Basic Trope: A character receives Laser-Guided Karma offscreen.
- Straight:
- Emperor Evulz, the antagonist of the first arc of Tropers, is assumed to be a Karma Houdini. However, he's later said to have been given a Karmic Death offscreen.
- The first arc of Tropers ends in such a way that implies that Evulz will end up getting a Karmic Death.
- Exaggerated: Every time a character does something bad, their punishment always occurs offscreen.
- Downplayed: The punishment is relatively minor; e.g. Dracone is mentioned to have been briefly arrested for jaywalking.
- Justified: Hiro has to get away as fast as possible right before Evulz gets his comeuppance, or risk meeting the same fate.
- Inverted: ???
- Subverted: Evulz is said to have died after the events of the story, but it later turns out that he was alive all along.
- Double Subverted: While Evulz didn't die, he did still end up being imprisoned for his crimes.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Evulz' Laser-Guided Karma is shown onscreen.
- Enforced:
- The creators of the show wanted to show Evulz getting his comeuppance, but didn't have the time to show it onscreen, so instead what happened is only mentioned.
- Evulz' death was a Cruel and Unusual Death that would be unsuitable for the target audience to see.
- The writers were ordered to give Evulz some Laser-Guided Karma but really can't think of a good resolution to Evulz’s arc other than "he was arrested” (no, not even a cool arrest scene). So they just add that detail in a throwaway line and wait to see what Fanon cooks up.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed:
- Conversed: "Man, I'm glad Emperor Evulz got what was coming to him, but I kinda wish the audience got to see it too."
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