send this to an animal shelter for proper disposal, as a warship is not an appropriate..." Oh ho ho...that is '''not''' okay.

* In ''VideoGame/DotHackGU'', there's [[TheWoobie Atoli]] who spends most of the series as the game's resident dog being kicked by everyone in Haseo's RoguesGallery. Even [[spoiler:Sakaki, who found her on a suicide website and convinced her to play The World rather than kill herself]].
** Not just in-game, her real-life self also gets kicked by almost everyone, including ''her parents''.
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheDarksideChronicles'' has Alexia Ashford [[spoiler: murder Alfred -- apparently, simply for ''not waking her up from cryo sooner'']]. Quite a switch from her personality in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica''.
** It also had HUNK telling off his teammate over the radio who was injured and pleading for help. True he would have never made it to her to help her, but he didn't have to respond and remind her "This is war. Survival is ''your'' responsibility."
* In the ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' series, Kratos does this a ''lot'', VideoGameCrueltyPotential notwithstanding.
** Kratos' very first KickTheDog moment is also an EstablishingCharacterMoment: when a Hydra attacks the ship that Kratos is on, it chows down on the ship's captain who has a key that Kratos needs. After killing the Hydra in badass fashion, Kratos climbs inside it to retrieve the key. The ship captain thanks him profusely for coming back for him, only to receive this cold response: "I didn't come back for ''you''." And then Kratos rips the key off him and sends him down into the Hydra's gullet for no reason at all. Ladies and gentlemen, ''[[NominalHero our hero]]''.
** You can even ''literally'' kick Cerberus pups -- and in the third game, you can even get an achievement trophy called "Obedience School" for doing this to 50 pups.
** And as assholish as Kratos can be, his enemies are even worse. Ares and Zeus, his primary nemeses in the series, do much to earn Kratos's (and the player's) hatred throughout the games. The other gods [[JerkassGods are not much better]].
* Fassad spends a great deal of his on-screen time in ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'' [[ElectricTorture electrocuting]] the adorable little monkey [[TheWoobie Salsa]].
* In the pre-match cutscene before fighting Saiki in ''VideoGame/{{The King of Fighters}} XIII'', [[spoiler: Saiki killed Mukai when the latter requests to let him handle the fighters instead.]]
** Goenitz also had one of these moments in KOF 96 when he [[spoiler: injured Chizuru Kagura to then step into the battlefield and challenge the heroes.]] In one of the mangas, he also [[spoiler: gives a BreakingLecture to Mai when she's in the middle of an HeroicBSOD, then beats Chizuru ''and'' Kensou within inches of their lives]]; in another manga, he [[spoiler: got Iori bound in a CrucifiedHeroShot ''and made him go intermittently into the Riot of the Blood when he was completely in defense'', despite the pleas of Kyo's girlfriend Yuki.]]
* ''VideoGame/LegoUniverse'' has a rather brutal example, upon the rather idiotic creation of the Maelstrom, the first thing the one Spiderling did was crush a puppy with its leg. It gets repaired though, don't worry.
* ''VideoGame/LuminousArc'' begins with the player in command of a group of [[CrystalDragonJesus Church]] soldiers hunting "Witches"—until it turns out that some of the Witches are actually friendly, even willing to help break a curse that has turned one character's arm into a dragon claw. Unfortunately, a [[KnightTemplar superior officer]] appears to remind your party of its duties, ordering you to attack the Witches. The characters poignantly struggle with this moral conflict...for about 10 seconds, at which point the knight [[spoiler:gets fed up and decides to kill everyone]], incidentally revealing that [[spoiler:he had been planning to kill the party anyway once they disposed of the Witches]]. And if THAT wasn't enough, when the accompanying bishop asks him not to kill the cursed character, the knight's response is: "[[spoiler:We only need the arm to do experiments on, right?]]".
* The tenth mission of ''[[VideoGame/NintendoWars Advance Wars Days Of Ruin]]'' sets three "civilian" units (in gameplay terms no different from regular ones) directly in front of the enemy. Two of these units can escape, but there is no way whatsoever to save the third. The game goes to these lengths to set up a dogkicking moment for the Beast, who proceeds to slaughter the doomed unit for fun. '''''With a War Tank'''''. (For reference, that's the strongest ground unit in the game. The target is an Infantry - the ''weakest'' ground unit in the game... ''before'' taking into account it's a civilian in story terms. Talk about swatting flies with a cannon.)
* Mundus' YouHaveFailedMe moment on [[spoiler:Griffon]] in the first ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry1'' before {{Agony Beam}}ing him to death was ''very'' much a dick move, even before what he does to Dante and Trish later on.
* ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIII'' had a couple characters who are this fairly early in the game. [[DualBoss Balio and Sunder]] are brothers who were first seen [[HopelessBossFight killing off your party]] for stealing from a corrupt mayor. After Ryu survives he will soon approach these two again on the path to Wyndia, one of them will think you're a ghost. After running around a bit his brother will approach him and to prove to him that Ryu is a ghost he will proceed the stab Ryu in the back. Afterward, Ryu will lie unconscious after a short dragon transformation and these two will capture Ryu and present him to the King of Wyndia. By the time they unveil Ryu, he will have already transformed back into his human form where these two brothers get the idea that kicking the cage several times will make Ryu transform back. After this fails both Ryu and the brothers are sent to a jail within the castle. Shortly after princess Nina will appear to free Ryu and was stopped when the brothers call for her to free her promising that they "will not hurt that kid again." After a short hesitation, Nina decides to free them and shortly afterward, the brothers proceed to kick her in the face and ran off with her for a ransom. After having to break out of the cell by ramming into it twice, you chase after the princess. Upon arriving to the scene where she is being held captive these two pricks decide to kick the princess yet again just because they are getting sick of Ryu. Both Ryu and Nina are about 10 at this point in the game.
* ''VideoGame/{{Homefront}}'', the KPA does this all the time, whether it's shooting up a child's parents in front of him (and possibly the child himself), or the mass graves, or massacring civilians with or without provocation, or destroying a town in retaliation.
* In ''VideoGame/ManiacMansion'', you can put a hamster into a microwave, set it on and the rodent will explode in a bloody mess. You can even give the remains to the original owner...

* The first act you witness the [[ArmsDealer Van Graffs]] committing in VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas is executing one of their own employees, in order to intimidate a business partner trying to negotiate a better price for their services.
** Jean-Baptiste does this in one of the quests the Van Graffs give you. He orders you to bring [[FieryRedhead Cass]] to him. If you do so... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf67dZyj8ks Well, here's the result]]. Why does he do it? Good question. He even says that they and the Crimson Caravans have forced her out of business (through immoral means, mind), but he still wants to kill her ''because it would be fun''. Since he requires your help to accomplish the deed, [[YouBastard you're pretty much kicking the dog too]].
** Also, one of the possible answer to Doc Mitchell's word association psychiatric examination for dog is "kick", and "human shield" for "mother". He'll then state that sometimes through these procedures you learn things that you'd rather not know about.
** Also, you can kick an opponent with the ranger takedown, allowing you to kick dogs.
** In the Old World Blues DLC, one of the Think Tank scientists, Dr. Borous, had a dog named Gabe, who was apparently his best and only friend. Gabe was very loving towards Borous, even when Borous began to feed him chems and perform cruel experiments.
*** The player actually fights Gabe at one point (turned giant from Borous' chems), and if they take his food bowl, Borous will show remorse for the death of his once-beloved pet.
** Your first encounter with Caesar's Legion is in Nipton, which has been made a ghost town because they've not only slaughtered everyone, but crucified the Powder Gangers that had set up shop there. And that's only the beginning -- when they aren't massacring and enslaving entire communities, the monsters entertain themselves by [[RapeAsDrama raping women]], giggling and joking about how much they enjoy raping women, molesting children, watching slaves fight for their lives, [[ImAHumanitarian eating human flesh]], committing human sacrifice, [[EvilIsPetty taking teddy bears away from children to make them cry]], [[TheSocialDarwinist executing the sick and weak]], [[FantasticRacism taking potshots at Ghouls]], telling passersby that they deserved to be lashed to a cross, and gushing about how much they will enjoy rampaging west and slaughtering their enemies.
* A wonderfully literal example in ''VideoGame/Fallout4''; TokenEvilTeammate X6-88 is usually deferential and level-headed when you're traveling with him, which may make you forget how much of an asshole he can be, but if you're traveling with Dogmeat at the same time and he gets hurt, X6-88 starts talking about how much he wants to ''kill your dog'' for seemingly no reason besides that he annoys him.
* It doesn't take long for ''VideoGame/SuikodenII'' to establish Luca Blight's cruelty. To start, he uses the massacre of the Unicorn Youth Brigade (which he planned ''himself'' as part of a FalseFlagOperation) to rekindle the war between the Highland and the City-States as an excuse to RapePillageAndBurn everything in his path. During one of these pillages, he kills an innocent woman after forcing her to beg for her life and walk around like a pig. When he attacks the mercenary fortress, he [[WouldHurtAChild kills Viktor's young assistant Pohl]] and is stopped from doing the very same to Pilika, the young girl Pohl was protecting, with Pohl's murder [[BreakTheCutie scarring her for life]].
* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' has many examples of this.
** In episode 1-5, the true BigBad of the case is already a douchebag, however the real moment in which the player knows he is a complete Jerkass is when he says that he doesn't feel even a single shred of sympathy or emotion for Ema Skye, a girl who was targeted by a serial killer and [[spoiler:who he framed for accidentally killing Neil Marshall by pushing him away when she mistook him for the killer, so that he could blackmail her sister to work for him lest the truth come out]]. Considering how absolutely sympathetic Ema comes off as when you learn all that, this makes him sound like a HUGE dick.
** Furio Tigre in ''Trials and Tribulations'' has a moment when he mocks Viola Cadaverini's feelings for him (she works with him in Tender Lender, believing that he [[spoiler:paid for her life-saving operation]] out of love [[spoiler:and not to avoid her grandfather's wrath]]).
** [[spoiler: Dahlia Hawthorne]] from the same game. When she [[spoiler: told Phoenix that the entire time they dated she secretly hated his guts, knowing full well how much of a lovesick dope he was for her]], she did so just because she wanted to. This blow is softened with the reveal at the end of the game that [[spoiler: Phoenix had actually unknowingly been dating her identical sister Iris, who actually did like him back, so their relationship had been genuine the whole time -- the real Dahlia had actually spoke Phoenix only a few times, but she hated his "sniveling naivete" and was about to be sent to the gallows, so she figured that she'd get her last licks in.]]
** Kristoph from ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'' has one of these. In the final case, it's revealed that he is [[spoiler:the reason Phoenix lost his badge, which he did purely out of spite, because Zak chose Phoenix over him as a lawyer.]]
** In ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth'', [[AmoralAttorney Manfred von Karma]] dislikes his more principled colleague Byrne Faraday so much that he repeatedly derides him as incompetent, including after he's learned that Faraday has been murdered. Compare how von Karma's protégé Edgeworth and daughter Franziska actually respect Faraday.
* The title Lord of Terror from the ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' series has done plenty of evil things throughout the trilogy, including driving a good and noble king murderously insane, but in ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'', as you're closing in on him in Act IV, he very meanly [[spoiler:uses the apparitions of dead characters from throughout the game, both sympathetic (such as Deckard Cain, Marius, and others) and unsympathetic (Maghda and Zoltun Kulle) to taunt you. And the very first one he uses? ''[[PlayerPunch Leah]]''.]]
** The very first thing you see a Death Maiden doing in ''Reaper of Souls'' is ripping the soul out of an innocent woman who's trying to get out of Westmarch, shortly before turning her and the corpses around her into Reapers to send after you. And what does this angel say as she's doing it? "Those with demon blood must die." It sets the tone quite nicely for both the expansion in general and [[KillAllHumans the Reapers' mission]].
** Later on during one of the first parts of Act V, you're given a side-mission to lay a tormented soul to rest at the request of his wife, who is also a ghost. Pretty standard Diablo fare, right? Except that after you've laid said soul to rest and the couple are preparing to depart to the afterlife, another Death Maiden shows up and denies them the peace they should have in death by turning them into Reapers.
--->'''Yomeeh:''' Your "eternity" ends now. All souls are forfeit to Malthael!
** [[spoiler:Adria]]'s final journal in the Blood Marsh in Act V all but clinches the fact that [[spoiler:she never gave a single damn about her own daughter as anything but a means to the end of resurrecting her monstrous master]].
--->''[[spoiler:Leah was never my daughter. She was Diablo's daughter in truth. I felt blessed to have given the product of my body to my master. He had no interest in me, but in the product of my womb, he found life again. I never flinched when I knew her purpose. Daughters are a cheap thing.]]''
* Friggin' ArchangelMichael does this to BlobMonster Abaddon in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiII'', promising to restore him as an angel in exchange for swallowing Valhalla District, an act which killed the entire populace. To make it worse, Michael lied.
* ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'' gives us Vulcanus, a KnightTemplar angel who believes [[LoveFreak Flonne]] has betrayed Celestia for the Netherworld. When he comes across her sleeping, he steals the amulet that is the only thing allowing her to survive in the Netherworld's toxic environment. Even though he sees himself as a WellIntentionedExtremist, if he merely wanted to kill her he could have done it right there, instead of condemning her to a slow death.
** General Carter is little better. He adopted and raised Jennifer as a daughter, but when she sides with Gordon over him, he has Kurtis put her through UnwillingRoboticisation, then sends her against the heroes as a distraction. Despite his hatred of Gordon, Kurtis finds this disgusting, and eventually pulls a HeelFaceTurn / HeroicSacrifice.
* The intro to the web game ''Dungeon Rampage'' features a literal example in the intro scene, which has Lord Dinglepus feeding a little girl's puppy to one of his orc bruiser minions.
* Pretty much every character in ''VideoGame/CorpseParty'' that's crossed that MoralEventHorizon ends up doing something that makes kicking a dog look kind:
** Kizami doesn't so much kick a dog as much as he tries to [[spoiler: slice open a hamster with a box cutter]] when he was a little kid. Then of course he [[spoiler: stabs his "friend" Kurosaki and kicks him down a hole in the floor to the floor below, then kicks Yuka so hard it knocks her out and then proceeds to flay open Kurosaki while he's still alive.]]
** Takamine Yanagihori, the Principal, tries to [[spoiler:rape Yoshie Shinozaki and then knocks her down a flight of stairs, breaking her neck and killing her...right in front of her 5-year-old daughter Sachiko; who he then proceeds to strangle to death in front of her mother's body so she won't tell anyone. He even desecrates her body years later by cutting out her tongue.]]
** [[spoiler:Sachiko brutally murders three elementary school children...by essentially experimenting on each by seeing what she can do with a pair of sewing scissors until she kills each one.]]
* In the ''Videogame/{{Homeworld}}'' mission "Return to Kharak" your entire planet has been annihilated in a massive firestorm, leaving the only survivors a group of colonists floating in cryogenic stasis. The only enemies in the mission are attacking them, and will completely ignore your attacking fleet in favor of destroying the helpless civilians.
* When ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' formally introduces its BigBad, [[spoiler:Father Balder]] in Chapter 16, the scene involving him has quite a lot of Kick The Dog moments, but in particular, he [[spoiler:tries to kill Luka by having him pulled apart by angels, something he did twenty years earlier to Luka's father once he was no longer useful to him and for trying to expose him for the evil bastard he is, before sending him out a window to his apparent death. And then he ''mocks Jeanne'' to Bayonetta's face, revealing that he'd {{brainwashed}} her, all to facilitate his EvilPlan]]. Needless to say, you ''will'' want to kick his smarmy ass all over the goddamn city by the time the fight actually starts.
* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue''
** [[{{Troll}} Hazama]]/[[TheSociopath Yuuki Terumi]] does a crapton of this on a near-constant basis. It's somewhat {{Justified|Trope}} since his existence is sustained by people's hatred of him, so going around kicking metaphorical dogs is an actual ''survival tactic'' for him. Played somewhat more literally in the fact he isn't shy about [[WouldHitAGirl kicking young girls]] [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown while they're down]], [[spoiler:and what's worse, one of the times he did this, said girl had only just then ''died'', of injuries sustained in a HeroicSacrifice no less]]. Yep, what a scumbag.
*** Here's a big one: in ''Wheel of Fortune'', after [[spoiler:Tsubaki loses her sight]], he gives her a barbed TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, telling her that she does everything she does for others only because she wants to feel needed, and she only wants to be close to Jin because she wants him to need her, that she's nothing if she doesn't feel needed and that Jin doesn't care about her. This causes her to break down into tears, at which point Hazama is satisfied with himself and happily trots off. Oh yes, ''and he had no reason whatsoever to do this''. [[TheWoobie Poor Tsubaki]] was just unlucky enough to be in a conversation with him.
*** Another somewhat literal example: In ''Chronophantasma'', if Terumi persona wins against [[TheHero Ragna,]] (who is referred to as being like a puppy or underdog by several other characters,) he walks up to Ragna's corpse, [[BeatingADeadPlayer stomps it ten times,]] then grinds his boot into his face and insults him.
** His partner [[MadScientist Relius]] is no slouch either. He doesn't need to do it to survive like Terumi does and he's near-emotionless so he doesn't take any joy from it, but his actions have left behind a lot of violated puppies. Among his biggest kicks are [[spoiler: turning his daughter and wife into mind-warping automatons, then getting bored and leaving the daughter halfway through the process, forcing his son to finish the job to save her life,]] and [[spoiler: the prolonged and brutal [[MindRape mental torture]] he put [[PluckyGirl Makoto]] through in her bad ending, which throws her over the DespairEventHorizon and is one hair shy of being a full-on [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape scene.]]]]
** It's no secret that Jin Kisaragi is a massive {{jerkass}} but he becomes this taken UpToEleven whenever he's with Noel. He will waste no time insulting and belittling her.
* In ''VideoGame/SonicRivals 2'', Silver, who had [[TookALevelInJerkass taken a level in jerkass]] after the events of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' [[{{Retcon}} were erased]], had stolen Tails' rings in order to regain energy for his ESP. He even called him a half-pint after that.
** The first clue that Metal Sonic isn't messing around in ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD'' is a hologram of him tormenting the local wildlife for absolutely no reason.
* In ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'', General Vladimir gets a rather nasty one in the Allied campaign. After the Allies destroy a massive mind control device built by the Soviets in occupied Chicago in the nick of time, he announces that with the weapon destroyed [[SoreLoser he has no further use for the city]]. He proceeds to detonate a nuclear bomb, killing everyone in the city, the Allied attack force and even ''[[BadBoss his own remaining troops]]''.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Robopon}}'', Bisco proves he's a jerk by stealing a kid's ice cream cone, threatening Lisa, and calling Cody's Robopon a piece of junk and his grandpa senile.
** Dr. Zero traps Princess Darcy in a mirror because Prince Tail lost to him and to Cody. In the second game, Zero installed kill switches in his cyborgs to destroy them if they lose. They're sentient creations.
** Mr. Wild steals Cody's Dosbot that a nice little girl gave him and uses it when you battle him, forcing you to scrap it.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''
** Two (now extinct) races of [[OurElvesAreDifferent Mer (Elves)]] took the "abusive" part of AbusivePrecursors down an extreme dog-kicking path.
*** The Ayleids (Wild Elves) of Cyrodiil enslaved and tortured the Nedes (ancestors to most of the modern races of Men) in unimaginably cruel ways. Some of their most horrific treatments included: forcing them all to work naked, force-feeding them hallucinogenic drugs and watching their reactions, creating sculptures out of their bones and gardens out of their entrails, and setting human children on fire and setting hungry animals on them. Eventually, their [[SlaveLiberation slaves revolted]], overthrew them, and [[TheDogBitesBack eventually drove their race to apparent extinction]].
*** The Dwemer (Deep Elves or "[[OurDwarvesAreDifferent Dwarves]]") of all of Northern Tamriel were a very scientific and extremely technologically advanced race. For the most part, they wanted to be left alone by the other races, which would put them closer to the category of NeglectfulPrecursors. However, their treatment of the Falmer (Snow Elves) was about as abusive as it gets. With the once great Falmer civilization of Skyrim in ruins following the invasion of the [[HornyVikings Atmorans/Proto-Nords]], some of the survivors turned to their Dwemer cousins for shelter. The Dwemer took them in, but were anything but benevolent. They genetically altered the Falmer so that they have to consume blindness-inducing mushrooms to survive. So great were their alterations that their souls turned from sentient "black" souls to "white" souls, leaving them little better than animals. Eventually, the Dwemer would attempt ''[[RiddleForTheAges something]]'' (involving the heart of a dead god) which caused their entire race to blink out of existence. Now, the Falmer lurk in the old Dwemer ruins and other underground areas of Skyrim, a shattered shell of what they once were.
** Sheogorath, the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] of [[MadGod Madness]], is prone to instances of this:
*** In Volume XII of the ''16 Accords of Madness'', Sheogorath uses a BatmanGambit to get fellow Daedric Prince [[AllTheOtherReindeer Malacath]] to [[OffingTheOffspring kill his own son]], ''after'' promising [[YourSoulIsMine said son's soul]] to Sheogorath. Malacath isn't the nicest deity around, but it's a low blow nonetheless.
*** An almost literal case with Barbas, [[DealWithTheDevil Clavicus]] [[LiteralGenie Vile]]'s [[MoralityChain external conscience]] who takes the form of a BigFriendlyDog. For unexplained reasons, Sheogorath ''hates'' Barbas and seeks to poison him.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]''
*** The Imperial Captain at the very beginning of the game gets one by insisting that you be executed anyway despite not being on the list of those slated for the headsman. If you follow Ralof into Helgen Keep following Alduin's assault, you get to kill her during the first battle with the Imperials.
*** The Silver Hand don't just hunt werewolves, they capture and torture them to death as well. They seem to have a hatred for regular wolves too given the mutilated bodies strung around their camps - making this a rather literal example of the trope.
*** [[NonIndicativeName Grelod the Kind]] at the orphanage in Riften gets introduced telling the children that she'll hand out ''extra'' beatings to those that shirk their duties, and spitefully telling them that they'll never be adopted. This is your cue that you shouldn't feel bad about being there to murder her for the Dark Brotherhood. [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing The children certainly won't.]]
*** If you didn't hate [[spoiler:Mercer Frey]] of the Thieves' Guild questline already for [[spoiler:betraying you in Snow Veil Sanctum]], you will definitely hate him when you learn about [[spoiler:the hell he put Karliah through after murdering Gallus, the previous Guildmaster, for the Skeleton Key]], as well as [[spoiler:his robbery of the Thieves' Guild stores with that very key]].
*** During the ''Dawnguard'' storyline, Lord Harkon gets one with his first words to his daughter Serana, asking about the Elder Scroll in her possession, making it clear that he cares more about that thing than about Serana's well being.
* In ''VideoGame/AkatsukiBlitzkampf'', Murakumo reveals to [[spoiler: Akatsuki]] in his Story Mode that he (Murakumo) was quite the pup kicker in the past. [[spoiler: And the puppy that was kicked? ''Akatsuki himself'', since [[BadBoss Murakumo]] is the one who sent Akatsuki into the fateful mission to the Arctic Pole that would make him a HumanPopsicle in the first place.]]
* In ''VideoGame/YuGiOhCapsuleMonsterColiseum'', losing to an antagonistic duelist will have them mock Yami Yugi mercilessly. Probably the worst of the lot are Bandit Keith and Seto Kaiba.
* Three months before the events of ''[[VideoGame/TimeCrisis Time Crisis 5]]'' began, [[spoiler: Robert went rogue on the VSSE, [[DroppedABridgeOnHim killing Christy]], the DamselInDistress from the second game, [[KilledOffscreen offscreen]], and framing his ex-partner Keith for the murder. [[ILetGwenStacyDie Christy also happened to be Keith's girlfriend]].]]
* The Nazis in ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'' do this all the time, though of course as they're the biggest bad guys ever, you don't really need much prompting. When they aren't merely exterminating people on the basis of their race, they're [[EvilGloating enslaving D-Day survivors]], slaughtering disabled patients in hospitals along with the nurses for trying to protect them, [[MonumentalDamage demolishing old monuments like Mount Rushmore]], executing football players [[DisproportionateRetribution for scraping German players]], and planning to build ''labour camps on the Moon''. Frau Engel does this early on when she forces B.J (who is American with Jewish and Polish ancestry) into a racial purity test and threatens to execute him if he fails it, then (no matter what the outcome) just laughs and tells him that the whole thing was just a little game on her part. And then there's Deathshead who [[spoiler:keeps one of B.J's old comrade's brains alive and self-aware for over a decade and plugs them into a giant murder-bot just as a big middle finger to poor B.J]].
** Done more literally in ''VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus'' by B.J's [[ArchNemesisDad abusive father]] Rip at the start of the game. Rip manages to be the most awful, racist and cruel piece of shit in a game with [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain actual damned Nazis]] in it, 'nuff said. When he finds out B.J has been hanging out with an African-American girl (and no, he does ''[[NWordPrivileges not]]'' use the term "African-American" when he refers to her), he beats B.J and his mother and kicks his little dog too. Then to teach B.J a lesson he drags B.J out into the shed in the back garden and forces him to shoot the dog; if B.J intentionally misses, he mocks B.J and takes the shotgun and does the job for him. [[spoiler:In case you really didn't get the message then that the man is a piece of work, later you find out that ''he sold out his wife to the Nazis''. [[EvilIsPetty Because she used to stand up to him.]]]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'':
** One thing that really establishes just how morally grey this game's incarnation of the Brotherhood of Steel are is their leader, [[AscendedExtra Elder Arthur Maxson]], giving a long speech about how [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Synths]] are abominations even worse than the atomic bombs that destroyed civilisation 200 years ago, that they must be exterminated down to the last, and that no thinking machine could ever be the equal of a man. What makes this such a KickTheDog is that you will have definitely met Nick Valentine and Codsworth (who are a Synth and a Mister Handy respectively, and both are sentient and very nice) by this point in the story, and they aren't even the only examples of friendly robots you will encounter.
** [[BigBad The Institute]] do this all the time. Examples include kidnapping wastelanders to test the FEV on them essentially for shits and giggles and then releasing the converted mutants into the wastes rather than euthanising them, replacing the patriarch of a wastelander family with a [[ArtificialHuman synth]] [[TheMole plant]] to monitor them and the settlement they live in with the intention to wipe them all out should the synth be exposed, occasionally attacking your settlements and other neutral civilians, [[spoiler:ordering all of the other inhabitants of Vault 111 besides Shaun and the player character to be left to suffocate to death in their pods]], [[spoiler:sabotaging the formation of the Commonwealth Provisional Government and leaving the Commonwealth in the state it's currently in]], and [[spoiler:wiping out the entire population of University Point just because a girl stumbled upon a cache of pre-war military technology buried under the town]]. They're not very kind to their synths either -- they're threatened with brain-wiping if they show signs of developing autonomy, they're not even considered to be actual people, and in one scene as you're [[spoiler:touring the Institute]], an asshole scientist wants to have a Gen-2 scrapped for having a faulty cleaning chip instead of, you know, having it sent for repairs. Before then capping it off by expressing his hope that "something useful" will come out of it.
*** One location, the Sandy Coves Convalescent Home, houses several non-hostile Mr. Handies as well as a bunch of house cats. Once you're further in, a synth patrol will show up and kill every "hostile presence" unless you stop them. ''Yes, that includes the cats.''
** In a way that involves dogs, [[LackOfEmpathy X6-88]] really doesn't seem to like Dogmeat and actually wants to [[ShootTheDog put him down]] if the dog is injured. He'll even disapprove of you using a Stimpack on Dogmeat, saying that they should save it for important people: you and him. [[BloodKnight Strong]] also disapproves of this and wants to eat the injured Dogmeat.
** When [[WellIntentionedExtremist Paladin Danse]] is discovered to [[spoiler:be a synth]], [[FieryRedhead Cait]] is one of the few companions (aside from [=MacReady=] and Strong) to not help defend Danse, assuming the worst and deeming him a traitor. She, like Elder Maxson, will [[spoiler:stop referring Danse as "he" and only as "[[ItIsDehumanizing it]]"]]. Especially telling as characters that Danse [[{{Jerkass}} was nothing but]] [[FantasticRacism rude to]] (Nick, Curie and Hancock) will still stand up for him at this point.
*** Near-literally, Cait is the only companion besides [[spoiler:X6-88]] who shows a dislike for [[HeroicDog Dogmeat]], even derisively calling him a "dirty little mole rat". Even the aforementioned Paladin Danse, whose interactions with the others range from condescension to outright hostility, has a soft spot for the wastelander dog.
** If you take out the Institute with the [[WeHelpTheHelpless Minutemen]], Proctor Quinlan will applaud you for using them as "cannon fodder" and [[EvilCannotComprehendGood can't seem to grasp that you led them instead of the Brotherhood because you had faith in their abilities as their General]].
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' has [[spoiler:Senator Armstrong pull a literal version of this, where he kicks Blade Wolf away shortly before the final battle.]] Sort of understandable, as [[spoiler:Blade Wolf had just given Sam's sword to Raiden to help him.]]
* King Bohan from ''VideoGame/HeavenlySword'' is incredibly cruel towards his own son Roach, who just wants to make him proud. During the fight where Nariko faces Roach, Bohan threatens to kill his pets if he can't take her down, which sends poor Roach into a panic.
* ''VideoGame/OdinSphere'': Occurs with Onyx during the Armageddon chapter on the True End route. [[spoiler: Right when Mercedes is mourning Ingway's death after discovering his corpse, he comes over and gleefully teases her over the fact that her forest has been burned to the ground, ignoring the fact that she's grieving her lover in favor of making her feel even worse. Goes on to become ShootTheDog in the ensuing boss fight.]]
* In ''VideoGame/ThisWarOfMine'', you might encounter bandits or {{Sociopathic Soldier}}s while scavenging. Just in case you have any qualms about killing them (if you can), they will have convenient conversations about the evil things they've done. Highlights include murdering a priest, robbing a humanitarian aid transport, and letting a captive die of starvation.
* In ''Reigns'', When you get to the years; [[spoiler:666, 1332 and 1998 (which are all multiples of the NumberOfTheBeast)]], the royal dog, Rex, will moan in despair, which gives you two options; 'Pat the dog' or 'Kick the dog'. [[spoiler:Both choices lead to the 'Diabolus' ailment.]] Another example of RedEyesTakeWarning.
* ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''
** Adrian Zorlescu is introduced right in the middle of doing just this, namely menacing the clearly-traumatized Rada Nastase with a knife. For good measure, he's been keeping her drugged to the gills to keep her from either leaving or confessing anything.
** Lilith, fresh from revealing her true identity in a gleefully hammy speech, is suddenly interrupted when one of [[AbandonedLaboratory the Nursery]]'s [[CreepyChild test subjects]] staggers into the room. Humming a lullaby, Lilith reaches out to stroke the little girl's cheek... and [[WouldHurtAChild then snaps her neck]]. [[spoiler: For good measure, just to make sure you can't follow her while she's kidnapping Emma, Lilith promptly ''' ''saws your legs off!'' ''']]
** The Black Signal indulges in this from time to time, usually by assaulting unsuspecting citizens with a BreakingSpeech or two ForTheEvulz. In "The Pagans," for example, he deliberately seizes upon Ricky Pagan's HeroicBSOD as an opportunity to crush his hopes, destroy his heroic identity, and remind him that his friends are all dead - all through a speech transmitted through Ricky's beloved boom-box. Later, diary entries found in the underground clubhouse reveal that he bombarded the trapped kids with all the details of what was happening to their friends and families out in the ruins of Tokyo; eventually, one of the kids was so desperate to blot out the voice that he went so far as to [[DrivenToSuicide drive a corkscrew through his ear and into his head]], dying horribly as the Black Signal laughed uproariously at him.
** The Bogeyman of Atlantic Island Park got an entire spin-off game to do this: in ''VideoGame/ThePark,'' he spends the entire story tormenting Lorraine and Callum for little more than his own sick amusement - especially given that he'd made it clear that the two of them couldn't be used to fuel the Park. Mind-raping Lorraine with horrific illusions and the emotion-distorting influence of the park itself, he essentially gaslights her into the role of the villain in his own narrative; and as if this wasn't bad enough, just when it looks as though Lorraine might be able to rescue Callum, [[spoiler: the Bogeyman seizes control of her and forces the young mother to stab her child to death with an ice-pick.]]
* In the backstory of ''VideoGame/ThemsFightinHerds'', Tianhuo violently bullies another foal, solely out of spite. No FreudianExcuse or misdirected anger here- just an arrogant sadist who thinks she's better than everybody else. It's intended to show the breadth of redemption, because Tianhuo becomes a genuinely good person later on. Even people who do evil for the sake of evil can change... given the right [[BreakTheHaughty shock]].
* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' gives us a ''supremely'' heinous one on the part of [[spoiler:Lev Lainur]] toward the end of the opening singularity. Not only is this guy responsible for [[spoiler:the sabotage of Chaldea's Command Room via a bomb and the Rayshift experiment (which among other things required Mash Kyrielight to form a contract and become a Demi-Servant simply to survive)]], but [[spoiler:the bomb that he used was placed directly underneath the feet of Olga Marie Animusphere, the Director of Chaldea, meaning that poor Olga was DeadAllAlong, doomed to vanish as soon as she returned with the heroes to the modern era]]. And because this just isn't enough for [[spoiler:Professor Lev]], he then proceeds to go the [[MoralEventHorizon extra mile]] by [[spoiler:sending poor Olga on a crash-course into Chaldeas itself, which has the effect of tearing her apart on a molecular and spiritual level, and essentially dooming her to "infinite living death" -- one of the [[FateWorseThanDeath worst fates]] ever suffered by a Nasuverse character, and one that poor Olga doesn't even come ''close'' to deserving]]. It is little wonder that many players of FGO hate [[spoiler:Lev Lainur]] [[HateSink with a passion]].
* A literal case is mentioned offhand in ''VideoGame/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': General Skarr's line for starting a match is him gleefully saying that he kicks puppies.

* ''VideoGame/GhostOfTsushima'':
** In a flashback, during an argument with a young Jin, Ryuzo told him that Lord Shimura did not want him and would replace him as soon as he has his own biological heir. Considering Jin was orphaned and Shimura was his father figure, it was a harsh thing to say and Jin almost runs away because of it.
** The Shogun ordering Shimura to kill Jin. While Shimura may disapprove of Jin's "dishonorable" tactics, he still cares for Jin as if he was his own son. It can be overheard from gossiping samurai that the Shogun is not pleased with Shimura after losing control of his nephew and failing to capture the Khan. The Shogun labelling Jin a criminal and giving Shimura that order is essentially ordering [[SadisticChoice a father to kill their own child or make a father watch as their child kills him]].

* In ''Reigns'', When you get to the years; [[spoiler:666, 1332 and 1998 (which are all multiples of TheNumberOfTheBeast)]], the royal dog, Rex, will moan in despair, which gives you two options; 'Pat the dog' or 'Kick the dog'. [[spoiler:Both choices lead to the 'Diabolus' ailment.]] Another example of RedEyesTakeWarning.

*** A wonderfully literal example in ''VideoGame/Fallout4''; TokenEvilTeammate X6-88 is usually deferential and level-headed when you're traveling with him, which may make you forget how much of an asshole he can be, but if you're traveling with Dogmeat at the same time and he gets hurt, X6-88 starts talking about how much he wants to ''kill your dog'' for seemingly no reason besides that he annoys him.

** Dahlia from the same game. When she [[spoiler:falsely told Phoenix that his first girlfriend hated his guts knowing that Iris really loved him]], she did so just for the sake of being a bitch.

'''Shadow Man:''' You can only escape death once! (Shadow Man jumps back and readies his Shadow Blade.) This is your final burial! (Cue boss battle as the two Robot Masters clash.)

** Later on during one of the first parts of Act V, you're given a side-mission to lay a tormented soul to rest. Pretty standard Diablo fare, right? Except that after you've laid said soul to rest and the couple are preparing to depart to the afterlife, another Death Maiden shows up and denies them the peace they should have in death by turning them into Reapers.

** Kefka from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' kicks the dog on more than one occasion throughout the game, but probably the most notable instance of this is when he [[spoiler:kills General Leo]]. It wasn't enough for him to simply cast an illusion copy of himself for Leo to vanquish, or even to [[spoiler:kill Leo]] and burn the village. No, he just HAD to also project an illusion of Gestahl "admitting" that he set Leo up to collect more espers before [[spoiler:killing him.]]

* The title Lord of Terror from the ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' series has done plenty of evil things throughout the trilogy, including driving a good and noble king murderously insane, but in ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'', as you're closing in on him in Act IV, he very meanly [[spoiler:uses the apparitions of dead characters from throughout the game, both sympathetic (such as Deckard Cain, Marius, and others) and unsympathetic (Maghda) to taunt you. And the very first one he uses? ''[[PlayerPunch Leah]]''.]]

** [[spoiler:Goldie, who gets a "new man" while her husband's murder is still being investigated that she literally treats like a dog, complete with a leash [[{{UsefulNotes/BDSM}} (although it seems to be consensual)]]. She even brings him into her interrogation, prompting Alfendi to ask her "friend" to wait outside. Later in her interrogation, she starts going on about how she's owed the insurance money from her late husband's death and it's gonna make her loaded. Lucy becomes particularly irate at how she seems to care more about the money then the fact her husband was killed.]]

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': Choose a Blood Elf in ''The Burning Crusade'', and you're required to kick many dogs (or cats, as it may be.) Play a death knight in ''Wrath of the Lich King'', all you do under the Lich King's control is kick dogs -- [[spoiler:oh, and kill your best friend]].
** Also in the opening cinematic a Blood Elf cuddles with a small magical creature, only to destroy it so she can absorb its mana.
** At the Argent Torunament a woman takes the confessions of champions from both factions. An undead champion informs her that he punched a penguin in the face just so he could see her expression when he revealed it.

--> '''Shadow Man:''' What a show he put on for my blade!
--> Rockman screams in a rage and readies his Mega Buster.
--> '''Rockman:''' Shadow Man! I will not forgive you! Come! Victory or defeat!
--> '''Shadow Man:''' You can only escape death once! (Shadow Man jumps back and readies his Shadow Blade.) This is your final burial! (Cue boss battle as the two Robot Masters clash.)

-->'''Shepard:''' "Please send this to an animal shelter for proper disposal, as a warship is not an appropriate..." Oh ho ho...that is '''not''' okay.
* In ''VideoGame/DotHackGU'', there's [[TheWoobie Atoli]] who spends most of the series as the game's resident dog being kicked by everyone in Haseo's rogues gallery. Even [[spoiler:Sakaki, who found her on a suicide website and convinced her to play The World rather than kill herself]].

** Goenitz also had one of these moments in KOF 96 when he [[spoiler: injured Chizuru Kagura to then step into the battlefield and challenge the heroes.]] In one of the mangas, he also [[spoiler: gives a BreakingLecture to Mai when she's in the middle of an HeroicBSOD, then beats Chizuru ''and'' Kensou within inches of their lives]]; in another manga, he [[spoiler: got Iori bound in a CrucifiedHeroShot ''and made him go intermitently into the Riot of the Blood when he was completely indefense'', despite the pleas of Kyo's girlfriend Yuki.]]

* ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIII'' had a couple characters who are this fairly early in the game. [[DualBoss Balio and Sunder]] are brothers who were first seen [[HopelessBossFight killing off your party]] for stealing from a corrupt mayor. After Ryu survives he will soon approach these two again on the path to Wyndia, one of them will think you're a ghost. After running around a bit his brother will approach him and to prove to him that Ryu is a ghost he will proceed the stab Ryu in the back. Afterward Ryu will lie unconscious after a short dragon transformation and these two will capture Ryu and present him to the King of Wyndia. By the time the unveil Ryu, he will have already transformed back into his human form where these two brothers get the idea that kicking the cage several times will make Ryu transform back. After this fails both Ryu and the brothers are sent to a jail within the castle. Shortly after princess Nina will appear to free Ryu and was stopped when the brothers call for her to free her promising that they "will not hurt that kid again." After a short hesitation, Nina decides to free them and shortly afterward, the brothers proceed to kick her in the face and ran off with her for a ransom. After having to break out of the cell by ramming into it twice, you chase after the princess. Upon arriving to the scene where she is being held captive these two pricks decide to kick the princess yet again just because they are getting sick of Ryu. Both Ryu and Nina are about 10 at this point in the game.

** Kizami doesn't so much kick a dog as much as he tries to [[spoiler: slice open a hamster with a box cutter]] when he was a little kid. Then of course he [[spoiler: stabs his "friend" Kurosaki and kicks him down a hole in the floor to the floor below. The kicks Yuka so hard it knocks her out and then proceeds to flay open Kurosaki while he's still alive.]]
** Takamine Yanagihori, the Principal, tries to [[spoiler:rape Yoshie Shinozaki and then knocks her down a flight of stairs, breaking her neck and killing her...right in front of her 5 year old daughter Sachiko; who he then proceeds to strangle to death in front of her mother's body so she won't tell anyone. He even desecrates her body years later by cutting out her tongue.]]

** [[{{Troll}} Hazama]]/[[TheSociopath Yuuki Terumi]] does a crapton of this on a near constant basis. It's somewhat {{Justified|Trope}} since his existence is sustained by people's hatred of him, so going around kicking metaphorical dogs is an actual ''survival tactic'' for him. Played somewhat more literally in the fact he isn't shy about [[WouldHitAGirl kicking young girls]] [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown while they're down]], [[spoiler:and what's worse, one of the times he did this, said girl had only just then ''died'', of injuries sustained in a HeroicSacrifice no less]]. Yep, what a scumbag.

* ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' involves Gruntilda, being the WickedWitch that she is, kicking every metaphorical dog she came across. She established herself as hungry for power, starting from expressing envy over Brentilda's beauty. She later on goes from kidnapping Banjo's sister Tooty, and immediately imprisoning the Jinjos, the only ones who can help Banjo and Kazooie stop her, to creating machines that can destroy the environment. In ''Tooie'', she finally crossed the MoralEventHorizon after [[spoiler:destroying Banjo's house and killing Bottles, and then murdering her own sisters for their failures. All just so for the safe execution to TakeOverTheWorld.]]

** [[spoiler:Strapping already had an affair on his to-be wife, Gloria. After Gloria ends up getting shot dead, he seems more interested in flirting with the detective constable investigating her death then he does anything else, which he does, ''many'' times, and every time said detective constable, aka Lucy, tries shooting him down. The ''actual'' kick the dog moment though, comes when the truth behind Gloria's death is revealed, something that makes even Strapping himself distraught: her heart was broken due to the affair, so she killed herself in an elaborate suicide]].
** [[spoiler:De Bonair, on top of killing a popular radio DJ, murdered a completely innocent 18 year old woman to boot. The case wastes no time empathizing that said woman was at the happiest moment of her entire life at the moment when he went and murdered her out of nowhere, and how terrifying it must've been for her. The kick the dog moment comes after his guilt has been thoroughly established, when Alfendi asks him if he even knows the name of the woman he murdered. He gets it wrong. Lucy is ''not'' happy at this, and says that he really is a total scumbag. It makes the fact that he was ultimately caught out by said woman's effort to [[DyingClue indicate to investigators that she was murdered]] with her final strength all the more simultaneously satisfying, and bittersweet.[[note]]He tried making it look like a suicide, by holding the poison in a perfume bottle and putting it in her hand. She was bewildered, but she wanted to leave some kinda mark that she was killed so she used her last effort to fling the bottle at a nearby wall. The culprit ends up calling the container a "perfume bottle" before even forensics had managed to work out what shattered pieces originally were.[[/note]]]]

* ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' involves Gruntilda, being the WickedWitch as she is, kicking every metaphorical dog she came across. She established herself as hungry for power, starting from expressing envy over Brentilda's beauty. She later on goes from kidnapping Banjo's sister Tooty, and immediately imprisoning the Jinjos, the only ones who can help Banjo and Kazooie stop her, to creating machines that can destroy the environment. In ''Tooie'', she finally crossed the MoralEventHorizon after [[spoiler:destroying Banjo's house and killing Bottles, and then murdering her own sisters for their failures. All just so for the safe execution to TakeOverTheWorld.]]

** [[spoiler:Goldie, who gets a "new man" while her husband's murder is still being investigated that she literally treats like a dog, complete with a leash [[{{UsefulNotes/BDSM}} (although it seems to be consensual)]]. She even brings him into her interrogation, prompting Alfendi to ask her "friend" to wait outside. Later in her interrogation, she starts going on about how she's owed the insurance money from her late-husband's death and it's gonna make her loaded. Lucy becomes particularly irate at how she seems to care more about the money then the fact her husband was killed.]]

-->'''Krimzon Guard:''' By order of his eminence, the Grand Protector of Haven City, Baron Praxis, everyone in this section is hereby under arrest for suspicion of harboring underground fugitives. Surrender and die!\\

** [[FauxAffablyEvil Hazama]]/[[BigBad Yuuki Terumi]] does a crapton of this on a near constant basis. It's somewhat {{Justified|Trope}} since his existence is sustained by people's hatred of him, so going around kicking metaphorical dogs is an actual ''survival tactic'' for him. Played somewhat more literally in the fact he isn't shy about [[WouldHitAGirl kicking young girls]] [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown while they're down]], [[spoiler:and what's worse, one of the times he did this, said girl had only just then ''died'', of injuries sustained in a HeroicSacrifice no less]]. Yep, what a scumbag.

** When [[WellIntentionedExtremist Paladin Danse]] is discovered to [[spoiler:be a synth]], [[FieryRedhead Cait]] is one of the few companions (aside from [=MacReady=]) to not help defend Danse, assuming the worst and deeming him a traitor. She, like Elder Maxson, will [[spoiler:stop referring Danse as "he" and only as "[[ItIsDehumanizing it]]"]]. Especially telling as characters that Danse [[{{Jerkass}} was nothing but]] [[FantasticRacism rude to]] (Nick, Curie and Hancock) will still stand up for him at this point.

--> '''Rockman:''' ShadowMan! I will not forgive you! Come! Victory or defeat!

*** [[spoiler:This is also your warning that [[FinalBoss Mega Man Juno]] is no joke. While the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Bonne Family]] were willing to give threats, steal, and destroy the town itself, they drew the line before actual murder. When Juno announces his plan to "purge all the island inhabitants", the Bonnes are [[EvenEvilHasStandards disgusted by this]] and come to Mega Man's aid.]]

* The ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' series has some examples:

*** In ''VideoGame/SuperAdventureRockman'', ShadowMan mocks QuickMan when the latter [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices his life]] to save RockMan as he realises what's happening. ShadowMan gets his comeuppance when he gets torn to pieces by the gunfire RockMan unleashes from his [[ArmCannon Mega Buster]] in retaliation.
--> '''ShadowMan:''' What a show he put on for my blade!
--> RockMan screams in a rage and readies his Mega Buster.
--> '''RockMan:''' ShadowMan! I will not forgive you! Come! Victory or defeat!
--> '''ShadowMan:''' You can only escape death once! (ShadowMan jumps back and readies his Shadow Blade.) This is your final burial! (Cue boss battle as the two Robot Masters clash.)

*** In the Japanese dub (dubbed ''Rockman Dash'' in Japan), when you reach a scene where you have to get the dog Paprika away from Tron, players have the option of just merely kicking the dog, causing him to scamper away. In the English dub, however, players only have the option of "telling" the dog to go away.
*** Mega Man also had the option to kick cats and shoot birds in the Japanese dub which would slowly cause him to turn "evil": his armor would darken and if you made him evil enough you'd trigger a hidden cutscene where Roll, in her sleep, worries about all the horrible things Mega Man is doing and would ultimately [[LaserGuidedKarma cause her development costs to double]], while doing good things like giving her presents would turn him lighter again. This can still be done in the English dub, but only by kicking soda machines to steal drinks, kicking garbage into the Jetlag Bakery, or stealing money.
*** [[spoiler:This is also your warning that [[BigBad Mega Man Juno]] is no joke. While [[QuirkyMinibossSquad The Bonne Family]] were willing to give threats, steal, and destroy the town itself, they drew the line before actual murder. When Juno announces his plan to "purge all the island inhabitants", the Bonnes are [[EvenEvilHasStandards disgusted by this]] and come to Mega Man's aid.]]

* ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends'':
** In the Japanese dub (dubbed ''Rockman Dash'' in Japan), when you reach a scene where you have to get the dog Paprika away from Tron, players have the option of just merely kicking the dog, causing him to scamper away. In the English dub, however, players only have the option of "telling" the dog to go away.
** Mega Man also had the option to kick cats and shoot birds in the Japanese dub which would slowly cause him to turn "evil": his armor would darken and if you made him evil enough you'd trigger a hidden cutscene where Roll, in her sleep, worries about all the horrible things Mega Man is doing and would ultimately [[LaserGuidedKarma cause her development costs to double]], while doing good things like giving her presents would turn him lighter again. This can still be done in the English dub, but only by kicking soda machines to steal drinks, kicking garbage into the Jetlag Bakery, or stealing money.
** [[spoiler:This is also your warning that [[BigBad Mega Man Juno]] is no joke. While [[QuirkyMinibossSquad The Bonne Family]] were willing to give threats, steal, and destroy the town itself, they drew the line before actual murder. When Juno announces his plan to "purge all the island inhabitants", the Bonnes are [[EvenEvilHasStandards disgusted by this]] and come to Mega Man's aid.]]