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| 14 | !!Shows with their own pages: |
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| 16 | [[index]] |
| 17 | * ''DisproportionateRetribution/AmericanDad'' |
| 18 | * ''DisproportionateRetribution/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' |
| 19 | * ''DisproportionateRetribution/DanVs'' |
| 20 | * ''DisproportionateRetribution/FamilyGuy'' |
| 21 | * ''DisproportionateRetribution/{{Kaeloo}}'' |
| 22 | * ''DisproportionateRetribution/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' |
| 23 | * ''DisproportionateRetribution/TheSimpsons'' |
| 24 | * ''DisproportionateRetribution/SouthPark'' |
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| 27 | !!Individual examples: |
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| 32 | * Tricia from ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'' has done this a couple of times to her former best friend Caitlin. For example, in the episode "Unhappy Anniversary," Tricia has Caitlin banned from every store in the mall just because she was dating a boy Tricia ''used'' to like. |
| 33 | ** In the same episode, Chrissy reveals that Tricia once cut a hole in her sweater just because it was the same one she was wearing that day. |
| 34 | ** In the episode "A Crime of Fashion" Tricia overhears Caitlin calling her "mean" and how does Tricia handle this? [[IResembleThatRemark By framing Caitlin for shoplifting.]] |
| 35 | ** Jonesy is victim to this in the episode "Over Exposed". When he accidentally saw Jen naked, she and Nikki decided to humiliate him by posting a naked picture of him up on his job's monitor, which costs him his job. [[DesignatedHero And this is supposedly justified.]] |
| 36 | * In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/ActionLeagueNow'', the Mayor tries to shoot the Action League's TeamPet Justice the Dog into space for peeing in his jacuzzi. After Justice is rescued, [[LaserGuidedKarma he pees in the mayor's jacuzzi just to spite him]]. |
| 37 | -->'''Mayor:''' Curses, tinkled again! |
| 38 | * In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', Jake has a witch punish him by taking away his magical powers and gives him the body of a fat baby. The reason she did so was because he ate one of her donuts. Later, she does the same thing to a bagel. The bagel's crime? Not being a donut. |
| 39 | ** The Earl of Lemongrab has some... er, interesting concepts when it comes to punishing those who do wrong. Making a mess? Thirty days in the dungeon. Asking questions? Thirty-''two'' days in the dungeon. Refusing to clean up mess, or asking who exactly Lemongrab is talking to? Three hours dungeon. Harmless prank? Seven years dungeon, no trials. Assuring Lemongrab that said prank was harmless? Twelve years dungeon. Elaborate, painful prank involving spicy food? One million years dungeon. (Lemongrab isn't evil -- he's just young, angry, and a bit of an idiot.) |
| 40 | *** PB and Finn decide to play a harmless prank on Lemongrab -- they leave a sign beside his bed that says "YOU REALLY SMELL LIKE DOG BUNS." He clenches his fists, starts shaking, and opens up his mouth wide to scream loudly in sheer outrage for several seconds, and to punish those responsible, rounds up everyone in the castle, to sentence them to seven years in the dungeon without trials. |
| 41 | ** In one episode a squirrel went crazy and attacks Jake because he wouldn't reply to the emails he sent to him, and doesn't remember him. |
| 42 | ** Princess Bubblegum's vendetta over the Duke of Nuts was caused because he ate her pudding. Even Finn finds her hatred over him to be bordering on psychotic. Even the fact that the Duke is a complete NiceGuy and just has a pudding deficiency isn't enough to mellow Prebows out, who thinks he is lying. |
| 43 | ** In 'Princess Day' Lumpy Space Princess and Marceline trash Breakfast Princess's room, destroy her car and leave her stranded in the desert for humiliating and kicking Lumpy Space Princess out of their meeting as she was uninvited. (In LSP's partial defense, BP was rude about it, and the desert stranding happened due to SerialEscalation with BP finding them and getting accidentally knocked out trying to stop them.) |
| 44 | * ''WesternAnimation/AlfredJKwak'': When Dolf is dictator, he reacts to a mouse revealing his yellow beak, thereby humiliating him in public, by vowing to exterminate every mouse on the planet. |
| 45 | * In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', Gumball and Darwin laugh at some of their BumblingDad Richard's past screw-ups (one of which, namely cement cupcakes, being potentially dangerous), not knowing he was within earshot. While that was rude, it did not warrant Nicole's response, which is to hurl said cement cupcakes at them and downright refuse to provide for them until they apologize. Anais is no better, using a soap bar to inflict physical injury upon Gumball's nose (which swells up). |
| 46 | ** Made worse in that previous episodes show that she respects him about as much, to the point when he gets a job as a pizza delivery guy she's unable to even say she's proud of him, mispronouncing the word because the concept is so foreign to her. |
| 47 | ** In a later episode, Gumball seems to think being a poisonous friend warrants [[WouldHitAGirl attempted murder]]. |
| 48 | ** In "The Spoiler", [[AnthropomorphicFood Anton the toast]] just about spoils a bit of a movie that Gumball has yet to see, so Gumball ''[[EatenAlive eats]] [[TheyKilledKennyAgain him]] [[BlackComedyBurst alive]]''. |
| 49 | ** In "The Sidekick", Gumball lets Darwin take charge for once when they try to find a way to convince Tobias to return the game they lent him. Darwin then ''kidnaps Tobias' mother'' to Gumball's horror. |
| 50 | ** Anais could have been nicer about rejecting Billy in "The Egg". His reaction to this to is to [[LovingBully bully the absolute shit out of her]]. |
| 51 | * ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'': In the special ''A Chipmunk Christmas'', Dave [[GoToYourRoom sends Alvin to his room]] for shopping for himself at Christmas. |
| 52 | * In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', two {{Caustic Critic}}s (parodies of Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert) give Slappy's old cartoons a rather cruel review. Slappy gets even by ''dropping a bomb on their house'', and then pulling a gauntlet of [[DeadlyPrank rather dangerous pranks]] on them at a movie debut, including tricking them into running off a ledge and liposuctioning fat from one of them[[note]]Skippy: [[{{Squick}} Spew!]][[/note]], culminating in [[CartoonPhysics sending them into the movie itself]] where a hungry Tyrannosaurus Rex starts chasing them. In the final scene, the two of them are on their show again -- covered with bandages and in traction -- and Skippy clearly thinks they haven't had enough, so he pulls a lever that drops a huge anvil on them.[[note]]Slappy: Now THAT's comedy![[/note]] |
| 53 | * Virtually the entire cast of ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' engages in this from time to time, but Archer himself and his mother ''live'' it. Case in point, when rival spy Barry walks into Archer's office (where Archer is banging Barry's fiancee), Archer's response is to ''shoot him'', adding that he told Barry not to come in. Barry reacts to his fiancee's infidelity by attempting to blow her up with a car bomb. When Archer takes a job with another spy agency, Archer's mother puts out a burn notice that would result in his execution. And when Archer suggests to Lana that she isn't sexually available enough, she deliberately crashes the car in order to eject him out the windshield headfirst into a pile of broken glass. ''This all happens in the same episode.'' |
| 54 | ** Also, Archer and Krieger brainwashed Len Trexler into practically a vegetable. Why? He simply wanted to marry Archer's mother. Even worse the fact that Mallory didn't even love him back, she just wanted his money. Though to be fair, the brainwashing wasn't supposed to have done that (or knowing [[MadScientist Krieger]], it was fully intended) as far as Archer knew, it was simply supposed to make him subliminally afraid of Mallory. |
| 55 | ---> '''Archer:''' Is he going to be stuck like that? Because I feel kind of guilty now. |
| 56 | ** There was also the time Archer threw all of Woodhouse's clothes out the window just because he didn't poach his eggs right. |
| 57 | *** He then did the same thing to Cheryl. |
| 58 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': |
| 59 | ** When Muffy and Prunella confront Francine, starring in a class play about Thomas Edison, about becoming LostInCharacter. |
| 60 | --->'''Muffy:''' We're talking about the mall! Stuff to buy, clothes to try on, ''fun''. |
| 61 | --->'''Francine:''' My inventions are ''not'' boring! Without lights you'd have to shop in the dark. ''(beat)'' Oh, sorry, I guess you already do. ''(Muffy runs away, sobbing)'' |
| 62 | --->'''Prunella:''' That was mean! |
| 63 | --->'''Francine:''' She insulted incandescent filaments first. |
| 64 | ** The point of "Arthur's Big Hit" gives a more realistic (and [[BrokenAesop unintentionally justified]]) example. D.W. constantly pesters him, destroys his model airplane and [[NeverMyFault blames him for it instead of apologizing]], so he [[BewareTheNiceOnes loses it and punches her]]. |
| 65 | ** "Love Notes for Muffy" saw the Brain and Francine getting revenge on Muffy for beating them in a science fair by making fake love notes. In Brain and Francine's defense, Muffy only won the science fair by [[spoiler:bribing the judges with cupcakes.]] |
| 66 | ** "Brother, Can You Spare a Clarinet" practically ''fits'' this trope. Binky's clarinet doesn't work, and he can't get a new one in time for a tryout to join a music group, so he and his Tough Customer buddies plot to mess up everyone else's auditions by stealing their instruments and '''''breaking them.''''' |
| 67 | ** "What's in a Name" saw Muffy threatening to reveal Binky's real name, [[spoiler:Shelley]], to their friends. What happened? Binky received an academic award, and while giving his speech, he caught Muffy talking on her cellphone. Mr. Ratburn confiscated her phone and punished her with a week of no recess. |
| 68 | ** There are two instances where Fern, who is generally the most quiet and mild-mannered of the cast, goes through with elaborate schemes to get revenge on someone who slighted her. |
| 69 | * ''WesternAnimation/AtomicBetty'': The Chameleon stole the Scythian President's brain because the President called Maximus a villain "when everyone knows he's a [=SUPER=]-villain". |
| 70 | * ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' |
| 71 | ** After some heartwarming EpiphanyTherapy, [[TheDragon Azula]], [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Zuko, Mai and Ty Lee]] went on to completely trash ([[http://dvdscreenshots.avatarspiritmedia.net/305/836.jpg and maybe burn down]]) the house of someone who had mildly "insulted" them by kicking Zuko out of his party for hurling a guy into his grandma's vase, and being afraid of Azula. Hey, they ''are'' villains. |
| 72 | ** There's [[BigBad Fire Lord Ozai's]] solution to minor rebellions in the conquered Earth Kingdom. [[spoiler:Because ''burning the entire continent to the ground'' is clearly a reasonable response.]] |
| 73 | ** Ozai seems to be a fan of this. Once his 13-year-old son Zuko disagreed with one of his general's plans, which will sacrifice a ton of loyal CannonFodder, [[AbusiveParents he promptly attacked him, permanently disfigured him and kicked him out of the country on a]] SnipeHunt. |
| 74 | ** Azula embodies this trope after her VillainousBreakdown. Forgot to remove a cherry pit? Banished. Didn't arrive as quickly as Azula wanted you to? Banished. Do your duty as advisors and actually advise Azula? [[DuelToTheDeath Agni Kai.]] Both of you aren't firebenders and can't Agni Kai? Okay, one of you is banished. That's her definition of being ''exceedingly merciful''. |
| 75 | ** Then again, this seems to run in the family. Fire Lord Azulon's response to Ozai wanting the throne over his brother Iroh after Iroh's only heir has died? [[spoiler: Telling him to kill his ''own'' son so he can feel what it's like to lose his firstborn.]] Zuko is ''definitely'' the ButtMonkey of this family. |
| 76 | ** Ty Lee initially doesn't want to leave the circus to accompany Azula, since she really loves her new life. Azula not-so-subtly ensures that Ty Lee's working conditions will get much, ''much'' more dangerous. This includes ''having Ty Lee's safety net set on fire'' and ordering ''every'' "dangerous animal" the circus has to be sent out during one of her tricks. Ty Lee gets the message. |
| 77 | ** Happens in ''Avatar'''s SequelSeries, ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', to Tahno and his teammates. They cheat at a Pro-Bending match, and then Amon [[spoiler: takes away their bending and gives a speech about how they deserved it]]. Now, when Aang was Avatar, the only people who [[spoiler: lost their bending thanks to Aang energybending them]] were Yakone and Ozai. Ozai was a genocidal maniac who was in the process of burning down the entire Earth Kingdom; Yakone was responsible for dozens of serious crimes including trying to murder Aang by [[spoiler: using his bloodbending on him.]] While cheating at a sports competition is wrong, it really doesn't compare to genocide or attempting to murder the Avatar. |
| 78 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'': |
| 79 | ** In "Q&A" the Cluemaster lost a game show for child geniuses when he was ten (which he claimed was rigged) and spent ''decades'' plotting revenge against the people he held responsible, becoming a morbidly obese BasementDweller in the process. Batman [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech seriously called him out on this]] when he confronted him, but it went in one ear and out the other. |
| 80 | ** In the episode "Attack of the Terrible Trio", three teenage outcasts stole Man-Bat's animal mutation serum, turning them into an anthropomorphic Fox, Vulture and Shark. They terrorized their school, turned a JerkJock into a feral gorilla, and when the school planned to test the students to see who'd been using the mutagen, their planned response was to set off a bomb to turn the entire school into anthropomorphic animals. |
| 81 | *** In the episode [[Recap/TheBatmanS2E4TheLaughingBat "The Laughing Bat"]], the Joker pretends to be Batman and takes down lawbreakers during the night. The catch? The so-called crimes are incredibly minor felonies that barely count as crimes at all. The punishment if Joker catches them is a dose of Joker gas. |
| 82 | *** The Joker is even worse in [[Recap/TheBatmanS1E12TheRubberfaceOfComedy "The Rubberface of Comedy"]], when he quickly gets angry at Detective Bennett for trying to arrest Batman -- not him -- while he's defacing the statue in Gotham Bay. ([[AttentionWhore "I'm the vandal here!"]] shouts the Joker.) This leads to the Joker kidnapping Bennett, subjecting him to MindRape, and causing an accident that leads to Bennett turning into Clayface, driving him insane... Basically, it ruins the poor guy's life. |
| 83 | *** Used as a plot point is "Seconds", where desperate clock maker Francis Gray is thrown into prison for a hugely excessive ''17 years'' for an attempted theft that escalated to some destruction of property, which naturally causes his life to fall apart. When he's let out, he seeks to return the favor by dousing Gotham with poison gas during the New Year's Eve party. |
| 84 | * ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'': In [[Recap/BeavisAndButtheadS5E37Tired "Tired"]], Todd beats up Beavis for... making him (Todd) spill a drop of beer on his jeans. |
| 85 | * In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'', [[EvilCounterpart Kevin 11]]'s [[Recap/Ben10S1E7Kevin11 debut episode]] opens with the Tennysons being thrown out & banned from a hotel after Ben sneaks into a restricted area to play an unreleased video game. After he meets Kevin, the two break into a warehouse storing that same video game and trigger a silent alarm, resulting in the two being shot at by a SWAT team with helicopters. The excessive response is even {{lampshaded}} by the PopUpTrivia. |
| 86 | * This is the primary motivation for Chip Whistler from ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens''. He bit into a fake apple, broke his tooth, and blamed the Green family for it despite the fact that Cricket warned him not to eat it, but he ignored him. Naturally, Bill predicted something like this would happen. |
| 87 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}'': PlayedForLaughs. Warden Tiny Smalls will execute ''anyone'' who so much as laughs at his name, [[BadBoss even his workers]]. |
| 88 | -->'''Warden Smalls:''' Electric chair! |
| 89 | * ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'': |
| 90 | ** Dracula wants to exterminate ''all'' of humanity for the wrongful execution of his human wife Lisa by the CorruptChurch for supposedly being a witch. Whilst him having a grievance against and seeking revenge against the Church would be very much justified, Dracula is way out of line with his desire to KillAllHumans indiscriminately including those who are just as innocent as Lisa was. |
| 91 | ** A throwaway line in the Season 2 premiere hints that Lisa was sold out to the Church by the village's old medicine woman, who was pissy that Lisa's more modern and efficient medicinal practices were stealing away her old customers. |
| 92 | ** "[[Recap/Castlevania2017S2E5LastSpell Last Spell]]": When talking with Isaac, Dracula recalls an episode where a group of forty merchants insulted him. He responded by setting their town on fire, slaughtering them all, and staking their mauled corpses by the ruins for their families to see. |
| 93 | ** {{Subverted}} with Flyseyes. He makes it sound like he was damned to Hell at the end of his human life for being a philosopher, but Isaac sees through this and presses him for more information, and Flyseyes admits it likely had something to do with him lying in a church and selling out others to save himself from being tortured to death by self-proclaimed Christians. |
| 94 | ** [[spoiler:Sumi and Taka]]. They're so deranged and fucked in the heads that they try to murder Alucard just because their patience has worn out and they're convinced he's not going to teach them what he knows. |
| 95 | * ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'': In "[=CatDog=] Catcher", [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Dog]] gets arrested and Cat refuses to help him get out of jail. Why? Because several years prior to the episode, Dog apparently called Cat a "loser" once. |
| 96 | * On ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'', you can kill someone over pretty much anything, so long as you keep it in the ring, and even that can be waived if it's entertaining enough. |
| 97 | * ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': |
| 98 | ** The episode "Operation: M.I.N.I.G.O.L.F." had a villain called the Great Puttinski shrink Numbuh Two in order to kill him in a game of mini-golf simply because Numbuh Two made him lose his title as mini-golf champion and dismissed the sport as being "just a game". |
| 99 | ** "Operation: D.O.G.F.I.G.H.T." had the owner of the local hobby store setting out to destroy every place in town that makes chili dogs because he was tired of people getting chili on his counter. |
| 100 | * There's one episode of ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' in which [[{{Jerkass}} Eustace]] calls on a gang of Courage's worst nemeses to kill him, just because the dog got a blanket he wanted for himself. |
| 101 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheCrumpets'' episode "Nez à nez", Caprice's younger sister Ditzy develops a crush on a boy named Marylin, whom both girls are romantically drawn to. After Caprice bans her from disturbing her fashion work on Marylin, Ditzy asks her to teach her about fashion. While Caprice looks for a flower in the greenhouse, Ditzy shoves her by surprise to a cabinet and seals it with a broom so she can reach Marylin without any obstacles. |
| 102 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' episode "Quack of Ages", [[VillainousHarlequin Quackerjack]] was so angry that no-one would buy his yo-yos that he used a time machine to try and prevent yo-yos from ever being invented. ([[FridgeHorror This is even worse than it sounds]] when you think about it for a minute. It would have technically caused a "grandfather paradox", a very dangerous situation that he seemed willing to risk causing over ''yo-yos'', of all things.) |
| 103 | * ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'': "Ski-Hi I.Q." had Muttley taking command of the Vulture Squadron after I.Q. tests assigned to the squadron showed him most qualified. He proceeds to be subjected to the same HumiliationConga Dick Dastardly goes through. When Dastardly is reassigned as the leader (thanks to a mistake in the test results), he punishes Muttley, sentencing him to thirty days in the dog house -- literally. |
| 104 | * ''WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck'': |
| 105 | ** In "Donald's Snow Fight", Huey, Dewey and Louie get a hold of the JerkassBall by ''[[AndIMustScream freezing Donald, their own uncle, alive]]''. The reason? He defeated them fair and square before they TookALevelInBadass. |
| 106 | ** In "Soup's On", Donald sends the boys to bed without supper because they refused to wash their hands. This leads to an EscalatingWar that ends with the boys [[DeathFakedForYou briefly convincing Donald he died in a rock slide]], followed by Donald [[ChasedOffIntoTheSunset chasing them into the night with a pitchfork]] when he discovers their ruse. |
| 107 | ** In "Donald's Happy Birthday", Donald believing that his nephews were covertly buying cigars ([[VandalismBackfire they were a birthday present for him]]) makes him decide to apply the "smoke until you puke" RadishCure on them. What makes things enter this territory is the sheer ''[[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown brutality]]'' he shows as he administers it. |
| 108 | * ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': |
| 109 | ** In "Three Ducks of the Condor", Joaquin Slolei tries to order Scrooge, Launchpad, and Donald killed because he's mad they pressured him into giving up his ancestor's half of the map to the Valley of the Golden Suns. [[LaserGuidedKarma This betrayal comes back to bite him]]. |
| 110 | ** In "Sphinx for the Memories", the Garbled One sentences Scrooge and the nephews to be "tied down in the desert sun and let the vultures pick their bones" for merely intruding on the lost city of Garbabble. Scrooge talks him into lessening the sentence into ''merely'' having him and the nephews enslaved for life building a pyramid. |
| 111 | *** It's noteworthy that the Garbled One eschews the traditional punishment of being thrown alive in the jackal pit. Moreover, their Garbabble desert guide had tried to get them crushed to death in a death trap en route. |
| 112 | ** In "Luck O' The Ducks", trespassing in the Leprechaun king's castle merits being thrown into the snake pit for a hundred years. |
| 113 | ** In "Scroogerello", Scrooge's dream had Flintheart Glomgold imprison his childhood servant for life when said servant gave Flintheart cod liver oil for a cold, and imprison Huey, Dewey and Louie for life after their Junior Woodchuck cookies gave Burger Beagle heartburn. |
| 114 | ** "Jungle Duck" sees Scrooge and party almost thrown into a pit of boiling oil by hostile natives just for showing up in the natives' territory. |
| 115 | ** "The Duck In The Iron Mask": |
| 116 | *** The Count of Monte Dumas's evil twin brother locks him in an iron mask, because said evil twin brother was lost in a childhood game of hide and seek. |
| 117 | *** Scrooge, Launchpad, ''and'' Huey, Dewey, and Louie are sentenced to life imprisonment after Scrooge angrily tears up the fines he's been issued by Captain Pietro. |
| 118 | ** "Aqua Ducks" sees Scrooge, Launchpad, Doofus, and Gyro sentenced to 400 years imprisonment for "littering" (Part of the "Catch as Cash Can" four-parter, Scrooge's entire fortune had been sunk into the domain of a group of angry fish folk). |
| 119 | ** Similarly, "The Land of Tralala" sees the High Mucky Duck of Tralala '''sentence Scrooge, Fenton, Huey, Dewey and Louie to death''' for "the high crime of littering". |
| 120 | ** "Allowance Day" sees Scrooge and Fenton sentenced to death, again. Scrooge had angrily shaken General Chiquita, the dictator of The Banana Republic, by the coat. |
| 121 | ** The theme of "trespassers will be murdered" appears yet again in the episode "Bubba's Big Brain Storm". Scrooge, his nephews, and Bubba are shot down by the dimwitted descendants of the [[PunnyName Ancient Thinkas]]. The dimwitted natives lock Scrooge and company in a pyramid to starve to death. |
| 122 | * In ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', this turns out to be the entire basis for Flintheart Glomgold's lifelong grudge against Scrooge. [[spoiler: When Glomgold was a young shoeshiner in South Africa (then known by his real name, Duke Baloney), Scrooge stiffed his payment (giving him a dime instead of a dollar), and Baloney was so insulted by this that he dedicated his entire life to trying to be better than Scrooge in every way. This included pretending to be Scottish (despite being a Boer), changing his name, pretending to be elderly (despite actually being middle-aged at best), building up an entire MegaCorp to rival Scrooge's, and of course outright trying to murder Scrooge and his family countless times.]] |
| 123 | * Happens on occasion in ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone''. The nearest to an abrasive aspect of the [[SugarBowl Land Of Dreams]] is that they sometimes take a bit too much pleasure in violently punishing the Urpneys (who are usually harmless, and vigorously unwilling Mooks), and on at least a couple of occasions have nothing against seeing them to their grave for [[FelonyMisdemeanor trying to give them nightmares]]. Ironically subverted in "Urpgor's Great Adventure", the one time an Urpney is gleefully trying to do away with them, they let him escape once they get back the Dreamstone, even outright reprimanding Rufus for wanting revenge. |
| 124 | * ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': |
| 125 | ** After Kevin wrecks one of Eddy's scams by merely picking up a soccer ball, Eddy spends the rest of the episode trying ([[HilarityEnsues and failing]]) to enact revenge. Edd (unsurprisingly) is not amused. |
| 126 | ** In the infamous episode "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS3E23IfItSmellsLikeAnEd If It Smells Like an Ed]]", Eddy gives Jimmy a wedgie, resulting in all the kids laughing at him. To retaliate, Jimmy frames [[GuiltByAssociationGag all three Eds]] for ruining his Friendship Day Celebrations, sends the Eds on a wild goose chase to find the real culprit, which ends with the Eds [[ProducePelting having fruit thrown at them]] by the kids and being dragged off by the Kankers. |
| 127 | ** And in the episode "Eds-Aggerate," Kevin gets very angry and traps the Eds in cement just because Eddy accidentally broke his window and lied about the "Mucky Boys" destroying his window instead (granted, by this point, the Eds had also harassed Kevin in their very elaborate attempts to keep up the lie). |
| 128 | ** In [[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddysBigPictureShow the movie]], [[spoiler: Eddy's brother clobbers Edd ''[[GrievousHarmWithABody with Eddy]]'' because Edd stood up to him.]] |
| 129 | ** One or more of the Eds sometimes/often find themselves being punished for what the other Eds do -- most frequently Eddy is the cause and the other two end up suffering for it, but occasionally the other two are responsible. |
| 130 | ** In the Valentine's Day special, Kevin gives Edd detention just for standing up for Eddy. PoliceBrutality, anyone? |
| 131 | * In the first part of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents WesternAnimation/{{Wishology}}'', after Timmy uses the Tooth Fairy's factory to transport himself under a pillow instead of a quarter, the boy lying on the pillow woke up and accused Timmy of stealing his quarter. Shortly thereafter, Timmy was being chased by the police and wanted posters of him were placed everywhere. For some reason, stealing a quarter is just as bad as breaking a priceless statue, if not worse. |
| 132 | ** Then there's the matter of the last scene, or rather next-to-last scene, in "Bad Heir Day", an otherwise [[Heartwarming/TheFairlyOddparents touching episode]]. Poof, who accidentally bounced out of his stroller, wound up with Crocker for a time. Timmy does everything he can to find his little brother and quickly becomes a BadlyBatteredBabysitter. Poof arrives home without a scratch, while Timmy comes in with his clothes torn, scratched, and burned. When he explains what happened, [[JerkassBall Wanda]] gives him NoSympathy and poofs Timmy ''back'' into the same rabid alligator pit that he was in earlier while trying to find Poof. Apparently, someone who loses a child accidentally, even if they go through horrendous things to bring them back safely, deserves to be nearly killed, if not actually. Add to this the fact that Poof is immortal while Timmy is human, as well as a child himself, adds a FridgeHorror and/or TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot element to it if you think too long about it. |
| 133 | ** In the HalloweenEpisode, Remy Buxaplenty's father [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons releases the hounds]] on Timmy and his friends ''because he thought their costumes were bad.'' |
| 134 | ** Apparently, in Dimmsdale Elementary, faking your show-and-tell or going into the wrong gendered bathroom earns you a week of detention (as seen in "Transparents"). |
| 135 | ** The episode Mr Right is a great example of this. Francis gets the punishment of a scorpion sting, wasp nest attack & being beaten by a pro wrestler. Francis then at the end gets revenge but in a pretty extreme way by pretty much doing a bit more than same. As along with the scorpions, wasps nest & the pro wrestle he joins in on the vicious beating. |
| 136 | ** Lights Out has Timmy being chased by “Scary Fairies” for scaring Poof. They chase Timmy in the pitch dark night on the premise they will eat him. They even eat Mr Crocker viciously lacerating his body even further than when he in the episode gets mauled by a pack of tigers. |
| 137 | ** Take and Fake ending with Timmy getting catapulted |
| 138 | ** Dad overboard with them getting the wrong directions and having a gag of driving into a volcano sometimes getting burned by dragons. |
| 139 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'', Parnassis frames Ingrid for setting off a stink bomb in the school, even going as far as dressing up as her, with an identical wig, dress and earrings (Despite Ingrid doesn't even wear earrings) and planned to set up an even bigger stinkbomb to blast the whole school with. The reason? Since Ingrid enrolled, he was bumped back to "2nd Smartest kid in school." |
| 140 | * ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'': {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Clarence Polkawitz made a holiday for people to lavish praise upon him, and breaks down when his adoptive children praise the other members of Team Squad before him. Because of that he decides to betray Team Squad by stealing the dimensional keys for Sheryl to win her over, betraying everyone he knew just because he felt he was not being given enough attention. However, Sheryl ends up coldly rejecting him even after he helps her, and when Gary, Little Cato and Nightfall catch up to Clarence and he tells them where Sheryl went, they leave him behind. So, because Clarence overreacted to feeling like he wasn't being given enough attention, he loses his ship, his membership with the team and his adoptive children, leaving him with nothing and nobody. |
| 141 | * ''WesternAnimation/FollowTheSun'': The snow cones believe that an appropriate punishment for disrupting the intermission processions (and that is almost certainly what they care about, anyone who believes for even a second that this was ever about avenging the gumdrop is even more insane than they are) is to corrupt the sun via demonic blood, and unleash an extreme heatwave that ultimately kills millions upon millions of innocent people and snack foods, up to and including themselves, and transforms a once carefree world into a dystopian nightmare for those few who manage to survive. |
| 142 | * ''WesternAnimation/FourEyes'': It can be safely assumed that Emma must have done something very stupid to get her to repeat the fifth grade, but what's with the sending her to another planet? |
| 143 | * Happens quite often in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': |
| 144 | ** The Omicronians are frequent offenders. Every time King Lrr of Omicron Persei VIII shows up, something new and more ridiculous happens. Their first appearance in "[[Recap/FuturamaS1E12WhenAliensAttack When Aliens Attack]]" has him invading the Earth because his favorite (1000-year-old) TV show "Single Female Lawyer" was knocked off the air, and they demanded that the season finale be aired again or he would increase earth's temperature by "one million degrees a day... ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill for five days]]!''" In "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E3LoveAndRocket Love and Rocket]]", he tries to destroy the Planet Express ship for bringing sweetheart candies to their planet; not only were they "chalky and unpleasant", but he was further enraged that whoever made them spelled "love" as "wuv". "This concept of 'wuv' confuses and ''infuriates'' us!" |
| 145 | ** In "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E1ISecondThatEmotion I Second That Emotion]]", when Bender dumps toxic waste into the sewers, the mutants kidnap him, as well as Fry and Leela, who just happened to be with him at the time. The waste Bender dumped was so bright that it allowed the mutants to see how ugly they were. The mutants decide to punish all three of them by permanently mutating their DNA and then beating them up. Furthermore, when the trio tries to escape and are caught after a short chase, they decide to go for the death penalty instead. |
| 146 | ** In "[[Recap/FuturamaS1E8ABigPieceOfGarbage A Big Piece of Garbage]]", Wernstrom held a grudge against Professor Farnsworth for a hundred years because Farnsworth gave him an A- on an exam due to Wernstrom's poor penmanship. His eventual revenge was slightly less disproportionate: rating Farnsworth's shoddy, hastily-made blueprint for the Smelloscope an A-double-minus. He did, however, manage to one-up Farnsworth a little later by gaining tenure. |
| 147 | ** In "A Taste of Freedom", Zoidberg eats the Earthican flag out of euphoria and patriotism for Earth, but is falsely branded as a traitor by Nixon and is almost lynched by the public, forcing him to take sanctuary in the Decapodian Embassy. He later gets sentenced to death for this act, despite not meaning any harm or malice by it. This, in itself, prompts Decapod 10 to invade Earth and enslave humanity. |
| 148 | ** In "T: The Terrestrial", Lrrr forces his son Jrrr to participate in an invasion of Earth to toughen him up. However, the invasion gets botched when Jrrr accidentally pulls an IJustShotMarvinInTheFace on Nixon's vice president, the headless clone of Agnew. Nixon later clamps a complete embargo on Omicron Persei 8 just because of this accident. |
| 149 | * On ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', the original Hunter vows revenge on Demona -- a vow that lasts through a thousand years, the role of the Hunter being passed down through the generations, albeit for different reasons. What was her crime? Lashing out and scarring the face of the first Hunter when he came upon her stealing food. Granted, [[UnknownRival the fact that she didn't even consider him worth remembering before he began his hunt probably didn't help]], but still, DAMN. |
| 150 | ** Gargoyles also averts (inverts?) this in the form of Vinnie Gregarino. This guy loses at least two jobs, a motorcycle, his driver's license and probably a lot of his reputation because of the Gargoyles' actions. He spends most of the episode "Vendettas" chasing Goliath with a custom-built weapon called "[[ICallItVera Mr. Carter]]", or "Mr. C.", finally shooting him in the face at point-blank range just after the climax of a big battle that had Goliath's attention all night. Fortunately, "Mr. Carter" only shoots cream pies, and Vinnie walked away very satisfied with himself, leaving a confused Goliath and Hudson to wonder who he was. Vinnie is notably the ''only'' character in the entire series to get vengeance to his satisfaction. |
| 151 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' episode "Dr. Horatio's Magic Orchestra", Pete threatens to permanently disfigure PJ's lips because he whistled two bars of a song. Of course, what PJ didn't know that the audience did was that Pete really hated the song due to it reminding him of a traumatizing humiliation from his childhood. Even so, Pete, despite regularly being a {{Jerkass}} to PJ, almost never intentionally causes him physical harm, and PJ would most likely have stopped just as swiftly with just a reprimand. Peg calls Pete out on this. |
| 152 | * ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': |
| 153 | ** In "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E11NotWhatHeSeems Not What He Seems]]", Manly Dan rams a humvee carrying Dipper and Mabel off the road after Mabel wrote on a fogged-up window that the BoyBand Sev'ral Timez is overrated. The twins and the agent driving the humvee survived without injuries, but it could've been worse. |
| 154 | ** "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E12ATaleOfTwoStans A Tale of Two Stans]]" reveals that an [[spoiler:18-year-old Stanley accidentally broke the perpetual motion machine in a fit of rage, which ruined an opportunity for Ford to get enrolled in his dream college, West Coast Tech. His father responded by disowning and kicking him out of their home and telling Stan to never come back until he made a fortune]]. |
| 155 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' |
| 156 | ** Mandy in general tends to beat up or intimidate people just for looking at her the wrong way. |
| 157 | ** The episode "Super Zero" had a commercial for Heifer Farms Yogurt where a superhero named Captain Heifer used his laser vision on the villains simply for interrupting him and also threatens to use his laser eyes on the audience if they don't buy his yogurt, making it perfectly clear that he isn't joking. |
| 158 | * Some of the animals from ''WesternAnimation/Hero108'' are prone to this. |
| 159 | ** For example, the pandas and giraffes punish everyone who doesn't applaud at their concerts (which humans find terrible and are forced to pretend they like) for "criticizing them", as Commander [=ApeTrully=] discovers too late and is punished by being entrapped under the weight of one of the pandas for the entire episode[[note]]granted, he didn't find their music as terrible as other humans do (he was more neutral about it), he was just confused to see other people applaud at something they don't like, but nobody told him that he's forced to do that until it was too late[[/note]]. |
| 160 | ** There's also the Cat King, who is so [[PerpetualFrowner sad]], he orders the other cats to throw chili pepper into [[EyeScream the eyes]] of everyone who smiles or laughs. He gets better. |
| 161 | * ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': In the episode "False Alarm", Curly tried to get Eugene expelled from school simply because Eugene ruined Curly's favorite pencil. Made all the more amusing since it is a rare occasion we see the minor slight from the perpetrator's perspective. Judging from [[SelfServingMemory Curly's flashback of the whole ordeal]], you really ''would'' think Eugene was a sadistic monster for what he did to that pencil. |
| 162 | -->'''Curly:''' I couldn't sleep! I couldn't eat! All I could think was EUGEEEEENE writing with my pencil, EUGEEEENE chewing on my eraser, and EUGEEENE sharpening. Sharpening. SHARPENING!!!! *Flashback-Eugene laughs evilly at the sharpened down pencil nub* And then, when he finally gives it back to me, he says, "Oh, here Curly". [[FelonyMisdemeanor LIKE IT WAS NO BIG DEAL!!!]] |
| 163 | ** In [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Curly Snaps"]], Curly locks himself in Principal Wartz's office, throws dodgeballs at everyone he sees, and has a big list of demands just because he didn't get to be the ball monitor that week. |
| 164 | ** This is the entire reason Curly exists on the show. A number of his appearances have him dealing DisproportionateRetribution over something incredibly minor. In his last appearance, the gang spent a night in a graveyard (To see if the urban legend of a murderous ghost bride was real) soon enough the ghost starts stalking them. It turned out it was Curly scaring them the whole time, why? Because at the beginning of the episode, Gerald told the urban legend to the others, despite Curly wanting to tell it. |
| 165 | *** This episode actually has this trope twice. Because once the gang found out Curly was the ghost, they tied him up and locked him in a crypt, while the "possibly real" murderous ghost paces past the windows. |
| 166 | ** In "Arnold Betrays Iggy", Arnold accidentally sees Iggy wearing embarrassing pajamas, and swears that he won't reveal his secret. The next day, [[KarmaHoudini Stinky and Sid]] pester Arnold until they stumble upon the secret through a combination of luck and Arnold being too slow on denying it. They process to tell their entire class. Iggy becomes furious at Arnold, and after a period of Arnold bending over backwards to try to make it up to him, tells him that they'll be even if Arnold wears the embarrassing pajamas in public. What makes this so extreme is that while Iggy was only seen in the pajamas by one person in the privacy of his home, Arnold is made to wear the pajamas in the middle of the street, on a red carpet in front of a crowd, with people and news vans pointing cameras, while Iggy sits on a makeshift throne on the opposite side -- Iggy's instance in the pajamas was seen by one person with no picture or video evidence, so it would've just been Iggy's word against Sid, Stinky, (and in his mind, Arnold)'s and would probably have been easy to fight against and eventually forget, but Iggy made it so that no one would forget Arnold's shame anytime soon. |
| 167 | ** In "Suspended", Harold [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin gets suspended from school]] for ''simply calling Principal Wartz a "stupid dork"''. |
| 168 | * ''WesternAnimation/HitMonkey'': Lady Bullseye’s EstablishingCharacterMoment has her killing people for causing her minor inconveniences. A flight attendant asking her to put her tray table up? A hotel clerk telling her her room isn’t ready? A guy hitting on her? All violently killed. |
| 169 | * ''WesternAnimation/HowToCatchACold'': In the hand-washing part, a boy is seen being dragged back to the sink by his ''ear'' for not washing his hands thoroughly enough. |
| 170 | * ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'': |
| 171 | ** Many episodes show Zim taking a small thing way too seriously and often goes too far to get even. |
| 172 | ** Zim, suspecting that Dib [[spoiler:has thrown a muffin at his head]], kidnaps Dib and puts him into a LotusEaterMachine in order to gather evidence. Only after letting Dib live a long, fulfilling, and extremely awesome life before ripping the metaphorical carpet from under his feet does Zim go ahead with the proportionate retribution of [[spoiler:chucking a muffin back at Dib's head]]. |
| 173 | *** The dream-state plan was all set up just to get Dib to ''admit'' to [[spoiler:throwing the muffin]]. |
| 174 | ** Gaz had this as her trademark trope. Good luck finding a Gaz line that ''doesn't'' have something to do with inflicting revenge in the most painful and absurd way possible. |
| 175 | ** The Tallest once had a guy ThrownOutTheAirlock just because he made a mildly contradictory comment during a speech they were giving. (And security throws the wrong guy out, to boot.) |
| 176 | ** In this universe, the penalty for not returning what you owe to the library on time is [[EyeScream having your retinas removed]]. |
| 177 | * During the second season of ''WesternAnimation/IronManArmoredAdventures'', Tony Stark finds himself fighting for his life against two genius-minded twin siblings he goes to high school with. The reason? The female twin was angry at Tony for scoring higher than her during an important academic test. |
| 178 | * Lucius on ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' frequently does this, including threatening to dunk the main characters in lava for releasing [[EmbarrassingOldPhoto an old home movie of him]] and leveling a hair salon for messing up his horns. |
| 179 | * There was an episode of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' where the titular character got [[FelonyMisdemeanor 86 life sentences for littering]] ([[spoiler:it turns out that Johnny wasn't really the one who littered]]), as well as for hitting on the female judge. |
| 180 | ** {{Inverted|Trope}} in an episode, where stealing his mother's car to use in a race meant a week's worth of chores for Johnny (and for Carl, who helped Johnny steal it and added illegal technology to it, to help him). |
| 181 | --->'''Bunny:''' Grand theft auto in ''my'' house means chores for a week! |
| 182 | * Lex Luthor's actions in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' can be considered this as he describes it to the Question (while beating the crap out of him), who's trying to stop him from becoming president to keep from fulfilling a future where Superman kills him and turns evil, in "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E9QuestionAuthority Question Authority]]". |
| 183 | -->'''Luthor:''' President? Do you know how much power I'd have to ''give up'' to be president? That's right, conspiracy buff. I spent seventy-five million on a fake presidential campaign ''just to tick Superman off''. |
| 184 | * ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' |
| 185 | ** Señor Senior, Sr. (and his son, Señor Senior, Jr.) was kicked out of an ultra-exclusive club for billionaires because of their embarrassing losses to Kim Possible. Senior's idea: freeze them all solid with a stolen cryogenic device. [[LampshadeHanging As he puts it]], "[[InvokedTrope true villains are characterized by disproportionate revenge, Junior.]]" |
| 186 | ** Kim does this in ''WesternAnimation/KimPossibleMovieSoTheDrama'' where only the writer's intervention stopped her from killing Shego. This was in response to Shego making a crack about [[spoiler:kidnapping her prom date. Who turned out to be a synthodrone who was in on it. Because she was ordered to by Drakken. As part of a scheme she knew nothing about until the very end.]] She didn't even take out her revenge on the right person: ''Drakken'' was behind the whole thing. Shego was JustFollowingOrders as always. |
| 187 | ** Shego has been known to deal it out as well, such as the time she threw Drakken out of a HumongousMecha (while it was in flight) because [[BerserkButton he'd said she was too "soft"]] to [[ThickerThanWater betray her brothers]]. |
| 188 | ** In the series finale, Warhok and Warmonga decide to conquer Earth because of Drakken deceiving Warmonga and Kim defeating her in an earlier episode. |
| 189 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "Jon Vitti Presents: Return to La Grunta", when Hank Hill saw his niece getting sexually harassed by a golfer, he wanted the guy to pay. His usual method is to kick someone's ass, but this time he was [[PapaWolf especially pissed]]. So he threw the guy in a dolphin pool and had the dolphin rape the guy. The moral of the story is: don't piss Hank off (either that, or don't harass his niece in front of him). It was also a [[TakeAThirdOption "two birds one stone"]] scenario since he wanted the raping dolphin removed from the club but had signed a nondisclosure agreement that kept him from complaining about it himself. |
| 190 | ** In the pilot episode, we learn why Luanne's mother is in jail. She stabbed her husband with a fork because he threw out a beer she was saving for later. |
| 191 | ** There was also the episode where Bill and Dale break up their friendship all because Dale left an empty beer can on Bill's lawn and refused to pick it up. |
| 192 | ** In the episode,"[[Recap/KingOfTheHillS13E1DiaBillIcShock Dia-BILL-ic Shock]]" when Bill is in the hospital for the second time for his diabetes, Bill's doctor, a DrJerk, tells Bill that if he doesn't get his diabetes under control, he'll eventually lose his legs to gangrene and end up in a wheelchair, and that since Bill is totally unwilling to diet and exercise, he might as well just get a wheelchair now and get it over with (possibly a case of ToughLove, with the doctor trying to scare bill into taking his diabetes seriously). Bill decides to take the him literally and start going around in a wheelchair until a drunk Bill gets out of it, leading to his freinds accusing him of faking being disabled. Later, Bill goes back to the doctor and beats him up. Bill ''physically assaults'' a doctor just because he warned Bill what would happen if he didn't take his diabetes seriously and for [[JerkAss jerk-ingly]] suggesting that he might as well get a wheelchair while he still has insurance (and Bill chose to actually get one). |
| 193 | ** In "Lost in Website/MySpace", Donna sends [[FlashMob a large group of her MySpace friends]] to Strickland Propane with the intent of getting Hank beaten to a pulp. Why? Because Hank ''called her an idiot on social media.'' |
| 194 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndTimesOfJuniperLee'' combines this with ArsonMurderAndJaywalking in an episode where [[MadGod Loki]] is arguing with his human AntiAntichrist son about the latter's refusal to kill June, as his son suspects Loki will banish him like his Uncle Teddy, his Aunt Gloria, and the pizza guy. Loki reasons he did that because "When I order a half veggie, half pepperoni pan pizza, [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I expect to GET a half veggie... half pepperoni... pan... PIZZA]]!" |
| 195 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' episode "Bonnie and Clyde", Nani grounds Lilo and Stitch for running around the house and burping. Unhappy with the unfair punishment, they run away from home and end up doing crimes with the eponymous experiments. |
| 196 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'' episode "Blythe's Big Adventure-Part 2," the Biskit Twins try to sabotage Blythe's pet fashion show by dumping chocolate pudding and kitty litter onto her. Why? Because she refuse to hang out with them. |
| 197 | * ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' examples: |
| 198 | ** Marvin the Martian was going to blow up the Earth because it obstructed his view of the planet Venus. (And he spent ''two millennia'' building the weapon he was planning to use to do it, no less.) |
| 199 | ** A few of the heroes' retributions on the RoguesGallery in some shorts count as this, particularly for WesternAnimation/BugsBunny. Granted in this case it's not so much they don't deserve it as much as the heroes know they are harmless and will inevitably take ''much'' more than they dish out against them. Director Friz Freleng actually stated his fear that Bugs' treatment of Elmer Fudd leaned too far into this. |
| 200 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', WesternAnimation/PorkyPig takes some of WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck's french fries because he [Porky] thinks they're for the table. Daffy goes into a HeroicBSOD and ends his friendship with Porky, calling him "garbage". [[spoiler:It turns out that the fries were, in fact, for the table. Incidentally, Daffy somehow [[HypocriticalHumor sees no problem with taking Porky's pizza]].]] |
| 201 | ** One rather notorious example was in "Rhapsody Rabbit". Bugs is about to play a piano in a large, crowded concert hall, when a rude, offstage audience member starts coughing and hacking loudly just as Bugs is poised to play. When it happens a second time, Bugs pulls a revolver out of his tailcoat and ''[[RefugeInAudacity shoots him]]''. (Bugs is more merciful in another cartoon where he performs like this, and a similar incident occurs; he hold up a sign saying "Throw the Bum Out!" and someone does.) |
| 202 | ** Daffy Duck guns down an audience member in "The Ducksters" after the member yells out "You'll be sorry!" to Porky Pig who is being goaded into another humiliating stunt on Daffy's radio game show. |
| 203 | ** Egghead guns down a theater patron who keeps getting up from his seat in "Daffy Duck and Egghead." |
| 204 | ** In "Rebel Rabbit," Bugs is offended that rabbits have a bounty of only 2 cents while foxes and bears are worth $50 and $75, respectively, on the grounds that (all other) rabbits are "perfectly harmless" compared to them, and vows to prove that rabbits can be just as bad. As a result, he causes a campaign of terror throughout the United States that gets a very proportionate response... ''the whole United States Army mobilizing with full-blown "scorched earth" orders.'' |
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| 208 | * In the second episode of the ''WesternAnimation/MegaManRubySpears'' cartoon, Roll was attacked by a female cosmetics robot that strapped her to a chair and gave her a bad facial. Megaman's response was to throw a tube of makeup at the robot, giving her an equally bad facial. Roll's response when freed was to cut her in half, then vacuum her face off. |
| 209 | * In the Creator/TexAvery-[[WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons directed cartoon]] "The Magical Maestro", a magician and [[PullARabbitOutOfMyHat his rabbits]] ask an opera singer if he can use them as an opening act, only to be dismissed unceremoniously. In retaliation, the magician substitutes himself for the conductor of the performance and proceeds to humiliate the opera singer with his magic tricks. |
| 210 | * In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries'', Jay runs afoul of a HiveMind race that wants him dead for accidentally killing one of their own. When Kay blows his nose and shows them the mucus-covered handkerchief, they decide to let Jay go and take ''him'' instead. |
| 211 | * In the 1937 Disney short ''WesternAnimation/MickeysAmateurs'', WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck is laughed and [[VaudevilleHook dragged]] offstage after his attempt to recite "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" ends two words into the second line. He returns later in the short in disguise and carrying a [[SenselessViolins Tommy gun in a violin case]]. He starts reciting the poem again, but dries up at the same point. When the audience start laughing again, he opens fire on them. Naturally, no-one is killed or injured, although the recoil from the gun blasts Donald all over the stage. |
| 212 | * ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': G |
| 213 | ** Generally, [[VillainOfTheWeek akumas]] tend to respond to whatever slight got them akumatized with overblown actions as part of the transformation. For example, when Nathaniel was akumatized into Evillustrator after being mocked by [[AlphaBitch Chloé]], he quickly set about trying to murder her. |
| 214 | ** Some Akuma examples are overblown in pettiness even by the standards of the series. Someone wanting to get even with Chloé for all of the bullying she does makes sense (even if it is disproportionate). Chloé's mom (who is a bigger AlphaBitch and her FreudianExcuse) essentially deciding to go on a killing spree because she could not get first row tickets to a fashion display... even Chloé shows a rare display of standards by thinking she is going too far. |
| 215 | * Discussed in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/MissionHill'' when Kevin accidentally starts a fire by masturbating in a store bathroom ([[ItMakesSenseInContext just take it at face value]]) and is content to blame the fire on two burgulars who were robbing the store at the time, partly because he's too embarrassed to tell the truth and partly because the two thieves truly ''are'' gigantic pieces of shit who everyone hates. He feels guilty about it enough to confide in Andy about it, but is largely content to let them take the blame because he feels they shouldn't have robbed the store. Andy ''furiously'' counters that the punishment they'll get for taking the blame is far too severe for just shoplifting. |
| 216 | --> '''Andy:''' They took ''fifty-three dollars!!!'' Now they're on the hook for ''attempted murder!!!'' |
| 217 | * Subverted in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'' when, during a scene where Miss Piggy imagines herself as UsefulNotes/ElizabethI, Fozzie tells one of his usual bad jokes. Miss Piggy is not amused and puts him in the stocks. He asks if he's headed for fifty lashes for his crappy joke, and Miss Piggy snarls, "No, it's ''worse'' than that." Then, much to Fozzie's surprise... |
| 218 | -->[[ProducePelting "FIFTY TOMATOES!?!?!?"]] |
| 219 | * In ''WesternAnimation/NotWithoutMyHandbag'', the Soak-and-Spin Washing Machine contract stipulates that one missed (or even late) payment on the machine equals immediate death and eternal damnation. Satan even seems to work for them. |
| 220 | * In the Disney CompilationMovie ''Once Upon a Halloween'', [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs the Evil Queen]] is plotting to do something evil while her talking cauldron tries to talk her out of while showing her clips of various Disney movies. In the end the villain decides she doesn't want to go through her plan anymore, but the cauldron kills her anyway for even attempting it in the first place. |
| 221 | * ''WesternAnimation/OscarsOrchestra'': |
| 222 | ** When he was 6 years old, Thadius got humiliated at a concert because Oscar accidentally revealed he was playing himself. As a result of this, he developed a hatred for all musical instruments, abused Oscar, and banned all music from the world forever when he became leader of the world. Yep, ''totally'' justified. |
| 223 | ** He probably got it from his mom, as the episode “A Fight at the Opera” shows Thadweena had Reena imprisoned in an ice cube and castaway on the mountainside for what was supposed to be forever. . . because Reena, a professional opera singer, was deemed a better opera singer in a contest Thadweena commanded her to come to. |
| 224 | * On ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', most of Dr. Doofensmirtz's [[EvilIsPetty evil schemes run on this]]. In one episode, Doofenshmirtz tracks down a bully who used to kick sand in his face and tries to bury his entire house in sand. |
| 225 | ** Pinky the Chihuahua's rival goes to the store to buy Stiff Beauty hair spray, which she finds out has been discontinued. After a beat, she zaps the messenger into another dimension. |
| 226 | ** Doof also teleported a guy to another dimension because he [[KnightTemplarParent hit on Vanessa]]. |
| 227 | ** In Gimmelshtump's neighboring country Stumblegimp, showing your side to someone is considered an insult, which causes the countries to declare all-out war on each other unless someone from Gimmelshtump does the humiliating "dance of contrition". |
| 228 | * ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain''; in one episode, the Brain nearly realized his goal of world domination, after Pinky, by complete accident, became President, and an actual success as one. (He had gained the public attention by writing a letter to the editor complaining that ''ComicStrip/TheFamilyCircus'' was no longer funny, and everyone took that to mean "jokes about family values are no longer funny". Before he knew it, he was running the country.) This "plan" was later ruined by no fault of his or the Brain's, but because a reporter found "dirt" about Brain's previous schemes from an anonymous tipster, leading to Pinky's impeachment. Who was the tipster? Bill Keane. He had taken offense to his strip being called unfunny. |
| 229 | * Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'', in which after being criticized by a temp that he relies on the girls way too much, the Mayor promptly reaches for the hotline to have the girls beat her up. About midway, he finally gets it and hangs the phone up. |
| 230 | ** Incidentally the episode becomes more or less ''about'' this trope as the mayor compensates by flying around in a hot air balloon punishing any and all crimes he sees, (whether actual or not) from robbery to jay walking with an extendable boxing glove to the face. |
| 231 | ** In another episode, the Girls' next door neighbors, the Smiths, are led by the mother to become supervillains, destroy the Girls home, and try to ''kill'' them, because she was angry at them ruining the dinner party she had invited them to (which by the way, they did because they were trying to stop Mr. Smith, who had become a villain because he was bored with his average suburban life, from ''melting the Professor's head''). The daughter of the family also got into it because the Girls had accidentally lost her jacks. The son doesn't even have a reason, but states that as a teen, he hates everyone including the Powerpuffs. The Girls {{lampshade|Hanging}} this when, after Mrs. Smith's MotiveRant, Blossom simply says, to Mrs. Smith's surprise, "[[DisappointedByTheMotive That's not a good reason at all]]!" before beating the Smiths up. |
| 232 | ** In "Bubblevicious", upon proving she can be as strong and aggressive as her sisters by defeating the highest-level monsters in their training simulator, Bubbles begins to attack people for the smallest crimes such as littering and jaywalking. |
| 233 | ** The two ''WesternAnimation/WhatACartoon'' shorts seem to be full of this. In "Meat Fuzzy Lumkins", Fuzzy's reaction to losing a jam contest is to use a specially-made ray gun to turn all of Townsville (including its inhabitants) into meat. In the short "Crime 101", the Girls try to teach the Amoeba Boys how to be proper criminals by staging a very realistic bank robbery. When the Girls are arrested and plead guilty for their crimes, the judge tearfully sentences them to jail for ''a million years''. |
| 234 | ** The Powerpuff Girls generally do this to any villain(s) of the day by beating the living daylights out of them, even for the pettiest of crimes, and even when they did nothing wrong at all. They even beat up and had Rainbow the Clown jailed when an ''accidental'' spill of bleach transformed him into Mr. Mime, who was a completely different state of mind at the time. It also doesn't help matters that they are ([[ArtificialHuman possibly perpetual]]) five year old girls who know little to almost nothing about the true differences between right and wrong, but Townsville loves them unconditionally. |
| 235 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'': |
| 236 | ** Mojo Jojo attacks the city with an onion monster in "In the Garden of Good and Eddie" just because [[SoreLoser he lost the contest]]. |
| 237 | ** Buttercup hides Octi from Bubbles in "Little Octi Lost". Why? [[SoreLoser Because Bubbles lost a kickball game.]] |
| 238 | ** In "Man Up" Buttercup destroys the Zen-Assaince fair and gives Bubbles a black eye ''only because Manboy called her "princess".'' |
| 239 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' cartoon "Accent You Hate", there was Gary, a [[TheBully school bully]] who terrorized Dexter and his two classmates Lucky and Pierre because, well, he hated "kids with funny accents", as he claimed. |
| 240 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack'' episode "The Real Mighty Ducks", Donald wants Huey, Dewey, and Louie to clean their room, but they head over to Ludwig Von Drake's lab instead and use one of his inventions to become superheroes. With their room still a mess, Donald goes to Von Drake's lab and becomes a supervillain, ''The Duck of Doom'', who, still desperate for the boys to clean their room, goes on to tangle up a freeway, drain a lake, paint glasses on Mt. Rushmore, [[FelonyMisdemeanor destroy every television set in existence]], and eventually destroy the entire universe. It doesn't matter how many times he told them to do it, '''no bedroom is ever that untidy'''. EvilIsPetty indeed. |
| 241 | * ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': |
| 242 | ** [[MeanBoss Benson]] always threatens to fire Mordecai and Rigby, and it's often for stupid reasons, such as not taking a cart to the junkyard or not getting rid of junk mail. What's more, their antics are on his watch, so he's technically at fault for everything, and Pops is technically his boss. |
| 243 | ** In the episode "Don," Benson fired Muscle Man because he made another one of his trademark "My Mom!" jokes. [[StatusQuoisGod Muscle Man would get his job back next episode, however]]. |
| 244 | ** In TheMovie, Mordecai and Rigby's old gym teacher became an OmnicidalManiac and attempts to kill them and destroy the universe simply because one of Rigby's pranks made their school lose [[SeriousBusiness a volleyball game]] and he never apologized. |
| 245 | * From ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'', Stimpy gave Jerry the Bullybutton Elf [[DoesNotLikeSpam lintloaf]]. This causes Jerry to [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge go ballistic]] and attempt to ''kill'' Stimpy, [[OneWingedAngel even transforming into a giant monster]]. |
| 246 | -->'''Jerry:''' [[BerserkButton LINTLOAF???]] ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis I! HATE!! LINTLOAF!!!]]'' |
| 247 | ** ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon'' has Ren inflicting ColdBloodedTorture upon innocent animals just because he was [[MinorInjuryOverreaction slapped by a midwife]] as a newborn. |
| 248 | * Parodied on ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''. A guy, sick of rush hour traffic, goes insane and transforms his car into a rolling death machine. He heads to work the next day... but finds himself all alone on the road due to a Jewish bank holiday. |
| 249 | ** Another episode had the Franchise/GIJoe team make fun of an expert sniper who makes a bad first impression by slipping up and falling on his ass. [[WhosLaughingNow In response to about a minute of mocking that didn't seem to go beyond banter, he defects to COBRA and kills them all save Duke]], [[CruelMercy whom he leaves alive just so he can wallow among his dead comrades.]] |
| 250 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "S.W.A.K.", a {{flashback}} shows Wallace, the imposing [[VocalDissonance but high-voiced]] orange elephant who works at Pizza Face Pizza, making a pizza in a way that involves pounding the dough flat and throwing it into space. When Rocko asks him if he can get extra cheese on his pizza, Wallace responds by doing the same thing to him that he did to the pizza. |
| 251 | * Already known for his HairTriggerTemper, Burgermeister Meisterburger from ''WesternAnimation/SantaClausIsCominToTown'' trips on a toy duck and orders ''all'' toys banned and confiscated in the Sombertown city limits. |
| 252 | * In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', a cranky old wizard [[ForcedTransformation turns the eponymous protagonist into a chicken]]. Why? Because Jack gently nudged him as he was backing up away from a counter. |
| 253 | ** One of the Daughters of Aku, Ashi, is distracted from her TrainingFromHell by a beam of light and wanders off to go look at the outside world. Her mother catches her, and after saying that the beauty outside is what they're trying to protect, she grabs Ashi by the throat, berates her for her lack of focus, and then tosses her to a GiantMook for "[[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown disciplining]]". |
| 254 | * On ''WesternAnimation/TheScoobyDooShow'' Arlene Wilcox's sister goes through a lot of trouble against her sister all for being left out of the family will. To the point she would have been sentenced as a witch. |
| 255 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' episode "Web of the Dreamweaver", a guy builds a device that lets him terrorize people in their dreams, just because when he and his friends were kids, they played [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Crypts and Creatures]], he lost a saving throw, and his elf got killed. |
| 256 | -->"I loved him more than my own children!" |
| 257 | * ''WesternAnimation/SolarOpposites'': Why some (implied to be most) of the people in The Wall are put there by Yumyulack. Cherie, the Benihana chef, is punished for serving Yumyulack unwanted shrimp (he justifies this to Jesse by stating he could have died if he had allergies). The (mouse) milk man was the CEO of AT&T, before he farted in an elevator and blamed "The small blue alien boy". Tim, shrunk at the end of Episode 2, was taken because ''he was wearing a red shirt'' (Yumyulack claims he needs a red shirt to complete his collection of every color). |
| 258 | * ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': |
| 259 | ** Doctor Robotnik over and over again throughout ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog''. |
| 260 | *** In one episode, he imprisoned a cartoonist just for comparing him to Humpty Dumpty, which he had coming anyway for being a dictator and terrorist. |
| 261 | *** Also when he was in high school, he wanted attention from a girl he admired by [[MurderTheHypotenuse attempting to kill his romantic rival by strangling him with a robotic snake]] [[CrazyJealousGuy out of jealousy.]] Robotnik was then expelled after the incident, and [[StartOfDarkness started his road to villainy.]] |
| 262 | ** In the ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' episode "It Takes a Village to Defeat a Hedgehog", Shadow threatens to kill Sonic because he and his team did a poor job of putting a bookshelf together. In a later episode, Shadow is tricked into fighting Sonic by Dr. Eggman. Shadow initially just wants to beat Eggman to a pulp for this deception, but he later decides that thrashing him isn't enough and that ''destroying the entire universe'' will be a much more satisfying way to get revenge. |
| 263 | * On ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', Squidward does this in "Fools in April" and "Funny Pants", as well as a number of other episodes, generally because Spongebob was doing something to amuse himself or bystanders, but it annoyed him. |
| 264 | ** Squidward tends to be a target for DisproportionateRetribution himself. The best example is "Little Yellow Book", in which Squidward is alienated, arrested, and gets his house foreclosed because he ''read [=SpongeBob=]'s diary'' -- [[{{Hypocrite}} even though the townspeople themselves were reading it alongside him]]. |
| 265 | ** Also, in the special "Party Pooper Pants", a pair of cops arrest [=SpongeBob=] all because they weren't invited to his party. |
| 266 | ** Perhaps the most severe case is "Demolition Doofus". Yet another boating failure from [=SpongeBob=] has ruptured Mrs. Puff's inflation sac. Due to this (and years of having to put up with the reckless student driver), Mrs. Puff becomes obsessed with trying to get him ''killed'' in a demolition derby but he ends up winning. |
| 267 | ** In another episode, the police arrest someone for having Swedish Candy Fish, because [[InsaneTrollLogic it's the same thing as cannibalism]], and they tell him he's going away for a long time for it. |
| 268 | ** In "Dying For Pie", when the first crumb of the pie goes off, Mr. Krabs initially thinks Squidward was trying to kill him over his "new age management". |
| 269 | ** The police of Bikini Bottom have arrested people for ''littering'' throughout many occasions in the series. |
| 270 | ** At the beginning of "What Ever Happened to [=SpongeBob=]?", Mr. Krabs sees that [=SpongeBob=] is a mere 10 seconds late for work and remarks that he'll dock his pay by a whole month. |
| 271 | ** In "Giant Squidward" when Squidward is trying to prove to the fish folk he's a nice giant, they end up turning against him again just because he didn't say "bless you" to a fish who sneezed. |
| 272 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Squidbillies}}'', Rusty, Sheriff, and P. Nut, were looking in the library for information that could give them a reason to stop Dan Halen from fracking into the land. Rusty finds a book mentioning the Red Whiskered Shalemander. The book says that in old days, if kids didn't finish eating their okra, the Shalemander would undarn their socks. Unfortunately, the book didn't bother to mention, much to P. Nut's dismay, that the Shalemander also undarns your intestines, nerves, and brain matter. [[InsaneTrollLogic For not keeping your body healthy with okra]]. |
| 273 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': |
| 274 | ** In "Reflections", Boimler and Mariner are assigned to a Starfleet recruitment booth at a hiring fair. An outpost scientist removes Boimler's rank pip and stomps on it. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Boimler preceeds to destroy the entire fair while screaming his grievances with everyone there.]] |
| 275 | -->'''Boimler:''' "WITHOUT STARFLEET, NONE OF YOU WOULD EXIST!!! WE DON'T WANNA TO PROTECT YOU FROM THE KLINGONS OR THE BORG, WE JUST WANNA EXPLORE AND STUDY {{BLEEP}}ING QUASARS! BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO!" |
| 276 | ** In "Trusted Sources", Mariner is taken aside by a reporter and asked questions in private, though spotted by Commander Ransom. When the reporter, who was initially proud of Captain Freeman and the rest of the ''Cerritos'', changes her tune and reveals that she knows of the craziness going on on the ship, Freeman immediately blames Mariner and [[ReassignedToAntarctica transfers her]] to [[AnythingButThat Starbase 80]] in anger. Then, it turns out that [[NotMeThisTime it wasn't Mariner, it was everyone else]] who revealed the craziness. |
| 277 | * In ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'', Star gets bitten by a mosquito. She responds with a "cataclysmic total extinction death blast." A shame she didn't get to finish it. |
| 278 | * There was an episode of ''WesternAnimation/StoppitAndTidyup'' where Stoppit destroyed Tidyup's garden by letting Eat Your Greens in to eat it all up... and all because the latter ate a plant that Stoppit liked. |
| 279 | * The ''WesternAnimation/TalesFromTheGooseLady'' short "The Egg Who Would be King" has King Humpty Dumpty order for his advisor to be beheaded for the trivial offense of telling him to do something about his subjects' problems. |
| 280 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' episode "Fear Itself," Control Freak attacks a video store and threatens one of the employees all because they didn't have his favorite movie on their top rentals list. |
| 281 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'' episode "Raphael Versus the Volcano," the villain Dr. Wilhelm Vanilli plants a bomb into a volcano that will explode and spread a deadly toxin all throughout the entire world that will kill every living thing on Earth all because the botanical gardens ''didn't name a new flower after him.'' |
| 282 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'': |
| 283 | ** In "The Sad Story of Henry", [[spoiler:Henry gets bricked up in the tunnel supposedly forever, all because he refused to move out of the tunnel. The narrator even says that he deserves his punishment]]. |
| 284 | ** The trucks in "Percy's Predicament" decide to push Percy around because they didn't like seeing him at the quarry instead of Toby. |
| 285 | ** In "Granpuff", Smudger, [[AndIMustScream gets turned into a generator]] for misbehaving. |
| 286 | * In ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'' A {{stock|Punishment}}aded Lizard, begging for mercy, tells CatFolk Prince Lion-O that he and his fellow prisoner were only scavenging Thundera's crops when captured and [[MadeASlave made slaves]] of the Cats. When Lion-O [[DiscussedTrope points this out]] to a PowderkegCrowd harassing them, he's misinterpreted and they quickly become an AngryMob calling for the Lizards' ''deaths.'' |
| 287 | %%* A lot of the complaints people have over ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' is Jerry's tendency to do this to Tom. - ZCE; uses Audience Reactions in place of an actual example |
| 288 | * In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Action'', [=LaShawna's=] teammates decided to abandon her in a vault simply because she lied to win a spa trip. |
| 289 | ** In the SpinOff ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace'' Josee's [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale abusive]] treatment of Jacques is her way of getting revenge on him for accidentally dropping her during the Olympics -- a humiliating incident, yes, but one he's already apologized for countless times. |
| 290 | ** Also from "The Ridonculous Race," Devin mentions that his girlfriend, Shelly, once locked him out of his own car in the middle of winter just because he got her the wrong kind of tea. |
| 291 | --->'''Carrie:''' He got frostbite and nearly lost three toes over a TEA!? |
| 292 | * Most of the villains from ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' fall under this trope. |
| 293 | ** One example is in the episode "Evil Coffee Maker Much?" where the villain of the week plans on flooding the entire city in coffee. Why is he doing this? To get revenge on a coffee shop for rejecting his job application. |
| 294 | ** An evil toy maker brainwashes adults to be kids again, because they stopped playing with his toys. |
| 295 | ** A lady decided to mind-control all the guys through cologne so that they worshiped her because she was not chosen the prom queen at her high school. |
| 296 | ** An ice cream maker (a ''fourth''-generation one, even) is being slowly driven out of business because he produces "classic-style" ice cream, without things modern teens want like low-carb variants. Normal response would be to try to expand his product line. ''His'' response is to ''go on a FreezeRay rampage through every spot teens like (the beach, the mall), [[AxesAtSchool attack Beverly Hills High and freeze all of the teens there]], and try to freeze '''all of Beverly Hills.''''' |
| 297 | ** Inga Bittersweet spends ''twenty years'' plotting revenge against the Happy Girls (a Girl Scouts expy) because she was kicked out of them for eating the cookies she was supposed to sell (as in disproportionate retribution for a trivial grudge that was ''her fault''). |
| 298 | ** However, Bertha Bombshell has Ingrid beat by a decade; after coming second place in a beauty pageant for "Miss Fish and Chips", she steals an experimental youth formula, and spends ''thirty'' years plotting revenge. (Somewhat justified as insanity is a recognized side effect of the formula.) |
| 299 | * In the Christmas cartoon ''WesternAnimation/TwasTheNightBeforeChristmas'', SantaClaus marks off the ''entire town of Junctiontown'' when a mouse named Albert has a letter anonymously printed on the town's newspaper signed "All of Us". Santa took this as meaning the entire town and punished them accordingly, sending back every last unopened letter in the process. And this is just the beginning. |
| 300 | * ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'' has Priscilla Jones, who got second-place in a science fair as a young girl thanks to Uncle Grandpa, who did nothing to help and instead took her on a pointless adventure. Apparently, in her case, SecondPlaceIsForLosers, so she decided to take revenge by impersonating Uncle Grandpa under the alter ego "Aunt Grandma", and eventually usurp his job by rendering him obsolete by being "[[BoringButPractical practical]]" instead of taking kids on random, often trippy adventures. |
| 301 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'': |
| 302 | ** In the episode "Past Tense", Dr. Venture, Brock, Mr. White, and Baron Underbheit are kidnapped by an old acquaintance, Mike Sorayama, who has devised a complex revenge plot with the intention of killing them all...in vengeance for a variety of minor pranks they all played on him in college, most of which revolved around his pathetic unrequited crush on a girl called Leslie Cohen. It turns out that Venture didn't even ''do'' what Mike claims he did (sleep with the girl -- although Brock did), although he does lampshade the overall ludicrousness of Mike's obsessive vendetta with what he ''thinks'' Mike blames him for: |
| 303 | --->'''Doctor Venture:''' Oh ''come on''! You're gonna kill me for having fake sex on graph paper with a girl who barely spoke to you in real life?! |
| 304 | ** Also there is the Monarch's yet to be explained vendetta against Doctor Venture. Even Doctor Venture doesn't know why the Monarch wants him dead. |
| 305 | ** Then there's Dr. Orpheus, who absolutely excels at this trope. Two rednecks decided to tease him about his appearance, so he trapped their spirits in a small Homeboy figurine, which he now keeps on his car dashboard. In another instance, he predicts Action Man's exact date and cause of death, though to be fair the guy did attack him without provocation and put a bullet in his shoulder before the mix-up was resolved. |
| 306 | ** Brock Samson has a tendency to murder or brutalize people who don't show him respect. He lost his college football scholarship when he accidentally killed his own QB for ''not giving him the ball''. He gets incredibly frustrated when either his license to kill has expired or the insulter is a member of a protected group, like women or children... though he will make an exception for Molotov Cocktease. |
| 307 | ** Dr. Mrs. The Monarch explains The Guild's policy of DisproportionateRetribution to Jonas Venture, Jr. in "The Lepidopterists". |
| 308 | --->'''Dr. Mrs. The Monarch:''' You throw a rock, The Guild throws a knife, you throw a knife, they come to your house when you're sleeping and ''murder your family.'' |
| 309 | ** Baron Von Undherbeit, when he was the ruler of his own country, had no prisons. Any violation of the law met the death penalty. |
| 310 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/WhateverHappenedToRobotJones'' episode "Hair", Robot's friends taunt him over the fact that he'll never have hair. Robot responds by making everyone in the school go bald. |
| 311 | * In ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', Darcy and Stormy both pull this; Darcy attempts to murder Musa simply for being interested in Riven (who she didn't even like) and after Musa beats Stormy one on one she disguises herself, concocts an [[EvilPlan elaborate revenge plot]], and attempts to kill Musa's dad. |
| 312 | ** Tritannus from Season 5 takes the cake, though: the reason he [[spoiler: turned his family into minions and tries to turn the oceans toxic resulting in the destruction of the Magical Dimension (which would kill everyone) is... he was passed over for the title of Crown Prince.]] |
| 313 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/WorldOfWinx'', after Bloom [[FakeHairDrama accidentally knocks over WOW! host Ace's hairpiece, revealing him to be balding]], not only in front of the studio audience but to tv viewers everywhere as well, he becomes so enraged that he fires her on the spot. |
| 314 | * Three noteworthy examples from ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen2009'' include a PapaWolf mode Magneto throwing people in jail for simply kissing his youngest daughter Polaris, a jealous Cyclops violently blasting Wolverine for hitting on his longtime girlfriend Jean Grey, and finally a rather hypocritical Jean violently binding her blonde rival Emma Frost to a wall with pipes for kissing Cyclops (when he was unconscious no less). |
| 315 | * A harmless version in the ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' ChristmasEpisode had Spyke and his father throw a couple of snowballs at Storm (with poor accuracy). Storm logically responds by creating a small snowstorm to show them why one should never pick a snowball fight with someone who can control the weather. |
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