History Main / VictimOfTheWeek

InAWorld in which StartToCorpse is a statistic vital to {{drinking game}}s around the globe, it is necessary to have a VictimOfTheWeek. No victim, no corpse. No corpse, no drinking.

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'' features a victim of the week - as is common for any crime procedural or mystery genre show.

** In the same verse, ''Series/WithoutATrace''.

[[folder: Western Animation]]

** ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' uses this about half the time, with the victims mostly chosen from the Ojamajos' [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters classmates and family]]. Notably, there are Victims but no [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters Of The Week]]; the problems are all emotional ones in which the Ojamajos really have no business interfering.

* Each episode of ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' had at least two, with the focus being split between the detectives investigating the different murders.

* Series/{{Vera}}: Every episode starts with at one murder, however some episodes will have more bodies appearing later on.

* ''Manga/DetectiveConan''. Even when it's not a murder (which is rare), there's always a kidnapping or robbery (usually leading to murder).

* ''Manga/SailorMoon'' since the "S" series onwards, features one of these every episode, claimed to possess either "pure soul" or later in "Super S", "pure hearts" that the main villains suspect it houses [[LivingMacGuffin Pegasus]], complete with the main villains trying to getting close to the victims in question by disguises and when it foiled, the villains summons a MonsterOfTheWeek as usual as the Sailor Scouts are fighting the monster and the victim is unconscious for the whole fight.

** In ''Series/KamenRiderDenO'', the monsters are {{Jerkass Genie}}s who distort peoples' wishes (which are, with perhaps two exceptions, well-intentioned or merely misguided. TheHero, [[TheHeart a very compassionate young man]], makes helping the Victims as much a priority as fighting the monsters.
** ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'' has Clients of the Fortnight, as the protagonists operate a detective agency and often the Monster will be the source of their problems.
** In ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'', the villains take normal if flawed humans and use their impure desires to make the monsters.

* Being a deconstruction of the FightingSeries PlayedForLaughs, ''Manga/MutekiKanbanMusume'' subverts this trope because the various non-fatal victims of the week that we met at the series are regulars in her DebutQueue (they will not solve their problems) or people who will solve their problems themselves, [[UnwantedAssistance despite the help the protagonist gives]].

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': In every episode, BigBad Hawk Moth uses one of his akumas to [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwash normal civilians and turn them into supervillains that obey his orders]], making the VictimOfTheWeek and the MonsterOfTheWeek one and the same. In order for his power to work, the victim must be feeling negative emotions like sadness or anger, meaning the person usually was already the victim of another incident, and he usually offers a deal for those people to get what they wanted or get revenge on whoever wronged them in exchange for stealing the heroes' [[TransformationTrinket Transformation Trinkets]], however, the episodes usually end with the person free from the possession, and getting what they wanted anyway, or making whoever made them upset getting punished.