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* Ephsephin from ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'', an IneffectualSympatheticVillain who [[TheChewToy suffers more and more abuse as the story goes on]]. He becomes even more sympathetic when WordOfGod says he was a failure at life who was obsessed with over how he couldn't provide a better life for his [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas mother]]. The only reason he signed up with Starfish was to get a big enough payoff so that she wouldn't have to keep breaking her back working. After he gets grievously wounded by Jivi and begs Starfish for a doctor, [[DissonantSerenity Starfish merely smiles]], then bashes his head in with a whiskey bottle.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'':
** Ephsephinfrom ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'', is an IneffectualSympatheticVillain who [[TheChewToy suffers more and more abuse as the story goes on]]. He becomes even more sympathetic when WordOfGod says he was a failure at life who was obsessed with over how he couldn't provide a better life for his [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas mother]]. The only reason he signed up with Starfish was to get a big enough payoff so that she wouldn't have to keep breaking her back working. After he gets grievously wounded by Jivi and begs Starfish for a doctor, [[DissonantSerenity Starfish merely smiles]], then bashes his head in with a whiskey bottle.bottle.
** Stockyard has a rather drawn-out and horrific death, involving many sharp objects and ultimately decapitation, and just when we're starting to get the idea that he might have some redeeming qualities (he chases Starfish away from Sette, and is disgusted and pissed Starfish used kids to smuggle the silver). Anadyne also unwittingly accelerates his death by trying to save him as he pleads for help.
** Karl, despite being an utterly contemptible Smug Snake, suffers a truly gruesome fate, being tortured, mutilated and sexually assaulted by Ruck. Even Ashley describes the scene as "miserably horrible".
** Ephsephin
** Stockyard has a rather drawn-out and horrific death, involving many sharp objects and ultimately decapitation, and just when we're starting to get the idea that he might have some redeeming qualities (he chases Starfish away from Sette, and is disgusted and pissed Starfish used kids to smuggle the silver). Anadyne also unwittingly accelerates his death by trying to save him as he pleads for help.
** Karl, despite being an utterly contemptible Smug Snake, suffers a truly gruesome fate, being tortured, mutilated and sexually assaulted by Ruck. Even Ashley describes the scene as "miserably horrible".
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* The [[VillainProtagonist entire] cast]] of ''WebComic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound''. Except [[SociopathicHero Mantis]] and [[StayingAlive Ocelot]]. Despite their attempts to rebel against the Patriots and reform Outer Haven, everyone expect [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Ocelot]] are wiped out by Snake off-panel.
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* The [[VillainProtagonist entire] entire cast]] of ''WebComic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound''. Except [[SociopathicHero Mantis]] and [[StayingAlive Ocelot]]. Despite their attempts to rebel against the Patriots and reform Outer Haven, everyone expect [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Ocelot]] are wiped out by Snake off-panel.
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* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': The death of Dr. Tarsus Beetle is so upsetting to the protagonist that it triggers her [[ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder break]][[TheSparkOfGenius through]] even though he was killed in apparent self defense. It helps that the true horror of his actions and the fact that he was trying to kill ''Agatha'' rather than Gil only come to light after his death has been mourned for a chapter.
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* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
** The death of Dr. Tarsus Beetle is so upsetting to the protagonist that it triggers her [[ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder break]][[TheSparkOfGenius through]] even though he was killed in apparent self defense. It helps that the true horror of his actions and the fact that he was trying to kill ''Agatha'' rather than Gil only come to light after his death has been mourned for achapter.chapter.
** The death of Anevka Sturmvoraus - or should we say, [[spoiler: Clank-Anevka's ''[[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060911 realization]]'' of "her" death]]. Even as he's spelling her end, [[spoiler:Tarvek]] is having a hard time bringing himself to do it ''and'' tell the truth to her.
** The death of Dr. Tarsus Beetle is so upsetting to the protagonist that it triggers her [[ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder break]][[TheSparkOfGenius through]] even though he was killed in apparent self defense. It helps that the true horror of his actions and the fact that he was trying to kill ''Agatha'' rather than Gil only come to light after his death has been mourned for a
** The death of Anevka Sturmvoraus - or should we say, [[spoiler: Clank-Anevka's ''[[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060911 realization]]'' of "her" death]]. Even as he's spelling her end, [[spoiler:Tarvek]] is having a hard time bringing himself to do it ''and'' tell the truth to her.
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* The [[VillainProtagonist entire]] [[KillEmAll cast]] of ''WebComic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound''. Except [[SociopathicHero Mantis]] and [[StayingAlive Ocelot]]. Despite their attempts to rebel against the Patriots and reform Outer Haven, everyone expect [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Ocelot]] are wiped out by Snake off-panel.
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* The [[VillainProtagonist entire]] [[KillEmAll entire] cast]] of ''WebComic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound''. Except [[SociopathicHero Mantis]] and [[StayingAlive Ocelot]]. Despite their attempts to rebel against the Patriots and reform Outer Haven, everyone expect [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Ocelot]] are wiped out by Snake off-panel.
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* At the grand finale of ''WebComic/ErrantStory'', Ian just [[http://www.errantstory.com/2011-11-07/5323 keeps]] [[http://www.errantstory.com/2011-11-14/5324 repeating]] "I just wanted to help." Despite a personal body count in the ''thousands'', he's quite serious. However, it doesn't keep him from getting his brains blown out.
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* At the grand finale GrandFinale of ''WebComic/ErrantStory'', Ian just [[http://www.errantstory.com/2011-11-07/5323 com/?p=5323 keeps]] [[http://www.errantstory.com/2011-11-14/5324 com/?p=5324 repeating]] "I just wanted to help." Despite a personal body count in the ''thousands'', he's [[WellIntentionedExtremist quite serious.serious]]. However, it doesn't keep him from getting his brains blown out.
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-->'''Elan:''' I know now that we were never going to be family, but...he didn't deserve this!\\
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* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': The death of Dr. Tarsus Beetle is so upsetting to the protagonist that it triggers her [[ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder break]][[TheSparkOfGenius through]] even though he was killed in apparent self defense. It helps that the true horror of his actions and the fact that he was trying to kill ''Agatha'' rather than Gil only come to light after his death has been mourned for a chapter.
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%%* The [[VillainProtagonist entire]] [[KillEmAll cast]] of ''WebComic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound''. Except [[SociopathicHero Mantis]] and [[StayingAlive Ocelot]].
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* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': As nasty a person as [[spoiler: Sirleck]] was, his demise is painted in a surprisingly sympathetic light, with [[spoiler: Magus]] in tears over being forced to kill in self-defense the closest thing he'd had to a friend in years.
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'''Elan:''' Yeah, but- how could I be mad at him? What if it had been me? [[UpbringingMakesTheHero Raised here? Would I be a jerk, and he be the hero?]]\\
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'''Elan:''' Yeah, but- but - how could can I be mad at him? What if it had been me? [[UpbringingMakesTheHero Raised here? Would I be a jerk, the jerk and he be the hero?]]\\
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* Kalki in ''{{Webcomic/Drowtales}}'' spends the majority of her screentime either acting like TheFakeCutie or inflicting serious harm or brutal deaths on other characters, including stabbing the hand of her own half-sister and nearly killing her by chopping off her arm ''the very first time they meet'', but the way [[spoiler:her mother Snadhya'rune]], whose neglectful parenting was at least half the reason she became as twisted as she did, coldly kills her and tells her she has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived her usefulness]] firmly puts her into this.
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* Kalki in ''{{Webcomic/Drowtales}}'' spends the majority of her screentime either acting like TheFakeCutie or inflicting serious harm or brutal deaths on other characters, including stabbing the hand of her own half-sister and nearly killing her by chopping off her arm ''the very first time they meet'', but the way [[spoiler:her mother Snadhya'rune]], whose neglectful parenting was at least half the reason she became as twisted as she did, coldly kills her and tells her she has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived her usefulness]] firmly puts her into this.this.
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* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick:''
** Miko Miyazaki's [[SanitySlippage slide]] from holier-than-thou KnightTemplar to a TautologicalTemplar has her [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner murder her lord]], lose her Paladin powers, and accidentally kill herself in fulfilling what she had decided was her divinely ordained destiny. The ghost of her order's founder tells her that her efforts were... [[DamnedByFaintPraise adequate]]... but not worthy of redemption, which she accepts with uncharacteristic grace [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0464.html as she dies]]. It's still debated whether she deserved it.
** In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0830.html strip 830]], it's ''really'' hard not to pity Tsukiko -- an unrepentant CardCarryingVillain who [[TheQuisling sold out her own city to Xykon]] -- when Redcloak usurps control over her wights, who she'd treated like her own children, to prove that undead are little more then automatons for necromancers of any stripe. And then he has them drain her to death. And then eat her. She was a sick, twisted, self-confessed necrophiliac who was obsessed with ''Xykon'' because [[FreudianExcuse every living person she ever met in her entire life treated her like crap.]] What puts her solidly in Alas Poor Villain territory is that ''she really and truly loved him'', and only died because she discovered concrete proof that Redcloak is manipulating Xykon, and that the MacGuffin they're after won't get Xykon the power he wants. The point really gets hammered home when the only person to mourn is the Monster in the Darkness, who points out that in the end, Tsukiko just wanted to be loved.
--->'''Demon-roach:''' So what? Who cares?\\
'''Monster in the Dark:''' [[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder Exactly]]. That's why I'm sad.
** Nale's death in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0913.html 913: Independent]] has caused some of these reactions. Nale is a petty, selfish mass-murderer, but hearing his anger about being treated like a tool by his father, and refusing his father's help to his face shows that he has balls, only to get stabbed by his own father. Plus Elan's reaction...
-->'''Elan:''' I know now that we were never going to be family, but...he didn't deserve this!\\
'''Haley:''' [[BrutalHonesty Elan, he...kinda did. He was a terrible human being.]]\\
'''Elan:''' Yeah, but- how could I be mad at him? What if it had been me? [[UpbringingMakesTheHero Raised here? Would I be a jerk, and he be the hero?]]\\
'''Haley:''' I...don't know.
** Subverted when a reanimated Crystal is [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0981.html dumped into lava]]: three panels of silence, followed by brunch.
* Whenever Oasis dies in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', it's treated with sadness, even when she's been in full-on AxCrazy, StalkerWithACrush mode, since we know she's only like that because Dr. Steve {{Brainwashed}} her. However, as Oasis becomes more heroic and we learn she'll always [[DeathIsCheap come back]] from being killed, this has faded.
%%* The [[VillainProtagonist entire]] [[KillEmAll cast]] of ''WebComic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound''. Except [[SociopathicHero Mantis]] and [[StayingAlive Ocelot]].
* ViolentGlaswegian Dougie in ''Webcomic/WhatTheFu'' suffers a breakdown from the revelation that he's not actually Scottish. Zac almost feels sorry for him, except he's "still a murderous psychotic bastard".
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
** [[TheSociopath Vriska Serket]], who had spent the entirety of Act 5 Act 2 getting closer to [[TheHero John]] and finally admitting that she wanted to try living a normal life. She was killed by Terezi in order to prevent her from fighting Jack, which in an alternate timeline got everybody except Vriska and Aradia killed. Her final message? Telling John that if and when they finally do meet, she'd like to go on a date.
** [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Courtyard Droll]], Jack's clueless underling who fails at being evil, which gets his superiors pretty annoyed with him. When he finally manages to follow one of Jack's orders to the letter (Jack had ordered him to kill Jade, something Jack himself couldn't do due to his UndyingLoyalty from Bec's prototyping), Jack snaps and kills him. Thankfully [[ResetButton the Scratch]] brings him back. [[AlternateUniverse Sort of]].
** Snowman is a {{Jerkass}}, but it's hard not to feel bad for her when the Doc Scratch-influenced Spades Slick shoots her dead at the end of Act 5, especially since she had [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold just saved his life]] a few moments before. Furthermore, she requests and welcomes her own death as an end to her eternal servitude to Lord English.
%%* In ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'', in universe, [[http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0166.html the body gets dump with the epigraph: You poor, stupid kid.]]
* Ephsephin from ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'', an IneffectualSympatheticVillain who [[TheChewToy suffers more and more abuse as the story goes on]]. He becomes even more sympathetic when WordOfGod says he was a failure at life who was obsessed with over how he couldn't provide a better life for his [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas mother]]. The only reason he signed up with Starfish was to get a big enough payoff so that she wouldn't have to keep breaking her back working. After he gets grievously wounded by Jivi and begs Starfish for a doctor, [[DissonantSerenity Starfish merely smiles]], then bashes his head in with a whiskey bottle.
* Tobun in ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'''s Cardboard Tube Samurai storyline, is implied to have become a DeathSeeker after being compelled to commit atrocities. Fighting the CTS hand to hand, his last words are "before this moment, did I ever see the world?"
* ''WebComic/DragonBallMultiverse'': The first Cell Jr's death by his own father's hands. Especially after he had a HopeSpot of becoming more powerful.
* At the grand finale of ''WebComic/ErrantStory'', Ian just [[http://www.errantstory.com/2011-11-07/5323 keeps]] [[http://www.errantstory.com/2011-11-14/5324 repeating]] "I just wanted to help." Despite a personal body count in the ''thousands'', he's quite serious. However, it doesn't keep him from getting his brains blown out.
* Apple Bloom in ''Webcomic/MoodyMarkCrusaders''. Even though she's a jerk, it's hard not to feel sorry when she's TakenForGranite. [[spoiler:She gets better though.]]
* Kalki in ''{{Webcomic/Drowtales}}'' spends the majority of her screentime either acting like TheFakeCutie or inflicting serious harm or brutal deaths on other characters, including stabbing the hand of her own half-sister and nearly killing her by chopping off her arm ''the very first time they meet'', but the way [[spoiler:her mother Snadhya'rune]], whose neglectful parenting was at least half the reason she became as twisted as she did, coldly kills her and tells her she has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived her usefulness]] firmly puts her into this.
** Miko Miyazaki's [[SanitySlippage slide]] from holier-than-thou KnightTemplar to a TautologicalTemplar has her [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner murder her lord]], lose her Paladin powers, and accidentally kill herself in fulfilling what she had decided was her divinely ordained destiny. The ghost of her order's founder tells her that her efforts were... [[DamnedByFaintPraise adequate]]... but not worthy of redemption, which she accepts with uncharacteristic grace [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0464.html as she dies]]. It's still debated whether she deserved it.
** In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0830.html strip 830]], it's ''really'' hard not to pity Tsukiko -- an unrepentant CardCarryingVillain who [[TheQuisling sold out her own city to Xykon]] -- when Redcloak usurps control over her wights, who she'd treated like her own children, to prove that undead are little more then automatons for necromancers of any stripe. And then he has them drain her to death. And then eat her. She was a sick, twisted, self-confessed necrophiliac who was obsessed with ''Xykon'' because [[FreudianExcuse every living person she ever met in her entire life treated her like crap.]] What puts her solidly in Alas Poor Villain territory is that ''she really and truly loved him'', and only died because she discovered concrete proof that Redcloak is manipulating Xykon, and that the MacGuffin they're after won't get Xykon the power he wants. The point really gets hammered home when the only person to mourn is the Monster in the Darkness, who points out that in the end, Tsukiko just wanted to be loved.
--->'''Demon-roach:''' So what? Who cares?\\
'''Monster in the Dark:''' [[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder Exactly]]. That's why I'm sad.
** Nale's death in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0913.html 913: Independent]] has caused some of these reactions. Nale is a petty, selfish mass-murderer, but hearing his anger about being treated like a tool by his father, and refusing his father's help to his face shows that he has balls, only to get stabbed by his own father. Plus Elan's reaction...
-->'''Elan:''' I know now that we were never going to be family, but...he didn't deserve this!\\
'''Haley:''' [[BrutalHonesty Elan, he...kinda did. He was a terrible human being.]]\\
'''Elan:''' Yeah, but- how could I be mad at him? What if it had been me? [[UpbringingMakesTheHero Raised here? Would I be a jerk, and he be the hero?]]\\
'''Haley:''' I...don't know.
** Subverted when a reanimated Crystal is [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0981.html dumped into lava]]: three panels of silence, followed by brunch.
* Whenever Oasis dies in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', it's treated with sadness, even when she's been in full-on AxCrazy, StalkerWithACrush mode, since we know she's only like that because Dr. Steve {{Brainwashed}} her. However, as Oasis becomes more heroic and we learn she'll always [[DeathIsCheap come back]] from being killed, this has faded.
%%* The [[VillainProtagonist entire]] [[KillEmAll cast]] of ''WebComic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound''. Except [[SociopathicHero Mantis]] and [[StayingAlive Ocelot]].
* ViolentGlaswegian Dougie in ''Webcomic/WhatTheFu'' suffers a breakdown from the revelation that he's not actually Scottish. Zac almost feels sorry for him, except he's "still a murderous psychotic bastard".
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
** [[TheSociopath Vriska Serket]], who had spent the entirety of Act 5 Act 2 getting closer to [[TheHero John]] and finally admitting that she wanted to try living a normal life. She was killed by Terezi in order to prevent her from fighting Jack, which in an alternate timeline got everybody except Vriska and Aradia killed. Her final message? Telling John that if and when they finally do meet, she'd like to go on a date.
** [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Courtyard Droll]], Jack's clueless underling who fails at being evil, which gets his superiors pretty annoyed with him. When he finally manages to follow one of Jack's orders to the letter (Jack had ordered him to kill Jade, something Jack himself couldn't do due to his UndyingLoyalty from Bec's prototyping), Jack snaps and kills him. Thankfully [[ResetButton the Scratch]] brings him back. [[AlternateUniverse Sort of]].
** Snowman is a {{Jerkass}}, but it's hard not to feel bad for her when the Doc Scratch-influenced Spades Slick shoots her dead at the end of Act 5, especially since she had [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold just saved his life]] a few moments before. Furthermore, she requests and welcomes her own death as an end to her eternal servitude to Lord English.
%%* In ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'', in universe, [[http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0166.html the body gets dump with the epigraph: You poor, stupid kid.]]
* Ephsephin from ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'', an IneffectualSympatheticVillain who [[TheChewToy suffers more and more abuse as the story goes on]]. He becomes even more sympathetic when WordOfGod says he was a failure at life who was obsessed with over how he couldn't provide a better life for his [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas mother]]. The only reason he signed up with Starfish was to get a big enough payoff so that she wouldn't have to keep breaking her back working. After he gets grievously wounded by Jivi and begs Starfish for a doctor, [[DissonantSerenity Starfish merely smiles]], then bashes his head in with a whiskey bottle.
* Tobun in ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'''s Cardboard Tube Samurai storyline, is implied to have become a DeathSeeker after being compelled to commit atrocities. Fighting the CTS hand to hand, his last words are "before this moment, did I ever see the world?"
* ''WebComic/DragonBallMultiverse'': The first Cell Jr's death by his own father's hands. Especially after he had a HopeSpot of becoming more powerful.
* At the grand finale of ''WebComic/ErrantStory'', Ian just [[http://www.errantstory.com/2011-11-07/5323 keeps]] [[http://www.errantstory.com/2011-11-14/5324 repeating]] "I just wanted to help." Despite a personal body count in the ''thousands'', he's quite serious. However, it doesn't keep him from getting his brains blown out.
* Apple Bloom in ''Webcomic/MoodyMarkCrusaders''. Even though she's a jerk, it's hard not to feel sorry when she's TakenForGranite. [[spoiler:She gets better though.]]
* Kalki in ''{{Webcomic/Drowtales}}'' spends the majority of her screentime either acting like TheFakeCutie or inflicting serious harm or brutal deaths on other characters, including stabbing the hand of her own half-sister and nearly killing her by chopping off her arm ''the very first time they meet'', but the way [[spoiler:her mother Snadhya'rune]], whose neglectful parenting was at least half the reason she became as twisted as she did, coldly kills her and tells her she has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived her usefulness]] firmly puts her into this.
