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Times where Evil Is Petty in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- All For Luz: Tyler Wittebane admits to himself he doesn't care if its considered petty playing mind games with the assassins he hired by not telling them the new All For One's identity is Luz Noceda, due to them having superpowers, despite making it harder for them to find their target for him.
- The Chaotic Masters: When Wong sees that Jade is bidding on a Palisman at the auction of magical artifacts, he deliberately bids on it just so he can keep her from getting it. He even says that he plans to use its essence in a spell or try to absorb it himself, just to get her goat, disgusting many of the other participants.
- Megatron is without a doubt the most petty character in Code Prime:
- It's implied that he ordered the Lancelot to deploy at Narita just to spite Zero by forcing him to fight Suzaku, as Megatron knows Zero's true identity as Lelouch.
- Attacking the SAZ after Euphemia declares her intent to ally Britannia with the Autobots and Black Knights to oppose the Decepticons is cruel but understandable. However, Megatron's actions fall into this trope when he kidnaps Euphie and replaces her with a Pretender in her likeness and using said Pretender to initiate a massacre. And there's also having Airachnid make Euphie watch the carnage.
- He keeps calling Elita-One "Ariel" long after she changed her name. Kallen even lampshades the pettiness of it.
- He made the Dark Queen using Marianne's preserved corpse just to screw with Lelouch. While he acknowledges Marianne's skills as a pilot, that appears to be secondary to tormenting Lelouch.
- Enchanting Heist: Shortly after waking up in Japan, Luz stumbled across a burglary and wound up getting accused of participating in it. It's eventually revealed that the real reason she was falsely accused is because Shido was forced to cut short his Attempted Rape of a woman due to the commotion caused by said burglary, so he tried to have the book thrown at her for "ruining his fun". Luz has no idea that he even exists.
- Halloween Unspectacular: In the story "Alien!", it turns out that the reason the government agents are convinced Gaz is an alien is that Zim told them she was. Apparently, he was hoping she'd get dissected, for no other reason than he knew it'd upset Dib.
- In Harry and the Shipgirls, it is revealed that Tom Marvolo Riddle's motivation for using Myrtle Warren to create his first Horcrux stemmed from him overhearing her say that her Muggle boyfriend Andrew Evans was prettier than he was.
- Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail: Sara envied Chloe for seemingly having a better life than her, what with being the daughter of a Professor and all. So she mounted a one-girl campaign to make her miserable, gradually turning the bulk of their classmates against her. Her pettiness proves to be her downfall: she goes out of her way to rub in Parker's face the idea that she 'won' by driving Chloe away, and even after her true nature has been publically exposed and she's been duly punished, she continues making casually cruel, needlessly nasty comments about Chloe. Even when she's completely surrounded by Chloe's friends and family, or when she's facing down a pissed-off Parker powered by the Unown.
- Selene Gallio, aka the Black Queen in The Last Son has it in for Superman and the Kryptonian race as a whole. Given that she couldn't hurt him directly (because an unknown force implied to be Doctor Fate stopped her every time she tried to get close), she took to sabotaging a friendship he struck with a young girl he had saved from a fire, by manipulating her father into intercepting Clark's mail so she thought he'd forgotten about her. Said girl? A young Emma Frost, and years later she even twists the knife further by revealing this fact to her face.
- A memorable example in the Doctor Who/My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic Mines of Dragon Mountain. The team is at the mercy of an ageless immortal embodiment of evil that blames The Doctor for its imprisonment 500,000 years prior. He rants at length about how he will make them immortal just so they will suffer longer as he tortures them for all eternity. As a character points out, he's immortal and already billions of years old and as such shouldn't be all that bothered by the 500,000-year imprisonment. He responds, "What can I say, I'm petty."
- In Mischief, All for One not only corrupts Hana Shimura into a villain, he gives her an outfit that looks exactly like her grandmother's hero costume. When they meet for the first time at the USJ, All Might briefly mistakes her for his dead master.
- Queen of Blood (SirWill): The S9 being this is the focus of Dracul's "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Jack Slash. When it comes down to it, the Slaughterhouse 9 are actually somewhat pathetic in the long term, based primarily around Jack's ego and desire to prove his own selfishness as a valid way of looking at the world. To an Evil Overlord, even on a purely selfish level, this is quite possibly the most pointless, self-defeating goal in the world – the planet may remember Jack and spit on his name, but when it comes down to it, he will remain a footnote, as nobody will care who such a small-minded monster was.
- Raise Yourselves Up (We're Done) has Lila and Alya successfully convince Miss Bustier that Marinette and Chloé shouldn't be allowed to join their class on their annual school trip. The banned pair respond by starting their own World Travellers' Club and raising money for their own adventures. Upon learning just how successful their fundraising efforts have been, Lila and Alya attempt to get the World Travellers' Club shut down out of petty spite.
- The Sister in the Door
is based on the premise that Seeley Booth (Bones) is the post-Shanshu Angel (Angel). When the First Evil is able to bring Angelus back into existence by essentially extracting him from Booth's brain, Angelus abducts Lance Sweets and uses a chainsaw to cut off Sweets' leg while pretending that he's Booth based on nothing more than Booth's residual anger at the time Sweets told Brennan that Booth was dead, even though Angelus doesn't actually care about that. - This basically sums up Electro's attitude in Spider-X; as in canon, Max Dillon has the power to be particularly dangerous, but while determined to apply himself at school, he makes it clear more than once that he is less interested in the Brotherhood’s long term agenda of war against the humans in favour of having fun with his abilities right now, such as going out and robbing ATMs. This can also be shown in his first actions when he realizes that he has his powers; what he did to his father was essentially an accident (albeit one he wasn't sorry about), but Dillon then proceeds to render his old school bully brain-dead.
- In Tara Sheppard, Warren and Amy’s vendettas against the Scoobies are based on fundamentally petty motives, and Warren even destroys a small hotel and kills fifteen people just to try and kill John Sheppard when John had only had one direct confrontation with Warren at that point (and that was actually with a robot that Warren had apparently set up to get destroyed as part of his plan anyway).
- What It Takes: After Ray's survival is revealed, he finds himself struggling to make the arrangements for his legal resurrection. It's implied that Darhk is making it harder out of sheer spite.
- Foxfire: Despite deciding to abandon the Woman in White in order to marry a wealthier woman, her lover decided to disfigure her and take their children with him so that she'd be completely unable to move on.
- Ozai in silent before it's shearers, despite holding no love for Zuko, asks Iroh to return his son to him simply because he hates the idea that Iroh has become a Parental Substitute to Zuko, someone that, from his point of view, rightfully belongs to him.
- In canon, Aizen deserted the Gotei 13 because he was a Godhood Seeker, and in Uninvited Guests he initially leaves for the same reason - or so he claims. In chapter 25, however, after pretty much everything has gone wrong, as he chases Yachiru Kusajishi down, he starts to wonder if the actual reason he deserted was because, deep down, he just wanted to get the hell out of Soul Society because most or all of his coworkers were some level of insane. In other words, he started Playing with Syringes, committed treason, framed multiple people for crimes he committed, and stabbed his own lieutenant, among other things - just so he would have an excuse to desert.
It had never occured to him until now, but he was beginning to wonder if, deep down in his subconscious, he hadn't really defected from the Shinigami for the simple reason that he wanted to get away from the Shinigami. [...] Maybe, he thought maybe, in my heart of hearts, godhood is just a convenient excuse. Maybe all the experiments, and depravities, heartless murders, and plots... maybe it was all just a pretense to allow me to finally ditch those goddamn lunatics.
It was a hard pill to swallow, honestly. Even if it was only a theory, he wouldn't have thought himself capable of being so very petty. But now, looking as everything he had spent so long building was either frozen, on fire, or somehow both, all due to the actions of two children? He was beginning to think he was even pettier than that.
"When I find that little brat," he murmured to nobody in particular, "I am going to murder the hell out of her, and I'm going to do it just because it makes me feel better. How is that for petty?!"
It was a hard pill to swallow, honestly. Even if it was only a theory, he wouldn't have thought himself capable of being so very petty. But now, looking as everything he had spent so long building was either frozen, on fire, or somehow both, all due to the actions of two children? He was beginning to think he was even pettier than that.
"When I find that little brat," he murmured to nobody in particular, "I am going to murder the hell out of her, and I'm going to do it just because it makes me feel better. How is that for petty?!"
- Didier of Nobility, who exists solely to torment his brother Anjou as much as possible. It's actually noted that not only did Didier go so far as to start a war just to hurt Anjou, but has actually blown off multiple chances to kill him just so he could mess with him more.
- let's go out with a bang!: Team DR practically runs on this; they're all about using petty shit to remind everyone who's participated in their mutual killing games that they OWN them.
- There's a Happy Ending Override for or did it eat the little girl?, as they use their contracts to force the cast of Season 53 to attend a promotional event alongside other alumni.
- In a nasty little bit of Loophole Abuse, they exploited the fact that Tenko wasn't meant to survive her season to deny her any access to the Survivor's Fund, meaning she's not being reimbursed for her participation like the others.
- When they learn that Makoto and Kyouko were planning to secretly get married so that Team DR couldn't turn it into a major promotional event, they promptly schedule some conflicting events where their presence is absolutely mandatory, forcing them to cancel. They then blame the couple; if they'd simply informed their employers of their plans, they wouldn't have 'unknowingly' caused a conflict.
- It's heavily implied that one of the main reasons The Director forces the final Sadistic Choice onto Himiko is specifically because he knows how much she means to Tenko and is making her watch as she decides whom she should shoot. All because he resents the fact that Tenko sent her season Off the Rails.
- It may not exactly be an 'evil' act, but in Mercy, Zatanna muses that Hades literally rubbed Hippolyta's face in the fact that the Amazon queen was 'the other woman' by deliberately sculpting Diana to be an almost exact double for his true wife Persephone, save for the fact that Diana has her mother's eyes.
- In Final Chapters, Emmeraude, the final antagonist of the previous story, Dawn of Darkness, after losing almost everyone she cares for, her subordinates, the daughter she created whom sacrificed herself and her dreams to create peaceful world, abandons her dream and joins Zeref in his desire to destroy humanity. All for the opportunity to destroy Fairy Tail but most of all Lucy. Lucy had stumbled upon her experiments while investigating disappearances, something Emmeraude was responsible for, back in Isle of Dragons and unknowingly took a key part of Emmeraude's plan with her. Once she captured Lucy, Fairy Tail took on the whole kingdom to get her back. This led to Emmeraude's downfall. And she blames Lucy for all of it. She even outright admits that she is petty.
- In Chaos Theory, Morgan Le Fay reveals she is serving Angra Mainyu willingly. She simply hates Saber/Arturia Pendragon so much that she would rather let the world get destroyed and everyone die than let Saber be happy for a single second. Morgan also acts as a colossal bitch to everyone.
- As in canon, Crowley tends to perpetuate low-grade evil in fan fiction. For example, in Not Quite the Devil You Know, Dean is baffled until realizing that unlike the body-snatching, murderous demons he's used to, Crowley's idea of evil is to glue a coin to the sidewalk and skip out of paying for a meal.Crowley: I'm also responsible for hotel plastic card keys that never work, the Z-block appearing when you don't need it in Tetris, and restaurants being fresh out of dessert despite it being an hour until closing time.
- In For Love of Magic, Lucius Malfoy keeps Penelope Clearwater from getting a decent job after she graduates because she once gave his son detention.
- Unraveling Emotions:
- Love Is a Weakness in Hell, as it can outright negate a Sinner's natural Resurrective Immortality. So Alastor tried to break Vox's heart and destroy his feelings for him to save him. However, Alastor is also a jealous, petty bastard, as evidenced by his treatment of Husk — in this AU, Husk took a younger Vox under his wing and views him as a surrogate son. When Alastor got his hands on Husk's soul, he promptly condemned Husk from having any contact with Vox whatsoever, to the point where he's automatically teleported away whenever Vox gets close. He can't even hear others talking about Vox unless they choose their words carefully. All because Alastor believes that if he can't be close to Vox, Husk shouldn't be able to be around him either.
- Alastor also sets the whole plot into motion when he responds to Vox repeatedly airing the footage of his Moment of Weakness during the climax of Season 1 by broadcasting a recording of Vox's Love Confession. The rest of the cast pretty much universally agrees that this was Disproportionate Retribution; while Vox was also being petty, Alastor's reaction is viewed as beyond the pale, as he was basically revealing to all of Hell that Vox had a human heart and could be permanently killed.
- HTTYD The Kunoichi's Way: Daigo is so jealous of Hicca being accepted into the clan despite being an outsider that he sabotages a bow she was going to use on a mission, hoping that she'd get killed. In the sequel, his anger over her beating him fair and square in a duel spurs him to betray his clan and travel to Berk with the intent of murdering her.
- In Paradise?, it ultimately turns out that Zim trapped Gaz in an Ironic Hell Lotus-Eater Machine in order to torment her forever... because she hit him.
- Zim the Warlord: Irken Reversion: After Zim and the other Reverted Irkens are declared as Warlords, he celebrates by going to his former banishment site on Foodcourtia to rub Sizz-Lorr's face in the fact that he's no longer legally bound to work for him. In turn, Sizz-Lorr makes him eat at the tentacle monster-infested Booth 12 just to spite him.
- In Queen of All Oni, Jade's entire motivation, other than amassing enough wealth to live a life of comfort, is to prove that she's "better" than her family. On top of that, she's also apparently spending her free time tormenting her Jerkass classmate Drew.
- Daolon Wong also qualifies: even depowered and arrested, he still gloats about how his spell has ensured that the Chan family's future is ruined.
- When El Toro costs him Kuro's mask, Hak Foo takes his as payment. Jade actually points out how petty this is, but does admit that they are evil.
- The Stronger Evil: After getting double-crossed by Shendu and losing his magic, Daolon Wong tries to have revenge by stealing a gun and shooting Valerie Payne whom Shendu called his bride. Trying to hurt a good character just to have revenge on what someone else did is petty enough, but what makes it more so is the fact that Wong first met Valerie only hours earlier and doesn't really know her as a nemesis like he knows the Chans as. Just the knowledge of her being meaningful for Shendu suffices for him to target her in the name of revenge. It gets him immediately killed.
- For His Own Sake:
- Most of the Hinata girls prove to be incredibly petty, along with Granny Hina.
- Naru turns out to be the worst about this by far amongst the Hinata girls: she's willing to play along with Mutsumi's attempts to "help her" get back together with Keitaro purely because she wants another chance to beat the shit out of him again. Ideally while he's completely unable to defend himself.
- Kagura and Chisato also stand out in this regard, especially given how the two of them go out of their way to target Keitaro simply because he happens to be getting close to somebody whom they've decided they want to make miserable.
- The Story of Apollo, Daphne and Luca: An Italian Tragedy: Vincenzo, the school's resident Big Jerk on Campus, despised and even Blackmails Luca just because the latter is best friend with Giulia (on who Vincenzo harbors a massive crush).
- Alya and the Harem Reality: After learning that somebody prevented his victory in the previous incarnation of the universe, Hawkmoth vents by spending an entire week making akuma with especially nasty powers and themes, like "Street Purger" and "Cannibal Guy".
- Chloé's Lament: Part of the reason why Chloé makes the reality-altering Wish in the first place is out of frustration over the fact that the mind-controlled Marinette is unable to react to her Evil Gloating over her victory. She also wishes to swap lives with her out of the belief that Marinette will be just as Hated by All as she was, intending for Marinette to be utterly miserable while she basks in all the benefits of becoming the new reality's Ladybug heroine.
- In Coeur Blanc, Lila manipulates most of her classmates into turning completely against Adrien after he learns about Marinette's crush and gently rejects her. Why? Because this coincided with him making his relationship with Kagami official, and Lila is upset that she didn't hook up with him instead. So she takes advantage of how everyone else knew about Marinette's crush to paint Adrien as a heart-breaking bastard.
- CONSEQUENCES:
- THREATENING A TSURUGI: While confronting Kagami in the bathroom, Lila brings a glass of red wine along just so she can throw it on her dress, gloating about how this means she'll have to miss the rest of the ball. Kagami then reveals that Marinette made the dress with a special hydrophobic fabric, which causes the wine to soak into Lila's dress instead. Then Lila decides to cause Kagami's mother to have an accident, which she again brags about.
- In MAMA BEAR, Lila notices Manon playing with a Ladybug doll. When she asks where she got it, Manon declares that Marinette made it for her...so Lila grabs it and rips it apart before the poor girl's eyes, simply because she can. This one action results in her true nature being revealed by Nadja.
- The Dad Villain AU is created when Gabriel Agreste succeeds in making his reality-altering Wish. Despite his victory, he remains so spiteful towards Ladybug for having opposed him for so long that he specifically Wishes for the magical backlash from Emelie using the broken Peacock Pin to be redirected towards her and her loved ones. Targeting the latter first and foremost for some Revenge by Proxy, aiming to gradually kill everybody she cares about before making her suffer as well. Ultimately, he cares more about using his wife as an unwitting vehicle for his vengeance than he does about her safety, despite how that was supposedly his whole reason for becoming Hawkmoth in the first place.
- Fashion Upgrade: Lila decides to get Marinette removed from Ms. Bustier's class because she hates that she couldn't keep her expelled. This also proves to be one of her Fatal Flaws: her inability to be satisfied with the misery she's already inflicted and compulsion to keep trying to twist the knife ends up repeatedly backfiring.
- Leave for Mendeleiev:
- Chloé feels entitled to harass Marinette whenever she pleases, and responds to her transferring into another class by barging in and trying to brag about how she can't escape her. When Ms. Mendeleiev shuts that down, she becomes obsessed with proving that she can still hurt her favorite victim and does whatever she can to punish anyone who gets in her way.
- In particular, she goes out of her way to sabotage Aurore's chances of winning the Weather Girl competition, bragging to her afterwards about bribing people to vote against her.
- She also singles out Kim, blaming him for 'ruining her party' and Blackmailing him into serving as her pack mule by threatening to shut down the pool if he doesn't comply.
- Adrien proves himself to be a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing with a massively petty streak, constantly taking out his frustrations on Plagg by exploiting the power he holds over his kwami, such as transforming before he can finish eating and threatening to feed him nothing but mushrooms.
- Nathaniel got Jean banned from the art room by complaining that his improv comedy had no place there, and feeds into Mme Bustier's delusions by claiming that Jean's a 'bad influence' on Marinette. Because neither he nor his teacher is too happy about Marinette learning how to stand up for herself, and he's jealous of Jean getting to spend time with her.
- During the finale, Hawkmoth proves to be an utterly Ungrateful Bastard when Tempavo attempts to cure Emilie of her coma. He pettily gloats about the idea that Tempavo will end up comatose as well, and doesn't take the news that the Peacock Pin had been repaired well.
- Chloé feels entitled to harass Marinette whenever she pleases, and responds to her transferring into another class by barging in and trying to brag about how she can't escape her. When Ms. Mendeleiev shuts that down, she becomes obsessed with proving that she can still hurt her favorite victim and does whatever she can to punish anyone who gets in her way.
- In Marinette Dupain-Cheng's Spite Playlist, Marinette transfers to another school after the "Chameleon" incident. Despite 'winning' their feud, Lila makes a point of targeting Marinette's former best friend Alya, making sure she's particularly engulfed in her lies. During one encounter, Lila tells Marinette outright that she's going to keep hurting her classmates with her manipulations purely because she knows it bothers her.
- Miraculous Ladybug Salt-Shots: A Price to Pay. Thanks to his son betraying her, Gabriel Agreste learns that Marinette is Ladybug. He decides to punish her for getting in the way of his ambitions for so long by Wishing that somebody in her family will be sacrificed as fuel for bringing his wife Emilie back. Karma then turns this spitefulness against him: in the new reality created by the Wish, Tom Dupain-Cheng is killed in a car accident that Gabriel causes — and while he avoids a fair trial through bribery, Emilie is so disgusted by his blatant disregard for human life that she promptly divorces him, and then disowns Adrien because he didn't care about what his father had done. So, while Emilie is alive again, she wants nothing to do with him or Adrien.
- The One to Make It Stay:
- Lila spots Marinette with Luka and immediately makes her way over and starts flirting with him, simply because she wants to take away everything Marinette has.
- While out and about, Chloé happens to notice Aurore and decides to harass her about how she was akumatized into Stormy Weather after losing the Weather Girl contest, simply because she can.
- In What Goes Around Comes Around, Lila invites all of her classmates aside from Marinette and Chloé to an event Gabriel is holding in Versailles. Secretly, she intends to use the event as a chance to actually make good on some of the promises she'd made to her classes, purely to show Marinette up and turn the class further against her.
- In Cain, Katsuki becomes increasingly obsessed with ensuring that Izuku doesn't get to enjoy even the slightest shred of happiness in his life, simply because he can't stand the idea of his favorite victim being anything more than a "worthless deku".
- From Muddy Waters: Not only did All for One murder Nana Shimura, he went out of his way to court and marry her daughter.
- One for All and Eight for the Ninth: All for One spent several decades in the early age of Quirks trying to destroy the superhero comic industry or use his influence to have them forbidden in Japan... all because his brother Yoichi loved to read them.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Loved and Lost: Prince Jewelius shows himself to be beyond spiteful once he has stolen Equestria's throne and turned the public against most of the heroes. After he has sentenced the heroes to slavery and/or exile, he gifts Spike and later Rarity with specific itemsnote just to remind them of the failures they were banished for. He makes the life of Ponyville's inhabitants miserable through raised taxes and trading prohibitions on the excuse that the hometown of the "traitorous" heroes needs to be made an example of. In reality, he just hated Rarity's comment that nopony would possibly want to ruin "such a glorious event like the wedding of the wonderful Princess Mi Amore Cadenza". Even his entire hatred toward his aunt Princess Celestia and loving cousin Princess Cadance boils down to petty jealousy. After he himself destroys his own credibility, he decides to rule through fear instead of propaganda and massacre all the inhabitants of Ponyville along with the heroes, throwing a guard out of a window simply for questioning if this is going too far.
- In The Negotiations-verse, Princess Celestia chose to leave the country of Saddle Arabia behind simply because they never bowed to her rule, maintaining their own culture. Effectively, she condemned an entire country of her own kind to a slow and miserable end simply because they weren't part of her sovereign nation.
- Played for Drama in Shorn - a Recursive Fanfiction for Last Evening Together where Rarity refuses to shave her hair at the monks' request. Rarity sees the monks' demands as petty posturing, forcing the Princesses and Element Bearers to 'humble themselves' before their order by submitting to a Traumatic Haircut. The otherwise Reasonable Authority Figure Celestia supports compliance with their demands due to 'tradition', as well as the fact that she and Luna went through the process once ages ago. However, Rarity is proven to be right because the princess' manes were preserved in a shrine that gloats about their submission.
- In Androgyninja's A Dose of Venom, Sakura learns that there are those within Konoha who were so upset by how well she performed in the Chuunin Exams that they are hellbent on sabotaging her career, potentially getting her killed with their efforts... despite how the whole village is currently struggling in the wake of an enemy assault. They are simply that petty.
- The Council in Naruto Veangance Revelations kills the entire audience of a Cooking Duel after their team of Madara and Sasuke loses to Ronan. Ronan himself, while not intended as evil, also counts, as he's willing to kill people for the most minor reasons, such as a shopkeeper who tries to stop him from shoplifting merchandise, a gay man who likes his penis, and several women for being fat.
- In Team Tobi, Tobi/Obito kidnaps Team 7 during the Wave mission and forcibly recruits them as Amegakure Genin with him as their Jounin Instructor solely because he saw how much Kakashi cared for them and wanted to prove that he could be a better teacher.
- your move, instigator (draw your weapon and hold your tongue): Sakura laughs at Danzo's declaration that they're "uniting the shinobi world", telling him that "You can't unite the shinobi world if you're fighting everyone, silly." He responds by ordering a Book Burning that includes her favorite book. Incidentally, Sakura is six at the time, underscoring the sheer pettiness of the move.
- The Black Fairy's entire M.O. in The Dark Lady. Aside from kidnapping Zelena's baby, she stages the miscarriage of her own unborn grandchild so that she could escape the Dark Realm, holds her now still-living grandson and granddaughter hostage in exchange for Rumpelstiltskin’s heart, only to use it to alter Rumpelstiltskin’s memories so that he does not remember Belle as being anything more than a maid. She casts a barrier that traps Belle, Mrs. Potts, and the rest of the family in the Dark Castle and threaten to hurt Belle and her children if they do not pretend everything is fine.
- In This Bites!, the World Nobles have Vivi accused of treason because the Nefertari family refused to ascend with them 800 years ago.
- In How To Tame Your Demon Beast, Belos casually admits he cursed his brother to forcefully turn in a wild demon beast, claiming it was right for Caleb to become a monster since he loved them so much — when Caleb only fell in love with a witch. Belos then destroyed several witch villages by unleashing the Owl Beast to go on a rampage, adding yet another layer to his abuse as he was forcing his cursed brother to ruin the land he cared for, and potentially killing his new family in his mind-addled state.
- A Year To Fill An Empty Home: After the Internal Reveal that a Corrupt Cop intentionally misled Akira's parents about the nature of his no-contact order, Akira's friends speculate that this was Shido's handiwork, and that he used his influence to render Akira as isolated as possible.
- Ash's father in Clash of the Ketchums starts a movement to raise the Trainer licensing age to eighteen (with any current trainers under eighteen forced to go back to school) in an effort to "protect the children" all because of an argument with Ash when he calls him out on trying to interfere with his life despite being a Disappeared Dad for Ash's entire life up to that point. That Ash proves him wrong about all his assumptions of Pokémon training being a waste of time only makes things worsenote .
- In Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, Cyrus being an Omnicidal Maniac bent on creating a World of Silence is terrifying, but using Ash as his test subject for his Reality Warper abilities (by screwing with his intelligence and skill levels as he pleased) was a major dick move.
- Glitter Force: Into the Glitterverse: In the blooper reel, Glitterette scolds Erika for saying a curse word. Joker then proceeds to say an even worse swear just to piss her off.
- Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness:
- Falla Cii killed her parents, destroyed her homeland, and wiped out the entire chronofly race, with the exception of herself and her sister Luna, simply because she was jealous that Luna was chosen to be the next queen over her. Furthermore, it's revealed in Act VI that the reason Luna could never get a date is that Falla lied to all of her potential suitors that their father would execute any of them who tried to approach Luna without hesitation, for no reason other than to be a Jerkass.
- As revealed in a flashback in Act IV chapter 29, Felucia, before her Heel–Face Turn, once stole a car, nearly killing two human teens in the process, simply because it matched her eyes.
- Roar of the LION: Inori, hands down. When Cinder decides to wash her hands of her and tries to steal her research, Inori hacks into her Do Not Adjust Your Set threat after Pyrrha accidentally kills Penny to broadcast her own, outing Cinder, Emerald, and Mercury to everyone in attendance and exposing Cinder's planned attack on Vale purely to spite her.
- In Of White Trees and Blue Roses, King Aerys vetoes Rhaegar's idea of reviving the ancient tradition of Targaryen polygamy in order to stop Robert's rebellion by wedding Lyanna, simply because he had not thought of reviving the tradition himself in order to hold on to Joanna Lannister.
- In Darth Vader: Hero of Naboo, this is a major characteristic of Palpatine/Sidious. Plagueis even says that his apprentice has a habit of savoring even the smallest victories too much.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows: Everything Shredder does is motivated purely by his Irrational Hatred of Yoshi/Splinter, as well as being pissed that Tang Shen chose Splinter over him. Kasumi openly calls him pathetic on multiple occasions.
- In the Courtney and the Violin of Despair, the spirit enforcing a lethal curse on the titular violin decides that the 11-year-old Courtney isn't worth killing, so it contents itself with inflicting petty humiliations on her.
- Sillyhat Productions: Bernkastal demonstrates just how petty she is for her final move in "Cat Box of the Golden Witch": she enacts a Diabolus ex Machina by having Gohda stumble into the clock that just happens to have the switch that blows up the island, denying Battler his bittersweet victory.
- Subverted in Devil's Diary. As snooping around New York City under an assumed identity, Magneto visits the offices of Marvel Comics and meets Stan Lee. Stan tells him among other things he and Kirby met Doctor Doom once (which indeed happened in Fantastic Four (1961) #10), and Stan thought Doom was going to murder them because he plays the villain role in their comics. But it turned out that Doom considers their antics below his notice. Magneto briefly considers getting rid of them when, not if, they put him in a comic book, before deciding it's not worth it.Stan Lee: Doom knew who we were, because we put out the book, and he knew that Reed Richards was going to pay us a visit that day, to tell us about that recent case with, um, Sub-Mariner, I think. All I could think of was: I'm gonna die. He's gonna murder me right in my office, because we've been putting out comic books with him as a villain. We were lucky. He didn't give a hang about our comic books. He just wanted to take out Reed Richards, and he waited around until Richards came, and knocked him out.
