Times where Karma Houdini Warranties expired in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail:
- In canon, the Cat gets no comeuppance for how she's indirectly responsible for making Simon the denizen-hating asshole he is today. In the story, Chloe and her partners set up an Engineered Public Confession that makes her reveal that she is completely at fault for abandoning an 8-year-old socks and sandals wearing Simon and never coming back to him, completely ruining her reputation and leaving her a sniveling wreck begging for mercy.
- Chloe herself faces this in Wisteria, where events in the sequel story lead Chloe's biases be exposed and laid bare not only to herself, but to the Infinity Train she had once been a flawless heroine to as a whole.
- Kwami Magi Homura Magica
- Felix Fathom, who betrayed Ladybug and gave Gabriel her Yo-Yo to allow him to steal all of her Miraculouses but two, endangering the world and reality itself in the process, ends up targeted by Homura as part of her own plans to obtain the Miraculous. The resulting offscreen fight sees the Peacock Miraculous he got for his betrayal stolen, he himself shot, blown up, and hit with several blunt objects including a chair, made to spill all of his secrets to the magical girl, and when reality is changed by Marinette and Homura's wish, Ladybug and the heroes are able to defeat Gabriel as Shadow Moth, meaning he will never get the Peacock Miraculous at all.
- Lila doesn't suffer particularly much in the bulk of the story, as even with Alya realizing she's a liar in league with Paris's number one supervillain, she is a much lower priority than Homura's time-looping quest to get a Miraculous wish, the revelation of the existence of Magical Girls and Incubators, and the looming disasters that are Walpurgisnacht and Kriemhild Gretchen. However, once reality is recreated Lila is mentioned to have become a new type of evil superhuman known as a Branded, and is as a result defeated by Ladybug.
- Kyubey gets a multi-staged one. First gets first-hand confirmation that the Kwami, which his kind can't see, are real, which is so shocking to him from the implications of their view of the universe it renders him completely catatonic while watching Ladybug and Homura's fight. Then the fight then ends with Mami shooting him when he makes clear that he's one of the Incubators that Homura mentioned on international television. The reason he breaks his catatonic silence is because he hears Ladybug's solution to the Magical Girl problem which is to use the Miraculous Wish to alter history and have those who would become Magical Girls instead gain their powers from the Kwami, essentially robbing the Incubators of their victims by being outcompeted by genuinely kind power-granting beings, a plan that Kyubey cannot stop. Finally when the plan goes into motion via the new reality created by the Miraculous wish, the Incubators, now called Balancers, are in a much worst place because they can only use far inferior individuals than before, leaving them unable to harvest nearly as much energy, and what energy that are able to get from their victim's emotions is frequently taken away by the heroes.
- The Vigilante Boss and His Failed Retirement Plan: Bakugou suffered no consequences for a decade of abuse that culminated in Izuku's Bungled Suicide. Once they reunite at Yuuei and it becomes clear that he's feels no remorse or regret whatsoever, Futaba and Ojiro set out to quietly ruin his reputation, spreading rumors that are only amplified by Bakugou's continued bad behavior. Thanks to his self-centeredness, he doesn't realize until it's far too late and is spelled out for him that he's effectively sabotaged his own future prospects. The only reason Aizawa doesn't expel him as well is that the teachers don't trust him to handle it, assuming he'd either turn self-destructive or take out his anger on others.
- In Lantern's Day, In Canary's Night: Malcolm Merlyn finally faces justice for his many crimes after he's captured by the Green Lantern Corps and sped off to Oa to be imprisoned there for the rest of his life.
- In New Hope University: Major In Murder, Juliet is responsible for manipulating J.P. into killing Emily during the second chapter, but avoids being punished, since J.P. was the one who did the deed, even if the rest of the group stops trusting her. Three chapters later, however, Juliet ends up as the murder victim.
- In Constant Temptation, Light picks up the Distress Ball almost immediately after he decides he doesn't really want to be Kira anymore.
- Fever Dreams: As soon as Light decides he wants to quit being Kira, he has to deal with potentially deadly and/or incriminating disaster after disaster.
- To Those Who Are Never Going Home: Karma catches up with Thales/"Arundrel" in the form of Hubert gutting them with Edelgard's axe.
- Can't Go Home Again: After everything William Afton got away with, his own family works together to scuttle his plans and ensure that he's Dragged Off to Hell.
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
- One Step Ahead has Bloo's run out after the events of "I Only Have Surprise for You". After he tricked the whole house into helping play a cruel prank on Mac on his birthday, Mac stops visiting Fosters. This spurs the rest of the residents into having a collective Jerkass Realization, with Wilt calling Bloo out on being a Toxic Friend Influence. Bloo spends the next three years as a social pariah, continuing to insist that Mac will eventually come crawling back to him; once he finally goes looking for his creator, however, he sees that he's completely moved on with his life and is forced to recognize what he's lost.
- The Odds Were Never In My Favour: Ron and Leo pull a Deadly Prank by poisoning the Ravenclaw victory feast with experimental prank products, making several victims horribly ill. This leads the Board to start cracking down on the school, forcing Dumbledore and the 'Golden Trio of Gryffindor' to start facing consequences for their actions. Aside from Neville, who isn't really involved with the worst of their behavior, they refuse to see the error of their ways.
- The End of the World:
- All three of the District 12 Head Peacekeepers over the years (Beckett, Cray, and Thread) are sadistic, exploitative figures. One of the LiveJournal stories shows that Thread was left behind and died in the bombing of District 12, while Beckett and Cray are in The Nut when Gale bombs it (with Cray having an Oh, Crap! moment as he realizes exactly what Gale will do but can't convince Beckett of the need to evacuate) and get buried alive.
- Ausonious Glass is murdered by Rebels in District 4 shortly after his second transfer out of being District 12's escort.
- Adamaris Brinn, a Capitol Corrupt Corporate Executive, backer of Snow, and regular participant in the Victors Sex Slave trade, has all her money looted by Capitol rebels in the Mockingjay Rebellion.
- Claudius Templesmith is exposed as a pedophile during Finnick's airing of Capitol Secrets in The Narrow Path. Although his fate is ultimately not revealed, he would probably be ostracized at the very least for his crimes if he survived the riots in the Capitol that followed the airing.
- As per canon, Brutus gets killed by Peeta, whom he'd constantly mocked and not taken seriously.
- In The Sea or the Mountains, Yamai Ren is arrested for kidnapping Tadano and attempting to kill him.
- An Alternate Keitaro Urashima:
- The Hinata Girls unintentionally void their own warranty when Keitaro first arrives at the inn. Instead of following Granny Hina's wishes and letting him become the Inn's manager, they drive him away. Since Hina refuses to delay her travel plans, she ultimately leaves Haruka in charge instead, who is none too pleased with how they treated Keitaro and hits the girls with much harsher rules and regulations than they're used to.
- Motoko repeatedly attacked others with her katana in public. When she tries this on Keitaro, he becomes the first of her victims to press charges, getting her arrested. She then loses a duel to him, has her Fair-Weather Girl Posse abandon her, gets kicked out of the Kendo Club, and is stripped of her position as the heiress to her family's school.
- Kaolla Su learns that her status as Molmol's princess can actually work against her when she carelessly eats a bunch of brownies that were meant to fill a big order, costing the bakery business. She has it pointed out to her that if it became widely known that their princess was a gluttonous thief, it would wreck her homeland's reputation, and is forced to Work Off the Debt. In addition, word spreads about her thievery to all the other local bakeries, leading to her picture being posted with warnings about her bad tendencies.
- For His Own Sake:
- All of the Hinata Girls suffer a massive Humiliation Conga after Keitaro, who finally Grew a Spine after years of "comedic" abuse, leaves the Inn and dumps Naru, and, in trying to undo those, get hit hard by the natural consequences of their actions. Granny Hina, Naru, Mokoto and Mitsumi refuse to acknowledge their mistakes and attempt to get an extension, only for their poor choices to keep biting them.
- By the final chapter, Naru is the only one insisting that her warranty is still valid and trying to force her way across the bridges she personally torched.
- On the side of non-main characters, the villainous Chisato and Kagura had apparently got away with bullying and outright murder and spent most of the fic exacting an apparently effective "revenge" scheme against people that got in their way. That's it, until the last chapter, where, after their revenge scheme falls spectacularly, Chisato gets arrested after being dumped by Kagura, and then Kagura gets trapped by the last living relative of her murder victim, who then exacts revenge on her spoiled ass.
- Love Hina Double Trouble has both Naru and Makoto framed for murder. The murder victim in question was a known pervert, the type of guy both girls would easily go off on, and it is revealed that while they never got into trouble for similar acts of violence, the police still kept tabs on them due to their violent behaviors. Unlike the two previous examples above where their failure to admit they were wrong became their undoing, they both have a Jerkass Realization from the incident while the real killer is eventually arrested.
- The Devil's in the details: In In God's Eyes
, Peter has all of SHIELD's files regarding himself, Matt and their alter egos erased as revenge for all of the shit Fury put them through, outing Peter as Stark's heir to the public being the last straw for both of them.
- BURN THE WITCH: Lila's runs out after Rose learns the hard way that she conned her into running a Fake Charity. Cue Rose’s akumatization into Witch Hunter, who magically knows about all of Lila’s misdeeds and promptly rouses a mob to burn her at the stake for them. What follows is one long Humiliation Conga as Witch Hunter exposes all of Lila’s lies to the world in real time, meaning Lila’s attempts to lie, manipulate, and backstab her way out of trouble only make her situation worse. Marinette winds up being the only one who’s even remotely willing to help Lila, and then only because she’s morally opposed to letting anyone suffer such a horrible fate. In the end, Marinette saves Lila from being burned, but since all her misdeeds were publicly exposed, she still has to deal with the mundane consequences of everything she’s done, which means she's grounded, suspended (in-school, with months of make-up work to keep her busy), a social pariah, and facing legal trouble for fraud and trespassing.
- Chloé's Lament:
- Being the Mayor's daughter shielded Chloé from most punishments for her bratty, bullying behavior. Then she made a Wish to switch places with Marinette, expecting to get all the perks that came with it — including becoming Ladybug. Instead, she finds herself as a 'mere' baker's daughter... one who has stuck with her bullying ways and faced actual consequences for her actions, such as being on probation for repeatedly harassing the beloved Spoiled Sweet daughter of Mayor Sabine.
- Miss Bustier constantly excused Chloé's misbehavior, putting pressure on her victims to 'lead by example' while she let her continue unchallenged. In the new reality, she still defended Chloé... but as a result, her own neck's on the line, and she has to monitor her and actually try and prevent further incidents. If Chloé causes more trouble, Bustier will also be held responsible, since the only reason she's still attending Dupont is thanks to her teacher; thus, she has to do her job or risk losing it.
- Every story in the CONSEQUENCES series features this. Typically, the focus is centered around Lila discovering that she's pushed her luck too far and voided her own warranty; she attempts one of her usual tactics, only for it to backfire completely and land her in serious hot water.
- WORLD BEYOND serves as a Formula-Breaking Episode focused on Hawk Moth and Mayura running headlong into this; Lila plays a much smaller role and is dealt with off-screen.
- WORLD BEYOND II is a similar Formula-Breaking Episode, this one expanding on Felix's Offscreen Karma from WORLD BEYOND.
- Everything You Deserve: When Chat Noir learns that Ladybug has found a way to free the kwami from being bound to the Miraculouses, he fears that Plagg won't let him misuse his powers anymore. So he combines the Ring and Earrings to make a long-winded, self-centered Wish trying to warp the world into his ideal playground. Instead, his requests wind up twisting around into a dose of Laser-Guided Karma: in the new reality, he's now known as a villain, with Chloé as his partner in crime.
- The Karma of Lies features several of these running out:
- Gabriel Agreste is lured out of hiding by Ladybug Running The Gauntlet of a series of akuma, leading to his Secret Identity being exposed when she snatches the Butterfly Brooch from him. Unable to transform and save himself, he's arrested and bandied off to jail, his fashion empire and reputation crumbling to ruin as he faces charges for terrorizing Paris as Hawkmoth.
- Adrien discovers that Protagonist-Centered Morality does not apply to him like he assumed, as his arrogant belief that everything will work out precisely how he wants and he'll never have to deal with any negative consequences catches up to him. He allowed Lila to con their classmates through a series of schemes, assuming he'd never fall for any of her tricks since he already knew what she was like. Lila exploits his belief that his 'taking the high road' and turning a blind eye helped her realize the error of her ways, luring him into becoming her Unwitting Pawn before backstabbing him.
- Marinette’s classmates see theirs run out when she realizes they’ve been taking advantage of her and cuts ties with them. Not only do their reputations suffer due to Ladybug publicly snubbing them, their attempts to force Marinette to forgive them land them in trouble for harassing her. Then they realize too late that Lila was a Con Artist who sold off their hard work and personal achievements for her own profit. At best, they’ve lost valuables and precious keepsakes; at worst, Lila’s scams have severely damaged their future education and career prospects. This is Downplayed for the few who recognize their mistakes and are willing to work for forgiveness. While they can’t get back what they lost to Lila, the other consequences are blunted by their sincere efforts to make up for their hurtful treatment of Marinette.
- Downplayed with Chloé, who is offered a chance to redeem herself by assisting Ladybug with her plan to take down Hawkmoth... but must do so secretly, knowing that she will never get credit for the role she played and will never be Queen Bee or a superheroine again. Her willingness to cooperate and to continue working on herself gradually enables her to earn herself a happier outcome.
- Defied by Lila; she’s Genre Savvy enough to recognize when the winds of fortune have changed and immediately switches tactics, cutting her losses and making plans to get out of Paris while she can. Thanks to Adrien continuing to try and protect her, her preparations pay off, and she leaves him to take the fall for her crimes while she skips town with her ill-gotten gains. By the epilogue, she's seemingly gotten away scot-free... but Ladybug warns that if she continues down this path, she'll build up more negative karma that she won't be able to escape. Given the existence of the Rabbit Miraculous, it's implied that she may have verified Lila's future herself... something that haunts Lila once she realizes it.
- The Recursive Fanfiction Karma Overbalance, however, shows a possible epilogue in which Lila's warranty still expires, although in a way that is very tragic for the one who made it happen: Marinette's Paranoia Gambit results in Lila deciding to come back to France looking for some way to blackmail Marinette and force her to prevent the alleged Bad Future she told her, but she ran into Adrien, who hits his Rage Breaking Point when she tries to recruit him and murders her for the living hell he's enduring thanks to her. When Ladybug arrives at the crime scene, Adrien (way long past the Despair Event Horizon) tells her to call the cops and accepts he's going to end up in jail for life, "where he belongs". Marinette can only see the whole mess as Karmic Overkill and wonder when will Karma come gunning for her for her part in it.
- Another Recursive Fanfiction, Karma's a Bitch, plays it straight for Lila when she teams up with Zoe Lee. After using Lila as her Unwitting Pawn to scam their classmates out of their most vauable possessions, Zoe deliberately voids Lila's warranty by helping Marinette and Adrien expose her lies. Then she skips town with the profits, leaving Lila to take the fall not only for her own misdeeds, but for Zoe's scheme as well. Lila then makes things even worse for herself by assaulting a police officer, skipping her court date, threatening Marinette with a knife, and publicly admitting her affiliation with Hawkmoth. By the end of it all, she's penniless due to being forced to pay back everyone who was scammed, her mother has disowned her, leaving her at the mercy of the foster care system, and she's widely hated for aiding a terrorist. Chloé's warranty also expires when her father finally puts his foot down over her bratty behavior and sends her off to correctional school. This is inverted for the classmates and Adrien, who are portrayed much more sympathetically than in The Karma of Lies and haven't accrued any bad karma to begin with, but still face consequences in the fallout when other people's warranties expire.
- In a third one, Karmic Backlash, Lila for all means and purposes wins when she returns to Paris and steals the Miracle Box, beginning a karmic avalanche that destroys Marinette, as well as the fifty million Euros and brand new identity she got in The Karma of Lies, but she really cannot help herself and begins the exact same song and dance she pulled in France over in Italy, using the powers of the Miraculous to successfully frame the sole student who did not buy her Celebrity Lie for assault. Said student, with absolutely nothing left to lose now that she is going to jail, encounters Lila in the courtroom's bathroom and stabs her at least a hundred times before the police pull her away.
- LadyBugOut:
- Alya's starts unraveling right at the start of the series, as her attempts to defend the way she deliberately misrepresented what happened with Oblivio not only disgust most of her classmates, but encourage Marinette to start her own official Ladybug blog in order to combat her disinformation. This tanks the Ladyblog's reputation, and Alya's refusal to admit her mistakes keeps making matters worse for her.
- Chloé's expires around the time that she's informed that she won't receive the Bee again, as her father is forced to crack down harder upon his daughter's spoiled behavior due to its negative impact on his campaigning and career. All those akumatizations she's caused reflect too poorly upon him to be ignored any longer.
- Lila loses hers when she tells one lie too many, attempting to turn the class further against Marinette and Ladybug only to get caught out and snagged in her own web. It finally expires fully after she gets caught on camera accepting an Akuma, leading to her expulsion from school pending an investigation.
- Adrien's runs out as the public becomes more aware of Chat Noir's entitled behavior towards Ladybug, leading to him being stripped of the Black Cat Ring.
- Leave for Mendeleiev:
- Zig-Zagged with Chloé. While Marinette transferring to another homeroom makes it harder for Chloé to torment her favorite target, Mme Bustier continues to give her a free pass for her behavior. That said, she also learns that her father's wealth and connections can't always save her from the consequences of her actions, such as when she is exposed as a design thief during the hat-making contest and is publicly chewed out by her own mother banning her from all future competitions.
- Her fortunes shift further once Mme Bustier has a Heel Realization following a chat with Ladybug, forcing her to recognize that she's been enabling her at the cost of all her other students. Bustier starts reconsidering and revamping her teaching methods, meaning Chloé stops enjoying her preferential treatment.
- And then Chloé's sense of entitlement bites her even harder when she decides that she deserves the Bee Miraculous simply because it's her favorite color. Her tantrum over the heroes' refusal to hand it over gets her akumatized, winding up on the wrong end of a Curb-Stomp Battle, followed by her mother punishing her for it.
- Adrien's warranty starts unraveling after Lila arrives. She falsely reveals to him that she's the Fox Heroine, asking him to keep her secret; shortly afterwards, she finds herself kidnapped by one of Hawkmoth's akuma, and Chat Noir blithely outs her by loudly reassuring Ladybug that she's got her Miraculous. Lila is forced to admit that she lied and comes out of the experience with a serious grudge against his alter ego, spreading Malicious Slander about him. Meanwhile, the book he stole from his father's safe doesn't get returned, and Gabriel sticks to his promise to keep him out of school until Chloé throws a tantrum about it. He also finds himself being called out on his behavior more and more, with Ladybug's patience for his blithe attitude running out as she realizes that she might not actually have to put up with The Load as her 'partner'.
- The final death knell for his warranty comes when he threatens to quit while Syren is flooding the city, attempting to blackmail Plagg into revealing Miraculous secrets on pain of letting all of Paris drown if he doesn't get what he wants. Syren knocks the ring out of his hand, and while he hopes that Ladybug's Miraculous Cure will return it to him, it's returned to the Guardian instead.
- Zig-Zagged with Chloé. While Marinette transferring to another homeroom makes it harder for Chloé to torment her favorite target, Mme Bustier continues to give her a free pass for her behavior. That said, she also learns that her father's wealth and connections can't always save her from the consequences of her actions, such as when she is exposed as a design thief during the hat-making contest and is publicly chewed out by her own mother banning her from all future competitions.
- Miracle Queen Aftermath has Chloé facing consequences for her actions in the Season 3 finale of Miraculous Ladybug. The story also delves heavily into the fact that the absence of serious consequences up to this point has done her no favors, and Adrien's attempts to get her warranty extended lead his classmates to spell out just how much damage she's done, calling him out for putting her above everyone else.
- One step backwards and Three forwards is set in a world where Hawkmoth won, and he and his supporters reshaped reality with their Wishes. However, none of them took into account that their Wishes were being granted by a pair of furious kwami, who twist their desires around to ensure their eventual downfalls. So while they start off believing that they're in the clear, karma closes in on them over the course of the story.
- Recommencer zig-zags this when it comes to Adrien. His misbehavior while fighting Restarter — particularly declaring that he won't follow her plan unless she 'admits that she loves him' — is witnessed by many civilians, who call him out on his immaturity. This incident also convinces Master Fu that he cannot be trusted with the power of Destruction, leading to him being stripped of the Black Cat Ring. However, Adrien also has a Jerkass Realization about his behavior before losing the Ring, and Ladybug convinced Fu to give him one last chance by giving him a less powerful Miraculous. So while Chat Noir is forcibly retired, Adrien is able to become The Atoner.
- Two Letters:
- In Marinette's eyes, this applies to practically everybody in Paris. Over the course of her two-year career as Ladybug, she found that everyone seemed to be taking her protection completely for granted, letting her shoulder the burden of being their reliable heroine while they did nothing to assist her in return. As far as she's concerned, their warranties ran out when she retired, replacing herself with a Sketchy Successor that she considers to be "the hero the people of Paris deserve".
- Alya was hit especially hard by this. Back when she was still friends with Marinette, she constantly dismissed and downplayed the consequences of her impulsive, reckless tendencies, enacting Zany Schemes and Going for the Big Scoop with no regard for those around her. Whenever she got called out for her thoughtlessness, she insisted that it wasn't her fault and was "no big deal anyway", no matter how hurt Marinette or anyone else was as a result of her actions. After Marinette's retirement, she investigates the new Ladybug, and impulsively decides to disguise herself as Chat Noir as part of a plan to expose her. This ill-thought-out plan completely blows up in her face, shredding her reputation and forcing her to face some massive repercussions.
- The Recursive Fanfiction Face The Truth has Marinette's own warranty expiring, however. She discovers the hard way that entrusting the power and the good publicity of the Ladybug Miraculous to Lila Rossi, one of her most insidious bullies, was just not a good idea. The one-shot ends with Marinette's darkest secrets (the fact she used to be Ladybug and that she hates the rest of Paris so much that she sicced Lila on them) revealed to the whole city, reigniting the loathing of those she ruined as collateral damage of her scheme, and rushing to try to beat Lila's lights out (but Lila is in Ladybug mode, so that might end in more pain).
- Villain Of Your Own Story has several run out in the new reality created by Alya's Wish:
- Alya's tendency to pursue 'big stories' without doing any fact-checking bit her alternate self hard when she posted Malicious Slander about the principal and several others at her old school on her 'news blog'. Her family wound up moving to Paris in hopes of giving her a fresh start, only for her to stumble across and steal the Butterfly Brooch. Her decision to become a 'fake supervillain' in hopes of flushing out other Miraculous users and stealing their Transformation Trinkets so she can use them to become a superhero herself sets up her further downward spiral.
- One of Chloé's bullying temper tantrums was Caught on Tape and went viral; her classmates shared their stories of how she harassed and abused them, leading to her being sentenced to juvie.
- Lila threatened the daughter of a celebrity who refused to play along with her Celebrity Lies; like Chloé, this was Caught on Tape, and she got shipped off to reformation school.
- Without the Butterfly Brooch, Gabriel attempted to use the Peacock Pin for his own selfish ends; as a result, he wound up comatose.
- Weight Off Your Shoulder:
- One of the first things the new Ladybug does is reveal to Paris how Chloé betrayed the Miraculous Heroes, along with revealing how her debut as Queen Bee involved Chloé botching an attempt at Engineered Heroics by paralyzing a train conductor. She forces the way that Mayor Bourgeois constantly covers for his daughter out into the open, causing both to face heavy scrutiny.
- Ms. Bustier and Principal Damocles also find themselves facing review for how they enabled Chloé for so long. Ms. Bustier also has a Heel Realization about this and tries to improve, while acknowledging that it may be too late to save her job.
- Adrien is a Downplayed example: his complaints about Chloé's downfall enable Marinette and his other friends to see beneath his mask, as he tries — and fails — to guilt-trip them into feeling sorry for their long-time bully, revealing that he prioritizes her feelings over theirs. He gets better about this after his Jerkass Realization.
- The expiration of Adrien's warranty gets played straight with Chat Noir: the new Ladybug swiftly makes clear that she'll no longer tolerate his Skewed Priorities and unwanted flirting, warning that if he doesn't shape up soon, she'll relieve him of his duties. Then he straight up attacks her for suggesting Gabriel is Shadow Moth, refusing to hear out her evidence and forcing her to strip him of the Black Cat Ring.
- Gabriel's warranty expires when he transforms into Shadow Moth in full public view, leading to his capture and arrest.
- Lila's runs out after Gabriel is arrested, along with the new Ladybug publicly naming Marinette as her best friend, causing the collapse of all her Celebrity Lies and other deceptions.
- What Goes Around Comes Around:
- Gabriel sets his own downfall into motion by leaving his lair in order to personally attack the Dupain-Cheng bakery, giving Ladybug the chance to take him down once and for all. What's more, he brings both the Butterfly and Peacock with him to become Shadow Moth, meaning she recovers both Miraculous in the process.
- Nathalie's runs out due to her boss keeping security cam footage of their conversations, providing ample evidence that she was complicit in his terrorist scheming.
- Lila and Chloé have theirs run out for the same reason, as Gabriel gloated about their willingness to work with him. Ironically, they manage to ensure their downfall by openly going after the akuma butterfly Catastrophe sends — being witnessed and Caught on Tape trying to catch the butterfly destroys any chance of them claiming to be Unwitting Pawns.
- Mayor Bourgeois seals his own fate by trying to use his connections to keep his daughter's warranty intact. His threats against the police department result in massive backlash against him as his corruption is exposed.
- Adrien's expires when he tries to convince his classmates that his father should be shown leniency for his crimes as Hawk Moth. Marinette and the rest are appalled at how he dismisses and downplays the impact of Hawk Moth's terrorism, especially given how they've all been personally touched by his cruelty. Then he cements it by accidentally revealing that he knew about Lila being a Con Artist and kept quiet about it, letting them all be scammed, completely shattering his classmates' trust and drawing Officer Roger's attention.
- Truth & Journalism immediately establishes that both Principal Damocles and Ms. Bustier are on thin ice: while they successfully bargained for leniency since there was evidence Mayor Bourgeois would have replaced them with Yes Men if they hadn't bowed to his whims, they were still reprimanded for their misconduct, and both are being closely monitored. Their continued careers rest on their ability to stick to the straight and narrow instead of falling back into their usual habits.
- In With Time, several people who had comfortably gotten away with wrongdoing for a long time finally face comeuppance.
- Lila manipulates the class (sans Adrien and Chloé) into traumatizing Marinette to the extent that she has to change schools and just seeing her former classmates becomes a panic trigger for her. Then, with Gabriel's backing, she forces Adrien into an abusive relationship. However, once her mental health recovers, Marinette and her new friends expose Lila as a liar, a bully, an emotionally abusive stalker, and a terrorist sympathizer in spectacular and public fashion, leaving her humiliated, Hated by All, and facing criminal charges for bullying, sexual harassment, and her affiliation with Hawkmoth.
- Marinette's classmates relied on her to help solve their problems and settle disputes, but all of them (sans Adrien and Chloé) shout at her and treat her like a bully once Lila sheds some crocodile tears and brings out some fake screenshots. They also enable Lila's harassment of Adrien and try to push them together without noticing how uncomfortable Adrien is. Once Marinette leaves, the class falls apart, with all of the couples breaking up and the rest of the school avoiding them like the plague due to how toxic they are. After Lila is exposed, they have to live with the guilt of knowing they treated Marinette horribly for no good reason and did nothing while Lila openly harassed Adrien. Marinette isn't petty enough to rub their faces in any of this, but responds to their apologies by making it clear their friendships are over because after what they did, she'll never be able to trust them again, and she's only talking to them at all to get closure so she can move on with her life.
- The revelation that Lila not only got away with months of truancy, bullying, harassment, and faking disabilities, but was actively enabled by the school staff gets Francois Dupont put under investigation, and it's implied that the worst offenders will at minimum lose their jobs, if they're not banned from teaching altogether.
- Gabriel's emotional and mental abuse of Adrien, including callously ordering him to date Lila because it's good for his brand after Adrien works up the courage to admit she's been harassing him, puts Marinette and her new friends on the warpath. They spend months digging up dirt on Gabriel and his brand, then unleash it all at once, driving his name into the mud and ruining his company virtually overnight. Adrien then sues for emancipation, backed up with mountains of evidence of Gabriel's abuse, and walks away with most of the Agreste fortune as compensation for his father's actions. Gabriel winds up ruined, bankrupt, and alone except for Nathalie, as his employees are quitting as fast as they can turn in their resignations and no one in the fashion world wants anything to do with him or his company after learning of his shady business practices.
- The Wolves in the Woods:
- Alya and most of Marinette's former friends bully her to the point of driving her out of Francoise Dupont in hopes of impressing Lila and earning her favor. They instead spur Lila's Jerkass Realization and get into serious trouble when their parents learn about their harassment.
- Kim and Alix are hit especially hard, as their parents bargain for them to be sent off to Military School rather than spending time in juvie.
- The investigation into the bullying leads to Markov being confiscated and Max getting into serious trouble when they discover viruses on his robot.
- Alya is hit hardest of them all when the rest of the class recognizes her Toxic Friend Influence and cut her out of their lives.
- Ms. Bustier's policy of pressuring victims to Turn the Other Cheek and forgive their bullies while said bullies suffer no repercussions for their actions are finally brought to the attention of the school board — and the public, thanks to Nadja covering the incident. She ends up losing her license, along with facing jail time.
- Principal Damocles gets busted for spending school funds on superhero merch, as well as gambling with said funds.
- Adrien's insistence on defending Lila and blaming Marinette leads to him lying under oath during the trial. His father also listens to his whole testimony and is unimpressed, yanking him out of Francoise Dupont and returning him to homeschooling under close supervision.
- Meanwhile, his warranty as Chat Noir runs out when Nadja runs an expose revealing many of his worst actions as a Nominal Hero to Paris, tanking his reputation.
- Alya and most of Marinette's former friends bully her to the point of driving her out of Francoise Dupont in hopes of impressing Lila and earning her favor. They instead spur Lila's Jerkass Realization and get into serious trouble when their parents learn about their harassment.
- Your Wish is my Command: Lila unintentionally voids her own warranty when she Wishes to have Adrien's life, creating a new reality where her mother married Gabriel Agreste... putting her squarely under the thumb of a Control Freak. She has no way of returning to the original reality, and her behavior swiftly shapes it into a Self-Inflicted Hell, as she finally has to deal with the consequences of her actions.
- Apotheosis: For years, Bakugou got away with bullying Izuku, successfully getting into his dream school. After illegally attempting to fight a supervillain without a license, he ruins another student's legitimate investigation and gets them expelled while he goes unpunished. However, this incident encourages U.A. to investigate his past, discovering his horrific history and that he played a part in making Midoriya a villain. When he attempts to go after Midoriya again once he's become a government official, Aizawa steps in, bluntly informing Bakugou that he's nothing special, isn't cut out to be a hero, and that they should have expelled him instead of Ochako. He's also told that they will no longer tolerate his attitude, sending him to mandatory counseling while facing the prospect of immediate expulsion if he puts a toe out of line.
- Cain: After multiple situations in which Bakugo nearly gets in big trouble that he only escapes by the skin of the teeth through things like the adults' permissiveness or outright blackmail, his warranty finally runs out after he's caught red-handed trying to murder Izuku in cold blood.
- In A Clear Pattern of Behavior, Katsuki completely blows off being given detention for attacking Izuku during the Quirk Assessment test, seeing it as nothing more than a slap on the wrist. Same as what he always got at Aldera; a few words of warning to not get caught. But as it turns out, U.A. actually does take such things seriously, and he gets expelled after attempting to use lethal force against Izuku during their first training exercise together.
- MHA Alternate Universe: Embers:
- Aizawa's runs out after his stunt to kick Izuku out of UA, permanently damaging the boy's arms beyond repair, by framing him for a spy has him stripped of his hero and teaching license by the HPSC, then blinded permanently and tossed into Tartarus for life when he tries to attack the HPSC President, who also lost a relative to Aizawa's Trigger-Happy expulsion antics.
- Hitoshi is blacklisted from heroics for life when All Might denounces Aizawa as more villain than hero and demonizes Hitoshi's efforts to get a False Confession from Izuku with his quirk. His parents outright said that he ended up proving those who would call him villains right. Two weeks after moving to Thailand, Spinner decapitates him.
- Bakugou's runs out when he tells a reporter that Izuku should've killed himself like he demanded. Said reporter uncovers troves of evidence that Bakugou was a barbaric and psychotic bully that was remorseless and showed no regrets in his actions. Bakugou is expelled, loses both hands, has an impromptu lobotomy before being thrown into Tartarus on a life sentence.
- Nezu is thrown into Tartarus when his actions come out to be based on complete delusions and is locked in a cell designed to fit him. He would later go insane and die in Tartarus months later.
- When Sir Nighteye tries to force Izuku to give up his Quirk and give up Eri to be handed back to Overhaul, the public is so horrified that instead of getting what he wanted, he ends up with his license stripped and thrown into Tartarus when it becomes clear Nighteye was far more than willing to let a little girl suffer because his pet project wasn't picked.
- Failure to Explode: Katsuki's runs out when he fails to get into U.A., thanks to a recently instated rule that applicants can only be admitted to the Hero Course so long as they earned at least one Rescue Point. Since he arrogantly didn't bother making any backup plans, he winds up shunted into Aldera High, with the whole school district no longer interested in catering to and covering for him now that he's proven to be a poor investment.
- Explored in King: Katsuki begins the story believing that his has just run out after he accidentally murdered a man, only for Fujimori to step in on behalf of U.A. to renew it. This catches the attention of his classmates, particularly Shouto, who has prior experience with Fujimori thanks to his father employing him in the past. By the end of the story, the charges have been dropped, but the rest of Class 1-A knows that he committed some terrible crime, even if they don't know the details. Even Ejirou has lost faith in him.
- Peace's Apprentice:
- Aizawa spent years doing less than the bare minimum as a teacher, including expelling students on a whim and refusing to review their paperwork under the excuse of "they'll learn in the field". His negligence results first in him being forced to take All Might's job when the hero resigns in protest of Izuku's expulsion. Then later his attitude gets him fired when his only takeaway from the horrific attack on the USJ* is that Shinso has to stay in the hero course even though the boy has been left crippled and functionally quirkless.
- Shinso enjoys a couple weeks of screwing with his classmates without repercussion, generally to hide his crippling inferiority complex, such as using his quirk to publicly humiliate Momo. Then the attack on the USJ leaves his vocal cords so badly damaged that he's left temporarily mute and permanently incapable of using his quirk safely.*
- The Scorpion Jar: For years, the staff at Aldera turned a blind eye to Katsuki's Barbaric Bullying, along with all of the other bullying and harassment happening there. Izuku takes advantage of this to quietly gather evidence of all their crimes, including recording Katsuki making death threats. He then presents all that evidence to the Board of Education, getting the whole school shut down and the bullies arrested, with the worst of the lot charged as Juvenile Villains — including Katsuki.
- Thank You:
- Bakugou's runs out in Chapter 44 when he makes Izuku reach his Rage Breaking Point and is promptly on the wrong end of a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. Aizawa then prohibits him from being able to earn his provisional license for a full year. His idol All Might also learns the extent to which he abused Izuku and makes clear that he'll get him expelled if he doesn't change his ways.
- Aldera Junior High also gets their comeuppance when the Yaoyorozus buy the school and fire the staff, ruining their reputations to ensure that they won't find any new teaching jobs.
- Think Before You Speak:
- Katsuki coasted through Aldera Middle School, getting constantly coddled and praised by the teachers and staff there as they turned a blind eye towards his Barbaric Bullying of Izuku. Then he gets into U.A., where his attempt to use excessive force on his favorite victim ends up seriously injuring another student. His complete inability to fathom why he's being punished only serves to make matters worse, as his idea of defending his actions is insisting that he only acted that way "because it was Deku!"
- After years of being able to expel any students he wished, Aizawa has the terms of his warranty modified when Nedzu informs him that he can't boot anyone out of his class this year. Rather than taking the hint, Aizawa instead attempts to circumvent Nedzu's authority by manipulating Tensei in a bid to get Midoriya Convicted by Public Opinion. This blows up in both their faces, costs Aizawa his job and busts them both back to provisionary licenses while the Hero Commission digs into all of his past records and cases.
- We're Not Friends Kacchan: Katsuki's runs out when Ochako accidentally reveals how he told Izuku to "take a swan dive off the roof". His lack of remorse for this effectively seals his fate: since he refuses to admit he did anything wrong, he loses the respect of all his peers and his place at U.A., with the school taking steps to quietly expel him.
- With Confidence:
- The staff at Aldera got away with violating the Quirkless Protection Act for years, casually ignoring its existence much like how they turned a blind eye to — or actively encouraged — Izuku being bullied. When Izuku makes clear that he knows about the QPA and has proof of their many, many violations, they're left with Damocles' sword dangling over their collective heads.
- Death Arms could have avoided blowback for his inaction during the Sludge Villain incident, but he decided to confront Izuku over him getting involved. This results in Izuku pointing out his failures on live camera and Death Arms making himself look worse. As one commentator points out, no one would have noticed Death Arms' screw-ups had he just left Izuku alone.
- Katsuki's runs out once his parents learn about his bullying and they tell Inko about it.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Bitter Tears: An Anon-A-Miss Fic: When Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo confess their scheme, they give Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna a list of the 27 email addresses that submitted secrets to their blog. The contributors manage to evade detection at first, but their luck runs out when Celestia learns about the CMC being physically assaulted by their bullies, spurring her to issue an ultimatum: if the submitters don't come forward and confess, she will shut down all computer usage and extracurricular activities for the whole school, and anyone who doesn't come forward by the end of that day will be expelled.
- How I Lost My Mother:
- Princess Celestia disowned, de-powered and un-ponied her own daughter over an ultimately Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, continuing to hide the truth even after realizing her mistake so that she wouldn't have to face what she'd done. The Ending of the End Part III sees Cozy Glow finally getting revenge upon her mother by stripping away her magic in much the same way Celestia had done to her.
- Discord also gets his comeuppance for his Engineered Heroics by being turned back into stone by Cozy's spell.
- in dreams you follow (but I dream in the dark): Danzo spent years scheming to usurp control of Konoha from the Sandaime, and quickly made clear to Tsunade upon her arrival that he saw her as just another obstacle in his path. He also stole away Shino's beloved cousin Torune to ROOT — and when the organization was disbanded, had all the agents disposed of, breaking Shino's heart. So when Kiba hears that he needs to become an S-ranked criminal in order to catch Akatsuki's eye and infiltrate the group, he suggests that he kill Danzo... and Tsunade is more than happy to sign off on that.
- Your Heart a Haven of Thorns: Years before the story begins, Enma pissed off several of the Monkey clan's vassals, costing them their loyalty. As punishment, he was sent to bargain with the Tiger clan, who wished to trade one object in the room they were currently in in exchange for said vassals... unaware that Enma could no longer offer their loyalty. Deliberately bargaining in bad faith, he forced the Elder to trade the pelt of his beloved granddaughter in exchange for his false promise. Enma takes pride in his trick, bragging to Hiruzen about it when his summoner notices the pelt, and about how his clan has been clever enough to avoid giving the Tiger clan any excuse to get their revenge. Then a pale-faced Hiruzen admits that he has unintentionally offered the Tiger clan just that by ignoring Kikyō's warning against continuing the Chuunin Exams, and Enma swiftly realizes that both his and his summoner's actions have led to his undoing.
- A Blight on Bonesborough zig-zags this somewhat with Philip: while he successfully betrays the Collector and escapes to the Human Realm with the portal, this comes at a high cost for the rest of his plans, as he's exposed to the Boiling Isles as being a witch hunter, costing him practically all of his allies, and the Draining Spell isn't activated, sparing all the witches branded with coven sigils.
- For fifteen years in At The Food Court, Team Rocket got away with having beaten up a kid so badly that he became severely developmentally disabled, but thanks to Tracy actually paying attention to what Delia says earlier, and thanks to Team Rocket not hiding any evidence of what they did, they get arrested and sent to jail at the end, and are implied to get life sentences.
- Common Sense: Damian abandoned his Charmander, winding up with some minor burns afterwards, but only became worse after that. His luck runs out when James notices the state of his pokémon and steals them away before turning him into the police for Pokémon abuse.
- Thomas Abridged: In the canon series, Iron 'Arry and Bert receive no punishment for trying to get Stepney scrapped during "Stepney Gets Lost". Here, after their murder of Boco, piling onto their attempt on Stepney's life, they're slain during battle, which requires the creation of substitutes to replace them.
- Tough Love:
- After taking her parents' love and support completely for granted, expecting them to continue supporting her while she acts like a massively Spoiled Brat, Bella's runs out when she threatens to leave home and Charlie calls her bluff. Not only is she no longer welcome to stay in his house, but she no longer gets to benefit from how all of Charlie's friends turned a blind eye towards her antics.
- It's also revealed that the Cullens have been living well beyond their means with their Conspicuous Consumption, and have attracted the attention of Securities and Exchange Commission and the state attorney general's office. As a result, they're being investigated for insider trading, as well as possible links to drugs, with Charlie estimating to himself that their lives are likely to start falling apart within the next six months or so.
