Asshole Victim / Visual Novels

aka: Visual Novel

A list of unlikeable victims of murder or other crimes in visual novels.

The following works have their own pages:

• Ace Attorney

Other Visual Novels

• Dennis from Double Homework starts out being portrayed as a nerd and then racks of a string of offenses which include catfishing, stalking, sexual harassment, blackmail, and hacking into government computers. In the end, Dr. Mosely/Zeta shoots him in the head.
• The Song of Saya has Yosuke Suzumi as a Played With example. Before Saya altered his brain to give him the same condition as Fuminori, he seemed to be a nice and normal family man, showing concern for Fuminori and offering to clean his house^note Though Fuminori thinks this is only because he fears it will affect his perfect image of his house. You might even feel sorry for him when his condition causes him to unknowingly kill his wife and child under the belief they were hostile aliens. However, any genuine kindness he may have had once is completely gone by the time the insane Yosuke meets Saya personally, being willing to rape what he thinks is a defenseless human girl, thus leaving the reader unlikely to sympathize with him when Fuminori kills him.
• In Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, Ace/Hongou was the head of a corrupt corporation and recreated the Nonary Game for experimentation into Morphogenetic Fields. The Ninth Man, who is betrayed by Ace and explodes rather nastily, was Kubota, was in charge of R&D on the Nonary Project. Nijisaki and Musashidou were other members, killed by Ace to keep his identity secret. Ace himself gets his comeuppance in both the "Safe" and "True" endings. In the "Safe" ending, he's outright incinerated, while in the "True" ending he survives, but has been completely exposed and ruined.
• The victim in the Murder Mystery Visual Novel Jisei was working with her company to steal information from a rival corporation, but decided to doublecross her employer in favor of a third party that offered her more money.
• Rina Mamiya from Higurashi: When They Cry is this in one arc. She tries to kill Rena, so Rena kills her. Even if she was a Jerkass Gold Digger, it's horrifying when Rena kills her in the manga. She's crying, begging, bleeding, in pain... In any other media, her death is very quick though.
  • Teppei Hojo is a They Killed Kenny Again-grade example. Gets his brains bashed in by Keiichi in the Curse Killing chapter, his head split in half by Rena (shortly after Rina's death) in the Atonement chapter, and killed by Keiichi, Rena, and Shion in the Exorcism chapter. Two of these are as punishment for exceptionally nasty child abuse against Satako.
  • Onryu Sonozaki in the Cotton Drifting and Eye Opening chapters by Shion. Subverted in later arcs.
• Danganronpa loves to zigzag this one. A lot of murder victims have their unsavory elements, but the games go out of their way to give (almost) everyone some redeeming qualities and their deaths tend to be mourned no matter how annoying they were. And, of course, they're in the midst of a stressful Deadly Game, so it's no real surprise that some of them would be acting more assholish than normal.
  • Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
    • Zig-zagged with Sayaka Maizono. On the one hand, she manipulates her old schoolmate Makoto into swapping rooms with her as part of a plot to kill Leon Kuwata and pin the crime on Makoto, which ends with Leon killing her. On the other hand, she did so because she was genuinely scared and worried for her friends and fellow idols and wanted to graduate (not knowing that everyone besides her would die), was implied to have lacked the resolve to see her killing through, and writes a Dying Clue that helps exonerate Makoto. Furthermore, while Sayaka attacked first with the intent to kill, Leon goes out of his way to break into the bathroom where she's hiding and kill her after she is unable to fight back. All this goes to show how complex and morally gray many of the cast members are in this series.
    • Hifumi Yamada. In addition to his perversion and other less than flattering personality traits, he collaborated with Celestia Ludenberg on a plan to kill two people- one each- and graduate together, leading the others to die. Hifumi killed Kiyotaka Ishimaru, and while he did so believing that Kiyotaka had sexually assaulted Celeste and intended on killing Hifumi (and to be fair, Ishimaru had been acting off after his friend Mondo was executed), he comes off as rather gullible, especially when he doesn't realize that Celeste would want to kill him to wrap up loose ends.
  • Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair:
    • Teruteru Hanamura, the token pervert of the second game who constantly creeped out and harassed those around him to the point of drugging Hajime's food in free time and bragging about princesses being naive and thus easy to groom. While he does have a genuinely sympathetic motive, he still caused the death of Togami in his attempt to escape and the class doesn't exactly miss his creepy antics after. That being said his death is still extremely brutal as he's deep fried mere seconds after he cries out for his mother and for all his flaws its clearly shown that his death was undeserved.
    • Peko Pekoyama, a weird example because Peko is generally a sweet person if a little distant, however she died as a result of brutally murdering Mahiru Koizumi, using her lifeless corpse as a doorstopper and framing Mahiru's best friend Hiyoko Saionji, in a completely idiotic and misguided attempt to save her young master Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu. Her murder of Mahiru was utterly ruthless and in the end completely senseless since Fuyuhiko rejected her plan to allow him to escape. However, in the same trial Peko is revealed as a victim of an abusive upbringing from Fuyuhiko's family, who raised her to see herself as nothing but a tool, and she personally didn't want Mahiru to die but couldn't bring herself to go against her childhood indoctrination.
    • Played with to the point of deconstruction with Hiyoko Saionji, a massive brat who treated her classmates like garbage (especially Tsumiki) and had a habit of abusing small animals. If you dislike her then it's hard to feel bad for her, even though she never attempted murder herself(despite having perfectly good reason to kill Fuyuhiko) and just walked in on a murder already underway, leading her to be killed to be silenced. On the other hand, her death does upset her classmates, who point out that just being a brat and a bully didn't mean she deserved to die, especially as she was trying to better herself and was only in said wrong place at the wrong time because of her Hidden Heart of Gold, not her worse qualities; she wanted to honor Mahiru, her friend who died in the previous chapter, by tying her obi like Mahiru taught her, but the full-length mirror she needed happened to be where a murder was happening.
    • From "Twilight Syndrome", a game inside the video game that was based on actual events in the characters' lives, the victim, Fuyuhiko's sister Natsumi Kuzuryu, had been bullying Girl D (Mahiru), expecting to get away with it because of her powerful parents. Girl D's close friend, Girl E (Sato) confronted the victim, and in a fit of rage, strangled her until she fell unconsciousness, then killed her in order to prevent any possible problems that might arise if she came to. Of course, when the events are actually shown in the anime, Natsumi's death is treated seriously, class 77 mourns her, and Mahiru is utterly horrified that she was the indirect cause of someone's murder, even if that someone was a bully.
    • Played with in the case of Nagito Komaeda. By this point, he has already manipulated Teruteru into committing murder(which led to "Byakuya"/the Imposter dying), expressed the belief that "hope" is more important than any of his classmates' lives, Took a Level in Jerkass midway through the fourth investigation, and most recently, threatened to blow up the island unless the traitor comes forward (albeit bluffing). As a result, Akane tries to strangle him in a fit of rage before Chiaki stops her with an Armor Piercing Slap, and she and others occasionally express a desire to kill Nagito, so when Nagito ends up being brutally murdered, no one is all that sad to see him gone. It's subverted in that it's actually a suicide, but it turns out that Nagito engineered it so that the traitor becomes the culprit, forcing the rest of the class to execute Chiaki, whom Hajime had feelings for and everyone else liked.
  • Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony:
    • Monokid is the first of the Monokubs to be destroyed, courtesy of Monodam shoving him into the line of fire during Kaede's execution in Chapter 1. As an unrepentant hellraiser who was loud and obnoxious to everyone, it's safe to say that he won't be missed by anyone.
    • The other victim of the case, Tenko Chabashira may at first appear to be this due to constantly hating on the boys unfairly (for example she knocks out Shuichi out cold during their first free time event) and her borderline Stalker with a Crush nature when it comes to Himiko Yumeno which the girl doesn't appear to be into... that is, until her death when we find out she was a near complete subversion and was trying to get Himiko to get out of her shell, (albeit not for the purist reasons at first) and the killer who arranged her death is far less sympathetic. It's also shown further in her free time events past the first and even right before her death, buy good luck finding people who not only like her but a lot. She, much like Hiyoko, also dies not because of her worse qualities, but her better ones; she agrees to be the medium in a seance (which turned out to be a death trap) because that way Himiko could say goodbye to Angie (who died earlier in the chapter and was going to be channeled).
    • Miu Iruma is The Friend Nobody Likes due to her constant insulting of others and abrasive behaviour, and several students admitted to the fact that they probably wouldn't have been friends with her even if they hadn't met in a killing game. In addition, had she not been the victim of Chapter Four, she would have killed Kokichi and framed Kaito for the murder, possibly leading the other students to their deaths. Lampshaded when Tsumugi, who'd felt bad about Miu's death despite disliking her, says she's no longer sure what to think (although given later revelations about Tsumugi, the entire thing seems to be a lie).
    • Miu wanted to kill Kokichi because he was the one student liked less than her, due to his The Gadfly nature and habit of continually lying his ass off. He only gets less liked when he gets Gonta killed by manipulating him into killing Miu.
    • In Shuichi's backstory, he earned the title of Ultimate Detective by solving a murder case nobody else could figure out. When the culprit was arrested, he gave Shuichi a look of pure hatred that was permanently seared into his mind. He later learned that the culprit had killed the victim to avenge a relative who had been Driven to Suicide because of the victim's abusive behavior. This caused Shuichi to feel a tremendous amount of guilt for "siding with" the victim by getting their killer arrested, which made him afraid of exposing the truth and turned him into a Shrinking Violet who always wears a hat because he's afraid of looking people in the eye.
    • Tsumugi turned out to be the mastermind of the killing game who framed Kaede, as Kaede's trap missed Rantaro and Tsumugi hit him with an identical shot put ball afterwards, then had Kaede executed on false charges. In addition, she taunted Shuichi and Maki by showing them the audition tapes of Kaede and Kaito, showing them their pre-brainwashed personalities were far from the people they loved. Her death gets no send-off, she's just crushed by a rock along with Monokuma as Keebo is destroying the school and nobody cares or even seems to notice.
• Famicom Detective Club
  • The Missing Heir: Akira Ayashiro murdered his own great aunt and attempted to kill the protagonist when he was looking into her murder. This ensures he had it coming when Kanda bludgeoned him to death with the top portion of Kiku's tombstone.
  • The Girl Who Stands Behind:
    • Genjiro Kaneda, the murder victim in the second case, is described by the investigator at the police agency as a “master con-artist”, swindling peoples’ livelihoods and (in the case of Uchida) forcing them to declare bankruptcy if they can’t pay him back. His body is left with multiple, savage stab wounds, signifying the murderer’s genuine hatred for the man.
    • While some people feel sorry for them, nobody mourns Goro Kaneda after he was murdered.
• Shinji Matou in Fate/stay night. Considering that this is the guy who has been abusing and raping his sister Sakura for years, treats his Servant Rider like a dog even when she remains unflinchingly loyal to him, and tried to rape Rin when she was tied up and unable to resist, no one is exactly shedding any tears for him when he's killed by Illya in the Fate route. Or when Gilgamesh turns him into the Holy Grail in the UBW route, a process he barely survives due to the heroes saving him. Or in Heaven’s Feel when he’s stabbed through the chest by the very sister he was again attempting to rape, even if this proves to be her Start of Darkness.
  • And if you wanted his anime counterpart dead too, don't worry. That happens, too.
  • Shinji’s grandfather, Zouken, also gets this when being brutally killed by fellow villains Kirei Kotomine and Dark Sakura. Since he’s the one who made Shinji who he is and treated his own son like shit for fun, no one shed any tears for him.
  • YMMV in regards to Tokiomi Tohsaka in the prequel, Fate/Zero. Because he is only allowed a single successor(his elder daughter Rin) he decides to give his younger daughter Sakura to the Matous so both his children can become mages, and is thus responsible for all the hell she is put through. He even tells Kariya that he'd be fine with Rin and Sakura fighting each other in the next Grail War. At best, he is a Horrible Judge of Character, but if he knew...
• Shinrai: Broken Beyond Despair has this apply for both of the murder victims.
  • Hiro Shiratake's actions kick off the entire plot. He's a highly arrogant and self-centered Jerkass who wants an impressive girlfriend, so he becomes attracted to the seemingly wealthy Runa after helping her when she has a bike accident. Unfortunately for Runa, he realizes that her family is actually poor, so he dumps her and moves on to Momoko, who'd recently impressed the school with her concert. His relationship with Momoko ends up being less than happy, as he grows tired of her Clingy Jealous Girl nature (brought on by her trust issues), and doesn't care for her, eventually asking out her best friend, Kamen. Kamen refuses him because she's a lesbian and she hates him, but he continues to send her messages on her phone. When Momoko reads those messages, she concludes that Hiro is cheating on her with Kamen, and plots to kill him and herself so that she can frame Kamen for the murders. Once the truth is revealed, no one mourns his death, with even Runa being forced to admit that Hiro never loved her.
  • Kotoba Gaikoku, who can die if the right choices aren't made, also counts. His perverted antics don't win him many friends, but what really puts him into this category was that he was stalking Momoko. Momoko chose him as the third accomplice in her murder plan(which she'd claimed was a prank), alongside her primary targets, Hiro and Kamen (whom she intended to kill and frame for murder, respectively), because he'd be easy to manipulate. It's also suggested that since Kotoba would have to be disposed of in order to prevent anyone from corroborating Kamen's story, Momoko chose him because she wouldn't feel bad about killing him. Even Kotoba's best friend Taiko admits that he deserves much of what he gets, and after learning the full extent of his stalking, Taiko stops trying to defend Kotoba. In the revised version of the ending in which Kotoba lives, Taiko calls Kotoba's actions unforgivable.
• Spirit Hunter: NG:
  • One of the Screaming Author's victims was the very man who brutalised their body and killed them. As their other victim was unintended, it makes it easier to feel pity on them and their horrible circumstances.
  • The Killer Peach's victims were all part of a club that was embezzling money out of their company, and one of them was a peeping tom with photos taken non-consensually of his female co-workers. Moreover, when she discovered that their president was responsible for covering up a department store fire that killed twenty people, they brutally murdered her and hid the body. Suffice to say, Akira has no sympathy for what they went through at her hands.
• In Murder by Numbers (2020), Dick Stanford was a terrible person and abusive to his co-worker Kathleen, and Blake was cheating on his wife.
• On the title character's romantic path in Melody, Steve, after mistreating Melody during and after their relationship, gets tied to a lamppost in his underwear with a message written across his chest in lipstick.
• Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane:
  • Catherine Bellwether. She was a professor at the Imperial Academy who routinely bullied faculty and students alike, especially those belonging to the commonfolk like Wallace. She was planning to take the job of Headmaster Redmond and replace the academy staff with arcane constructs. It's no wonder no one mourns her.
  • William Frega. Described as a tyrant by her daughters, he failed to recognize Beatrice's impressive achievements in magic and even said that no woman would lead House Frega in his absence. He took advantage of her gained blindness to further diminish her influence. He even arranged the marriage of his daughter Laefe so House Frega would be led by a man. To top it all, he had plots against the Crown and other noble houses.
  • Lloyd von Sanctus. A prime example of the nobility of Wyverngarde who looks down on commoners and believes they owe him. He was responsible for the death of Justin Waye but got off scot free thanks to his status. Also, he's so fixated on profit that he can't genuinely understand why Dracongen's employees would destroy their product if it meant they had a chance to save a man, even though it cost a small fortune to the company.
  • Coraline Sybil. She's aware of the serious flaws of the legal system her house is responsible of, but does nothing about it. She justifies it by saying that the cosmic forces wanted it so, and that it's up to the commonfolk to try to improve the system by learning law. Tyrion is rightfully pissed about this and immediately ends his first and last conversation with her shortly before she's murdered.

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