History Main / KickTheSonOfABitch

* 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/{{Luke Cage|HeroForHire}} and [[ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist Iron Fist]] are honestly more horrified that Daredevil broke his ThouShaltNotKill rule than the fact that he did it to Bullseye.

* In one of the ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' endings, Makoto Itou harshly calls out [[AlphaBitch Otome]] and her horrible GirlPosse upon their continued abuse of [[{{Ojou}} Kotonoha]]- even grabbing the hand of the lass who's about to do the slapping part.

* ''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.]]
* 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.

* ''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.
* 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/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]].
* In ''ComicBook/InhumansVsXMen'', ComicBook/{{Storm}} 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}} 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.]]
* 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.
* ''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 Zeti control of the Zombots]], Sonic and the other heroes have ''zero'' problem with how Eggman disposes of him.
* 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/AvengersAcademy'', after the students learn that their teacher Tigra was once attacked in her home by the supervillain called ComicBook/TheHood, 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 putting it up 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 watching the video]].

* 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.
* ''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]].

* 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."
* 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.]]

* ''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).
* 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.
* 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/{{Animorphs}}'': The Inspector regularly mocks, taunts, threatens, and otherwise humiliates...[[ArchEnemy Visser Three]]. It's kind of fun to watch.

* Pimps in the Literature/BelisariusSeries tend to suffer this fate. As do Malwa ritual torturers.

* 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.
* 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 ''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''.
* 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.
* ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance'' (book two 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.
* ''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.
* ''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']]!
* ''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.

* 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]].
* 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".
* 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.
* 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.

* 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.

* 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.
* 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".

* 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.
* Adam's "defeat" in ''Machinima/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]] [[UpToEleven of epic proportions]] 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]].
* [[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]].

* Effectively what happens to the Threeist powers in ''Literature/AmericasStepbrotherAmericasEnemyTwoPointZero''. The modern day United States is transported by a temporal anomaly into the dystopian nightmare world of Literature/NineteenEightyFour, where the Party leadership promptly declare war on the new nation (as they believe them to be thoughtcriminals). The resulting war sees one of the most terrifying dystopias in fiction [[CurbStompBattle reduced to a ridiculous joke]]: Threeist military philosophy has long treated war as a song-and-dance routine where armies of poorly-trained conscripts and cumbersome SchizoTech vehicles fight phony wars to waste resources and generate propaganda; the United States military is better equipped and trained, and most importantly, ''actually motivated to win''.

* ''{{Machinima/Anon}}'': Connor beats the absolute shit out of Ryan for his jerkass reaction to Candace's pregnancy.

* ''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 (but 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]], [[WouldHurtAChild threatened to rape 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.

* 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/{{Luke Cage|HeroForHire}} and [[ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist Iron Fist]] are honestly more horrified that Daredevil broke his ThouShaltNotKill rule than the fact that he did it to Bullseye.

* In ''ComicBook/InhumansVsXMen'', ComicBook/{{Storm}} 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}} 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.]]

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* In ''Fanfic/TheLionKingAdventures'', not only does the Interceptor kill the immortal cub Shocker [[spoiler:by ''tearing his head off'', but he then buries him underground, leaving him trapped in an endless cycle of death and rebirth]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' fic ''Fanfic/QueenOfAllOni'', when Jade finds the first mask, [[spoiler:Kaito, the General inside, proceeds to lie to her and is implied to have betrayed her when [[TheStarscream Valmont]] wore it, egging him on, not to mention the acts of evil from BEFORE he was sealed; so, after the mask is removed, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Jade EATS it]], consuming his essence. He had it coming]].
** Later on in the story, [[spoiler:EvilSorcerer Lung kidnaps Jade and tortures her to the brink of insanity and death trying to break her to his will. Therefore, no one in the audience was complaining when [[CoDragons Left and Right]] showed up to save her, with Right killing Lung as he [[VillainsWantMercy begged for mercy]].]] In fact, one reviewer even called it ''justice''.
** A while after that, [[spoiler:Jade kills Ikazuki, Tarakudo's [[TheDragon Dragon]] who had previously usurped control of the Shadow Hand from her and treated her like a slave, by breaking his mask and force feeding his chi to Viper (in order to [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwash]] her)]].
* In the ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fic "Twisted", one of many sequels to the "World Financial Crisis Gangbang," America commits suicide and is brought back to life by England, only to [[CameBackWrong come back wrong]] as a ''very'' DamagedSoul bent on vengeance. His first act of revenge is sacrificing the Italy brothers in a black magic ritual to resurrect his children he had over a century earlier. Normally, killing the Italy brothers would put America past the MoralEventHorizon. However, since the Italy brothers participated in the gang rape, it's very hard to have any sort of sympathy for them.
** Hell ''any'' "revenge" sequel to the to the Financial Crisis Gangbang counts as this, as well as TheDogBitesBack (particularly "Spreading Poison"). Another called "To Avenge A Friend" has Hungary, Canada and Tony mentally torture the rapists for several hours, forcing them to actually experience the whole thing for themselves. And given the later pages of the comic, it's ''very'' hard not to cheer them on.
** And that's not counting the one with Native America (aka America and Canada's ''dead mother'') coming back to give the perpetuators what could be described as Film/{{Inception}}: ''Horrific Edition.'' And it's ''really'' difficult to sympathize with those "victims."
* In ''72Hours'', when AxCrazy [[spoiler:Damien]] crucifies [[KnightTemplar Katie Snyder,]] everyone was cheering.
* 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]]. 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 the ''Fanfic/TamersForeverSeries'', this is [[spoiler:Chaos]]'s primary motivation for his short term plans.
* Subverted in-verse in the ''Fanfic/NineteenEightyThreeDoomsdayStories.'' While Austria would ''very'' much like to avenge [[spoiler:Hungary's death]] in [[WorldWarIII Doomsday]], it turns out that America at least was just as helpless.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Cupcakes}}'', Gilda treating Pinkie Pie like crap was a lot more deserved in Pinkie's case, as she's actually a psychotic murderer. Also, Pinkie murdered Gilda for reasons unrelated to Gilda being a {{Jerkass}}, though plenty of readers weren't really sorry that it happened.
** Gilda was also killed by Twilight Sparkle in ''The Experiments of Twilight Sparkle'', who doesn't care about her being a {{Jerkass}}.
** This entire set-up is also ''inverted'' in some fics, showing Gilda as justified in taking {{revenge}} and letting her do so very violently due to her species' aggressive nature.
* In ''Fanfic/CivilWarHulk'', while it marked the moment when the Hulk crossed the line to becoming more of a villain than a hero, there's something extremely satisfying about the idea of him [[spoiler:ripping the Green Goblin in half]].
* ''Fanfic/ABriefHistoryOfEquestria'': This was the general reaction in-universe when Princess Platinum [[spoiler:performed a [[ThePurge purge]] on her [[DecadentCourt corrupt court]]]].
** It's also commented that while the extinction of a species is normally viewed as a negative thing, to date no pony has come up with anything bad to say about the Warming wiping out the Windigos.
* It turns out [[spoiler:this was the main goal in Pharaoh's plan]] in the ''Franchise/{{Ben 10}}'' fanfic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4267279/1/Hero-High-Sphinx-Academy Hero High: Sphinx Academy]]. [[spoiler:Yes, this kid pretty much took over the world just to give his mother a kicking she so well deserved]].
* In ''Fanfic/{{Horseshoes and Hand Grenades}}'', Gentaro, after being resurrected by Ophiuchus, decides to go to Yamada Tatsumori and summon Ophiuchus to devour his soul. Considering he was the UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom who caused Gentaro to die and the mess that followed, this was nothing short of karmic payback.
* ''Fanfic/{{Hivefled}}'': Orphaner Dualscar is a slave-taking privateer who murders for fun. The fantroll Lereal Belsai is TheFundamentalist and a [[FantasticRacism hemoist]] whose actions led to the deaths of hundreds of children. Both of them got [[RapeAsDrama raped to death]] by the [[BigBad Grand Highblood]] and his cronies.
* In the ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''/''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' crossover ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9641481/1/Manly-Magi-Kamina-Magica Manly Magi Kamina Magica]]'', [[spoiler:the Anti-Spirals]] and [[spoiler:the Incubators]] [[VillainTeamUp join forces]] to prevent Kamina from succeeding in helping the PMMM cast. However, due to lack of emotions, the Incubators can't stop him and the [[spoiler:Anti-Spiral can't interfere in their universe. However, when the Anti-Spiral discovers how to interfere in their universe, the first thing they do is to take over the [[HiveMind Incubator core]] and proceed to try to kill all Puella Magi, calling them pathetic for underestimating the power of emotions]].
* Itachi [[spoiler:kills the rest of the Akatsuki]] to prevent interference between him and younger brother and cousin Sasuke and Himeko in ''Fanfic/TeenageJinchurikiShinobi''. This was meant to display his sadism.
* ''Fanfic/RosarioVampireBrightestDarkness'':
** In Act I chapter 16, when Dark overhears that Kotsubo tried to molest Mizore the previous year, he loses his temper and nearly kills him, and is only stopped by Tsukune and Rason's insistence that Kotsubo [[NotWorthKilling isn't worth it]].
** Early on in Act VI, Ceal kills Jenner, head of the [=HDA=]. It's pretty hard to feel sorry for Jenner when one considers that he was an openly [[FantasticRacism anti-monster]] GeneralRipper who has spent most of his screen-time openly lambasting monsters to the extent that he outright states he'll take any possible excuse he can to declare open war on them.
** In Act VI chapter 17, Kurumu sides with Mizore after Mizore beats Arial to a bloody pulp, stating that, even if Arial is a disembodied soul and any fatal damage will destroy her soul and erase her from existence, Arial nonetheless deserved it considering the fact that she nearly killed Mizore in a fit of jealousy and stole her wedding ring.
* ''Fanfic/TheRiseOfDarthVulcan'': This is how Darth Vulcan justifies pretty much every act he takes against Equestria, due to his extremely skewed, yet partially accurate, view of Equestrian society. Some notable examples:
** When Filthy Rich screws Vulcan over on a deal by selling him out to the Mane Six (but notably keeps the money involved), Vulcan responds by taking Diamond Tiara as a hostage for weeks. He then, as a dedicated BullyHunter, takes the time to [[BreakTheHaughty psychologically break her]], before dumping her back on her father... after robbing Ponyville blind, and making sure everyone knows it's Filthy Rich's fault. Said stallion is then left with a ruined reputation, and a traumatized daughter who blames him for not saving her. [[spoiler:They both get better.]]
** The corrupt and incompetent leadership of the twin towns of Cirrus and Hilltop massively screw over a group of crippled remedial class pegasi with a ''huge'' MiscarriageOfJustice in order to cover up their own crimes and mistakes. When they go to Vulcan for help out of desperation, he's so pissed off that he not only loots the towns, but ''destroys'' them, displacing everyone living there. And then to top off, he informs Celestia of why he did this (while calling her out for letting it happen under her nose), leading to her and the other Princesses not only indicting all the officials, but deciding the towns are beyond help and refusing to help rebuild them.
*** Vulcan's [[TheDragon apprentice]], Artful Dodger, gets his own moment during this. Due to his own disgust at the situation (and a crush on the pegasi group's leader), during the attack on the towns he hunts down Sundae Sprinkles -- the corrupt corrections guard who was responsible for much of their suffering -- and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beats him within an inch of his life]], leaving him crippled and traumatized, in addition to his own imminent criminal charges.
* Kano is already a bad guy, but in the fanfic ''Fanfic/InWithTheOldOutWithTheNew'', he rapes Cassie after the latter wins a fight for her freedom. Yes, ''Kano raped the daughter of Sonya Blade and Johnny Cage.'' So it's not surprising when Kano gets a most satisfying death at the hands of his long-time nemesis, who is '''very pissed off''' over that fact.
-->'''Sonya:''' "Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, and I was stopped from killing you with my bare hands...But you messed with the wrong bitch when you ''raped my daughter''!"
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/99168/the-tale-of-lord-barleycorn fanfic]], ''Fanfic/TheTaleOfLordBarleycorn'', the reader is supposed to be horrified when the titular character catches and eats one of the local rabbits. However, the situation completely destroys any reasoning for the bunnies to be seen as sympathetic characters; yes, they may have at least near-pony intelligence, but despite having a whole forest of wild vegetation to eat, they're deliberately choosing to steal crops from the local farmers and use their official "I'm just a cute little animal" status to get away with it unpunished. The farmers are themselves near-destitute, so the rabbits are literally taking food from the farmers' mouths. Even after the one is eaten, their reaction is to head to Ponyville and start raiding the farmers ''there'' instead. It's telling that InUniverse, Applejack herself is scornful of the rabbits and thinks that [[MythologyGag this is just another case]] of [[FriendToAllLivingThings Fluttershy]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E7Bats putting the comfort of critters over the concerns of farmers]], even if she ''is'' a little skeptical that Lord Barleycorn actually did eat one.
* In ''Fanfic/TheCommission'', Ruby and Blake intend to draw Grimm towards the Colosseum by gathering the worst of each of their organizations, [[EvenEvilHasStandards particularly the child murderers and molesters]] and terrorizing the crap out of them. [[TimeForPlanB This is after the initial plan of having Nora]] [[Recap/RWBYV3E6Fall attack Mercury using an illusion]] fails.
* ''Roleplay/ItsCurtains'': [[Theatre/PeterPan1954 Captain Hook]] killing for [[DisappointedByTheMotive money]] and targeting a [[WouldHurtAChild child]] is pretty evil, but the child is ''[[WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance Darla Dimple]]'', who you can't say didn't deserve it. Hook still gathers animosity from the characters and audience, though, by killing a far more sympathetic [[LeaveNoWitnesses witness]] who caught him poisoning Darla.
* ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'':
** [[HumiliationConga Everything]] that Viera does to Gaz in Episode 8 should be considered cruel, but it ''is'' [[EnfantTerrible Gaz]], after all.
** Though it's not a major focus, there's the awful things Tak does to the cruel skoolchildren [[RunningGag on occasion]].
** The way the Tallest treat Zim and Skoodge — while both are utterly loyal to them, and therefore seem undeserving of it, there's still the fact that Zim is a cruel Invader who brings destruction to all around him, while Skoodge is, despite his [[AffablyEvil genial personality]], just as dedicated to conquering the Earth as Zim is.
* In ''Fanfic/ArcadiaOrBust'', Merlin off-handedly says remarks that accidents like this (being a car-wreck that several injures Claire) is why he wore his armor, clearly uninvested in the situation. This leads to a hysterical to snap at Merlin, actually leading him to apologize, the severity of the situation finally setting in.
--> Merlin was twisting his spine. "And it was for this reason I wore my armor." He said a bit haughtily.\\
"'''Shut your goddamn mouth!'''" Jim shouted, a roar carrying his voice through the trees. "[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Why can't you just be helpful for once!?]]"\\
The wizard blinked once, not expecting this kind of outburst from Jim. "My apologies."
* In ''Fanfic/LovedAndLost'', [[TyrantTakesTheHelm Prince Jewelius]] steals Equestria's throne after Queen Chrysalis fails to invade Equestria on Shining Armor and Princess Cadance's wedding day ([[spoiler:he initially worked with Chrysalis before double-crossing her and using Twilight Sparkle in defeating her and bringing Princess Celestia down]]). When Chrysalis is first seen afterwards, she has been brutally tortured by Jewelius' underlings. The [[HeroWithBadPublicity disgraced heroes]] -- Shining Armor, Celestia and Twilight's friends -- aren't sorry for her in the slightest after she [[WoundedGazelleGambit tricked them into turning their backs on Twilight]].
** During the climax, Chrysalis returns the favor by [[spoiler:having her Changelings [[DevouredByTheHorde eat Jewelius alive]] as revenge]]. Given [[HateSink how despicable]] [[spoiler:Jewelius]] has proven himself to be, this violent [[spoiler:death]] is more karmic than sad.
** There's also a minor example when Jewelius is revealed to have made [[PrinceCharmless Prince Blueblood]] his servant. The self-absorbed prince is nervously filing Jewelius' hoof while trying to avoid scratching it, implying that he regularly suffers the fresh king's anger if he doesn't serve as wished.
* In ''Fanfic/TheUltimateEvil'', Shendu learns that Hak Foo attacked and nearly killed Valerie Payne. [[BerserkButton Furious about]] his henchman harming [[VillainousCrush his love interest]], Shendu subjects Hak Foo to ColdBloodedTorture which he forces the other Enforcers to witness [[MakeAnExampleOfThem as a final warning]]. When Valerie finds Hak Foo barely alive, she's unnerved about the fact that she feels satisfaction instead of pity.
** After Bai Tza's attempt to flood San Francisco fails, Shendu tortures [[DemonicPossession his host]] Valmont mentally for rendering him unconscious by touching [[GoodHurtsEvil the Pan'Ku Box]] and [[EnemyMine allying with the Chans]] in order to have him exorcised. Given what a self-serving {{Jerkass}} Valmont is, it isn't hard not to pity him.
** In the beginning of the sequel called ''The Stronger Evil'', Shendu [[spoiler:kills [[EvilSorcerer Daolon Wong]] in a brutal manner when the dark wizard shoots Valerie in order to get revenge on Shendu]].
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10206570/1/The-Fairy-Cage The Fairy Cage]]'', a part of a series of ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' and ''Anime/YuGiOh'' crossover fics, Sugou Nobuyuki attempts to [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty entrap Asuna in his own virtual world]] and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil have his way with her]]. At that moment, Yami Bakura shows up to hijack Sugou's plans and force him into a Shadow Game... that ends with Sugou being [[BalefulPolymorph transformed into a cockroach]] and [[UndignifiedDeath stepped upon]]. Considering what kind of person, Sugou Nobuyuki is, it's hard not to root for Yami Bakura there.
* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' fanfic ''Fanfic/MonsterChronicles'' . Cedric's cruel and horrifying actions towards Alejandro and Duncan are not shown to be deserving and in fact invoke some sympathy for them.
** Like in canon Alejandro is a lying, back-stabbing snake, who charms everyone he comes across to further his own placing in the game, and votes them out once they have been lulled into a false sense of security. [[spoiler: However, his torture to near death and soul stealing by Cedric was horrifying and it is made clear that despite Alejandro's actions throughout the game, he does not deserve what happened to him.]]
** While at first it was amusing to see Cedric picking on Duncan and tormenting him much like the latter would do to Harold in canon, it stops being funny when Cedric's abuse of Duncan grow worse and you see how much danger his life really is in. [[spoiler: This comes to a head when Duncan decides to rebel against Cedric, he beats Duncan within an inch of his life, and it's made clear than even if Duncan is at is worst, and if he never reforms he still does not deserve that beating.]]
* In ''Fanfic/HowToBreakAFamily'', the infamous BrattyHalfPint D.W. is kidnapped and tortured for fourteen years as a result of the Tibbles making her go into a store alone to buy candy for them; the kidnapping had nothing to do with her bratty tendencies, however, as the kidnappers merely wanted [[spoiler:to use her as a guinea pig for their experiments]]. However, the trope is [[AvertedTrope averted]] in that nobody in the story is happy that she was kidnapped, not even Arthur, whom she caused the most trouble for as his AnnoyingYoungerSibling. In fact, when D.W. returns safely years later, Arthur outright wants to get {{Revenge}} on her kidnappers.
* In ''[[Fanfic/TheHeartTrilogy Heart of Ashes]]'', [[HotWitch Andraya]] murders [[spoiler:King Wilhelm]] in his bed purely as a part of her campaign to get even with [[VillainProtagonist Smaug]] who has broken off their expired deal. However, [[spoiler:Dorwinion's king]] had it coming by being a {{Jerkass}} who insensitively treated [[{{Seers}} Kathryn]] as his possession.
* In ''Fanfic/TheBlackHearts'', Marcus Black constantly and horrifically [[DomesticAbuse abuses]] his wife Melanie. Under normal circumstances, this would be seen as absolutely terrible (and it still is honestly). However, it comes off as less terrible since Melanie is abusive to her son Mercury in her own right. [[ALighterShadeOfBlack Not to the same extent as Marcus]] (who physically abuses Mercury), but she still verbally abuses him and often says that he should die. She's also incredibly [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain homophobic]]. Mercury is bisexual and she starts hurling homophobic slurs at him and demanding that the boy he was with be killed by Marcus. Speaking of which, she has no issues with her husband's {{profession|alKiller}}. ''And'' she also regularly cheats on Marcus as well. So, Melanie Black is a real piece of work in her own right. Not nearly as bad as Marcus, but it is a bit difficult to feel bad about her getting abused by him.
** ''Fanfic/{{CRME}}'': [[spoiler: This comes back in this story when Cinder strangles her. When she sees Mercury again, she wants to take him home, but [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk she threatens to kill him if he doesn't return]]. When Cinder is triggered due to her own abusive upbringing, she retaliates by beating her up and strangling her in a broom closet. There is no altruistic motive behind it from Cinder, but at the same time, Melanie was no saint]].
* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' frequently has this when a villain's KarmaHoudiniWarranty runs out:
** At the end of the first book, Harry's up against Gravemoss and telekinetically rips open his ribcage in a variation on the possibly apocryphal Viking 'Blood Eagle', before ripping out his heart. Since Gravemoss is a {{Sadist}}ic OmnicidalManiac and {{Necromancer}} who went zooming over the MoralEventHorizon with absolute glee in his second appearance by [[EatenAlive testing out]] his new [[FanNickname 'piranha zombies']] on a young family who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and generalised HateSink, the main concern InUniverse and out was less for him, more for Harry - who's a bit horrified by what he'd done afterwards.
** Again, to Gravemoss (he has an absurdly powerful HealingFactor), with Harry Dresden reflecting on this trope after having managed to remove an arm in a way that ''won't'' heal [[spoiler: with a soulfire lightsabre]], drawing an agonised and horrified scream. While usually there's "a special place in hell" for people who enjoy the suffering of their fellow creatures, it's downright cathartic to know that Gravemoss is experiencing some of what he's been dealing out to others.
** Early in the sequel, Wanda shows that she's NotSoDifferent from her father, explicitly admitting it when she points at her victim and sets reality to randomise. He mostly just... dissolves. Slowly. And painfully. Since the person in question is Sinister, who was the architect or enabler of much of Harry's childhood misery and the current problems (he'd also worked with the Nazis and Weapon X, and [[spoiler: kidnapped Rachel Grey, Jean's twin, at birth and faked her death, raising her as Maddie Pryor, a LivingWeapon who genuinely believed that she was an ArtificialHuman made for nothing more than hunting, combat/bodyguarding, functioning as a case-study in psychic development]]), it's inarguable that he ''absolutely'' deserved it.
** Since he had a BodyBackUpDrive, this didn't slow him down for long... then, in the finale, his ArchEnemy, Doctor Strange, finally catches up to him. And figures out how to hack his body-drive network. The OhCrap reaction is positively ''delicious''.
* ''Fanfic/CheerileesGarden'': [[AlphaBitch Diamond Tiara]] and [[BetaBitch Silver Spoon]] are among [[SerialKiller Cheerilee]]'s victims, and although their deaths were just as gruesome as those of her other victims, their bullying ways can paint it as deserved.
* ''Fanfic/AdventureTimeFrozenHearts'': Sifine manipulates Damon into wearing the crown and then proceed to backstab him by possessing him into killing his girlfriend along with other soldiers, crippling his body as a side effect. Considering that Damon is shown to be a total {{Jerkass}} and is far more openly contempt of the creatures in Ooo than Barton, hardly any sympathy can be given to him.
* ''Fanfic/JadeLightning'':
** Izuku/Akatani takes great pleasure in baiting Bakugo and then getting him in-trouble for his own bad behavior. [[spoiler: It is not until right before he beats him in the Sports Festival does he reveal who he is to Bakugo by calling him his childhood nickname "Kacchan".]]
** Having no patience for self-serving perverts like Mineta, Izuku/Akatani vows to get him expelled for his bad behavior. [[spoiler: He eventually fulfills that promise when he catches Mineta rummaging through the girl's locker-room at the Sports Festival for their underwear, getting the girl's permission before he completely beats him within an inch of his life, stuffing his body in a locker and then turning him in when the Sports Festival ends. He is then promptly expelled and his position taken by Shinso]].
* In the PeggySue fic ''Fanfic/ArrowRebirth:'' Normally, [[PsychoForHire the Huntsman]] murdering (and [[ImAHumanitarian eating]]) [[spoiler:Felicity]] would be a horrifying moment. However, by this point it has been established that [[spoiler:Felicity knew the ''real'' method of Laurel's death, and never told Oliver. She is also planning on [[MurderTheHypotenuse murdering the current version of Laurel]] (who hasn't even met her yet) after Oliver left her for his FirstLove, so ultimately it comes off as this]]. Telling, when Oliver learns of it all, he doesn't even feel inclined to avenge her.
* ''Fanfic/DownAndOut'': {{Deconstruction}}. Grace saves Simon and keeps him as a prisoner, making him suffer for all that he has done over the past few weeks - killing Tuba, the way he treated Hazel, and trying to kill her just after she saved his life - by denying him food, destroying all his belongings, and constantly reminding him that everything is his fault. However, they're both aware that she shouldn't be doing this, as her number increases during these encounters. By Chapter 7, she openly admits to hating herself for treating Simon this way.
* ''Fanfic/CodePrime'': [[spoiler:Megatron goes out of his way to humiliate Charles in ''R1'' before killing him, first by using his Dark Geass to make Charles live his greatest fear, then blowing up Pendragon in front of him, and finally destroying Charles by revealing V.V.'s treachery before vaporizing him. Considering the number of lines Charles crossed, it's hard to have ''any'' sympathy for him.]]
** [[spoiler:This also applies to Marianne when Megatron uses her corpse as a central component for the Dark Queen. When Lelouch is horrified at this revelation, Megatron says that if Lelouch knew the [[EvilMatriarch kind of person Marianne really was]], then he would be wishing this fate on her as well.]]
** [[spoiler:V.V. has this happen to him more than once. First, he's killed repeatedly by Megatron and Shockwave before ultimately submitting to the Decepticons out of fear. Later when he fights the Wreckers, Rai, Bulkhead, and Nonette each get a turn in killing him. Given the number of horrible things V.V. had done, which included crippling Nunnally and trapping Rai in the Thought Elevator for seven years, it's fair to say he had it coming.]]
* In ''Fanfic/TheGospelOfMalachel'', the twelfth member of Seele sends an assassination squad after the Evangelion pilots. His men fail, but they kill off Shinji's eight classmates. Kihl Lorenz gets Seele 12 killed immediately for going behind Seele's back and squandering "resources".

[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'': [[spoiler:Fidget's DisneyVillainDeath, depending on whether you view him as truly evil or an UnintentionallySympathetic PunchClockVillain. Considering the fact that he gleefully suggested throwing little Olivia to her death a few seconds before probably the former]].
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood'': Red Hood abducts ComicBook/TheJoker to submit him to ColdBloodedTorture for ruining his life. This might be a case of PayEvilUntoEvil since the Joker [[spoiler:had subjected Jason Todd to ColdBloodedTorture before setting the bomb that exploded and temporarily killed Jason, who later became the Red Hood]].
* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'': After the AlphaBitch Mertle [[RejectedApology harshly rejects Lilo's apology]] and [[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon then threatens to run over her with a tricycle]], Stitch pushes Mertle away and steals her trike. Later on in [[WesternAnimation/LiloandStitchTheSeries the series]], whenever bad things happen to Mertle, chances are she had it coming.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie'': We are introduced to the abilities of Dennis, the hitman hired by Plankton, twice while he searches for [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick, but in both cases, it was against people who were previously assholes to the protagonists: The two gas station hillbillies who like to laugh at people who pass by (Dennis rips off their mouths) and the owner of the BadGuyBar that has the rule that "[[DisproportionateRetribution Any baby who blows bubbles will be beaten up by every person in the bar]]". When Dennis blows a bubble while looking at a trace of soap left by [=SpongeBob=], he tries to enforce this rule, only for Dennis to punch him upwards and making him land on (and destroy) his bar.

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* At the end of ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'' the otherwise decent Daniel Clamp, after learning Forster is stuck god only knows how many floors up and has endured near hell itself, gives the guy half a day off to recuperate (Once they get him down, of course). Good thing Forster was such a complete turd throughout the movie, or else people might have felt bad for him.
* ''Film/LittleSweetheart'' has Thelma, the 9-year-old VillainProtagonist [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]] sociopath psychologically tormenting two bank robbers (a man and his mistress) via blackmail for just $100 and then fun. Sure, he's a cheating, thieving bastard and she's just as bad, but Thelma takes it to new levels. Of course, it's also harder to hate Robert Burger, the bank robber (and former employee), seeing as he's Creator/JohnHurt.
* Creator/DenisLeary giving the "Mickey Mantle" speech to the abusive husband in ''Film/SuicideKings''. Oh, was that a glorious scene.
* A very literal and humorous example occurs in ''Film/CJ7''. However, it turns out it was AllJustADream leading to an unpleasant subversion. Later, the protagonist engages in [[KickTheDog kicking]] the would be SOB kicker. Repeatedly.
* The main villain of ''Film/{{Twins}}'' is a hitman known as "[[SpellMyNameWithAThe The Webster]]" who kills anyone, even the people who ''hire him'', who meet him on the job and see his face (which he makes no effort to conceal). His victims include the loan sharks chasing Vincent.
* The main plot in ''Film/{{Martyrs}}'' starts with [[DecoyProtagonist Lucie]] invading a home and brutally killing the family within. The audience spends the next hour wondering whether they deserved it or was Lucie's RoaringRampageOfRevenge [[KickTheMoralityPet horribly misguided]].
* Al Czervik (the Dangerfield character) in ''Film/{{Caddyshack}}'' is abusive to everybody around him, but they all have it coming with the possible exception of some of the caddies (and many of them snark right back at Al, which he seems to appreciate).
* Everyone "D-Fens" meets in ''Film/FallingDown''. Most notably the Neo-Nazi. At least the ones he actually gets violent with. Various people, such as the staff and customers at Whammy Burger, don't qualify for this trope. They're just minding their own business and being normal human beings when they have the misfortune to cross Foster's path, or vice versa. He doesn't hurt any of them, but he damn sure ruins their day.
* In ''Franchise/StarWars Episode III: Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', the newly minted Sith Lord Darth Vader ([[LateArrivalSpoiler i.e. Anakin Skywalker]]) slaughtered the entire Separatist Council; but these people not only led an [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized evil rebellion]] against the Republic, they did so with the explicit knowledge that it was purely for the benefit of [[BigBad Darth Sidious, the Dark Lord of the Sith]]: all their ideals of restoring proper democracy were completely false. Therefore, lots of fans aren't particularly sad about Lord Vader's actions. Tusken Raiders are portrayed as AlwaysChaoticEvil "as a group" but Nute Gunray and his minions are portrayed as evil "as individuals." However, Anakin's eagerness to kill them is portrayed as alarming nonetheless. There still does seem to be '''some''' trace of this trope present; [[spoiler:Anakin's killing of Nute Gunray and his minions]] is shown on screen, whereas [[spoiler:Anakin's [[WouldHurtAChild massacre of the innocent children]] in the Jedi temple]] is not. Of course, that might have just been the limits of a PG-13 rating.
* Deleted material from ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'' showed that the one of the victims in the Sin Bin shooting was a pimp who the twins had seen slapping around one of his girls before heading into the strip joint. Incidentally, he was also the same asshole who beat up that injured nun we saw earlier in the hospital waiting room. Despite Connor wanting to kill the guy ("There's no way. I've been waiting for this asshole."), the kill went to Rocco, who went GunsAkimbo on both him and the guy in the booth opposite him.
* In the Park Chan-wook film, ''Film/SympathyForMrVengeance'', the movie involves Ryu getting back at the organ traffickers by the second half of the movie for stealing his money and kidney. Unbeknownst to him, these people not only committed god knows how many scams to their previous customers prior to the events of the movie, but one of them also attempts to rape a sedated woman on the operating table. Therefore, most of the audience ain't too sad about Ryu's actions.
* The ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' villains themselves in the film franchise have a tendency to do this.
** ComicBook/TheJoker in ''Film/Batman1989'' kills vicious crimelord Carl Grissom, his lieutenants Antoine Rotelli and Vinnie Ricorso, and Lieutenant Max Eckhardt who was on Grissom's payroll. It wasn't until he starts using the Smylex gas on the people of Gotham City that [[MoralEventHorizon the audience had to take him seriously]].
** In ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', after Dr. Pamela Isley is transformed into Poison Ivy, the first thing she does is take revenge on Jason Woodrue for stealing her work, corrupting it to create Bane, and attempting to kill her, by killing him with her [[KissOfDeath poison kiss]].
** ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'':
*** Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow fear-gassing [[spoiler:Carmine Falcone]] in ''Film/BatmanBegins''. [[spoiler:However, he was less interested about him being the head of the Italian Mob in the Gotham City, and it was more because HeKnowsTooMuch.]]
*** The Joker in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' also kills [[spoiler:Gambol, who is the head of a Haitian mob]].
*** Bane in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' also kills [[spoiler:John Daggett, a CorruptCorporateExecutive who tries to take over Wayne Enterprises]].
** Batman himself gets in on this in ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' as part of his HeWhoFightsMonsters phase (a result of the events of ''Film/ManOfSteel'') involved branding rapists and human traffickers as targets for fellow inmates. [[spoiler:A sign of his CharacterDevelopment was not branding Lex Luthor.]]
* Yumi in ''[[Creator/ShinichiChiba Sonny Chiba]]'s Film/DragonPrincess'' takes on a squad of attack dogs unleashed by the BigBad in the middle of a forest and does just this literally several times in the course of the fight.
* ''Film/DemolitionMan'' had [[BigBad Simon Phoenix]] getting around his RestrainingBolt by having one of his Mooks kill Raymond Cocteau, the creator of the CrapsaccharineWorld of San Angeles who had Phoenix released and brainwashed into doing his bidding:
-->'''Cocteau''': Now I'll have carte blanche to create the perfect society. My society. The harmony of an ant colony and the purity of a flawless pearl-
-->'''Phoenix''': Yeah, but you can't take away people's right to be assholes! That's who you remind me of. An evil Mr. Rogers. Will you please kill him? (throws gun to Mook) He's pissing me off.
* ''Film/{{Elysium}}'': [[spoiler:Kruger fatally stabs Delacourt, the woman who hired him and used him as a pawn in her evil schemes, when she makes the critical mistake of yelling at him]].
* In ''Film/SpiderMan1'', Dennis Carradine robs the unscrupulous wrestling manager who scammed Peter out of his $3,000 for no reason. Even Peter had no problem allowing Dennis to escape with his money. Unfortunately, this does backfire on Peter later on.
* BigBad John Harrison/[[spoiler:Khan]] from ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'' brutally kills [[spoiler:the SmugSnake Admiral Marcus, who tortured and blackmailed him into making weapons for the Federation,]] with his ''bare hands''.
* In the ''Film/WalkingWithDinosaurs'' film, after the way Scowler [[BigBrotherBully treated Patchi the entire film]], Gorgon mauling him to near death can be seen as this.
* Hadley from ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'' might be a brutal prison guard, but audiences were cheering him on when he beats up [[SerialRapist Bogs]] to the point where the latter becomes immobilized.
* ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'': [[TheHero Optimus Prime]] kills [[spoiler:Harold Attinger, the human villain who ordered the slaughter of the Autobots who defended humanity in the first movie trilogy]].
* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'': Ian Mercer, Cutler Beckett's [[TheDragon Dragon]], is gruesomely [[OrificeInvasion throttled to death]] by Davy Jones. The audience can't help but share a little of Jones's satisfaction.
* ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}'':
** William Munny shoots bar owner "Skinny" just because [[spoiler:his friends corpse happens to be on display outside his bar]]. However since Skinny is also basically a pimp who treats his prostitutes like subhuman cattle and [[KickTheDog kicks the dog]] in practically every scene he shares with them it's really hard to feel bad for him.
** English Bob has his gun dismantled, is beaten savagely, and is abandoned by his trusted scribe Beauchamp. It's supposed to illustrate the near-boundless cruelty of Sheriff Little Bill, but considering [[MilesGloriosus many of the stories Bob told Beauchamp were HEAVILY exaggerated, if not outright fabricated,]] combined with the fact that Bob did little to ingratiate himself to his American hosts beforehand [[CulturalPosturing (mocking Americans for having a president for a leader instead of a monarch, for example),]] his mistreatment landed him much closer to this trope for many viewers.
* ''Film/WillysWonderland'':
** [[spoiler:Willy brutally murders Sheriff Lund by [[HalfTheWomanSheUsedToBe slicing her in half]]. The audience would feel bad with her if not for the fact that she was a CorruptHick who had knowingly caused the deaths of countless innocent people by feeding them to the HostileAnimatronics.]]
** [[spoiler:Similarly, Siren Sara blows up both Tex and Jed, who were Lund's two accomplices.]]
* In ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'', the Phantom's first kill, the prop-master Joseph Buquet, is given a couple scenes of [[ThePeepingTom perving on the ballerinas]] that seem to exist largely so the audience doesn't lose sympathy for Erik when he violently throttles the sorry guy to death.
* ''Film/JurassicWorld'':
** After Hoskins spends the entire film being a total {{Jerkass}} and treating the raptors as expendable tools, [[spoiler:it doesn't cost the vicious, dangerous predator Delta much sympathy when she hunts him down in the Creation Lab and disembowels him]].
** ''[[BigBad Indominus rex]]'' is a maniacal monster who kills for sport and spends much of the film causing the destruction of Jurassic World, [[spoiler:even convincing Owen's raptors to go to her side. It becomes a fitting punishment for her when Rexie thrashes her around, horrendously wounds her, and allows her to get eaten by the ''Mosasaurus'']].
* ''Film/TheCableGuy'' has a textbook and deliberately humorous example with Chip who intends to beat up Robin's date for unknowingly hurting his friend Stephen's feelings. Good thing that he in his previous scene [[KickTheDog insults and treats a waiter like garbage]] for no good reason, because otherwise the beating that was inflicted on him would feel unwarranted.
* Thanks to making many of the human characters from ''Film/MarsAttacks'' repulsive and disgusting, the film is filled with palatable BlackComedy despite the aliens being monsters who kill indiscriminately anyone in their path. Mr. and Mrs. Norris who don't care for their son Richie and callously abandoned his grandmother Florence to the Martians are definite examples. Billy-Glen Norris who is a cruel bully to his brother who begs for mercy the moment things go south also qualifies. There's also the rude gambling lawyer whose first thought is to try to suck up to a Martian and join them in their violent take-over, though unfortunately for him the Martian wasn't very interested in his proposition.
* ''Film/{{Scream}}'':
** ''Film/{{Scream 3}}'': [[spoiler:Roman Bridger gives John Milton a SlashedThroat. The guy had [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil gang-raped Maureen Prescott (Sidney Prescott's mother) in the past]], [[ChildByRape resulting in Roman in the first place]], so the audience won't feel bad for him.]]
** ''Film/{{Scream 4}}'': [[spoiler:Jill Roberts murders Charlie Walker, who was her cohort in the killing spree.]]
* ''Film/QueenOfTheDamned'': Akasha kills off numerous lesser vampires in various bloodthirsty ways (like ripping out one's heart and ''eating it''). Since they're all portrayed as bloodsucking monsters, no tears will be shed, it's just to establish Akasha as EvilerThanThou.
* ''Film/FaustLoveOfTheDamned'': Mephistopheles kills his aide Claire by materializing a snake inside her and cutting open her gut to pull it out, then setting her on fire. She really deserved this, given her previous track record as a sadomasochistic rapist and serial murderess.
* ''Film/DustDevil'': [[spoiler:Mark, still chained to the cop car, encounters the possessed Wendy in the desert, begging her to free him. She aims a shotgun at him, then decides to just leave him there to die instead. Seeing how he was an abusive asshole, it's difficult to feel sorry for him]].
* ''{{ComicBook/Magneto}}'' tends to do this whenever he appears in the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'', partly because EvilIsCool, partly because the VillainHasAPoint, and partly because he's often against people worse than he is. Notable examples include:
** Transforming the bigoted anti-mutant Senator Kelly into a mutant himself -- though, surprisingly, this actually triggers CharacterDevelopment on Kelly's part, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath as he apologises to the X-Men]] (after they try to save him) and [[FaceDeathWithDignity faces his fate with dignity]].
** Trapping Sabretooth in Kelly's cell as a punishment for letting Kelly escape. While it's a pretty awful thing to do, it's, well... Sabretooth.
** Officer Laurio makes the very big mistake of beating up Magneto when he's in his plastic prison in the sequel. When Mystique injects him with a very large amount of iron supplement, well... let's just say that what happens next isn't pleasant. But damn, you can't really muster up much sympathy for the bigoted slob, either.
** Colonel Stryker, who had previously used a MindControl serum to compel the details of Cerebro from Magneto as part of his genocidal plan, not only nearly gets HoistByHisOwnPetard (along with the rest of humanity), but Magneto finds him and lashes him to a large chunk of concrete, leaving him to drown in Alkali Lake. Notably, Logan takes one look at Stryker, and decides to leave him right where he is.
** In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', he spends the first half an hour of the film working as a NaziHunter, tormenting and killing his targets in a number of gruesome and spectacular ways. Many of these methods would be a MoralEventHorizon all by themselves, but, well... [[AcceptableTargets Nazis.]] Oh, and then he almost shatters Emma Frost (Shaw's willing supporter) to make her talk, before killing Shaw slowly and with excruciating attention to detail. Furthermore, he [[DeathByIrony uses the coin that Shaw made him move in their first 'lesson' to do it with, pushing it through his skull]]. Considering that Shaw is an ex-Nazi who worked in Auschwitz, murdered Magneto's mother in front of him because he couldn't make his powers work first time of asking, experimented on him, killed Darwin just to make a point, and is out to start a nuclear war so mutants can take mankind's place in the world that emerges from the ashes... you really can't help but cheer for Magneto.
** When he ensures that Trask is HoistByHisOwnPetard by taking control of the Sentinels in the past timeline of ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', you can't help but smile a little, especially considering what those Sentinels will go on to do.
** In an ''X-Men'' example not connected to Magneto, ''Film/Deadpool2'' sees the Essex Orphanage Headmaster -- who [[WouldHurtAChild gleefully tortures all the young mutants in his care under the pretense of "curing" them]] -- get terrorized by [[HoistByHisOwnPetard one of the mutants under his care]] and witness his orphanage go up in flames and captives freed, all before being unceremoniously run over by [[ButtMonkey Dopinder]].

[[folder:Literature]]
* 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.
* 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.
* ''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]].
* 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.
* 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."
* 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.]]
* 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.)
* ''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]].
* 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.
* 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.
* 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/{{Animorphs}}'': The Inspector regularly mocks, taunts, threatens, and otherwise humiliates...[[ArchEnemy Visser Three]]. It's kind of fun to watch.
* 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.
* Pimps in the Literature/BelisariusSeries tend to suffer this fate. As do Malwa ritual torturers.
* 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]].
* 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.
* 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 ''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''.
* 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.
* ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance'' (book two 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.
* ''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.
* ''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']]!
* ''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 (but 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]], [[WouldHurtAChild threatened to rape 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.

[[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 which 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}} 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: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:Tabletop Games]]
* 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]].
* 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".
* 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.
* 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.
* ''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.

[[folder:Theatre]]
* 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]].
* 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.
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[[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 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]]]].
* 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 one of the ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' endings, Makoto Itou harshly calls out [[AlphaBitch Otome]] and her horrible GirlPosse upon their continued abuse of [[{{Ojou}} Kotonoha]]- even grabbing the hand of the lass who's about to do the slapping part.
* 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]].
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* 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.
* 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".
* 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.
* 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.
* Adam's "defeat" in ''Machinima/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]] [[UpToEleven of epic proportions]] 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]].
* [[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]].
* ''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.]]
* Effectively what happens to the Threeist powers in ''Literature/AmericasStepbrotherAmericasEnemyTwoPointZero''. The modern day United States is transported by a temporal anomaly into the dystopian nightmare world of Literature/NineteenEightyFour, where the Party leadership promptly declare war on the new nation (as they believe them to be thoughtcriminals). The resulting war sees one of the most terrifying dystopias in fiction [[CurbStompBattle reduced to a ridiculous joke]]: Threeist military philosophy has long treated war as a song-and-dance routine where armies of poorly-trained conscripts and cumbersome SchizoTech vehicles fight phony wars to waste resources and generate propaganda; the United States military is better equipped and trained, and most importantly, ''actually motivated to win''.
* ''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 ''Machinima/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.
* ''{{Machinima/Anon}}'': Connor beats the absolute shit out of Ryan for his jerkass reaction to Candace's pregnancy.
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** ''Film/{{Scream 3}}'': [[spoiler:Roman Bridger gives John Milton a SlashedThroat. The guy had [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil gang-raping Maureen Prescott (Sidney Prescott's mother) in the past]], [[ChildByRape resulting in Roman in the first place]], so the audience won't feel bad for him.]]

* 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]] itself. 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 Embraced 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.

* This trope is how [[Fanfic/TheRiseOfDarthVulcan Darth Vulcan]] justifies pretty much every act he takes against Equestria, due to his extremely skewed, yet partially accurate, view of Equestrian society. Some notable examples:

** [[spoiler:Similarly, Siren Sara blows up both Tex and Jed, who were Lund's two cohorts.]]

* ''Film/WillysWonderland'': [[spoiler:Willy brutally murders Sheriff Lund by [[HalfTheWomanSheUsedToBe slicing her in half]]. The audience would feel bad with her if not for the fact that she was a CorruptHick who had knowingly caused the deaths of countless innocent people by feeding them to the HostileAnimatronics.]]

* 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/{{Luke Cage|HeroForHire}} and [[ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist Iron Fist]] are honestly more horrified that Daredevil broke his ThouShaltNotKill rule than the fact that he did it to Bullseye.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'': During the ''ComicBook/NewKrypton'' arc, ComicBook/LexLuthor guns down Kryptonian Commander Gor from behind. Since Gor was a {{sadist}}ic SociopathicSoldier, nobody really cares.

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** ''Film/{{Scream 3}}'': [[spoiler:Roman Bridger gives John Milton -- who was responsible for [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil gang-raping Maureen Prescott (Sidney Prescott's mother) in the past]], [[ChildByRape resulting in Roman in the first place]] -- a SlashedThroat.]]
** ''Film/{{Scream 4}}'': [[spoiler:Jill Roberts stabs Charlie Walker, who was her cohort in the killing spree.]]

** Transforming the bigoted anti-mutant Senator Kelly into a mutant himself - though, surprisingly, this actually triggers CharacterDevelopment on Kelly's part, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath as he apologises to the X-Men]] (after they try to save him) and [[FaceDeathWithDignity faces his fate with dignity]].

* Hadley from ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'' might be a brutal prison guard, but audiences were cheering him on when he beats up [[SerialRapist Bogs]] to the point where the latter becomes immobilized. He also did this as [[PetTheDog a favor for Andy]], who promised to help out Hadley with his financial troubles.

* ''Fanfic/ABriefHistoryOfEquestria'': This was the general reaction in-universe when Princess Platinum [[spoiler:performed a [[ThePurge purge]] on her [[DeadlyDecadentCourt corrupt court]]]].

!!Examples:

** 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 [[AmoralAttorney thoroughly corrupt
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.

** 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 [[AmoralAttorney thoroughly corrupt

* In the ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' fic "Twisted", one of many sequels to the "World Financial Crisis Gangbang," America commits suicide and is brought back to life by England, only to [[CameBackWrong come back wrong]] as a ''very'' DamagedSoul bent on vengeance. His first act of revenge is sacrificing the Italy brothers in a black magic ritual to resurrect his children he had over a century earlier. Normally, killing the Italy brothers would put America past the MoralEventHorizon. However, since the Italy brothers participated in the gang rape, it's very hard to have any sort of sympathy for them.

* In the ''FanFic/TamersForeverSeries'', this is [[spoiler:Chaos]]'s primary motivation for his short term plans.

* ''FanFic/ABriefHistoryOfEquestria'': This was the general reaction in-universe when Princess Platinum [[spoiler:performed a [[ThePurge purge]] on her [[DeadlyDecadentCourt corrupt court]]]].

* In ''FanFic/{{Horseshoes and Hand Grenades}}'', Gentaro, after being resurrected by Ophiuchus, decides to go to Yamada Tatsumori and summon Ophiuchus to devour his soul. Considering he was the UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom who caused Gentaro to die and the mess that followed, this was nothing short of karmic payback.
* ''FanFic/{{Hivefled}}'': Orphaner Dualscar is a slave-taking privateer who murders for fun. The fantroll Lereal Belsai is TheFundamentalist and a [[FantasticRacism hemoist]] whose actions led to the deaths of hundreds of children. Both of them got [[RapeAsDrama raped to death]] by the [[BigBad Grand Highblood]] and his cronies.

* ''FanFic/RosarioVampireBrightestDarkness'':

* This trope is how [[FanFic/TheRiseOfDarthVulcan Darth Vulcan]] justifies pretty much every act he takes against Equestria, due to his extremely skewed, yet partially accurate, view of Equestrian society. Some notable examples:

* In ''FanFic/TheCommission'', Ruby and Blake intend to draw Grimm towards the Colosseum by gathering the worst of each of their organizations, [[EvenEvilHasStandards particularly the child murderers and molesters]] and terrorizing the crap out of them. [[TimeForPlanB This is after the initial plan of having Nora]] [[Recap/RWBYV3E6Fall attack Mercury using an illusion]] fails.

* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' fanfic ''Fanfic/MonsterChronicles'' . Cedric's cruel and horrifying actions towards Alejandro and Duncan are not shown to be deserving and in fact invoke some sympathy for them.

* In ''FanFic/HowToBreakAFamily'', the infamous BrattyHalfPint D.W. is kidnapped and tortured for fourteen years as a result of the Tibbles making her go into a store alone to buy candy for them; the kidnapping had nothing to do with her bratty tendencies, however, as the kidnappers merely wanted [[spoiler:to use her as a guinea pig for their experiments]]. However, the trope is [[AvertedTrope averted]] in that nobody in the story is happy that she was kidnapped, not even Arthur, whom she caused the most trouble for as his AnnoyingYoungerSibling. In fact, when D.W. returns safely years later, Arthur outright wants to get {{Revenge}} on her kidnappers.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Watts]] is generally unpleasant, intolerant of failure, and full of sarcastic put-downs for anyone whom he deems to have failed or is beneath him. When Watts and the rest of Salem's faction reconvene with Salem for the first time after the fall of Beacon, this behavior is seen first-hand as he goes out of his way to mock Cinder for being defeated, scarred and rendered temporarily mute by Ruby after the former is caught in the blast of the latter's burgeoning powers having awakened for the first time. He doesn't even care that Cinder can't even speak clearly enough to defend herself without Emerald's help. When reporting the discovery of the Spring Maiden to Salem with Lionheart via Seer Grimm, Watts goes out of his way to interrupt the latter's report just to take a verbal pot-shot at Cinder on the other end, mockingly asking her if she can see him clearly with just one eye since the other one was destroyed by Ruby's eyes. However undeserved this may seem, Cinder is a power-lusting egomaniac who delights in hurting or killing anyone regardless of whether or not it will benefit her, and who looked upon the fall of Beacon with barely-disguised pleasure at the massacre. With this in mind, whatever sympathy Cinder may have kindled instantly evaporates.