History TheDogBitesBack / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS14E1 Death in the Slow Lane]]", Nerys and Bethan at first seem to accept being used by Charlotte, but knowing how she mocks them behind their backs, they only feign ignorance while they secretly record the evidence that she is actually a drug dealer and quickly show it to Barnaby.

* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'':
** Bridgit Pike turns against her brothers after they mistreat her and sets them on fire. [[spoiler: However, being free of their mistreatment doesn't free her from the prison that her own demons set for her or from the authorities and ultimately Indian Hill. She takes over as the new Firefly]].
** Tabitha Galavan has enough of the rather crappy way her brother Theo has treated her and his niece, Silver St. Cloud, when he tried to kill the latter. She proceeds to knock him out, give his parachute to Silver, and escape with Silver as Gordon arrests Theo.

* ''Series/{{Veep}}'': After being completely sidelined for her entire first term, Selina's Vice President Andrew Doyle promises to support her re-election bid in exchange for being made Secretary of State. While making a documentary, her daughter Catherine [[AccidentalPublicConfession accidentally reveals]] to Doyle that Selina had [[TheOathBreaker also promised the job to other person]]. Unfortunately for Selina, the election is a draw which will have to be voted on in Congress. This vote also leads to a draw, where it falls to Andrew as VP to cast the tiebreaking vote. To everyone's shock, he sends [[spoiler: her opposing candidate's VP, Laura Montez,]] into the White House. [[Laser-GuidedKarma Karma indeed]].

* ''Series/BreakingBad'' has many instances of dogs getting kicked then biting back. One noteworthy example is Spooge's lady: Spooge is rather abusive towards her and constantly calls her a skank, [[BerserkButton which he knows it pisses her off]], on top of being [[JerkAss an all-around despicable human being]] who [[AbusiveParents neglects his son]]. What better way to describe his death by her crushing his head with an ATM while he was trying to break into it than [[KarmicDeath karmic]]?

* In one episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', Beaker, ButtMonkey assistant of Dr. Bunsun Honeydew, gets put in a duplicator. The army of Beakers, once assembled, proceed to chase and harass Bunsun throughout the episode, eventually supplanting the rest of the cast by the end, even JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf.

* In ''Series/TheBoys2019'', [[spoiler:AdaptationalJerkass [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Soldier Boy]] was despised by the rest of his team, especially his girlfriend the Crimson Countess for [[WomanScorned openly cheating on her]] and Black Noir who he gave a fair amount of KickTheDog moments to, which led to them selling him out to the Russians and telling everyone he was dead.]]

* Grunwald, a {{Sadist}} who delights in tormenting the blind patients under his care in the mansion where the ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' episode "Revenge Is The Nuts" takes place, eventually gets his comeuppance at the end of the episode: After his warden, whom Grunwald mistreats almost as much as he mistreats his patients [[spoiler: who is his brother and who also hates him for murdering their mother]], knocks him out, said warden and his patients have him placed in a dim and narrow corridor, not unlike the horrible living condition he subjects his patients within; moreover, a more literal version of this trope takes place when Grunwald's RightHandAttackDog, which he uses on anyone within the place trying to escape, gets sicced on him right as the episode ends.

** Bridgit Pike turns against her brothers after they mistreat her and sets them on fire. [[spoiler: However, hating their mistreatment doesn't mean she's any better. She takes over as the new Firefly]].

* Grunwald, a {{Sadist}} who delights in tormenting the blind patients under his care in the mansion where the ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' episode "Revenge Is The Nuts" takes place, eventually gets his comeuppance at the end of the episode: After his warden, whom Grunwald mistreats almost as much as he mistreats his patients, knocks him out, said warden and his patients have him placed in a dim and narrow corridor, not unlike the horrible living condition he subjects his patients within; moreover, a more literal version of this trope takes place when Grunwald's RightHandAttackDog, which he uses on anyone within the place trying to escape, gets sicced on him right as the episode ends.

* In ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' Kara captures Snow and uses him to run errands for her, using the constant threat of a bomb-vest to keep him in line. She takes great pleasure in commenting on how well she's managed to break him at one point. When she doesn't need him any longer she locks him in a room and sets the vest on a timer... only he manages to get out and is waiting in the backseat of her car when it detonates, killing both of them.

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* In ''Series/TheBoys2019'', [[spoiler:AdaptationalJerkass [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Soldier Boy]] was despised by the rest of his team, especially his girlfriend the Crimson Countess for [[WomanScorned openly cheating on her]], which led to her selling him out to the Russians and telling everyone he was dead.]]

* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'': In the GrandFinale, [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters every single person the protagonists dealt with and/or screwed over during the series]] returns [[ContinuityCavalcade to remind the viewers what terrible people the protagonists were]], and thus doom them to prison sentences.

* ''Series/BreakingBad'' has many instances of dogs getting kicked then biting back. One noteworthy example is Spooge's lady: Spooge is rather abusive towards her and constantly calls her a skank, [[BerserkButton which he knows pisses her off]], on top of being [[JerkAss an all-around despicable human being]] who [[AbusiveParents neglects his son]]. What better way to describe his death by her crushing his head with an ATM while he was trying to break into it than [[KarmicDeath karmic]]?