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Arrowverse

  • In Canary's Wrath, Laurel becomes The Spectre, who as noted on the Comic Books page is fond of this in general, and seeks out the men most directly responsible for death.
    • She makes a point to give Malcolm Merlyn an especially karmic death, incorporating each of his major crimes. She pins him in rubble and floods the area, for everyone who drowned when he sank the Queen's Gambit; collapses a house on him for all the victims of the Undertaking (including his own son); and shoots him with three of his own arrows, for Sara.
    • Damien Darhk used his telekinesis to immobilize and perform a Psychic Strangle on people, which is exactly how she kills him. An author's note points out, she also did so in a decidedly offhand manner (compared to far more personal Malcolm) mirroring how he treated her as an afterthought, only serving to send a message.
  • Fall of the Black Canary, return of the Arrow exaggerates the Karmic death of Damian Darhk (see Arrow):
    Oliver: You didn’t think I’d let you die that easily, did you. No, that’s much more than you deserve. You killed the woman I loved, remember? Allow me to remind you, (pulls an arrow out of his quiver), first, you stabbed her with an arrow, just like this. (stabs him) Then, you twisted it, like so, (twists arrow), and then you yanked it out of her body. (yanks arrow out) Now you know how it feels.
  • What It Takes: Malcolm Merlyn helped triggered the events of the fic by brainwashing Thea into murdering Sara to get off the League's hit list, something he eventually used to manipulate his way into becoming Ra's al Ghul. The death of his predecessor is what helped give Darhk the courage to finally enact his plans, leading him to steal Rubicon and use it to nuke Nanda Parbat in a test run, causing Malcolm's own death and the deaths of most of the League.

Bolt

  • The Bolt Chronicles:
    • In "The Blood Brother," Bolt's bigoted and murderous friend Duke is killed by a truck while chasing a cat into the road trying to get it run over.
    • In "The Wind," Mary's angry, abusive current boyfriend Ike dies in a dog fight he picks with Bolt thanks to his own carelessness. Bolt, who is beginning to get the worst of the battle, uses a spin move to get out of the way of his antagonist, who charges towards him with head lowered. The latter doesn't realize Bolt has evaded him and crashes full force into a brick wall, breaking his neck with a loud snap.

Crossovers

  • All For Luz: Many of the Asshole Victims in story who die by Luz's hands suffer this.
    • Teams Heaven’s Devils and Foxtrot, sans Emilia, suffer brutal deaths at Luz's hands not long after they slaughtered half of her camper friends. In particular, Darlene dies under Luz's foot in a similar position as Julia Wittebane., who Darlene herself murdered and Darwin suffers a Head Crushing almost the same way he killed poor Theodore.
    • Sheriff Johnson gets brutally killed by Luz in a blind rage by her Deadly Force Field, the girl who's life hell he made unbearable for a whole month.
    • All of the assassins hired by the Wittebane Church die by Luz's hands, their latest target. Special mention goes to Jonah, a sadist who dies afraid and powerless to stop his killer much like how he killed Camila not long ago, and Riley, her traitorous cousin, who gets killed by her own Quirk after Luz steals it.
  • Cinders and Ashes: the Chronicles of Kamen Rider Dante has Watari Ryuzaki who, as an idol stalker who used his newly obtained ice-themed powers to murder three people by freezing them and attempt to murder another two, is killed by a Kamen Rider who coincidentally uses ice as his main power source in almost the exact same manner.
  • The Dresden Fillies (The Dresden Files & My Little Pony): This happens a few times in the second story, False Masks:
    • After spending the whole story trying to assassinate Harry Dresden (believing him to be a resurrected Evil Overlord), putting innocents in danger, summoning "He Who Walks Behind" (twice), and in the process of all these things betraying the kingdom and the ponies they swore to protect, the Order Triune itself is betrayed by Novel Notion and sacrificed to a demon rather quickly. Unlike most examples, however, it still proves to be quite tragic.
    • Novel Notion and his cohorts' own demise in the epilogue is just as karmic though not nearly as tragic. Completely unrepentent of their heinous crimes, they hatch up a scheme to make another Deal with the Devil in the Nevernever to gain the power they need to seek revenge. After four days of wandering, the first demon they meet promptly swallows them whole and they die slowly and painfully in its digestive fluids.
  • Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters (W.I.T.C.H. & Jackie Chan Adventures) does this with the Token Evil Teammate pair of the Rebellion — Rhouglar is executed by Caleb right after bragging about how the Rebellion's actions have been the perfect means for him to indulge in his desires, and that Caleb's naiveté has just been enabling him. Tharquin, meanwhile, ends up brutally murdered by Jade, whom he'd been torturing simply for being a Shapeshifter.
  • How the Light Gets In: Dean tells the recently resurrected Laurel that she died after Damian Darhk stabbed her in the lung. After learning Dean killed him in revenge, she asks how.
    Dean: I stabbed him in the lung.
    Laurel: That's poetic.
    Dean: I thought so.
  • Inaccurate Legends (Fate/stay night & Monty Python and the Holy Grail): Sir Not Appearing In This Film framed Arturia and her knights for murder and got them all sent to prison. In the final battle, Sir Bedivere ends up killing him with a prison shiv. Bedivere comments on how appropriate it is, since if the villain did not get him sent to prison, he would not have gotten that shiv.
  • Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail: Simon Laurent transforms into Destruction, a large black dragon, as part of becoming a ritual component for the Cage of Flauros. He boasts that makes him the true Apex and that Sean — the kid who drowned in the Fog Car — was "Weak" for not being strong enough to survive the Train (As it's established that if you die on the train, your soul is reincarnated into a denizen). After he kills Chloe and Tuba (Chloe reviving thanks to Atticus), he ends up drowning in Toluca Lake by the Phantom, who is the reincarnation of Sean, the same Apex kid he mocked. Moreover, Simon never wants to change and so he will spend the next few centuries as what he hates most, while his body was unceremoniously dropped off where he was first picked up years ago; at an elementary school bathroom.
  • It's Always The Quiet Ones: After repeatedly threatening and insulting Luna, Snape gets carried away and presumably eaten by her "friend", none other than Cthulhu himself.
  • The Mountain and the Wolf: While he didn't exactly set out to make them die according to their sins, the Wolf does kill some of his victims in an enjoyably karmic way:
    • The Mountain gets his skull crushed in the way he'd killed Elia Martell.
    • Ramsay gets Flayed Alive (with a blunt knife).
    • Littlefinger is backstabbed after being promised his life (this one the Wolf was aware of, seeing it as only natural that someone marked for death by Tzeentch should be betrayed) with the dagger he's used on Ned Stark.
    • Euron is drowned in the Iron Islands after having his crew willingly join the Wolf.
  • Rise of the Galeforces: Peter Ludlow, the real Big Bad gets an epic one near the very end. He sets it up by apparently spending most of Episode 3 trying to capture the T-rex family that initially antagonizes the heroes as part of a tourist attraction (actually an excuse to publicly kill them along with all other non-human species). When he later drops all pretenses, he defends himself from the angry father rex by shooting him in the eye. This enrages both the fellow 'rex he was defending - actually a Scaled Up Violet - and Chomper's own babies to boot. The result: Ludlow gets every bone in his body broken for his trouble, and is devoured by the very baby 'rexes he had been working so hard to acquire.
  • Shadows over Meridian: Lampshaded in Chapter 20 when we learn about the Cycle of Revenge playing out on Snowpoint. Vera's grandfather killed and tortured many Mogriffs, including hatchlings and eggs, before retiring from military service. He was ultimately killed and mutilated years later by several Mogriffs he had wronged, including Metalbeak, who was only a hatchling when he first witnessed the "Nest Butcher" in his brutality. Jade considers the man's brutal death overdue justice.
  • Gregor Clegane meets his end in the A Song of Ice and Fire/Girl Genius crossover A Spark of Ice and Fire when Agatha turns his own armor into a clank and has it to beat him to a pulp.
  • In Time Lords and Terror (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic & Doctor Who), Hydia spends the entire story trying to release the S'muz because she believes she can use it to destroy her enemies. Naturally, she's the first one it renders Deader than Dead upon its release.
  • Nosferatu in Voyages of the Wild Sea Horse is a hemorrhagic fever bacteria granted sapience by consuming the still-living previous bearer of the Human-Human, Model Type: Child Zoan Devil Fruit, whose sole purpose is to infect, consume and multiply, viewing humanoids as nothing but prey to nourish its growth. It meets its end when it tries to infect Nabiki Tendo, who devours and digests it instead.

The Elder Scrolls

Godzilla

  • Abraxas (Hrodvitnon):
    • One of Alan Jonah's guards, B-04, was an immature, cowardly little shit who went out of his way to crudely heckle and torment the imprisoned Vivienne Graham. He's a Cruel and Unusual Death casualty of one of the Mook Horror Shows that the Vivienne-San Two Beings, One Body inflicts.
    • After Alan Jonah imprisoned and performs horrendous experiments on Viv and San, they're the ones who finally kill him for good later in the story.
    • San reveals that in Ghidorah's backstory, it was made the way it now is by alien Abusive Precursors, whom Word of God furthermore states lived for nothing but inflicting pain and violence in any way they could imagine. As soon as these beings released Ghidorah to act as their Bioweapon Beast, Ghidorah pulled a Turned Against Their Masters and killed them all.

Harry Potter

  • In Broken Wings Umbridge, who has a phobia of winged creatures, escapes Hogwarts before she can be arrested for using a magic-binding cuff on Harry, and is killed and eaten by a Stymphalian bird.
  • In Harry Potter's Secret Weapon Blaise Zabini's Black Widow mother is killed while wandless by a Muggle serial killer, who comes in for his own karmic death after she scratches him with her poison ring while trying to fight him off.
  • The Parselmouth of Gryffindor has a karmic near-death for Hermione. Being her usual confident Rules Lawyer self, she went after the Horcrux a bit too quickly, convinced that her ten-seconds rules-lawyering would be enough to bypass the protections. It wasn't, and it's sheer luck that she comes Back from the Dead afterwards.

Invader Zim

Jackie Chan Adventures

The Legend of Zelda

Marvel Cinematic Universe

  • In Avengers: Endgame (Dragonis Prime), the Thanos of Earth-842667 seeks to wipe out half of all life across the universe with a Snap of the Infinity Gauntlet. Tony Stark turns his own Stones against him with the use of Dwarven magic.

Mass Effect

  • In Another Realm, the two antagonists of the Arrival arc are killed in suitably horrible ways after attempting to use their daughter as a political pawn, as well as attempting to kill her lover, who happens to be The Hero.

My Hero Academia

My Little Pony

  • In Ace Combat: The Equestrian War, Big Bad Red Cyclone is responsible for starting the whole conflict and for the most part of the story, he only issues orders, such as the scorching of Equestria. He becomes trapped inside his own creation by Zeakros after Rainbow Dash and Firefly destroy the fortress' core generator, starting a self-destruct countdown. He is consumed by the expanding explosions as Fortress Intimidation is collapsing.
  • Bad Future Crusaders: Twitch, who gleefully took part in the bombing of Broncton — caring nothing for the civilians caught in the crossfire — is killed when a shot from Apple Bloom's gun detonates one of his bombs while it's still on his belt.
  • In Codex Equus, this tends to happen as a consequence for one's actions, both mortal and divine.
    • Changeling King Lasius's foster noble family, as well as the local royalty and the aristocracy, were horrendously lazy and incompetent, and used their wealth to fund their lavish lifestyles rather than help their extremely impoverished subjects. Lasius got so fed up with their behavior that he murdered them all during a welcoming party he threw for Emperor Blackthorn, and used their palaces and statues (all the way down to the founder) to pave and repair his foster kingdom's roads. His half-sister, Golden Bell, turned a blind eye while her family died because she too, was sick of their behaviors.
    • The Propagare cultists Elske encountered were trying to stir up distrust and hatred so they could start a war between two Deer realms. After stomping on one part of their armies and sitting on another, Elske proceeded to slowly crush them to death with her hooves so they'll be an example of what happens when people give in to hatred.
    • Golden Chalice was a Griffin warlord who tried to invade and conquer the peaceful kingdom of Sauropoda, having severely underestimated what a society of large, sapient dinosaurs are truly capable of. He was instantly killed when the aptly-named Queen Immensa stomped on him once.
    • Much of the old Orosian pantheon behaved little more than irresponsible, arrogant, and spoiled children, causing unnecessary deaths with their petty squabbles and extreme intolerance to even minor infractions. They eventually died in an event of their own making, the "Twilight of the Orosians", with several people making a point to show that the gods had brought their deaths upon themselves. Likewise, no one cried when the new and more benevolent Orosian gods stepped up to take their place.
    • The Alvslog royal family that raised King Brachion cast him out when it was discovered he was a dormant Royal Changeling, forcing him to survive in a forest where dangerous predators lived while he's still a child. When he completed his Errance and became good at biological experimentation, he proceeded to return and utterly destroy his foster family for abandoning him, killing a good number of them and razing their Alvslog forest kingdom to the ground to make way for his new Hive.
    • One of the purified Changelings turned out to be a Chrysalis-loyalist who pretended to side with the ascended Thorax so he could undermine the latter's authority by framing him for the deaths of several unpurified Changeling children. He was caught by hidden Summer Court agents and given to the abovementioned King Brachion, who ALWAYS has room for more test subjects.
    • Night Terror, a serial killer from the Deer realms who is the villainous Expy of Freddy Krueger, was fatally burned alive by the grieving parents of the young fawns he killed. However, he managed to cheat his way out of hell by making a secret deal with Ispita, causing his soul to end up in the dream realm instead. Yarost was enraged when he discovered this, due to his hatred of oath-breakers and Ispita in general, and helped Princess Luna and Tenya find and confront Night Terror. When Night Terror was made powerless, defeated, and thrown to the real world by the two goddesses, a furious Yarost was waiting for him, with no other way out of what awaited below. Temnobog himself lampshades how Night Terror was Too Dumb to Live by thinking he could worm his way out of his rightfully-deserved punishment.
    • Void Traveler, a Second-Age villain who tried to destroy Equus in the name of his "master" by putting it in a black hole, ends up completely obliterated by a few residents of the planet. As Princess Stitching Time and Queen Cosmosglow said, "Your time is up."
    • Bolezn infected an entire Deer kingdom with a devastating plague for its blatant disregard for proper hygiene, and then infiltrated the castle of a royal Deer, Prince Prospero, who arrogantly assumed he can use said plague to Kill the Poor. Under the guise of a noble who dressed up like a plague victim, Bolezn infected Prince Prospero as well as the various nobles and royalty who took shelter in his castle rather than help their subjects, leaving them to die a slow, agonizing death while their food and wealth were pillaged by Bolezn's subordinates/followers for their master to enjoy.
  • In Loved and Lost, Prince Jewelius convinces Queen Chrysalis to invade Equestria with him on Princess Cadance and Shining Armor's wedding day, only to double-cross her so that he can rule Equestria alone. After the vengeful Changelings have escaped from his dungeons, he refuses to spare a thought for them as he tries to finish off the heroes whom Chrysalis secretly helps to gain an advantage over him. When the good guys have cornered Jewelius in the climax, the Changelings come to take their revenge by eating the pathetically begging Jewelius whose heart doesn't have any love for them to feed on. The scene has distinct similarities with the death of Scar (see the "Animation" category under Film).
  • In The MLP Dreamscape, the shadow creature that possessed Applebloom caused her lots of misery, and affected her immediate family and friends as well. It is killed by an Earth-empowered Applejack, who yanks the shadow creature out of her little sister's head and stomps it into the ground.
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Naruto

  • In Son of the Sannin, Danzo, who spent the better part of his life willing to use and discard people as he saw fit to further his own ambitions, meets his end when Obito Uchiha uses a mental trigger he implanted on the former to make him commit suicide after he fulfilled his purpose (namely, sabotaging Konoha's efforts to retrieve their Jinchuriki and their Tailed Beasts).

OMORI

  • Hands (OMORI): Mari's canonical tragic Staircase Tumble death is recast in this light due to her being Sunny's sexual abuser here. Not only did she constantly bully Sunny about playing the violin perfectly for the recital, but after he got into a fight with her about it, she cornered him atop the staircase and tried to molest him yet again- and this time, she was aiming to make it painful to punish him for his disobedience. Unfortunately for her, Sunny Grew a Spine and pushes her off in self-defense, leading to her falling down the stairs and dying.

Spongebob Squarepants

  • The Bikini Bottom Horror: For cutting off Patrick's limb and using the subsequent clone as meat for Krabby Patties, Mr. Krabs gets his limbs torn off and is is subjected to a slow death that he knows he can't prevent via being force-fed a raw patty that grows into a Patrick inside him before bursting out.

Touhou Project

  • In the third Gensokyo 20XX story, presumably we have this with Seija, after she's attempted to get Yukari to murder the children because she saw them as a hindrance when food and fresh water had run scarce (because of her), as it's unlikely she survived on her own after having three of her limbs and a few fingers cut off and then being sent away, then again, she had it coming.

Warrior Cats

Worm

  • Sophia in Tinker, Taylor, Builder, Nexus breaks the Endbringer Truce to start murdering capes she opposes. While she does manage to kill Victor, her attempt to murder Grue are interrupted by Leviathan smashing her into the pavement, killing her.

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