History Main / DoWithHimAsYouWill

* [[HeroicSociopath Belkar Bitterleaf]] of ''OrderOfTheStick'' does this twice in quick succession in one story arc. After slaughtering his way through a group of {{Mooks}}, he stabs a knife through the foot of the man who had betrayed him and his allies. Rather than finish him, Belkar [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0612.html leaves the man in the capable hands]] of his best friend who had also been sold out. Shortly thereafter, he fights Haley Starshine's arch-rival, a [[AxCrazy nasty thug]] named Crystal. After [[CurbStompBattle easily beating her]], he takes her hit points down to zero, thus incapacitating her but leaving her alive. Belkar tells her that he's started being a team player and doesn't want to steal someone else's kill.

* Superman tries this on Darkseid in ''SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''. It doesn't work out the way he intended - the slaves on Apokolips are too broken to even consider rebelling, and carry the injured Darkseid away to recieve care.

* In the Bible, God orders all the Midianite men, boys, and non-virgin women killed. The virgin women are as evil (in his opinion), but he lets the soldiers have them to... you know.

* In ''{{Babylon 5}}'', Lord Antono Refa, a racist Centauri noble, responsible for the bombing of the Narn homeworld with Weapons of Mass Destruction and the mastermind of death camps and genetic cleansing programs, is handed over to a mob of Narn insurgents led by G'Kar and beaten to death.

* Superman tries this on Darkseid in ''SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''. [[HappinessInSlavery It doesn't work out the way he intended.]]

* In TheMovie of ''SweeneyTodd'', Anthony leaves the cruel asylum keeper to the mercy of his "children".

Slaves, opressed citizens, abused prisoners, terrorized villagers, tortured laboratory subjects and the families of the victims are the most commonly used.

Differs from TheDogBitesBack in that that is a form of KarmicDeath, while with this one, the hero deliberately sets it up.

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* In their second miniseries, the SecretSix do something similar with the inmates of a North Korean prison. They also do it later in their ongoing when they hand a childkiller over to the father of one of his victims (although he did hire them to do it), Catman even giving him instructions on how to most effectively torture him to death.

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* Superman tries this on Darkseid in ''SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''. [[HappinessInSlavery It doesn't work out the way he intended.]]

* In ''Shamran'' by Bjarne Reuter, the hero, Filip, confronts the officer in charge of "marking" the people of Tronn, a mandatory practice where any citizen (except for members of the government and the military) of a certain age has one of his/hers abilities (sight, hearing or speech) surgically removed. After disarming the officer, Flip throws him at the feet of the patrons in one of the capitols larger inns, all of them people the officer so zealously have marked throughout his life. In the next scene, the guards of the capitol's castle gets a nasty surprise in form of the officer, now blind, deaf, and mute, fumbling around in dirt in front of them.

* In TheMovie of ''SweeneyTodd'', Anthony leaves the cruel asylum keeper to the mercy of his "children".

* Superman tries this on Darkseid in ''SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''. [[HappinessInSlavery It doesn't work out the way he intended.]]

* [[HeroicSociopath Belkar Bitterleaf]] of [[OrderOfTheStick [=OOTS=]]] does this twice in quick succession in one story arc. After slaughtering his way through a group of {{Mooks}}, he stabs a knife through the foot of the man who had betrayed him and his allies. Rather than finish him, Belkar leaves the man in the capable hands of his best friend, a cleric who had also been sold out. Shortly thereafter, he fights Haley Starshine's arch-rival, a [[AxCrazy nasty thug]] named Crystal. After [[CurbStompBattle easily beating her]], he takes her hit points down to zero, thus incapacitating her but leaving her alive. Belkar tells her that he's started being a team player and doesn't want to steal someone else's kill.

* [[HeroicSociopath Belkar Bitterleaf]] of [[OrderOfTheStick {=OOTS=}]] does this twice in quick succession in one story arc. After slaughtering his way through a group of {{Mooks}}, he stabs a knife through the foot of the man who had betrayed him and his allies. Rather than finish him, Belkar leaves the man in the capable hands of his best friend, a cleric who had also been sold out. Shortly thereafter, he fights Haley Starshine's arch-rival, a [[AxCrazy nasty thug]] named Crystal. After [[CurbStompBattle easily beating her]], he takes her hit points down to zero, thus incapacitating her but leaving her alive. Belkar tells her that he's started being a team player and doesn't want to steal someone else's kill.

* [[FistOfTheNorthStar Kenshiro]] has done this a few times. The above image is probably the best known.

* In DC: The New Frontier, WonderWoman, after defeating some enemy soldiers, gives their weapons to the women they'd been using as sex slaves. One guess as to what they do with them.

* Inverted in Spawn, where Spawn uses his powers to turn a Ku Klux Klan leader black and then leaves him to be found by his fellow clan members, who [[HoistByHisOwnPetard lynch him.]]
* In an issue of GreenLantern: Emerald Warriors, Guy Gardner disarms some sadistic alien slavedrivers and leaves them to the picks and shovels of their charges. However, this is taken as a bad sign that the trace of Red Light inside him may be growing.
* A non-lethal variant in an issue of {{Preacher}} has Jesse drive the local KKK leader (in full uniform) into the black part of town and dump him out in front of a bar.

* In the first IronMan movie, after Tony's first 'live-fire exercise' with the completed armor, he leaves the leader of the 10 Rings Mercenaries to the mercy of the villagers they'd been terrorizing, after disarming him.

* RobertHeinlein's ''The Moon is a Harsh Mistress''. The Lunar rebellion is set off early after some Peace Dragoons rape and murder a woman named Marie Lyons. After they're captured:
->Finn decided that shooting was too good for them, so he went judge and used his squad as jury. They were stripped, hamstrung at ankles and wrists, turned over to women in Complex. Makes me sick to think about what happened next but don't suppose they lived through as long an ordeal as Marie Lyons endured.
* In TheMovie of SweeneyTodd, Anthony leaves the cruel asylum keeper to the mercy of his "children."

* In Babylon 5, Lord Antono Refa, a racist Centauri noble, responsible for the bombing of the Narn homeworld with Weapons of Mass Destruction and the mastermind of death camps and genetic cleansing programs, is handed over to a mob of Narn insurgents led by G'Kar and beaten to death.
* In ''TheXFiles'' episode "Sleepless", the Preacher lets the ghosts/apparitions of the Vietnamese civilians whom he and his unit killed during the War and who follow him around kill his former squadmates and superiors.
* In an episode of {{Angel}}, a paranormal crime boss/casino owner comes to collect on the soul of a member of Angel's {{Nakama}}. In the climax, Angel chops off the head of said crime boss. It quickly becomes apparent that this will only temporarily incapacitate him, so Angel asks who else in the casino owes the man, and leaves as the mob descends on the crime boss.

* Superman tries this on Darkseid in SupermanTheAnimatedSeries. [[HappinessInSlavery It doesn't work out the way he intended.]]

* Inverted in Spawn, where Spawn uses his powers to turn a Ku Klux Clan leader black and then leaves him to be found by his fellow clan members, who [[HoistByHisOwnPetard lynch him.]]