History LaserGuidedKarma / AnimeAndManga

* ''Manga/WorldsEndHarem'': While it isn't seen, the group of bullies who made Shouta's life a living hell as well as his other classmates before he went into cryostasis most likely got a does of this. They knew he was dying from a degenerative disease and still belittle him, and many make it clear they don't really care if he dies [[KickTheDog to his face]]. Considering the nature of the plague that wiped out the male half of humanity, it is likely they die offscreen, especially the bullies.

** From ''Manga/StardustCrusaders'' onwards, the series uses a MonsterOfTheWeek format, so minor villains who commit nasty strings of karma are pretty much beaten up by the heroes as fast and spectacular as they appear. Particular stand-outs are Part 3's Steely Dan[[note]]Who decides to toy with Jotaro and treat him like crap so that he will do nothing to stop his Stand from destroying Joseph from within; when Polnareff and Kakyoin manage to solve the problem he is subjected to a three-page/30-second beatdown[[/note]] and ''Manga/VentoAureo'''s Cioccolata[[note]]Who is an all-around asshole who loves to experiment on live subjects; he gets an ''even longer'' walloping (''eight whopping pages'') from Giorno as his just deserts[[/note]].

** Non-comedic example: Quartum cuts Chachamaru in half, then suffers the same fate at the hands of Negi.

* ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'': Deshiko Deshi, one of the members of the corrupt Security Committee. Like all the other members of the committee, she regularly abused her authority and made the other students' lives hell ForTheEvulz, until Tsukune's UnwantedHarem take down her leader Kuyou. By the time of her reappearance in [=Capu2=] episode 8, a year after Kuyou's downfall, she's been reduced to a sad, pathetic wretch and a target of ridicule for the very same students she used to victimize.

* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' Myotismon gets karmic payback for everything that he did to the Digidestined but more specifically, for murdering Wizardmon. This causes Gatomon to Digivolve into Angewomon, the Digimon predestined to kill him. The karmic retribution for the crap he put the others through comes when they combine their energies with hers to form an arrow she uses to shoot him through the heart and kill him ([[OnlyMostlyDead but not really]]).

** Rubeus [[BadBoss treats the Spectre Sisters like crap]] and often enforces YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness onto them. After failing to catch Chibiusa and the Senshi, he is on the receiving end of a [[YouHaveFailedMe similar punishment]] when [[KickTheSonOfABitch Queen Esmeraude kills him]].

** One of Frieza's henchmen finds survivor in a Namekian village that had been wiped out and, after learning that Vegeta was responsible and took the Dragon Ball, kills him ForTheEvulz. Upon hearing the henchman's report, Frieza's reaction is, "So you killed the only witness?" He has just enough time for a serious OhCrap before Frieza [[YouHaveFailedMe slaughters him]].

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** He deliberally used a female disguise for his earth infiltration, for the dual purposes of sneaking into the girls' bath and for [[GoldDigger finagling money]] out of people. Unfortunately, the only person he manages to get the attention of is [[CasanovaWannabe Shimada]], which typically results in Ryou being on the receiving end of massive {{Squick}} whenever Shimada starts to flirt with him.

* [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Dark Yugi]] / Pharaoh Atem of ''Manga/YuGiOh'' loves the crap out of this trope. He's the laser-guider in which whenever a villain of the chapter (in the first dozen volumes) causes trouble, he uses that specific action against them, especially when he knows they are cheating in his Shadow Games. In the Duelist Kingdom arc, he pretty much {{Mind Rape}}s two guys with his Penalty Games because of their crimes (one was tricked into thinking a puppet of himself was attacking him when he tried to mock the [then in a coma] Kaiba with his puppetry, and one was trapped in an illusion where he was hung at the gallows after threatening to hang Yugi).

** Invoked with [[FallenPrincess Ange]], the protagonist, in the very first episode. When she witnesses a [[AntiMagic Norma]] for the first time[[note]]and a baby at that![[/note]], while the mother was begging that she will take care of her kid, Ange's response is to [[KickTheDog tell her to just give birth to another one]]. Karma caught up with her the very next day on the biggest day of her year[[note]]her birthday at that[[/note]] when she was found out in public that [[YouAreWhatYouHate she's also a Norma]]. She then gets sent to Arzenal to fight and slaughter dragons like a slave while losing her mom, her family honor, and her entire life turned upside-down, with the mother yelling "Serves you right!" as she is taken away. As it turns out, the rest of the mana society is leagues worse, as the townspeople are chanting for her death simply for being a norma when she is lured back by her brother, including [[{{Hypocrite}} the mother of the norma baby taken away]]. Ange's only sin was ignorance. These people on the other hand? Out and out supremacists by comparison and the fact that they can't think for themselves serves as little defense.

* ''Anime/DNA2'' provides us with Ryuuji Sugashita, [[TheCasanova an extremely successful playboy]], who justifies his continuous cheating on his girlfriend Tomoko with him [[ThePornomancer having such a superior DNA that women can't help but throwing themselves at him]], and also adding that's why she'll ''never'' break up with him: her own DNA will force her to stay with him. Then Tomoko meets the Mega Playboy, who ''does'' [[ThePornomancer have such a superior DNA that women can't help but throwing themselves at him]], and she dumps Ryuuji and justifies her sudden feelings for the Mega Playboy with ''Ryuuji's own speech on DNA''.

* Comedic example in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima''. Chamo makes fun of Negi in his internal monologue and instantly gets hit by a car. He's an IronButtmonkey, so it all works out.

** In ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'' Frieza forces Broly to fight despite Broly generally hating violence, and pushes him past his RageBreakingPoint by [[spoiler:killing his father Paragus.]] This comes back to bite him when [[spoiler: Broly, now a Super Saiyan, proceeds to beat Frieza for an entire hour while Goku and Vegeta are working out the Fusions Dance.]]

** [[BrattyHalfPint Chibiusa]] spitefully takes away Usagi's TransformationTrinket after learning she was Sailor Moon, [[UngratefulBitch in spite of the fact that Usagi often went out of her way to protect her from harm]]. When this indirectly causes leads to the Senshi getting captured by Rubeus, she gets harshly scolded by Usagi for this and eventually decides to become TheAtoner in order to fix the damage she caused.

** [[BrattyHalfPint Chibiusa]] spitefully takes away Usagi's TransformationTrinket after learning she was Sailor Moon, [[UngratefulBitch in spite of the fact that Usagi often went out of her way to protect her from harm]]. When this indirectly causes leads to the Senshi getting captured by Rubeus, she [[WhatTheHellHero gets harshly scolded by Usagi for this]] and eventually decides to become TheAtoner in order to fix the damage she caused.

* ''Anime/SailorMoon'':
** Rubeus [[BadBoss treats the Spectre Sisters like crap]] and often enforces YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness onto them. After failing to catch Chibiusa and the Senshi, he is on the receiving end of a [[YouHaveFailedMe similar punishment]] when [[KickTheSonOfABitch Queen Esmeraude kills him]].
** [[BrattyHalfPint Chibiusa]] thoughtlessly takes away Usagi's TransformationTrinket after learning she was Sailor Moon, [[UngratefulBitch in spite of the fact that Usagi often went out of her way to protect her from harm]]. This results in her [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech getting harshly scolded by Usagi]] after this [[NiceJobBreakingItHero leads to the Senshi getting captured by Rubeus]]. After this, Chibiusa decides to become TheAtoner to fix the damage she caused. While she still acted like a brat sometimes afterwards, [[CharacterDevelopment she mostly loses her ungrateful behavior]].

* ''Manga/MutekiKanbanMusume'': Parodied when Megumi, just seconds after tries to curse Miki with ThePowerOfHate nailing a [[VoodooDoll wara ningyo]] to a sacred tree, sees Kayahara Sensei falling from that same tree and takes her for a StringyHairedGhostGirl that is [[GhostlyGoals going to curse Megumi]].

** As of episode 22, [[spoiler:you can say that all of mana society goes through this, thanks to Embryo's plan to merge the two worlds together which cause them to lose the ability to use mana. As they were very much dependent on mana before, being lost without it puts them in a very venerable and panicked state of chaos. When several of them come across Ange and demand that she help them escape, she is understandably pissed that they would have the balls to try and tells them to piss off. By the end of the series, Ange outright abandoned this high and mighty pompous community full of {{Hypocrite}}s in their crumbling world, leaving only their spoiled minds to try and recover it, which would be difficult despite Ange technically leaving behind one hope in form of the aforementioned Sylvia, who has developed a slightly toughened attitude because Ange just scared the crap outta her and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech she just listed down why she was such a little prick in the past...]] Meanwhile, the Normas that they prejudiced, the [=DRAGON=]s that [[DirtyCoward they made the Normas fight for their own safety]]... those two got the good karma strikes. After defeating Embryo, they take residence in the other original Earth where [=DRAGON=]s originated from and start rebuilding it in peace. Since they're not that dependant and their sufferings by the hands of Embryo and these Mana people toughened them up to be more self-sufficient, they fared better in rebuilding.]]

** [[BrattyHalfPint Chibiusa]] thoughtlessly takes away Usagi's TransformationTrinket after learning she was Sailor Moon, [[UngratefulBitch in spite of the fact that Usagi often went out of her way to protect her from harm]]. This results in her [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech getting harshly scolded by Usagi]] after this [[NiceJobBreakingItHero leads to the Senshi getting captured by Rubeus]]. After this, Chibiusa decides to fix TheAtoner to fix the damage she caused. While she still acted like a brat sometimes afterwards, [[CharacterDevelopment she mostly loses her ungrateful behavior]].

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': This is a running theme in the series. It may take decades or even centuries, but good deeds are always rewarded while bad deeds are punished. The Straw Hats in particular abide by this; if you are kind to them, they will return that kindness tenfold, but if you make them angry, you will only live to regret it. Take Rebecca from the Dressrosa arc, for example: she had been suffering for years under Doflamingo's rule, yet still had enough kindness in her heart to befriend a disguised Luffy and pay for his food. [[spoiler:Luffy returns this kind gesture by saving her country, taking down Doflamingo, and reuniting her with her father and the rest of their family]].
** Arlong, years before the main story started, began taking over villages and forced a young Nami to join his crew as cartographer. As a carrot, he promised that if Nami could raise the money, she could buy freedom for herself and her hometown. Jump to the present, Nami almost has the money she needs, but Arlong uses some LoopholeAbuse in order to keep her in line. This causes Nami to break down, which gives the Straw Hats motivation to beat down Arlong's crew. If Arlong hadn't tried to cheat Nami, he wouldn't have lost his would-be empire.
** Bellamy. Had he not been such a nihilistic, unrepentant bully and pissed off Monkey D. Luffy, he wouldn't have ended up being punished by his own boss for disgracing the flag he sailed under. But at least he learned from it.
** Spandam. A complete {{Jerkass}} whose status as such was established years before the main storyline began, his abuse of Robin throughout the entire Enies Lobby arc had him positively begging for retribution. Robin's last act to him as the Straw Hats escape with her, considering as she does so all of the pain he had caused her, is clutching him so hard that his skeleton breaks in half. But of course, this being ''One Piece'', he survives [[spoiler:and eventually becomes [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment a member of CP-0 under Lucci's command]]]].
** Lampshaded in one cover arc; at one point of "Caribou's Kehihi in the New World", he abandons his brother to steal their ship and sail away from a Navy base. The next episode features Caribou being caught in a storm, with the episode title "Punished By the Heavens".
** Speaking of Bellamy, his boss Doflamingo got hit with this ''hard''. [[spoiler:When he was a child, Doflamingo murdered his well-meaning but misguided father. His brother hated him for it, joined the Marines, and infiltrated his crew, eventually preventing him from gaining the Op-Op fruit. Doflamingo promptly murders ''him'', which causes Trafalgar Law (Doffy's former protege and the one his brother fed the fruit to, in order to save his life) to swear revenge, plotting his demise for the next ''thirteen years''. All of this culminated in the Dressrosa arc, in which Doflamingo's criminal empire, the one he spent building for nearly his entire life, falls apart in a spectacular fashion over the course of a single day]]. ''Unlike'' Bellamy, Doflamingo fails to realize that if he had shown even the slightest shred of compassion in any of those instances, ''none'' of this would have happened.
** Another thing that helps throw Doflamingo's plans into turmoil was his plan to separate Luffy from Law by using his dead brother's devil fruit as bait for a trap since he knew Luffy wouldn't let anyone else have it without his approval. Unfortunately, Luffy has more than one brother, and that one is not as dead as previously thought. Said brother especially counts, because not only was he the only person Luffy would ever allow to have the fruit without second thought outside of members of his own crew, he also made it his specific goal to find that exact fruit, to not only honor their deceased brother but to also help protect Luffy.

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* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': Virtually every time [[GoldfishPoopGang Team Rocket]] decides to KickTheDog, this trope usually hits them ''hard'':
** Their attempt to incinerate Ash with the flames of Moltres backfires when the real Moltres emerges from the flames, fries their robot, and sends them blasting off.
** When they had their Arbok and Victreebel attack Ash directly, it led to Ash's Chikorita, who was locked in a cage and being ForcedToWatch, evolving into Bayleef, breaking free, and blowing them away.
** Their aerial bombardment of Ash's party in the Indigo League aftermath backfires badly when they make the mistake of pissing off Ash's Charizard by [[LostFoodGrievance blowing up a table of food Charizard had his eye on]]. Charizard promptly attacks them and throws their own bombs back at them.
** Their ElectricTorture of Ash during his Viridian Gym battle comes back to bite them when Ash pulls off his HeroicSecondWind, revealing that James also rigged Jessie's own platform to zap her whenever ''her'' Pokémon take damage. When Jessie demands to know why he did so, James confesses that [[DidntThinkThisThrough it didn't occur to him that they might lose again, so he didn't think it would matter]].
** On the other side of the coin, most of their more benevolent acts have a far better success rate and sometimes grant a HappyEnding, especially since often GoodFeelsGood.
** Most other members of Team Rocket look down on the trio for their incompetence and use their better reputation or ranks to humiliate or bully them. Most of the time, however, [[LetsSeeYouDoBetter when put into action themselves]], they end up suffering a similar fall for grace that makes them look even more buffoonish, something the three often get to observe and enjoy thoroughly. Domino, Butch, and Cassidy are key victims of this.
** In comparison to their countless painful failures trying to steal Pokémon, nearly all their legitimate captures are incredibly easy, and result in succinctly loyal comrades. Inkay and Pumpkaboo, two of their most reliable Pokémon, were both caught just by idly flicking a single Pokéball at them, while the likes of Cacnea and Chimecho willingly joined the team after they asked them. Mime Jr. takes the cake, he eagerly jumped into James' Pokéball without him even trying to catch him.
** During the Alola League, Faba opts to cheat during his battle with Ash by having his Hypno pull [[OlympusMons Meltan]] onto the field when Ash intends to use Pikachu. It backfires when Meltan ends up eating Hypno's pendulum.

* ''Anime/OsomatsuSan'':
** After the hell Iyami put the Matsunos through in Black Factory, he gets a taste of his own medicine when his teeth are exploited for their mineral value at the same place at the end of Episode 6.
** Todomatsu got his after he pissed off his brothers and lied about his life situation in order to pick up chicks. The brothers basically embarrassed him to the point where his reputation with the Sutabaa baristas is shattered beyond repair.
** When the brothers discover that Iyami and Chibita scammed them out of ''millions'' of yen in "Iyami and Chibita's Rental Girlfriend", they lock the two in a tiger cage and charge them an even larger sum of money to rent the key [[YankTheDogsChain (with the amount increasing each time they accept).]]
* Every ''Franchise/DragonBall'' villain (except Beerus) falls "victim" to this trope, usually via KickTheDog that invokes a HeroicSecondWind.
** In an early episode of the original ''Manga/DragonBall'', Master Roshi says that whichever student succeeds during training will get to eat while the other won't. Krillin cheats to win, but that night's dinner turns out to be pufferfish...which Launch prepared improperly, meaning Krillin gets sick while Goku doesn't.
** Beerus eventually got his in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' when Zeno revealed that [[spoiler:Universe 7 had the second-lowest mortal rating of all 12 universes because of his pettiness and would have destroyed it if not for Goku's proposal for the multiversal tournament.]]
** In ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'' Frieza forces Broly to fight despite Broly generally hating violence, and pushes him past his RageBreakingPoint by [[spoiler:killing his father Paragus.]] This comes back to bite him when [[spoiler: Broly, now a Super Saiyan, proceeds to beat Frieza for an entire hour while Goku and Vegeta are working out the Fusions Dance.]]

* Probably about 90%-95% of the death toll or sufferers of AFateWorseThanDeath in ''Manga/FrankenFran'' are the result of this, although some of them are rather excessive. Chapter 10 is probably the worst here. An arrogant germophobe who sees the rest of humanity as immoral, filthy fools who need to be educated and improved by the "elite" gets swarmed by cockroaches, nearly raped, has all her skin burned off, and gets skin grafts made from cockroach exoskeletons. The stress causes her to go insane and try to tear off her skin. An epilogue page in the collection shows her to have recovered from her insanity and attempt to remove her own skin... only for the graft to have gone wrong and her face to be covered in living, twitching cockroach legs.

* ''Manga/LoveHina'':
** Throughout much of the first part of the series, Motoko constantly belittled Keitaro for his failed attempts to get into Tokyo U. After the first TimeSkip, Motoko herself is trying to get into Tokyo U and has discovered firsthand just how tough it is.
** Naru (and all the other girls by extension -- yes, [[MisplacedRetribution even Shinobu, who never lifted a finger against Keitaro]]) also gets some when Kanako comes along and subjects her to ''everything'' she did to Keitaro during the first part, particularly since Keitaro took notes on the specifics of the torture she put him through.
* After a millennia of [[spoiler:forcing innocent girls to die painful, horrific deaths]] and [[KarmaHoudini getting away with it]], [[spoiler:[[HiveMind Kyubey and his entire species]]]] finally get what's coming to them at the end of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion''. [[spoiler:Being an entirely emotionless species that sees humans as cattle, the Incubators have never felt any reluctance or guilt about doing so. Then Homura repurposed them into her new universe -- where they suddenly ''felt'' the pain and despair of all the girls they'd harvested and were forced to bear it as their victims had borne it. Kyubey's plans: destroyed beyond repair. His species: enslaved by one of his own "cattle" to serve as the outlet for all the curses of the world. Kyubey himself: MindRaped.]]
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'': [[TykeBomb Nena Trinity]] attacks a wedding purely out of spite ([[ItsAllAboutMe "How dare you have fun while I'm busy working!"]]), killing all but one of the attendees, who loses a hand. Karma bites Nena extra-hard: firstly she gets to watch her beloved brothers get killed by [[PsychoForHire Ali al Saachez]], then after the four-year TimeSkip to the second season she's forced to be TheDragon to the DarkChick (a position she considers humiliating), and finally the lone survivor of the wedding massacre, who became a mobile suit pilot herself in the intervening time, finds and kills her.
** Ali Al Saachez falls victim to this. He gets overpowered and badly injured by the only survivor of a family he almost destroyed. The man, Lyle Dylandy, is willing to spare him because he doesn't want to sink to Ali's level. Ali tries [[ISurrenderSuckers to take advantage of this]], only for Lyle to beat him on the draw and blow his brains out.
** Ribbons has his plans collapse around him due to the child he manipulated behind the scenes and who inspired him to try and play God. Said kid? TheHero, Setsuna F. Seiei.
* Tsubarov and Quinze in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing''. Tsubarov dies when the Mobile Dolls that he held to be superior to manned suits were reprogrammed into destroying his base. Quinze was killed by the original Gundam Scientists on board the crippled battleship Libra while attempting a ColonyDrop at the end of the series; the ColonyDrop being what Operation Meteor originally ''was'', and the very Gundam Scientists who retooled it to be the less deadly version we saw ended up giving their lives to prevent Quinze from making it happen.
* In the first revival round of the ''Manga/LiarGame'', interestingly Nao chose the one man who apologized to her after the rest of the contestants turned against her, to get kicked out of the game. When he asked why, she explained this revival round was a chance for one person to escape from the game and be free from debt. So after she won the round, she gave him her winnings, which was enough to pay off his debts and walk away from the game a "free man".
** Also done more negatively to Yokoya. By bullying and blackmailing his team in the Second Game, he had them all under his rule. However, in the end, three of them turned traitor to the other team and were able to successfully pay off their debts with the help of Nao and Akiyama
* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' gives us Nobuyuki Sugou, aka Oberon. He's shown to be a complete scumbag when he's introduced, conspiring to marry Asuna (who hated his guts even before being trapped in SAO), trapping her mind in another VRMMO, then near the end of the Fairy Dance arc, tortures Kirito by running him through and decreasing his pain inhibitor while sexually assaulting Asuna, all the while promising to rape her comatose body in the real world. Karma comes in the form of Akihiko Kayaba's digital ghost giving Kirito administrative control, so he can set Sugou's pain inhibitor to level zero and [[CurbStompBattle beat him so badly, he started going partially blind in the real world]]. On top of that, when he tries to kill Kirito in the real world as revenge, Kirito overpowers him and leaves him unconscious in a parking lot, where he's arrested and incarcerated.
* ''Anime/HellGirl'' plays with this exceptionally well. Not only you can get thrown into hell for as much as making your personal stalker angry, but Ai and her subordinates will make you relive your worst nightmares right before doing so.
** In addition, those who use Ai's services are, themselves, doomed to hell when they eventually die. In this series, karma is a double-edged sword.
* ''Manga/PetShopOfHorrors'' demonstrates ''both'' sides of the Karmic Coin, though to be honest the dark side more often. However, the episode with the little girl who wants a bodyguard, and treats him kindly and with care, stands out as a heartwarming moment for the series.
* Happens surprisingly often in the CrapsackWorld manga ''Manga/CageOfEden''. A group of men who raped and killed Oomori's senpai are eaten by vicious carnivores. Two other students who helped Zaji build a raft and later pushed the others off, claiming to have planned to betray them all along find out that the island they were hoping to reach was just an illusion, and then they get eaten by a large aquatic dinosaur.
* Sasuke Uchiha from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' (despite it not sticking). [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity Abuses his Mangekyo Sharingan so much during the fights with Bee, the Kage's, Danzo, and finally Team 7]], his vision completely vanishes just as he completes [[PowerArmor Susano'o]].
* Happens to Overhaul at the end of the Shie Hassaikai Arc of ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''. After [[DePower permanently erasing Lemillion's Quirk]], he taunts him over all his efforts and years spent honing his skills having been reduced to nothing. After Overhaul's defeated by Deku, Tomura assaults the convoy transporting him and takes his arms, rendering him unable to use his Quirk while giving him the same taunts he gave Lemillion almost word-for-word and leaving him screaming in anguish.
* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', this is applied to a few of the homunculi. Gluttony, who ate his victims, was himself devoured by Pride. Envy killed himself when in his helpless maggot-form the humans started pitying him, and Pride was BroughtDownToNormal, made into the human boy whose form he was inhabiting, despite being extremely, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin proud]] of his homunculus superiority.
** One of thing really bit Pride in the keister was his habit of devouring his beaten comrades. Turns out he should have been more careful because one of his victims is able to keep his consciousness in his mindscape and helps the hero at a critical moment.
** It says something for the precision of Envy's aforementioned karma that his moment of "ultimate humiliation" leading to his death was not only caused by the realization of his own ''envy'', but [[AlasPoorVillain even had some of the audience pitying him]], after waiting the majority of the show for his ultimate comeuppance for killing Hughes and kickstarting the Ishvalan Civil War.
* Comedic example in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima''. Chamo makes fun of Negi in his internal monologue and instantly gets hit by a car. He's an IronButtmonkey, so it all works out.
** Non-comedic example: Quartum cuts Chachamaru in half, then suffers the same fate at the hands of Negi.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': This is a running theme in the series. It may take decades or even centuries, but good deeds are always rewarded while bad deeds are punished. The Straw Hats in particular abide by this; if you are kind to them, they will return that kindness tenfold, but if you make them angry, you will only live to regret it. Take Rebecca from the Dressrosa arc, for example: she had been suffering for years under Doflamingo's rule, yet still had enough kindness in her heart to befriend a disguised Luffy and pay for his food. [[spoiler:Luffy returns this kind gesture by saving her country, taking down Doflamingo, and reuniting her with her father and the rest of their family]].
** Arlong, years before the main story started, began taking over villages and forced a young Nami to join his crew as cartographer. As a carrot, he promised that if Nami could raise the money, she could buy freedom for herself and her hometown. Jump to the present, Nami almost has the money she needs, but Arlong uses some LoopholeAbuse in order to keep her in line. This causes Nami to break down, which gives the Straw Hats motivation to beat down Arlong's crew. If Arlong hadn't tried to cheat Nami, he wouldn't have lost his would-be empire.
** Bellamy. Had he not been such a nihilistic, unrepentant bully and pissed off Monkey D. Luffy, he wouldn't have ended up being punished by his own boss for disgracing the flag he sailed under. But at least he learned from it.
** Spandam. A complete {{Jerkass}} whose status as such was established years before the main storyline began, his abuse of Robin throughout the entire Enies Lobby arc had him positively begging for retribution. Robin's last act to him as the Straw Hats escape with her, considering as she does so all of the pain he had caused her, is clutching him so hard that his skeleton breaks in half. But of course, this being ''One Piece'', he survives [[spoiler:and eventually becomes [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment a member of CP-0 under Lucci's command]]]].
** Lampshaded in one cover arc; at one point of "Caribou's Kehihi in the New World", he abandons his brother to steal their ship and sail away from a Navy base. The next episode features Caribou being caught in a storm, with the episode title "Punished By the Heavens".
** Speaking of Bellamy, his boss Doflamingo got hit with this ''hard''. [[spoiler:When he was a child, Doflamingo murdered his well-meaning but misguided father. His brother hated him for it, joined the Marines, and infiltrated his crew, eventually preventing him from gaining the Op-Op fruit. Doflamingo promptly murders ''him'', which causes Trafalgar Law (Doffy's former protege and the one his brother fed the fruit to, in order to save his life) to swear revenge, plotting his demise for the next ''thirteen years''. All of this culminated in the Dressrosa arc, in which Doflamingo's criminal empire, the one he spent building for nearly his entire life, falls apart in a spectacular fashion over the course of a single day]]. ''Unlike'' Bellamy, Doflamingo fails to realize that if he had shown even the slightest shred of compassion in any of those instances, ''none'' of this would have happened.
** Another thing that helps throw Doflamingo's plans into turmoil was his plan to separate Luffy from Law by using his dead brother's devil fruit as bait for a trap since he knew Luffy wouldn't let anyone else have it without his approval. Unfortunately, Luffy has more than one brother, and that one is not as dead as previously thought. Said brother especially counts, because not only was he the only person Luffy would ever allow to have the fruit without second thought outside of members of his own crew, he also made it his specific goal to find that exact fruit, to not only honor their deceased brother but to also help protect Luffy.

* [[TheJuggernaut Mr Don]] in ''Manga/Eyeshield21'' had earlier used [[BloodKnight Gaou]] as his punching bag and ran [[TheAce Yamato]] out of Notre Dame. In the Japan vs. America game, those two are the first who end up beating him for the first time.
* Wyald of ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' is a [[TheHedonist hedonistic]] Apostle who is after the Band of the Hawk and Griffith in particular on orders from the King of Midland and has a [[SerialRapist particular delight in raping people]]. When he tries to do this to Guts' LoveInterest Casca, Guts almost kills him despite being half-dead and "[[ComicBook/SinCity takes his weapon away from him]]" in [[GroinAttack graphic fashion]]. Things only get worse for Wyald when Zodd shows up to teach him a very painful lesson about trying to get in the way of Griffith's destiny as a [[BigBad Godhand]] and [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe rips him in half]] for his trouble.
* [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Dark Yugi]] / Pharaoh Atem of ''Manga/YuGiOh'' loves the crap out of this trope. He's the laser-guider in which whenever a villain of the chapter (in the first dozen volumes) causes trouble, he uses that specific action against them, especially when he knows they are cheating in his Shadow Games. In the Duelist Kingdom arc, he pretty much {{Mind Rape}}s two guys with his Penalty Games because of their crimes (one was tricked into thinking a puppet of himself was attacking him when he tried to mock the [then in a coma] Kaiba with his puppetry, and one was trapped in an illusion where he was hung at the gallows after threatening to hang Yugi).
* ''Manga/MutekiKanbanMusume'': Parodied when Megumi, just seconds after tries to curse Miki with ThePowerOfHate nailing a [[VoodooDoll wara ningyo]] to a sacred tree, sees Kayahara Sensei falling from that same tree and takes her for a StringyHairedGhostGirl that is [[GhostlyGoals going to curse Megumi]].
* In ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'', the whole mess was started when Eboshi started using the iron from her foundry to produce guns with which she drove out or killed the spirits of the forests that she needed to tear down to expand her business. In the end, she gets defeated by the head of the giant wolf spirit she just killed. But since she ran the foundry and gun factory mostly to provide jobs and homes for the outcasts of society rather than for her personal profit, she survived having her whole arm ripped off, but won't ever shoot any guns again.
* Wong Lee in ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'' proved to be a jerk and a bully who put the profits of Anaheim Electronics over the needs of the AEUG, going so far as to beat Kamille Bidan to a pulp and calling it "correcting". When he returns in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ'', he's put into his place by Judau, greatly humbled by the young teen.
* ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'': Deshiko Deshi, one of the members of the corrupt Security Committee. Like all the other members of the committee, she regularly abused her authority and made the other students' lives hell ForTheEvulz, until Tsukune's UnwantedHarem take down her leader Kuyou. By the time of her reappearance in [=Capu2=] episode 8, a year after Kuyou's downfall, she's been reduced to a sad, pathetic wretch and a target of ridicule for the very same students she used to victimize.
* Invoked with [[FallenPrincess Ange]], the protagonist of ''Anime/CrossAnge'', in the very first episode. When she witnesses a [[AntiMagic Norma]] for the first time[[note]]and a baby at that![[/note]], while the mother was begging that she will take care of her kid, Ange's response is to [[KickTheDog tell her to just give birth to another one]]. Karma caught up with her the very next day on the biggest day of her year[[note]]her birthday at that[[/note]] when she was found out in public that [[YouAreWhatYouHate she's also a Norma]]. She then gets sent to Arzenal to fight and slaughter dragons like a slave while losing her mom, her family honor, and her entire life turned upside-down, with the mother yelling "Serves you right!" as she is taken away. As it turns out, the rest of the mana society is leagues worse, as the townspeople are chanting for her death simply for being a norma when she is lured back by her brother, including [[{{Hypocrite}} the mother of the norma baby taken away]]. Ange's only sin was ignorance. These people on the other hand? Out and out supremacists by comparison and the fact that they can't think for themselves serves as little defense.
** Speaking of her brother, [[TheEvilPrince Julio]], who is responsible for most of the events mentioned above, used his army to order a genocide of all the normas after his original plan to have Ange killed failed. This comes back to [[TheDogBitesBack bite]] him big time in episode 13 when Ange, who at this point has [[TookALevelInBadAss become a]] [[OneManArmy One Woman Army]], [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge completely decimates much of his forces]] and was ready to kill unless he called off the massacre. Even after he does, Ange, who is understandably pissed at him, is prepared to kill him anyway, leaving him [[DirtyCoward pleading for his life]]. Ange is about to deliver the final blow but is stopped by the series BigBad, who proceeds to do the deed himself, taking Julio and a good chunk of his army down.
** While she was doing what she did for the right reasons, and didn't deserve to get caught and ForcedToWatch her comrades die in a trap, Riza, Julio's right hand [[spoiler:and [[TheMole mole for the dragons]]]], walked on a few eggshells in the process. Namely, helping depose a reasonably benevolent leader and sharing responsibility for the death of him and his wife, and their daughter (Ange) being exposed as a Norma and sent to Arzenal to die by the usurper she aided, who then attempts to finish her off himself when that fails. TWICE. Now all of that is one thing, but then she also compels the new ruler into opening a portal over Arzenal, resulting in half the island getting destroyed along with serious casualties. At this point, it should have been clear enough that the Arzenal residents, of which former Misurugi Ange was now one of, had been used as dragon-killing tools, and she could have come as an envoy and clarified her role. Finally, when an already distraught Sylvia stumbles on her in the act, Liza puts her under her draconic thrall, leading Sylvia to whipping her later as payback ([[DisproportionateRetribution albeit for various petty reasons included]]).
** As of episode 22, [[spoiler:you can say that all of mana society goes through this, thanks to Embryo's plan to merge the two worlds together which cause them to lose the ability to use mana. As they were very much dependent on mana before, being lost without it puts them in a very venerable and panicked state of chaos. When several of them come across Ange and demand that she help them escape, she is understandably pissed that they would have the balls to try and tells them to piss off. By the end of the series, Ange outright abandoned this high and mighty pompous community full of {{Hypocrite}}s in their crumbling world, leaving only their spoiled minds to try and recover it, which would be difficult despite Ange technically leaving behind one hope in form of the aforementioned Sylvia, who has developed a slightly toughened attitude because Ange just scared the crap outta her and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech she just listed down why she was such a little prick in the past...]] Meanwhile, the Normas that they prejudiced, the [=DRAGON=]s that [[DirtyCoward they made the Normas fight for their own safety]]... those two got the good karma strikes. After defeating Embryo, they take residence in the other original Earth where [=DRAGON=]s originated from and start rebuilding it in peace. Since they're not that dependant and their sufferings by the hands of Embryo and these Mana people toughened them up to be more self-sufficient, they fared better in rebuilding.]]
* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' provides plenty of this. [[spoiler:Even for Kenshin.]]
** One chapter features Kenshin pitted against a foe by the name of Senkaku, a towering, hulking pinheaded thug armed with bladed knuckles, the same speed which our hero can achieve, and is the bullish tyrant who dominated a village for his master's conquests, going as far as even murdering a boy's family for the simple act of leaving. Though he hopes to best Kenshin to gain brownie points from his boss, he is tricked into utterly tearing apart his knee muscles from being goaded into speeding up as fast as our hero, who had better training to adjust to his level of agility, and used his hulking mass to his advantage, by merely gradually speeding up and forcing him to his limits. After this, he is subjected to three people's verbal breakdowns: one from Kenshin, who lets Senkaku know why his body gave out, and puts him under fire for his atrocities, bringing to him the realization of his actions; one from Saito, who explains how Kenshin's tactics worked and gives him a faceful of ironic humble pie; and one from his aforementioned boss, Shishio, who nails it in that he knew from the start that he had no chance in hell of defeating Kenshin, lets him know that a personal execution is in store for him for being embarrassingly defeated by not even getting his foe to draw his sword, letting him know of how much worth he truly is to his master and ups the shame factor to 11. By the end of this, he is shipped off to the authorities to be tortured and up on the block for Death Row, while the anime shows that he escapes- [[spoiler: And is put to death by right-hand man Sojiro, who still follows the group's "Kill or Be Killed" mentality and is not convinced of his turn of cheek.]]
* ''Anime/DNA2'' provides us with Ryuuji Sugashita, [[TheCasanova an extremely successful playboy]], who justifies his continuous cheating on his girlfriend Tomoko with him [[ThePornomancer having such a superior DNA that women can't help but throwing themselves at him]], and also adding that's why she'll ''never'' break up with him: her own DNA will force her to stay with him. Then Tomoko meets the Mega Playboy, who ''does'' [[ThePornomancer have such a superior DNA that women can't help but throwing themselves at him]], and she dumps Ryuuji and justifies her sudden feelings for the Mega Playboy with ''Ryuuji's own speech on DNA''.

* ''Anime/SuzysZooDaisukiWitzy'' has the "Swift and Instant" type in ''Witzy Plays a Joke''. For each of Witzy's friends he played "the joke" on, he caused Patches to accidentally threw his toy train into the air (and then stepping on it while attempting to flee), caused Lulla to throw his newly cleaned socks onto the ground, dirtying them again, and caused Boof to throw the donuts ''meant for him'' onto the ground and rendering them inedible.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': Virtually every time [[GoldfishPoopGang Team Rocket]] decides to KickTheDog, this trope usually hits them ''hard'':
** Their attempt to incinerate Ash with the flames of Moltres backfires when the real Moltres emerges from the flames, fries their robot, and sends them blasting off.
** When they had their Arbok and Victreebel attack Ash directly, it led to Ash's Chikorita, who was locked in a cage and being ForcedToWatch, evolving into Bayleef, breaking free, and blowing them away.
** Their aerial bombardment of Ash's party in the Indigo League aftermath backfires badly when they make the mistake of pissing off Ash's Charizard by [[LostFoodGrievance blowing up a table of food Charizard had his eye on]]. Charizard promptly attacks them and throws their own bombs back at them.
** Their ElectricTorture of Ash during his Viridian Gym battle comes back to bite them when Ash pulls off his HeroicSecondWind, revealing that James also rigged Jessie's own platform to zap her whenever ''her'' Pokémon take damage. When Jessie demands to know why he did so, James confesses that [[DidntThinkThisThrough it didn't occur to him that they might lose again, so he didn't think it would matter]].
** On the other side of the coin, most of their more benevolent acts have a far better success rate and sometimes grant a HappyEnding, especially since often GoodFeelsGood.
** Most other members of Team Rocket look down on the trio for their incompetence and use their better reputation or ranks to humiliate or bully them. Most of the time, however, [[LetsSeeYouDoBetter when put into action themselves]], they end up suffering a similar fall for grace that makes them look even more buffoonish, something the three often get to observe and enjoy thoroughly. Domino, Butch, and Cassidy are key victims of this.
** In comparison to their countless painful failures trying to steal Pokémon, nearly all their legitimate captures are incredibly easy, and result in succinctly loyal comrades. Inkay and Pumpkaboo, two of their most reliable Pokémon, were both caught just by idly flicking a single Pokéball at them, while the likes of Cacnea and Chimecho willingly joined the team after they asked them. Mime Jr. takes the cake, he eagerly jumped into James' Pokéball without him even trying to catch him.
** During the Alola League, Faba opts to cheat during his battle with Ash by having his Hypno pull [[OlympusMons Meltan]] onto the field when Ash intends to use Pikachu. It backfires when Meltan ends up eating Hypno's pendulum.
* ''Manga/NuraRiseOfTheYokaiClan'': [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade Abe no Seimei's]] first act upon his rebirth as the Nue is to [[UngratefulBastard betray his mother Hagoromo Gitsune, who had endured countless reincarnations and spent centuries trying to bring him back, and cast her into Hell]]. While it takes a while, karma ''does'' catch up to him; Hagoromo Gitsune eventually returns, understandably furious with him, and plays an instrumental role in his defeat and death.
* ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'': Being a ButtMonkey, pretty much all of Aizawa Ryou's antics end up backfiring on him (not that he doesn't deserve it):
** He deliberally used a female disguise for his earth infiltration, for the dual purposes of sneaking into the girls' bath and for [[GoldDigger finagling money]] out of people. Unfortunately, the only person he manages to get the attention of is [[CasanovaWannabe Shimada]], which typically results in Ryou being on the receiving end of massive {{Squick}} whenever Shimada starts to flirt with him.
** On the rare occasion that he manages to locate a stash of food to pilfer, said food ends up belonging to [[TheGadfly Akane]], who has such a strong SweetTooth who once tried to destroy earth by summoning an EldritchAbomination because someone ate her cookies. It doesn't end well for him.
** Pretty much any other time he tries to either slack off or otherwise abuse the resources of the mission that he's on, it won't be long before his sister finds out and takes it upon herself to straighten him out.
* In Chapters 74 and 75 of ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'', it is revealed Kanna was tricked into playing with the powerful magical item by [[spoiler:Azad, a human wizard ally of her father's]] resulting in her banishment, and the trickster knew because of her history with other pranks, her trying to pass off blame to someone else would be ignored. Now, at the present time, Kanna meets the trickster [[spoiler:and secretly records their conversation when he gloats about his actions, how he hates all dragon kind, and is playing both dragon factions against each other. [[EngineeredPublicConfession Kanna records the whole thing on her tape recorder]] and, when Kobayashi and Tohru arrive in the nearby battlefield where a battle is about to happen, sends the message to them by her cellphone, destroying his reputation on both sides]].
* In ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'', whenever the higher-ranked students are shown to look down upon or make fun of Class E students, Koro-sensei helps them to get their revenge or something eventually happens to make them regret it unless Asano Sr. intervenes. [[spoiler:In the end, Shiro/Yanagisawa, the MadScientist who [[BigBad was behind most of the misfortune in the series]], is left a vegetable while his antimatter experiments are officially outlawed, while Asano Sr. is forced to resign after his school's discriminatory policies are leaked into the public.]]
* ''Anime/ArabianNightsAdventuresOfSinbad'': Sinbad finds the sorcerer responsible for turning Shera into a bird and forces him to turn her back into a human. By the end of the episode, the sorcerer is transformed into a turkey and is never seen again.

* ''Manga/{{Inuyashiki}}'' features some [[LiteralMetaphor literal]] examples of this trope:
** In the first episode, Inuyashiki happens upon some middle school boys tormenting a homeless man, preparing to kill him. After scaring them off with some BeamSpam, he then hijacks television signals around the country to broadcast their crimes, along with their faces and names, destroying their lives.
** Later on, Inuyashiki lays siege to an entire yakuza family after one member kidnaps a young girl to drug and rape. In the end, he uses BeamSpam to [[EyeScream shoot out their eyes]] and sever their spinal cords, leaving them blind and paralyzed from the neck down.