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11* ''Series/SeventhHeaven'': The charming suitor of a friend of the family was revealed to be a wife beater after he threatened to kill a dog.
12* ''Series/TwentyFour'': Drazen uses a hostage to get Jack to back down, and then shoots the hostage, either just for the fun of it or to have one less person to keep up with.
13* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': [[TheMole The Mole's]] behavior towards Maria Hill during their confrontation cemented his status as a Jerkass for many viewers.
14-->'''[[spoiler: Grant]]:''' If Fury wanted eye candy, he could have at least picked Romanoff.
15* ''Series/AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall'': Quite a few patients are victims of abuse or neglect. James puts it best when talking about a cat that's been brought in half dead:
16-->'''James:''' Looks like he could have been mauled. Or badly kicked.\
17'''Tristan:''' Some kick.\
18'''James:''' Some people.
19* ''Series/{{Ambassadors}}'' introduces Prince Mark standing in the grounds of his huge estate, tormenting his own peacocks by throwing stones at them. For their part, the peacocks are completely apathetic to his abuse.
20* ''Series/AmigasYRivales'':
21** Luis considers Irene annoying and ugly when he meets her. During the first half of his appearances, he insults her and mocks her weight, but always behind her back and just tells these things to Tamara, who reproaches him. This becomes ironic when Luis falls in love with Irene at the end of the telenovela.
22** When Tamara discovers that Luis is Irene's girlfriend, she is so shocked that she screams, "Luis, but she's a...". Luis tells her to shut up and never dare to call Irene fat.
23** Nayeli also laughs and scoffs when she discovers that Luis and Irene are dating, before regretting it.
24* ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'': After veering back and forth for three seasons, George and Lucille Bluth cement themselves as unlikable people after learning that a woman Michael is on the verge of marrying is both mentally retarded and incredibly wealthy; they opt to conceal these facts from Michael and speed the wedding along, in the hopes that they can exploit her in order to restore their own fortune. This is only topped in the SeriesFinale when [[spoiler: Lucille reveals that they only adopted Lindsey as a gesture of spite towards [[SitcomArchNemesis Stan Sitwell]]. She freely admits that they never actually wanted Lindsey, and kept her adoption a secret (raising her as Michael's twin) to preserve their own image. This fact puts Lucille's [[AbusiveParents psychological abuse]] of Lindsey in a much darker light.]]
25* ''Series/TheATeam'': In "[[Recap/TheATeamS1E8TheOutOfTowners The Out-of-Towners]]", a neighbourhood besieged by gangsters suffers a mass attack complete with one gangster viciously [[DisproportionateRetribution beating a shoeshine boy for a simple mistake at that very moment]]. The A-Team considers [[ThisIsUnforgivable this was an act so despicable]] that the few bucks, all the shoeshine boy had to offer for their services, was considered sufficient. Furthermore, at the end, [[PapaWolf B. A. Baracus]] found the goon who beat the kid up, and gave the scum the punch he deserved.
26-->'''B.A.''': Next time, pick on someone your own size!
27* ''Series/BabylonFive'': Has the mad [[TheCaligula Emperor Cartagia]] ordering G'Kar's [[EyeScream eye to be plucked out]], purely on a whim.
28* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'':
29** In the miniseries which launched the [[ReVision reimagined]] show, Caprica Six's villainy is announced when she kills a baby seconds into her first onscreen appearance. However, in a move typical of the series' tendency to favour moral complexity over black and white morality, on her reintroduction during the second season, Caprica develops into a much more layered and sympathetic character. Despite her having not only [[KickTheDog kicked the dog]] but committed genocide. On the third hand, it was [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation often theorized]] that Caprica had killed the baby out of either dispassionate curiosity, or even a strange desire to save the baby from its inevitable death in a nuclear holocaust.
30** In the DVD commentary, it was revealed that the scene was a strong candidate for being cut in editing -- however, the actress, Creator/TriciaHelfer, had such a strong expression of ambiguous guilt and grief walking away from the site of the killing that it was kept.
31** A lot of fans thought that Tom Zarek [[spoiler:ordering the execution of the entire Quorum of Twelve]] during TheMutiny fit this trope, even though his ruthless action makes sense in a coup where you have to seize power first and worry about how it looks afterwards. The problem was while Zarek had been ''accused'' of any number of nefarious deeds, most famously blowing up a government building, the audience had never actually seen him commit an atrocity until that point.
32** SubvertedTrope in the spin-off series, ''Series/{{Caprica}}''. Graystone, suspecting (correctly) that the virtual equivalent of his dead daughter is currently inhabiting his giant killer robot, gives her a gun and orders her to shoot the family dog in order to prove it. Subverted in that [[spoiler:the gun was loaded with blanks, and it turns out she could tell, but since he didn't know she could tell, this is enough to convince him that the robot is not his daughter. (Even though it kind of is.)]]
33* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'' the third has the honour of single-handedly reinforcing the concept in the english language when he, angered by his employer's dismissive attitude, finds the perfect recipient for a kick across the room in a cat, and then proceeds to spell out his rather darwinistic philosophy about every being looking for an easy target after being a target themselves by a stronger enemy, all the while the cat pounces on a mouse and the mouse recognising Baldrick as the easiest one in the room. We never learn if he found an earwig to avoid being the last link...
34* ''Series/BostonLegal'': Done rather hideously in the Season 3 episode 'The Good Lawyer', when series protagonist Alan Shore uses his knowledge of his friend Jerry Espenson's Asperger's Syndrome to derail Jerry's hitherto effective defense, and shatter his confidence. Apparently done as part of Season 3's overarching attempt to show that Shore's repeated statements that, despite all appearances, he was actually not a very good person were in fact true, and not merely false humility.
35* ''Series/TheBoys'': Homelander hands these moments out like candy, to the point that anyone interacting with him immediately becomes sympathetic, even unlikable and previously unsympathetic fellow dog-kickers like Stilwell, Ashley, A-Train, and the Deep.
36** Nothing in the show illustrates this trope more than [[spoiler:being partly responsible for the Flight 37 crash and him not bothering to save ''anybody'' in order to preserve his image and kickstart his war idea later on]].
37** His past rape of Becca also counts, as he's notably otherwise never shown doing anything like that. Why he decided to rape a woman that day is still unknown (assuming that it wasn't to get back at her husband for insulting him).
38** When Ashley presents Blindspot, a blind Daredevil-like Supe, as a new addition to the Seven, Homelander ''acts'' accommodating to the impressionable Supe at first, then promptly bursts his eardrums to show how useless his power is and says that he doesn't want a "cripple" on the team. Then, to make it worse, he berates Ashley, walks right over Blindspot while he's writhing in a pool of his own blood to get close to her face and states that ''he'' decides who joins The Seven, not her.
39** He forces a depressed woman to jump off a building in Season 3 because he was in a bad mood at the time.
40** Manages to do this to ''the Deep'', hardly a saint himself, by forcing him to ''eat his pet octopus Timothy alive'' (keep in mind he knows that the Deep can hear Timothy begging him not to do this).
41* ''Series/BreakingBad'':
42** In "[[Recap/BreakingBadS5E14Ozymandias Ozymandias]]", [[spoiler:As Jesse is being taken away by Todd's White Power gang to be (as far as he knows) tortured and killed, Walt makes sure that Jesse knows that he had a chance to save Jane, but let her choke to death on her own vomit.]] Vince Gilligan considers this to be Walt's most evil act, since it's done out of pure sadism rather than for self-preservation or even personal gain.
43** "[[Recap/BreakingBadS4E6Cornered Cornered]]": After buying out a car wash from his old {{Jerkass}} boss as a means to launder money, Walt refused to let him hang onto his framed first dollar he had made. Once he walks away, [[EvilIsPetty Walt breaks out the dollar and uses it to buy a coke.]]
44* In the second season finale of ''Series/TheBridgeUS'', Buckley, the corrupt CIA agent, breaks into Sonya Cross' apartment to try and find Eleanor Nacht's ledger. When he can't find it, he leaves... but not before pulling one of Sonya's fish out of its tank and leaving it on the table to die.
45* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
46** "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E16BewitchedBotheredAndBewildered Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered]]": Giles' books contain an anecdote about Angelus nailing a puppy to the wall on Valentine's Day. Buffy finds the story to be so shocking and horrible that she refuses to let Giles tell her any details, saying, "I don't have a puppy, I don't wanna know. So skip it!"
47** "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E17Passion Passion]]": Angelus kills Willow's pet fish as part of his campaign of terror on the Scoobies. Willow even states that, for once, she's glad her parents didn't let her have a puppy.
48** Angel, Drusilla, and Spike then spend several episodes announcing that they are feeding on puppies and babies ForTheEvulz. Mostly OffstageVillainy, but Drusilla does carry around a puppy for the express purpose of feeding on it later.
49** Later, after much BadassDecay, a defanged Spike keeps his hand in the evil game by dealing black market kittens to demons.
50** Willow kicking the dog is during her time as Dark Willow when she decides to hunt down and kill Jonathan and Andrew, two {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s who were working with Warren, but had no idea how evil he was, and certainly had no part in Tara's death (being in jail at the time).
51** Also Willow In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E21TwoToGo Two to Go]]", when [[spoiler:she's going to kill Dawn for no real reason.]]
52** Warren was seen as a IneffectualSympatheticVillain just the same as Jonathan and Andrew right up until "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E13DeadThings Dead Things]]", when he [[spoiler:murders his ex-girlfriend after trying to rape her]]. This is also his MoralEventHorizon even before what he did to Tara.
53** To really make Faith's heel run stick she kicked several dogs, from Buffy to Xander to Willow to Tara, just to show how evil she can be.
54** Simone beats up an old woman who had given her food and shelter when she protested Simone and her gang taking over her hometown.
55** Toru's DePower and murder of a Slayer, and what he did with her body afterwards.
56* ''Series/{{Chuck}}'': Intentionally an InvokedTrope by Morgan when he poses as a crime lord. To impress upon the other villains in the room just how evil he is supposed to be, he fakes a conversation on his cell phone in which he orders his subordinate to "Shoot the puppy!"
57* ''Series/CobraKai:'' Kyler takes serious pleasure in this; in fact, it was his EstablishingCharacterMoment. That was when he took Miguel's Pepto bottle, dumped the contents over his crown, and [[EmbarrassingNickname called him "Rhea."]] A third-season flashback showed him tormenting Hawk (then just Eli) over his lip. And finally, he paraded around a penile doodle he did on Demetri's sling (when Hawk broke his arm in a fit). The guy loves to KickThemWhileTheyAreDown. But when they get back up, he shows his [[DirtyCoward true colors]].
58* ''Series/TheColbertReport'': Stephen poses as "an evil Union Goon" to prove that labor unions are up to no good. He showcases his evilness by putting an adorable puppy into a (fake) woodchipper.
59* ''Series/{{Columbo}}'':
60** The VillainOfTheWeek in the second {{pilot}} is an AmoralAttorney working for an insurance company whose EstablishingCharacterMoment is her [[BlackWidow shooting her own husband for her scheme to take over his law firm]]. When she's shown at her day job in the next scene, she's a charismatic BitchInSheepsClothing who manages to win a case by making the injured plaintiff out to be a drunk, and forces him to settle for the lowest possible amount despite knowing his claim was perfectly valid. Her coworker points out how hard on him this would be, but goes ignored. She's a WickedStepmother as well, being a passive-aggressive shrew to her college-aged stepdaughter who once saw her father break down into tears over her cruelty.
61** A more literal example of this trope occurs in "How to Dial a Murder" when the culprit, Dr. Mason, trained his Dobermans to kill his former best friend [[ComplexityAddiction in one of the series' most convoluted schemes]]. Aside from that, they're shown to be friendly, playful dogs and when Columbo's explaining their fate to him Mason [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness callously states he expects they'll be put down]]. He even tries to [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals poison them with chocolate]] to cover his tracks, but Columbo stops him in the nick of time.
62* ''Series/ControlZ'':
63** Gerry, Darío and Ernesto mercilessly bullying Luis.
64** Natalia verbally abusing her sister María.
65** Raúl, Gerry and Natalia participating with the hacker in leaking Isabela's secret to keep their own safe.
66* ''Series/CriminalMinds'':
67** Happens occasionally, usually to more [[SympatheticMurderer sympathetic]] unsubs, likely to dissuade the audience from [[RootingForTheEmpire rooting for them]].
68** One of the most understandable unsubs on the show was Owen Porter from "Elephant's Memory," a high school student to whom it seemed like everyone else had ganged up to make his and his girlfriend's lives Hell, and he thus decided to embark on WhosLaughingNow. However, he crosses the line when he stabs a little old man unrelated to his revenge to death in order to avoid being discovered.
69** Megan Kane from "Pleasure Is My Business" poses as a call girl to kill {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s who have cheated their ex-wives and children out of support money [[spoiler:as her father did to her]]. When the BAU disrupts her spree, she devolves and shoots a jolly executive who had no children and who had always been faithful to his wife.
70** In "The Thirteenth Step," Raymond Donovan and Sydney Manning are newlyweds who go on a massive killing spree with the ultimate aim of getting back at their AbusiveParents, and once it comes out [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil exactly how abusive]] the parents were, it's hard not to root for them, or at least [[EvilIsCool find them cool]]. Then it's revealed that Syd poisoned Ray's ex so that she could have him, and just in case you thought Ray was getting off easy, he threatens to blow the head off Syd's 10-year-old sister if his demands aren't met.
71** In "Strange Fruit", Garcia finds out Lyle had a sealed juvenile record that stated he kicked his neighbour's dog ''to death''.
72** In "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS16E3Moose Moose]]", Elias keeps Moose, a German Shepherd he stole from Tawny in the previous episode, inside a small cage. He starves Moose and feeds him a live man who resembles the father of the kid who sold him the subscription.
73* ''Series/{{Damages}}'': If it wasn't any clear after just the first few minutes, Patricia "Patty" Hewes soon solidifies her reputation as a [[MagnificentBastard magnificent bitch]] by orchestrating this trope as part of ThePlan.
74* In ''Series/TheDarkCrystalAgeOfResistance'', Mayrin is unsympathetic to the plight of a pair of poor farmers who cannot make the Skeksis' tribute. She allows the Scroll-Keeper to shame them into giving up a necklace that has great personal significance to the farmer's family. Later she's seen wearing it, having accepted it as a gift from the Skeksis with no intention to return it to the impoverished people it was taken from. The act causes Brea to lose faith in her mother and when Mayrin makes her Heel–Face Turn she cites the bribes she willingly took from the Skeksis as a failure on her part to be a good ruler.
75* ''Series/DarkAngel'': Gets an almost literal version near the end of the second season. Joshua, who is a half-man half-dog transgenic hybrid, finally makes a friend outside his usual circle, a beautiful blind girl named Annie. Problems arise and Joshua takes refuge with Annie in the sewers. Later Annie agrees to stay behind and tell the authorities that she escaped, but BigBad Ames White is down there, who decides to break her neck and frame Joshua, driving him to a HeroicBSOD.
76* ''Series/DarkShadows'': In the 1795 flashback, Victoria Winters, sent back in time from the present, is convicted of witchcraft, mostly from her appearance in the past in modern clothing and her inability to keep quiet about future events (in a vain attempt to keep them from happening), but the case against her is helped by the REAL witch, Angelique, even though by that point she was "dead" (i.e. Invincable) and she was no longer in danger of being exposed, and Vicky wasn't a loved one of Barnabas, so it wouldn't have helped her vendetta in any way. This is augmented at the end of the flashback, when Vicky is sent back to the present [[spoiler:and the governess she switched places with is sent back to die in her place]]. The present day Barnabas recognizes the other governess, implying that she suffered the exact same fate, and didn't have any of Vicky's disadvantages.
77* The villain of the ''Series/{{Decoy}}'' episode "Death Watch" treats his brain-damaged son Rudy very coldly, yelling at him and slapping him over the most trivial infractions.
78* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
79** It's not uncommon for characters to reject the Fourth Doctor's offerings of jelly babies, but only two characters went so far as to smack the bag out of his hands while the Doctor looks down at it in dismay -- Davros in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E1DestinyOfTheDaleks "Destiny of the Daleks"]] and Borg in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E5TheRobotsOfDeath "The Robots of Death"]].
80** For a literal Kick the Dog moment, see [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E2Meglos "Meglos"]], where the mercenary kicks K-9. According to the commentary, the actor, who was best known for playing hammy villains, added this business himself because he figured the fans would be expecting it.
81** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E4Dragonfire "Dragonfire"]], Kane herds all the innocent travelers aboard Iceworld onto Glitz's ship and blows it up, either [[ForTheEvulz For the Evulz]] or because he doesn't want anybody reporting his escape.
82** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek "Dalek"]]: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Henry van Statten]], early in the episode, has one of his employees [[LaserGuidedAmnesia memory-wiped]] and dumped in a city beginning with the same letter as his last name simply because he gave van Statten the wrong answer. [[spoiler:Van Statten gets subjected to the same treatment at the end.]]
83** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays "The Parting of the Ways"]]: The Daleks, while invading the Gamestation to get to the Doctor, who is on Floor 500, make a detour to Floor 0 to kill a group of helpless civilians trapped there.
84** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia "Utopia"]]: [[spoiler:The newly awakened Master]] immediately demonstrates his competence as a villain by shutting his enemies out of the control centre and setting the Futurekind on them. However, his KickTheDog moment comes when his longtime loyal assistant threatens to stop him with a gun. He turns on her with an exposed electric cable with the chilling remark, "Oh ... now I can say I was ''provoked''." His turning on her particularly establishes his villainy, because before this it seemed possible that he had [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes some affection]] [[MoralityPet for her]]: not killing her as soon as he awakened is something of a PetTheDog moment [[AxeCrazy coming from him]]. Once he has actually killed her (and it was not self-defence; she was backing away from him because she was clearly unwilling to use the gun), we know he's evil.
85** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords "Last of the Time Lords"]]: Over the course of his year-long rule of Earth, [[spoiler:the Master]] has: kept the artificially aged Doctor as his pet (with dog bowl), kept Martha's family as his personal servants and [[ForcedToWatch forced them to watch]] his destruction of Japan, and killed [[ResurrectiveImmortality Jack]] repeatedly for kicks.
86** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E10Midnight "Midnight"]]: Professor Hobbes belittles and shouts down his assistant Dee Dee that she's "average at best" when she dares to suggest that the possessing entity is [[spoiler:still inside Sky, not the Doctor, and has only stolen his voice]]. The icing on the cake comes when she turns out to be right.
87** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft "Turn Left"]]: Donna's mother calling her a disappointment is a low blow, and to make it worse, she does it ''twice''.
88** Amazingly, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars The Waters of Mars]]" dares to do this to the much-beloved ''Tenth Doctor himself''. The Doctor's declaration of himself as the [[AGodAmI "Time Lord victorious"]] who can choose [[MoralEventHorizon who deserves to live or die]] is a conscious effort to prepare viewers for the fact that the Doctor's approaching [[TheNthDoctor regeneration]] is necessary and [[IncrediblyLamePun timely]]. The Doctor is even [[WhatTheHellHero called on it]] by the very woman he is saving, and [[spoiler: her subsequent suicide]] pulls him up sharply, as confirmed by the next episode.
89** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]]: [[spoiler:Rassilon]] is introduced disintegrating a member of his council who dares to voice a dissenting opinion with his PowerFist, showing both that he's far meaner than others who have been seen to hold his position ([[spoiler:Lord President of the Time Lords]]), but also that [[spoiler:the Time Lord High Council are no longer the staid {{Oppressive Bureaucrat}}s of the classic series]].
90** The [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Daleks]] kick dogs ([[MoralEventHorizon or worse]]) left, right and centre every time they appear. Just one example: In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks Victory of the Daleks]]", they target [[UsefulNotes/TheHomeFront WWII London]] with a pulse that causes all the lights in the city to turn on, making them a massive target for the incoming Nazi bombers.
91** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E2DinosaursOnASpaceship "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship"]]: Villain Solomon shoots a face-licking, fetch-playing triceratops to show his willingness to destroy valuable cargo to get what he wants.
92** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E12DeathInHeaven "Death in Heaven"]], Creator/StevenMoffat had [[spoiler:Missy kill Osgood]] to show the audience she's not just engaging in ComedicSociopathy, but is irredeemably evil.
93*** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E1TheMagiciansApprentice The Magician's Apprentice]]", she kills one of the UNIT agents who had been sent to ensure Clara's safety. Not only does she do this [[ForTheEvulz just to piss off Clara]], but she also then explains that she purposely killed one that had a wife and little kid.
94** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth "The Woman Who Fell to Earth"]]: When Rahul confronts alien headhunter Tzim-Sha and demands to know what happened to his sister (the target of a previous hunt), Tzim-Sha cruelly responds that he will never know before killing him.
95* In ''Series/Dracula2020'', Dracula practically revels in doing this at least once a day. Some of his lowlights include, but are not limited to, [[spoiler:slaughtering an entire convent of helpless nuns ForTheEvulz, approaching Mina in the skin of her fiancé before tearing it off right in front of her, and casually stomping on Lucy's ashes while the man who ended her suffering out of love for her watches in horror]].
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99* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'':
100** In "[[{{Recap/FarscapeS01E08ThatOldBlackMagic}} That Old Black Magic]]" Crais receives a direct order from Peacekeeper High Command to end his pursuit of John Crichton and return to base. His second-in-command Lt. Teeg destroys the message and assures him that [[HaveYouToldAnyoneElse no one else knows about it]]. Crais repays this loyalty by [[NeckSnap breaking her neck]] to ensure that no one ever will.
101** [[BigBad Scorpius]] gets one late in the second season, when he has [[MauveShirt Braca]] beat the crap out of Natira's assistant for wasting his time.
102* ''Series/FawltyTowers'': Basil is systematically cruel to the well-meaning Manuel, who tries really hard to do a good job despite his lack of English, and is very grateful to be employed. In "The Wedding Party", Manuel tries to read a prepared speech to Basil "Since coming here from Spain, leaving my mother...", but never gets to finish it, with Basil tearing up his speech, and later trying to strangle him.
103* LandlineEavesdropping: In "The Hotel Inspectors", Sybil tells Basil that she listened in on Mr Hutchison's phone call, presumably by picking another extension, and finds out that Mr Hutchison is merely a spoon salesman, not a hotel inspector.
104* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'':
105** In "[[Recap/FireflyE01Serenity Serenity]]", Agent Dobson's [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown hits of an already-unconscious Shepherd Book]], according to the commentary track. [[note]]When Mal heads back on board and guns Dobson down without a second thought, it goes down much easier with the audience, as intended.[[/note]]
106** Dobson almost kills [[TheCutie Kaylee]] once by accident, then threatened to shoot her in the throat.
107** He spends the scene before Mal takes him down [[PutDownYourGunAndStepAway pointing a gun at the head of a traumatized, terrified River]], who's on the verge of tears the whole time. And Jayne indicates Dobson knew what the Alliance [[MindRape had done to River]] and was ''still'' intending to bring her back to the Academy so they could keep experimenting on her. So yeah, Dobson. Good luck on getting those sympathy points, man.
108** Jubal Early from "[[Recap/FireflyE14ObjectsInSpace Objects in Space]]" very quickly goes from witty BountyHunter to unpleasant bastard right around the time he ties up and threatens to rape Kaylee.
109* Hartley Rathaway of ''Series/TheFlash2014'' is a villain whose sole purpose is revenge on Harrison Wells, but when captured by Barry (the first time), he goes out of his way to be a complete dick to Caitlin Snow by commenting that he never got his wedding invite (at the time, Caitlin's fiancé, Ronnie Raymond, is presumed dead).
110* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
111** [[TheCaligula Joffrey]] as king is a dog-kicking machine. Every scene he's in involves a dog kick or two once he claims the Iron Throne, which is taken up to eleven during his wedding in "[[{{Recap/GameOfThronesS4E2TheLionAndTheRose}} The Lion and the Rose]]". Tyrion's squire presents him with the Lives of Four Kings, a book detailing the reigns of four kings by Grand Maester Kaeth. Joffrey accepts the gift but his sincerity seems questionable. A member of the Kingsguard then presents a Valyrian steel sword and Tywin tells him that it is one of two swords of its kind in the capital, and Joffrey rushes to wield it. He promptly begins to slash at Tyrion's gift despite its rarity. At his wedding feast, King Joffrey speaks to the crowd about contemplating history. Out of a large golden lion, five dwarves ride out, representing Joffrey, Renly Baratheon, Stannis Baratheon, Robb Stark, and Balon Greyjoy, each of the five kings in the War of the Five Kings. The dwarves put on a performance, jousting, fighting, and making crude sexual acts. Loras leaves in anger after watching the crude depiction of his deceased lover Renly (riding a mount resembling Loras), and Sansa looks on in obvious grief when the dwarf playing her brother Robb is killed after having his wolf's head knocked off. Joffrey expresses his delight with the play and prepares to give the champion dwarf a purse but then mockingly suggests that Tyrion fight him as well. Tyrion cleverly counters this jape by suggesting that Joffrey should fight instead and show the same bravery he displayed at the Battle of the Blackwater, cautioning his nephew to be careful as the champion dwarf is "clearly mad with lust" and it would be a tragedy for the king to lose his virtue hours before his wedding night. This draws a few stifled chuckles from their guests. Enraged and humiliated that his uncle outwitted him in front of all his wedding guests, Joffrey petulantly pours wine over Tyrion's head and orders him to serve him wine as his cupbearer. Tyrion approaches Joffrey, who then purposely drops the goblet and kicks it under the table. Sansa hands the goblet to Tyrion, and he fills it with wine and hands it back to Joffrey. The king demands that Tyrion kneel before him.
112** Just after taking the throne, Joffrey gives a singer a SadisticChoice- choose between keeping his hands or his tongue or die if he's unable to choose- [[DisproportionateRetribution for making a song mocking Joffrey's parents]]. He then follows it up by forcing Sansa to look at her father's severed head on a spike and bragging about bringing her Robb's head as well.
113** Joffrey's dog-kicking ways are lampshaded in one scene when Tyrion enters to find King Joffrey unbearably smug over something -- that "something" being The Red Wedding, a rather infamous violation of SacredHospitality that eliminated several of Joffrey's worst enemies.
114--->'''Tyrion:''' Killed a few puppies today?
115** Ser Gregor Clegane:
116*** He kills his horse when he fell from it in a [[TheTourney joust]].
117*** Torturing prisoners to death just because there is no room left in the dungeons and executing the prisoners that ''had'' room as psychological warfare.
118** [[TheDragon Dagmer]] stabs maester Luwin for no reason before leaving Winterfell.
119** It would be easier to list the moments where Ramsay Snow doesn't Kick the Dog, if he had any of those moments.
120*** He razes Winterfell.
121*** He tortures Theon to the point of mental breakdown, emasculates him and taunts him about that.
122*** He hunted one of his girls, Tansy, in the woods and had her mauled to death by his dogs. The reason, his girlfriend heard her say she was prettier than her.
123*** He brutally forces himself on to Sansa every night while taunting her at every opportunity.
124*** He unleashes the dogs on his stepmother Walda and her baby.
125*** He allows Osha a bath and pretends sexual interest in her, making her think she has a chance at survival -- then reveals he knew all along how loyal she is to the Starks (thanks to the aforementioned Theon torture) and stabs her in the throat. So, the bath and HopeSpot was all engineered [[ForTheEvulz just to screw with her]].
126*** He puts an arrow through Rickon Stark.
127*** He has his archers fire at Wildlings while they are engaged in his own men, causing some UnfriendlyFire -- made more poignant when noble Ser Davos hesitates to fire because their men could be hit.
128*** His final act was putting an arrow through Wun Wun's head when the poor giant was already at death's doorstep.
129*** Even when he is chained up and at Sansa's mercy, he still can't resist doing this, taunting her with the fact that what he did to her will always be present. This doesn't end well for him.
130** King Robert likes to do his whoring while his brother-in-law Jaime is on duty, which Jaime believes is deliberate insult.
131** Every appearance of Polliver's is yet another Kick the Dog moment:
132*** His EstablishingCharacterMoment is stabbing a wounded child in the throat rather than carry him.
133*** His behavior while guarding prisoners is hardly better.
134*** And if you needed a reminder, his offhand comment that serving The Mountain is cool, but after constant repetition, torture gets "boring" after a while; his declared goal is to use "The King's Colours" as a licence to keep on stealing and raping throughout the Seven Kingdoms even after peacetime comes.
135** Lord Tywin constantly zigzags between this and PetTheDog when it comes to his sons, often within the same scene, thus proving that for all his effectiveness at stabilising the realm, he is NOT a good person.
136*** For example, he sometimes acknowledges Tyrion's talents, speaks to him as an equal when he isn't insulting his lifestyle and grants him powerful offices which he does not trust Cersei and Jaime with and an advantageous marriage despite constantly denying his claim to Casterly Rock and berating him for being a drunken lecherous freak who killed his mother and saying that he dreams of killing him without any stain on his conscience.
137---> '''Tywin:''' ''(to Tyrion)'' I always thought you were a stunted fool. Perhaps I was wrong.
138*** He manages to help Jaime sheathe a priceless Valyrian sword and then gift it to him and insult and disown him in the same scene.
139---> '''Tywin:''' ''(to Jaime)'' Keep it. A one-handed man with no family needs all the help he can get.
140** The Great Masters of Meereen crucify 163 slave children to deter Daenerys' march on their city, which only hardens her resolve.
141** Sandor "The Hound" Clegane:
142*** His murder of Mycah the Butcher's Boy.
143---->'''Sandor:''' He ran... but not very fast.
144*** Applies to the Stark guardsmen that he butchers in the throne room once Slynt has betrayed Ned. Also a case of PunchClockVillain.
145*** After winning his Trial by Combat and being acquitted of Mycah's murder he needlessly mocks Arya, who has to be restrained from killing him.
146---->'''Sandor:''' Looks like the Gods like me more than your Butcher's Boy.
147*** He throws away any goodwill he earned from Arya, who gives him a brief but impassioned TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, by robbing the kindly and generous farmer and his young daughter who took them in and trusted them under SacredHospitality of what few valuables they have and beating up the man.
148** Just in case you thought the wildlings were nice people, Ygritte shoots a man in the throat in front of his son in "Breaker of Chains", then Styr of the Thenns relishes in terrorizing the boy with how he's going to eat both his parents.
149** Catelyn has a couple:
150*** Her cold treatment of her husband Ned's [[HeroicBastard illegitimate son]] Jon Snow, despite Ned's love for her and Jon, could be seen as this, though she does feel very guilty about it as she realizes Jon is an innocent child and feels very bad for not keeping her BargainWithHeaven to treat him as a son. Later, Season 6 reveals that Jon is actually [[spoiler:Ned's nephew, not his son with another woman. It makes the whole situation between Catelyn and Jon even more cruel and tragic.]]
151*** Killing Walder Frey's young wife, even after it's clear he doesn't give a shit about her, and the poor girl did nothing to deserve it.
152** Robb is quick to remind Theon that he's not one of them. Still, though, he later admits he considered Theon his closest friend.
153** The Smalljon killing Shaggy, Rickon's direwolf. Handing over Osha, when she serves little value as a hostage unlike Rickon, also falls under this category.
154** Cersei does this as she walks.
155*** An almost literal incident, when she has Sansa's direwolf killed because Arya's direwolf -- who attacked Joffrey to defend her mistress -- is unavailable. It's also probably her purest example of this trope in the show: it's her first, showing what kind of a human being she is, involves an actual dog and is ''completely'' unprovoked -- she knows full well that Lady wasn't involved with Joffrey's accident and Sansa, Lady's owner, actually ''sides'' with him and Cersei.
156*** In general, her treatment of Sansa when the latter is a hostage of the Lannisters in King's Landing, though this is strangely mixed with occasional PetTheDog moments (like when Sansa starts menstruating).
157*** She denounces Tyrion's relationship with Shae to their Lord Father, knowing full well how Tywin deals with Tyrion's ladies of company.
158*** Tyrion's trial is a prolonged HumiliationConga orchestrated by her to inflict as much psychological pain as possible (though in her view it's deserved, as she mistakenly thinks that Tyrion murdered her son).
159*** After her last son Tommen commits suicide due to Cersei's actions, she claims that he betrayed her... directly to his ''father'' in the Season 7 premiere.
160** Jaime Lannister:
161*** A small moment when Brienne acts as TheConscience and asks him to safeguard Sansa, and Jaime, who has been receiving TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from nearly everyone after returning to King's Landing, calls her ugly.
162---> '''Jaime:''' Are you sure we are not related? Ever since I've returned, every Lannister has been a miserable pain in my arse. Maybe you are a Lannister too, you've got the hair for it, not the looks.
163*** His murder of Alton Lannister is rather cruel.
164*** Him threatening to kill Edmure's son and every Tully in Riverrun to make him comply is pretty cruel, too. This stands out especially because, in the book, Jaime admitted to himself that he wouldn't go through with it. In the show, no such confession was made.
165** Pretty much every scene Viserys has with Daenerys involves him abusing her physically and/or emotionally.
166** Rhaegar Targaryen went to Dorne, the homeland of his wife Elia, to annul his marriage to her and marry Lyanna Stark at the same time. And then he had the gall to name his son with Lyanna the same name as his son with Elia.
167** Despite his charm, wit, and seeming heroism, Daario has no problem in delivering some truly nasty taunts towards others.
168*** He mocks Grey Worm for being a eunuch (and thus unable to act on his crush on Missandei). Eventually, his teasing becomes more good-natured.
169*** It's more understandable, due to the obvious LoveTriangle, but he is keen on expressing and remarking to Jorah how Daenerys has chosen him over the older man. It's particularly nasty, because, in Jorah's case, it's AllLoveIsUnrequited. After he had sex with Daenerys in "Mockingbird", he bumps into Jorah half-dressed, pats him on his back and tells him he will find her in a good mood. He makes fun of Jorah for being too old to "ride the dragon" in "The Book of Stranger". He makes Jorah say aloud that he's in love with Daenerys in "The Red Woman".
170--->'''Daario:''' There’s no escaping her, eh? You keep coming back. Why? \
171'''Jorah:''' You know why. \
172'''Daario:''' Isn’t it frustrating -- wanting someone who doesn’t want you back? \
173'''Jorah:''' Of course it is.
174** The way Selyse treats Shireen. Almost every time Stannis has a PetTheDog moment with their daughter (spending time with her, taking her to the Wall so she will be safe and so on), she counterbalances it (saying that Shireen is nothing, suggesting punishing her because the greyscale has scarred her, not wanting to take her to the Wall and so on).
175** Euron Greyjoy:
176*** His first decree as king is killing his nephew and niece.
177*** He frequently shows his discrimination against disabled people. So far, he has gleefully mocked Theon over his castration twice, Jamie over his severed hand, and Tyrion for his dwarfism. This is ironic considering that Euron is possibly blind in the books.
178* ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': If Daemon Targaryen's brutality toward the supposed criminals of King's Landing in the pilot wasn't enough to signal his deficiencies in morality, his cheating and bullying behavior during the king's tournament should be. Viserys is actually willing to look past both of those things but speaking in jest about a newborn boy that died is a bridge too far.
179* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'': Parodied when Lorelai comes home from work to be told a delivery driver has kicked not a dog, but her neighbour's garden gnome.
180-->'''Neighbour:''' ''[to Babette]'' Tell her about the gnome, baby.\
181'''Babette:''' ''[to Lorelai]'' They kicked the gnome.\
182'''Lorelai:''' What?\
183'''Babette:''' Right in the head.\
184'''Neighbour:''' That's just not cool.\
185'''Lorelai:''' ''[sarcastically]'' Oh, I'm very sorry. Is the gnome okay?\
186'''Babette:''' Oh, he's fine, sugar. Thanks for asking. But I wouldn't trust these boys. Gnome-kicking says a lot about a man's character.
187* ''Series/{{Glee}}'': Sebastian Smythe got two in one episode, first going on a racist tirade against Santana and then nearly blinding Blaine with a rock salt slushee.
188* ''Series/TheGoodPlace'': Used both literally and figuratively when an angel named Michael kicks a dog into the sun. [[spoiler:This turns out to actually be foreshadowing when it is revealed that Michael is a demon from the Bad Place.]]
189* ''Series/GoodNewsWeek'': In one episode of this Australian show, a rather literal example occurs, and is Lampshaded. After solving a puzzle involving a toy dog, a guest drop kicks it into the distance, saying that "Now the audience is going to hate me."
190* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'': Many of the villains act in this way, killing or assaulting many civilians without much provocation. The one time that it is at the expense of a real dog, it happened courtesy of Oswald Cobblepot in Season 2, where he actually poisoned his father's lap dog, but it was zigzagged as it wasn't a random act of cruelty this time. Rather it was him testing a beverage about which he had a fleeting, horrible suspicion that it was really a poison that his stepfamily used to kill his father and it's at the moment that he uses the dog as a guinea pig and then starts laughing hysterically at the sight of his foaming corpse that Penguin has come back for good, if this is the right word.
191** [[DirtyCop Arnold]] [[SmugSnake Flass]] gets many such moments such as mocking Nygma's poem to Kringle stabbing an eyewitness to his dealings who only decided to testify because he ''trusted'' them and then smugly asserting that he can get away with first-degree murder inside the GCPD headquarters to Jim's face. And he invokes a literal example in a deleted scene when he is confronted by Jim Gordon and he viciously compares him to an annoying puppy who needs a kick in the ribs, clearly saying that he would do it which by this point shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.
192* ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'': Serena Joy has several instances of this, though two stand out in episode 6; she refuses to let any of the physically disfigured Handmaids attend the fancy dinner being held for the Mexican delegation, and she has the children that the Handmaids were forced to bear for the Commanders paraded around in front of their birth mothers, who can only look on helplessly. What's somehow even worse is that she doesn't do these things to just be deliberately mean, but as part of a PR stunt.
193* ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'': In one episode, Hercules goes to the underworld where he briefly unites with his wife and children who were murdered by Hera. The family dog is there too. As Kevin Sorbo says in the commentary "You can tell she's evil. She killed my dog too!"
194* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'':
195** In Season 3, BigBad Arthur Petrelli, a SmugSnake for the ages, is the AnthropomorphicPersonification of dog kicking. Without any other characterization to get in the way, he can truly embody it on this plane. Let's take a look:
196** Psychically paralyzes his wife.
197** Kills off the most consistently entertaining character.
198** Gives his son a hug just to steal his god-like powers
199** Keeps threatening to re-cripple Daphne.
200** Throws Hiro off a roof.
201** Decapitates someone who was being helpful (this didn't sting too much because the other dude didn't have much characterization, it happened off-screen, and he didn't use his bare hands -- I guess it would have been too interesting to show him with blood all over his suit).
202** Tells a warlord to kill his ''other'' son (who he tried to kill in the past, too).
203** Maintains only one tone of voice throughout...and unfortunately, it's ''not'' that of a LargeHam.
204* ''Series/HiddenPalms'': In the pilot of this teen drama, Cliff is revealed as being unhinged when he is shown kicking a pug.
205* ''Series/HoratioHornblower'': The mini-series introduces the primary antagonist of the first episode with a quick succession of such moments. In the span of his first five minutes onscreen, Jack Simpson declares himself in command of the midshipmen's berth, then steals food off Horatio's plate before ordering him to dance for no apparent reason other than his own sadistic amusement. He then punishes Horatio for questioning his dominance by getting another midshipman to wake him every half-hour during the night. There's a reason fans generally refer to the span of time spent with Simpson as "The Reign of Terror."
206* ''Series/{{House}}'': The last episode of Season 3 has a mild version of this. Foreman has been planning to leave because he doesn't want to turn into a jerk like House; House in his frustration [[spoiler:fires a particularly lost-looking Chase]] for no reason (proving how much of a jerk he is). Lampshaded in a later scene when Cameron says, "You're frustrated with Foreman, so you lash out, kick the dog?"
207* ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'':
208** Vera does these many times in the second season. Her notable ones include the time she convinced Victor to steal the Ox Bell needed for the next task from the exhibition, and then frame one of the Sibunas -- one of the first times one of the teachers actually expressed a desire to hurt the students instead of just stopping them from completing their mystery, and then again when she kidnaps Trudy and sends him off to The Collector, after Trudy confronted her about the theft. There was also the time she expressed absolutely no care when Alfie fell through the floor during senet -- an action that [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Victor found disgusting.]] And these are just a few of her horrible, horrible moments.
209** Caroline Denby, in the third season, got a bit worse about her puppy punting than Vera did. Most notably, when she planted fake evidence of cheating on Eddie's computer and tricked Patricia into reading it, effectively breaking her heart and making her break down in tears for the first time in the show. This was only days after she and Eddie had gotten back together, and Denby's motive was nothing more than trying to provoke Patricia into being a sinner. It worked.
210** Once a sinner, Patricia herself crossed this, same as Fabian and Alfie.
211*** Patricia crossed it by tricking everyone into thinking KT was the sinner, and then constantly taunting KT at each chance she had about it. There was a subtle one where she promised to bring KT breakfast -- Sibuna had locked her in their bedroom -- and when the others left, she threw the food away instead.
212*** Fabian did his kicking when he pointlessly gave Joy a verbal trashing, after Joy had been heartbroken, rejected by Mara, and had turned to him specifically for comfort. He had hugged her, and then whispered to her a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that KT, who was in the room, could not hear, leaving Joy almost completely broken that night...and he had not been planning on making her a sinner, and was just doing this for some sadistic fun.
213*** Sinner!Alfie had his very early in his time as a sinner. Right after being turned, he began taunting Willow and broke up with her...then proceeded to flirt with Mara and Joy directly in front of her, as she was crying. Made even worse by the fact that their relationship was possibly the healthiest on the show up to that point, and Willow has always been one of the nicest people on the show, period.
214* ''Series/{{Hustle}}'': In one episode, the crew are conning a woman seeking vengeance on her ex-husband. One of the reasons they take his side is that she killed his dog.
215* ''Series/ICarly'':
216** During the ''iMeet Fred'' episode, Sam bashed Freddie with a tennis racket so hard it broke, then threw him out of a treehouse. Many people identify that episode as the moment that Sam went too far. Some people went so far as to stop watching the show completely after that.
217** Carly herself does this in ''iParty With Series/{{Victorious}}''. First, she chucks an orange at him for the crime of [[DisproportionateRetribution having hormones]]. Then later in the episode, when she realizes her boyfriend was cheating on her, Freddie offers to beat him up. Instead of saying "No, don't," she tells him bluntly that [[ThisLoserIsYou because he's a nerd, he'll automatically get his ass kicked.]] Like the aforementioned example, this counts as ComedicSociopathy.
218* ''Series/{{Iljimae}}'': The son of China's convoy in Korea decided to get drunk and go horse riding, speeding through the public market like an obstacle course. One "obstacle" he tries to clear is a little girl, [[spoiler: Yang-sun, Yong's self-proclaimed "wife"]]. He doesn't clear it. She doesn't make it.
219* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Lestat de Lioncourt is basically incapable of going for extended periods of time without engaging in acts of cruelty, and those close to him are not spared from his abusive nature. His vampire daughter Claudia usually gets the worst of this treatment because Lestat often goes out of his way to make sure she knows just how much he loathes her for intruding on his and Louis de Pointe du Lac's relationship, and being stuck with her indefinitely.
220* ''Series/{{JAG}}'': In "Desert Son", Lt. Williams shoots Boone when confronted with the proof of what he's done, then [[TheRadioDiesFirst shoots the radio]] so the heroes will have to drive Boone back to the camp to get medical assistance rather than try to chase him.
221* ''Series/KingdomAdventure'': Zordock establishes his villainy early on by using an AgonyBeam on his minion Dagger, just for ''annoying'' him.
222* ''Series/LegendOfTheSeeker'': At the end of the episode "Fever," Darken Rahl has a kill the cat moment, a cat he had been cuddling just a second before, after getting a piece of particularly bad news. Bad Darken Rahl!
223* On ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', this is ''the'' way of life for the VillainOfTheWeek. Many of them, anyway.
224* ''Series/LifeWithDerek'': The episode “Freaked Out Friday” features Casey and Derek bullying their siblings Edwin and Lizzie into doing their chores while they relax and have fun. Later, Edwin and Lizzie start defying their parents George and Nora having had enough of being told what to do. Nora stupidly believes puberty is to blame and has “the puberty talk” with Lizzie. Lizzie tells Nora to stop saying a specific word. Nora notices how upset Lizzie is and decides to have fun. She asks Lizzie which word she should stop saying between “hormones or puberty”. Lizzie tells Nora to stop and covers her ears in fear of her saying the word again. Nora makes a sympathetic and understanding face so Lizzie will let her guard down. The minute she takes her hands off her ears and looks up to smile at Nora, Nora blurts out "Puberty”!
225* ''Series/{{Lost}}'':
226** Several characters have fulfilled this trope:
227** Benjamin Linus has several dog-kicking moments in Season 3, in order to build him up as an unsympathetic villain before revealing he is a more complex character. This is best epitomized when Ben shakes a bunny with a pacemaker to death, but later reveals the bunny never had one to begin with.
228** Martin Keamy takes [[spoiler:Ben's "daughter" Alex]] hostage in order to coax him out and into imprisonment. Ben tries to call his bluff by saying she means nothing to him. Keamy then emotionlessly shoots her in the head and walks off.
229** Phil, an annoying MauveShirt DHARMA Initiative security person, is present while Radzinsky and Horace Goodspeed interrogate Sawyer as to the whereabouts of Kate. When Sawyer won't talk, Phil says he knows a solution, promptly punching Sawyer's girlfriend Juliet in the face. Executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse confirmed this scene was meant to be a kick the dog moment for Phil, and combined with Sawyer's promise to kill Phil for his action, all but confirms Phil will meet an untimely demise.
230*** [[spoiler:Which he does]].
231** Juliet Burke's ex-husband Edmund is shown to be an overall asshole in the flashback plotline of 3x07. [[spoiler:Just before he gets hit by the ''Main/BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor'' bus,]] he is heard telling to his mother that she is mean and insufferable over the phone.
232* In ''Series/LoveHate'', just in case we were beginning to think there might be at least one nice/innocent guy in Dublin, Elmo gets drunk and breaks a glass bottle over a barman's head for calling time and trying to get him to leave.
233* ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}'': [=MacGyver=] was romanced by a female assassin. How were we told that she wasn't going to be charmed by his goodness and turn good? She killed a dog.
234* ''Series/MadMen'':
235** The writers seem to be engaged in a perpetual puppy punting contest. In Season 1 alone, the charming and unnervingly likable [[MagnificentBastard Don Draper]] brutally humiliates Sterling by sabotaging his meeting with the Nixon campaign in [[VomitIndiscretionShot spectacular fashion]]. This only comes off as a prank compared to when Don [[DrivenToSuicide drives his loving younger brother to suicide]] by forcing him to accept a bribe to stay out of Draper's life. And all of this is utterly ''blown out of the water'' by [[HeadTurningBeauty Joan's]] subversion of the PseudoRomanticFriendship. Not only does she brush off her roommate's heart-wrenching confession with "you've had a hard day," she proceeds to bang a guy right in front of her. Now that's worth a field goal right there.
236** The seemingly alcoholic Duck Phillips abandoning his dog to get his drink on in peace. Chauncey, we hardly knew ya.
237* ''Series/MagicCity'':
238** In the pilot episode, it is quickly established that the union organizers are not good guys. They kill a dog that belongs to Ike's wife in order to intimidate Ike into allowing unions in his hotel.
239** Later we are introduced to the gangster Benny "The Butcher". He is quickly shown to have a HairTriggerTemper and this is cemented when he shoots one of his guard dogs because it is barking loudly while he is on the phone. He does so while his new wife is playing with the dog and she is splattered with its blood and brains.
240* ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'': Reese has a phenomenally evil moment in "Evacuation" -- he barters his way up from having the only plastic cups in the makeshift shelter to, among others, taking a man's watch in exchange for five blankets; giving an old, disabled man a blanket in exchange for his scooter and, eventually, having two diabetics bidding against one another for insulin. INSULIN.
241* ''Series/TheMandalorian'':
242** In the opening scene of the season finale, two scout troopers literally kicked the dog by punching what was arguably the cutest baby in Star Wars fandom. Karma was instant
243* ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'': In one episode, Arthur went to go get a flower to cure Merlin against his father's orders. As soon as he came back, his own father imprisoned him for disobeying orders. Arthur didn't care if he stayed in prison for days or weeks, as long as the flower got to Merlin. He even begged his father to at least deliver the flower. Uther simply crushed the flower in front of Arthur, told him to get another servant and dropped the flower ''just out of Arthur's reach''.
244* ''Series/MurderMostHorrid'': PlayedForLaughs in "The Body Politic," an episode of this Dawn French anthology series. French's character kicks several dogs while disposing of a body.
245* ''Series/TheNewStatesman'': Alan B'Stard does this all time, but one memorable example has him passing a one-legged, begging war veteran who asks him "Remember the Falklands?" to which he replies, "Indeed I do, I made a fortune!" and kicks one of his crutches away, sending him onto the ground.
246* ''Series/NewGirl'': Parodied in Nick's book, as he created a character loosely based on Schmidt. To Schmidt's disappointment, the character is malevolent and cruel, even going so far as to kick puppies.
247* ''Series/NewTricks'': PlayedForLaughs in the pilot episode. DS Sandra Pullman -- a central protagonist of the series, and a decent if uptight police officer -- is forced to shoot a vicious dog that is attacking her during a raid on a triad gang's headquarters. Although the shooting was reasonable and justified given that it was attacking her, the resulting public outcry over the incident completely derails her career and makes her a laughingstock, resulting in her 'promotion' to the head of the [=UCOS=] team. To make matters worse, the incident also kick-started a chain reaction which led to some poor kidnap victim jumping out of a window blindfolded in the process... which everyone ignores, because they're too busy being outraged about the dog.
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251* ''Series/OnceUponATime'':
252** Introduces AntiVillain Captain Hook with a scene where he challenges a crippled, terrified Rumplestiltskin to a duel:
253--->''"Never been in a duel before, I take it. It's quite simple, really -- pointy end goes in the other guy."''
254** It comes back to bite him later. Hard.
255** The murder of [[spoiler: Johanna]] and Snow finding out Cora [[spoiler: murdered her mother]] and Regina's {{Schadenfreude}} at Snow over both of these facts in "The Queen is Dead" is a clear-cut moment for them both.
256** Rumplestiltskin usually avoids pointless cruelty in favor of PragmaticVillainy, but he ''did'' [[DisproportionateRetribution turn a man who'd injured his son into a snail]] and then step on the snail.
257** Zelena crashing [[spoiler:Neal]]'s wake, after orchestrating his death in the first place, to dish out threats and proudly claim responsibility for the townspeoples' bereavement.
258* ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'': Slater in every other scene in which he appears, from petty crimes like sending his assistant on his break just as the police station canteen closes, to serious offences like blackmail and extortion. Perhaps the biggest moment comes in his first appearance, after Del tells him that he'd rather go to prison than reveal who gave him a stolen microwave. Slater tells him that if he does that, he'll also make sure that Rodney gets convicted on made-up charges of drug possession and ends up with a sentence at least as long as Del's, and to ''really'' put the boot in he also says that he'll use his contacts on the street to make sure the local criminals know that Grandad would be alone and vulnerable.
259* ''Series/OrphanBlack'': This is [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Rachel's]] favorite thing to do. She's unnecessarily spiteful to Sarah, [[spoiler: destroys samples that could save Cosima's life]] just because she can, and forces [[spoiler: Delphine]] to [[ReassignedToAntarctica go to Germany]], likely to punish her for [[spoiler: [[LoveRedeems siding with the Clone Club]]]] but also just clearly for KickTheDog reasons, as she [[spoiler: doesn't even let Delphine say goodbye to Cosima, her girlfriend, who is ''dying'']].
260* ''Series/{{Primeval}}'': Connor Temple thought he'd got a stroke of good fortune when he met hot geek [[TheMole Caroline Steel]]...that is until she stuck the [[TeamPet team mascot]], an adorable lizard by the name of Rex, in the refrigerator attempting to freeze him to death and exposing herself to everyone (except naive Connor) as a stone-cold bitch.
261* ''Series/PrisonBreak'':
262** Brad Bellick killed a cat in Season 1. ''Killed a cat''. [[spoiler:It made his HeelFaceTurn in Season 3 hard to get on board with for some viewers.]]
263** In Season 4, [[TheDragon Wyatt]] [[spoiler:kills Mahone's son, a ten-year-old boy, and makes his mother watch when he does]] in the first episode he appears in.
264* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'':
265** Captain, no, Major Tom Neville beat up and humiliated Danny in front of the militia in [[Recap/RevolutionS1E5SoulTrain Episode 5]]. [[Recap/RevolutionS1E10NobodysFaultButMine Episode 10]] has Neville give Aaron Pittman a verbal beatdown just because the guy wanted to know where Charlie Matheson is. [[Recap/RevolutionS1E11TheStand Episode 11]] has Neville beat up his son Jason and throw him out because he refused to obey his orders. [[Recap/RevolutionS1E16TheLoveBoat Episode 16]] has Neville treating Dr. Ethan Camp and his family poorly for no good reason, try to kill off Team Matheson and withdraw the Georgian troops from the rebels just because they had the nerve to go against him. [[Recap/RevolutionS1E20TheDarkTower The first season finale]] has [[spoiler: Neville murder Major Mark Franklin in cold blood when he had no reason to, and then try to break into the room with Team Matheson with intent to kill them all, even though he promised Jason that he would leave Rachel and Charlie alive]].
266** Bass Monroe stabs a rebel he's torturing in [[Recap/RevolutionS1E2ChainedHeat Episode 2]] for no real reason. [[Recap/RevolutionS1E14TheNightTheLightsWentOutInGeorgia Episode 14]] has Monroe shoot a militia captain, who worked for Tom Neville, dead on the spot after Neville disappeared, even though Monroe had no proof that the guy had anything to do with. [[Recap/RevolutionS1E15Home Episode 15]] has Monroe go back to his hometown Jasper with intent to kill everyone there and lure Miles into a trap, and even his old girlfriend Emma Bennett calls him out on what a stupid idea that is. [[Recap/RevolutionS1E17TheLongestDay Episode 17]] has Monroe [[spoiler: execute his old friend Jeremy Baker, because he thinks the guy tried to have him assassinated. He finds out afterwards that Baker had absolutely nothing to do with the attempt on his life]]. The first season finale reveals that [[spoiler: murdered a rebel and his entire family in retaliation for hurting Miles, which galvanized Miles to try to kill Monroe, and for Miles and Nora to leave the Monroe Republic]].
267* ''Series/RobinHood'': When we first see the Sheriff he seems a likable rogue, apart from a bad habit of having people hanged to make a point. But after being mocked by Robin in front of the assembled Lords he storms to his room, takes a songbird from its cage, strokes its feathers and kisses it, then crushes it in his fist, smirking. After that, nothing he does surprises us.
268* ''Series/Rush1974'': Corporal Colvin cements himself as a HateSink when he bluntly tells Richard Lucas that his brother is dead, when his widow Sarah is right there trying to break it to him gently.
269* ''Series/Scandal2012'': [[spoiler:Becky, Huck's girlfriend, has the President shot and leaves Huck to be the fall guy. There are attempts at justification for this. However, when Huck tries to take her down, she responds by murdering the entire innocent family that he keeps an eye on. There is no real justification for this.]]
270* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': During the episode when Dr. Cox's old high school friend comes to town, they get into a pissing contest off the roof of the hospital, ending when his friend hits the dog they were aiming for. This is a case of ''pissing'' on the dog:
271-->'''Dr. Cox:''' You know, I see that dog around the neighborhood. I think we killed its spirit.
272* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': John Watson was on the receiving end of one in "[[Recap/SherlockS02E03TheReichenbachFall The Reichenbach Fall]]", after [[spoiler:Sherlock is taken for questioning, Sally Donovan gloats about taking in John's best friend, and the chief inspector insults Sherlock in front of John -- ''in his own home''.]] Needless to say, many fans wanted to punch both characters in the face -- [[spoiler: luckily John himself took care of one of them.]]
273* ''Series/ShokojoSera'': In this Japanese drama (a remake of ''Series/ALittlePrincess''), the chef and his wife treat Seira and Kaito (the {{Expy}} for Becky) quite cruelly, driving Seira to exhaustion many times after she had found out her father had died, giving her no sympathy. In their first appearance, they laughed and mocked Kaito's dream to enter high school, telling him it would be better to give up. They would continue this for the rest of the series though they do get their punishment in the end.
274* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'':
275** Lex Luthor kicks so many various metaphorical dogs that it isn't even funny. Most of the times it is some faceless minion of his, but he really crossed the line in [[spoiler:"[[Recap/SmallvilleS06E15Freak Freak]]". He has his people abduct Chloe to his secret lab then experiment on and painfully humiliate her. Chloe figures out she is the next in line to be killed and orders Clark to burn a hole in her shoulder to remove the tracking device and is about to stab herself before Clark is forced to comply. At the end of the episode, Lex watches a video of Chloe stripped naked and strapped to the experiment table. As she struggles, he delivers this line with a hint of PsychoticSmirk]]:
276--->'''Lex''': [[spoiler: [[WhamLine Regarding our most recent subject...keep a close eye on her.]]]][[note]]Surprising because he gave no reason that he knows that Chloe is captured and held in his lab before, and that zero-remorse look is just disgusting.[[/note]]
277** Doing that kind of thing to anyone is definitely on the MoralEventHorizon, but the fact that [[spoiler:she's a fan favorite]] definitely angered a lot of fans. Aided by the fact that [[spoiler:"Freak"]] is directed by Michael Rosenbaum, Lex's actor, who always wanted Lex to be evil. There are also many moments where Lex and other villains do this to the other main characters:
278*** Lois: Gets nearly drowned by a psycho in "[[Recap/SmallvilleS04E13Recruit Recruit]]" with Clark arriving to perform CPR just in time to save her, being backstabbed and abandoned by her sister, being assaulted and injured by Lana when she had Clark's powers in "[[Recap/SmallvilleS07E07Wrath Wrath]]", being captured and forced to wield a rifle against Jonathan Kent in "[[Recap/SmallvilleS05E10Fanatic Fanatic]]" -- a man who is like a father to her -- by [[spoiler: the head of the Lex Luthor campaign's student group]], the time when Tess fired her for getting too close to the truth about Tess's activities, being tied up and nearly electrocuted by a psycho in "[[Recap/SmallvilleS08E05Committed Committed]]", gets lied to and manipulated by Zod in the latter half of Season 9, and many, many more.
279*** Chloe: "[[Recap/SmallvilleS01E13Kinetic Kinetic]]", when the thugs throw her out of a window, [[spoiler:Lionel in Clark's body]] in "[[Recap/SmallvilleS04E06Transference Transference]]" when he seduces Chloe but pulls away at the last second, [[spoiler:Dawn Stiles in Clark's body]] in "[[Recap/SmallvilleS04E18Spirit Spirit]]" when she punches Chloe across the room, [[spoiler:Vampire Lana]] in "[[Recap/SmallvilleS05E05Thirst Thirst]]" when she renders Chloe unconscious by sucking her blood, [[spoiler:Brainiac]] putting Lana and Chloe into painful comas in Season 7, being tied up and almost gets electrocuted by the psycho in ''Committed'', [[spoiler:Alia impaling her on a sword]] in "[[Recap/SmallvilleS09E09Pandora Pandora]]", [[spoiler:Devilicus]] threatening to throw her off a tall building (and accidentally succeeding) in "[[Recap/SmallvilleS09E13Warrior Warrior]]", [[spoiler:Icicle's]] offhand [[NeckLift choke hold]] in "[[Recap/SmallvilleS09E11E12AbsoluteJustice Legends]]" .
280*** Lana: In almost every episode of Season 1, and about half the episodes of Seasons 2, 3, and 4, Lana gets kidnapped and abused by various classmates. In "[[Recap/SmallvilleS04E15Sacred Sacred]]", she gets tied to a chair, interrogated and electrocuted by a Chinese soldier (if not for Isobel's presence, she would've died). In "[[Recap/SmallvilleS04E22Commencement Commencement]]", Genevieve Teague stalks her and ultimately puts a gun to her head (again, Lana is saved only by the reappearance of Isobel). In Season 6, she discovers that Lex has [[MoralEventHorizon chemically manipulated her body to fake a pregnancy and facilitate a loveless marriage]], and as mentioned above, in Season 7, she gets put into a painful coma by Brainiac. But the worst comes in mid-Season 8, [[spoiler: when Lex -- after earlier having her get kidnapped and forced to fake a video breakup with Clark -- flooded her body with kryptonite radiation to keep her and Clark apart forever]].
281*** Jonathan: Gets blackmailed by Lionel in "[[Recap/SmallvilleS02E07Lineage Lineage]]". He is mocked and beaten by Kal in "[[Recap/SmallvilleS02E04Red Red]]", "[[Recap/SmallvilleS03E01Exile Exile]]" and "[[Recap/SmallvilleS03E02Phoenix Phoenix]]".
282* ''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand'': Many of the Romans do this to the slaves, but one that really takes the cake is Tullius. In "Beneath the Mask", he challenges gladiator and slave Gannicus to a sword fight. Gannicus is warned that if he actually hurts Tullius, he'll be punished. Gannicus tries to end the fight non-lethally by quickly putting his sword against Tullius' throat, but Tullius simply knocks it away and keeps attacking him. Gannicus repeatedly tries putting his sword against him or putting him in a hold, but Tullius keeps ignoring it and attacking him. He eventually catches up to Gannicus and beats him down. When he moves to finish him off, Gannicus is forced to resort to begging for mercy. Tullius spares him and leaves, but mocks him as a weakling and a coward, even though it was clear that Gannicus was the superior fighter.
283* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': Probably wins for the most unnecessary instance of this trope. In "[[{{Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS03E24ZeroHour}} Zero Hour]]", long after it's established that the [[spoiler:Xindi-Reptilians are quite evil]], three of them open the episode by dining on live mice to celebrate their perceived victory. Presumably there was supposed to be some kind of subtext regarding their relationship with mammals, but it just comes off as cartoonish.
284* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Just in case someone, somewhere, didn't already hate the Female Changeling for her genocidal tendencies and repeated manipulations of Odo, she spends most of the final arc repeatedly making nasty remarks to her loyal servant Weyoun, even threatening to have him killed as soon as his next clone is available to his face, leaving him visibly shaken. And yet she also has a scene in which she tells him he's her favorite, which raises the question: how badly does she treat the Vorta she doesn't like? [[YouHaveFailedMe The answer is: having them executed in batches for not getting scientific research done fast enough.]]
285* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
286** In the episode "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E12Datalore}} Datalore]]", Lore, after changing clothes with Data and leaving him unconscious, then kicks him in the head, showing the viewers just how much a bad guy Data's EvilTwin was.
287** In "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E13SubRosa}} Sub Rosa]]", Beverly's ghostly paramour Rowan has a symbiotic / parasitic relationship with Beverly Crusher and her entire female line. Except for the fact that he suddenly started killing innocent people, there would have been no reason to end the relationship or destroy him.
288* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'':
289** Quite a few villains do this. In "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS1E22SpaceSeed}} Space Seed]]", Khan blackmailed the crew to join him by forcing them to watch Kirk being suffocated in the decompression chamber.
290** In the same episode, one of Khan's henchmen [[WouldntHitAGirl slapped Uhura]] when she defiantly glared at him and would have done it again on two other occasions if someone hadn't interrupted him.
291** "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E24TurnaboutIntruder Turnabout Intruder]]". Dr Janice Lester, while in Kirk's body, hit Kirk, who was in her weakened body at the time, when Kirk had the misfortune of entering a room with her in it while trying to warn Spock and Mc Coy about her.
292** In "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS3E12TheEmpath}} The Empath]]", the Vians tortured Kirk and Mc Coy to provoke a reaction out of the [[CuteMute sweet]] [[TheEmpath empath]] [[CuteMute Gem]], just to see if her species was worth being saved.
293** In "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS3E10PlatosStepchildren}} Plato's Stepchildren]]", the Platonians entertained themselves by using their [[PeoplePuppets psychic powers]] to force Kirk and Spock into some humilating situations. In one instance, they had Kirk lying helplessly on the ground, with Spock's feet about to step on his face. Later on, they would bring in [[BridgeBunny Uhura]] and [[HeadTurningBeauty Chapel]] and force them to kiss Kirk and Spock. They even made Kirk and Spock hit them.
294** "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS1E13TheConscienceOfTheKing}} The Conscience of the King]]". To ensure the audience didn't sympathize with Kodos for ordering half the population executed to survive a famine, it's mentioned he used his theories on eugenics to determine who lived and who died rather than a fairer/more pragmatic approach.
295* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
296** In the episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS01E22DevilsTrap "Devil's Trap" (S01, Ep22)]], it is implied that Meg kills Bobby's dog.
297** In the episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E10Hunted "Hunted" (S02, Ep10)]], Scott's dangerous transformation is illustrated by having him talk about electrocuting the neighbor's cat.
298** In the episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E19FolsomPrisonBlues "Folsom Prison Blues" (S02, Ep19)]], the guard in the teaser bangs his baton against Randall's cell door and makes fun of the prisoner in a sarcastic manner.
299** In the episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS04E10HeavenAndHell "Heaven and Hell" (S04, Ep10)]], Uriel beats the hell out of Dean to incapacitate him -- even though Castiel ''just demonstrated'' that angels have the ability to render humans unconscious with a gentle finger touch to the forehead.
300* ''Series/TalesOfTheGoldMonkey'': A common way to show that this week's villain was a really nasty guy, would be to have him kick Jack, the one-eyed dog.
301* ''[[Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth Children of Earth]]'': The PM kicks the dog thrice. In Day Four, just after [[spoiler: everyone in Thames House has died]], he turns to Lois Habiba, who is partly and wholly unwillingly responsible for this and asks: "Happy now?". Later, in Day Five, he orders [[spoiler: Frobisher to turn over his own children to the 456]] because it would help his story that they were duped by the aliens rather than [[spoiler: knowingly sending their children to a FateWorseThanDeath]] And then, right at the end, he expresses relief when learning that at least he will be able to blame the Americans for everything that went wrong, showing far more concern for his career than for all the people who died, and all those who could have died.
302* ''Series/TheTribe'': For the first part of Season 4, Ram has been mostly FauxAffablyEvil, and while having his forces take over the city, he has been mostly conciliatory to Ebony and the inhabitants. The first sign that he's a real villain comes when Ebony and Jay start making decisions without consulting him. He calls Ebony in first, drills it into her head that she's just TheQuisling, derides her as a mere "[[FantasticSlur Virt]]", and shoots a Techno mook [[YouHaveFailedMe who failed his programming duty]] in front of her.
303* ''Series/TrueBlood'':
304** In the season finale, Drew Marshall [[spoiler: the real name of Rene, who's committed all the murders of the women]] kicks [[spoiler: Sam, who's in his dog form]].
305** The scene where Bill offers to shake hands with his rival Eric, then handcuffs him with silver and pushes him into concrete and ''then'' orders someone to kill his MoralityPet and best friend Pam, ''in his hearing'', So he'll know -- and won't be able to stop it -- and then he'll feel it... God damn it, Bill, you're supposed to be a good guy.
306* ''Series/UglyBetty'': Betty kicks a puppy in a daydream she has when she's imagining she's Wilhelmina, the shows resident dog kicker.
307* ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'':
308** Stefan threatening to forcibly turn Elena's biological father John Gilbert into a vampire unless he left town. This is pretty low, especially as Stefan is supposed to have morals.
309** Damon kills a teacher right in front of Stefan just to prove to Stefan that he has no good side. It convinced Stefan (at least for a while), but not the audience -- like John Gilbert, the guy was a {{Jerkass}} whom nobody liked.
310** Katherine to Damon. Repeatedly.
311** Klaus to his siblings (especially to Rebekah), to Stefan, to Elena and to Tyler.
312* ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'' has this done several times.
313** In Season 3, when [[spoiler: Lori dies]], Glenn tries to comfort Rick, who responds by snapping at Glenn, physically assaulting him, and then storming off after shooting him a DeathGlare.
314** Rick, Michonne and Carl are complicit in the same one towards the end of Season 3, when they coldbloodedly and deliberately drive past a backpacker begging them for help and, upon returning to find he was eaten by walkers due to being left behind, grab his supplies for themselves and drive on.
315** [[spoiler: Merle does it several times after he reappears in Season 3. He takes part in the Governor's murdering of outsiders to steal their supplies. He goes to hunt down Michonne after she leaves Woodbury. He murders Gargulio, the only other survivor of the party to do so -- even after Gargulio saved his life -- because Gargulio won't agree to lie about them killing Michone with him; for an added kick, after initially trying to remember Gargulio's name for saving him, he is shown as having forgotten it when the Governor questions him. He abducts Glenn and Maggie and drags them back to Woodbury, where he tortures Glenn to try and find out where Daryl is.]]
316** Shane does it several times in Season 2. He shoots a man named Otis so he can't outrun a horde of walkers and leaves him to be EatenAlive so Shane himself can escape. He threatens Dale, one of his own party members, with death if he "becomes a problem". And he ruthlessly massacres the walkers that Hershel has been keeping in his barn because they were dead friends and family and he hoped they could be cured at some point.
317** The Governor just keeps doing this in Season 3; [[spoiler: murdering other survivors to claim their weapons for himself, threatening to rape a woman to interrogate her, whipping his own people into a pointless assault on Rick's group, even massacring his own militia when Rick's group drives them away]].
318** Caesar Martinez does this by refusing to stand up to the Governor's insane decisions and just letting him keep get away with it.
319** Simon does this ''as he walks.''
320*** His EstablishingCharacterMoment is brutally beating and hanging the last survivor of the Library community he had just wiped out.
321*** He has his men trash Alexandria when they are only supposed to look for Daryl.
322*** He takes away Hilltop's only doctor from them after Negan kills theirs (coincidentally the brother of doctor in question), but that was just orders. Leaving them a couple crates of ''aspirin'' to handle the entire community's medical needs, though, just comes off as him going the extra mile to be a prick.
323*** He [[spoiler:guns down Tamiel right in front of Jadis]] after [[spoiler:the latter already apologized for her actions, and Negan only ordered ''one'' member of the garbage people (Brion in this case) killed for their treachery. He then proceeds to massacre every last Scavenger except for the leader, complete with a SlasherSmile.]]
324*** [[BadBoss He says, "screw them" and dismisses his own captured men as "damaged goods"]] during his attempted purge on Hilltop. He also has his men taint their weapons with walker blood to infect all of the wounded.
325*** He [[spoiler:ordered the [[WouldHurtAChild all]]-[[MenAreTheExpendableGender male]] massacre at Oceanside]] in order to [[spoiler:dominate the community's women.]]
326*** He [[spoiler:tries to overthrow and kill Negan]] after [[spoiler:he returns to the Sanctuary, [[UngratefulBastard despite him forgiving his atrocities several times in the past]].]]
327** Season 9 has the people of Oceanside attack and kill Saviors [[HeelFaceTurn that turned over a new leaf after the war ends]]. When they get found out by Maggie and Daryl, they attempt to save the Savior they're ready to execute (Arat)...until Cyndie mentions that Arat was the one to kill her brother in front of her. Because of that, Maggie and Daryl [[DoWithHimAsYouWill leave the Oceansiders to execute Arat]].
328* ''Series/WandaVision'': The seventh episode reveals that [[spoiler:Agnes, also known as Agatha Harkness]] is the real antagonist of the series and has been causing trouble for Wanda and Vision the whole time. After they finish explaining this [[OnceMoreWithClarity and how they did it,]] they casually throw in that [[ForTheEvulz also, they killed Wanda's dog.]]
329* ''Series/TheWire'': In the fourth season of this HBO series, Marlo Stanfield brazenly walks into a convenience store and steals several small items in full view of a security guard. The guard follows him outside and asks why he would do something so foolish, leading Marlo to deliver one of his most memorable lines ("You want it to be one way...but it's the other way"). He then has the guard (who took the job to support his family) murdered for questioning Marlo's actions. Later on in the fifth season, he gains the trust of "Proposition" Joe Stewart, a long-time player in the Baltimore drug trade, and supposedly makes arrangements to get him out of the country to lay low. Joe shows Marlo around his house, commenting on the history of the city. Then, Marlo reveals that he never was going to get him out of the States, and that Joe's nephew sold him out. He then has his enforcer, Chris, execute Joe while he stands watching the entire act.
330* In the first season of ''Series/TheXFiles'' the bad guy of "[[Recap/TheXFilesS01E12Fire Fire]]", Cecil L'Ively, casually kicks a dog that's been digging out the body he buried before he fully sets on his psychotic arsonist spree. It's later established he doesn't have a motive for any of his cruel actions whatsoever, the dog episode only adds up to the fact.
331* ''Series/YoungSheldon'': In "A Baby Tooth and the Egyptian God of Knowledge", despite Georgie sincerely apologizing for the store getting robbed on his watch and even paying for the loss with his own savings, Dale still fires him after taking the money as RevengeByProxy for Meemaw turning down his marriage proposal.
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