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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': In "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS3E12MoralDecayMeetTheBeatAlls Moral Decay]]", Buttercup has amassed a tidy fortune from the tooth fairy for [[TheToothHurts teeth she has accumulated from punching the teeth out of all the criminals, and even monsters,]] after she tried to knock out Bubbles' teeth intentionally after doing so [[LooseToothEpisode by accident]]. When she attacks the show's main villains unprovoked, Blossom and Bubbles get wind of it and [[EnemyMine the two help]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards the villains]] set up an ambush on Buttercup [[EveryoneHasStandards to teach her a lesson]]. The beating Buttercup got from the villains [[KarmicInjury damaged her own teeth so much]], she had to [[LaserGuidedKarma spend all the money she earned through her scheme on her dental bills after the Professor finds and confiscates the stash]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': In "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS3E12MoralDecayMeetTheBeatAlls Moral Decay]]", Buttercup has amassed a tidy fortune from the tooth fairy for [[TheToothHurts teeth she has accumulated from punching the teeth out of all the criminals, and even monsters,]] after she tried to knock out Bubbles' teeth intentionally after doing so [[LooseToothEpisode by accident]]. When she attacks the show's main villains unprovoked, Blossom and Bubbles get wind of it and [[EveryoneHasStandards the two help]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards the villains]] set up an ambush on Buttercup to teach her a lesson. The beating Buttercup got from the villains [[KarmicInjury damaged her own teeth so much]], she had to [[LaserGuidedKarma spend all the money she earned through her scheme on her dental bills after the Professor finds and confiscates the stash]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': In "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS3E12MoralDecayMeetTheBeatAlls Moral Decay]]", Buttercup has amassed a tidy fortune from the tooth fairy for [[TheToothHurts teeth she has accumulated from punching the teeth out of all the criminals, and even monsters]] after she tried to knock out Bubbles' teeth intentionally after doing so [[LooseToothEpisode by accident]]. When she attacks the show's main villains unprovoked, Blossom and Bubbles get wind of it and [[EveryoneHasStandards the two help]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards the villains]] set up an ambush on Buttercup to teach her a lesson. The beating Buttercup got from the villains [[KarmicInjury damaged her own teeth so much]], she had to [[LaserGuidedKarma spend all the money she earned through her scheme on her dental bills after the Professor finds and confiscates the stash]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': In "Moral Decay", Buttercup has amassed a tidy fortune from the tooth fairy for teeth she has accumulated from punching the teeth out of all the robbers. When she attacks the show's main villains unprovoked, Blossom gets wind of it and she and Bubbles help the villains set up an ambush on Buttercup to teach her a lesson. The beating she got damaged her own teeth so much she had to [[LaserGuidedKarma spend all the money she earned on her dental bills]].

** ''ComicBook/XMan'': In issue 66, Nate Grey learns that the 'down-spiral' (from a lower, grimmer world in the Multiverse) monster from whom he'd been defending a group of mutant CorruptCorporateExecutive[=s=] was targeting them because they stole his race's children in order to harvest and sell their organs. Nate responds by executing most of the group himself, but he singles out the one who had come up with the idea to steal the children, and delivers her alive to the monster and his people.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'': When the incapacitated BigBad tries to bargain with Rango, the chameleon replies by [mkicking him toward Rattlesnake Jake (who [[spoiler:the mayor]] just betrayed), saying "Why don't you take it up with him." [[spoiler:The mayor]] is promptly subjected to a (possibly) metaphorical DraggedOffToHell fate.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In "Moral Decay", Buttercup has amassed a tidy fortune from the tooth fairy for teeth she has accumulated from punching the teeth out of all the robbers. When she attacks the show's main villains unprovoked, Blossom gets wind of it and she and Bubbles help the villains set up an ambush on Buttercup to teach her a lesson. The beating she got damaged her own teeth so much she had to [[LaserGuidedKarma spend all the money she earned on her dental bills]].

*** In an early ''ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders'' story, [=GeoForce=] left [[TheUsurper Baron Bedlam]] to the mercy of the Markovian people after overthrowing his regime.

** In ''ComicBook/KickersInc'', hero Jack Magniconte's approached by a mob boss whose son committed suicide after joining a satanic coven that the Kickers are already investigating - a cult that secretly doses members with hallucinogenic drugs. The Don wants to know who’s responsible but Jack refuses to help him. Later, when the cult's leader escapes prosecution, a disillusioned Jack tells the Don's men exactly who they're looking for.

** In ComicBook/TheNewUniverse series ''ComicBook/KickersInc'', a mob boss hires Kickers Inc. to investigate his son's suicide. The boss wants to avenge his son in the mob's ''vendetta'' way, but the Kicker's leader Jack Magniconte wants to follow the law. The Kickers find out [[DrivenToSuicide the boy's suicide was driven by]] a dark occultist cult led by a professor researching hallucinogens. The team disbands the cult and saves other potential victims, but the professor can't be arrested because, despite his methods, his research is legal and funded by the government. Not wanting the guy to be a KarmaHoudini, Jack tells the mob boss the professor's name and where to find him.

** In [[ComicBook/TheNewUniverse Marvel's New Universe]], a mob boss hires the football/superhero team Kickers, Inc. to investigate his son's suicide. The boss wants to avenge his son in the mob's ''vendetta'' way, but the Kicker's leader Jack Magniconte wants to follow the law. The Kickers find out [[DrivenToSuicide the boy's suicide was driven by]] a dark occultist cult led by a professor researching hallucinogens. The team disbands the cult and saves other potential victims, but the professor can't be arrested because, despite his methods, his research is legal and funded by the government. Not wanting the guy to be a KarmaHoudini, Jack tells the mob boss the professor's name and where to find him.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': At the end of "Frannie 911", Francine decides to emrace her reputation as an enabler and let Roger be himself (i.e., a {{jerkass}}). But he then finds out the hard way that it goes for everyone else.

* ''Literature/SkylarkSeries': A mob on an oppressed planet requests this in ''Skylark Duquesne'' when their work overseer (who treats them like slaves) is deposed, but Seaton persuades them to put the man to hard labour alongside them instead. He does make it clear to the former overseer, though, that stepping out of line ''will'' mean a handover.

* In ''[[Literature/TheOregonFiles Dark Watch]]'', Eddie Seng introduces one Anton Savich to a hangar full of recently-rescued Chinese immigrants. He then introduces the immigrants to Savich, and then goes onto reveal how Savich was the mastermind behind said immigrants being enslaved and used as cheap labor in his gold mining operation on the Kamchatka Peninsula which forced them to work under absolutely ''deplorable'' conditions under both him and the local "Snake head" triads he had hired to keep the labor in line. Suffice to say, Savich does not last much longer, given everything he put the immigrants through, [[LaserGuidedKarma there are few if any who feel pity for him.]]

* ComicBook/TheAuthority does this to one unnamed Indonesian general when he claims they wouldn't kill him, as this would bring the rest of the world's governments on them. They reply that they won't do anything to him, but drop him off in the middle of a slum that had particularly suffered from his actions.
* Franchise/TheDCU:

*** In one of the grimmer story arcs, ''[[ComicBook/BatmanTheCult The Cult]]'', the Dark Knight is captured by a cult and brainwashed into helping them kill their way through Gotham. He manages to break free and later returns to bring down the leader, Deacon Blackfire. Knowing that giving Blackfire a well-deserved death would only serve to make him a martyr, Batman focuses on causing as much pain with every blow as possible. Eventually Blackfire breaks and begs for mercy, in front of the throngs of cultists. The fatal element of this is that part of Blackfire's creed that he hammered into the heads of his kidnapped followers was that their substantial suffering was insignificant in the greater scheme of things. To show himself to be weak and submissive enraged the people that had suffered greatly for him, and the disillusioned cultists tore him apart so ferociously that nothing identifiable remained.
*** In another grim ''Batman'' Comic, an abusive psychiatrist convinces his patients to do his dirty work through manipulation and hiding his identity. When Batman figures out who it is and unmasks him in front of his patients, it's noted that "if I allowed them to beat him for 15 seconds, I am sure he would have died. [[TechnicalPacifist I allow them to beat him for ten.]]"

** [[MythologyGag Similar to the example above,]] in Year One of ''ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'', shortly after Superman kills the Joker, Wonder Woman flies to an African refugee camp, where she interrupts the rape of a woman by a soldier who was supposed to keep the peace. Wonder Woman disarms the soldiers in the camp, and tells the women that they have nothing to fear from them. One of the women then states that as soon as she flies away, the men will keep doing what they always do, to which Wonder Woman tells the women to pick up the guns and do what they have to do. As she flies away, gunshots sound out in the camp below.

* ''Film/TheEvilThatMenDo''. Despite being contracted to kill [[TortureTechnician Dr Molloch]], Creator/CharlesBronson's character leaves him to be killed by the local peasants who are strongly implied to have been his former victims.

* ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'': In Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs' ''Gods of Mars]]'', John Carter exposes [[GodGuise the god pretender Issus]] as nothing more than a deranged crone who manipulated her people for eras. He refuses to soil his hands with her blood and hands her over to a angry mob of her former followers, who proceed to literally tear her apart.

* In the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, Ash and his friends regularly leave Team Rocket at the mercy of the episode's starring character or Pokemon when they don't deliver the beating themselves. A rather direct and blunt case occurred in "So You're Having A Bad Day" when Meowth is forced into a EnemyMine with the protagonists against some angry Pangoro. When they find out the reason they're after them is because he and Team Rocket stole all their food, Meowth begs them to keep quiet. It is [[BewareTheNiceOnes Serena of all people]] that bluntly tells him fat chance and angrily informs them who's at fault, watching as he, Jessie and James take their inevitable blasting off. In the heroes' defense, they lampshade how often Meowth backstabs ''them'' in {{Enemy Mine}}s enough to make it a preemptive strike at worst. That and they also reason that [[VillainBall he could likely just as easily avoid the beating by apologising and giving back the food]].

* In the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'' ''7 Dreams/Nightmares Gaiden'' series, Patch, [[TookALevelInBadass having become an]] ActionGirl due to her journey to reconstruct the Rainbow of Light after the G2 world suffered an apocalypse, gets brainwashed by Film Critique, the Pegasus Despot using the Shard of Laughter to [[FromNobodyToNightmare become an]] EvilOverlord, and turned into a member of his brainwashed harem. After spending an undisclosed number of days as his SexSlave with the rest of the harem, she's freed [[spoiler:by Brightglow]]. She then steals the Shard back, purifying it (due to fitting the profile of a ''proper'' Bearer of the Element of Laughter), breaking his spell. She proceeds to shoot him in the leg, arm his now unbrainwashed harem with swords, and leave him to his KarmicDeath at their hooves. She also stole all the ammo of his willing guards. She apparently did this to several other people who were abusing the Shards and even admits she has a habit of doing so.

* In ''Fanfic/OpeningDangerousGates'', when Harribel was about to finish Xiphias Gladius off, she sensed that if she stayed any longer, Lucy would not survive her presence, so she tells the rest of Team Natsu she will leave the rest to them and returns to Hueco Mundo.
-->'''Harribel:''' I would have ended you quickly; however I don't think they will.

'''Lucy:''' (''looks at Kakuzawa'') We are in agreement.

* In ''The Painted Bird'', there are some Nazi-aligned Polish partisans who have been raping women and basically torturing and killing everyone in the village they enter. They are defeated by Communist partisans who hand them over to the townspeople, who brutally torture them to death.
* Attempted in ''Literature/SandmanSlim''; it doesn't quite take, as [[spoiler:Mason survives the pounding by the Hellions and ends up gaining (at least political) power again.]]
* In ''[[Literature/TheDemonata Wolf Island]]'' by Darren Shan, Grubbs, having promised Antoine that he won't kill him, proceeds to leave him to the tender mercies of a group of the werewolves he has been abusing in the name of science. Though Antoine is quite literally thrown to wolves, this does not fit the ThrowEmToTheWolves trope, as Grubbs has no qualms about getting blood on his hands and is merely delegating the murder to circumvent his promise.

--->''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.''

--->''Adam Selene announced that these persons had been employed [...] as undercover spies -- and gave names and addresses. Adam did not suggest that anything be done. [... M]ost of them lasted no more than hours.
* ''Literature/TortallUniverse'': This is how the K'mir culture executes criminals.

* Ged does this in ''Literature/TheFarthestShore''. On a slaver ship. Where there are only half a dozen slavers. All he needs is to remove the slaves' chains.
* In Neal Stephenson's ''[[Literature/TheBaroqueCycle Quicksilver]]'', Daniel Waterhouse does this to BigBad (and actual historical figure) [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jeffreys,_1st_Baron_Jeffreys George Jeffreys]].
-->'''Daniel Waterhouse:''' You speak of putting Jeffreys to death with the strength of your right arm. Yet I tell you that if we must rely on your arm, strong as it is, we would fail. But if, as I believe, England is with us, why, then we need do no more than find him and say in a clear voice, "This fellow here is my lord Jeffreys," and his death will follow as if by natural law, like a ball rolling down a ramp.\\
(''some time later'')\\
'''Daniel Waterhouse:''' I apologize for the disruption. You have heard of Jeffreys, the Hanging Judge, the one who decorated trees in Dorset with bodies of ordinary Englishmen, who sold English schoolgirls into chattel slavery? [...] The man I speak of, whose name you have all heard, the man who is responsible for the Bloody Assizes and many other crimes besides -- judicial murders, for which he has never dreamed he would be made to pay, until this moment -- George Jeffreys, Baron of Wem, is he. (''points'')
* ''Creator/LouisLAmour'': In ''Silver Canyon,'' the heroes lay out the evidence against TheManBehindTheMan in a way that convinces everyone of his guilt but lacks any hard evidence. The local sheriff then makes a point of walking away, as do the heroes, leaving the BigBad alone with the loyal ranch hands of a man he murdered. Those ranch hands then start making preparations to lynch the BigBad, causing him to confess to the sheriff out of desperation to at least buy himself a few more weeks of life until the trial.

* In ''[[http://www.tohokingdom.com/articles/kwc.htm Kaiju War Chronicles]]'', [[spoiler:Match 113 ends with Glidor, the MadScientist who set up a LetsYouAndHimFight between Frankenstein and Film/KingKong, accidentally revealing to Frankenstein that he set the whole thing up. This enrages Frankenstein, but Glidor then reminds Frankenstein that the monster would never kill a human and thus won't kill him. Seeing this, Frankenstien frees Kong from his bonds and tells him that Glidor was the one who took him from his home island. Kong, now knowing who to blame for his kidnapping, sends Glidor on a one way flight into a mountain.]]
* In the Literature/AgentPendergast novel ''Literature/{{Brimstone}}'', Reverend Buck leaves Hayward at the "mercy" of his followers after condemning her in front of them. He's well aware that they are itching to stone her to death.
* In ''Literature/KittyNorville'', Kitty used to be part of a werewolf pack in Denver until she was exiled by their abusive leader, Carl. Later, she gets drawn back into a local conflict and discovers that Carl has only gotten worse while she was away, ruling the pack with an iron fist. When she finally has Carl cornered, with a silver-loaded gun pointed at him and the rest of the pack closing in, Carl begs her to spare him. Kitty lowers the gun and says, "I'm sorry, Carl. That's not for me to decide." Then the whole pack descends on him and rips him to shreds.

* In the ''Literature/AgeOfFire'' series, this is [[ActionGirl Wistala's]] final act of vengeance against Hammar, the warlord who killed her ParentalSubstitute, Rainfall, and stole his land. After manipulating a war between Hammar and the Wheel of Fire dwarves, she makes her move during the final battle of the conflict, grabbing Hammar from the battlefield and dropping him amongst a group of dwarf warriors. While we don't actually see him die, it's strongly implied.
* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' novel ''Death Masks'', Harry and two Knights of the Cross confront a Denarian who repents when it's obvious he has no chance for survival, abandoning his Coin to the Knights. The Knights immediately take the coin and stop their hostile actions, as the Denarian has repented, even though they can see that it's a false repentence, and they leave. Harry berates them for leaving as the Denarian mocks them for their HonorBeforeReason. Harry fumes for a moment before reminding the Denarian that he's ''not'' a Knight of the Cross, before [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome beating the bastard within an inch of his life with a baseball bat until he gets the information he needs.]] As he leaves the room, the Knights acknowledge that that was the plan the whole time.
* In Literature/{{the Continental Op}} story "This King Business", the murderer of the previous head of the army, [[spoiler: the ''[[KlingonPromotion current]]'' head of the army]], is thrown to the soldiers. The Op's a pretty cold-blooded guy but he's horrified by this, as it's all but stated he's TornApartByTheMob.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** ''Literature/RaisingSteam'': Double subverted in that the Low King has Ardent completely defenseless, but instead announces that he'll be judged for his crimes [[note]]crimes that caused ''other grags'' to declare their disgust for him, like murdering a dwarf bride on her wedding day for marrying a human[[/note]]... [[OhCrap by a jury composed of the victims' families]].
** Averted in other books where mob justice is frowned upon by Granny Weatherwax.
--->"The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed."
* In Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs ''[[Literature/JohnCarterOfMars Gods of Mars]]'', John Carter exposes [[GodGuise the god pretender Issus]] as nothing more than a deranged crone who manipulated her people for eras. He refuses to soil his hands with her blood and hands her over to a angry mob of her former followers, who proceed to literally tear her apart.
* In the backstory of ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', when King Brandon [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast "Ice Eyes"]] Stark liberated a castle being held by slavers, he allowed the freed slaves to do what they wanted to the slavers. [[HumanSacrifice The slaves chose to hang the slavers' entrails on the heart trees as an offering to the Old Gods]].
* At the end of the ''Fox on the Rhine/Fox at the Front'' alternate history duology, a captured Himmler is left in the hands of newly liberated concentration camp prisoners, under the guise of a botched handover between American troops and (anti-Nazi) German authorities. Allied high command orders an investigation... but not a rigorous one. This is perhaps a nod to the fate of many real life concentration camp guards (see below).
* Done accidentally by Literature/RepairmanJack, when he was hired by an abused woman's brother to teach her brute of a husband a lesson. Jack confines the wife in a closet and gives the man a moderate beating, then leaves him tied up alive, satisfied with another job done ... only to receive an accusatory call from the brother, who'd assumed it was ''Jack'' and not his sister who'd tortured her abuser to death before reporting "a prowler" who'd killed the man.
* A mob on an oppressed planet requests this in ''[[Literature/SkylarkSeries Skylark Duquesne]]'' when their work overseer (who treats them like slaves) is deposed, but Seaton persuades them to put the man to hard labour alongside them instead. He does make it clear to the former overseer, though, that stepping out of line ''will'' mean a handover.
--> '''Mob members''': Stomp 'im! Give 'im the boot! Stomp 'is head clean off! Stomp 'im right down into the rock!

* In ''Series/{{Titus}}'', after the titular character and some of his friends have cornered Amy's rapist in a high school bathroom, the principal enters, saying he's going to call the police. However, the principal follows with "call me when I'm done," giving Titus and company permission to wail on the rapist.

* In ''Series/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 squad-mates and superiors.
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
** In season 2's "Reunion," Holland Manners, having had Drusilla re-sire a resurrected Darla, gives them full backing for whatever massacre they intend to carry out and organizes a wine tasting at his house for Wolfram & Hart employees to celebrate his success, only for Drusilla and Darla to crash the party, intending to kill Holland and the W&H employees there as revenge for being used as pawns. Angel shows up, apparently planning to SaveTheVillain... but instead, Angel also wants them dead and locks them all in the wine cellar with Darla and Drusilla before leaving them to die.
** In season 3's "Double or Nothing," Jenoff, a paranormal crime boss/casino owner, comes to collect Gunn's soul in accordance with a DealWithTheDevil Gunn made years ago. 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 Jenoff.

* In ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'', normally Gentaro Kisaragi, the titular Rider, is an AllLovingHero who constantly will try to befriend anyone, even a former enemy. Hiroki Makise, the Pyxis Zodiarts, was the exception to the rule after he not only tried to drive Gentaro's friend Yuki Jojima over the DespairEventHorizon, but then proceeded to trap every girl who ever rejected him on a bus that he rigged to drive over an unfinished bridge. Once the threat had been dealt with, Gentaro left his opponent to his would-be victims.

** Teyla uses the threat of this in order to get information on where the Athosians have been taken. She tells the man she will announce that he is a Wraith worshiper and leave him to the townsfolk. He gets VERY cooperative after that.

* Many villains in ''Series/MissionImpossible'' met their ends due to the IMF orchestrating matters so that the bad guy's own people kill him.
* ''Series/DayBreak2006'':
** At the end of the series, detective Brett Hopper discovers that the person who killed his father years earlier is actually [[spoiler:uncle Nick, his father's old partner]]. Hopper's informant Damien, a career gangster, captures him after he tried to double cross Damien and, to give Hopper the satisfaction of killing him, presents him with a gun. Hopper taunts the killer's protests that he had no choice by saying that there's ''always'' a choice and walks away. Damien executes the killer seconds later.
** Hopper threatens to do the same to Torrez earlier on as part of his GoodCopBadCop routine with Damien, except this time Damien simply shoots Torrez when Hopper wasn't done interrogating him. Hopper is furious, but Damien warns him off.

* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': In the first season finale, Mike Peterson/Deathlok is finally released from [[spoiler:[[BigBad Garrett]]]]'s control, and naturally takes the opportunity to [[TheDogBitesBack take revenge on the man who turned him into a monster]]. When this happens, [[spoiler:Garrett]] begs Coulson, who's standing nearby, to [[VillainsWantMercy call Deathlok off]]; however, Coulson merely says that "Mr. Peterson is free to do as he wishes".
* In season 9 of ''Series/TwentyFour'', Kate Morgan gets information out of a villain by threatening to leave him at the mercy of a gang that wants him dead.
* ''Series/{{Bosch}}'': After Deputy Chief Irving's son is killed by the corrupt cops he was investigating, Irving recruits Bosch to do an off the books investigation to find the shooter. They start by interrogating George's partner Eddie Arceneaux, and Bosch scares him into talking by threatening to hand him over to the drug gang that he and the rest of his crew attacked a few days before George's murder.
* In the ''Series/GameOfThrones'' episode ''The Battle of the Bastards'', [[HeroicBastard Jon Snow]] has finally [[spoiler: defeated the evil {{sadist}} [[BastardBastard Ramsay Bolton]]]], who just murdered Jon’s [[spoiler:little brother Rickon, raped Jon’s sister Sansa, and killed more innocent people than anybody can count.]] Jon understandably [[spoiler:[[ExtremeMeleeRevenge beats Ramsay]] [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to a pulp]]]], but decides the final say goes to [[spoiler:[[BrokenBird his sister Sansa]], Ramsay's unhappy and [[DomesticAbuse abused wife]]]], who has suffered at [[spoiler:Ramsay’s]] hands even more than Jon has. Boy, [[spoiler:[[PayEvilUntoEvil does Sansa deliver]] [[NightmareFuel that revenge]].]]
*** It's actually a twofer; after being left to kill [[spoiler:Ramsay]], [[spoiler:Sansa]] in turn lets [[spoiler:his starving dogs]] have the honors.
* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "The Doctor's Wife", the Doctor, after manoeuvring House into letting the TARDIS back into its own control room and delivering it a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Reason You Suck Speech]], has one more instruction for his old girl:
--> '''The Doctor:''' Finish him off.
* ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' has a variation. In an episode where Dewey was transfered out of the special-ed class, his former classmates, needing his leadership, ended up tying up their teacher, the principal, a security guard, and a janitor. When one of the students realizes that a lanyard Francis had was made by him, and Francis mentions that he bought it at a store far from there, [[EurekaMoment Dewey realizes that the Principal and the teacher were using arts and crafts time as a sweatshop.]] Dewey states that no one will say anything about this, so long as the special-ed class gets an actual curriculum. As Francis unties the janitor and the guard, they agree not to say anything on the condition that they get five minutes alone with the principal and the teacher before they are untied.
* Referenced in ''Series/LawAndOrder'': in the episode "Helpless" Dr. Olivet accused a gynecologist of raping her after putting her under anesthesia. After he initially beat the rap, D.A. Stone was able to turn the tables after over fifty women contacted him, revealing that the doctor had done the same to them.
-->'''Ben Stone''': In a perfect world, I'd like to see your client locked in a room for a week with these women, but I'll settle for seeing him spend the rest of his life in jail.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Equinox Part 2", Janeway threatens to leave one of the Equinox's crew at the mercy of the creatures they've been murdering in order to power their ship unless he tells her what the Equinox's Captain Ransom is up to. Ransom's conscience eventually catches up with him, but his NumberTwo is unwilling to stop committing genocide in order to get home, and mutinies. Ransom beams "everyone worth saving" to Voyager and [[GoingDownWithTheShip resigns himself to his death at the hands of the creatures]]. Janeway leaves the remaining mutineers to the same fate.

* ''VideoGame/MystVEndOfAges'': In the climax, villain Escher is captured by the freed Bahro, a slave race he had tortured and experimented on previously. Yeesha's instructions to them are to "treat him as one of the Least", making something of a BrokenAesop out of the whole episode.
* There are few of these in ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption''. Mainly (if not exclusively) when John is in Mexico helping out the revolution. In particular, there's the fate of [[spoiler:Vincente de Santa]]: John can either finish him off personally or just walk off and let the rebels shoot him up.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': One of the possible endings of Jacob's loyalty mission is to just leave after having destroyed all the mechs that were protecting Ronald Taylor from the wrath of his feral former crewmates.
-->'''Jacob:''' You were a better man dead. Far as I'm concerned, you still are.

* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'' can have you doling this one out on Atris. After it's clear her KnightTemplar tendencies and collection of Sith holocrons have corrupted her, you can cheerfully lock her in her archive room with those holocrons and walk away.
-->'''Exile:''' Those are Sith Holocrons, Atris. They don't tolerate failure...
** If choosing the light side path, Queen Talia of Onderon gives the player the choice on what to do with General Valku. They can choose to have him executed, imprisoned, or [[TakeAThirdOption put it back to the Queen to decide]]. If the player chooses the latter the Queen will have him sentenced to death for treason and executed on the spot.
* ''VideoGame/Uncharted2AmongThieves'' ends with the beaten BigBad at Drake's mercy. After said BigBad gives a NotSoDifferentRemark speech, Drake decides not to kill him... and instead opts to simply leave him there fully aware of what the circling Guardians will do to him.
* In ''VideoGame/GodHand'', Gene finishes off Shannon this way.
* In ''VideoGame/MaxPayne 3'', as Max is holding Arthur Fischer, a corrupt surgeon who works for an organ thieving ring, at gunpoint, the standoff is suddenly interrupted by a visibly disturbed Serrano, the leader of a slum-gang who had served as an antagonist for much of the plot, before he ended up being imprisoned along with the ring's other unfortunate victims. After a moment's consideration, Max lowers his gun, and allows his former enemy to kill the doctor with a scalpel.

* One of the signature executions in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedUnity'': you can kill the bourgeoisie yourself, but why take the blame when there's a violent mob demanding their rape and murder? Weaken a target by decimating their security forces, and then throw them into the crowd. This is how the Assassins deal with Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay in one of the trailers after helping the crowds storm the Bastille.
* At the end of ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'', you're give the choice between killing Handsome Jack yourself or letting Lilith, the lover of one of the people he killed and who he had been putting through hell following the incident, do it for you. The latter is actually considered an "optional objective" and thus gives you an XP bonus.
* Near the end of the second chapter in ''VideoGame/TheWitcher2AssassinsOfKings'', Vernon Roche swears vengeance on King Henselt for executing his entire squad. Shortly after that, Geralt fights and defeats the king just as Roche shows up. Geralt can try to talk Roche into sparing the king's life, or he can just walk out of the room and leave the two of them alone.

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'':
** You can occasionally encounter [[OurElvesAreDifferent Thalmor]] [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Justiciars]] escorting Stormcloaks captives. You can give the captive weapons to defend themselves, and [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverKill overdo]] your job by giving them dozens of MagicStaff as a part of ScrewYouElves moment.
** In one old Nord ruin you can find a {{Necromancer}} who's enthralled the spirits of several women [[ILoveTheDead to serve as his harem]]. You can kill him the normal way, or you can steal to Soul Gem he's using to control the ghosts, giving them back their free will. [[TheDogBitesBack No points for guessing what happens next.]]
* In ''Videogame/AlphaProtocol'', this is a possible fate for [[spoiler:Sergei Surkov]] once you learn that he's been manipulating both you and Konstantin Brayko. Provided that you spare him, Brayko will show up once you confront [[spoiler:Surkov]], eager to stab the living hell out of him. You can either stop him or let him have his fun; you don't get to see the results of the latter, but later news reports indicate the results looked "[[ExtremeMeleeRevenge like a bear and a tiger fought over the remains]]".
* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfMajEyal'': [[BewareTheSillyOnes Nektosh the One-Horned]] went mad [[CloudCuckooLander (well, madder)]] with power after discovering some incredible [[WaveMotionGun new magical ability]] [[spoiler:in the form of a Sher'Tul disintegration wand... then realized it was running on a limited supply of energy, and he'd already burned through most of it. Having written a ''lot'' of checks his ammo supply can't cash, he's been carefully rationing his remaining shots to keep his followers from questioning him, while frantically trying to think of a plan that'll keep him "from being trampled by an angry mob" (in his words).]] You could kill him... or you could go for the ''Make Him Squirm'' achievement, the icon for which depicts a panicking Nektosh backing away with his hands held outward, by repeatedly dodging his shots until he can't cast them any longer, then just walking away. Given the context, this is pretty much the meanest thing you could possibly do to him.
--> ''Made Nektosh use up the last of his power, then left the area and ignored him until beating the game. [[spoiler:The other Whitehooves will catch on any second now...]]''
* At the end of ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'', Wei is given evidence that [[spoiler:Pendrew]] is the one that caused the death of [[spoiler:Uncle Po]], and that he had dealings with him in order to climb ranks. So, with that evidence, Wei is able to put him in prision, but not before revealing that all the Sun On Yee in said prison already know of his actions and they'll be very happy to see him...
* A villainous version crops up in ''VideoGame/Bioshock2.'' After you and Stanley Poole have finished rescuing or harvesting all the Little Sisters in Dionysus Park, [[BigBad Sofia Lamb]] decides she's had enough with [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Stanley trying to play both sides of the fence]], and calls you up with TheReveal: it was Stanley who had you arrested and turned into a Big Daddy in the first place. For good measure, she also hacks the door to the booth that Stanley's been hiding in, and leaves him to your tender mercies.
* In Harebrained Schemes' ''VideoGame/{{Battletech}}'', the end of the campaign reveals Kamea dealt with her EvilUncle Espinosa by [[spoiler:handing him over to the Taurian Concordat over his role in [[FalseFlagOperation the Perdition Massacre]], noting he is all but certain to be tried as a war criminal and executed.]]

* In ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'', a villainous variant happens to [[SmugSnake Awar]] in the aftermath of the siege of Vanna. [[AmnesiacDissonance Ronove]], who has [[FaceHeelTurn betrayed]] his [[TrueCompanions former companions]] in the [[TheAlliance Grand Alliance]] and [[KlingonPromotion has become]] the new [[DragonWithAnAgenda Dreadlord]] of the [[TheLegionsOfHell Northern Horde]], uses his authority to free Awar from demon captivity... only to end up ''[[LaserGuidedKarma handing him over]]'' to a pissed off [[FallenHero Refan]] whose [[TheCutie adoptive little sister]] Awar [[KickTheDog had killed]] some time earlier. Refan [[AssholeVictim executes Awar]] [[TheKillerBecomesTheKilled then and there]].
* At the end of ''Film/DirtyLaundry'', [[spoiler:Frank Castle a.k.a. The Punisher leaves the violent pimp battered and soaked in the booze from his own bottle, then leaves a lighter on the ground for the hooker that the pimp had just abused. She chooses to light him up.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': Superman throws a beaten and defeated Darkseid at the feet of his slaves on Apokolips, telling them they are now free and can do whatever they want to him, but it doesn't work out the way he intended. He is shocked when the slaves approach Darkseid with great reverence and genuine concern for his well-being, and gently carry him away to recieve medical treatment. Darkseid is not a benevolent ruler by any means, and his slaves are very much not [[HappinessInSlavery the happy sort]]. They're just so broken at this point that they literally have no concept of not being ruled by him, and the thought of freedom never even crosses their minds. As he's being carried away, Darkseid takes the opportunity to gloat at Superman.
-->'''Darkseid:''' I am many things, Kal-El. But here, [[AGodAmI I am God]].

* [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E1TheCrystalEmpirePart1 Sombra's]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E2TheCrystalEmpirePart2 defeat]] on ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' can be seen as this, with the twist that the heroes never had the means to significantly harm the villain before that point.
* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'' has Charmcaster leaving Darkstar weakened to be beat up by the heroes after discovering he had formed an UnholyMatrimony with her just to take advantage of her power and had no real feelings for her.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': At the end of "Frannie 911", Francine decides to emrace her reputation as an enabler and let Roger be himself (i.e., a {{jerkass}}). But he then finds out the hard way that it goes for everyone else.
-->'''Roger:''' Wait, where are you going? You said you were an enabler!\\
'''Francine:''' Oh, I am. And I'll be your enabler as soon as Stan finishes being who ''he'' is: the guy who beats the crap out of you when you deserve it.

-->-- '''Film/IronMan1,''' dropping a terrorist before his victims

* In ''Manga/{{Drifters}}'', Toyohisa brutally defeats Lord Aram, who had been sent to winnow the elf populace. It takes a bit of coaxing, especially with a language barrier still in place, but the elves get the message that if they don't start changing they will be hunted to extinction by their rebellion alone quite nicely.
* Inverted in ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'', where it's the victim leaving the villain to his superior. Issei defeats [[BitchInSheepsClothing Raynare]], only for her to revert to her Yuuma persona and beg for her life. Issei, too conflicted to deal with her himself, leaves her to Rias, a death sentence in itself. [[spoiler: Resolving things this way leaves Issei with long-lasting intimacy and self-esteem issues.]]

* ''Manga/DontMeddleWithMyDaughter'' presents a villainous example, as part of Athena's backstory. After she was defated 20 years ago, by her nemesis [[spoiler: Heavy Metal]], he took her to an unmarked island where he had gathered all of her enemies, then allowed them to [[RapeAsBackstory "take turns" with her]] before they finally gang raped her all at once. The story concludes with Athena [[RapeAndRevenge settling the score.]]

* In ''ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier'', Franchise/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.
* [[MythologyGag Similar to the example above,]] in Year One of ''ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'', shortly after Superman kills the Joker, Wonder Woman flies to an African refugee camp, where she interrupts the rape of a woman by a soldier who was supposed to keep the peace. Wonder Woman disarms the soldiers in the camp, and tells the women that they have nothing to fear from them. One of the women then states that as soon as she flies away, the men will keep doing what they always do, to which Wonder Woman tells the women to pick up the guns and do what they have to do. As she flies away, gunshots sound out in the camp below.
* In their second miniseries, the ComicBook/SecretSix do something similar with the inmates of a North Korean prison. They also do it later in their ongoing when they hand a child-killer 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.
* In the 'Friendly Fire' arc of ''ComicBook/{{DMZ}}'', the US military disposes of whistleblower Stevens (whose unit participated in a civilian massacre, which he then exposed the covering-up of) by handing him over to a civilian mob. The mob, knowing that he was party to the murder of their friends and families, beat him to death. Subverted in that the mob immediately regret what they did and allow a medic to get to him (although it's already too late).
* ''ComicBook/JonahHex'': Jonah hands an Indian-butchering sheriff over to the tribe he's been preying on, but then subverts it in another issue, where he hands a murderess over to the carnival who hired him, but when he sees them start to enact "carnival justice", which involves beating her to death all night long, he [[MercyKill puts a bullet in her head.]]
* Inverted in ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'', where Spawn uses his powers to turn a Ku Klux Klan leader black and then leaves him to be found by his fellow Klan members, who [[HoistByHisOwnPetard lynch him]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Magicka}}'': The heroine at one point encounters Hitler (the most evil men Earth produced were assembled in one point in time and space) but is prevented from killing him. Later on, she teleports him, in full uniform, into the middle of a crowd of prisoners in Auschwitz, circa 1942. The view then pans out [[GoryDiscretionShot to the silent crowd holding boards with nails in them]]...
* In an issue of ''Franchise/GreenLantern: Emerald Warriors'', Guy Gardner disarms some sadistic alien slave drivers 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 ''ComicBook/{{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.
* Franchise/{{Batman}}:
** In one of the grimmer story arcs, [[ComicBook/BatmanTheCult The Cult]], the Dark Knight is captured by a cult and brainwashed into helping them kill their way through Gotham. He manages to break free and later returns to bring down the leader, Deacon Blackfire. Knowing that giving Blackfire a well-deserved death would only serve to make him a martyr, Batman focuses on causing as much pain with every blow as possible. Eventually Blackfire breaks and begs for mercy, in front of the throngs of cultists. The fatal element of this is that part of Blackfire's creed that he hammered into the heads of his kidnapped followers was that their substantial suffering was insignificant in the greater scheme of things. To show himself to be weak and submissive enraged the people that had suffered greatly for him, and the disillusioned cultists tore him apart so ferociously that nothing identifiable remained.
** In another grim Batman Comic, an abusive psychiatrist convinces his patients to do his dirty work through manipulation and hiding his identity. When Batman figures out who it is and unmasks him in front of his patients, it's noted that "if I allowed them to beat him for 15 seconds, I am sure he would have died. [[TechnicalPacifist I allow them to beat him for ten.]]"
* ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'': The squad does this by accident. Upon de-transforming a police officer who had been changed into a giant mecha, they leave him in the care of a crowd that claims to be his friends. In his weakened state, they don't notice his panicked eyes and whispered protests, and don't know that the cop is extremely corrupt and they just handed him over to the people he's been terrorizing and extorting for the last twenty years.
* ''ComicBook/SupremePower: Nighthawk'''s first issue sees him do this with a racist graffiti artist (who painted over a nice graffiti art showing the birth of Jesus Christ, but with black characters with the words "CONGRATULATIONS, IT'S A N*GGER) after punching him in the face. He leaves as he sees the inhabitants of said neighborhood have noticed what the graffiti artist did and are coming after him.
* ''ComicBook/XMan'': In issue 66, Nate Grey learns that the 'down-spiral' (from a lower, grimmer world in the Multiverse) monster from whom he'd been defending a group of mutant CorruptCorporateExecutive[=s=] was targeting them because they stole his race's children in order to harvest and sell their organs. Nate responds by executing most of the group himself, but he singles out the one who had come up with the idea to steal the children, and delivers her alive to the monster and his people.

* In an early ''ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders'' story, [=GeoForce=] left [[TheUsurper Baron Bedlam]] to the mercy of the Markovian people after overthrowing his regime.
* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'':
** One story sees Frank take on a high-rise building full of criminals, led by a guy running (among others) a SnuffFilm ring with immigrant women (the guy literally ''splits the women apart'' with his penis). Frank cripples him and leaves him to the women.
** A mutual version in an arc where Frank goes to Belfast. He shoots the legs out from two sadistic gang leaders from opposing sides, and leaves them a gun before walking away. While they both go for the gun, it's subverted in that Frank knows they'll bleed out before they can kill each other, and the gun's empty anyway.
* In [[ComicBook/TheNewUniverse Marvel's New Universe]], a mob boss hires the football/superhero team Kickers, Inc. to investigate his son's suicide. The boss wants to avenge his son in the mob's ''vendetta'' way, but the Kicker's leader Jack Magniconte wants to follow the law. The Kickers find out [[DrivenToSuicide the boy's suicide was driven by]] a dark occultist cult led by a professor researching hallucinogens. The team disbands the cult and saves other potential victims, but the professor can't be arrested because, despite his methods, his research is legal and funded by the government. Not wanting the guy to be a KarmaHoudini, Jack tells the mob boss the professor's name and where to find him.

* In ''Film/IronMan1'', after Tony's first "live-fire exercise" with the completed armor, he leaves Abu Bakaar, the leader of the gang of Ten Rings terrorists, to the mercy of the villagers they'd been raiding.

** The film cuts away before we see what happens to him, but given the Ten Rings had been in the process of putting all the military-age men in the village to death and hauling the women and children off to use as human shields and God only knows what else, his death was undoubtedly unpleasant.
* ''Film/SevenSamurai'' has an unusual variant of this trope. The samurai capture a bandit and immediately have to protect him from the (justifiably) murderous villagers. However, when they are approached by the oldest woman of the town, who lost every member of her family to bandits and has since been almost unwilling to continue living, they quietly step aside and allow her her vengeance.
* In ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'', Anthony, after rescuing Johanna from Fogg's Asylum, leaves the cruel asylum keeper to the mercy of his "children".
* In ''Film/{{Inception}}'', Saito turns FalseFriend Nash over to Cobol Engineering. It is implied that he will come down with a bad case of YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness.

* In ''Film/{{Hannibal}}'', Cordell Doemling pushes Mason Verger [[FedToPigs into the pen of pigs]] upon Hannibal's suggestion. "You can always say it was me".

* At the start of ''Film/DjangoUnchained'', after killing one of the slave traders he acquired Django from, Dr. Schultz hands the survivor's gun to the rest of the slaves and tells them that they now have two options: stay in chains or kill the remaining slaver and make a run for the North. [[BoomHeadshot They choose the latter]].
* ''Film/TheEvilThatMenDo''. Despite being contracted to kill [[TortureTechnician Dr Molloch]], Creator/CharlesBronson's character leaves him to be killed by the local peasants who are strongly implied to have been his former victims.
* Zig-zagged in the Creator/ChowYunFat film ''Full Contact''. Having been betrayed and left for dead by his friend Sam at the behest of Sam's cousin, big time gangster Judge, Ko (Chow) agrees to forgo his vengeance in exchange for Sam's help taking down Judge. Later, he leaves Sam to fend for himself against an entire bar full of mooks. He then jumps in and helps just when Sam is becoming overwhelmed. He tells Sam he was never really going to renege on the deal; he just thought it would be funny to mess with him.
* ''Film/TheRibaldTalesOfRobinHood'': After rescuing Marian from the dungeon, Robin turns the villainess Lady Sallyforth over to his Merry Men, telling them to use her as they see fit.
* At the end of ''Film/SixUnderground'', this is how the Ghosts deal with [[BigBad Rochav]] [[PresidentEvil Alimov]], dumping him into one of the refugee camps he regularly had bombed as a show of force. He is promptly chased down and beaten to death by an angry mob.
* At the end of ''Film/TheWarriors'', [[spoiler:the Gramercy Riffs [[ZergRush descend upon]] Luther and his Rogues gang after finding out Luther was the killer of Cyrus, and not the Warriors. Luther lets out a loud scream as it happens, implying he's about to be KilledOffScreen]].
* In ''Film/ThreeKings'', Major Gates finds [[spoiler:Troy]] being tortured. Anyone in the torture squad who tries to fight back is quickly and easily killed. The lead torturer, however, has his hands raised and makes no moves. Gates shoots him in the leg anyway, then passes the pistol to [[spoiler:Troy]], who levels the pistol with the torturer's face. [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim He then deliberately moves the pistol off to the side]] and vents his frustration by emptying the entire clip into the wall.