History Main / KickTheSonOfABitch

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

* 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.

** 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...

Suffice to say that the PayEvilUntoEvil can have a perpetrator of almost any morality while the Kick the Son of a Bitch is always a case of EvilVersusEvil. See also KickTheDog; TakeThatScrappy; AssholeVictim; EvenEvilHasStandards. Compare with AlasPoorScrappy, PokeThePoodle, and DesignatedVillain. Also compare--but do not confuse--with PayEvilUntoEvil. Scenes like this often qualify for LessDisturbingInContext.

* 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]].

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

* ''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.

* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' has [[spoiler:[[AxCrazy Kokichi]] manipulating Gonta into killing [[AxCrazy Miu]] by exposing him to flashback light in hopes of mercy killing everyone else, Everyone else didn't feel bad for Miu because of her constant physical, verbal, and sexual abuse to them.]]
** Being manipulated by the mastermind, Maki does this by attempting to shoot [[Jerkass Kokichi]] with poisons arrows. Kokichi got hit by one, but Kaito [[TakingTheBullet intercepts the second one which would've killed Kokichi]].
** Shuichi pulls this off to Tsumugi, Monokuma, and the [[HumansareBastards Audience]] by [[TheDogBitesBack ending]] Danganronpa for good.

* 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.]]

* Shuichi pulls this off to Tsumugi, Monokuma, and the [[HumansareBastards Audience]] by [[TheDogBitesBack ending]] Danganronpa for good.

** Being manipulated by the mastermind, Maki does this by attempting to shoot [[Jerkass Kokichi]] with poisons arrows. Kokichi got hit by one, but Kaito [[TakeTheBullet takes the second one]].

** Being manipulated by the mastermind, Maki does this by attempting to shoot [[Jerkass Kokichi]] with poisons arrows. Kokichi got hit by one, but Kaito [[TaketheBullet takes the second one]].

-->'''Cell:''' Next time, [[CantCatchUp why don't you remember your place like the rest of them...and wait for Goku.]]

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

* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' has [[AxCrazy Kokichi]] manipulating Gonta into killing [[AxCrazy Miu]] by exposing him to flashback light in hopes of mercy killing everyone else, Everyone else didn't feel bad for Miu because of her constant physical, verbal, and sexual abuse to them.

* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' has [[jerkass Kokichi]] manipulating Gonta into killing [[AxCrazy Miu]] by exposing him to flashback light in hopes of mercy killing everyone else, Everyone else didn't feel bad for Miu because of her constant physical, verbal, and sexual abuse to them.

* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' has [[Jerkass Kokichi]] manipulating Gonta into killing [[AxCrazy Miu]] by exposing him to flashback light in hopes of mercy killing everyone else, Everyone else didn't feel bad for Miu because of her constant physical, verbal, and sexual abuse to them.

* 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''.

* ''Animation/{{Mechamato}}'': Ninjamera doesn't discriminate his victims, he traps [[TheBullyBula and Bili]] in a time loop when they fall in an alleyway by the trash, regardless that the two inadvertently helped the robot strike Deep too by making him land in the mud earlier. Ninjamera [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube uploads all his victims' humiliation online]].

* ''ComicBook/AvengersAcademy'': The students learn that their teacher Tigra was once attacked in her home by the supervillain called the Hood, who beat her savagely, threatened to kill her mother, and forced her to beg for her life. They decide to PayEvilUntoEvil and do the same thing to the Hood, with the added measure of recording the beatdown and subsequent begging before putting it on Youtube to humiliate him further. Whilst Tigra herself chewed out the students responsible, fans felt that the Hood deserved everything he had coming to him, since even in addition to what he did to Tigra, he's also an all-around petty scumbag. Even Tigra [[NotSoAboveItAll couldn't help indulging herself]] and [[RewindReplayRepeat repeatedly watched the video]].

* ''ComicBook/AvengersAcademy'': After the students learn that their teacher Tigra was once attacked in her home by the supervillain called the Hood, who beat her savagely, threatened to kill her mother, and forced her to beg for her life. They decide to PayEvilUntoEvil and do the same thing to the Hood, with the added measure of recording the beatdown and subsequent begging before 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]].

* 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']]!

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

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

* 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.

* ''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.

* 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.

* 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.

** 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..]].

* 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.

** 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]].

* 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''.

* In our world, Jeffrey Dahmer was a SerialKiller who claimed the lives of 17 victims before being killed in prison. In the world of ''Literature/KentuckyFriedPolitics'' however, as a teenager he just so happens to run into a certain MonsterClown by the name of John Wayne Gacy...

* 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]].

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