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  • AGENCY has a non-lethal variant, with D.W. Read getting kidnapped by The Nine. Considering what an absolutely insufferable little bitch she is in her origin series, it's unlikely that many readers of the comic are going to feel bad for her, even though, technically speaking, she didn't do anything to bring the kidnapping on herself.
  • The Bikini Bottom Horror: Mr. Krabs is revealed to have taken one of Patrick's limbs and imprisoned the clone that regenerated from it, and harvested the clone's regenerating flesh for the Krabby Patty Secret Formula. He's later delimbed and killed by a bunch of other Patrick clones.
  • Camp Counselor Jason: The three convicts from The Last House on the Left find themselves in Camp Crystal Lake and, unlike in later ones, do not get any Adaptational Heroism; they are still as sadistic, vile and hateful as they are in the original movie. However, they each end up getting indirectly killed by Jason and each time is as hilarious as it is satisfying for the readers (especially those who have watched the movie).
  • The Croaking has Del Brakindale, who is generally unpleasant, racist and unstable: He tries to kill Scra twice - firstly by purposefully dropping Scra, who is fastened to a stretcher and unable to move at the time, into a canyon (later blaming it on faulty equipment and getting away with it), and secondly, after his Sanity Slippage, by breaking into his room at night and trying to stab him with a self-made knife. Scra kills him in turn.
  • In Daughter of the Lilies, a Drath invokes this on Professor Fike while possessing his body through a brutal Hannibal Lecture about Fike's responsibility for his son's death. However, Drath are Consummate Liars with an innate sense of their victims' deepest fears and darkest secrets, so its word on the matter is entirely unreliable.
  • Dominic Deegan has Jerk Jock Brett Taggarty and Smug Snake Serk Brakkis who met a grisly gory death at the powerful magic of Celesto Morgan. And with good reason, too: Brett was a drunken misogynist, a bully, assaulted a nurse and the titular hero's younger brother Gregory. Serk Brakkis, on the other hand, tried to force the people living in the devastated town of Barthis to sell their property to him to make a stadium for the deceased Taggarty, owns five dummy companies and the Slaughterball team Taggarty was in, the local newspaper for smear campaigns against Gregory and Donovan, as well as plotted the murders of several people including Dominic AND Celesto. And all while playing by Screw the Rules, I Have Money!.
  • By the time Lee Smith is finally caught by agents of the temple he robbed in The Dragon Doctors, he has already established himself to be a Manipulative Bastard who is perfectly willing to commit murder to cover his tracks.
  • Drowtales:
    • Miir'kin Vel'Vlozress was by all counts was a pretty big jerk, even attempting to murder the protagonist in cold blood, but the way he goes out is still pretty gruesome.
    • Then there's Rikshakar, who gets killed by a demon in a Curb-Stomp Battle, but this was just after he'd tried to rape a little girl and force her to shapeshift into a more mature form after kidnapping her.
    • There's also Nihi'liir Vel'Sharen, whose arm gets possessed and has to be amputated, but only because she got impatient with Faen, slapped her and quickly found out just how dangerous empaths can be. It then happens to her again and this time it proves to be fatal, as Ariel manages to sneak up on her when disguised and decapitates her from behind, which is a pretty dishonorable death but was exactly what she deserved since she grew up into even more of a sadistic bully and was in charge of a slave army created by the Conscription of commoners who otherwise wouldn't have gotten involved in the war at all.
    • Pretty much a lot of characters, too many to count. From a half-dragon that wanted to rape Ariel, human royals who bathe in elf blood for immortality to entire Drow houses and raiders who don't bat an eye at rapine, slavery and mass murder of each other, surfacers, and anything else, the webcomic is a grabbag full of Asshole Victims from all races.
  • Dumbing of Age's author David Willis has been quoted to say that nobody will die in the comic since the subsequent mourning would slow the pace of the plot to a crawl. The two exceptions out of three, Ross MacIntyre, an abusive parent willing to send his adult daughter to gay conversion therapy and kill everyone that gets in his way and Blaine O'Malley, a mob stooge willing to kidnap and murder multiple people to get his daughter to drop out of college fall into this trope. Coincidentally, the former ends up killed by the latter. The third exception, Mike Warner, doesn't count for this trope because, while an asshole, he was more benevolent than the other two and actually died saving his friend from them.
  • In this Edmund Finney's Quest to Find the Meaning of Life strip, a cannibal uses this trope to identify with vegetarians.
  • Mr. Gonyer, the insurance agent from the LJ sample chapter of Fishbones, who won't give coverage to a family man for his wife's breast cancer treatment because it's "too experimental."
  • In FreakAngels, Luke is caught raping a woman he's placed under Mind Control, a firefight breaks out, and he's finally shot and killed. Repeatedly. It doesn't stick.
  • In Ghost Theater, the spirit of Pureun Shim pretends to be an innocent, guileless girl that just wants to say a final goodbye to her father before passing on, which the protagonists do their best to help her fulfill. It turns out two be a ruse to get her father in a position where she can murder him. But since he was hideously neglectful and sold her to human traffickers to support his gambling addiction, it's hard to blame her.
  • Girl Genius: Any time members of the Knights of Jove, or more generally Tarvek's extended family, end up killed pretty much no one is sad to see them go as they're all a bunch of backstabbing murderers involved in a centuries-long conspiracy and about half of them are in league with the Other.
    • Anevka or at least the clank with her memories since her father killed her fries her sadistic father, the leader of the Knights of Jove, Aaronev Sturmvoraus when she realizes he finally has the piece he needs to accomplish his goal of bringing back the Other. This same individual is someone Anevka intends to copy the voice of and then kill for her own rise to power and her father managing to overwrite their mind would make it difficult for her to get her way.
    • Rudolph Selnikov was complicit in the plan to wasp all of the citizens of Sturmhalten and help the extremely cruel princess Anevka rise to power. He's next seen leading the Knights of Jove faction attacking Mechanicsburg as part of a convoluted plot to put a puppet Storm King on the throne of an Empire that hasn't existed for over two hundred years where he is killed by Gil.
    • His Majesty's council-appointed advisor has a total of 4 panels including the one where he violently exits the airship.
  • El Goonish Shive has a comically over-the-top (and quite anonymous) villain apparently about to be eaten by an Eldritch Abomination.
  • Grandmother Beetroot: The titular Cool Old Lady is visited by a woman who is forced to do impossible chores by her husband, and beaten when she inevitably fails to complete them. Using her old woman magic, Grandmother Beetroot disguises herself as the abused woman and fulfills all of the house tasks for her. Finally, after the husband makes one disparaging comment too many, she retaliates by killing and eating him.
  • Head Trip runs on these instead of fuel. Including the only constructive criticism certain shows may deserve: "BLAM!". Or, a javelin.
  • Heart Core: The first humans that Ame kills when she reaches New Ayers. Let' count their dooming qualities, shall we? Trying to gleefully rob a seemingly helpless woman in a dark corridor? Check. Attempts to rape her once they got her pinned to a wall? Check. Being heavily implied to have done this to other people on more than one occasion? Check. Funny how the "helpless woman" turned out to be Ame herself, having lured them all into a trap so that she could later tear out their hearts!
  • Homestuck:
    • During the 3x showdown between Vriska, Eridan, and Gamzee, Kanaya shows up and bisects Eridan with her chainsaw. Considering Eridan had gone insane, blinded Sollux, murdered Feferi, almost killed Kanaya too, and destroyed the only hope they had to revive the troll race, it's hard to feel sorry for him.
    • Later, during and after "[S] Game Over":
      • Kanaya does it again, this time slicing Gamzee in half from crotch to crown. Even by the time of the previous showdown mentioned above, Gamzee had already killed Equius and Nepeta, and he's later revealed to have been working for Lord English for quite some time. He furthermore gets Terezi into an abusive relationship with him and beats her to within an inch of her life, then kills Karkat when he tries to save her. By the time a completely enraged Kanaya cuts him down, there's no arguing that he didn't deserve it.
      • A non-fatal one: John gives an absolutely brutal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to Caliborn, the sociopathic, misogynistic little shit who killed his sister, bullied her friends, and grows up to become the Big Bad of the whole comic, Lord English.
      • Aranea, a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who turns out to be a Knight Templar Glory Hound, kills Her Imperious Condescension's heir, Jane, as well as two other characters, manipulates the God Tier clock so they stay dead, and mortally wounds Terezi. It says a lot that, when the Condesce—who has been well-established by this point to be a cruel, ruthless, genocidal tyrant—snaps Aranea's neck and throws her into a fire to make sure she stays dead, she (the Condesce) is the more sympathetic one.
  • I'm the Grim Reaper: Played straight with Jordan, who was a serial killer who'd killed ten women. Played with in regards to the second sinner, as Scarlet finds her sin to not be too bad, and very played with Ana, who killed her terminally ill son, but also had an awful past, and accepted her punishment with grace.
  • In Kevin & Kell, many of the prey species (and occasionally, predators) that get themselves eaten are often established as jerks, and often die as a result of their transgressions. For example, one Jerry Springer parody character tries to get Kell to eat Kevin by bringing up his online affair, but when it turns out the "affair" was actually with Kell, and he persists in trying to provoke her, she eats him.
  • In The Letters Of The Devil, Chuck Castor is murdered right after it is revealed that he killed an underage mistress.
  • Lighter Than Heir: The Zamoran farmer who Zeppelin knocks out. While he was indeed defending his farm from robbers when he cornered three of them he was going to murder them in cold blood instead of simply holding them until the police arrive.
  • Monster of the Week has a lot of this in episode Shapes, where villagers are slaughtered one by one by a werewolf.
    Scully: You know, the werewolf was the only one who wasn't dick to us.
  • My Deepest Secret: Brian and Emma's professor both totally had it coming after (in the case of the former) attempting to rape Emma, and in the latter's case was Hot for Student (though Brian doesn't actually die).
    • The end of season one suggests that Sophie is to become Elios' next victim. Although first made to look like it's out of jealousy, it's later shown after it's revealed that she's the one who spread the video of Emma and Yohan around school and pushed Emma into a river she's actually this. Jealousy was likely involved anyway.
  • The Order of the Stick
    • After Haley returns to Greysky City, she attracts the attention of her former colleagues in the Thieves' Guild, all of whom want to kill her. Haley briefly reminisces that she grew up with those people, but then points out that "Everyone I grew up with is an asshole," with her former acquaintances ranging from people who run dog fighting rings to wife-beaters. Haley thus feels no guilt about killing them.
    • Tsukiko is a prisoner in Azure City who, after breaking out of prison, joins up with Xykon. As such, hardly anyone feels bad for her when, after she tries to blackmail Redcloak with her knowledge of his plan to betray Xykon, Redcloak has her eaten alive by the undead under her control.
    • Malack is part of Tarquin and his companions' plot to control an entire continent by manipulating the three dominant powers, and eventually plans to commit genocide in the name of his evil god. After turning Durkon into a vampire, Malack crosses paths with Tarquin's son Nale, who proceeds to kill him just as he'd killed Malack's vampire spawn. While Nale is hardly any better than Malack, it's hard to argue that Malack didn't have it coming.
    • Nale himself is one of the heroes' most persistent foes, and he has attempted to kill his good twin brother Elan on multiple occasions. Shortly after killing Malack, Nale brazenly admits to the deed to his father Tarquin, then foolishly insists that he wants nothing to do with Tarquin. Tarquin, who now sees Nale as nothing but a liability, fatally stabs Nale, before Tarquin's ally Laurin disintegrates Nale's corpse in revenge for Malack's death. Elan, who loves his brother despite his evil, is horrified and overcome with grief, but Haley gently reminds Elan that Nale was a terrible person who got what he deserved.
      Tarquin: I admit I'm surprised by this anger, Elan. I was under the impression that there was no love lost between the two of you.
      Elan: I never wanted him dead. Ever.
      Tarquin: Well, then you're in the minority. I can't think of anyone else who spent any amount of time with Nale who didn't at least entertain the idea.
      [cut to Sabine, apoplectic with rage at Nale's death]
    • While Kubota's murder is a Kick the Dog moment for his killer (Vaarsuvius), Elan is more upset that V killed someone at all more than he is upset that Kubota died (more specifically, Vaarsuvius didn't even know who he was or what he'd done, they just killed him because they saw he was tied up and talking about a trial, and assumed that he was a villain). As Kubota was a scheming bastard who killed the only character who was loyal to him just so he could pull a Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit, Elan is right when he says Kubota got what was coming to him.
      Elan: It's not like he didn't totally deserve it, but...it just feels so weird, even for a jerkhead like him.
  • Rebirth: Noah finally kills Ian once he sees him attempt to push Neo into a horde of zombies in order to save himself. Having seen Ian do this to his own daughter Iva in the previous timeline, Noah realizes how much of a danger Ian truly is and pushes him to the zombies.
  • Schlock Mercenary has Colonel DeHaans, a Torture Technician who really loves his work, particularly the thought of brainwashing his victims into thinking that he's a nice old man. When he tries this on someone who can bypass the memory hack a few days later, it gets him assassinated and eaten.
  • Slightly Damned:
    • Lazuli's partner Talus is shown to be every bit as sadistic and cruel as she is, so nobody (except Lazuli) missed him when Kieri sent him to a watery grave.
    • Melli, the Fire Bee guardian. Even if she wasn't responsible for the mass burning of St. Curtis like it's rumored she was, she's still an unpleasant anti-demon xenophobe who rigs carnival games so her customers lose every time. So her death at Moonshade's hands doesn't really inspire much sympathy, even though he's worse.
    • After a failed attempt to steal a valuable potion set from the Sinclairs and a brief tussle with Rhea, Abyset is ran through by an angry Kieri's blade. It's unknown if he actually died, but seeing that he was a slimy coward who preferred to "fight" Medians physically smaller and weaker than him, it's no love lost if he did.
    • Dakos is shown to be a nasty piece of work, even for a demon. He calls Iratu's men "cripples" directly in their presence, scars a young angel child to get his mother to sing for her (which he knows she can't do,) and assaults Buwaro while he's unconscious and can't fight back. He's finally killed when a berserk Lazuli spears him through the throat with an icicle, to the lamentation of no one.
    • After the hell she put Kieri through, permanently traumatizing the poor girl to the point she has suicidal tendencies, and murdering numerous innocent people in cold blood, no one, nobody shed any tears when Lazuli is finally killed.
  • This comic from A Softer World.
  • Something*Positive
    • Subverted with the completely evil Avagadro Pompey, who actually did die of natural causes. Kharisma was trying to kill him, but all her murder attempts failed. Naturally no one believes her and she's convicted of murder.
    • And then you had Avagadro's former sex slave, Pepito. Once freed from Avagadro's clutches, he proved every bit the Jerkass Avagadro was. And then he was torn apart by rabid anime fangirls.
  • In Spacetrawler the Eebs, the oppressed Slave Race that the protagonists are trying to free, used to be one of the most dangerous and violent species in the galaxy; the only reason they didn't actively terrorize other planets was because of their extreme laziness.
  • Many of the clientele in Suicide for Hire fall into this category, particularly Ty Montlet and the guy from the mall.
  • Trevor (2020): Played with. While Dr. Maddison clearly thinks the trope is being played straight with Trevor killing the members of the medical team, some of them had no idea the experiments done on Trevor were Cold-Blooded Torture, because they were intentionally Locked Out of the Loop, despite Dr. Maddison’s attempts to inform them, although he doesn’t know his messages had been intercepted. Additionally, while those of them in the know, know that what they were doing is undoubtedly unethical, they went along with it because a) the pay was good, and b) the military wasn’t giving them a choice anyways.
  • Unsounded:
    • Starfish is an evil Dirty Coward who targets and rapes children, enslaved a bunch of kids then had them cut open to smuggle first silver in them and tried to rape Sette. His death was not mourned by anyone.
    • Ephsephin works for Starfish and plans to kill Sette or give her to Starfish to rape and enslave because she stole his hat, he gets even more angry and decides he wants to cut off her tail when she cuts his face in self defense when he keeps chasing and attacking her after getting his hat back. The manner of his death is gruesome, but him dying is no loss to the world. He treats enslaving kids as a simple job and is furious any of them would dare fight back.
    • While Master Ballanstern dies prior to much characterization in the main comic "Orphans" features him comparing Plats to dogs, heckling a grieving Quigley into attacking him and breaking faith with the rest of his order to try and turn Quigley and Uaid over to Cresce after the Black Tongues had promised them sanctuary. That the Black Tongues cut the throat of a member who would go against the rules of their order to defy the wants of the rest is not surprising.
    • Delicieu, the original not the individual currently using his name, was split in half by the last survivor of a series of torturous experiments, while torturing his young apprentice he'd forced into sex slavery and stating he was going to kill him for being a failure. Fittingly the jerk was only able to be killed because he couldn't hear his killer casting over the sound of his apprentice's screams. His colleagues were disturbed at best by his work, and no one liked him nor realized he'd been killed for decades.
    • Ricker acts like his actions are those of a devote Ssaelit, and uses it as justification for his Rape, Pillage, and Burn tactics against Gefendur believers, including children, despite his religion's texts specifically warning against child murder and rape. When Toma finishes him off it was just a matter of who present would do the deed.
    • Karl Toma uses his pretty boy looks to quite literally get away with murder and manipulate Emne to get a position in the nobility in order to aid Bell's coup. He's planning to kill his wife and is a slimy git who just wants power and feels entitled to it. His disfiguring torture, rape and murder in Ruck's claws may have been horrific but was rather karmic all the same.
    • General Bell is a bloodthirsty warmonger and bigot who used the innocent Inak in a plot to curry political favor with the nobles by framing them for Rilursa's assassination and then having them rounded up and sent to camps and/or slaughtered in the streets. He also had an entire town put to the sword to ensure none of those who'd seen the illegal WMD he was having smuggled through their town could spread the word while using the tragedy to paint the queen in a poor light.
  • xkcd: "Barnard's Star" shows Barnard's Star boasting about how it will still be shining trillions of years after the Sun has burned out. The Alt Text reads "Ok, team. We have a little under 10,000 years before closest approach to figure out how to destroy Barnard's Star." "Why, does it pose a threat to the Solar System?" "No. It's just an asshole."

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