History Main / KickTheSonOfABitch

* KarmicButtMonkey: A villain who happens to also be the ButtMonkey.

“Kick the Son of a Bitch” may refer to one of the following pages:

A heroic (or {{antihero}}ic) version of KickTheDog.

You may be looking for one of the following:

* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: A villain does a morally ambiguous action that the hero will not do, but benefits from.

* KarmicOverkill: A character ends up suffering so horribly that even viewers who agree that they deserved punishment think they got more than they really deserved.
* KickTheDog: When a character does something evil, cruel or very mean for no apparent gain, because the author wants to demonstrate that they are not a nice person and shift audience sympathy away from them.
* LaserGuidedKarma: When bad things happen to bad people at opportune times, and vice versa for good people.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: A character gets more sympathy from the audience than the writers were expecting.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Doing evil things to evil people is portrayed as a good thing.

* BreakTheHaughty: A character who's a {{Jerkass}}, a MilesGloriosus, or simply a character who's nothing but a prideful selfish jerk endures a HumiliatingConga that can (sometimes) knock them down a few pegs and lead to character development. If not, hey, the audience gets a little catharsis by seeing this person's dignity get put through the ringer.

* BreakTheHaughty: A character who's a {{Jerkass}}, a MilesGloriosis, or simply a character who's nothing but a prideful selfish jerk endures a HumiliatingConga that can (sometimes) knock them down a few pegs and lead to character development. If not, hey, the audience gets a little catharsis by seeing this person's dignity get put through the ringer.

* BreakTheHaughty: A character who's a {{Jerkass}}, a MilesGloriosis, or simply a character who's nothing but a prideful selfish jerk endures a HumiliatingCongaLine that can (sometimes) knock them down a few pegs and lead to character development. If not, hey, the audience gets a little catharsis by seeing this person's dignity get put through the ringer.

* BreakTheHaughty: A character who's a {{Jerkass}}, a MilesGloriousis, or simply a character who's nothing but a prideful selfish jerk endures a HumiliationCongaLine that can (sometimes) knock them down a few pegs and lead to character development. If not, hey, the audience gets a little catharsis by seeing this person's dignity get put through the ringer.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: A character the audience is supposed to sympathize with comes across as unsympathetic.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: A characters gets more sympathy from the audience than the writers were expecting.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: A character the audience is supposed to sympathize with comes across as unsympathetic.
* Kick the son of bitch or kick the sob:a character that was very abusive than karma him/her

----

* KarmicOverkill: A character ends up suffering so horribly that even those who agree that they deserved punishment think they got more than they really deserved.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: A character the audience is supposed to sympathize with comes across as unsympathetic.

!This trope is [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16790424540.08203200 under discussion]] in the Administrivia/TropeRepairShop.
%%%
%%
%% This page has been alphabetized. Please add new examples in the correct order. Thanks!
%%
%%%

->''"Aw, come on! That brat was asking for it!"''
-->-- '''Don East''' defending Manga/{{Naruto}}'s case for striking Hikaru, ''[[http://blip.tv/doneastproductions/anime-abomination-naruto-3-the-movie-2632801 Anime Abomination]]''

%% One quote is sufficient. Please use the quotes tab for more.

There's nothing quite so evil as when a character takes a clear step toward villainy and decides to KickTheDog. Sometimes, though, the kick falls flat--not because it wasn't evil, mind you. The intent, malice, and ill will are all there. It's just that at this moment, the dog isn't a sweet, innocent puppy. It happens to be a devious son of a bitch that's trying to sink its teeth into someone's leg. This is one effective way to set up a believable StartOfDarkness while keeping the character more sympathetic than he would appear if his victim was an innocent, despite the fact that it was [[MoralLuck merely a coincidence]] that he wasn't.

'''Important note:''' this trope is not to be confused with its close cousin PayEvilUntoEvil, in which an asshole also suffers from another's cruelty as payback for their cruelty. The difference lies in how much the perpetrator knew about the victim, and whether that was his motive for committing the act. Someone who does PayEvilUntoEvil will deliberately target a terrible person. An SOB Kicker either doesn't know about his victim's evil, or simply doesn't care. Basically he ends up doing the right thing for all the wrong reasons, which shows the underlying unfairness of the story since it implies that it was luck that determined who gets to suffer, especially if the perpetrator who is no better gets away with it. In a few cases it is simply a matter of perspective and what looks like a mere KickTheDog may end up becoming this, once the viewer learns more about the supposedly innocent victim. The line between the two ''may'' be blurred in cases where the victim was targeted due to their contemptible nature, but the perpetrator was also just looking to hurt or kill someone and needed a good excuse for doing it, so they chose an easy target.

Compare:
* Kick the Son of a Bitch: While escaping from a bank heist gone sour, a couple of robbers gun down anyone who gets in their way. Among the victims, unbeknownst to them, is a certain misogynistic pimp who was notoriously cruel to his prostitutes and recently managed to beat the rap for murdering one of them. He will not be missed.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: While escaping from a bank heist gone sour, a couple of robbers gun down anyone who gets in their way. One of the robbers spots a certain misogynistic pimp he knows who is notoriously cruel to his prostitutes and recently managed to beat the rap for murdering one of them ([[ItsPersonal the robber’s girlfriend]]); [[EvenEvilHasStandards figuring this is as good a time as any for revenge]], he takes aim and shoots him.

Suffice to say that the PayEvilUntoEvil can have a perpetrator of almost any morality while the Kick the Son of a Bitch is always a case of EvilVersusEvil. See also KickTheDog; TakeThatScrappy; AssholeVictim; EvenEvilHasStandards. Compare with AlasPoorScrappy, PokeThePoodle, and DesignatedVillain. Scenes like this often qualify for LessDisturbingInContext.

[[noreallife]]
----
!!Example subpages:
[[index]]
* KickTheSOB/AnimeAndManga
* KickTheSOB/FanWorks
* KickTheSOB/{{Film}}
* KickTheSOB/LiveActionTV
* KickTheSOB/VideoGames
* KickTheSOB/{{Webcomics}}
* KickTheSOB/WesternAnimation
[[/index]]

!!Other examples:

[[foldercontrol]]

[[folder:Asian Animation]]
* ''Animation/{{Mechamato}}'': Ninjamera doesn't discriminate between his victims. He traps [[TheBully Bula and Bili]] in a time loop when they fall in an alleyway by the trash, even though the two inadvertently helped the robot strike Deep by making him land in the mud earlier. Ninjamera [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube uploads all his victims' humiliation online]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Audio Plays]]

* ''AudioPlay/YandereNoOnnaNoKo 3'': [[spoiler:In her track, one of the titular {{Yandere}}s, Elise Sakuranomiya, kills her sister Alice [[MurderTheHypothenuse for getting too close]] to TheProtagonist. However, unbeknownst to her, Alice is a SerialKiller who emotionally abused her into staying dependent to her, killed anyone who got too close to her and gave the Protagonist the same fate in her track. Needless to say, Elise probably did the world and herself a favor with that SiblingMurder.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/AvengersAcademy'': The students learn that their teacher Tigra was once attacked in her home by the supervillain called the Hood, who beat her savagely, threatened to kill her mother, and forced her to beg for her life. They decide to PayEvilUntoEvil and do the same thing to the Hood, with the added measure of recording the beatdown and subsequent begging before [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube putting it on Youtube to humiliate him further]]. Whilst Tigra herself chewed out the students responsible, fans felt that the Hood deserved everything he had coming to him, since even in addition to what he did to Tigra, he's also an all-around petty scumbag. Even Tigra [[NotSoAboveItAll couldn't help indulging herself]] and [[RewindReplayRepeat repeatedly watched the video]].
* In ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'', [[spoiler:Willy Pete, a brutal, cannibalistic, serial rapist-murderer,]] is eventually killed off by [[spoiler:Neurospear, a sadistic, psychopathic mind-controller]], who is one of the few characters in the story to be as utterly repugnant, despicable, and horrifying as he is.
* In ''Franchise/GreenLantern Corps'' watching Mongul II decimate Daxam might be ugly, but given that the Daxamites are a planet of xenophobes who kill and stuff any aliens they find, it's hard not to cheer for him anyway. As Sodam Yat (himself a Daxamite, but disgusted by his people's FantasticRacism) notes, "congratulations Daxam. You finally got the alien you deserve."
* In ''ComicBook/InhumansVsXMen'', ComicBook/{{Storm|MarvelComics}} ends up blasting ComicBook/{{Beast|MarvelComics}} with a lightning bolt to stop him from ratting out the X-Men to the Inhumans over their plan to attack them and stop the Terrigen Cloud's effect on mutants. This would be seen as a KickTheDog moment since they're teammates and friends. However, since the end of ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'', Beast has been written as a major jerkass trying his damnedest to prove that ComicBook/{{Cyclops|MarvelComics}} was some sort of monster and essentially treating his friends like crap. Even more, Beast wasn't going to warn the Inhumans due to moral objections (ComicBook/{{Rogue}} had decided to OptOut of the attack because of this), but because [[DirtyCoward he was scared of any possible Inhuman retaliation.]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Iznogoud}}'':
** The three Caliph's brothers that Iznogoud made disappear. While Troiround wasn't really developed enough to say if he was evil or not, Dheround was truly a bully that kept playing deadly pranks on Iznogoud and mocking him for his small size and big nose. Katround was even worse, being a crazy man obsessed with making people disappear and attempting to literally erase Baghdad (including his well-intentioned older brother).
** A more obvious example in ''Who Killed the Caliph'', where he has the Executioner (a greedy, sadistic man asking his childhood friend Wa'at Alahf a bribe for his mercy) [[LaserGuidedKarma tortured by his own previous victim]].
* In ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', Mr. Hyde brutally tortures, rapes, and murders a person. Normally this would have been a MoralEventHorizon, but the person he does this to happens to be [[spoiler:Griffin the Invisible Man, a murderer and rapist whom Hyde had just caught trying to sell out Earth to Martians]].
* ''ComicBook/LesLegendaires'' has [[EvilSorcerer Skroa]] savagely killing a bunch of slave traders who were attacking the protagonists so they could sell one of them. You really don't feel sorry for those guys. [[spoiler:Then later books have Amy killing Skroa.]]
* In ''Comicbook/{{Preacher}}'', [[spoiler:God allowing Cassidy to be tortured turns out to be this, given Cassidy's true nature and awful past. Suffice to say, when God Named him Beast, Cassidy lived down to the name.]]
* In ''ComicBook/{{Shadowland}}'', one of ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'s first acts after he takes control of the Hand is to brutalize and kill ComicBook/{{Bullseye|MarvelComics}}, who is even uncharacteristically afraid of him by the time he has both arms broken. This is taken as the first sign of Daredevil JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope, but considering that it's Bullseye we're talking about, an assassin who kills people for shits and giggles (DD even pointed out that he bombed an entire building floor full of people just to get a rise of him when they last fought) and was fresh off his tenure as [[ComicBook/DarkReign Norman Osborn's Hawkeye]], it's hard to feel any sympathy. ComicBook/LukeCage and ComicBook/IronFist are honestly more horrified that Daredevil broke his ThouShaltNotKill rule than the fact that he did it to Bullseye.
* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'': In Issue #25, when [[BigBadWannabe Doctor Starline]] tries to pull a ScrewThisImOuttaHere on the [[EnemyMine alliance forming between Eggman and the Restoration]], Eggman responds by having Metal Sonic steal his Warp Topaz and violently chuck him through a portal to parts unknown. Considering that Starline not only indirectly caused the current [[ZombieApocalypse Metal Virus crisis]] by [[AmnesiacDissonance restoring Eggman's villainous memories]] but also just made it worse by [[spoiler: accidentally giving the Deadly Six control of the Zombots]], Sonic and the other heroes have ''zero'' problem with how Eggman disposes of him.
* ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan'' and watching the Goblin King tear down ''everything'' [[ComicBook/DoctorOctopus Otto]] had built up. Had this been stuff Peter Parker himself had done, this would be a MoralEventHorizon for Gobby. Instead, it's Otto Octavius riding in Peter's body, destroying every last bit of goodwill Peter had made in an attempt to be "superior". Instead, watching his "legacy" crumble seems cathartic.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** During ''ComicBook/NewKrypton'', Lex Luthor guns down Kryptonian Commander Gor from behind. Since Gor was a {{sadist}}ic SociopathicSoldier, nobody really cares.
** In ''ComicBook/TheKillersOfKrypton'', [[BigBad Empress Gandelo]] slaps Harry Hokum with her rock-hard, razor-sharp hand and then she gets him dumped into space. It is not a pretty or clean way of dying, and you would almost feel sorry for him... if Hokum wasn't an utterly amoral, sadistic tyrant who regards people as tools, blames his own mistakes on his loyal subordinates and has murdered countless people in atrocious ways. Gandelo does not care about ''any'' of his misdeeds, though; she is pissed off because he revealed her organization's secrets to ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}.
** ''ComicBook/StarfiresRevenge'': Derek Marlowe/Ames is a conman who enthusiastically seduces and steals from gullible wealthy women. His boss gets him killed off because he cannot be trusted to keep quiet about her ambitious scheme.
** ''ComicBook/TheGirlWithTheXRayMind'': Lesla-Lar, a jealous and arrogant mad scientist who attempted to destroy Supergirl's life out of petty envy and was willing to destroy Earth just for amusement, is murdered by the Phantom Zoner criminals because she has outlived her usefulness.
** ''ComicBook/SupermanSupergirlMaelstrom'': The titular villain, who destroyed one hospital, injuring and killing people, is tortured several times for stealing a teleporting device and boring Darkseid.
* ''ComicBook/{{Wolverines}}'': Mr. Sinister tearing off one of ComicBook/{{Daken}}'s arms and ripping out his left eye for good measure would normally be the kind of gruesome act that would make the reader shudder in disgust and horror, and it is. ...but given this is ''Daken'', a serial murderer/serial rapist/professional sadist we're talking about, it's hard to feel sorry for him.
* The death of [[spoiler:Martin Sutter]] at ComicBook/{{X 23}}'s hands in ''ComicBook/X23InnocenceLost''. It's certainly meant to be a sign of just how off the slippery slope Rice has leaped, but damned if you don't feel he deserved it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': The Inspector regularly mocks, taunts, threatens, and otherwise humiliates...[[ArchEnemy Visser Three]]. It's kind of fun to watch.
* In ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'', the third book ends with Artemis [[OutGambitted Out-Gambitting]] [[BigBad Jon Spiro]], stealing his entire fortune, leaving him for the police to be arrested and essentially pushing him into such a VillainousBreakdown that [[SanitySlippage he seems to have turned insane]]. Considering Spiro was an ''very'' amoral, [[ItsAllAboutMe egocentric]] CorruptCorporateExecutive and SmugSnake with connection to the Mafia whose actions almost killed one of the most sympathetic characters in the series, this part is ''extremely'' satisfying.
* ''Literature/BazilBroketail'': A short description of the barbaric customs of the Kraheenian noblemen and the miserable fate of the ordinary people living under their rule makes it pretty clear that by conquering the country and overthrowing its former rulers, General Kreegsbrok actually did their subjects a favor.
* Pimps in the ''Literature/BelisariusSeries'' tend to suffer this fate. As do Malwa ritual torturers.
* In ''Literature/TheBlackCompany'', Raven and Croaker manage to capture The Whisper and The Limper. Raven then proceeds to torment The Limper until Croaker decides it's enough and stops him. Limper has it coming.
* In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'', Keifer Porter is a [[MaritalRapeLicense rapist]], abusive husband, and all-around nasty person. He dies in an attempt on his wives' lives. The surviving princesses suffer from survivor's guilt, especially the one who said "I wish he was dead" just before the building with him in it exploded--she's not sorry that ''he'' is dead, but half of her sisters were also killed.
* The first book of ''Literature/CodexAlera'' has Kord. Kord is a brutal slaver who breaks female slaves by having them raped. He mistreats his elder son Aric and spoils his more handsome son Bittan [[spoiler:who later dies at the hands of Aldrick Ex Gladius]]. [[spoiler:Since Bittan was accused of rape, he ran the risk of losing his entire steadholt,]] which gave him an excuse for being a dick to everyone. Near the end of the book, after getting his spine crushed by [[spoiler:Isana]], he is tied down and eaten alive by several Horse-Clan Marat.
* ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'': At one point while in the Cocytus, Dante pulls a traitor's hair in order to force him to tell his story, going so far as to actually tear out handfuls of hair when the shade stubbornly refuses to say anything.
* In ''Literature/DragonsOfRequiem'', Dies Irae murders two members of the Rot Squad trio and uses their body parts for his [[FleshGolem mimics]]. Keep in mind, the Rot Squad trio were {{Jerk Ass}}es who spent their free time scavenging for body parts, abusing each other, and at one point they kick a dog so many times that ''it dies''.
* During Voldemort's rise to power in ''Literature/HarryPotter'', he murders his father and grandparents and frames his uncle Morfin Gaunt for the crimes. Killing his family? Not OK. Framing his uncle, who was an insane bigoted arsehole who used to abuse his younger sister (and Voldemort’s mother), attack Muggles unprovoked, and nail snakes to the wall? Meh.
* In ''Literature/HorusHeresy'' there is a moment when BigBad, Horus, rips the face off TheCorrupter, Erebus. Not only did Erebus try to have Sanguinus possessed, he also corrupted Lorgar and Horus, essentially dooming the Imperium and kickstarting the Heresy.
* ''Literature/KingCity'': at the climax, when confronted with the threat of a full-blown police raid on his apartment, crime boss Duke Fallon orders the fugitive, Timo (who might testify against him if arrested) "sent down" and seconds later Timo is thrown out the window and falls to his death. Normally, killing a potential witness against you who'd trusted you enough to come begging for sanctuary would feel like a pretty crummy thing to do, but considering that Timo [[CopKiller gunned down a pair of rookie cops who weren't even after him simply because they were in his neighborhood]], threatened to rape [[WouldHurtAChild the main characters thirteen-year-old daughter if he didn't back off]], and is an all-around SmugSnake and {{Jerkass}}, Duke's ordering him killed actually makes Duke a bit more likable to the reader.
* A humorous poem by Creator/RudyardKipling gives this treatment to the Biblical CainAndAbel: Cain the farmer killed Abel for wrecking Cain's irrigation ditches to give the water to his cattle. The last line specifically describes God's judgment upon Cain as unfair. (Though Abel had at first offered to ''buy'' the water, so Cain was a bit unreasonable, too.)
* Similar to the ''Star Wars'' example though without so much buildup, [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Artemis]] [[BloodKnight Entreri]] of the [[Literature/TheLegendOfDrizzt Drizzt]] novels is in a foul mood when he happens across a [[EvilMatriarch Drow Matron]] in the underdark while searching for Drizzt. After a sexist barrage of insults, it doesn't go very well for her.
* ''Literature/TheMagicPudding'': It's made pretty blatant to any reader that Bill and Sam wound up pushing Curry and Rice into the ocean to drown. Given the situation, though, it's hard to blame them.
* Nothing gives Zack State, the main character of ''Literature/TheMentalState'', more pleasure than wrecking the lives of criminals who refuse to repent. There are quite a few unscrupulous characters in the story, and Zack has plans for all of them. Most of them end up getting brutally beaten up or lacerated, some of them are traumatised for life, and the BigBad [[spoiler:loses everything he has, resulting in him spending the rest of his life in solitary confinement with no money, no friends, no hope and no ''fingers'']]!
* In ''Literature/{{Murderess}}'', [[LonersAreFreaks Lu]]’s [[CurbStompBattle decisive defeat]] of [[AlphaBitch Bridget]] in a SnowballFight. Bridget is so widely despised that everyone around her joins in, and Lu becomes immediately popular.
* In the first Literature/JesseStone novel, ''Night Passage'', normally an officer performing a [[GroinAttack kick to the balls]] on an unarmed civilian who's not attacking him would be a major KickTheDog moment. Unless said civilian is [[{{Jerkass}} Jo Jo Genest]], who just got done bragging about how [[CowboyCop Jesse]] can't do anything to stop him from raping his ex-wife and openly mocks the restraining orders she's filed against him. Then it's this trope.
* In ''Literature/RedDragon'', Francis Dolarhyde, who has no moral qualms about [[spoiler:Freddy Lounds being a {{Paparazzi}}]], kills him by [[ManOnFire setting him on fire]].
** In ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' series Hannibal Lecter also has a habit of doing this. The most particular is [[spoiler:Frederick Chilton, who is an abusive prison warden. However, Hannibal was utterly insane and was less offended about Chilton being a corrupt prison warden]].
** The novel version of ''Hannibal'' does this as well with [[spoiler:Mason Verger, who gets offed in a ''truly'' nasty manner by his sister Margot, who also takes his sperm so she can impregnate her girlfriend and conceive a blood heir who can inherit a trust fund, but since Verger is a truly awful piece of work who was a sadistic asshole to begin with (which is what prompted Hannibal to disfigure him in the first place) who also sexually abused Margot when they were young, it comes off as this instead. Margot is a KarmaHoudini, but it's ''really'' hard to feel bad for Verger]].
* ''Literature/TheReynardCycle'': In ''Reynard the Fox'', Reynard reveals that [[spoiler:when he was young, he drugged his mother's pimp, along with his associates, barricaded the building they were in, and then burned them alive in a fire]].
** [[spoiler:[[SelfMadeOrphan Did we mention that his (comatose) mother was in there as well?]]]]
* In ''The Penultimate Peril'' of ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', [[IllegalGuardian Count Olaf]] violently pushes the [[SpoiledBrat snotty]] [[EnfantTerrible Carmelita Spats]] to the ground. And this is before [[spoiler:he starts a fire that likely killed her, Esme Squalor, Sir, Principal Nero and some others, both nice and equally vile]].
* Whether or not this applies to ''Literature/TheSlap'' is the driving question of the book. The plot kicks off when Harry slaps Hugo, the child of another couple at his cousin Hector's barbecue. Whether this is little more than child abuse or appropriate discipline of a badly-behaved child is deliberately left up to the reader, [[BothSidesHaveAPoint but is complicated on both sides]] -- Harry is constantly portrayed as an abusive jerk with few redeeming qualities, but Hugo is an out-of-control brat who, at the time of the slap, had been threatening Harry's son and Hector's children with a cricket bat, and his own parents hadn't made an effort to stop him.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' is full of BlackAndGrayMorality and outright EvilVersusEvil, so this is a frequent occurrence:
** The "Brave Companions" (or, as they are called behind their back, the "Bloody Mummers") are a bunch of PrivateMilitaryContractors known for committing rape, torture, and other atrocities. They eventually run foul of someone even worse, and their leader Vargo Hoat is [[AutoCannibalism force-fed his own limbs]] by the monstrous [[BlackKnight Gregor Clegane]] in a gruesomely fitting fashion.
** The Companions themselves do this to Amory Lorch, a FatBastard and SmugSnake who stabbed a toddler to death, by feeding him to a bear.
** Perhaps one of the reasons why [[MagnificentBastard Littlefinger]] is still a firm fan-favourite is that he has a tendency to do this. It's hard not to cheer the guy when he [[spoiler:has [[TheCaligula Joffrey]] poisoned or throws crazy Lysa Arryn off a mountain-top]].
** Roose Bolton's "Don't make me rue the day I raped your mother" to Ramsay. They're both horrible people, but Ramsay deserves all his father's cruelty and more.
** What [[AxCrazy Ramsay]] did to Theon is an interesting example of this trope. While Theon was a nasty piece of work and spent a lot of time getting the readers to despise him over the course of the second book, what [[{{Sadist}} Ramsay]] [[ColdBloodedTorture did to him]] was [[MindRape so extreme, cruel]], and so ''[[ForTheEvulz totally pointless]]'' that it leads to one beginning to actually sympathize with Theon and despise Ramsay, [[DeconstructedTrope completely turning this trope on its head]].
** Then there is Cersei Lannister's "[[ShamefulStrip Walk of Shame]]" in ''Literature/ADanceWithDragons''. While forcing a woman to walk naked across an entire city, all the while being jeered and shouted at by thousands of people, as a punishment for whoring exemplifies the Faith Militant's fundamentalist misogyny, the fact that it's ''[[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Cersei]]'' who is the victim makes this a very delightful event. Especially since it's an apt HoistByHisOwnPetard for her (Cersei originally plotted for Margaery Tyrell to be falsely prosecuted for adultery, but ended up having her own dirty laundry get outed).
* Continuing with ''Franchise/StarWars'', [[spoiler:Jacen Solo]]'s murder of Ta'a Chume in the ''Literature/DarkNestTrilogy'' was supposed to symbolize a step onto the dark side path. However, since the "victim" arranged the death of her own daughter-in-law and nearly did the same to her granddaughter, a lot of fans were cheering him along the whole way. Very, very similar to the ''Star Wars'' example with Darth Vader, in the film section, above. Then again, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything the same thing can be said]] for the whole plot of ''Literature/LegacyOfTheForce'': a young Jedi Knight of Skywalker heritage decides to use TheDarkSide and [[FallenHero become a Sith Lord]] in order to protect [[TheFederation a democratic government]] from an evil confederacy/confederation, but ends up turning that democratic government in a Sith-ruled dictatorship, and [[LoveRedeems is redeemed]] [[RedemptionEqualsDeath in the end]] [[LoveRedeems by love of his child.]]
* The first-ever appearance of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, in Creator/IanFleming's ''Literature/{{Thunderball}}'', features him executing an underling who raped a hostage. The situation is this trope rather than PayEvilUntoEvil because Blofeld's objection is not to the underling's crime but to the fact that he broke the terms of SPECTRE's agreement with the hostage's father, which promised her unharmed return in exchange for a hefty ransom, and he simply can't have word of this getting out lest people think twice about hiring [=SPECTRE=]. The film changes the henchman's crime to mere embezzlement, making for a more standard KickTheDog.
* Padan Fain in Literature/TheWheelOfTime books has a couple of moments of this. The stand-out example however is when he is rubbing shoulders with the Seanchan early on in their appearance before the reader has time to get to know much about them besides the fact that they keep women who can use the One Power as pets/slaves. It is therefore weirdly satisfying to see him plot and execute the brutal murders of a good number of them.
* ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance'' (Book 2 of ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive''): Adolin [[spoiler:knifes Sadeas in the dark]]. It's the sort of tactic that his father Dalinar would frown on, but the victim had it coming and then some.
* In the ''Literature/XWingSeries'', aside from his "cutter", who prepares his drugs, absolutely no-one likes the relatively petty criminal Zekka Thyne. Not even the viewer. There's nothing to him but evil, and not even the [[EvilIsCool cool]] or [[FauxAffablyEvil interesting]] flavors of evil. He was taken off the prison planet by the Rebels, who reluctantly want to work with him. The Imperial Kirtan Loor has stormtroopers capture him and tie him down, then backhands him repeatedly, tells him to spy for him, and has the stormtroopers inflict a nonfatal abdominal wound so he can claim to have escaped. A few chapters on, while talking to the Rebels, he gets argumentative, hints at betrayal, and Fliry Vorru does this.
-->Vorru's right hand struck fast and slapped Thyne on the belly. The younger man howled, then, as he doubled over, Vorru grabbed him by the neck and slammed his forehead into the table. Thyne, glassy-eyed, rebounded and Vorru flung him from his chair. "For some people, discipline is a ''lesson''. For others it is a lifetime."
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Music]]
* Music/UnleashTheArchers: [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen The Matriarch]] commands the Immortal to slay her three sons for her so she can achieve immortality. The second son kinda has it coming, though: he has enslaved the minds of a city and tries to [[WeHaveReserves "hide behind a wall of men"]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* This is a trait of several "[[WildCard Tweener]]" wrestlers, such as Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin, Wrestling/TheUndertaker, and Wrestling/RandyOrton, who have a habit of committing actions that would be seen as despicable if done by anyone else but still manage to get the crowd behind them, simply by targeting wrestlers whom everyone already hates.
** Probably the best example was when Austin was the first male wrestler to put a beating on Wrestling/{{Chyna}}. She'd been played up at abusing the WouldntHitAGirl rule for months so that when he finally let her have it, the action didn't affect his general {{Face}} status at the time.
** The Strong Style Thugs (Wrestling/LowKi and [[Wrestling/NelsonErazo Homicide]]) stealing the Jersey All Pro {{tag team}} championship belts until given a title shot was seen as a dick move but everyone agreed that The Hit Squad (Mafia and Monsta Mack) deserved it.
** Another prime example is when Wrestling/TheUndertaker tombstoned Wrestling/VickieGuerrero during his 2008 feud with Wrestling/BigShow. Granted he had tombstoned her once before already ([[spoiler:while feuding with Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} going into ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} 24'']],) but by the time the 2nd one occurred, Vickie had already: [[spoiler:Stripped him of the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-world-h.html WWE World Heavyweight Title]], "banished" him from WWE for losing to Edge in a TLC match (with the help of La Familia,) AND enlisting the Big Show into tricking the Undertaker, culminating in Undertaker losing to Show by knock-out at ''No Mercy'']]. And this is not counting her involvement during Edge's subsequent feud with Wrestling/TripleH while the Undertaker was banished...
** Wrestling/IvelisseVelez of Las Sicarias and Wrestling/{{Holidead}} of Oedo~tai [[EnemyMine teaming up]] to stomp Aria Blake of "The Cutie Pie Club", who frequently gang up on unsuspecting wrestlers, over [[UnsportsmanlikeGloating them celebrating]] the unpopular exit of Velez and Holidead from SHINE's Nova Tournament.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Roleplay]]
* Marcus's [[BreakThemByTalking Breaking Speech]] to Gretel in ''RolePlay/YuGiOhEastAcademy'' was ''incredibly'' vicious, but you can't really say she didn't deserve it.
** Then there's his cold-blooded [[spoiler:execution of one of the cultists. It was horrible enough to qualify him as the group's TokenEvilTeammate, but considering that the cultist was a nihilistic psycho who had tried to torture and kill Daniel..]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/ChroniclesOfDarkness'':
** In ''TabletopGame/BeastThePrimordial'', this typically is how more [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire sympathetic Beasts]] deal with their Hunger. Since they can only feed their [[OurSoulsAreDifferent Horror]] by hurting or causing fear in mortals, they specifically target despicable people who have it coming, thus minimizing the harm they cause.
*** Unrelated to their feeding, while Beasts usually can treat average [[TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil Hunters]] with some degree of respect and understanding while still fighting them (Being {{Family Values Villain}}s, they can understand humans fighting back to protect their loved ones), they tend to go an extra-mile to harm and harass [[AristocratsAreEvil the Ashwood Abbey]] due to finding [[RapePillageAndBurn the way they hunt monsters]] disgusting and depraved.
** ''TabletopGame/PrincessTheHopeful'' briefly mentions the Catholic Church was responsible, during medieval times, for decimating the Pongamia Coven in Europe through their BurnTheWitch practices. This attitude would usually be seen as bigoted and horrible persecution, but the Pongamia happened to be a [[ReligionOfEvil Dark Cult]] of {{Evil Sorcerer}}s who made [[DealWithTheDevil Deals with the Darkness]] and [[AbusiveParents willingly abused their own children]] to turn them into [[HumanoidAbomination Mnemosyne]], meaning the Church was for once entirely justified in their reaction.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' it's virtually impossible to KickTheDog without accidentally causing ''some'' good in the process. Player characters can do pretty awful things to ''fairly'' innocent NPC's, but most major NPC's are very far from being dogs and usually in the son of a bitch territory, so whatever the reasons for the PC's to kick someone's ass, chances are that they're kicking a son of a bitch. The entire history of Creation is more or less a series of Kick the Son of a Bitch, most notably the Usurpation. It would be tactless to say that the Solar Exalted didn't deserve it, but the Bronze Faction weren't exactly benevolent angels either.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Spelljammer}}'', regular ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' gnomes often suffer a case of FantasticRacism towards the "minoi" or "tinker gnomes" of ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'', some even going so far as to try hunting them down. Many don't treat this as an evil act, however. In the metaverse, tinker gnomes are TheScrappy due to being {{Mad Scientist}}s PlayedForLaughs with traits that are, instead, highly irritating -- for example, they fixate on {{Rube Goldberg Device}}s to the extent that they simply can't build something that isn't needlessly complicated, and they actually strive to make their machines so absurd that they fail because they view the learning experiences from failure to be far more important than actual success. In-universe, the "minoi hunters" aren't regarded as evil because minoi can actually be very dangerous to everyone around them, thanks to their racial Hat of BunglingInventor -- they can cause tremendous damage when their machines inevitably go catastrophically wrong. For example, whenever a tinker gnome-built spelljammer approaches a planet, the odds are pretty good that "landing" will be synonymous with "falling out of the sky and crashing into the middle of a city".
* The ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' citybook ''Mexico City By Night'' features a last example of this in the form of Jaggedy Andy. Prior to his Embrace, Andy was a bigoted tourist who firmly believed that his status as an [[EagleLand American citizen]] rendered him invincible; after spending the day wandering around the city, laughing at "jobless lazy spics," he and his friends hailed a cab and demanded to be taken to a strip club -- only for the driver [[TheDogBitesBack to hand them over to the Sabbat for a Blood Feast]] attended by [[TheDreaded Sascha Vykos]] themself. In the end, Andy's defiance and stupidity got too annoying even for Vykos, so instead of just killing him, Vykos used Vicissitude to [[TheBlank seal every single orifice in Andy's head]] -- [[FateWorseThanDeath and then had one of their underlings Embrace him]]. Andy now spends his nights outcast from both mortal and vampire society, forced to spend eternity chiseling new eye sockets and mouths for himself, and terminally dependent on the homeless Mexicans he once despised. Given that he's still an asshole, nobody's shedding any tears his way.
* Lizard Men committing and planning serial wars and even outright genocide is normally pretty sinister stuff. When ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'' applies it to factions like Chaos, Dark Elves, or Skaven (who are incidentally enough their prime targets)? They deserve that and more. Other races are usually left alone unless provoked.
** By extension, just about [[BlackAndGrayMorality any faction attacking any other]] in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''.
** There's actually a highlighted example of this in ''Warriors of Chaos'', where a notation is made of a Chaos Champion named Gharad the Ox leading his warband to attack a town called Maulwurfbad. There, he faces off against Elector Count Wulfgang von Greidhart, a man so cruel and despised that, when Gharad was winning, the local women ''actually started cheering Gharad on''. He killed the count and promptly [[PetTheDog called off the attack and left without any further violence]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Theatre]]
* In ''Theatre/JekyllAndHyde'', as part of his general indulgence in cruelty, Hyde murders the Board of Governors of a Mental Hospital, most of which are your typical "Victorian hypocrites". In particular, there is the Bishop of Basingstoke who liked to visit underage prostitutes, and whom Hyde [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill beats and stabs to death with his walking stick and then sets the corpse on fire]]. To some extent, this could qualify as PayEvilUntoEvil, since these people had scorned Jekyll, so killing them was Hyde acting on one of Jekyll's desires -- but Hyde did it mostly ForTheEvulz.
* The first person who dies in ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'' is an abusive boyfriend and "semi-sadist". The guy sure looks like plant food.
* ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': Sweeney's first kill is [[spoiler:Adolfo Pirelli, who is the violent and abusive caretaker of Tobias Ragg and a consummate SnakeOilSalesman. He's also willing to blackmail Sweeney out of half his earnings out of sheer greed, despite the fact that he was Sweeney's apprentice back when he was known as Benjamin Barker. That's cold]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'':
** In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'', [[spoiler:Matt Engarde]]’s plan to [[spoiler:hire Shelley de Killer to]] kill Juan Corrida turns out to be a case of this, as Juan broke up with his fiancee merely because she had been dating Matt Engarde earlier, leading her to be DrivenToSuicide.
** In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations'', the same goes for [[spoiler:Luke Atmey]] killing Kane Bullard, who was blackmailing [[spoiler:Atmey]] after learning about [[spoiler:Atmey]]'s own blackmail and thieving operation. Like the fourth case of the previous game, this one is also EvilVersusEvil.
** In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'', [[spoiler:[[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Ga'ran Sigatar Khura'in]]]] kills [[spoiler:her husband Inga Karhuul Khura'in, the [[SinisterMinister corrupt Minister of Justice of the Kingdom of Khura'in]]]], after finding out that [[spoiler:he was planning a coup against her]]. While [[spoiler:Ga'ran]] isn't any better than [[spoiler:her husband]], it's still hard to feel bad for him because he was responsible for [[spoiler:shooting Apollo's foster father Dhurke dead without any remorse, and because he had a hobby of casually signing death warrants for people who were more than likely falsely convicted because of his country's screwed-up legal system]].
** Then there comes ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth Ace Attorney Investigations 2]]'', where the entire plot of the game can basically be described as one big chain of this, delivered by [[spoiler: a MonsterClown against a government conspiracy who's ruined his life and that of the assassin who saved him for the past 12 years.]] Considering this conspiracy consists of [[spoiler: a thoroughly corrupt [[AmoralAttorney former chief prosecutor]] who is [[AbusiveParents disgustingly abusive to his son]], a treacherous body double who had a nation's president assassinated to [[KillAndReplace take his identity]], and a prison warden who formerly ran the OrphanageOfFear that made the mastermind's life such a mess]], it's hard not to call him the lesser of two evils in this scenario, despite all the collateral damage he causes.
* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'':
** [[spoiler:Celestia Ludenberg]] killing [[spoiler:her murder accomplice Hifumi Yamada]] in Chapter 3 of [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc the first game]]. [[spoiler:Celeste]] only killed [[spoiler:him]] because [[spoiler:he]] [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness had outlived his usefulness]], but since [[spoiler:Hifumi]] agreed to help [[spoiler:Celeste]] murder an innocent teenage boy only because [[spoiler:she]] made a FalseRapeAccusation with no concrete evidence against said teenage boy and because said teenage boy was his rival over the affections of a ''computer AI'', it is hard to feel bad for [[spoiler:him - at least not until TheReveal that neither he or any of the other killers in the game would have been that way had their memories not been tampered with against their wills]].
* In ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', [[SmugSnake Shinji Matou]] is the son of a bitch in question. The first kick would be in the ''Fate'' route where Ilya [[spoiler:brutally killing him after Rider is beaten by Saber]]. [[LawfulGood Shirou]] is horrified; the rest of us just think Ilya is awesome. In ''Unlimited Blade Works''; Gilgamesh gets to be the kicker, when he decided to [[spoiler:make the Holy Grail out of Shinji]]. This was quite the effective kick that after all it's done, [[spoiler:Shinji was so scared that he actually starts becoming more decent... as implied in the epilogue]]. And in ''Heaven's Feel'' [[spoiler:Sakura's FaceHeelTurn is marked by her beheading Shinji]]. In this case, the story doesn't really act like this was the wrong thing to do [[spoiler:(he was midway through [[AttemptedRape attempting to rape her]], and has been raping her for many years)]] but it still marks the point where [[spoiler:Sakura]] decides to embrace being evil.
** His grandfather Zouken as well. He only makes an appearance in ''Heaven's Feel'', but he is the whole reason the Matou family is as screwed up as it is, the one behind 90% of Sakura's pain, ''and'' the one responsible for Shinji's massive inferiority complex (which seems to be the core motivation behind a lot of his heinous actions), so him being gruesomely killed by [[spoiler:Sakura]] at the climax is no tragedy. Zouken is in fact such a son of a bitch, that his cameo in the AlternateUniverse of ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha'' has him [[spoiler:being left for dead by the Nazi collaborator Darnic Prestone Yggdmillennia as he steals the Greater Grail from Fuyuki and takes all his dreams with it, [[FutileHandReach futilely reaching out to stop him]]]], and the Nazi screwing over an old man still looks like the better guy.
* In ''VisualNovel/{{Higurashi|WhenTheyCry}}'', Teppei Houjou's many deaths by Keiichi, Rena, and Shion, [[spoiler:Rena killing Rina, and Shion killing Oryou]] count as such. Teppei is an abusive EvilUncle towards Satoko and [[spoiler:a crime boss]], while [[spoiler:Rina is his subordinate who [[HoneyTrap plots to ruin Rena’s dad and steal his money]], and Oryou is a horrible grandma to the Sonozaki family who ''[[DisproportionateRetribution forced Shion to tear her own nails out as punishment]]'' for [[StarCrossedLovers hanging out with a boy from a rival family]]]].
* In ''VisualNovel/ShallWeDateNinjaShadow'', two different routes have [[AntiVillain Toru]] doing this to the BigBad he works for, [[SmugSnake Suetsugu]]:
** At the end of [[spoiler: Yuzuki]]'s route, when he and Saori come to take Suetsugu's life, Toru does ''nothing'' to stop them. Not only that but when they fatally injure him, [[spoiler: Toru laughs off Suetsugu's pleas for help and finishes him off]].
** In [[spoiler: Ritsu]]'s route, he personally executes Suetsugu [[spoiler: when he's in jail and about to go to trial]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Original]]
* Bar Clovis, the residents of the eponymous ''Roleplay/{{AJCO}}'' facility spend a great deal of time trying to grab power from each other. They're all equally as despicable, but you can't help but cheer when one of them gets beaten down a few levels (sometimes literally). Crowning examples include:
** Breyos getting batoned across the knuckles by A_J.
** A_J getting verbally curb-stomped by the Auditor after she attempted to establish herself as more powerful.
** Breyos, [[TheChewToy again]], getting punched in the face by Frances. She's a cyborg. With metal fists.
* ''WebAnimation/{{Anon}}'': Connor beats the absolute shit out of Ryan for his jerkass reaction to Candace's pregnancy.
* Adam's "defeat" in ''WebVideo/ArbyNTheChief''. Not because he's a member of a dangerous hacker clan who have been terrorizing the entire network, but mostly for being a [[SpoiledBrat shrieking spoiled 8-year-old brat]] who constantly [[AllTakeAndNoGive abuses and disrespects his single mother]] as well as everyone around him, [[NauseaFuel pisses and craps him pants because he's so addicted to Halo to go to the bathroom]], [[spoiler:[[WhamEpisode and for banning and hacking Claire, Arbiter's girlfriend]],]] all while laughing spitefully. Needless to say, The Fans and Viewers rejoiced during his [[HumiliationConga downfall and eventual defeat]].
* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'': Vegeta is on the receiving end of this once and causes it once: when he gets the everloving crap beaten out of him by Android 18, and when he starts curbstomping Cell.
--> '''Tien:''' So we're actually rooting for Vegeta?\\
'''Piccolo:''' Let's be honest, we're rooting ''against'' Cell.\\
'''Tien:''' What do we do if he wins?\\
'''Piccolo:''' Which one?\\
'''Tien:''' Which one is worse?
** Perfect Cell's CurbStompBattle against Vegeta ends up being ''even more'' brutal than canon, if only because here it ends with Cell [[BreakThemByTalking gives Vegeta a little suggestion]]:
--->'''Cell:''' Next time, [[CantCatchUp why don't you remember your place like the rest of them...and wait for Goku.]]
* The Cheat of ''Franchise/HomestarRunner'' tends to be kicked around and abused quite often. But given his criminal tendencies, he definitely deserves at least some of that kicking.
* In ''WebVideo/KateModern'', when Terrence knocked Lee down with a garden gnome. After everything Lee had done the past week, the scene was practically an AlwaysABiggerFish moment.
* In our world, Jeffrey Dahmer was a SerialKiller who claimed the lives of 17 victims before being killed in prison. In the world of ''Literature/KentuckyFriedPolitics'' however, as a teenager, he just so happens to run into a certain MonsterClown by the name of John Wayne Gacy...
* PlayedForLaughs (just like everything else) in ''WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}'' when Website/ChannelAwesome (apart from WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick who acted like TheStarscream from the moment she saw power) did ''literally'' this to WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic, after six episodes of abusing his subordinates, stealing their ideas, bad management and ''trying to blow them all up''. Depends on where [[TheChewToy he falls]] [[{{Jerkass}} on the]] [[JerkassWoobie Sympathy]] [[TheWoobie scale]] for you, though.
** Also done by the Critic himself when he defeats and plans to shoot [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Dr. Insano]]. Insano has killed, tortured, maimed, [[MoralEventHorizon forced people to read Ultimate Warrior comics]], and just seconds ago betrayed the team to demand that ''he'' be made ruler of Kickassia. Benzaie still tries to save him, though, because "That's still Spoony in there".
* ''WebAnimation/OperationTurnabout'':
** [[spoiler:[[TheSociopath Captain Adel Renard]]]]'s murder of Captain Janus Harvey counts, since while [[spoiler:Renard]] definitely isn't a good guy and only killed Harvey in order to stop him from [[spoiler:revealing Renard's role in causing the "Helios-6 Incident", which killed an entire unit of peacekeepers in [[FictionalCountry Aresia]]]], after he would have received legal immunity for his own part in the incident, it's hard to feel sorry for Harvey because not only was he a {{Jerkass}} who liked to regularly bully his privates, but also [[spoiler:intentionally caused the aforementioned Helios-6 Incident on Renard's suggestion just to [[HeKnowsTooMuch silence his platoon from revealing that he had smuggled explosives to a group of dangerous insurgents]] and [[NeverMyFault tried to pin the blame for the incident on anyone but himself]]]]. InUniverse, none of Harvey's co-workers feel anything but contempt for him and relief that he kicked the bucket, even after [[spoiler:Renard]]'s motive for his murder comes to light.
** Speaking of the insurgents, [[spoiler:Renard]] gets another moment of this when he calls the police on them, which gets them sent to the firing squad. He only did this [[HeKnowsTooMuch so that the insurgents wouldn't rat him out]] after he betrayed them by not including a detonator with the explosives he smuggled to them, but since the insurgents were responsible for causing a highly destructive civil war in Aresia, they deserved to be executed.
* In ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'', the Blood Gulch Crew at one point capture a Space Pirate and need to get information out of him. When he proves recalcitrant, resident MadDoctor Emily Grey pipes up that their captive had earlier killed everyone else at the outpost where she was stationed, which she thinks makes him deserving of [[DeadlyEuphemism a checkup]]. Dr. Grey's [[ColdBloodedTorture definition of a checkup]] terrifies her teammates, but nobody complains on behalf of the pirate or really cares when another pirate kills him to prevent him from spilling anything more.
* [[spoiler:Shadow Stalker]]'s eventual fate in ''Literature/{{Worm}}''. Every aspect of her life was torn down by the Undersiders' [[TokenEvilTeammate resident sociopath]], who stole her body, soured relationships with her mother and only friend, and revealed her crimes to the world. And how the fanbase rejoiced at this turn of events says a ''lot'' about [[spoiler:Shadow Stalker]].
[[/folder]]

----

* During Voldemort's rise to power in ''Literature/HarryPotter'', he murders his father and grandparents and frames his uncle Morfin Gaunt for the crimes. Killing his family? Not OK. Framing his uncle, who was an insane bigoted arsehole who used to abuse his younger sister, attack Muggles unprovoked, and nail snakes to the wall? Meh.

** ''ComicBook/StarfiresRevenge'': Derek Marlowe/Ames is a conman who enthusiastically seduces and steals gullible wealthy women. His boss gets him killed off because he cannot be trusted to keep quiet about her ambitious scheme.

** In Chapter 3 of ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'', [[spoiler:Mikan Tsumiki]] becomes AxCrazy due to being infected with a disease spread by [[KillerTeddyBear Monokuma]] and kills [[spoiler:Ibuki Mioda and [[TheBully Hiyoko Saionji]]]] in cold blood. However, despite the fact that [[spoiler:Mikan was [[JerkassToOne one of the latter's favourite victims]]]], [[spoiler:Mikan]] only killed her because [[spoiler:she walked in on her about to kill Ibuki and had to be silenced, and not as revenge for Hiyoko's treatment of her]]. Nevertheless, it's still tough to feel bad for [[spoiler:Hiyoko because she was a cruel and sadistic bully who [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals liked to torture small animals for fun]]]].

* Kick the Son of a Bitch: While escaping from a bank heist gone sour, a couple of robbers gun down anyone who gets in their way. Among the victims, unbeknownst to them, is a certain pimp who was notoriously cruel to his prostitutes and recently managed to beat the rap for murdering one of them. He will not be missed.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: While escaping from a bank heist gone sour, a couple of robbers gun down anyone who gets in their way. One of the robbers spots a certain pimp he knows who is notoriously cruel to his prostitutes and recently managed to beat the rap for murdering one of them ([[ItsPersonal the robber’s girlfriend]]); [[EvenEvilHasStandards figuring this is as good a time as any for revenge]], he takes aim and shoots him.

* The death of [[spoiler:Martin Sutter]] at ComicBook/{{X 23}}'s hands in ''ComicBook/InnocenceLost''. It's certainly meant to be a sign of just how off the slippery slope Rice has leaped, but damned if you don't feel he deserved it.