History RewardedAsATraitorDeserves / LiveActionTv

** In "[[Recap/TheHandmaidsTaleS4E10TheWilderness Progress]]" Fred, when he realizes what awaits him in Gilead, protests he'd kept his deal with the US to give information. Trullo, without an ounce of remorse, says they activated a clause of the deal to revoke this and hand him over for execution.

* ''Series/{{Andor}}'': Cassian shoots Skeen dead when the latter tries to convince the former to help him abandon Vel and Nemik and steal the transport full of credits.

* ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows'' has an episode where the [[UndeadLaborers Vampiric Council's wraiths]] form a [[WeirdTradeUnion union]] in hopes of earning better treatment from the vampires. The wraiths' union representative proves difficult to bribe and steadfastly loyal to the other wraiths, until Nadja offers [[FantasticDrug Water Lily of the Nile]], a rare drug that can [[AndIMustScream soothe the constant pain of being a wraith]], at which point the union rep folds like a card table. When the wraith reports back, the other wraiths mob him, leaving nothing but a bloody smear on the floor. The display of violence [[MurderIsTheBestSolution works flawlessly]], with Nadja caving to the union's demands on the spot.

* ''Series/TheLibrarians2014'': Initially subverted in [[Recap/TheLibrariansS1E02AndTheSwordInTheStone the second episode]], when Lamia prepares to backstab Cassandra (who betrayed the Library) but is waved off by Dulaque - partly in case she's useful again, and partly because she was standing on a new rug he didn't want stained. Played straight later when Lamia has Cassandra thrown into a dungeon cell after she gains access to the Stone.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums "The Sound of Drums"]]: Newly elected PM [[TheMaster Harold Saxon]] begins his first cabinet meeting by calling his ministers traitors for abandoning their parties to support him once they saw the votes swinging his way. He ends it by [[BoardToDeath gassing them to death]]. This is a particularly hypocritical example as it's not hard to infer that The Master's own [[SubliminalSeduction Archangel Network]] likely influenced their decision to defect to his side, meaning he's [[NeverMyFault punishing them for something he's responsible for]].

** Happens to Jayne in "Ariel" when he tries to turn Simon and River in to the Feds: the Feds, led by Agent [=McGinnis=], arrest all three of them because [=McGinnis=] wants to keep the reward money for himself. The result is that Simon and River don't realize that they were betrayed by Jayne, while Jayne is forced back to his original side. When the three of them are taken to a holding facility Jayne proceeds to take out the Feds guarding them and free them both. When [[PapaWolf Mal]] finds out what Jayne did he's ready to have him ThrownOutTheAirlock. On [=McGinnis=]' side, when the Hands of Blue discover that he and his men have spoken with River in the first place, they promptly kill them with their fancy sonic weapon.
** In "Heart of Gold'", one of the female prostitutes at the brothel [[TheMole opts to side with]] the scumbag misogynist villain Rance Burgess. Her reward is to be subjected to a speech on how women are subservient to men, before being forced to blow him in front of a crowd of people. At the end of the episode, she is kicked out of the brothel and forced to go back to town with Burgess's men.

'''Ali:''' (shoots Hussein dead) As fair as a traitor deserves.

* ''Series/TheOrville'': In the WhamEpisode "Domino", the Union has finally found a way to keep the Kaylon from attacking by creating a device that, if used, sends out a signal that destroys any nearby Kaylon (except for Isaac, seeing as how he helped build the device). Admiral Perry steals the device and gives it to the Krill-Moclan alliance, believing that if the Union won't use the device to destroy the Krill, then the Krill and Moclans will. After making his delivery, his shuttle is destroyed by the Krill ship, killing him.

* ''Series/TheProfessionals''. In "Mixed Doubles", a President's aide is working with an assassin to kill his boss, revealing the location of the venue where he's going to be, plus a backup venue in case the first is compromised (which he's not supposed to know about, but the President told him anyway). To ensure they switch to the less secure backup venue, the assassin tortures and kills the aide, then dumps his body where it will be found.

* In ''Series/{{Rome}}'' Ptolemy shows Julius Caesar the head of Pompey, expecting praise. Caesar is instead furious that Pompey has been treated with such disrespect. He orders Pompey's killer executed, and fines Ptolemy heavily (which he might have planned all along).
* ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' Kudlak ''tries'' to pull this on Mr. Grantham once Kudlak feels he's outlived his usefulness, out of disgust that he'd sell the children of his own race into slavery for simple profit, but is interrupted by Mistress, who insists they still need Grantham.

** Played with in "A Matter of Honor". Riker was made second in command of a Klingon ship as part of a cultural exchange program and was made to swear a loyalty oath to the Klingon captain. Events happen that resulted in the Klingon captain declaring that the ''Enterprise'' attacked them, and so they were going to attack the ''Enterprise''. The Klingon captain then demanded that Riker give him the access codes to the ''Enterprise'', which Riker refused to do, due to his pre-existing oaths to Starfleet, but he was still willing to participate in the attack as part of the captain's orders [[spoiler:(well, not really)]]. The Klingon captain proceeded to tell him that if he ''had'' betrayed his original Starfleet oaths, he'd have had Riker executed as a traitor.
** In "The Defector", the Romulan Admiral Jarok, initially disguised as "Sublieutenant Setal", gives information about a Romulan base to the Enterprise crew. It turns out this was really a SecretTestOfCharacter by the Romulans, who wanted to test Jarok's loyalty. Despite their pleasure that he helped tricked the Federation into making an aggressive move, Commander Tomalak demands that they hand him over to summarily be executed. [[OutGambitted The Enterprise gets out of the trap]], but Jarok, [[ShootTheShaggyDog despondent that his defection, which meant leaving his family behind, was for nothing]], [[spoiler:kills himself]].

-->'''Weyoun:''' ''(deadpan)'' I won't miss him.

--> '''Lucifer:''' [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech You know, I never understood you pagans]]. You're such petty little things. Always fighting, always happy to sell out your own kind. No wonder you forfeited this planet to us. You are worse than humans. You're worse than demons. And yet you claim to be gods? (''snaps Mercury's neck'') And they call me prideful.

* ''Series/{{Treadstone}}''. CIA agent John Bentley escapes from the Soviet brainwashing program only to be suspected of being a traitor, so he goes on the run. As he was only captured because he stayed behind to HoldTheLine while his colleague Fergusson escaped, he contacts Fergusson for help. Fergusson listens to Bentley confessing to how he killed three agents while brainwashed, then his station chief Kohlar enters with gun drawn, but kills Fergusson instead, expressing contempt for how he betrayed his own partner (though it's also because he's impressed with the potential of the brainwashing technique and needs Bentley alive to get more information).