History LaserGuidedKarma / WesternAnimation

** In "A Canterlot Wedding", Celestia ignored Twilight's warnings about Cadence, who was really Queen Chrysalis in disguise. This gave Chrysalis the time she needed to absorb enough love from Shining Armor. Chrysalis is defeated by Shining Armor and Cadence, with the same love she claimed to live off of.

*** In "The One That Got Away," the Pigs pollute the lake per Midas' orders, because they wanted money. They had to clean the lake as as a result, and Midas is arrested, [[DownerEnding but the lake is still polluted]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pingu}}''
** In "Pingu and the Organ Grinder" a thin penguin refuses to help the titular [[TheWoobie organ grinder]] but as thanks to him looking [[TooDumbToLive up at the sky]], [[OhCrap when he realizes there's water;]] it's already too late.

** In "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS3E12MoralDecayMeetTheBeatAlls Moral Decay]]", this happens to Buttercup, who, after learning that the [[LooseToothEpisode tooth fairy gives money in exchange for teeth]], decides to [[GetRichQuickScheme amass a fortune]] by [[TheToothHurts knocking out villains' teeth]]. For a while, it's just her going for the teeth in her everyday routine as a heroine, so it's not exactly punishable. But then, after a day of no bad guys attacking, she goes and beats up villains for their teeth [[EvenEvilHasStandards without them doing anything]]. [[EnemyMine Blossom and Bubbles]] agree that [[EveryoneHasStandards she needs to be taught a lesson]], so they let the toothless villains [[DoWithHimAsYouWill get even with Buttercup by]] [[KarmicInjury knocking her teeth out]]. In addition, [[AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted Buttercup ends up losing all the money she obtained through her scheme when Professor Utonium uses it to pay her dental bills]].

** "Second Chance", where they con Woodstock into signing a contract against his will at a sleazy bar. When Cyril comes to save Woodstock, the pigs themselves are forced to entertain people in the bar.
** In "The One That Got Away," the Pigs pollute the lake per Midas' orders, because they wanted money. They had to clean the lake as as a result, and Midas is arrested, [[DownerEnding but the lake is still polluted]].

** The pigs, on the other hand, frequently get this without any of the CharacterDevelopment that Sneer had. When they are doing something bad so they can try to get rich, you're gonna guess they will have a karmic kick in the ass, like in "Second Chance", where they con Woodstock into signing a contract against his will at a sleazy bar. When Cyril comes to save Woodstock, the pigs themselves are forced to entertain people in the bar.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'':

* Cyril Sneer from ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons'' both suffered and benefited from this trope. When he was a nasty CorruptCorporateExecutive, he would be repeatedly burned and lose money whenever one of his schemes was thwarted. After CharacterDevelopment turned him into an Honest Corporate Executive and he became a better person overall, his luck dramatically increased and he began winning {{Karmic Jackpot}}s.
** Also, the pigs. When they are doing something bad so they can try to get rich, you're gonna guess they will have a karmic kick in the ass, like in "Second Chance", where they con Woodstock into signing a contract against his will at a sleazy bar. When Cyril comes to save Woodstock, the pigs themselves are forced to entertain people in the bar.

** In "Strangeness on a Train," Dale takes great pride in [[IronicBirthday Peggy having horrible birthdays]]. When Peggy arranges for a {{Disco}}-themed [[ThrillerOnTheExpress murder-mystery dinner party on a train ride]], Dale anticipates it becoming yet another lousy Peggy Hill birthday. When [[BirthdayPartyGoesWrong it does happen]] (due to [[TheDitz Luanne]] accidentally revealing the murder victim before the train even pulls out of the station, the refrigeration going out (and ruining the planned dinner and cake), the train traveling through dry counties (meaning no alcoholic beverages), and [[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces Hank and Peggy having sex in the train's restroom]] leading to Khan trying to match up the couple's feet with the footprints on the mirror), Dale initially enjoys it and [[JerkAss tries to fuel Peggy's misery]]. But when everyone gets kicked off the train (Hank distracted everyone from the mystery by scaring the engineer into stopping the train), Dale notices how upset Peggy really is and starts to genuinely feel sorry for her...

** In the episode "The Sweet Stench of Success", Bloo became a deodorant mascot under Kip Snip, an amoral manager who overworked him, made him live under sub-optimal conditions, and tricked him into signing adoption papers so he couldn't go back to Foster's. When his friends came to rescue him, Bloo admitted on live TV that the deodorant didn't actually work. Kip, as a result, snapped and added that it actually made people smell ''worse'', then was promptly arrested for false advertising.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "You Made Me", Lemongrab tortures several people in an electrical chamber, tries to KO his mom, spies on the citizens of the Candy Kingdom as they sleep, and assaults a baby. In his next episode, "Mystery Dungeon," he is KO'd by the Ice King, separated from his family (who are in the process of slowly starving to death, as is Lemongrab himself), brought to the Mystery Dungeon against his will, and is nearly killed when a giant monster squeezes out all of his blood.

* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', this is pretty much the driving force behind most of the bad things that happen to the characters. Archer himself stands out in that while he sometimes seems like a KarmaHoudini, almost any time he is injured or a mission goes bad, it is because of his own actions, [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny tendency to get distracted by trivial things]] while in dangerous situations, or penchant for antagonizing other people.

** Sokka tries to stop WellIntentionedExtremist Jet from robbing a harmless old man belonging to the hostile Fire Nation, and when later Jet attempts to destroy the village, Sokka is able to successfully evacuate it after the old man [[CharacterWitness speaks out in his favor]].
** In her first proper appearance, Azula tries to lure Zuko back to the Fire Nation by lying that their father has grown paranoid in court as a result of hearing of plots to overthrow him, and eagerly wishes for Zuko's return since family and loyalty have grown much more important to him. When Zuko finds out this isn't the case and Azula was really just playing his heartstrings to easily get him back as a prisoner, he is ''livid''. This turns around in the series finale, where Azula is soon to be crowned Fire Lord but, as a result of several recent betrayals, she is ''actually'' succumbing to paranoia and has no one to fall back on.
** During the Boiling Rock two-parter, one of the more mean-spirited prison guards bullies an inmate named Chit Sang by attacking him and forcing Chit Sang to firebend in self-defense, giving the guard justification to punish him since firebending is prohibited. After a botched escape plan, Chit Sang is ordered to identify the individual who came up with said escape plan (who Chit Sang mentions is a person disguised as a guard), and guess who he declares to be the imposter?

** Korra accidentally injures a baby dragon bird and takes it back to its nest. In return, the parent dragon bird carries her to the spirit portal and later saves her from Unalaq.
** Bolin always had sympathetic reasons for joining Kuvira, as she was restoring order to the Earth Kingdom and appeared to be improving the lives of the people there, and it looked like Kuvira was a better leader than Prince Wu. But despite this, he still ignores his brother Mako and girlfriend Opal's concerns and refuses to consider he was doing anything but improving lives. He even went as far as to lash out and mock Mako for not thinking Kuvira is a good leader, saying that he will change the world while Mako will kiss Wu's feet. And it also appears that Bolin never thought of Opal's reaction to him staying with Kuvira when she took power, despite Opal making it clear that she does not trust Kuvira or approve of him working with her. So him learning the hard way that the woman he idolizes is sending the people of the territories she's conquered to labor camps and dissenters are sent to "re-education" camps, and him realizing that he strained his relationships with his loved ones for nothing, can be considered karma. Bolin is painfully aware of how badly he misjudged Kuvira and goes to great lengths to help derail her plans. Mako easily forgives him and welcomes him back with open arms. Opal, however, is rightfully angry with Bolin and only forgives him when he helps rescue her family.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' sees karma finally bite Chief Angel Rojas in the ass after two seasons of being a PointyHairedBoss and BadBoss, in the second season finale, "Night and the City", after he cans Ellen Yin and uses her as bait to trap Batman. The problem for Rojas? This episode also marks the debut of Commissioner Gordon into the series and considering here, much like in other Batman incarnations as well as the NYPD, Commissioner outranks Chief and ol' Jimbo is ''the'' TropeNamer for TheCommissionerGordon, Jim catches Rojas attempting to rearrest Yin and tells Rojas to back off, forces him to reinstate Yin, and effectively ends Rojas's manhunt for Batman considering the last scene sees Jim and Bruce meet at the Batsignal.

** The Joker is usually a KarmaHoudini, but he got it good in "Beware the Creeper". He pushes Jack Ryder into a vat of chemicals after dosing him with laughing gas. Ryder comes back as ComicBook/TheCreeper, who hits on Harley and eventually chases Joker through Gotham in a chase scene so wacky it ends with Joker yelling, [[EvenEvilHasStandards "He's a lunatic!"]] and practically begging Batman for help, only to get arrested.
** The Creeper wasn't the Joker's first comeuppance. In "Joker's Favor", he forced an ordinary man to beg for his life in exchange for a favor, stalked him when he skipped town, called in the favor for a meaningless task, and then left him to die anyways. That same man confronts him, knocks him down, and threatens to blow him up, forcing ''him'' to beg for Batman. Not to mention the various [[GroinAttack nutshots]] he received throughout the DCAU shows he appeared in.
** In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' he is killed by Tim Drake, the child he tortured, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard by means of his own]] BangFlagGun. When he is revived and takes over Tim's body, the microchip he used for the deed, and the only thing keeping him in existence, is destroyed by his own joy buzzer.

* The ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' episode "Operation: B.U.T.T." has the Delightful Children from Down the Lane blackmail Numbuh One into quitting his team by having a robotic crab steal Numbuh One's swimming trunks and photograph his bare behind with the threat of having the picture included in the school yearbook if Numbuh One doesn't do as they say. When the other members of Sector V learn of what's going on, they give the Delightful Children their just deserts by yanking off their pants and skirts and photographing their butts.

** After her [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE5PrettyPoison vampish scheme]] to [[DruggedLipstick assassinate]] Harvey Dent fails Pamela Isley ends up incarcerated at Stonegate Penitentiary, the very prison which [[GaisVengeance spurned]] her into targeting Dent in the first place.

** Even Quagmire gets some of this trope when he hooks up with a woman who has an even more voracious sexual appetite than him and ends up kidnapped, held as her sex slave, and tortured for her amusement until the gang finds and rescues him. These are no worse than the things he routinely does to women.

* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' has Jerry provoking Tom for little to no reason at all and [[KarmaHoudini almost never gets punished for it]], but [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty one rare exception]] occurs in "The Million Dollar Cat", where Tom got tired of Jerry's shenanigans and attacked him even if doing so would cost him [[OnOneCondition a million-dollar inheritance]].

** In the episode "[[TheDentistEpisode Moral Decay]]", this happens to Buttercup, who, after learning that the [[LooseToothEpisode tooth fairy gives money in exchange for teeth]], decides to [[GetRichQuickScheme amass a fortune]] by [[TheToothHurts knocking out villains' teeth]]. For a while, it's just her going for the teeth in her everyday routine as a heroine, so it's not exactly punishable. But then, after a day of no bad guys attacking, she goes and beats up villains for their teeth [[EvenEvilHasStandards without them doing anything]]. [[EnemyMine Blossom and Bubbles]] agree that [[EveryoneHasStandards she needs to be taught a lesson]], so they let the toothless villains [[DoWithHimAsYouWill get even with Buttercup by]] [[KarmicInjury knocking her teeth out]]. In addition, [[AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted Buttercup ends up losing all the money she obtained through her scheme when Professor Utonium uses it to pay her dental bills]].
** In "The Mane Event", Bubbles and Buttercup give Blossom a terrible haircut, and they, the entire city, and even the [[VillainOfTheWeek giant eye monster]] all laugh at her. After the girls defeat the monster, Blossom gets even with her sisters by using her EyeBeams to ruin ''their'' hair in return.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheXs'' episode "To Err is Truman", after pulling a prank planting bombs in the X house's toilets, Truman tries to prove he can behave so he can go to a water park with the rest of the family, or else he'll be sent to [[EveryoneHatesMimes mime camp]]. However, Tuesday (wanting Truman out of her hair) and Homebase (wanting revenge for the toilet bomb prank) repeatedly try to get him to misbehave, but all their attempts fail. Tuesday finally decides to pull the toilet bomb prank Truman pulled earlier in the episode and frame him for it, and Homebase disables the cameras so Tuesday wouldn't get caught. Although Homebase [[CaughtOnTape does catch Truman taking X-Jet for a joyride]], he didn't really record anything due to the cameras being deactivated. Eventually, Tuesday is caught by their parents and sent to mime camp herself.

** In the episode "Dream Goat!", Vicky gets framed for being a goat-napper for bullying Timmy by constantly wedging him and stays in jail for the whole episode. After Timmy finally tells the truth as to Chompy's disappearance and is [[YouAreGrounded grounded]] for five months as a result, [[SomethingWeForgot Vicky still remains locked up]], where, after the fact, Chompy even gives her a well-deserved wedgie.

** In the episode "Dream Goat!", for bullying Timmy by constantly wedging him, Vicky gets framed for being a goat-napper and she stays in jail for the whole episode. After Timmy finally tells the truth and is [[YouAreGrounded grounded]] for five months as a result, [[SomethingWeForgot Vicky still remains locked up]], where, after the fact, Chompy even gives her a well-deserved wedgie.

** In the episode "Dream Goat!", for bullying Timmy by constantly wedging him, Vicky gets framed for being a goat-napper and she stays in jail for the whole episode. After Timmy finally tells the truth, [[SomethingWeForgot Vicky still remains locked up]], where, after the fact, Chompy even gives her a well-deserved wedgie.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', episode "Dream Goat!", for bullying Timmy by constantly wedging him, Vicky gets framed for being a goat-napper and she stays in jail for the whole episode. Chompy even gives Vicky a well-deserved wedgie.

* Roger Klotz from ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' is often on the receiving end of this for being an asshole to others, which results in him either getting whatever punishment any authority figure gives him or taking the more hilarious embarrassments ever. Perhaps the most infamous example is the episode "Doug Didn't Do It", where he framed Doug for stealing one of Assistant Principal Bone's yodeling trophies and succeeds in getting him in major trouble, with his punishment being that he has to polish all of Mr. Bone's trophies after school. When Roger brags about this to Doug, [[AccidentalPublicConfession he accidentally sets on]] [[EngineeredPublicConfession the intercom button in the office]] and Mr. Bone, who heard the whole thing, punishes Roger instead, and now HE has to polish Bone's trophies after school.

** Eustace ''always'' gets struck by this. Trying to keep a million-dollar slab stolen from King Ramses' crypt and refusing to give it up in "King Ramses' Curse"? He ends up part of the slab. Chopping down the titular magic tree after his unknowing abuse of its wish-granting abilities causes [[BodyHorror Muriel's head to swell up]] in "The Magic Tree of Nowhere"? The tree makes him suffer the same illness Muriel did moments after Courage cures her. Stealing the titular artifact in "The Forbidden Hat of Gold"? He disintegrates into ashes right when he puts it on. Just name any wrong thing he's done, because once he does it, you know there's no chance in hell he's getting away scot-free. He's literally karma's punching bag.

** "Malled" had her try to plant a bottle of perfume in Clover's purse in order to frame her for [[FiveFingerDiscount shoplifting]], but by the end of the episode, when the girls are taken to the mall's security office to resolve the issue, Mandy was proven guilty, [[spoiler:thanks to Jerry tapping into the mall's security footage and [[CaughtOnTape catching everything on video]],]] and is given two weeks on the store's cleaning crew.

* [[AlphaBitch Mandy]] of ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' is a frequent victim of this, but she does [[KarmaHoudini get away with it]] on some occasions.

*** Rocko's former boss, Mr. Dupette, at the end of "Canned", after he ruthlessly fired him from Super-Lot-O Comics, then Rocko soon gets a new job at Kind-of-a-Lot-O Comics. After Mr. Bighead tried numerous attempts to hurt Rocko with his tests, Rocko remembers the [[ChekhovsGag gene-enhancing gum he gave him earlier]] shortly after he gets his new job and hands it over to Dupette when he arrives at the store for a pack of comics and gum. The moment Dupette samples the gum, [[ScaryStingingSwarm his head ends up sprouting a beehive]], and along with being stung like crazy, crashing his car in the process, he is also chased by the herd of mad giraffes Ed released on Rocko earlier.

*** Rocko's former boss, Mr. Dupette, at the end of "Canned", after he ruthlessly fired him from Super-Lot-O Comics, then Rocko soon gets a new job at Kind-of-a-Lot-O Comics. After Mr. Bighead tried numerous attempts to hurt Rocko with his tests, Rocko remembers the [[ChekhovsGun gene-enhancing gum he gave him earlier]] shortly after he gets his new job and hands it over to Dupette when he arrives at the store for a pack of comics and gum. The moment Dupette samples the gum, [[ScaryStingingSwarm his head ends up sprouting a beehive]], and along with being stung like crazy, crashing his car in the process, he is also chased by the herd of mad giraffes Ed released on Rocko earlier.

*** Rocko's former boss, Mr. Dupette, at the end of "Canned", after he ruthlessly fired him from Super-Lot-O Comics, then Rocko soon gets a new job at Kind-of-a-Lot-O Comics. After Mr. Bighead tried numerous attempts to hurt Rocko with his tests, Rocko remembers the gene-enhancing gum he gave him earlier shortly after he gets his new job and hands it over to Dupette when he arrives at the store for a pack of comics and gum. The moment Dupette samples the gum, [[ScaryStingingSwarm his head ends up sprouting a beehive]], and along with being stung like crazy, crashing his car in the process, he is also chased by the herd of mad giraffes Ed released on Rocko earlier.

** In "Silicon Valley Girls", she is appointed judge of the student court and gives the girls the punishment of picking up trash on school grounds when they fail to meet the school dress code. However, by the end of the episode, she utterly fails to enforce the dress code and is kicked off the student court, at which point''she'' is given the girls' previous punishment.