| 1 | * ''Manga/SevenSeeds'': |
| 2 | ** Unami, who gets killed by Team Summer A when they awaken in the future. Unami was one of the teachers in their facility and he was physically and verbally abusive, misogynistic and, like the other teachers, set up a "test" to see if they would be lured into multiple [[DeathTrap death traps]] and simply watching from afar how students died. Nobody cares that this person died, most people likely even cheered when he [[DyingAlone died alone]]. |
| 3 | ** Ukai from the Team Summer A candidates counts as one, too. He's quickly introduced as an arrogant, rather confrontational guy and he considers himself Ango's [[TheRival rival]], though it's not mutual. Ukai decides to ''kill'' Ango during the Final Test because he is constantly in his way, as well as Ryo, and the final drop was Ango refusing to share supplies when the test began. Ukai ends up getting one of his eyes [[EyeScream slashed out by a bear's claws]] and it begins to drive him insane. Eventually, Ukai dies by freezing to death but only after he has taken advantage of Shigeru's good nature and makes him call Ango out, lures Ango into a trap and pushes him into a deep cave in the hopes that he'll either die on impact or starve since he cannot come out and also ends up shooting and injuring Shigeru. Once again, you probably didn't shed a tear for this guy. |
| 4 | ** Yanagi, the guide of Team Spring. And he's even the first death in the series! Yanagi was a misogynistic jerk who thought [[StayInTheKitchen women need to be submissive and do as men tell them to]], even going so far to try to rape Hana in order to knock her down a few pegs. Yanagi was also willing to throw [[TheLoad Hibari]] to some large, hungry insects so the rest of them could flee! While he ultimately decided to burn himself [[HeroicSacrifice to let the team escape from the insects' nest]], he is not one to feel ''too'' sorry for... though he does gain the pluspoints of sacrificing himself to help others and for the fact that, despite him being a jerk, he really shouldn't have had to become the breeding grounds of insects. |
| 5 | * In ''Literature/AccelWorld'': |
| 6 | ** Seiji Noumi's StartOfDarkness involves betraying his BigBrotherBully Yuichi, who'd exploited him for points since serving as his "parent" on Brain Burst, and then killing his Duel Avatar repeatedly in horrific manners until he lost all his points and Brain Burst. It's hard to feel sorry for Yuichi, even if Seiji ends up being no better than him. |
| 7 | ** The [=PKers=], which, in this series, means "Player Knockers," are considered the worst scum on Brain Bust, since they repeatedly target players for points until they lose them all, and even target people in the real world. As such, it's cathartic as well as horrific when Sky Raker throws one such individual into an area where he will repeatedly be killed by an enemy, or when [[spoiler:Cyan Pile, under the influence of the ISS kit]] slaughters the members of the [=PKer=] guild Supernova Remnant, forcing them off Brain Burst. |
| 8 | * The ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' manga and anime [[AssholeVictim/AceAttorney can be found on the franchise's page]]. |
| 9 | * ''Manga/AkameGaKill'': Pretty much all of Night Raid's targets are the most despicable, ObviouslyEvil human beings with no sympathetic qualities whatsoever. By slaughtering these monstrous people who abuse their power, Night Raid slowly tears down the corrupt empire oppressing the once peaceful capital. |
| 10 | * ''Anime/TheAnimatrix'': [[HumansAreBastards Humanity as a whole]] is shown to be this in ''The Second Renaissance''. After years of treating the machines as slave labor, then attempting outright genocide against them, the humans lose the proceeding RobotWar. ''[[CurbStompBattle Badly.]]'' |
| 11 | * ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': |
| 12 | ** At least one of the delinquents who ridiculed Armin in the first chapter is killed by debris during the Wall Maria breach. |
| 13 | ** A story arc shows Mikasa's childhood. When she was a child, her parents were brutally murdered, and she had to watch everything. Then she was kidnapped and the kidnappers wanted to sell her as a sex slave. But Eren had decided to help her and killed the kidnappers. |
| 14 | ** [[spoiler: In Grisha Yeager's backstory, there's Sergeant Major Gross of Marley. After catching Grisha and his 8 year old sister, Faye, trying to leave their designated ghetto just to see the airships, [[WouldHurtAChild he beats up Grisha and feeds Faye to his dogs]]. Years later, he participates in turning rebellious Eldians into Titans while releasing one man to be chased and ultimately devoured by his former comrades, [[ForTheEvulz just for the sheer fun of it]]. He gets absolutely no sympathy when Eren Krueger kicks him down a wall to be eaten by a Titan.]] |
| 15 | ** Griez spends much of his limited panel time badmouthing the recently deceased [[spoiler:Sasha]] as a "whore" and a "tramp" in front of the man who loved her, and referring to her as a "daughter of devils." No one feels very bad for him when Yelena [[BoomHeadshot blows his brains out]]. |
| 16 | * Dallas Genoard from ''Literature/{{Baccano}}!'' is a {{Jerkass}} to end all {{Jerkass}}es, which is why not many people are angry at seeing [[NobleDemon Luck Gandor]] give him the CementShoes treatment. |
| 17 | * Mechtavius Destroyer from ''Anime/{{Bakugan}}'' is this. Considering he was an OmnicidalManiac bent on slaughtering humanity, Bakugan, Vestals, Nethians, and Gundalians alike just to be supreme Mechtogan, he won't be missed. |
| 18 | * ''Manga/BioMeatNectar'': |
| 19 | ** {{Exaggerated|Trope}} with the second victim, an old woman. When we first see her, she's mocking and ridiculing the lead character's mother for daring to not have a husband. (It's implied very shortly after that she was previously married and her husband died, or at least ran out on her) Next, we see her berating a neighbor for roof tiles falling into her yard during an earthquake -- then further insulting them for daring to suggest they could '''clean up''' the tiles to make it up to her. Next, when she first sees a Bio Meat, she mistakes it for a pig, and calls Animal Control... and when they turn out to be taking too long, she decides to try to ''stab it to death with a broom handle for no reason''. She gets picked off shortly thereafter, but she's ''still'' not done being an asshole, as she had decided to attack it in front of a little girl, who gets so traumatized by witnessing what happens to the woman that all she can do when the Animal Control officers finally arrive is repeat the MadnessMantra "Little piggy dragged off the big lady..." |
| 20 | ** The manga even includes people listed in the credits as "Asshole Victims" in the fifth volume. This is a group of the main characters' fellow middle school students who are saved from being eaten when Bio Meats swarm the school by the quick thinking and leadership skills of one main character, and then given an avenue of escape and communication with the outside world by the inventiveness of another, though said escape route has to be used sparingly and carefully lest the Bio Meats use it to invade the safe room. Just as the last of the main characters leaves through the escape route to bring back help, the "Asshole Victims:" |
| 21 | *** Cut the only rope that allows them to enter and leave the safe room, for no other reason than to amuse themselves by watching the last of the main characters plummet loudly to the ground and alert the nearby Bio Meats to his presence. |
| 22 | *** Sneeringly (and loudly) voice disappointment when the last main character escapes being eaten due to a previously unnoticed weakness in the Bio Meats. |
| 23 | *** Make a "You're Not the Boss of Me" speech as the escaped main characters are yelling for them to close the entrance to the safe room because all the insults the "Asshole Victims" have been yelling have alerted the Bio Meats, which are now rushing toward the entrance. |
| 24 | *** Continue ignoring the Bio Meats even as they're climbing into the no-longer-safe room, just to yell a few more accusations at the main characters of being responsible for their deaths by creating the escape route that they misused. |
| 25 | * ''Manga/BlackButler'': |
| 26 | ** The Weston College Arc has a strange example with Derrick Arden. He's been missing and Sebastian and Ciel only hear the greatest praise of him during their investigation. Derrick was TheAce of the school: he wrote amazing stories, had the best grades, an incredibly kind personality and was a star when it came to sports. Then the truth rolls around when his killers admit that they found Derrick abusing other students, bullying them [[ForTheLulz out of fun]] and forcing them to do his homework, while relishing in his disgusting behavior. [[spoiler:And one of the teachers was supplied with alcohol, meaning Derrick would never face consequences.]] |
| 27 | ** Baron Kelvin during the Noah's Circus Arc. This man became obsessed with beauty and infatuated with Ciel [[LoliconAndShotacon since he first saw the little kid]], to the point of submitting himself to plastic surgery over and over again to become beautiful enough to be near him. But he also took in orphans off the streets and gave them shelter, food and a good life. [[spoiler:He also forced the first ranked members of the Circus to travel to cities and kidnap children, to give them to him for horrible, ritualistic torture and getting them killed during 'circus acts' as a form of entertainment. And the ritualistic torture was all so he could ''recreate'' the torture room that Ciel was caught in and redo those events.]] Ciel shoots him in a moment of distress and Sebastian stomps his head in. [[spoiler:And then you learn that the circus members only agreed to kidnap children because Kelvin would otherwise cease funding a workhouse where other orphans were living well. And it turns out that the workhouse is an abandoned ruin and those kids have probably been dead for a long time.]] |
| 28 | ** During the same Arc, [[NoNameGiven the doc]]. He's a paraplegic and makes prosthetics that are used by the circus members, who lack a limb from birth. [[spoiler:It turns out he's in cahoots with Baron Kelvin on the business of kidnapping children, but utterly detests the Baron himself. The doc takes the corpses of the children, or sometimes kills them himself, to ''make'' the prosthetics out of their bones because they are of amazing quality. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking He's also not a paraplegic.]]]] |
| 29 | * Chaka from ''Manga/BlackLagoon''. An asshole Yakuza punk who kidnapped Yukio Washimine and put her through hell, and then proved to be a DirtyCoward when Revy and Yukio's guardian Ginji Matsuzaki attacked his bowling alley. His death was horrible, involving [[spoiler:losing his gun and his hands to Ginji's shirasaya blade before being thrown into a pool to drown]], but he was a complete and utter bastard who deserved every second. He is the only major villain in the series to not be sympathetic in any way at all. |
| 30 | * ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': |
| 31 | ** Shrieker was an infamous serial killer before he died, accidentally killed by Yūichi, the young son of one of his victims. He comes back for revenge against the boy as a Hollow, killing him, trapping his soul in a cockatiel and [[ILied falsely]] promising to ressurrect his mother if he could evade him for 3 months. After Ichigo defeats him, Shrieker is DraggedOffToHell for the crimes he committed as a human. Nothing of value was lost that day. |
| 32 | ** Luppi Antenor, Grimmjow's temporary replacement as the 6th Espada. His smug attitude and overly-flamboyant and mocking demeanor, coupled with his needless attempt at skewering Rangiku, makes his death at Grimmjow's hands pretty sweet, and nobody misses him nor sheds a tear for him, not even [[NiceGirl Orihime.]] |
| 33 | ** [[MadScientist Szayelaporro Granz]] is by far the most monstrous and unsympathetic of the Espada, performing cruel experiments on prisoners, his enemies, and other Hollows, [[BadBoss eating his subordinates alive to heal himself,]] and then there's...[[{{Squick}} what]] [[BodyHorror he]] [[BodySnatcher does]] to poor Nemu during the fight between him and Mayuri. The latter incident caused him to be exposed to a drug in Nemu's body that causes his senses to be slowed to a crawl. When Mayuri stabs him through the hand and chest, Szayel dies instantly...but to him, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath the pain he experienced felt like it lasted for]] ''[[AndIMustScream centuries.]]'' A fitting end for a sociopath like him. |
| 34 | ** Giriko is the only member of Xcution to die, aside from [[BigBadDuumvirate Ginjo and Tsukishima]], and unlike the other members, he has no FreudianExcuse to speak of, and murdered his wife in cold blood [[ForTheEvulz just to test his powers.]] As such, it's hard to say that him getting bifurcated by Kenpachi was undeserved. |
| 35 | ** Driscoll Berci killed the 1st Division's vice-captain, Sasakibe...but made sure to combine that with [[KickTheDog launching him through their office and skewering him to Captain-Commander Yamamoto's wall.]] When he encounters Yamamoto later, [[TooDumbToLive Driscoll foolishly brags about how he was the one who murdered Sasakibe,]] and uses Sasakibe's stolen Bankai against Yamamoto to further rub salt in the wound. He suffers one of the most '''''[[KillItWithFire gruesome]]''''' deaths in the whole series for his actions. |
| 36 | * ''Manga/BrutalSatsujinKeisatsukanNoKokuhaku'': Part of the attractive of the manga is to watch the absolute awful, psychopatic people that do awful things in the story get their bloody comeuppance in the hands of the protagonist, Dan, who brutally tortures them to death in ironic ways. His victims include, for example, a serial rapist that recruited others to do the same through a pick-up artist course, a self righteous journalist that was willing to record his own daughter commit suicide to write about it, a predatory teacher that targetted lonely students and had caused a bullying victim to kill himself, etc. All of them meet awful ends. |
| 37 | * ''Manga/CaseClosed'' makes regular use of this trope: |
| 38 | ** The ''vast'' majority of the victims end up being varying degrees of assholes (up to and including [[DrivenToSuicide driving people to suicide]] or even [[KarmaHoudini having themselves gotten away with murder]] in the past.) There are exceptions, for instance, the victim of an IdolSinger. They were poisoned by his beautiful manager because he subjected her to [[JerkAss heaps of psychological abuse]] after she got plastic surgery but the guy actually was a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who did everything out of ''guilt'': she got her face fixed thinking it'd ''please him'', but he was in love with the sweet NaiveEverygirl she ''used'' to be before her operation. Therefore, the singer [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone hated himself greatly]] for being the cause of her change and reacted by mistreating his manager. A case where PoorCommunicationKills. |
| 39 | ** Played with in another episode: the victim hadn't just done something wrong previously, he was currently stalking the victim ([[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney and getting away with it by being rich]]) and she suspected he was going to kill her. And she was ''right''--the contents of his bag made it clear that, right before he died, he was planning to kidnap and torture her to death. However, since she didn't see this evidence, instead basing her actions on an assumption, it still didn't qualify as self-defense. |
| 40 | * ''Manga/ChieShinoharaTheBestCollection'' has several in its one-shots. |
| 41 | ** In ''Farewell To The Eyewitness'', there's the perverted teacher Takashi Murakami. He picked up Ryouko's dropped train-pass and used it as the premise, to blackmail and attempt to rape her. The fact that, according to rumors, he's done this before to other students in previous schools, makes nobody give a damn that this guy is dead. |
| 42 | ** In ''Suicide Room Number 404'', there's Mari and her boyfriend Tooru. Mari faked her suicide and proceeded to emotionally torture her friend over it, finally getting her boyfriend to agree to kill Eriko, by making it look like a suicide, too. All so that Mari can get Eriko's life insurance. That Tooru helped and even made use of Eriko's unrequited feelings for him to make her compliant makes both of them look worse. |
| 43 | ** In ''When The Bell Rings 5 Times'', ''any'' of the four guys who grabbed poor Yoshie and tried to gang-rape and ended up killing her. |
| 44 | * In ''Manga/CityHunter'', Ryo Saeba is a HitmanWithAHeart who doesn't take assassination jobs unless the target is this. Mixed with PayEvilUntoEvil due to [[GoodIsNotNice Ryo's sadistic streak]]. Even when the manga gets LighterAndSofter and he doesn't kill the antagonists anymore, they still deserve everything they get (like the guys Ryo made [[TheLoinsSleepTonight impotent]]: they were {{Arms Dealer}}s planning to sell [[ScaryStingingSwarm killer bees]] to opposing factions, [[EvenEvilHasStandards were even bigger perverts than]] [[LovableSexManiac Ryo himself]], and [[LaserGuidedKarma had indirectly made him impotent too for a while earlier in the story arc]]). |
| 45 | * In ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' there is a group of robbers. First, they want to rape the warrioress Teresa of the Faint Smile, but they decide not to do this when they see that her body is only half human. Shortly after, they attack a remote village in the mountains, killing most or all of the men there. The women, on the other hand, they plan to sell into slavery. When Teresa returns to the village, she sees that the robbers are having way too much fun doing their horrible deeds, and one of them has even mistreated Clare, the little girl she'd encountered earlier. This is enough to drive Teresa to break the rule of never killing humans that Claymores are supposed to abide by, and the robbers pay the ultimate price. |
| 46 | * A whole bunch of people marked a villain in ''Anime/CodeGeass'': |
| 47 | ** Clovis is a deconstructed one as even though he deserved to killed for murdering Elevens to cover his mistakes, much of his family and even Lelouch misses him. |
| 48 | ** The [[EunuchsAreEvil High Eunuchs]] live in luxury while the rest of their land lives in poverty and think nothing of mistreating the masses. They manipulate the child Empress and attempt to kill and replace her for political gain. And then, they turn on their top commander, Li Xingke, after signing a treaty to sell all of China to Britannia. Eventually, they get their forces easily wiped out, have their whole political scheme exposed, completely lose their eligibility for Britannian noble title (as [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Schneizel doesn’t think highly of them]]), and are left to be killed by the man they just betrayed. |
| 49 | ** Finally, there’s the Britannian Royal Family itself, save for Lelouch, Nunnally, Euphemia, Cornelia, and Schneizel. The rest are mostly overprivileged parasites who use their power and philosophy as an excuse to step on whoever they want. [[spoiler:When Schneizel launch his Damocles plan, his first step was simply to wipe them off the map.]] |
| 50 | * ''Manga/DGrayMan'' is a CrapsackWorld where good people tend to die, so when the ones that get murdered have proven themselves to be assholes, it feels extremely satisfying. One example is the village in a filler episode of the anime who would single out a person as a scapegoat witch and banish them to a run down shack and refuse them any supplies. The entire village who followed this tradition was gorily wiped out when the last witch's twin sister became an Akuma to avenge her death by illness that the villagers refused to help cure even though they could have. Even Kanda's seeker refuses to show remorse for them. |
| 51 | * In ''Literature/DateALive'', Kurumi Tokisaki kills three thugs that try to rape her, then three guys who were tormenting a cat with airsoft guns. |
| 52 | ** Given the atrocities he committed [[spoiler: in the name of a "perfect wizarding world" and his bad reputation in DEM, no one, including his "directors", mourned Isaac Westcott's death]]. The only ones who did were [[spoiler: his childhood friends]]. |
| 53 | * Occurs often in ''Manga/DeathNote'', although the victim is often only inferred to have been an asshole by virtue of having been in prison. In fact, that's part of the point - Light Yagami claims that he researches these people to make sure that they really 'deserve' to die before he offs them and that he spares the criminal if the person ''they'' committed the crime against was an asshole victim. How reliably he does this is questionable at best. |
| 54 | ** In Chapter 2, L mentions that his first suspected victim, Kurou Otoharada's crime was the least serious (not including Shibutaku, who L has no reason to know about, since he isn't aware that the Death Note can kill by means other than heart attacks). Otoharada is the guy who was holding a group of pre-schoolers at gunpoint at the moment Light killed him. |
| 55 | ** On the other hand, he kills several law enforcement officers pursuing him, and also intends to kill people who don't contribute to society enough (although it's unclear what criteria he uses or what his standards are; when Teru Mikami starts killing people for being lazy and disrespectful, Light doesn't approve, as he thinks it's "too early" to be doing such things, and he's even more upset when Mikami begins targeting minor and reformed criminals). |
| 56 | ** This trope is played absolutely straight at least once, without any debate in universe. When Teru Mikami offs Hitoshi Demegawa, even the Kira Task Force didn't hold it against Kira, even mentioning that if anyone deserved getting killed off by Kira, it was him. |
| 57 | ** Kyosuke Higuchi. He's the only one who has no motive or attempt at justification whatsoever, he's just a mass murderer. When he was arrested, Light kills him off to regain control of the notebook, making him the only Death Note user whose death has no aspect of AlasPoorVillain whatsoever. |
| 58 | ** In the pilot, Taro Kagami picks up the Death Note, and while writing in it, accidentally kills some of the bullies who had tormented him. |
| 59 | ** Takua Shibuimaru in the anime and especially in the film. Averted in the manga, however. His death seemed [[DisproportionateRetribution a little too harsh]] (even Light thinks that he didn't deserve to die). All he was just doing was flirting with a woman, but doesn't do any outright criminal activity towards her. |
| 60 | ** When Soichiro is forced to hand over the Death Note in exchange for his daughter Sayu, the man handling the exchange, who's part of the mafia, asks to test it out to confirm it's the genuine article. Soichiro protests, but the man reassures him the victim would be someone Kira would kill anyway. Sure enough, the test subject turns out to be a mafia member named Miller who'd stolen drugs from his boss and sold them behind his back, with his boss remarking that this is the first time Miller had proven useful. |
| 61 | * ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'' has the corpse hunters who stalk Team Kabru and attempt to murder them when they try to leave the dungeon. Kabru rejects the leader's offer of letting his party claim the reward for retreiving the corpses of two members of the hunters' team (who were still alive by the way, just unconscious) and instead stabs him in the throat. They kill the rest of the hunters and dump their bodies in a lake where they'll likely become fish food and so be much harder to revive. |
| 62 | * ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'' |
| 63 | ** Kyogai's father was abusive toward him, constantly belittling his writing and drum playing, and mocking him for being a shut-in. As such, it's hard to feel sorry for him when Kyogai, having become a demon, [[SelfMadeOrphan kills his father]]. |
| 64 | ** While most of the [[RedShirts Demon Slayers]] who get killed on Mount Natagumo are relatively sympathetic in their limited screentime, the Demon Slayer who challenges Rui is an exception. He seems rather indifferent toward his comrades' deaths, and hopes to kill a demon [[OnlyInItForTheMoney so his superiors will give him a pay raise]]. His death at Rui's hands doesn't inspire much sympathy. |
| 65 | ** Subverted with Rui's parents. After he became a demon and killed a human, [[OffingTheOffspring his father tried to kill him]], and [[AccompliceByInaction his mother let it happen]] before [[SelfMadeOrphan Rui killed them both.]] Rui later realizes that [[MurderSuicide they were planning on killing themselves after killing him so that they could atone for his crime.]] |
| 66 | ** While many of Doma's victims, from Shinobu's older sister Kanae to Inosuke's mother Kotoha, are sympathetic, others, like Kotoha's abusive husband and mother-in-law, are not. |
| 67 | ** Back when Akaza was a human named Hakuji, he was about to turn his life around by inheriting his master's dojo and marrying the man's daughter, only to find out that the members of a rival dojo fatally poisoned the two while he was away. Hakuji then went on a rampage, killing everyone in the dojo except for a single maid. |
| 68 | * With a series that is long running as ''Franchise/DragonBall'', there's bound to be more than a few: |
| 69 | ** ''Manga/DragonBall'': |
| 70 | *** Giran from the original series, who was murdered by Tambourine after terrorizing an animal village and stealing food. He was eventually revived by the Dragon Balls, which implied he had some redeeming qualities despite being a total {{jerkass}}. To his credit, he did get kinder after he lost to Goku at the tournament and showed Goku respect. He even helped Nam with his village's water problem in the filler episode and he seems to care for his own people. |
| 71 | *** General Blue is given a horrific death by Tao Pai-Pai by getting a tongue straight to the temple. Blue had gotten close to killing Krillin in the pirate cave, had a soldier executed for picking his nose, and even had shades of pedophilia in the Japanese anime when visiting [[Manga/DrSlump Penguin Village]]. |
| 72 | *** Commander Red. Despite being shot in cold blood by his assistant Adjutant Black over the exact purpose of gathering the Dragon Balls (for him to become taller), he still ran what is described as the most powerful military force on the planet, and was apparently easily capable of taking over the world if he weren't so concerned about his height. |
| 73 | *** Tambourine. He killed Krillin and several other innocent people for fun, and even ''bragged'' about his murder of Krillin to Goku's face. He more than had it coming when Goku killed him in the rematch. |
| 74 | ** ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': |
| 75 | *** The genocide of the [[Characters/DragonBallSaiyans Saiyans]] of Planet Vegeta. [[EvilerThanThou Even though he was worse]], in the long run, Frieza may have done the universe a favor rectifying his GoneHorriblyRight use of the Saiyans. [[note]] Obviously this doesn’t include certain gentle natured Saiyans like Gine, Goku’s sweet mother who ''absolutely'' [[KillTheCutie didn’t deserve]] getting atomized by Frieza.[[/note]] In fact, after his HeelFaceTurn ''Vegeta himself'' admits they kinda had it coming in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' and it's shown that if Frieza didn't do it, DestroyerDeity Beerus would've to maintain the BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil. |
| 76 | *** Dodoria. He’s just as sadistic as Frieza, taking complete delight in killing and tormenting others, and took delight in killing Bardock's team. No one misses him when Vegeta blows him up. |
| 77 | *** Android 20, aka Dr. Gero, was killed by his creations Androids 17 and 18 after being backed into a corner and activating them. Among other acts, Gero had kidnapped 17 and 18 when they were still human teenagers, had a vendetta against Goku to destroy the world after he defeated the Red Ribbon Army, and created the super being Cell who was capable of sucking people into goo with a needle-tail. [[spoiler:If one counts ''VideoGame/DragonBallFighterZ'', he also converted his wife into Android 21]]. |
| 78 | *** In the anime, Van Zant, a TriggerHappy [[AxCrazy lunatic]], and his pal Smitty certainly qualify. They kill numerous people for no reason other than that [[ApocalypseAnarchy the world is being destroyed, so they might as well]], only for one of them to decide to try and kill Fat Buu because he wants to kill more people. They shoot Hercule and [[KickTheDog Bee]] and anger Fat Buu into creating another entity who becomes the new antagonist. The ''very'' first thing Evil Buu/Super Buu does is [[DisintegratorRay obliterate]] Van Zant with a WaveMotionGun technique, while Smitty gets quite possibly the most brutal death in the series, which involves Super Buu [[OrificeInvasion shooting down his throat]] and causing him to swell up until he ''explodes''. |
| 79 | ** Paragus qualifies as an Asshole Victim in the ending of ''Anime/DragonBallZBrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan'' when his son Broly offs him when the latter attempted to escape from the planet. First off, after planting a [[MindControlDevice Slave Crown]] on Broly's head to control his actions, he ended up using Broly to destroy far more planets than Broly was willing to destroy (and considering the fact that Broly was so MindRaped from his near-death experiences as a baby as well as driven insane from the TraumaCongaLine he suffered, that he becomes AxCrazy enough to try blowing up planets as a kid, that's saying a lot), namely to lure Vegeta, the son of the guy who nearly had Broly and himself executed (and in a way contributing to Broly's insanity) over to be killed by a comet, and then enslaved an alien race that fell victim to Broly and Paragus's actions, and later attempts to abandon Broly to the planet (which was [[ColonyDrop in the direct trajectory path of said comet]]). |
| 80 | *** Ditto for Paragus's [[CanonImmigrant canon counterpart]] in ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'' who is less despicable than his original incarnation but still evil, having shaped his good-hearted son Broly into a tool of revenge against King Vegeta and actually puts a ShockCollar on his son [[AbusiveParents just to keep him in line]]. Paragus's causal death at Frieza's hands inspires zero sympathy from everyone (save poor Broly) and comes off as karma pure and simple. |
| 81 | ** In one of its sequels, ''Anime/DragonBallZBioBroly'', Maloja, the shaman and village idiot, has people sacrificed once a year to appease a monster attacking them. When Goten and Trunks kill the monster, he is kicked out so he attempts revenge by bringing Broly's blood to Jaguar, thus resulting in an equally powerful clone of Broly. Jaguar and his cousin Men-Men--both of whom have their [[EvenEvilHasStandards own]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone standards]]--are saved from the resulting destruction, but Maloja isn't as lucky when the acidic culture fluid enters his room and he speaks his last incantation. |
| 82 | ** Any character on Earth you can think of not specified to have died already or to be somewhere else is killed either by his Human Extinction Attack or by blowing up the earth. This includes douchebags like Goten and Trunks' first opponents in the junior division, Master Shen, Emperor Pilaf, Vodka the gangster, Mr. Shu, the Red Shark Gang, Colonel Violet, Mr. Musuka (the circus man who kidnapped Chobi), Tao Pai Pai and Captain Ginyu. Granted, most of them may not have been considered "evil" enough to remain dead when Dende wishes everyone back except the evil ones - Pilaf certainly falls into that category, as he was brought back to play a role in ''Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods'' and beyond. |
| 83 | ** ''Anime/DragonBallGT'': Eis Shenron, the Three-Star Shadow Dragon. Goku [[spoiler: punches a hole through his gut and then obliterates him with the Dragon Fist]], and after all of the dirty tricks he pulled during the fight, up to and including using Goku's ''own granddaughter'' as a HumanShield, he more than deserved it. |
| 84 | ** ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': |
| 85 | *** Future Beerus is this, by merely being [[TheGodsMustBeLazy sleeping]] all the time. To wit: His laziness and continuous sleeping allowed the murderous future androids to live and kill many Earthlings for ''years'', if not decades. And besides the androids, there are also Future Babidi, Future Dabura, [[FromBadToWorse and]] Goku Black; the latter two ended up killing Future Shin in the manga or anime, respectively, and thus killing [[SlainInTheirSleep the still-sleeping]] Future Beerus indirectly. |
| 86 | *** Present Zamasu of Universe 10. Considering that he not only tried assassinating his mentor Gowasu but he also approved of his future counterparts' decision to murder all the mortals throughout the multiverse before attempting to follow in their footsteps, it’s safe to say he earned his [[DeaderThanDead erasure from existence]] at the hands of Beerus. |
| 87 | *** Ro, the Supreme Kai of Universe 9. He is considered one of the most jerkass gods and [[spoiler:his future counterpart was strongly implied to have died along with the other Supreme Kais as a part of Goku Black's genocidal rampage to eliminate all opposition from all of the other gods. And then his universe becomes the first to be wiped out.]] |
| 88 | *** [[spoiler:Frieza's Universe 6 counterpart, Frost, is erased from existence in the Universe Survival Saga when he tries to attack Frieza from the stands after being eliminated by him. Considering that he is a two-faced space pirate who indirectly destroyed or ruined countless lives for the sake of fame and fortune, one could argue it serves him right]]. |
| 89 | *** Quitella, the God of Destruction of Universe 4. Both his present and future version. For his future self, if there was any God killed by Goku Black who would have gotten no pity for being a {{Jerkass God|s}}, it was him. [[spoiler:Counts for his present version too, he gets erased after his universe is eliminated and deservedly so easily when he [[TakingYouWithMe threatens to murder everyone else in the Tournament beforehand]].]] |
| 90 | * Exaggerated in ''Literature/{{Durarara}}''. At the end of every season (though, only PlayedForLaughs in the first), Izaya is injured in some way. Izaya is behind a ''great'' amount of strife for the characters in the series for the hell of it, and has pretty much manipulated everyone from day one. At the end of the first season, Simon gives him a black eye for his antics and the only reaction Izaya gets is being laughed at by Namie. In the second season, he's stabbed by [[spoiler:Yodogiri]]. In the next episode, he's recovering in the hospital and when he tries calling Shinra, he's almost immediately hung up on and the ''only'' one who visits him at all is the girl ''trying to kill him''. In the third season finale, he's captured by [[spoiler:Kasane Kujiragi]] and knocked unconscious. His minions don't really care, but Kine still makes him go to the hospital for an exam. In the final six episodes of the series, Izaya tries to [[spoiler:kill Shizuo once and for all]] but, in return for his efforts, he is struck hard enough by a steel beam to hit him into an adjacent building; causing very obvious internal bleeding, nearly hit by several vending machines, gets both his arms broken and is finally shot with a knife. He [[spoiler:leaves Ikebukuro for good afterwards, with the cast unaware if he is either alive or dead. He is later confirmed to have PTSD from this encounter, and can no longer walk. When asked about his whereabouts, his sisters have no problem with the idea of him being dead]]. |
| 91 | * Tomoo and his friends from ''Manga/ElfenLied'' are violent school bullies who beat and mock Lucy every day just because she has a pair of horns. One day they go too far and kill a puppy Lucy befriended, causing her [[PsychicPowers Vectors]] to awaken, followed by Lucy literally painting the walls with their blood. |
| 92 | ** Another episode has Yu Kakuzawa, the misanthropic son of the director of the Diclonius facility. He tricks Kouta into handing over Nyu before chaining her up in his basement with the intention of [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil using her to breed more Diclonii]]. Unfortunately for him, Nyuu's other personality, Lucy, awakens and decapitates him. |
| 93 | * The Killer's brother in ''Manga/{{Erased}}'' is incredibly abusive to his younger brother, rapes several young girls monthly while ordering his younger brother to keep quite of the incidents by either guarding the shed or manipulate the victim to keep quiet of the incidents. One day, when their mother nearly walks in to his rape attempt, he accidentally kills the victim by choking it to death. Afraid of the consequences, he attempts to frame his younger brother for it but upon realizing, The Killer kills him by hanging him up and make it look like an accident. |
| 94 | * Crawford Seam, former chairman of the Magic Council in ''Manga/FairyTail'', is [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves rewarded for his treachery]] by being stabbed InTheBack by Kyouka since they've killed everyone else with the seals for Face and he's no longer needed. |
| 95 | * Akira in ''Fasting'' cruelly rejects Tomoko, mocking her for her weight. He doesn't recognize her after she goes on a starvation diet, [[spoiler:and when her hunger finally gets the better of her, the closest thing to eat is his face]]. |
| 96 | * ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'': |
| 97 | ** Shinji Matou was already defeated, so it wasn't ''entirely'' justified when he was minced ([[VillainyDiscretionShot off-screen]]) by Berserker. He ''did'', however, just try to kill off a school's worth of people, and laughed when one of them managed to beg for help. If you've read Heaven's Feel and know just [[RapeAsDrama what he likes to do at home]], you know that there really isn't anything he doesn't deserve. And in the Heaven's Feel arc, it [[KarmicDeath bites him right in the ass.]] |
| 98 | ** Any time Gilgamesh is shown in pain or not getting his way is satisfying, considering his haughty, stuck up, "I'm grand ruler of everything" attitude. |
| 99 | ** The ''[[Anime/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorks Unlimited Blade Works]]'' TV adaptation [[AdaptationalExpansion expands]] [[TheGhost Caster's summoner]] into the onscreen character of Atrum Galliasta, who mass-murders children to gather mana, abuses Caster and is generally stupid. This makes it easier for the audience to side with her when she turns on him and sets him on fire. |
| 100 | ** The [[Literature/FateZero prequel]] has Lord Kayneth Archibald El-Melloi. Though he's an interesting case: while he ''was'' a complete jerk certainly deserving of a KarmicDeath, the ''method'' by which he was killed[[labelnote:Explanation]]Kiritsugu held Kayneth's fiancee Sola-ui at gunpoint and demanded that Kayneth order his Servant Lancer to kill himself in exchange for Sola-ui's safety, with Kiritsugu putting a geas on himself so he can't harm either one. After Kayneth complies, Kiritsugu's partner Maiya guns down Kayneth and Sola-ui to tie up loose ends. Sola-ui dies instantly but Kayneth doesn't. Kayneth begs for a MercyKill, but Kiritsugu points out that he can't do it, so Saber has to do it in his stead[[/labelnote]] was so brutal and mean-spirited it's hard not to feel sorry for him. His killer, Kiritsugu, is actually considered to have crossed the MoralEventHorizon In-Universe for doing so, and gets a WhatTheHellHero speech from his own Servant. Though he justifies it by saying IDidWhatIHadToDo. As the entirety of Fate/Zero can be considered a deconstruction of edgy AntiHero type protagonists like Kiritsugu... things don't end up pretty for him. |
| 101 | *** It's also made worse by the fact that Kayneth had just chosen to throw away his pride and give up on the Grail War to save the life of the woman he loves... the same woman who tortured him for his command spells while he was helpless and was planning to run off with his servant. His devotion to her is almost enough to make him sympathetic, and he's often considered something of a memetic [[TheWoobie woobie]] for it. |
| 102 | ** ''Literature/FateApocrypha'': Celenike, who tried to get Astolfo to kill Sieg, gets decapitated by Mordred, that along with other horrible things Celenike did would easily make her the most unsympathetic member of the Black Faction. When Mordred returned to her Master, Shishigou chided her for exposing herself for too long, but he changed his tune when Mordred states that Celenike's existence just pisses her off, approving her with "That's the spirit!", while Shishigou is mostly pragmatic, he would make deaths of assholes like Celenike a welcome exception to the rule. And additionally, none of the surviving Yggdmillenia family members even remembered she existed, as if they're just glad that she's gone and would rather think she was never part of the family. |
| 103 | * In ''Literature/FixedDamage'', all the victims of Chrome's InstantDeathRadius truly deserve the fates they endure. They are all heinous, horrible people with no redeeming features whatsoever, except maybe the death of a demon king they killed, but they only did that for fame, glory, and power which they quickly then proceed to abuse, to horrific consequences for whoever has to work under them, or helps them out. |
| 104 | * ''VisualNovel/TheFruitOfGrisaia'': Kiyoka Irisu gets gunned down by Yuuji. Considering how monstrous she can get, [[AbusiveParents especially towards her child Makina]], her demise was well deserved. |
| 105 | * ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': |
| 106 | ** Shou Tucker, who infamously [[spoiler:turned his own daughter and her dog into a chimera]] in one of the most heart-rending and horrible moments in the manga and [[spoiler:subjected his wife to the same fate two years prior]], ''really'' had it coming when Scar killed him, even though he wasn't even a State Alchemist at the time of Amestrian military's genocide of Scar's people. It's a telling sign that he's notably the ''only'' character to be sent to Hell rather than Heaven in the manga's "In Memoriam" pages. |
| 107 | ** Another of Scar's victims is Giolio Comanche, a bloodthirsty State Alchemist who gleefully took part in the Ishvalan genocide and ''smiles'' at the idea of getting to kill another ishvalan. Nobody would fault Scar for the brutal way he dispatches him. |
| 108 | ** General Raven is an InsaneAdmiral with [[ImmortalitySeeker dreams of immortality]] who spends most of his time onscreen talking about how the people of Amestris are “[[TheSocialDarwinist the weak who will become the foundation of the strong]].” No tears are shed when General Armstrong kills him, and Fuhrer Bradley even gives her his position at Central Command. |
| 109 | ** Being a psychopathic MadBomber who not only slaughtered Scar's family but is working under the Homunculi to sate his warped moral philosophy, Solf Kimblee really had it coming when he's fatally wounded by one of the men he abandoned, then devoured by Pride. Nobody cares or notices, at least until Kimblee's soul in turn attacks Pride from within to punish his "Hypocrisy". |
| 110 | ** The Gold-Toothed Doctor is a human working for the Homunculi who's fully aware that [[spoiler:Father plans to absorb the souls of everyone in Amestris]] and [[spoiler:nearly kills Riza Hawkeye to force Roy Mustang to attempt human transmutation]]. Nobody mourned when [[spoiler:Pride impales him because [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he's of no more use to the Homunculi]].]] |
| 111 | ** In ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'', Basque Grand is a nasty GeneralRipper involved with some of the conspiracies of the [[ArmiesAreEvil army]]. Thus, it's not exactly a tragedy when Scar gives him the YourHeadAsplode death. |
| 112 | *** Of particular note, only one episode after his death, it's revealed he [[spoiler:forced Roy Mustang to kill Winry's parents, which in turn left Roy so horrified he nearly committed suicide]]. |
| 113 | ** Yoki from the 2003 anime is something of a subversion; his last act is leading the military to Scar and harassing the Ishvalan refugees to reveal him, so his death by Lust's hand is not exactly a tragedy. But it does ignite a battle between the two sides, so it's definitely not good either. |
| 114 | * In ''Manga/FutureDiary'', the young girl Ai is lured by her classmates into an old, resettling warehouse. There she is to be raped by three guys. When the young girl enters the warehouse, two of them are holding her, and one rapes her. Shortly thereafter her boyfriend Marco entered. When the rapist sees him, he takes a knife, and wants to kill him with it. But Marco is the better fighter and stabs the rapist with his own knife. Marco was horrified later, but not because he killed the boy, but because he came too late to protect his girlfriend. |
| 115 | * Even ''{{Franchise/Gundam}}'' has its numbers of detestable characters getting what they deserve: |
| 116 | ** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' has [[spoiler:[[ANaziByAnyOtherName Gihren Zabi]], the show's one biggest psychopath, getting [[BoomHeadshot shot in the back of the head]] by [[SiblingMurder his sister Kycilia]] for the crime of [[SelfMadeOrphan patricide]]]]. Similarly, [[spoiler:[[TheRival Char Aznable]] does the same to Kycilia, blowing her head off with a ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill rocket launcher!]]'']] |
| 117 | ** ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam:'' |
| 118 | *** Admit it—when [[BloodKnight Yazan Gable]] killed [[spoiler:Jamaican Daninghan, you either didn't care at all or cheered.]] |
| 119 | *** [[GeneralRipper Bask Om]], the man responsible [[spoiler:for the death of Kamille's mother]], gets his just-desserts [[spoiler:at the hands of Reccoa Londe when her Palace Athene blasts his ship's bridge point-blank.]] In the compilation movies, [[spoiler:it is Yazan and his Hambrabi that storms his ship and obliterates him.]] |
| 120 | ** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamThe08thMSTeam'': When a trio of Zeon Mobile Suits occupies a guerrilla village, the first one to die is the unsympathetic asshole of the three. There is also Isan Ryer who sent his troops to their deaths in countless battles. With his Big Tray about to be vaporized by the Apsalus III, he states there is no time for evacuation. |
| 121 | ** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'': |
| 122 | *** [[spoiler:The backstory of [[BigBad Rau Le Creuset]] details his creator, [[AbusiveParents Al Da Flaga]], as this. When Al had himself cloned in order to create a "proper heir" (he had disinherited his own son, Mu La Flaga, over a grudge with his mother), he treated Rau as nothing more than a tool, and disowned him as well when he discovered that Rau had genetic defects. Rau retaliated by burning the Flaga Mansion to the ground, with Al being trapped inside. Due to the role he had in Rau's development into a StrawNihilist OmnicidalManiac, it was totally deserved.]] |
| 123 | *** [[spoiler:[[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon Muruta Azrael]], the man who caused the Bloody Valentine Tragedy and was attempting to [[NukeEm nuke the PLANT colonies]] out of [[FantasticRacism a fanatical fit of prejudice]], [[FaceDeathWithDespair died screaming in terror]] as the ''Archangel'' obliterated his ship, the ''Dominion'', with him trapped aboard thanks to a HeroicSacrifice [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal from]] [[SergeantRock Natarle Badgiruel]].]] |
| 124 | *** [[spoiler:[[GeneralRipper Patrick Zala]] attempted to fire the [[KillSat GENESIS]] on Earth to [[FinalSolution render the Naturals completely extinct]], and [[BadBoss shot his subordinate Ray Yuki]] when he makes a reasonable argument that it wasn't necessary to do so as Azrael had already been killed. [[DyingMomentOfAwesome Before dying]], [[TheDogBitesBack Ray shot Patrick in the back multiple times]], as [[TheLancer Athrun]] and [[RebelliousPrincess Cagalli]] arrived to try and stop Patrick themselves. Patrick died pathetically, with him using his last seconds alive to beg his own son, Athrun, to fire GENESIS and ''commit genocide''.]] |
| 125 | ** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'': |
| 126 | *** [[spoiler:After bringing ZAFT to Orb's doorstep and plunging his own country into war, Yuna Roma Seiran dies trying to escape the battle he caused, when a GOUF Ignited is knocked out of the sky and sent crashing down on top of him.]] |
| 127 | *** [[spoiler:[[DiabolicalMastermind Lord Djibril]] finally gets his comeuppance after his [[FinalSolution final plan to annihilate the Coordinators]] with the [[KillSat Requiem]] goes pear-shaped and he attempts to escape. ''[[DirtyCoward Again.]]'' [[TheDragon Rey Za Burrel]], second to the true BigBad of the show, corners his ship and absolutely annihilates him with the Beam Spikes of his Legend Gundam, [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath graphically disintegrating the leader of Logos]] and [[BigBadWannabe ending his bid for the Big Bad role]].]] |
| 128 | ** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00:'' |
| 129 | *** [[spoiler:Johann and Michael Trinity ended up this way in the first season when [[CardCarryingVillain Ali Al-Saachez]], [[BigBad Ribbons Allmark]]'s [[TheDragon most trusted enforcer]], shot [[AxCrazy Michael]] dead instantly before [[GrandTheftPrototype stealing his Throne Zwei]] and using it to [[CurbStompBattle viciously curbstomp Johann and his Throne Eins]]. Despite claiming it was NothingPersonal, Ali took great joy in making Johann feel completely helpless before blowing the Eins to smithereens. While Johann was slightly less awful than Michael and he was even given an AlasPoorVillain moment before he died, he still carried out the assassination of Ralph Eifman, and Michael disobeyed common sense to retreat just to kill some Union Soldiers, including Graham's wingman Howard. Only their horrible little sister, Nena, was upset about them dying.]] |
| 130 | *** [[spoiler:[[DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent Wang Liu Mei]] becomes this in Season 2, after delivering a set of KickTheDog moments from playing both sides -- and betraying Celestial Being -- to being abusive towards her brother Hong Long (who gave his life to try and save her from Nena, and she ''still'' [[UngratefulBastard didn't give a damn]]). With no other reason to get rid of her other than that she hates her guts, Nena hunts Wang down and blows her spacecraft to pieces as she tries to escape.]] |
| 131 | *** Ironically, [[spoiler:Nena [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty finally]] becomes this ''right after'' she kills Wang. Ribbons promises her that her interfering with the [[StateSec A-LAWS]] and their plans won't go unchecked, and tells her that she'll be meeting her "executioner" soon. Said executioner is [[BrokenBird Louise Halevy]], [[YouKilledMyFather whose parents were killed by Nena five years ago]] when Nena blew up the wedding they were at ForTheEvulz. Louise makes Nena suffer, systematically dismantling her Throne Drei before [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice running her through with the massive claws of her Regnant]].]] |
| 132 | ** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'': |
| 133 | *** The adults who rule over CGS on Mars get their just desserts for constantly mistreating the {{Child Soldier|s}} protagonists after Orga Itsuka has their food laced with sedatives and has them all tied up and brought to the same room so he can inform them that [[TheCoup he's running CGS now]]. [[spoiler:Mikazuki Augus calmly {{Double Tap}}s two of them -- Haeda Gunnel in cold blood when he refuses to acknowledge that he's been disposed, and Sasai Yankus who tries to bum rush them as a result.]] |
| 134 | *** Commander Coral is TheNeidermeyer and corrupt to the core, [[spoiler:making his death about as unmourned as can be.]] |
| 135 | *** Jasley Donomikols is a StrawMisogynist who helped orchestrate the deaths of [[spoiler:Naze Turbine and Amida Arca]] out of a fit of jealousy. He also had [[spoiler:Lafter Frankland]] assassinated to send Tekkadan a message, tried to usurp the mafia leadership from [[TheDon McMurdo]], and had no problem using [[ChildSoldiers human debris]]. He died [[VillainsWantMercy begging for his life]] as Mika and Barbatos mercilessly smashed him inside the bridge of his ship. |
| 136 | *** Likewise, [[spoiler:[[GloryHound Iok Kujan]]]] gets many people killed, and causes problems for both Tekkadan and the Arainrhod Fleet due to being [[GeneralFailure an incompetent failure on the battlefield]]. Then, he collaborated with Jasley for the incidents above, being the one to kill [[spoiler:Naze and Amida]]. In the end of the series, [[spoiler:he gets crushed to death by an enraged Akihiro Altland, [[DyingMomentOfAwesome who was at death's door when he finally got ahold of the arrogant, glory-seeking punk]]]]. |
| 137 | *** Finally, in the finale, there’s [[spoiler:[[CorruptCorporateExecutive Nobliss Gordon]]]]. After everything he did—trying to kill Kudelia, turning an independence movement into a violent upheaval for him to profit from, to [[spoiler:ordering Orga’s death while spreading {{Demonization}} propaganda of Tekkadan]]—he’s finally shut up for good when [[spoiler:Ride Mass [[CampingACrapper shoots him four times on the toilet]]]]. |
| 138 | * ''Manga/HappyKanakosKillerLife'': Many targets are unsympathetic making it easy for Kanako to dispose of them without too much guilt. |
| 139 | * ''Literature/HeavyObject'': Nyarlathotep trapped Acre Kiss-of-Rose, his former boss, in a barrel and filled it with pebbles and an adhesive, with the latter setting and expanding, squeezing Acre until he died of shock, but the fact that he got many innocent people, including Nyarlathotep's family, killed in the name of greed most certainly makes his death well-deserved. |
| 140 | * Almost all of the people sent to Hell by those seeking revenge in ''Anime/HellGirl'' were getting what they deserved... Though there is the occasional episode where the perpetrator is equally culpable, or the string pull is an accident. |
| 141 | * ''Manga/InuYasha'': |
| 142 | ** The Bandits killed by Inuyasha in the episode 51. |
| 143 | ** Also the guys Suikotsu kills in his flashback. |
| 144 | ** In Episode 162, Sesshomaru kills several robbers who have just attacked a village. |
| 145 | ** When Rin was still in her home village, and wanted to steal food for the injured Sesshomaru, several men have caught her, and so badly beaten that she was visibly injured afterwards. Shortly thereafter, this village was attacked by Koga's Wolves, and the humans there were killed. Inuyasha and his friends have never accused Koga of doing so. |
| 146 | ** The sequel series ''Anime/YashahimePrincessHalfDemon'' continues this. The first episode shows how Root Head attacks a group of bandits and rips their heads off. |
| 147 | ** Jakotsumaru kills a bandit on a bridge after he ambushed and murdered someone, turning him into a [[DemBones walking skeleton]]. Later, the corpses of other humans that Jakotsumaru made undead are shown, and each of these corpses is dressed in bandit clothes. |
| 148 | * Liliruca from ''Literature/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'' has been beaten and abused by other members of her guild since childhood. Finally, they leave her behind with a horde of monsters to be eaten/killed as a distraction so they can escape themselves. But Bell arrives in time to rescue her. One of her tormentors is killed by monster ants in the same episode, and the other two are killed by a Minotaur in the next episode. |
| 149 | ** In the second season, Phryne is shown to be a truly despicable person. She looks like a big toad and she is also very cruel and sadistic. It is implied that she frequently kidnaps men to her private torture chamber, where she tortures and rapes them. She tries to do the same to Bell, but he is freed in time. Eventually she fights Ottar. When she insults his goddess Freya in his presence, it is her last stupid mistake. |
| 150 | ** In the third season there is the Ikelos family who hunt and kill [[ItCanThink intelligent]] (and benign) monsters called Xenos. Partly for the [[VanHelsingHateCrimes sheer joy of it]], but also partly to sell them. However, as the season progresses, they are killed by the strongest of the Xenos. |
| 151 | * ''Manga/TheIslandOfGiantInsects'': With so many unpleasant characters, is no surprise there are a few. |
| 152 | ** Usui is a pervert who tries to rape Mutsumi as soon as they're alone. Nobody is sorry when he's devoured alive by firefly larvae. |
| 153 | ** Miss Mazawa blackmailed and molested Aoyama even when they were on the island, so her horrible death by ticks is hardly undeserved. |
| 154 | ** Marika spends her entire page time being an unpleasant and controlling bitch, who does nothing more than get the students she's supposed to protect killed with her ineptitude. Only Aoyama is sad when she's ripped to pieces. |
| 155 | ** After being nothing more than a nuisance and later raping Suzuki, you won't feel sorry for Kamijou when he's raped by a giant botfly and eaten alive by their larvae. |
| 156 | * If a villain in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' suffers a [[AndIMustScream particularly]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath horrible]] [[FateWorseThanDeath fate]], they most likely had it coming. Some notable examples: |
| 157 | ** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'': |
| 158 | *** Subverted with Shigekiyo "Shigechi" Yanguu. He's a rather greedy fellow who tries to scam his "friends" Josuke and Okuyasu out of their rightful share in their get-rich-quick schemes, even though they agreed to give him most of the money, and they regard him as a nuisance. However, after Shigechi has the misfortune of finding evidence of Yoshikage Kira's murders and ends up getting killed as a result, both Josuke and Okuyasu are rather disturbed and upset by his death, and vow to find the killer. |
| 159 | *** Yoshikage Kira happens upon a woman badmouthing her lover, who bought her an expensive ring for 150,000 yen, and implying that she's a GoldDigger. She's next seen as a disembodied hand, showing that Kira killed her offscreen and made her into his newest "girlfriend." |
| 160 | *** Yoshihiro Kira spends the entire Part trying to help his SerialKiller of a son get away with his murders, [[spoiler:so when [[DeathByIrony he's accidentally killed by an explosion created by said son]]]], it's unlikely anyone will miss him. |
| 161 | *** As Yoshikage Kira, a depraved serial killer with an abhorrent fetish, struggles to get up after being pummeled by Star Platinum, [[spoiler:he's run over by an ambulance car by mere accident. While everyone around is appalled, his death elicited no remorse given the bastard he was]]. |
| 162 | ** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'': |
| 163 | *** The mafioso whom Giorno saved, and later helped Giorno to repay him, is later shown killing a man. When the man's son confronts him, the mafioso says that the man he killed was a drug dealer who sold drugs to children. |
| 164 | *** [[StarterVillain Leaky-Eye Luca]] is shown to be a pretty nasty guy in the screen-time he's given, so the boss of Passione having him executed after his run-in with Giorno was probably a deserved fate. |
| 165 | *** One woman on the train is a RichBitch who complains about having to share the train with a child, considers other people beneath her and threatens to sue the train company. It's hard to feel sorry for her when Melone uses her to give birth to his "child" with his stand Babyface, a process that involves her death. |
| 166 | * [[PsychopathicManchild Akura-Ou]] from ''Manga/KamisamaKiss'' killed some robbers waylaying Nanami. It is implied he did it because she had canned peaches he liked and not to rescue her. |
| 167 | * This is a staple for the mysteries in ''Manga/TheKindaichiCaseFiles''. None of the murderers ever kill randomly out of pure insanity or for money. Instead, it inevitably turns out that the murderer was getting revenge for the loss/harming of a lover, family member, friends, or someone very dear who the murder victim royally screwed over in the worst possible way. There's a rare subversion in one case, however: two victims who were thought to be assholes turn out to be okay people. |
| 168 | * Prince Lood from ''Anime/LostSong'' basically abuses Finis, forcing her to use her song as a weapon of war. He also poisons her servant (who was trying to poison her). But the final straw is when he disguises her love, Henry, as an enemy soldier and forces her to burn him while he laughs at the trick. Let's just say it doesn't [[FlamingMeteor end well for him]]... |
| 169 | * ''Anime/LucyMayOfTheSouthernRainbow'': Mr. Pettywell is RichBitch who's frequently rude and abusive to his housekeeper and servants. Thus it's hard to feel bad for him when Adam, one of his former staff, teams up with a gang of robbers to steal his money. |
| 170 | * ''Manga/MagicalGirlSite'': Since nearly everyone in this series is either an asshole or a psychopath, this happens frequently. |
| 171 | ** In the first freaking chapter, the protagonist, Aya, is graphically abused by her classmate Sarina and two of her cronies, who tell Aya that she should go kill herself, stuff her locker full of razor blades, cover her desk in glue and obscenities, physically abuse and torture her, nearly kill her by drowning her in a toilet, and gruesomely murder her pet kitten by throwing it in front of a train. The next day, they enlist one of their upperclassman friends to "take Aya's first time". The would-be rapist and one of the girls, Erika, get what's coming to them when a desperate Aya uses her magical stick for the first time. Said stick being a teleportation gun that teleports them to the train tracks where Aya's cat was killed; the two end up splattered all over. |
| 172 | ** Sarina has done nothing but make poor Aya's life a living hell since they met in junior high. Her reason? She initially tried to help Aya out when she transferred into her school, but Aya was too shy and scared to even thank her. Sarina thinks that weak people like her are worthless and don't even deserve to live. When two of her friends are killed by a train while attempting to rape Aya, she is beyond livid. Missing the point entirely that her friends were horrible monsters who deserved what they got and playing the role of the victim, she assaults Aya and plans to slit her throat with a box cutter. Fortunately for Aya, their classmate Yatsumura saves her by stopping time with her stick and repositioning Sarina's arm so that, upon Yutsumura's magic wearing off, she slits her own throat instead. Sarina survives, albit with a nasty scar across her neck, but you can't really say that she hadn't had it coming for years by this point. |
| 173 | ** Aya's brother, Kaname, is a heartless bastard with a God-complex who thinks all humans are trash and sees his little sister as nothing more than a punching bag for him to take out his frustration on over his father's abuse. He regularly abuses Aya so badly that, by the start of the story, she's worried that his repeated beatings to her stomach have messed her insides up so badly that she will no longer be able to menstruate or have children. Later on, he only gets worse by [[spoiler: manipulating Aya's mentally unstable and insane friend/ally Nijimi into thinking that he loves her and is a good big brother]] and then later [[spoiler: stealing her magical stick (a pair of mind-control panties).]] [[spoiler: He then uses Nijimi's stick to attack Aya and her fellow magical girl allies and nearly kills them all.]] So it's hard to pity him when Kichiro Misumi, the police officer in charge of investigating the mysterious deaths of young girls in the area [[spoiler: who were massacered by the magical Girl Site's administrators]], turns out to be [[spoiler: a serial killer and rapist of magical girls and]] [[spoiler: kidnaps, tortures, and repeatedly rapes Kaname.]] |
| 174 | ** Kichiro becomes this himself. After [[spoiler: torturing and raping Kaname,]] Kaname eventually turns the tables on him by [[spoiler: slashing him with a shard of broken glass and burning his house down.]] |
| 175 | ** Yatsumura's mother, father, and unborn sibling were all [[spoiler: brutally stabbed to death by a robber who only left her alive so that he could find her once she was older and more attractive and "have some fun with her" before killing her.]] Once Yatsumura is given a stick with the power to stop time by the Magical Girl Site, she takes her revenge by [[spoiler: kidnapping him, holding him prisoner, and torturing him on for months.]] [[spoiler: The guy's misery only ends once he's sliced in half by a pissed-of Sarina, who was trying to kill Aya and Yatsumura in Yatsumura's apartment]] |
| 176 | ** Sayuki Ringa is a Yakuza heiress who was once held held prisoner by a rival yakuza clan. She was [[spoiler: kept chained to a bed for months and it's heavily implied that she was repeatedly raped and tortured during this time.]] Once she made a contract with the Magical Girl Site and received her katana magical stick [[spoiler: she used it to slaughter all over her captors.]] Unfortunately, unlike most of the other examples in this series, the fact that they deserved it doesn't cut Sayuki a break; [[spoiler: the police were able to track the murders back to her, and her mother was sentenced to life in prison after she willingly took the fall for her daughter]] |
| 177 | * ''Manga/MagicalGirlSpecOpsAsuka'': Chisato's [[AbusiveParent poor excuse of a father]] who repeatedly told her that she should've died in the accident that killed his wife. He then tried to have her become a prostitute but when she was rejected because she was a minor, the guy took his frustration out on her by trying to ''beat her to death''. (And bear in mind, the poor girl was '''crippled''' at the time and had ''no way'' of actually defending herself) So the bastard totally deserved to have his head crushed at the hands of the magical mercenary. |
| 178 | * All of the people who die in ''Manga/MantisWoman'' are really mean-spirited people. Bullies. Teachers who love to give extra hard tests [[ForTheEvulz just because they can.]] A family of psychopathic self-appointed MoralGuardians with a very final solution to people breaking even the slightest rule. |
| 179 | * ''Manga/MariaNoDanzai'': In this story, a teenage boy was driven to suicide by a group of bullies and the mother getting revenge on said bullies. The reason you root for the mother Maria destroying the bullies in some absolutely terrifying ways is that speaking plainly, there is nothing even remotely sympathetic about them. |
| 180 | ** Tsubasa Kowase is a remorseless blackmailer who exploits girls and harasses them; he also likes to torture his victims by drowning them in water. His fate of being drowned is very much deserved. His final moments showed how much of a degraded scumbag he is, not being able to remember the day or month his victim died and fighting for a future where he can continue to blackmail women and get rich off his victims, with him failing to cut off his hand and drowning in horror. |
| 181 | ** Kumiru Shikimi showed herself to be a remorseless manipulative bitch who likes to blackmail people and frame them for crimes they didn't commit; for example, she lies about her age so she can use the dating app to date older men and blackmail them for money by revealing her true age. She also framed her innocent classmate as a pervert so their classmates could ostracize him. It is made clear that Kumiru Shikimi does not care for the lives she has ruined. So her being exposed as the liar she is by her classmates and her eventual fate of dying in a well and being eaten by insects is very deserved. Any sympathy given to her for how horrifying her fate is and the terror she experiences is destroyed when she shows that she is remorseless about her victim to death in front of said victim's mother. |
| 182 | ** Haruto Iijima made fortune by scamming men with Shikimi and beating them up until they agreed to give them money on top of other criminal activities (including drug dealing at the least). [[spoiler:Since Maria left him off for a week, she discovered on the news he was found dead. Although Maria previously [[EveryoneHasStandards spared him because he was not involved in her son's death]], that does not take away the fact that he probably ruined other lives with Shikimi, and his death, while horrifying, is well deserved.]] |
| 183 | * ''Literature/TheMisfitOfDemonKingAcademy'': After everything Emilia Ludowell did, starting with being a racist bitch and topping off by nearly killing Izabella and Anos' Fan Club, it's extremely cathartic to see Anos let loose his fury by torturing her into begging for her life, followed by killing her and reincarnating her as a hybrid, which he adds to by cursing her to make this new state of being permanent. |
| 184 | %%zce* Dr. Heinemann from ''Manga/{{Monster}}'', as well as many of [[BigBad Johan]]'s other victims. |
| 185 | %%* Silas Edwards in ''Manga/MotherKeeper''. |
| 186 | * ''Manga/MuhyoAndRoji'': |
| 187 | ** Early on in the series, it's revealed that [[BigBad Enchu]] killed two executors. In Rio's flashback, it's revealed that one of them was a DirtyOldMan who forced Rio to dress in revealing clothing, threatening to prevent her from finding customers for her artifacts if she didn't. The other was an unpleasant old woman who mocked Rio for caving in to the old man's demands. [[MurderByInaction Both of them refused to help Rio when a haunt attacked her mother]], leading to Rio's mother's death and Rio doing a FaceHeelTurn. |
| 188 | ** Face-Ripper Sophie's older sister [[BitchinSheepsClothing acted like she cared about Sophie]], but mocked her behind her back, claiming that someone as ugly as Sophie would embarrass the family if she went out in public. Sophie then killed her sister, ripped off her face and asked if she could go out with her parents. |
| 189 | ** Averted with Goryo, the CorruptCorporateExecutive leader of a group of magical law practitioners that uses predatory business tactics. While he has numerous KickTheDog moments under his belt, he ends up being attacked and abducted as a result of a poorly thought-out offensive against Ark, the main antagonists, so [[EnemyMine Muhyo and the other protagonists decide to save him]]. It helps that Goryo's abductor is Tomas, one of the most despicable members of Ark. Nana says that while she hated Goryo for, among other things, sticking her {{Muggle}} classmates with a bill for $50,000 after saving them from spirits, she hates Tomas even more. |
| 190 | ** The Cortlaws, whose children, Ivy, Kid and Mick, joined Ark. Despite the Cortlaws being criminals MLS tried to negotiate with them, but the Cortlaws killed them instead, resulting in them eventually being killed in retaliation. |
| 191 | * Michio Yuki from ''Manga/{{MW}}'' has killed off the people who were part of the cover-up of the titular chemical warfare including his boss at the bank he worked at. |
| 192 | * ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': |
| 193 | ** Katsuki Bakugou. Downplayed and Defied. In chapter one, Bakugou gets captured by a Sludge Villain who's hell-bent on using his body as a meat suit. He's forced to fight for his life as dozens of people, including the heroes, watch him slowly suffocate to death — not because they don't care, but because they simply have no other options on hand. While it's hard not to see this as [[LaserGuidedKarma karmic justice]] for suicide-baiting the protagonist earlier that same day, it still feels like [[DisproportionateRetribution overkill]] when you actually compare the sin to the punishment. Not to mention, the protagonist, Midoriya Izuku himself, is shown to care deeply about Bakugou in spite of his assholery. In fact, Midoriya is the one who ''finally'' steps in and [[SavetheVillain puts his own life at risk to try and save Bakugou]]. |
| 194 | *** Averted when he gets kidnapped by the League of Villains. While his attitude played a part in why he got kidnapped in the first place, it came from a place of ''sympathy'' rather than resentment. Additionally, by this point, Katsuki has experienced a bit of [[CharacterDevelopment growth]] and has friends that go out of their minds with worry for his safety. Some of his classmates even form a "protection squad", then, later on, a "rescue squad" to save him, even though several pro-heroes were already looking for him. |
| 195 | ** [[spoiler: Kai Chisaki/Overhaul]]. After all the horrible things he put [[spoiler: Eri]] through, and all the people he killed on top of that, it was hard not to side with what the League of Villains did to him. |
| 196 | ** At the start of the Meta Liberation Army arc, the League of Villains, strapped for cash, raids the headquarters of the Creature Rejection Clan, seeking to loot any valuables they can. The organization is composed of religious fundamentalists who hate those with heteromorphic quirks (like the League's Spinner, a lizardman), so it's hard to feel sorry for them when the League kills them. |
| 197 | ** Kotaro Shimura, [[spoiler:Tomura Shigaraki's biological father]] abused his 5 year old son Tenko Shimura and ruled his family with his strict and harsh rules forbiding any talk or mention of either hero's or his mother. Nana put up Kotaro for adoption when he was little to protect him from her life, but he became a bitter and selfish man unable to move on from her choice and became abusive towards his own children and hated his mother for the rest of his life. [[spoiler:When Tenko's Decay activates for the first time, he accidently kills his sister, mother and grandparents, with Kotaro staring in utter horror. His son tearfully pleads for help from his father, but instead Kotaro hits him with a garden tool and pathetically begs his son to stop. This act drove Tenko mad and killed his father in rage from the horrible abuse he did to him. Considering he was a spiteful, hypocritical and cruel man towards his own family all because he couldn't get over his mother putting him up for adoption despite having a family of his own, he got what he deserved. Worse is that while Shigaraki showed genuine remorse for killing the rest of his family, Kotaro stands as the sole member who gets ''zero'' empathy for his death given he brought this all on himself.]] |
| 198 | * In ''Manga/MyHime'', the first victim to be killed as a result of a Child's destruction (which results in the death of the person most important to the Hime) is the leader of the gang that tried to rape Shiho, who'd injured Yuichi's arm when he tried to fight them off, and indirectly led to him being forced out of his old school as a result of his actions. Compare this with the anime, when the first person to die is a sympathetic secondary character, and the consequences of which end up being a TearJerker. |
| 199 | * ''Literature/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'' is the story of Catarina Claes, the villainess in "Fortune Lover," and an example of the trope in the game's story. In the original game, she is possessive of her fiance Geordo, [[BigBrotherBully is abusive to her little brother Keith]] and [[TheBully bullies the protagonist, Maria]]. In the good endings to Keith and Geordo's routes, Catarina is exiled for her crimes, while in the bad endings, she ends up getting killed while trying to murder Maria. In the latter case, her death doesn't inspire any player sympathy; the sad part is how Geordo or Keith [[SelfImposedExile leave Maria and go into exile over the guilt of killing Catarina]]. The entire premise of the series is how, after Catarina regains memories of her previous life and realizes that she will suffer such a terrible fate if her life proceeds as it does in the game, she strives to avoid this fate. |
| 200 | * ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': |
| 201 | ** The first people we see [[AxCrazy Gaara]] kill are a team of older genin from Amegakure whose leader is an arrogant bastard who tries his best to kill Gaara unprovoked. It's kind of satisfying seeing his OhCrap moment. The next two victims are his teammates who were begging for mercy at the time, and immediately afterwards we see him right on the edge of killing Team 8 as well, so it's immediately clear that Gaara is not a nice person. |
| 202 | ** Immediately before Gaara's fight, two Grass ninja come in and try to [[BullyingADragon intimidate him into throwing the fight]]. They also end up dead, and their deaths sate Gaara's bloodlust for the moment, resulting in him not killing Naruto and Shikamaru. |
| 203 | ** Gaara's dad, the Fourth Kazekage, who had his wife die so he could try to harness Shukaku then shunned and tried to (unsuccessfully) kill his son Gaara, all before he teamed up with Orochimaru to start a war with the Leaf Village. You know Orochimaru doesn't have any kindness in his heart, but it's not like you lament that he betrayed and killed the Kazekage. |
| 204 | ** Most of the members of Akatsuki have at least some redeeming qualities or a FreudianExcuse that gives them a degree of sympathy. The sole exception to this is Hidan, who joined a ReligionOfEvil simply out of boredom and to have an excuse to kill people. After he killed Asuma, it feels more than justified for Shikamaru to exact revenge on him by blowing him up in pieces and burying him alive. The fact that, according to WordOfGod, he will slowly ''rot'' before his immortality runs out and he dies for real just makes it the more cathartic. |
| 205 | ** Let's face it, no matter how [[WellIntentionedExtremist good his intentions were]], or how much he loved Konoha, Danzo's actions were more negative than good and his personality doesn't really help matters. No one really grieved his death when it came. And that's not even getting into his previous known attempts at assassinating Sarutobi by means of [[spoiler: manipulating young Kakashi into doing the deed when the boy was still grieving over his teacher's and his wife's death]], nor how he [[spoiler:withheld a young Yamato, who was being raised by Danzo's organization until young Kakashi found him and saved him, from attempting to using his Mokuton to try to stop the Nine Tails and prevent the massive loss of live that entailed later]]. And did we mention that the Uchiha Massacre was actually ''unauthorized''? And if that weren't enough, the ''Itachi Shinden'' light novel reveals that [[spoiler:he's the one who leaked out to Konoha that Naruto was Kurama's jinchuriki, which as we know resulted in the poor kid being unfairly ostracized for his entire life prior to the beginning of the series]]. So it's safe to say that Danzo had it coming for quite sometime. |
| 206 | ** Yashiro Uchiha (one of the Uchiha clansmen who questioned Itachi about Shisui's suicide) becomes this in ''Itachi's Story'', which shows him to be a {{Jerkass}} who thinks little of Itachi's idealism, and [[spoiler:tries to convince Fugaku to rebel, despite knowing it won't end well for the clan or the village]]. When the time comes for the massacre, Yashir [[AintTooProudToBeg begs for his life]] and [[spoiler:dishonestly promises to call off the coup]], but Itachi [[PayEvilUntoEvil tortures him with Tsukuyomi]] before [[OffWithHisHead cutting off his head]]. While Itachi had given his girlfriend a peaceful death, and felt tremendous guilt about killing his parents, he feels no remorse for what he did to Yashiro. |
| 207 | ** Unlike with Obito, nobody seemed particularly upset about Madara getting literally backstabbed by Black Zetsu, force-fed chakra, and converted into Kaguya Ootsutsuki. The reaction was more akin to horror from the characters over the general situation itself, and exasperation from the viewers who [[LoveToHate liked him as a villain]]. For one, Obito wouldn't be who he is now if it weren't for Madara in the first place. For another, Madara is HatedByAll mainly because of how much of an asshole he was. ''Nobody'' liked him, even his own clan, [[FaceHeelTurn though that wasn't always the case.]] However, later subverted since after Kaguya's defeat, as he lays dying, Hashirama, perhaps the only person to continue having ever truly empathized with him (as the other people he treasured and who loved him in turn, such as his brothers, were [[PosthumousCharacter dead]] long before he ever became a villain), still considers them friends. |
| 208 | *** Subverted on a meta level too; Most viewers have expressed [[AlasPoorVillain sympathy over his said actual death scene]]--some of them were even surprised by how ''effectively'' somber his passing felt. It certainly helped that his death also included him admitting that he was wrong, acknowledging that his dreams will die with him, and [[PeacefulInDeath peacefully accepting the fact.]] |
| 209 | * ''Manga/OnePiece'': |
| 210 | ** Mr. 11, a willing participant in Baroque Works' conspiracy to overthrow the kingdom of Alabasta, gets captured by Smoker and then killed by some of the [[EliteMooks Billions]], who hope to open up an Officer Agent position. It doesn't help Mr. 11's case that he tries to order them to save him, mistaking them for Millions (the subordinates of lower-ranking Frontier Agents like him), as opposed to Billions (subordinates of higher-ranking Officer Agents, who could become Officer Agents themselves). |
| 211 | ** In Skypiea, when Nami is exploring the Upper Yard, she meets a Blue-Sea dweller who's found his way to the sky island looking for treasure but got attacked by the Sky Priests. After the guy begs with Nami to give him a ride, he pulls out a flintlock and yells at Nami to give up her Waver (her only means of transportation). but he's then disintegrated by Enel's [[WaveMotionGun God's Judgement attack]]. |
| 212 | ** Admiral Akainu ordering a ship of refugees to be destroyed just because a scholar might be on it is [[MoralEventHorizon unforgivably evil]]. However, the civilians of Ohara often [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer ostracized]] Robin because of her Devil Fruit powers, making them considerably less sympathetic than Clover, Olvia and the rest of the scholars. Lampshaded when Robin tells Clover she won't board the evacuation ship, because "There won't be anyone nice on that ship anyway." |
| 213 | ** Disco, the former ''Human Auctioning House'' owner becoming bankrupt after Luffy and co. wrecked his establishment, freed all his captives and left him dissolute and homeless in Sabaody is nothing but LaserGuidedKarma for all the poor lives he treated like property. |
| 214 | ** In Luffy's flashback in the Post-war arc, he gets captured and brutally tortured by Porchemy, but Ace and Sabo save him. Porchemy's boss, Bluejam, [[YouHaveFailedMe kills Porchemy for letting some kids get the best of him]]. Some time later, Bluejam agrees to set fire to the garbage around the Goa Kingdom to please some visiting World Nobles, only to end up being betrayed and left to die by his employers. |
| 215 | ** The Fake Straw Hat Pirates, a bunch of copycats who pretended to be the heroes for two years during the crew's TrainingFromHell, lorded over the poor people of Sabaody Archipelago using their stolen reputation to intimidate, bully and get whatever they want. Their arrest at the hands of the Marines and getting literally buried alive by TheStarscream Caribou is very well deserved. Even Sentomaru [[EvenEvilHasStandards was disgusted by them]] upon hearing the fake Luffy Demaro Black claim he was the real deal and struck Black down with his axe. |
| 216 | ** Vergo and Monet in the Punk Hazard arc, two members of the AxCrazy Donquixote Doflamingo's pirate crew who are killed in the arc's climax, the latter by getting stabbed in the heart by mistake, and the former by the factory's explosion. Given that Monet spent years experimenting on innocent children by feeding them drugs disguised as sweets and Vergo was a DoubleAgent hiding in the Marine ranks and killed some of his devoted subordinates, it's hard to feel sorry for them. |
| 217 | ** Speaking of Doflamingo, his FlashBack where he got lynch mobbed by villagers as a child still doesn't make him sympathetic in the slightest, since he incited it by [[AristocratsAreEvil ordering commoners to bow before him]] despite him no longer being a World Noble. Doffy also screaming that he'd kill all of them while tied up doesn't help his case either. |
| 218 | ** In Charlotte Linlin a.k.a. Big Mom's flashback, her adoptive mother Mother Carmel pretended to be a benevolent nun, when she was actually a Child Trafficker who planned to sell off Linlin and other children in her keep to TheGovernment. Carmel '''gets eaten''' by Linlin herself during a feast(albeit by accident). |
| 219 | ** Absalom, a member of former Warlord of the Sea Gecko Moria's crew, gets killed by the Blackbeard Pirates in order acquire his {{Invisibility}} Devil Fruit power. Really hard to feel bad about him, since when Absalom first appeared in Thriller Bark [[InvisibleJerkAss he used his power]] to ''lick'' Robin, and then went on to accost Nami while she was bathing shoving her up against a wall in what looked like AttemptedRape and attempted to [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe marry her against her will]] twice before being defeated. |
| 220 | ** Komurosaki aka [[spoiler: Kozuki Hiyori]] is introduced as a BitchInSheepsClothing GoldDigger who had made multiple men go into poverty trying to woo her, which gets them exiled from the Flower Capital at the point of the local police's spears. Then a few chapters later after we learn about who she is behind her mask and alongside that it's revealed that the three men used as an example for her scams were a serial arsonist who paid off authorities for clemency, a fire-repair lumber company who gouged their prices, and a bogus priest and undertaker who would also gouge families who lost loved ones in the arsonist's fires, all working together to capitalize on people's suffering. When Nami and Usopp are told of the fates of the three men in the destitute Ebisu Town, they outright call it justice and karma finally catching up to them. |
| 221 | ** Kurozumi Orochi. The corrupt Shogun of Wano who: took over the country by teaming up with Kaido, [[PollutedWasteland poisons his country with waste]], [[VillainWithGoodPublicity manipulates the population in thinking he's the hero]], StewedAlive the true heir Kozuki Oden, kills anyone who defies him, uses knock off failed Devil Fruit [[{{Sadist}} on starving poor people]] turning them into LaughingMad wretches and tries to [[WouldHurtAChild kill a little girl]] after executing her father, gets his head chopped off [[YouHAveOutlivedYourUsefulness by Kaido]] in Chapter 985... and ''not a single tear was shed for him''. He turns out to be alive, but karma catches up to him when he gets trapped under some burning rubble, and when he tries to free himself, Denjiro, a samurai loyal to Oden who went undercover to protect Oden's daughter Hiyori, finishes him off. |
| 222 | ** Marine Admiral Ryokugyu, one of the two admirals appointed to replace Aokiji (who left) and Akainu (who became Fleet Admiral) appears to be just as ruthless as the latter, using his Devil Fruit powers to drain the life from Kaido's men. However, since one of the victims is Queen, who was in charge of running Udon Prison and thus reponsible for the brutal conditions there, and later infected friend and foe with a deadly virus during the battle of Onigashima, it's hard to feel bad for Ryokugyu's victims. |
| 223 | * ''Manga/{{Parasyte}}'' has several examples. |
| 224 | ** The parasite Gotou kills a whole group of Yakuza on his first appearance. |
| 225 | ** Another parasite kills several men who have sexually harassed a woman, and perhaps even try to rape her. One of them even attacks the parasites just because he protected the woman from them. |
| 226 | ** In one case, however, this is inverted. A whole street gang [[MuggingTheMonster wants to beat up]] the parasite Shimada, and just as he wants to kill them, Shinichi comes and saves the gang. |
| 227 | * ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': |
| 228 | ** ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'': The scientists, especially Dr. Fuji, at New Island's laboratory are self-congratulatory when they create Mewtwo, boasting in front of the Pokémon that they saw it as nothing more than a science experiment. This doesn't sit well with Mewtwo, who kills them all when he breaks free and destroys the lab (Giovanni very ''narrowly'' avoids this fate when he boasts about using Mewtwo for war, which makes things worse). Given how Mewtwo almost managed to destroy all of humanity later on, their deaths were absolutely well-deserved. |
| 229 | ** In ''Diamond and Pearl'', Hunter J's ship is hit by two Future Sights by Uxie and Mesprit, causing it to crash into Lake Valor and explode underwater with its entire crew still aboard. Given that J has been responsible for some of the worst acts in the anime series as a whole (capturing Pokemon, even those that ''already have trainers'', by petrification to sell them on the black market, [[BadBoss sacrificing some of her own men]] just so she can make a clean getaway, and bring harm to those just for getting in her way even [[WouldHurtAChild if they're children!]]), no one is mourning her certain death. |
| 230 | * ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': |
| 231 | ** The two sexist guys on the train in episode 8, who believe that women should be abused as a means of being kept in line. Even as she's becoming a witch, Sayaka is fighting for justice and the viewer is meant to agree with her anger at them, though whether she killed them or not is a massive FlipFlopOfGod. In the manga adaptation, there's a blood trail behind her sword. That should tell you enough. |
| 232 | ** In ''Rebellion'', Homura -having gained godlike power- does ''[[MindRape something]]'' to the Incubators that leaves them horrified and shivering with pain. This is the first time the species have ever shown emotion, something they consider equivalent to insanity. However, given that they've conned ''all'' magical girls into a life of slavery and bloodshed, it's hard to pity them. Although [[BrokenBase some fans]], even those who ''hated'' Kyubey, felt that this time, Homura [[MoralEventHorizon went]] [[DisproportionateRetribution too]] [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope far.]] |
| 233 | * ''Literature/ReZero'' shows Elsa Granhiert's past. When she was a 10-year-old child, she stole from a dealer out of starvation. After he realized that she was a girl, he tried to assault her. But Elsa was able to [[GuttedLikeAFish slit open his stomach with a piece of pottery]], so that his bowels emerged. This type of killing was later also preferred by Elsa when she became a professional assassin. |
| 234 | * Idol Rabier from ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'', who was the former slave owner of Raphtalia, made fun of torturing and abusing demi-humans. When he faces Naofumi, he breaks a magical seal [[EvilIsNotAToy to free a monster]] that is supposed to attack him. But the FatBastard is the monster's first (and only) victim. |
| 235 | * In the 74th episode of ''Manga/SailorMoon R'', Crimson Rubeus, who spent the previous episodes treating the Spectre Sisters horribly and making them go through a "YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness" ordeal, is left to die on his exploding ship by Green Esmeraude after failing to defeat Sailor Moon and kidnap Chibi-Usa. |
| 236 | * Sekai Saionji of the ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' anime adaptation winds up on both sides of the spectrum, making an asshole victim out of someone, then becoming one herself. At the end of the series, Sekai kills her ex-boyfriend Makoto Itou after she tries to convince him that he impregnated her, which leads him to ditch her, try and go back to his original LoveInterest, then suggest she get an abortion. Then, not long after, Sekai gets killed herself by the girl Makoto tried to go back to: Kotonoha Katsura, who suffered an absolutely tragic BreakTheCutie deal, rape, and other assorted trauma which led to her SanitySlippage. And this all led her to avenge Makoto after Sekai's vicious IfICantHaveYou moment, calling Sekai out on her selfishness before giving her a SlashedThroat. |
| 237 | * ''Literature/SeireiGensoukiSpiritChronicles'': |
| 238 | ** DoubleSubverted when Rio nearly kills Gon when the latter tries to rape Ruri. While Rio eventually calms down and spares him, Gon is sold off into slavery as punishment for his crimes, meaning Gon escaped death only to meet a [[FateWorseThanDeath worse fate]]. |
| 239 | ** Reiss forcibly transforms Alphonse into a ghoul, which while horrifying, isn't all that tragic due to the latter being one of the students who bullied Rio and framed him for nearly getting Flora killed. For additional karma, he leads an attack on Amande city, only to be easily killed by Rio. |
| 240 | * In ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'', a boy named Zeal is robbed and beaten by three men. The thugs pursue him to his house and throw a stone at him through a window to further injure him; fortunately for Zeal, his sister is [[DarkActionGirl Holy Knight Guila]], who protects him so that only the windowpane breaks. Later in the night, as the men talk about going back to Guila's house and setting it on fire, Guila tracks them down and viciously slaughters them. |
| 241 | * ''Literature/{{Shiki}}'' has Tomio Ookawa, an older but strong and muscular man. He has beaten and mistreated his son for little reasons of years for years, and is later one of the most fanatical vampire hunters, [[VanHelsingHateCrimes killing both good and bad vampires]]. He even kills his own son after he becomes a vampire. Finally Seishin kills him, leaving his body in a burning cathedral. |
| 242 | ** Masao is cowardly, selfish, and narcissistic. As a vampire, he is just like he was as a human. It is also shown that he has relatively little inhibition to attack humans. It is heavily implied that he will be killed by his sister-in-law. Eventually, however, it is undermined when it turns out that this is what he has become because of his family's neglect. |
| 243 | ** Tatsumi is one of the few vampires who can [[DaywalkingVampire move outdoors during the day]]. He is also a cruel sadist who demands absolute obedience from the newly created vampires. He even threatens to take them outside during the day and expose them to sunlight if they ignore his orders. He proves to be excessively brutal in combat. Eventually, however, he is killed by Natsuno. |
| 244 | * In ''Manga/ShiNiAruki'', after Tokimune Kurosu, the head of the family, dies in the first chapter, and his son Hiroaki and daughter Haruka die soon afterward, some members of the family conclude that Tokimune's adopted daughter Tokiko is cursed. [[CrusadingWidow Hiroaki's widow Kinue]] teams up with Tokimune's eldest son Takahito and his wife Ayako to kill the girl, tying up Tokimune's eldest daughter Miyuki when she objects. All three conspirators almost immediately die brutal and seemingly accidental deaths -- an industrial air conditioner falls on Kinue, Ayako gets hit by a car, and Takahito falls on his own knife after stabbing Tokkiko -- but it's hard to feel sorry for them considering they were planning to murder a member of their own family out of paranoia. |
| 245 | * Already in the first episode of ''Literature/SkeletonKnightInAnotherWorld'' several bandits try to gang rape two women. Luckily, Arc gets by in time and easily kills them. |
| 246 | * ''Manga/SPYxFamily'': |
| 247 | ** Yuri Briar, who's Yor's younger brother, is a member of Ostania's SSS and is determined to catch Westalis spies like Yor's husband Loid Forger, aka Agent Twilight, which makes him an antagonist. However, the first traitor Yuri is shown interrogating and forcing to confess is a man who passes along secrets to the enemy [[OnlyInItForTheMoney in order to fund]] his extramarital affairs and tries to downplay his actions by describing them as merely passing along scraps of paper. As ruthless as Yuri can be, having his first target be a man like this helps prevent him from being too unsympathetic. |
| 248 | ** All of Yor's targets for assassination also count as this. Despite being prone to thinking that MurderIsTheBestSolution for everyday situations, Mission 29 reveals that Yor always goes through careful intelligence on her targets, and all of them are unrepentant criminals actively trying to hurt her country and its people. |
| 249 | * ''Manga/StriderHiryu'': During the final chapter, Vice-Director Matic gets [[Main/ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaled in the chest]] by Yggdrasil, the heart of the ZAIN Mind Control Project he desired for three years. Given how much of an irredeemable monster he was up to that point, it's safe to say he deserved his brutal death. |
| 250 | * ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'': |
| 251 | ** Corvatz, an officer in the "Army," a group that ostensibly helps lower-leveled players, is an unpleasant and rude individual who demands that Kirito hand over his hard-earned map data, [[UngratefulBastard only giving him a rather insincere thank you and no compensation]]. He ignores Kirito's warnings and forces his exhausted men into battle with The Gleam Eyes, boss of the level, which gets himself and two of his subordinates killed. It later turns out that he was the victim of an UriahGambit by Kibaou, but it's hard to feel sorry for him. |
| 252 | ** Oberon, the villain of the series' second arc, conspired to use VRMMO technology to achieve MindControl, conspired to marry Asuna while she was still comatose, kept her caged in Alfheim Online, then near the end, tortured Kirito while sexually assaulting Asuna in-game and threatening to have his way with her body in the real world. Needless to say, no one shed a tear for him when Kirito wrested control of the game from him, turned off his pain inhibitor, and killed him in-game so viciously, his real-world player suffered permanent injuries. |
| 253 | ** Zexceed, Death Gun's first victim and the only one who shows his personality much, is introduced smugly giving an interview after winning the Bullet of Bullets tournament, even as it's revealed that his success is in part due to tricking people into having AGI-related builds, when he himself invested points into STR to equip some of the newer guns. |
| 254 | ** Raios Antonious and Humbert Zisek engage in petty cruelty toward Eugeo and Kirito, simply due to the latter pair being commoners, which culminates in them [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil nearly raping]] their disciples, Ronie and Teise. No one felt bad when [[AnArmAndALeg Eugeo sliced off one of Humbert's arms and Kirito cut off both of Raios']], causing the latter's death. |
| 255 | * ''Manga/TakopisOriginalSin'': [[spoiler:Marina, the girl who regularly bullies Shizuka, ends up getting murdered by the Happy Camera falling on her head. She gets better, but still...]] |
| 256 | * In the world of ''Manga/TalentlessNana'', superpowered individuals called the "Talented" are feared by the rest of humanity due to their incredibly destructive potential and tendency to develop murderous god complexes. [[spoiler:Nana Hiiragi]] is a government-sponsored SerialKiller meant to quietly get rid of them and most of her victims are shown to be well on their way to becoming megalomaniacal supervillains or already abusing their gifts in horrifying ways. |
| 257 | * The anime ''Manga/TokyoESP'' has three schoolrowdies. They try to rape Minami when they find her completely alone. But she got her [[PsychicPowers powers]] at that moment, and uses them, albeit without purpose, to kill the three. Sadly, for Minami it is the moment when [[StartOfDarkness she becomes evil]]. |
| 258 | * ''Literature/UndefeatedBahamutChronicle'': |
| 259 | ** Although the Emperor of Arcadia was killed by Fugil, it was understandable considering his long list of crimes against humanity. |
| 260 | ** Barzeride Kreutzer spent the entirety of Volume 2 trying to force Krulcifer to marry him, all to use her to claim the technology of the Ruins for himself. He's killed by Hayes in the next volume, via forced BodyHorror. |
| 261 | ** Dobar Fest is killed by Yoruka after he orders her and his soldiers to kill Airi for eavesdropping on their plans. |
| 262 | ** Gerdaf, a SociopathicSoldier from Heiberg, spends much of Volume 8 trying to break Celestia mentally, only to be killed by an unknown Drag-knight (later revealed to be the [[BadBoss King of Vices]]) when he fails. |
| 263 | ** Volume 14 features a short chain of assholes getting killed by another asshole, starting with Zweigbergk Gimle, who lost all sympathy when he tried to slowly kill the Triad for insulting his master. Then he's impaled by Hayes, an AxCrazy Lord who fused with Sacred Eclipse. Soon after that, Hayes is forced to kill herself due to her sister, Listelka, who is ambitious and lacks empathy towards everyone except herself and Fugil. Finally, Listelka is killed by Fugil when she outlives her usefulness and proves herself to be a threat to the world's balance. |
| 264 | * ''Anime/ValvraveTheLiberator'' has Q-Vier, the resident PsychopathicManchild. When the truth about the Council of 101 comes to light, all of his surviving partners realize what they were fighting for was a lie [[Main/HeelFaceTurn and switch sides]]... except him. Living off of his MadnessMantra that his partners were now traitors and thus had to die, Q-Vier instead fought A-Drei, who tries to incapacitate his friend so he doesn't compromise what needs to be done. Unfortunately, the attempt fails as the ricocheted blast hits the cockpit of Q-Vier's mecha, fatally wounding him. Although Q-Vier is happy about dying at the hands of a man he looked up to, A-Drei is still horrified. So... why is Q-Vier an Asshole Victim? Well, of the Dorssian pilots, he's the only one that [[Main/AxCrazy liked killing way too much]] and lacked a moral compass, yet A-Drei didn't want to kill him. |
| 265 | * Episode 4 of ''Anime/VividStrike'' featured three girls who had been bullying Rinne. And not the wimpy "call her names and steal her lunch money" kind of bullying. We're talking about the "vandalize her desk, break and throw a family heirloom in a toilet, keep her from seeing her grandfather when he's suffering a fatal heart attack" kind of bullying. Needless to say, the NoHoldsBarredBeatdown she gave them in retaliation was as satisfying as it was horrifying to be involving ten year olds in all of the above. |
| 266 | * Wolfram in ''Manga/{{Wolfsmund}}'' is a sadistic governor who presides over the countless brutal executions of men, women and children, for [[ForTheEvulz no real reason]]. Needless to say, no tears are shed for him when he ends up getting ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice. |
| 267 | * ''Manga/YuGiOh'': |
| 268 | ** In the earliest mangas, Yami was far darker (sometimes to the point of sadistic) than the more benign spirit he'd eventually become, and would inflict brutal "penalty games" on anyone who threatened Yugi or his friends. However, while ''most'' of them didn't actually die, ''all'' of them clearly deserved the punishments he inflicted upon them. Case in point: in an early chapter, Yami ''set a man on fire''. The guy was a murderer who had broken out of prison, was holding up a fast food and molesting Tea, and had stated the intention of murdering Yami as soon as their 'game' finished (said game was what set him on fire). In the anime too it isn't clear whether or not he actually killed [=PaniK=] or Fake Kaiba during the Duelist Kindom arc, but regardless of what he did to them, both were horrible men who had it coming. |
| 269 | ** Marik Ishtar's father was an abusive man, devoted far too much to his duty as a Tomb Keeper to spare love for his family. He ignored his daughter, deeming her [[HeirClubForMen worthless]], only cared for his wife if she could give him children, and treated his adopted son Rishid/Odion as a slave whom he would abuse all the time, and threaten to kill. Finally, as part of his clan's tradition, he carved the image of the Pharaoh's tablet into Marik's back with a knife, despite Marik begging against it and Rishid offering to take his place. This act created Marik's SuperPoweredEvilSide, which only ''didn't'' lash out then and there because Rishid privately conducted his own ritual to protect Marik; when Mr. Ishtar took things too far with Rishid, Yami Marik emerged and, depending on what version you're viewing, stabbed his father or [[DraggedOffToHell banished his soul to the Shadow Realm.]] Regardless, the old bastard had it coming. |
| 270 | ** Gozaburo Kaiba, Seto's adoptive father, was a CorruptCorporateExecutive who would sell weapons to the armies on both sides of a conflict just to prolong it to make money, ''and'' he was an AbusiveParent to both his own son Noah and his adoptive son Seto, who he harshly tried to mold him into his successor, and when Seto turned the tables on him and took over his company in a hostile takeover, virtualized his mind and became intent on world domination through seizing control of computer systems and military facilities. It was hard for ''anyone'' to feel sorry when the virtual world was destroyed, deleting him from existence. (Sadly, this took Noah's HeroicSacrifice to accomplish.) |
| 271 | ** The same could be said for the Big Five, who were most likely [[DeaderThanDead deleted utterly]] when the virtual world was destroyed. Granted, they only became villains because Seto used their aid to take over Kaiba Corp and then reneged on his promise to give them better treatment in the company, but they still conspired to ''murder'' Kaiba twice before (this scheme had been the third) and some of them were rotten in other ways: Gansley, by his own admission, started his backhanded ways when he was a child (dub only), Crump was a DirtyOldMan who targeted Anzu because the thought of stealing a young girl's body appealed to him in a sick way, Johnson was a sleazy AmoralAttorney (likely ''immoral'' at times) and Nezbit was a DirtyCoward who targeted Duke, Tristan, and Serenity because he knew they were amateurs at the game. (Ironically, he was the one most upset when Seto turned [=KaibaCorp=] from a military firm into a more benign company; Nezbit had no problem ''building'' munitions for the military, but would likely never dare put himself within a hundred miles of a warzone where they were being used.) |
| 272 | ** In ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'', Edo Phoenix's adoptive father DD committed several murders using the Ultimate D Card and imprisoned the souls of his victims, the first victim being Edo's father, and he [[TreacherousAdvisor took Edo under his wing to divert suspicion from himself]]. But when he tried to do the same to Edo, he finally got what was coming to him, struck down by Edo's Destiny Heroes and left to die on his burning yacht. Was he just an UnwittingPawn of the Light of Ruin? Maybe. But before that, he was still a thief who murdered Edo's father. |
| 273 | ** ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'': Divine/Sayer was the biggest asshole in the entire franchise who was not either an EldritchAbomination or MadeOfEvil, so it was hard to mourn either when he was believed to have been killed in his duel with the Dark Signer Carly, or when he was [[KilledOffForReal actually killed]] by Earthbound God Ccarayhua later. And while supplemental material reveals that he was revived along with all the other victims of the Earthbound Gods, he was arrested not long after. |
| 274 | ** In ''Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL'', there was Jin, a sadistic Numbers Hunter who, among other things, cheated in duels and tried to force Yuma to surrender by offering a SadisticChoice, along with making him believe that Kaito - who he had recently nearly lost to - was watching, terrifying both Yuma ''and'' Astral. Jin's rather pathetic goal was to work for the real Kaito, being a slavish admirer of him. However, after Yuma finally won, Kaito showed up, and cared little for his loyalty, treating him like his other victims by taking his final Number [[YourSoulIsMine and his soul with it.]] |
| 275 | ** ''Anime/YuGiOhTheDarkSideOfDimensions'' has the Kudaragi gang, who try to harass Aigami and end up being sent to a different dimension. |
| 276 | * ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'': Tarukane and Butajiri are both killed by Toguro; the former for no longer being useful to Sakyo or the Black Book Club, and the latter for trying to rig the tournament [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney through bribery]], which comes off as an EvenEvilHasStandards moment for Sakyo. The rest of the Black Book Club also counts, as their deaths mean the Dark Tournament will never be held again. |
| 277 | * ''Manga/ZekkyouGakkyuu'' often has this, making the frequent [[DownerEnding Downer Endings]] easier to swallow; a particularly interesting example is the story "The Girl Under The Bed." The protagonist, after learning that her friends don't like her as much as she thought they did, decides to play a cruel and frightening prank on them instead of ignoring it or finding better friends. In the end, however, the titular character (a spirit who kills people if she deems them bad enough) comes for ''her'' instead, since what she did was worse than anything the others did. |
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