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* In Red Witch's ''Sins of the Father,'' Walsh seizes an opportunity in the chaos of the Black Rose's attempted coup to [[spoiler: stab Senator Wheiner in the gut]]. While most of the fandom would agree the aforementioned "son of a bitch" definitely had it coming, the fact that he [[spoiler: leaves the Series 5 team in danger to do it]], and then runs off without leaving behind any answers, especially for the devastated Shane [[spoiler: who had just found out Walsh is his genetic father]], makes it a lot more nebulous.

* In ''CodeGeass R2'', Charles does this to [[spoiler:V. V. by taking his code and leaving him to die]].

* From ''SailorMoon'', there's [[CompleteMonster Rubeus]]. He was a very irritating SmugSnake who treated his QuirkyMiniBossSquad, the Ayakashi Sisters, like shit -- specially the one who loved him, Cooan. When he was left to die by his fellow villain Green Esmeraude, he had kicked the dog so many times that seeing him die felt like a KarmicDeath.
* [[CodeGeass "You have lied to me for the last time."]]

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, maliciousness and ill will are all there. It's just that at this moment, the dog isn't a sweet innocent puppy. It's a devious son of a bitch that's trying to bite off someone's leg. A great way to [[IncrediblyLamePun kick off]] a start off a believable StartOfDarkness while keeping the character sympathetic. Sure they start off kicking the BAD dogs, but it just feels so satisfying that eventually that sweet innocent puppy is just ASKING for it with his annoying little yips and barks...

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, maliciousness and ill will are all there. It's just that at this moment, the dog isn't a sweet innocent puppy. It's a devious son of a bitch that's trying to bite off someone's leg. A great way to [[IncrediblLamePun kick off]] a start off a believable StartOfDarkness while keeping the character sympathetic. Sure they start off kicking the BAD dogs, but it just feels so satisfying that eventually that sweet innocent puppy is just ASKING for it with his annoying little yips and barks...

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, maliciousness and ill will are all there. It's just that at this moment, the dog isn't a sweet innocent puppy. It's a devious son of a bitch that's trying to bite off someone's leg.

** And [[{{Jerkass}} Spandam]] in Franky's backstory, where it happened not once, but twice! First by Franky's father figure Tom, who would have possibly killed him haven't he been stoped after the first blow and then shortly after by [[spoiler: Franky himself]] who left him with permanent face damage.

* Played for laughs in the ''{{Transformers}}'' fic, ''They Just Don't Care Anymore'', where Galvatron kidnaps and threatens to kill [[AcceptableReligiousTargets Fred Phelps]], mistaking him for a beloved celebrity. Not only do people not care, they activley encourage Galvatron to kill him, which Galvatron confuses for reverse psychology.

** Von Trier deconstructs the trope to hell: [[spoiler:Grace subjected herself to abuse, because she wanted to be chastised for being born as a BertoltBrecht "bourgeois faschist" character (based on ''ThePirateJenny''). When she realizes she doesn't have the strength to escape this identity, she rationalizes her destruction of the town as a mercy killing, just like the town rationalized their actions against her as just and merciful. In short, EVERYONE is a bastard, Grace hasn't learned a thing by the end, and the townspeople become the victims of Grace's thoroughly misguided urge to suffer.]]

* In ''FateStayNight'', Shinji Matou is the son of a bitch in question. The first kick would be Ilya brutally killing him after Rider is beaten by Saber. Shirou is horrified, the rest of us just think Ilya is awesome. [[spoiler:And 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 (he was midway through attempting to rape her, and has been raping her for many years) but it still marks the point where she decides FINE. FUCK IT. I'll be evil!]]

* Played for laughs in the ''{{Transformers}}'' fic, ''They Just Don't Care Anymore'', where Galvatron kidnaps and threatens to kill [[AcceptableReligiousTargets Fred Phelps]], mistaking him for a beloved celbrity. Not only do people not care, they activley encourage Galvatron to kill him, which Galvatron confuses for reverse psychology.

* In Red Witch's ''Sins of the Father,'' Walsh seizes an opportunity in the chaos of the Black Rose's attempted coup to [[spoiler: stab Senator Wheiner in the gut]].

* ''SuperRobotWarsJ'' gave us [[GundamSeed Rau Le Creseut]] getting a {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}} by killing [[spoiler:Haruki Kusakabe from ''MartianSuccessorNadescio'', who is arguably more of an asshole than Rau ever could be]]

* PlayedForLaughs (just like everything else) in {{Kickassia}} when ChannelAwesome did ''literally'' this to the Critic, after six episode of abusing his subordinates, stealing their ideas, bad management and ''trying to blow them all up''. Depends on [[YourMileageMayVary where]] [[ChewToy he falls]] [[{{Jerkass}} on the]] [[JerassWoobie Sympathy]] [[TheWoobie scale]] for you, though.

* {{Misfile}} can have these occasionally. Missi gets excluded from an event? Of course, she's an annoying brat. Emily and Rumi have these moments too.

* ''SuperRobotWarsJ'' gave us [[GundamSeed Rau Le Creseut]] getting a {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}} by killing [[spoiler:Haruki Kusakabe from Nadescio, who is arguably more of an asshole than Rau ever could be]]

* Sandor Clegane in A Song of Ice and Fire is noted for an extreme desire to kill his older brother. While that should be an indication that Sandor Clegane is a twisted person,the incident with the toy knight makes it far less of one.

See also KickTheDog, AssholeVictim, EvenEvilHasStandards. Compare with AlasPoorScrappy, PokeThePoodle, and DesignatedVillain. Similar, but not to be confused with, PayEvilUntoEvil.