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* Used in several ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'' stories, mostly authors other than Lovecraft. The victims in question tend to be selfish jerks, and some are psychopaths. However, since their fates tend to be really, ''really'' nasty, the reader may feel bad for them. The "Insects from Shaggai" also qualify as their homeworld was destroyed by another abomination. But considering how evil and debased they were, the species deserved their fate.

* {{Zigzagged}} in "Dead Giveaway" (1976) by J. Vernon Shea, a short story set in the Franchise/CthulhuMythos where practically everyone in town turns out to be one of these. The victims included a nice old man [[BullyHunter who stands up against bullies]] and is later revealed to be a ''Nazi'' that fed razorblades to children in their Halloween candy because they wouldn't get off his lawn, a poor mentally ill lady [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer that is the mockery of the town]] who is later revealed to have killed her little brother when she was young and was driven mad with guilt, and the neighborhood children... well, KidsAreCruel and TeensAreMonsters. One character that seems to be a JerkAss from the offset, the "mean old lady," turns out to be just grieving for her dead son. [[RedemptionEqualsLife She is the only one who survives.]]

* ''Literature/JustRevenge'': In 1942 in Lithuania, Marcellus Prandus [[UsefulNotes:TheHolocaust killed off the Menuchen family]] except Sarah Chava who he raped and sent to work as a prostitute; Max survived by sheer luck. In 1999, Max kidnapped Prandus and [[DrivenToSuicide drove him to suicide]] by convincing him that his descendants were all murdered.

* ''Literature/MoDaoZuShi''s Jin Guangshan is a truly loathsome piece of work. To start with: serial womanizer (who particularly targets women of lower social standing than him because it makes them easier to control) and rapist who flaunts his dalliances in front of his wife and son. Uses and abuses any of the illegitimate children who make the mistake of wanting any kind of familial acknowledgment from him and simply leaves the rest (if he even remembers they exist) to rot. And ''then'' there are all the lives he ruins (or ends) in the name of greed and political power. Even after it's discovered that his death was arranged by one of said abused bastard sons, ''nobody'' has any sympathy for ''him as a person'' whatsoever, they're just appalled at the son's rejection of filial piety.

* ''Literature/Mother2'' novelization: Aloysius Minch scams the father of Ness until the latter parent had to take a business trip as part of the former's breaking game in hopes of stealing his secret burger recipes and wife along with encouraging Porky, Aloysius's son, to continue being a pawn for Giygas while having aware of the entity's influence on him all to enrich himself. He ends up starving to death in the Deep Darkness with Porky marking a message to see him in hell thanks to him having been a "scrawny greedy" scumbag. Granted, Mr. Minch's fate gets undone, [[AdaptationalKarma but he still gets busted]] thanks to him stealing money.

* In the Literature/DrThorndyke novel ''Mr. Pottermack's Oversight'', the victim is guilty of such infamies that Dr. Thorndyke is driven to remark that "hanging would be a great deal too good for him"; in the end, Thorndyke concludes that being killed by one of his own victims is no more than the man deserved, and lets the killer go free.

* ''Literature/EllenAndOtis'': Non-fatally for Otis himself in the final chapter of ''Otis Spofford'', when Ellen and Austine finally get the better of him and when even his close friends, Stewy and George, side with the girls against him (of course, they have their own reasons to enjoy witnessing Otis's comeuppance). Even though Otis has it coming, one can't help feeling at least a little sorry for him.

** Thrackan Sal-Solo, first introduced in the ''Literature/TheCorellianTrilogy''. A cousin of Han Solo, he bore a strong resemblance to his famous cousin but had none of the honor that his cousin did. Among his crimes were terrorism and murder. Sal-Solo tried on a number of occasions to have his cousin and his family murdered. He was finally killed off by Boba Fett's granddaughter Mitra Gev in the ''Literature/LegacyOfTheForce'' book ''Bloodlines''. Following his death, there was no shortage of Corellians wanting to claim credit for killing Sal-Solo, and Han Solo was definitely not in mourning over the death of his cousin.

** Quinn Kirkland, the heartbreaking jerk from ''Last Writes''. Not only was he cheating on multiple women (one of which [[JailBait is likely underage]]), [[spoiler:but a careless prank of putting a snake in a glovebox while working as a valet got Wells Dumont's wife killed, which inspired Wells to kill Quinn.]]