History Sandbox / TheDogBitesBackWickCheck

# Recap.TheSimpsonsS28E19MohoHouse: Smithers tricks Burns into believing he hallucinated Nigel and their bet as revenge for betting him.

# HoistByHisOwnPetard.RealLife: He had ran a scam in which he had pocketed money from homebuyers meant to pay off contractors for their fancy new condominiums. When it seemed that his scam would put him in jail for thirty years once people caught on, he attempted to throw his sister, Lori, under the bus, but when that failed, he gave information of others who worked for him and got a reduced sentence. However, before Bill's sentencing, Lori's lawyer contacted law enforcement to reveal that their father, Tony, was pressuring her to take the fall and she had enough as she was the only girl in her family and was single, thus a target for their harassment. Lori was wired and father and son continued their pressuring, the FBI hearing enough and arresting them both, with Bill getting the full thirty years and Tony getting six (Lori got a year and some change as she had a very minor role in it).
# MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic.TropesLToP: WHAT'VE WE DONE!?
# Recap.TinyToonAdventuresS1E38StrangeTalesOfWeirdScience: After spending most of his screen-time trying to eat Hamton, Plucky gets doused in the delicious flavor formula himself and gets people chasing him instead. Plucky runs to Hamton for help...but Hamton either becomes hungry himself or decides to pay Plucky back for trying to eat him earlier and begins stuffing him into every oven or microwave he can find like Plucky did with him earlier.
# WesternAnimation.PacManAndTheGhostlyAdventures: In "Mission ImPacable!", the microchip that was controlling Pac-Man gets stuck on Betrayus and its remote falls into Butt-ler's hands. Seeing that Betrayus will still torment him regardless if he gives the remote or not, Butt-ler takes the opportunity for some much needed payback for all the abuse, such as Betrayus forcing Butt-ler to let Pac eat him to get Pac to eat the chip in the first place. In "Betrayus Turns Up the Heat", Dr. Buttocks enslaves a group of dragons, forcing them to stoke the furnace that is heating up Pac-World. When Pac-Man arrives, not only do the dragons refuse to protect Buttocks from him, one even breathes fire on his eyes after he was eaten.
# Characters.TheBookOfEli: Carnegie tries to force her to translate the Bible that is written in Braille, but she pretends she doesn't remember how to read it.
# Characters.CodexEquusDetiUzhasov: After years of being abused and used as a torture device by Bolesť, she grew to resent her mistress, but could only threaten her due to lacking full sapience. Once Bolesť finally dies, she quickly sides with Phykti, who gives her sapience and adopts her as one of her daughters, and was put in charge of Bolesť's postmortem punishment afterward. Her following torments of Bolesť were so horrific that Phykti could only describe her as being a "natural". Bolesť: N-Now, Azab, I created you! Azab: Oh, mistress, I know. Don't worry, I won't be too rough... after all, you don't need to cause injury to cause more pain than you can imagine, but after how many times you've used me to inflict it on others, you already know that, don't you?
# Characters.AdventureQuestAntagonists: His treatment and enslavement of Hollow, dangling the promise of freedom and a reunion with his family in front of him in exchange for the mecha's creation. Unfortunately for him, this backfires on him gloriously.
# Recap.TheSimpsonsS35E7ItsABlunderfulLife: Homer tricked Bart into handing over his rights to the turkey drumsticks when he was a baby, with a contract signed and notarized by footprint. When present Bart finds out about this, he strangles Homer with a "Why you giant—"
# Characters.{{Nikita}}: After years of being used like a guinea pig and almost killed by her father, she stabs him to death and also her twin sister for not intervening for years.
# NightmareFuel.{{Redwall}}: The most nightmarish death in the series by far is Ungatt Trunn's. First, his spine is broken by Lord Brocktree. Then his "carcass" is tossed out towards the sea. However, it is revealed later on that he's still alive, but can't move or speak, is enduring an unbearable amount of pain, and the tide is slowly coming in, ready to take his body into the sea. It isn't until one of his former comrades comes by and kicks him into the sea that he actually dies. Did we mention an entire (albeit short) chapter is dedicated to his death?
# Characters.YuGiOhArcVPendulumOfHope: Attempts to use Yuya as bait to lure out Yusho if he wins in their first Duel, only to end up failing thanks to Yuto.
# Characters.{{Ophelia}}: Ophelia spends much of the film being taunted and belittled by Cristiana the most out of all the ladies. She never retaliates...until Cristiana mockingly informs her that Hamlet is (supposedly) dead, knowing that Ophelia loves him. Ophelia responds by tackling her to the floor and threatening to strangle her unless she tells her everything she knows.
# Film.TheLovesOfHercules: Hippolyta meets her end when one of her former lovers captures her in his branch-arms and crushes her to death.
# Fanfic.CheatCodeSupportStrategist: All for One's lies and manipulations end up biting him repeatedly. Shigaraki goes to the heroes and tells then everything he knows about All for One and the League of Villains once he learns All for One intends to possess him. Later, Spinner kills Mineta and All for One after learning they killed Stain and blamed it on the heroes.
# Characters.ChildOfTheStormAvengersAndAssociates: After nearly being destroyed by Zola's hacking of Avengers Tower, he happily returns the favour in their next encounter.
# Characters.KillSixBillionDemonsOther: As she lay dying, exhausted by her journey and the perils she faced trying to bury her father, Prim finally realized that she devoted her life, and now seemingly her death, to pleasing him. For the first time, Prim acts on a whim outside of Hansa, running out of the Iron Nail's reconstruction of her house and letting Hansa's corpse be buried alone. Later on in "Ashma and the Three Masters", she makes a small cameo fighting the Archons who destroyed her home near their flensing trees.
# Recap.DoctorWhoS2E6TheCrusade: Haroun kills El Akir.
# Fanfic.AllAssortedAnimorphsAUs: Tom kills his Yeerk at the spur-of-the-moment in both "What if they saved Jake's family?" and "What if Tom's yeerk got the morphing cube from David first?"
# Characters.FargoSeriesNygaardFamily: His arc is shaping up to be this. Best exemplified when he manages to get Sam Hess' wife to have sex with him in exchange for her insurance money, all while smiling smugly at a picture of the dearly departed. And to top it all off, he denies her claim, anyway!
# MindRape.ComicBooks: In their second appearance in Judge Dredd, the Dark Judges focus their psychic powers in an attack on Judge Anderson's mind to "crush it until it bleeds". She's losing this fight until she channels the spirits of their victims to obliterate them.
# Characters.KingdomHeartsOtherDisneyVillains: AdaptationalHeroism: An incredible Moment of Awesome involving the character occurs in Dream Drop Distance. Right from the start of his battle with the Final Boss of Prankster's Paradise, Sora struggles to contend with the Chill Crawbster as he is unable to fly at that point, making it difficult for him to get within range of the creature to strike it effectively. Then, to the surprise of many, Monstro shows up to help Sora out and stays by the young Keyblader's side until the battle is over. Considering that he was frozen solid by The Chill Crawbster beforehand, this could also count as both an example of TheDogBitesBack and Enemy Mine.
# Characters.MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater: It was strongly implied that, shortly after being exiled to the San Hieronymo Peninsula, but before the FOX takeover, the Soviet soldiers got their revenge on Raikov for his abuse in rank, took advantage of his current exile, and imprisoned him.Likewise, if the players free Raikov, it is also implied that his motivations for joining the resistance was also so he could exact payback on the people who imprisoned him.
# Literature.TheManchurianCandidate: Implied to be Eleanor's next goal once she has taken power through her husband, in revenge for her communist associates having brainwashed her son into an assassin and forced her to be his controller.
# Characters.LifeOnBogota: After a few episodes he takes his opportunity to kill Zisteau by shooting him in the back while on an outdoor stroll at night.
# Characters.HellGirlHellCorrespondence: He sends Gil to Hell, genuinely terrified of him after witnessing his true colors and the extent of his powers and realizing he could easily murder him on a whim eventually.
# WesternAnimation.StageFright: Arnold's abuse of Tiny eventually leads to one of his dogs biting Arnold on the nose.
# Characters.SuperjailCitizens: In "Jean & Paul & Beefy & Alice", The Warden becomes increasingly more frustrated when it turns out that Jared is actually better at golf than him. Jared milks it for all it's worth, most notably when he decides to crush the Warden's hand and then whacks him in the crotch with a golf club upon finding out that he's cheating.
# Characters.StarVsTheForcesOfEvilToffee: Star in Super Mode melts him alive with a blast from her wand, reducing him to a skeleton covered in black goo. That's not enough to kill him, so Ludo finishes him off by knocking a pillar over his remains.
# Characters.{{Kaleidoscope}}: kaleidoscope: Physically stabbed by a spike of ice (courtesy of Victor), who was helped along by Erin's powers in a case of TheDogBitesBack. aspis: Forced out of his physical body and finally blasted into oblivion by the combined effort of every single Agent on Earth.
# Characters.{{Sturmtruppen}}: He's usually at the mercy of the antics of both officers, sergeants, and even refular soldiers... But he's also the guy feeding everyone, and at times he strikes back. It's even implied he cooks badly on purpose after dirty laundry water was preferred to his meals...
# Characters.FateGrandOrderBerserkersGToM: Ibaraki's mother is suggested to been really abusive towards Ibaraki with the implication that Ibaraki Was Once a Man taking away the idea that that is just how oni parents act. So the idea that she might have murdered her mother alongside the rest of her family seems reasonable, though Ibaraki herself isn't aware of such and repeatedly praises her mother and expresses a desire to see her.
# Characters.WestworldWilliam: After putting up with Logan's Jerkass behavior and finally receiving a cruel speech from him about how he's pathetic, William leaves Logan behind to be beaten by angry hosts rather than help him. Logan later returns to torture William and Dolores; William kills all the Confederados and forces Logan into a role as a reluctant henchman.
# Characters.MrBean: Finally gets the upper hand on Mr. Bean in "Car Wars", first by pursuing him, then dropping the latter's beloved green car into a car crusher.
# Awesome.MafiaIII: It is immensely satisfying to burn Remy Duvall, leader of the Southern Union on his own flaming cross. The fact it's exactly what he intended to do to you also helps. Even better, you can massacre the Ku Klux Klan members in the meeting and it's more equally awesome that you're playing as a black guy, the people those racist pricks oppress. Hell all of the Southern Union missions are awesome in their own right, from busting up a meeting in a market where Haitians are being auctioned off as slaves to sneaking into a mansion to confront Olivia by disguising yourself as "the help" and drugging everyone and then saving Remy's nephew.
# Film.TheNightOfAThousandCats: Or rather, cats. When one of Hugo's victims manages to escape his clutches, she accidentally creates a hole in the cat pit, allowing them to escape and get back at Hugo for abusing them.
# Recap.GarfieldAndFriendsS1E06: Or rather, the cat. When Jon comes to rescue Garfield, he tells Garfield that he left him up in the tree for hours because he was gushing over Nermal's cuteness. Garfield climbs down the ladder, taking it with him and leaving Jon stuck in the tree.
# Fanfic.YourMoveInstigatorDrawYourWeaponAndHoldYourTongue: Danzo finds himself on the recieving end of this after forcing Sai to kill his brother. They retailiate by escaping and spreading flyers in the same style as his other propaganda, championing the Yellow Flash.
# Awesome.UrbanChaosRiotResponse: After you avert Deadline News by blasting another hostage-taker into a bathtub, the reporter he was about to execute pays him back by tossing in a television set ("Fry, you bastard!") and then giving her report while the goon's body twitches and crackles behind her.
# Film.TheWaterboy: Bobby was abused by the Cougars for years and had no choice but to just stand there and take it. The Mud Dogs finally push him too far, and this leads to him standing up for himself by brutally tackling those who insult him. Especially tackling Meaney in the Bourbon Bowl, who definitely had it coming after years of tormenting Bobby for fun. Coach Klein was intimidated and screwed over by Red to be coaching a farm team, but thanks to Bobby's advise, he no longer sees Red as someone scary and came up with new creative plays that totally catches Red off guard and defeats him in the most heartbreaking way possible.
# Characters.TheCuckooClockOfDoom: Him attempting to get his sister unfairly in trouble with their parents as revenge for all the times she got him unfairly in trouble.
# Fanfic.TheKeyToASuccessfulInterview: Most of the maids working for the Chardins were actually there to Work Off the Debt they or their families incurred. When the Chardins are exposed as con men, the maids descend on them after Ranma and co leave.
# Characters.TheSopranosLawEnforcementAndCivilians: After getting fed up with Carmela's condescending attitude and treatment of her, Charmaine reveals that she had a fling with Tony in high school and he was going to dump Carmela for her. However, she chose to end things and is content with her choice, leaving Carmela speechless.
# Fanfic.LegacyOfTheEnginseers: When the Yangban lead parahumans Null, One, and Two die in the CUI strike, many of the now-freed brainwashed capes attack the CUI staff meant to control them.
# Characters.KamenRiderGeatsDesireGrandPrix: He becomes Ace's ally after being Out-Gambitted the last time in #14. This is also helped by Girori being a Bad Boss and Ace encouraging Win to bite back and go after his real wish after learning that Win wanted to be a music star.
# HumiliationConga.{{Literature}}: The entire second and third acts of A Clockwork Orange are a particularly dark example, for its Villain Protagonist Alex, who suffers through one Cold-Blooded Torture after another in a long and brutal Trauma Conga Line, in a supposed attempt by the Government to cure his criminal impulse; of course, forcing him to violently dry heave, scream kind words at people while they mercilessly beat him, and lick their boots doesn't exactly help him. Leaving him at the mercy of his incensed former victims just made him crazier than ever, and it wasn't as if they left him with any ability to defend himself. Of course, the Government received some public backlash when this supposed "treatment" ended in a jump from his bedroom window. Given Alex's actions in the first half you won't feel bad for him at all.
# Farscape.TropesAToC: AssholeVictim: Salis tortures Chiana and regularly preaches the virtue of Mind Rape (which is what he plans to do to Chiana). It is never revealed who killed him. If it was Durka, he would have done it because he's a psychopath and attempting to get rid of any obstacles to his escape. If it had been Chiana, it would be a case of TheDogBitesBack.Kelsa from "Different Destinations". She shoots the Vedek General who was on his way to negotiate a ceasefire, thereby screwing the original timeline where no-one died, so that when the crew get back to the present, all the nurses were slaughtered, including her young daughter.
# Characters.DragonBallVegetaTropesAToD: His killings of Zarbon and Dodoria in the Frieza Saga. As he points out to Zarbon, the two of them have done nothing but insult him and push him around for years.
# Funny.{{Barnyard}}: "THAT'S CALLED 'BOY TIPPING'! HA HA HA!!"
# Characters.TheWeirwoodQueen: Almost literally. Joffrey taunting her with the severed heads of her father and household spurs her first transformation into a direwolf, where she inadvertently kills Joffrey shortly afterward.
# Film.{{Ran}}: {{Revenge}}: The driving force behind Lady Kaede. A TheDogBitesBack story.
# Literature.LaughingWinds: Annika sees a guard pulling a childs remains out of the furnace the same night her brother disappears The next day while she is working on the assembly line the same guard confronts her and she snaps.
# Characters.MortalKombat1Playable: After being used as a living resource by Shang Tsung, Baraka lashes out at the sorcerer and would have killed him if Johnny, Kenshi and Kung Lao hadn't intervened.
# PyrrhicVictory.LiveActionTV: You've got to! Come on. It can't end like this. You and me, all the things we've done. Axons! Remember the Axons? And the Daleks. We're the only two left. There's no one else... REGENERATE! The Master: Look at that...I win! However, the Master pulls a Thanatos Gambit by anticipating his death and getting his cult to resurrect him a year later. But he's not the only one. Lucy Saxon has also made arrangements to prevent this, and ends up making a Heroic Sacrifice to prevent her husband's resurrection; he ends up Coming Back Wrong.
# Characters.HanaNoNakuKoroNi: To Nirrti. They both experienced great trauma, obtained massive magic power, and then promptly turned murderous and vengeful on those who wronged them, killing innocent people in the process. Nirrti even refers to Sakura as "someone who almost became a Witch." In Sakura's case, however, she never fully went down that path.

# Recap.Batwoman2019S1E14GrinningFromEarToEar: Alice finally has the opportunity to get back at her tormentor Dr. Cartwright.
# Characters.CarrieWhiteFamily: Once she realizes her gift, she's quick to turn it on her abusive mother, and the town that's abused her for so long.
# SpaceWhaleAesop.WesternAnimation: If you don't take your child on a traditional camping trip into the forest and just give them a makeshift campout at home instead on the day they get a wild urge, this will anger them to the point of becoming a Wild Child. If you don't take your enemies seriously and treat them like a joke, mocking them over their constant failures and shrugging them off, they'll bite right back at you and destroy the most important thing in your family.
# Fanfic.UltimateDanganronpa3: It is quite fitting to see Junko Enoshima degraded as a tutorial boss for the first Class Trial, and even stripped of her status as the Mastermind. It just goes to show that Junko had it coming for always using and manipulating people. So this game's Mastermind had no problems returning the favor. Sorry Junko, but for this Hope Peak Academy Saga entry, you're not orchestrating the game this time.
# Film.{{Fyre}}: Between his mismanaging of the festival and gross disregard for his employees, several former Fyre employees and associates of Billy McFarland very frankly admitted that they told everything to the FBI when they came calling.
# Characters.SlamDunk: When Mitsui hits Sakuragi with the mop and Tetsuo beats him up along with the rest of the basketball team, Sakuragi wastes no time returning the favor by giving Tetsuo a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
# Characters.WithPearlAndRubyGlowingKnotsOfNature: Belos used them for snuff films and then later tried to drown them. The Collector was the one to kill him and, unlike in the show, it was permanent.
# Creator.TheJerkyBoys: BewareOfViciousDog: Frank's Rottweiler in "Piano Tuner," although it's of little surprise given that Frank admits to constantly kicking it around the apartment, making this TheDogBitesBack in literal form.
# Characters.TheWalkingDead2010NeganSmith: After being held prisoner by the Vipers he later returned and murdered them all. He responds to Maggie's refusal to help him fight a big walker by leaving her to dangle from the edge of a subway car with several walkers below her. He defends this by pointing out that he did not actively try to kill her, but he didn’t save her, just like how she and the others did him.
# Recap.FraggleRockS4E24InspectorRed: Indirectly. It turns out that Henchy stole the Fraggle Horn so there wouldn't be any more meetings. He did this in an effort to avoid being bonked on the nose by the World's Oldest Fraggle.
# Characters.LoveDeathAndRobotsGoodHunting: After tortuously mutilating Yan's body and sexually abusing her on a regular basis, she eventually has enough of his cruelty and then brutally kills him.
# Characters.{{Oxventure}}: Anyone making racist comments against tieflings learns to swiftly regret it; the merchant in "Spicy Rat Caper" pisses himself in fear at her, and a racist brigand in "Plunder Siege" ends up dying painfully. "Rolling in the Deep" shows that Cyrus, the abusive warlock who took her in, paid the price for his cruelty when she killed him.
# Characters.ASongOfIceAndFireWesterlandsHouses: Eventually violently snapped from all the humiliation he suffered at the hands of his wife and the other occupants of Dragonstone.
# Characters.TheDisneyLoops: Disposing of his boss during the Crisis was partially out of revenge, and also that he would almost certainly snap if forced to put up with Dragaunus being dismissive of him for eternity.
# Characters.DowntonAbbeyTheServants: She's furious after she overhears gossip and mistakenly thinks Cora is going to sack her, so plants a well-placed bar of soap on her bathroom floor, causing her to slip and miscarry her baby. This comes back to haunt O'Brien in Series 3, following her campaign of revenge against former ally Thomas, and after he has been publicly outed and reduced to a defeated shell by her constant scheming, he relays this one vital weakness to Bates, who only has to whisper "her Ladyship's soap" in her ear (not knowing what that means) to see her backing down in terror.
# Characters.FireForce: During his and Hinawa's time working together in the Nether, he constantly insults and belittles Hinawa and Company 8 due to his dislike of him "manipulating" Maki into joining the Fire Force and putting her in danger. Hinawa responds with firm reprimands to drop his Skewed Priorities and occasionally Trolling him, such as when Takigi called him useless due to his flame ability revolving around accuracy over wide-area control to prevent the White-Clad from burning Tokyo. When he tries telling him to help anyway to prevent the Fire Force from involving Maki due to her own wide-area abilities, he throws his words right back at him.
# Literature.PetalsOnTheWind: Cathy has sworn revenge upon her mother, resulting in several good examples of revenge tropes. The victim of Cathy's Misplaced Retribution is Bart Winslow. With whom she sleeps with and who is the father of her second son, Bart. All of this without ever telling Winslow the truth until it's too late. Later, Cathy attempts a Reunion Revenge at Foxworth Hall.
# Recap.SuccessionS04E04: Greg, who was threatened with ruination by Kerry after he was the only person to tell her that her newsreader try-out was no good, is quick to join Marcia in mocking Kerry now that she does not have Logan to protect her.
# WebAnimation.TwoMoreEggs: The ending of "Gram Moody" in Trauncles is implied to be this, all thanks to Stevens. His wink suggests that it was an elaborate prank on the narrator.
# Characters.OverTheGardenWall: When he learns that the lantern contained The Beast's soul and not his daughter, he resists the Beast's attempts to manipulate him into pursuing Wirt and instead blows out the lantern, seemingly killing the Beast.
# NightmareFuel.BattleTech: Cynthy.
# ComicBook.{{Diabolik}}: In a literal example of this trope, Ginko's dog was killed to intimidate his father, a former judge convicted for corruption who had witnessed a murder in prison. Too bad that Ginko, who was just ten at the time, caused the death of the dog killer while trying to get him arrested, allowing his father to testify without fear for the family.
# Series.Dynasty2017: After constantly being abused by Alejandro and their kidnapping plot falling apart, Iris finally turns against him and shoots him to protect her younger sister, Cristal.
# Awesome.ChangelingTheLost: The Autumn Court has a Changeling witch use a spell to summon the vengeful souls of all the animals the Huntsman slayed to make his attire, causing his own clothes to turn against him.
# Characters.PonyPOVSeriesEpilogueTimelineSupportingCharacters: In "Fluttercruel's Punishment", she appears in the massive crowd of angry ponies murdered by Fluttercruel, carrying dental tools and a spiked mace.
# Characters.SilentHillHomecoming: Given that this creature is essentially a monstrous reincarnation of Joey, the son Mayor Bartlett killed, this trope is in full effect when it kills him right back.
# Recap.TheLastOfUs2023S1E5EndureAndSurvive: KC FEDRA had been abusing its power to rape, torture and murder people for 20 years. Once the tides turn, the Resistance goes ballistic on the remaining FEDRA members.
# Film.TheHumanCentipede: Martin, especially in the scene with the rude boyfriend at the beginning and later on with his mother and their skinhead neighbor. Then there's Yennie, who, in a fit of adrenaline-induced rage, grabs the funnel Martin used to force-feed her earlier, shoves it into his ass, before grabbing his pet centipede and inserting it into the funnel.
# Characters.HyruleWarriorsAgeOfCalamityGanonAndDarkForces: After Astor turns on them, they take sides with the Hylians.
# Fanfic.PokemonHarmonyAndChaos: Gloriosa says that the the Magikarp in Camp Everfree's lake always found itself on the receiving end of mean tricks from the other Pokémon, and that it was only a matter of time before it hit its Rage Breaking Point. This finally ends up happening when Lightning Blitz kicks it away from him when it won't leave him alone. This is the last straw for it, and it evolves into Gyarados, going on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge before it is knocked out by Clauncher.
# PlayingWith.ExplosiveLeash: Taylor goads the bad guys into putting an Explosive Leash on him, because he wants to defuse it and turn it into a bomb to escape with. Someone hacks into the controls for the collars, allowing them to destroy all their hostages with a click of a button. Taylor hugs his neck to his would-be captor, ensuring that if his collar explodes, the captor dies with him. Charlie the Bomb Disposal expert is able to disarm the bomb on Evulz's gang of coerced minions. They proceed to take their revenge on Evulz.
# Series.PrisonBreak: After being continuously raped by Avocado, Tweener slashes his penis with a razor. Bellick, the one who moved Tweener to the rapist's cell, later on gets punched in the face by him. Kellerman tortures Sara and leaves her to drown in a bathtub, but she escapes and burns his chest with an iron before getting away. Later on, after learning that he's working with Michael and Linc, she can't stand him and tries to avenge her misery by strangling him.
# Characters.ErinsTotalMagicalAdventureTeamJafar: Gets revenge on Jo for voting him off by taunting her with a pre-recorded message in "Saving Private Leachball".
# WesternAnimation.BatmanTheAnimatedSeries: In "Double Talk", The Ventriloquist finally gets fed up with Scarface, and blows him to smithereens.
# Characters.TotalDramaKillerBass: With Duncan since episode 1. This is lampshaded by Chris when he forces them to work together in "Crouching Courtney, Hidden Owen". They end up working surprisingly well together but once the short-lived alliance comes to an end (thanks to Owen) Harold uses the skills Duncan taught him to get back at him, and even manages to knock him out with a single punch. Instead of being angry, Duncan just says he's proud of the dweeb, and admits he probably had it coming. Duncan: I can't believe how quickly the student becomes the teacher.
# Series.ThePillarsOfTheEarth: William's wife Elizabeth helps Aliena and Richard retake Shiring Castle to get back at him for his years of beating her and worse during their marriage. Waleran even explicitly names the trope during a following conversation with William. William: She betrayed me! My own wife! Waleran: If you kick a dog, it may one day rise up to bite you. Your mother never learned that and now she burns in the eternal fire. William: Nonsense, she's in Heaven, kneeling before the throne of God. Waleran: She's in Hell, William, and rumour has it you put her there.
# WebAnimation.ObjectMadness: Puffball decides to stop riding her team due to how they treat her like an object instead of a person.
# PlayingWith.TragicVillain: Dr. Psychosis is a Fallen Hero who becomes an Omnicidal Maniac after his country is conquered and his people massacred by the nation he seeks to destroy. Dr. Psychosis feels he had been controlled his whole life, like he has no freedom. Now it's his turn to control the world.
# Film.{{Inchon}}: Park. After having been forcibly drafted into the North Korean forces, he seizes an opportunity when his unit is ambushed by a South Korean guerrilla to kill the commissar who forced him to join when he is injured and unable to move.
# Characters.GothamRoguesGalleryCellblockB: After recovering from being stabbed by Penguin, works with Zsasz to hunt down Penguin for Sofia Falcone.
# ComicBook.TheSuperiorFoesOfSpiderMan: Shocker and Overdrive. The former, while often derided as an incompetent coward is actually reasonably practical as well as being perhaps the most skilled fighter of the group, putting up a good fight against Luke Cage and single-handedly knocking out the rest of his teammates when his patience wears out. Most notably, when he finally cuts loose in the end he manages to single-handedly defeat the Punisher, though it's possible that part was made up by Boomerang. Similarly, while Overdrive has the least fighting skills, he's great at using his powers to get an advantage. Inverted with Baron Zemo, who is portrayed as being an egotistical Manchild beneath his veneer of badassery.
# Characters.{{Longmire}}: Shoots one of the men who raped her. He later dies in the hospital.
# Film.MurderAtTheVanities: AssholeVictim: Not only did Rita Ross abuse her maid Norma (see TheDogBitesBack below), but she also stole from Lander's apartment, was going to expose secrets about Lander, and was trying to sabotage his relationship with Ann. Once the truth comes out, no one is too upset about her death.
# Fanfic.{{Reckonings}}: Upon facing the devastating reality that she lost Lena, Kara bitterly arrives at the conclusion she should have told her friend the truth a long time ago, which causes her to remember the times Alex had told her not to and instigates her to be furious with her sister.
# Characters.SupermanDoomsdayCharacter: Considering the amount of agony and pain his creator put him through for several years, Doomsday finally catching up to and killing Bertron is a satisfying moment to behold.