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* 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.

* 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.

** In "Look Who's Purging Now", [[Characters/RickAndMortyRickSanchez Rick Sanchez]] lends Arthricia a suit of PowerArmor to enable her to take revenge on the ruling elites of her planet for [[KillThePoor forcing the poor to kill each other in their yearly festival.]] At first Rick is content to let Arthricia massacre them herself, having had his fill of violence for the day, but when he sees how much fun she's having, he changes his mind and joins in.
** A villainous example: In "Unmortricken", [[spoiler: [[Characters/RickAndMortyEvilMorty Evil Morty]] [[OutGambitted out-gambits]] and defeats Rick Prime, destroys all his backup bodies, and steals his schematics for the Omega Weapon. He could then just finish him off himself, but decides to revive the near-dead Rick C-137 (the main one), who's been on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against Rick Prime for decades, to do it for him, leaving the room and telling him "Knock yourself out," which according to WordOfGod was also a test to see if Rick would prioritize his revenge or stopping Evil Morty from taking the Omega Weapon. Rick chooses {{Revenge}} and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beats Rick Prime to death with his bare hands]]]].

** In "Look Who's Purging Now", Rick lends Arthricia a suit of PowerArmor to enable her to take revenge on the ruling elites of her planet for [[KillThePoor forcing the poor to kill each other in their yearly festival.]] At first Rick is content to let Arthricia massacre them herself, having had his fill of violence for the day, but when he sees how much fun she's having, he changes his mind and joins in.
** A villainous example: In "Unmortricken", [[spoiler:Evil Morty [[OutGambitted out-gambits]] and defeats Rick Prime, destroys all his backup bodies, and steals his schematics for the Omega Weapon. He could then just finish him off himself, but decides to revive the near-dead Rick C-137 (the main one), who's been on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against Rick Prime for decades, to do it for him, leaving the room and telling him "Knock yourself out," which according to WordOfGod was also a test to see if Rick would prioritize his revenge or stopping Evil Morty from taking the Omega Weapon. Rick chooses {{Revenge}} and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beats Rick Prime to death with his bare hands]]]].

** A villainous example: In "Unmortricken", [[spoiler:Evil Morty [[OutGambitted out-gambits]] and defeats Rick Prime, destroys all his backup bodies, and steals his schematics for the Omega Weapon. He could then just finish him off himself, but decides to revive the near-dead Rick C-137 (the main one), who's been on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against Rick Prime for decades, to do it for him, which according to WordOfGod was also a test to see if Rick would prioritize his revenge or stopping Evil Morty from taking the Omega Weapon. Rick chooses {{Revenge}} and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beats Rick Prime to death with his bare hands]]]].

** A villainous example: In "Unmortricken", [[spoiler:Evil Morty [[OutGambitted out-gambits]] and defeats Rick Prime, destroys all his backup bodies, and steals his schematics for the Omega Weapon. He could then just finish him off himself, but decides to revive the near-dead Rick C-137 (the main one), who's been on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against Rick Prime for decades, to do it for him, which according to WordOfGod was also a test to see if Rick would prioritize his revenge or stopping Evil Morty from taking the Omega Weapon. Rick chooses {{Revenge}} and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beats Rick Prime to death with his bare hands]].

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': In "Look Who's Purging Now", Rick lends Arthricia a suit of PowerArmor to enable her to take revenge on the ruling elites of her planet for [[KillThePoor forcing the poor to kill each other in their yearly festival.]] At first Rick is content to let Arthricia massacre them herself, having had his fill of violence for the day, but when he sees how much fun she's having, he changes his mind and joins in.

* 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...

* In the film adaptation of ''Film/FiveNightsAtFreddys2023'', Vanessa reveals that the children possessing the animatronics (the victims of "The Yellow Rabbit") don't remember who killed them or how they ended up where they are, thus they do [[BigBad Afton's]] bidding without hesitation. Once Abby reminds them that [[WouldHurtAChild Afton is the one who lured them away, killed them, and trapped them in the animatronics]], they look at him and [[PunctuatedForEmphasis they. Are.]] '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis PISSED]]'''''. So much so that they let Mike, Abby, and the barely-conscious Vanessa escape the pizzeria while they trap Afton in the Springlock Bonnie suit, [[KarmicJustice causing him to die slowly and painfully in a pizzeria with his body trapped forever in an animatronic]].

* Allegedly, SerialKiller Jeffrey Dahmer was deliberately sent to clean showers with a scitzophrenic inmate who hated Dahmer while the guards left for long enough for the other inmate to kill him. Similar incidents are often suspected in murders of high profile prisoners.

* Allegedly, SerialKiller Jeffrey Dahmer was deliberately sent to clean showers with a scitzophrenic inmate who hated Dahmer while the guards left for long enough for the other inamte to kill him. Similar incidents are often suspected in murders of high profile prisoners.

** In regions of the Ukraine that the Waffen-SS took from Soviet control, many NKVD and party officials suffered this fate at the hands of survivors of the Famine Genocide. Sadly, the most senior ones responsible, like Lazar Kaganovich and UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev, [[KarmaHoudini were not among them]].

* Allegedly, SerialKiller UsefulNotes/JeffreyDahmer was deliberately sent to clean showers with a scitzophrenic inmate who hated Dahmer while the guards left for long enough for the other inamte to kill him. Similar incidents are often suspected in murders of high profile prisoners.

* 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 repentance, 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.
* 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.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' G1 episode "Prime Target", a crazy human hunter obsessed with playing TheMostDangerousGame wants to hunt Optimus Prime. He gets the Autobot to come to him by kidnapping and torturing several Autobots, which ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes pisses]] [[AFatherToHisMen Prime]] [[PapaWolf off]].'' By the end, when the hunter has been defeated, Optimus ties him to the front of [[BookEnds the Russian plane he stole at the beginning of the episode]] and leaves him at a Soviet base, allowing the Russians to have their justice.

'''As a way for a villain to meet their demise, this can easily be a DeathTrope. Expect unmarked spoilers.'''

* ''Literature/TortallUniverse'': This is how the K'mir culture executes criminals.

* In the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, Ash and his friends regularly leave Team Rocket at the mercy of the episode's starring character or Pokémon 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 apologizing and giving back the food]].

* 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.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/Animaniacs2020'': At the end of "Good Warner Hunting," Walter Grubb, aka. [[spoiler:Chicken Boo]] beats a hasty retreat. The Warners respond by releasing all the ''Animaniacs'' co-stars he'd hunted and letting them have their revenge.

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

* In UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, most of the [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust death camps]] had -- wisely -- [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere been abandoned by the time Allied forces got there]], but Dachau [[TooDumbToLive was still in operation when the Americans liberated it]]. After taking the camp and figuring out what it was for, they armed the surviving prisoners and set them loose on their former guards.
* There is also at least one account of a [[UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan Japanese]] [[TheGulag POW camp]] in which, after the camp was taken by Allied soldiers, the sadistic commander surrendered to them and demanded to be treated "as befits a Prisoner of War". [[ExactWords The soldiers took one look around the camp]] and turned him over to the prisoners, who [[BuriedAlive buried him alive]].
* This sort of thing happened all over Europe in the immediate aftermath of the liberation. Unofficial policy was that the Allied forces would give liberated forced labourers, camp inmates, [=PoWs=], and civilians a grace period in which they could do what they wanted to German soldiers, or in a lot of cases just any German. After that, the rule of law was put back into place.
* In regions of the Ukraine that the Waffen-SS took from Soviet control, many NKVD and party officials suffered this fate at the hands of survivors of the Famine Genocide. Sadly, the most senior ones responsible, like Lazar Kaganovich and UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev, [[KarmaHoudini were not among them]].

* ''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]] [[AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted on her dental bills after the Professor finds and confiscates the stash]].