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* In the second episode of the ''Series/MegaMan'' cartoon, Roll was attacked by a female cosmetics robot that strapped her to a chair and gave her a bad facial. Megaman's response was to throw a tube of makeup at the robot, giving her an equally bad facial. Roll's response when freed was to cut her in half, then vacuum her face off.
* Parodied on ''RobotChicken''. A guy, sick of rush hour traffic, goes insane and transforms his car into a rolling death machine. He heads to work the next day... only to find himself all alone on the road due to a Jewish bank holiday.
* Parodied on ''RobotChicken''. A guy, sick of rush hour traffic, goes insane and transforms his car into a rolling death machine. He heads to work the next day... only to find himself all alone on the road due to a Jewish bank holiday.
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* In the second episode of the ''Series/MegaMan'' ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'' cartoon, Roll was attacked by a female cosmetics robot that strapped her to a chair and gave her a bad facial. Megaman's response was to throw a tube of makeup at the robot, giving her an equally bad facial. Roll's response when freed was to cut her in half, then vacuum her face off.
* Parodied on''RobotChicken''.''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''. A guy, sick of rush hour traffic, goes insane and transforms his car into a rolling death machine. He heads to work the next day... only to find himself all alone on the road due to a Jewish bank holiday.
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* ''HeyArnold'': In the episode "False Alarm" Curly tried to get Eugene expelled from school simply because he ruined his favorite pencil.
** [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Curly Snaps"]]. Curly locks himself in Principal Wartz's office, throws dodgeballs at everyone he sees, and has a big list of demands just because he DIDN'T GET TO BE BALL MONITOR THAT WEEK... They really should have sent him to Helga's therapist at that point. Dude is definitely unhinged.
** [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Curly Snaps"]]. Curly locks himself in Principal Wartz's office, throws dodgeballs at everyone he sees, and has a big list of demands just because he DIDN'T GET TO BE BALL MONITOR THAT WEEK... They really should have sent him to Helga's therapist at that point. Dude is definitely unhinged.
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* The Mysterons of ''CaptainScarlet'' decide that, having had their city destroyed, they're going to wipe out all life on earth. Which seems a bit silly really, given they managed to rebuild the city in seconds, but hey. They've watched us for centuries, they know best, right?
* In the first part of ''TheFairlyOddparents'' [[TheMovie Wishology]] after [[spoiler: Timmy uses the Tooth Fairy's factory to transport himself instead of a quarter to under a pillow]], the boy who was lying on the pillow woke up and accused Timmy of stealing his quarter. Shortly after, Timmy was being chased by the police and wanted posters of him were placed everywhere. For some reason, stealing a quarter is just as bad as breaking a priceless statue if not worse.
* In the first part of ''TheFairlyOddparents'' [[TheMovie Wishology]] after [[spoiler: Timmy uses the Tooth Fairy's factory to transport himself instead of a quarter to under a pillow]], the boy who was lying on the pillow woke up and accused Timmy of stealing his quarter. Shortly after, Timmy was being chased by the police and wanted posters of him were placed everywhere. For some reason, stealing a quarter is just as bad as breaking a priceless statue if not worse.
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* ''FamilyGuy''. Peter tickles Lois playfully who keeps telling him to stop while laughing. She then breaks his nose with a frying pan. Peter {{lampshade|Hanging}}s it:
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** And there's also his feud with Ernie the giant chicken. Peter then tries to kill Ernie just because he gave him a coupon that turned out to be bad.
*** [[spoiler: And, later, refusing to let him pick up the check.]]
*** [[spoiler: And, later, refusing to let him pick up the check.]]
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* There was an episode of ''JohnnyBravo'' where the titular character got 40 life sentences for littering. [[spoiler: It turns out that he wasn't really the one who littered.]]
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* Disney's ''Disney/SleepingBeauty''. The curse was put on her for one stated reason - because the witch wasn't invited to the birthday party. Now THAT is Disproportionate Retribution done ''right!''
* Another Disney example: In ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'', the fruit vendor nearly cuts off Jasmine's hand for stealing an ''apple. That she didn't even steal for herself.'' An example of TruthInTelevision.
** Well, the penalty is made so the thief won't be able to steal ever again, but its usually done by the executioner.
* Another Disney example: In ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'', the fruit vendor nearly cuts off Jasmine's hand for stealing an ''apple. That she didn't even steal for herself.'' An example of TruthInTelevision.
** Well, the penalty is made so the thief won't be able to steal ever again, but its usually done by the executioner.
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* On ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', most of Dr. Doofensmirtz's evil schemes run on this. In one episode, Doofenshmirtz tracks down a bully who used to kick sand in his face and tries to bury his entire house in sand.
** Pinky the Chihuahua's rival goes to the store to buy Stiff Beauty hair spray, which she finds out has been discontinued. After a beat, she zaps the messenger into another dimension.
** Doof also teleported a guy to another dimension because he hit on [[OverprotectiveDad his daughter.]]
* On ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', Squidward does this in "Fools in April" and "Funny Pants", as well as a number of other episodes, generally because Spongebob was doing something to amuse himself or bystanders, but it annoyed him.
** Squidward himself tends to be a target for DisproportionateRetribution himself. The earliest example in "Reef Blower": Squidward brushes a clam shell, off of his otherwise spotless lawn, onto Spongebob's lawn. By the end of the episode Squidward's yard is a mess of dirt and debris.
** Pinky the Chihuahua's rival goes to the store to buy Stiff Beauty hair spray, which she finds out has been discontinued. After a beat, she zaps the messenger into another dimension.
** Doof also teleported a guy to another dimension because he hit on [[OverprotectiveDad his daughter.]]
* On ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', Squidward does this in "Fools in April" and "Funny Pants", as well as a number of other episodes, generally because Spongebob was doing something to amuse himself or bystanders, but it annoyed him.
** Squidward himself tends to be a target for DisproportionateRetribution himself. The earliest example in "Reef Blower": Squidward brushes a clam shell, off of his otherwise spotless lawn, onto Spongebob's lawn. By the end of the episode Squidward's yard is a mess of dirt and debris.
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* A harmless version in the ''{{WesternAnimation/X-Men Evolution}}'' ChristmasEpisode had Spyke and his father throw a couple of snowballs at {{Storm}} (with poor accuracy). Storm logically responds by creating a small snowstorm to show them why one should never pick a snowball fight with someone who can control the weather.
* In the second episode of the ''Series/MegaMan'' cartoon, Roll was attacked by a female cosmetics robot that strapped her to a chair and gave her a bad facial. Megaman's response was to throw a tube of makeup at the robot, giving her an equally bad facial. Roll's response when freed was to cut her in half, then vacuum her face off.
* Parodied on ''RobotChicken''. A guy, sick of rush hour traffic, goes insane and transforms his car into a rolling death machine. He heads to work the next day... only to find himself all alone on the road due to a Jewish bank holiday.
** Another episode had the GIJoe team make fun of an expert sniper who makes a bad first impression by slipping up and falling on his ass. [[WhosLaughingNow In response to about a minute of mocking that didn't seem to go beyond banter, he defects to COBRA and kills them all save Duke, to wallow amid his dead comrades.]]
* Lucius on ''JimmyTwoShoes'' frequently does this, including threatening to dunk the main characters in lave for releasing [[EmbarrassingOldPhoto an old home movie of him]] and leveling a hair salon for messing up his horns.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', Jake has a witch punish him by taking away his magical powers and gives him the body of a fat baby. The reason she did so was because he ate one of her doughnuts. Later, she does the same thing to a bagel. The bagel's crime? Not being a doughnut.
* In the second episode of the ''Series/MegaMan'' cartoon, Roll was attacked by a female cosmetics robot that strapped her to a chair and gave her a bad facial. Megaman's response was to throw a tube of makeup at the robot, giving her an equally bad facial. Roll's response when freed was to cut her in half, then vacuum her face off.
* Parodied on ''RobotChicken''. A guy, sick of rush hour traffic, goes insane and transforms his car into a rolling death machine. He heads to work the next day... only to find himself all alone on the road due to a Jewish bank holiday.
** Another episode had the GIJoe team make fun of an expert sniper who makes a bad first impression by slipping up and falling on his ass. [[WhosLaughingNow In response to about a minute of mocking that didn't seem to go beyond banter, he defects to COBRA and kills them all save Duke, to wallow amid his dead comrades.]]
* Lucius on ''JimmyTwoShoes'' frequently does this, including threatening to dunk the main characters in lave for releasing [[EmbarrassingOldPhoto an old home movie of him]] and leveling a hair salon for messing up his horns.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', Jake has a witch punish him by taking away his magical powers and gives him the body of a fat baby. The reason she did so was because he ate one of her doughnuts. Later, she does the same thing to a bagel. The bagel's crime? Not being a doughnut.
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* A lot of the complaints people have over ''TomAndJerry'' is Jerry's tendency to do this to Tom.
* There's one episode of ''CourageTheCowardlyDog'' in which [[JerkASS Eustace]] calls on a gang of Courage's worst nemeses to kill him, just because the dog got a blanket he wanted for himself.
* [[{{WesternAnimation/Gargoyles}} The Hunter]] vows revenge on Demona, a vow that lasts through a thousand years, the role of the Hunter being passed down through the generations. What was her crime? Lashing out and scarring the face of the first Hunter when he came upon her stealing food. Granted, [[UnknownRival the fact that she didn't even consider him worth remembering before he began his hunt probably didn't help]], but still, DAMN.
* There's one episode of ''CourageTheCowardlyDog'' in which [[JerkASS Eustace]] calls on a gang of Courage's worst nemeses to kill him, just because the dog got a blanket he wanted for himself.
* [[{{WesternAnimation/Gargoyles}} The Hunter]] vows revenge on Demona, a vow that lasts through a thousand years, the role of the Hunter being passed down through the generations. What was her crime? Lashing out and scarring the face of the first Hunter when he came upon her stealing food. Granted, [[UnknownRival the fact that she didn't even consider him worth remembering before he began his hunt probably didn't help]], but still, DAMN.
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* In ''TheLooneyTunesShow'', Porky takes some of Daffy's french fries because he thinks they're for the table. Daffy goes into a HeroicBSOD and ends his friendship with Porky, calling him "garbage". [[spoiler:It turns out that the fries were, in fact, for the table. Incidentally, Daffy somehow [[HypocriticalHumor sees no problem with taking Porky's pizza]]]].
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* In ''TheLooneyTunesShow'', Porky takes some of Daffy's french fries because he thinks they're for the table. Daffy goes into a HeroicBSOD and ends his friendship with Porky, calling him "garbage". [[spoiler:It turns out that the fries were, in fact, for the table. Incidentally, Daffy somehow [[HypocriticalHumor sees no problem with taking Porky's pizza]]]].pizza]]]].
* In ''AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'', a young Ivo Robotnik tries to woo a girl he loved by by strangling his RomanticRival with a robotic snake and is expelled. What does Robotnik do? Start his world conquest schemes.
* In ''AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'', a young Ivo Robotnik tries to woo a girl he loved by by strangling his RomanticRival with a robotic snake and is expelled. What does Robotnik do? Start his world conquest schemes.
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** In "Scott Tenorman Must Die", Scott cheats Cartman out of $16.12, makes him beg for the money back (in a very humiliating fashion), burns the money in front of him, then tapes Cartman begging for his money and shows it to the entire town of South Park. So after more mundane revenge pranks fail, Cartman lures Scott's parents to their deaths, steals the bodies, grinds them up, uses the meat to make chili, then makes Scott [[ImAHumanitarian eat the chili]]. He also gets [[{{Music/Radiohead}} Scott's favorite band]] to [[RefugeInAudacity laugh at him as he cries]], while [[BeyondTheImpossible Cartman laps the tears up right off his face]]. Of course, [[spoiler: Scott Tenorman eventually would prove the old Klingon proverb that, yes, revenge is a dish BestServedCold, though considering what he was put through, that revenge might have been considered proportionate.]].
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** In "Scott Tenorman Must Die", Scott cheats Cartman out of $16.12, makes him beg for the money back (in a very humiliating fashion), burns the money in front of him, then tapes Cartman begging for his money and shows it to the entire town of South Park. So after more mundane revenge pranks fail, Cartman lures Scott's parents to their deaths, steals the bodies, grinds them up, uses the meat to make chili, then makes Scott [[ImAHumanitarian eat the chili]]. He also gets [[{{Music/Radiohead}} Scott's favorite band]] to [[RefugeInAudacity laugh at him as he cries]], while [[BeyondTheImpossible Cartman laps the tears up right off his face]]. Granted, Scott acted really dickish to Cartman, but even so...
** Of course, [[spoiler: Scott Tenorman eventually would prove the old Klingon proverb that, yes, revenge is a dish BestServedCold, though considering what he was put through, that revenge might have been considered proportionate.]].
** Of course, [[spoiler: Scott Tenorman eventually would prove the old Klingon proverb that, yes, revenge is a dish BestServedCold, though considering what he was put through, that revenge might have been considered proportionate.]].
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** In the episode "The Spy Who Learned Me", Bart plots revenge on the school bully, Nelson, by giving him coupons for a month's worth of fast food for free. Nelson quickly gets addicted to the junk food and becomes so obese that he becomes too lazy to push people around. The reason for this act by Bart? He got sick of Nelson taking his lunch money.
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** An adult movie is making your kids say naughty workds. [[ThisMeansWar THIS MEANS WAR!!!]]
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** "The Boys Of Bummer". When Bart screws up at a baseball game and costs Springfield the Little League Championship, ''[[WhatTheHellTownspeople everyone]]'' makes him pay dearly (only Marge stood by him). In fact, it [[DrivenToSuicide drives poor Bart to attempt suicide]]. Nobody in town regrets their actions. It only took [[MamaBear Marge]] to [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech set]] [[ShamingTheMob things]] [[Awesome/TheSimpsons straight]].
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** "The Boys Of Bummer".Bummer" contains probably one of the ''worst'' examples in fiction. When Bart screws up at a baseball game and costs Springfield the Little League Championship, ''[[WhatTheHellTownspeople everyone]]'' makes him pay dearly (only Marge stood by him). In fact, it [[DrivenToSuicide drives poor Bart to attempt suicide]]. Nobody in town regrets their actions. What did they fo next? They ''kept on at it.'' It only took [[MamaBear Marge]] to [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech set]] [[ShamingTheMob things]] [[Awesome/TheSimpsons straight]].
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** Princess Bubblegums vendetta over Duke of Nut's was caused because he ate her pudding. Even Finn finds her hatred over him to be bordering on psychotic.
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*** She gets another one when she runs a spa and send out invitations to millionaires who have done some environmental wrong, turning them into living plants with her treatment. She targets Bruce when his company was planning on tearing down a forest for building space...except Bruce had ''found out and stopped the plans'' long beforehand and she never bothered to look further into this. What's more when Bruce lets his butler Alfred and his girlfriend go in his place as a vacation, Ivy figures she'll make due with him cause ''someone gotta be punished''.
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** [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Curly Snaps"]]. Curly locks himself in Principal Wartz's office, throws dodgeballs at everyone he sees, and has a big list of demands just because he DIDN'T GET TO BE BALL MONITOR THAT WEEK...
*** ...and this kid doesn't get sent to a therapist because...?
*** Because ThereAreNoTherapists.
** Curly's definitely got ''something'' going on, given that he's seemed to go on and off the hinges numerous times in the series.
*** ...and this kid doesn't get sent to a therapist because...?
*** Because ThereAreNoTherapists.
** Curly's definitely got ''something'' going on, given that he's seemed to go on and off the hinges numerous times in the series.
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** [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Curly Snaps"]]. Curly locks himself in Principal Wartz's office, throws dodgeballs at everyone he sees, and has a big list of demands just because he DIDN'T GET TO BE BALL MONITOR THAT WEEK...
*** ...and this kid doesn't getWEEK... They really should have sent him to a Helga's therapist because...?
*** Because ThereAreNoTherapists.
** Curly'sat that point. Dude is definitely got ''something'' going on, given that he's seemed to go on and off the hinges numerous times in the series. unhinged.
*** ...and this kid doesn't get
*** Because ThereAreNoTherapists.
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** Ozai seems to be a fan of this. Your thirteen-year-old son doesn't know when to shut up? [[AbusiveParents He obviously deserves to be permanently disfigured and kicked out of the country on a]] SnipeHunt.
*** It wasn't because he didn't know when to shut up. It was because he disagreed with the plan of one of Ozai's generals, who had a plan which required the sacrifice of many loyal, albiet newer, soldiers.
** Azula embodies this trope after her VillainousBreakdown. Forgot to remove a cherry pit? Banished! Didn't arrive as quickly as Azula wanted you to? Banished! Do your duty as an advisor and actually advise Azula? [[DuelToTheDeath Agni Kai!]] You're not a firebender and can't Agni Kai? Okay, one of you is banished.
*** And the banished for the cherry thing? That was "merciful."
*** It wasn't because he didn't know when to shut up. It was because he disagreed with the plan of one of Ozai's generals, who had a plan which required the sacrifice of many loyal, albiet newer, soldiers.
** Azula embodies this trope after her VillainousBreakdown. Forgot to remove a cherry pit? Banished! Didn't arrive as quickly as Azula wanted you to? Banished! Do your duty as an advisor and actually advise Azula? [[DuelToTheDeath Agni Kai!]] You're not a firebender and can't Agni Kai? Okay, one of you is banished.
*** And the banished for the cherry thing? That was "merciful."
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** Ozai seems to be a fan of this. Your thirteen-year-old son doesn't know when to shut up? disagrees with one of your general's plan that'll sacrifice a ton of loyal CannonFodder? [[AbusiveParents He obviously deserves to be permanently disfigured and kicked out of the country on a]] SnipeHunt.
*** It wasn't because he didn't know when to shut up. It was because he disagreed with the plan of one of Ozai's generals, who had a plan which required the sacrifice of many loyal, albiet newer, soldiers.
** Azula embodies this trope after her VillainousBreakdown. Forgot to remove a cherry pit? Banished! Didn't arrive as quickly as Azula wanted you to? Banished! Do your duty as an advisor advisors and actually advise Azula? [[DuelToTheDeath Agni Kai!]] You're not a firebender Both of you aren't firebenders and can't Agni Kai? Okay, one of you is banished.
*** And the banished for the cherry thing? That was "merciful."banished. That's her definition of being ''exceedingly merciful''.
*** And the banished for the cherry thing? That was "merciful."
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** Ty Lee initially doesn't want to leave the circus to accompany Azula, since she really loves her new life. Azula not-so-subtly ensures that there is no circus for Ty Lee to work at. Ty Lee gets the message.
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** Ty Lee initially doesn't want to leave the circus to accompany Azula, since she really loves her new life. Azula not-so-subtly ensures that there is no circus for Ty Lee to work at.Lee's working conditions will get much, much, much, much more dangerous. Ty Lee gets the message.
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** Brock Samson has a tendency to murder or brutalize people who don't show him respect. He lost his college football scholarship when he accidentally killed his own QB for ''not giving him the ball''. He gets incredibly frustrated when either his license to kill has expired or the insulter is a member of a protected group (specifically children, since he seems willing to brutalize women if his relationship with Molotov Cocktease is any indication).
*** Molotov is the exception, and with her it's like really brutal foreplay. He wouldn't kill his own mentor because he had a sex change.
*** Molotov is the exception, and with her it's like really brutal foreplay. He wouldn't kill his own mentor because he had a sex change.
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** Brock Samson has a tendency to murder or brutalize people who don't show him respect. He lost his college football scholarship when he accidentally killed his own QB for ''not giving him the ball''. He gets incredibly frustrated when either his license to kill has expired or the insulter is a member of a protected group (specifically children, since he seems willing to brutalize group, like women if his relationship with or children... though he will make an exception for Molotov Cocktease is any indication).
*** Molotov is the exception, and with her it's like really brutal foreplay. He wouldn't kill his own mentor because he had a sex change.Cocktease.
*** Molotov is the exception, and with her it's like really brutal foreplay. He wouldn't kill his own mentor because he had a sex change.
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** A prime example would be where Zim kidnaps Dib and puts him into a dream state, resulting in a deep depression, because he suspected Dib threw a muffin at his head.
*** Actually, the dream-depression was just to gather evidence. The actual ''retribution'' was to throw a muffin at DIB's head. 1:1 tradeoff, on that one. Considering the lead-in, this probably counts as a subversion.
*** Actually, the dream-depression was just to gather evidence. The actual ''retribution'' was to throw a muffin at DIB's head. 1:1 tradeoff, on that one. Considering the lead-in, this probably counts as a subversion.
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** A prime example would be where Zim Zim, suspecting that Dib has thrown a muffin at his head, kidnaps Dib and puts him into a dream state, resulting deeply depressing MindScrew dream-state in a deep depression, because he suspected Dib threw a muffin at his head.
*** Actually, the dream-depression was justorder to gather evidence. The actual ''retribution'' was to throw Only after complete mental destruction does Zim go ahead with the proportionate retribution of chucking a muffin at DIB's head. 1:1 tradeoff, on that one. Considering the lead-in, this probably counts as a subversion.Dib's head.
*** Actually, the dream-depression was just
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** In "Scott Tenorman Must Die", Scott cheats Cartman out of $16.12, makes him beg for the money back (in a very humiliating fashion), burns the money in front of him, then tapes Cartman begging for his money and shows it to the entire town of South Park. So after more mundane revenge pranks fail, Cartman lures Scott's parents to their deaths, steals the bodies, grinds them up, uses the meat to make chili, then makes Scott [[ImAHumanitarian eat the chili]]. He also gets [[{{Music/Radiohead}} Scott's favorite band]] to [[RefugeInAudacity laugh at him as he cries]], while [[BeyondTheImpossible Cartman laps the tears up right off his face]]. (See the page "JerkASS" for a picture.)
*** Of course, [[spoiler: Scott Tenorman proved the old Klingon proverb that, yes, revenge is a dish BestServedCold]].
*** Of course, [[spoiler: Scott Tenorman proved the old Klingon proverb that, yes, revenge is a dish BestServedCold]].
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** In "Scott Tenorman Must Die", Scott cheats Cartman out of $16.12, makes him beg for the money back (in a very humiliating fashion), burns the money in front of him, then tapes Cartman begging for his money and shows it to the entire town of South Park. So after more mundane revenge pranks fail, Cartman lures Scott's parents to their deaths, steals the bodies, grinds them up, uses the meat to make chili, then makes Scott [[ImAHumanitarian eat the chili]]. He also gets [[{{Music/Radiohead}} Scott's favorite band]] to [[RefugeInAudacity laugh at him as he cries]], while [[BeyondTheImpossible Cartman laps the tears up right off his face]]. (See the page "JerkASS" for a picture.)
***Of course, [[spoiler: Scott Tenorman proved eventually would prove the old Klingon proverb that, yes, revenge is a dish BestServedCold]].BestServedCold, though considering what he was put through, that revenge might have been considered proportionate.]].
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** Quite a few characters get this inflicted upon them, especially Stan. (Example: He just expresses his opinion about voting and this gets him threatened, kicked out of town, and almost killed, in that order.)
*** Kyle as well, particularly in recent seasons. Don't read Apple EULA? Have fun eating shit. He also gets AIDS from Cartman for laughing, loses a bet and is forced to suck (at least imagined to) Cartman's balls. Oh fuck, just Cartman to Kyle in general is a lot of this.
*** He actually expresses his opinion about voting for two joke candidates, which just makes it even worse
*** Kyle as well, particularly in recent seasons. Don't read Apple EULA? Have fun eating shit. He also gets AIDS from Cartman for laughing, loses a bet and is forced to suck (at least imagined to) Cartman's balls. Oh fuck, just Cartman to Kyle in general is a lot of this.
*** He actually expresses his opinion about voting for two joke candidates, which just makes it even worse
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** Quite a few characters get this inflicted upon them, especially Stan. (Example: He just expresses his opinion about voting not wanting to vote for either of two joke candidates and this gets him threatened, kicked out of town, and almost killed, in that order.)
*** Kyle as well, particularly in recent seasons. Don't read Apple EULA? Have funeating shit.being part of a HumanCentipede. He also gets AIDS from Cartman for laughing, loses a bet and is forced to suck (at least imagined to) Cartman's balls. Oh fuck, just Cartman to Kyle in general is a lot of this.
*** He actually expresses his opinion about voting for two joke candidates, which just makes it even worsethis.
*** Kyle as well, particularly in recent seasons. Don't read Apple EULA? Have fun
*** He actually expresses his opinion about voting for two joke candidates, which just makes it even worse
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** Then there's the matter of the last scene, or rather next to last scene, in "Bad Heir Day", an otherwise [[Heartwarming/TheFairlyOddparents touching episode]]. Poof, who incidentally [[spoiler: bounced out of the stroller]] wound up with Crocker for a time. Timmy does everything he can to find his little brother and quickly becomes a BadlyBatteredBabysitter. Poof arrived home without a scratch and Timmy came in clothes torn, scratched and burned. When he explains what happens Wanda gives him NoSympathy and [[spoiler: poofs Timmy BACK into the same rabid alligator pit]] that he was in earlier while trying to find Poof. Apparently, someone who loses a child accidently, even if they go through horrendous things to bring them back safely deserves [[spoiler: to be nearly killed, if not actually]]. Add to this the fact that Poof is immortal while Timmy is human, as well as a child himself, adds a FridgeHorror element to it if you think too long about it!
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** Then there's the matter of the last scene, or rather next to last scene, in "Bad Heir Day", an otherwise [[Heartwarming/TheFairlyOddparents touching episode]]. Poof, who incidentally [[spoiler: bounced out of the stroller]] wound up with Crocker for a time. Timmy does everything he can to find his little brother and quickly becomes a BadlyBatteredBabysitter. Poof arrived home without a scratch and Timmy came in clothes torn, scratched and burned. When he explains what happens Wanda gives him NoSympathy and [[spoiler: poofs Timmy BACK into the same rabid alligator pit]] that he was in earlier while trying to find Poof. Apparently, someone who loses a child accidently, accidentally, even if they go through horrendous things to bring them back safely deserves [[spoiler: to be nearly killed, if not actually]]. Add to this the fact that Poof is immortal while Timmy is human, as well as a child himself, adds a FridgeHorror element to it if you think too long about it!
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** Nightmare Moon's vow to bring about TheNightThatNeverEnds because the population slept during the night time.
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** Nightmare Moon's vow to bring about TheNightThatNeverEnds was because her pony subjects enjoyed the population slept during daytime her sister brought, but didn't appreciate the night time.nights she created.
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I\'m pretty sure Mind Rape, emotional damage, and striping everyone of their free will makes it justified.
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** The ''entire town'' practically ostracize the Cutie Mark Crusaders after they print stories that could be mildly embarrassing at best.
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* [[SouthPark Eric Cartman]] is the patron saint of this trope. I'm seriously.
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*** It wasn't because he didn't know when to shut up. It was because he disagreed with the plan of one of Ozai's generals, who had a plan which required the sacrifice of many loyal, albiet newer, soldiers.
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** One episode has a former hot dog eating champion attempting to strangle Chris to death just because Chris beat him in the competition, which caused the former champion to lose his honor.
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** To be fair - this concept of "wuv" confused and infuriated them.
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** Steve also extracted revenge on three of the most popular girls in his high school when they slandered his girlfriend's reputation and had the lead cheerleader win the student body president because of it. Steve goes out of his way to do the following:
*** Tie the school's buffalo mascot on the pole of a traffic light so one of the popular girls would drive under it while giving the animal a huge amount of laxatives, causing it to dump its "load" all over her.
*** Distract a surgeon giving liposuction to one of the girls so he can put the procedure in reverse, causing her leg to balloon up with excess fat so she looks like a freak.
*** Steal the lead girl's teddy bear and paying a hooker to do sexual stuff to it and then return the bear so the girl contracts herpes.
*** Tie the school's buffalo mascot on the pole of a traffic light so one of the popular girls would drive under it while giving the animal a huge amount of laxatives, causing it to dump its "load" all over her.
*** Distract a surgeon giving liposuction to one of the girls so he can put the procedure in reverse, causing her leg to balloon up with excess fat so she looks like a freak.
*** Steal the lead girl's teddy bear and paying a hooker to do sexual stuff to it and then return the bear so the girl contracts herpes.
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* In ''{{Thundercats 2011}}'' A {{stock|Punishment}}aded Lizard, begging for mercy, tells {{Catfolk}} prince Lion-O that he and his fellow prisoner were only scavenging Thundera's crops when captured and [[MadeASlave made slaves]] of the Cats. When Lion-O [[DiscussedTrope points this out]] to a PowderkegCrowd harassing them, he's misinterpreted and they quickly become an AngryMob calling for the Lizards' ''deaths.''
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* In ''{{Thundercats ''WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats 2011}}'' A {{stock|Punishment}}aded Lizard, begging for mercy, tells {{Catfolk}} prince Lion-O that he and his fellow prisoner were only scavenging Thundera's crops when captured and [[MadeASlave made slaves]] of the Cats. When Lion-O [[DiscussedTrope points this out]] to a PowderkegCrowd harassing them, he's misinterpreted and they quickly become an AngryMob calling for the Lizards' ''deaths.''
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** In one episode a squirrel went crazy and attacks Jake because he wouldn't reply to the emails he sent to him, and doesn't remember him.
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** In Adventure Time, the earl of Lemongrab has some... er, interesting concepts when it comes to punishing those who do wrong. Making a mess? Thirty days in the dungeon. Asking questions? Thirty-TWO days in the dungeon. Refusing to clean up mess, or asking who exactly Lemongrab is talking to? Three hours dungeon. Harmless prank? Seven years dungeon, no trials. Assuring Lemongrab that the prank was harmless? Twelve years dungeon. Elaborate, painful prank involving spicy food? ONE MILLION YEARS DUNGEON!!! (Of course, Lemongrab isn't evil- he's just young, angry, and a bit of an idiot.)
*** In Adventure Time, PB and Finn decide to play a harmless prank on the earl of Lemongrab- basically, they leave a sign beside his bed that says "YOU REALLY SMELL LIKE DOG BUNS." How does the earl react? He clenches his fists, starts shaking, and opens up his mouth wide to scream loudly in sheer outrage for several seconds. And how does he attempt to punish those responsible? Round up EVERYONE in the castle, to sentence them to seven years in the dungeon, no trials!
*** In Adventure Time, PB and Finn decide to play a harmless prank on the earl of Lemongrab- basically, they leave a sign beside his bed that says "YOU REALLY SMELL LIKE DOG BUNS." How does the earl react? He clenches his fists, starts shaking, and opens up his mouth wide to scream loudly in sheer outrage for several seconds. And how does he attempt to punish those responsible? Round up EVERYONE in the castle, to sentence them to seven years in the dungeon, no trials!
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* In "[[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Scott Tenorman Must Die]]", Scott cheats Cartman out of $16.12, makes him beg for the money back (in a very humiliating fashion), burns the money in front of him, then tapes Cartman begging for his money and shows it to the entire town of South Park. So after more mundane revenge pranks fail, Cartman lures Scott's parents to their deaths, steals the bodies, grinds them up, uses the meat to make chili, then makes Scott [[ImAHumanitarian eat the chili]]. He also gets [[{{Music/Radiohead}} Scott's favorite band]] to [[RefugeInAudacity laugh at him as he cries]], while [[BeyondTheImpossible Cartman laps the tears up right off his face]]. (See the page "JerkASS" for a picture.)
** Of course, [[spoiler: Scott Tenorman proved the old Klingon proverb that, yes, revenge is a dish BestServedCold]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', Darcy and Stormy both pull this; Darcy attempts to murder Musa simply for being interested in Riven (who she didn't even like) and after Musa beats Stormy one on one she disguises herself, concocts an elaborate revenge plot, and attempts to kill Musa's dad.
* ''HeyArnold'': In the episode "False Alarm" Curly tried to get Eugene expelled from school simply because he ruined his favorite pencil.
** [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Curly Snaps"]]. Curly locks himself in Principal Wartz's office, throws dodgeballs at everyone he sees, and has a big list of demands just because he DIDN'T GET TO BE BALL MONITOR THAT WEEK...
*** ...and this kid doesn't get sent to a therapist because...?
*** Because ThereAreNoTherapists.
** Curly's definitely got ''something'' going on, given that he's seemed to go on and off the hinges numerous times in the series.
* After some heartwarming EpiphanyTherapy, TheDragon and QuirkyMinibossSquad of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' went on to completely trash ([[http://dvdscreenshots.avatarspiritmedia.net/305/836.jpg and maybe burn down!]]) the house of someone who had mildly "insulted" them by kicking Zuko out of his party for hurling a guy into his grandma's vase, and being afraid of Azula. Hey, they ''are'' villains.
** Also there's [[BigBad Fire Lord]] [[CompleteMonster Ozai's]] solution to minor rebellions in the conquered Earth Kingdom. [[spoiler:Because ''burning the entire continent to the ground'' is clearly a reasonable response.]]
** Ozai seems to be a fan of this. Your thirteen-year-old son doesn't know when to shut up? [[AbusiveParents He obviously deserves to be permanently disfigured and kicked out of the country on a]] SnipeHunt.
** Azula embodies this trope after her VillainousBreakdown. Forgot to remove a cherry pit? Banished! Didn't arrive as quickly as Azula wanted you to? Banished! Do your duty as an advisor and actually advise Azula? [[DuelToTheDeath Agni Kai!]] You're not a firebender and can't Agni Kai? Okay, one of you is banished.
*** And the banished for the cherry thing? That was "merciful."
** Then again, this seems to run in the family. Fire Lord Azulon's response to Ozai wanting the throne over his brother Iroh after Iroh's only heir has died? [[spoiler: Telling him to kill his ''own'' son so he can feel what it's like to lose his firstborn.]] Zuko is ''definitely'' the ButtMonkey of this family.
** Ty Lee initially doesn't want to leave the circus to accompany Azula, since she really loves her new life. Azula not-so-subtly ensures that there is no circus for Ty Lee to work at. Ty Lee gets the message.
* Subverted in ''ThePowerpuffGirls'', in which after being criticized by a temp that he relies on the girls way too much, the Mayor promptly reaches for the hotline to have the girls beat her up. About midway, he finally gets it and hangs the phone up.
** Incidentally the episode becomes more or less ''about'' this trope as the mayor compensates by flying around in a hot air balloon punishing any and all crimes he sees, (whether actual or not) from robbery to jay walking with an extendable boxing glove to the face.
** In another episode, the Girls' next door neighbours, the Smiths, are led by the mother to become supervillains, destroy the Girls home, and try to ''kill'' them, because she was angry at them ruining the dinner party she had invited them to (which by the way, they did because they were trying to stop Mr. Smith, who had become a villain because he was bored with his average suburban life, from ''melting the Professor's head!''). The daughter of the family also got into it because the Girls had accidentally lost her jacks. The Girls {{lampshade|Hanging}} this when, after Mrs. Smith's MotiveRant, Blossom simply says "That's not a good reason at all!" before beating the Smiths up.
** In "Bubblevicious", upon proving she can be as strong and aggressive as her sisters by defeating the highest-level monsters in their training simulator, Bubbles begins to attack people for the smallest crimes such as littering and jaywalking.
* Señor Senior, Sr. (and his son, Señor Senior, Jr.) was kicked out of an ultra-exclusive club for billionaires because of their embarrassing losses to ''KimPossible''. Senior's idea: freeze them all solid with a stolen cryogenic device. [[LampshadeHanging As he puts it]], "[[InvokedTrope true villains are characterized by disproportionate revenge, Junior.]]"
** Kim does this in the movie where only the writer's intervention stopped her from killing Shego. Keep in mind that this was in response to Shego making a crack about [[spoiler: kidnapping her prom date. Who turned out to be a synthodrone who was in on it. Because she was ordered to by Drakken. As part of a scheme she knew nothing about until the very end.]] She didn't even take out her revenge on the right person: ''Drakken'' was behind the whole thing. Shego was JustFollowingOrders as always.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' episode "Past Tense", Dr. Venture, Brock, Mr. White, and Baron Underbheit are kidnapped by an old acquaintance, Mike Sorayama, who has devised a complex revenge plot with the intention of killing them all... in vengeance for a variety of minor pranks they all played on him in college, most of which revolved around his pathetic unrequited crush on a girl called Leslie Cohen. It turns out that Venture didn't even ''do'' what Mike claims he did (sleep with the girl -- although Brock did), although he does lampshade the overall ludicrousness of Mike's obsessive vendetta with what he ''thinks'' Mike blames him for:
-->'''Doctor Venture''': Oh ''come on''! You're gonna kill me for having fake sex on graph paper with a girl who barely spoke to you in real life?!
** Also there is the Monarch's yet to be explained vendetta against Doctor Venture. Even Doctor Venture doesn't know why the Monarch wants him dead.
** Then there's Dr. Orpheus, who absolutely excels at this trope. Two rednecks decided to tease him about his appearance, so he trapped their spirits in a small Homeboy figurine, which he now keeps on his car dashboard. In another instance, he predicts Action Man's exact date and cause of death, though to be fair the guy did attack him without provocation and put a bullet in his shoulder before the mix-up was resolved.
** Brock Samson has a tendency to murder or brutalize people who don't show him respect. He lost his college football scholarship when he accidentally killed his own QB for ''not giving him the ball''. He gets incredibly frustrated when either his license to kill has expired or the insulter is a member of a protected group (specifically children, since he seems willing to brutalize women if his relationship with Molotov Cocktease is any indication).
*** Molotov is the exception, and with her it's like really brutal foreplay. He wouldn't kill his own mentor because he had a sex change.
** Dr. Mrs. The Monarch explains The Guild's policy of DisproportionateRetribution to Jonas Venture, Jr. in "The Lepidopterists".
--->'''Dr. Mrs. The Monarch:''' You throw a rock, The Guild throws a knife, you throw a knife, they come to your house when you're sleeping and ''murder your family.''
** Baron Von Undherbeit, when he was the ruler of his own country, had no prisons. Any violation of the law met the death penalty.
* ''InvaderZim'' is pretty much comprised of this trope. Many episodes show Zim taking a small thing way too serious and often goes too far to get even.
** A prime example would be where Zim kidnaps Dib and puts him into a dream state, resulting in a deep depression, because he suspected Dib threw a muffin at his head.
*** Actually, the dream-depression was just to gather evidence. The actual ''retribution'' was to throw a muffin at DIB's head. 1:1 tradeoff, on that one. Considering the lead-in, this probably counts as a subversion.
** All this goes without even mentioning Gaz, who had this as her trademark trope. Good luck finding a Gaz line that ''doesn't'' have something to do with inflicting revenge in the most painful and absurd way possible.
* In "[[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Scott Tenorman Must Die]]", Scott cheats Cartman out of $16.12, makes him beg for the money back (in a very humiliating fashion), burns the money in front of him, then tapes Cartman begging for his money and shows it to the entire town of South Park. So after more mundane revenge pranks fail, Cartman lures Scott's parents to their deaths, steals the bodies, grinds them up, uses the meat to make chili, then makes Scott [[ImAHumanitarian eat the chili]]. He also gets [[{{Music/Radiohead}} Scott's favorite band]] to [[RefugeInAudacity laugh at him as he cries]], while [[BeyondTheImpossible Cartman laps the tears up right off his face]]. (See the page "JerkASS" for a picture.)
** Of course, [[spoiler: Scott Tenorman proved the old Klingon proverb that, yes, revenge is a dish BestServedCold]].
** One time Cartman [[{{Saw}} tied a boy's ankle to the flag pole, gave him a hacksaw and told him he had poisoned his milk, and the only way to get the antidote was hacking off his own leg.]] The reason for this, you might ask? The boy called Cartman "Chubby".
** Quite a few characters get this inflicted upon them, especially Stan. (Example: He just expresses his opinion about voting and this gets him threatened, kicked out of town, and almost killed, in that order.)
*** He actually expresses his opinion about voting for two joke candidates, which just makes it even worse
* The Mysterons of ''CaptainScarlet'' decide that, having had their city destroyed, they're going to wipe out all life on earth. Which seems a bit silly really, given they managed to rebuild the city in seconds, but hey. They've watched us for centuries, they know best, right?
* In the first part of ''TheFairlyOddparents'' [[TheMovie Wishology]] after [[spoiler: Timmy uses the Tooth Fairy's factory to transport himself instead of a quarter to under a pillow]], the boy who was lying on the pillow woke up and accused Timmy of stealing his quarter. Shortly after, Timmy was being chased by the police and wanted posters of him were placed everywhere. For some reason, stealing a quarter is just as bad as breaking a priceless statue if not worse.
** Then there's the matter of the last scene, or rather next to last scene, in "Bad Heir Day", an otherwise [[Heartwarming/TheFairlyOddparents touching episode]]. Poof, who incidentally [[spoiler: bounced out of the stroller]] wound up with Crocker for a time. Timmy does everything he can to find his little brother and quickly becomes a BadlyBatteredBabysitter. Poof arrived home without a scratch and Timmy came in clothes torn, scratched and burned. When he explains what happens Wanda gives him NoSympathy and [[spoiler: poofs Timmy BACK into the same rabid alligator pit]] that he was in earlier while trying to find Poof. Apparently, someone who loses a child accidently, even if they go through horrendous things to bring them back safely deserves [[spoiler: to be nearly killed, if not actually]]. Add to this the fact that Poof is immortal while Timmy is human, as well as a child himself, adds a FridgeHorror element to it if you think too long about it!
* ''FamilyGuy''. Peter tickles Lois playfully who keeps telling him to stop while laughing. She then breaks his nose with a frying pan. Peter {{lampshade|Hanging}}s it:
-->'''Peter:''' ''I tickle you, you hit me in the face with a ''frying pan?!''
-->'''Lois:''' I told you to stop.
-->'''Peter:''' ''I taste blood!''
-->'''Lois:'' Well there's a lot of it.
** And there's also his feud with Ernie the giant chicken. Peter then tries to kill Ernie just because he gave him a coupon that turned out to be bad.
*** [[spoiler: And, later, refusing to let him pick up the chech.]]
** Joyce Kinney, a news anchor at Quahog News, revealed on the show that Lois starred in a porno in retaliation for a prank she pulled when they were in high school.
*** Granted, said prank was a {{Carrie}}-style humiliation.
** Played with when Peter throws acid in the face of a New Yorker because he said the Patriots suck. He meant to splash holy water in his face but there was a mix-up.
* There was an episode of ''JohnnyBravo'' where the titular character got 40 life sentences for littering. [[spoiler: It turns out that he wasn't really the one who littered.]]
** Inverted in an episode, where stealing his mother's car to use in a race meant a week's worth of chores for Johnny (and for Carl, who helped Johnny steal it and added illegal technology to it, to help him).
-->'''Bunny:''' Grand theft auto in ''my'' house means chores for a week!
* Disney's ''Disney/SleepingBeauty''. The curse was put on her for one stated reason - because the witch wasn't invited to the birthday party. Now THAT is Disproportionate Retribution done ''right!''
* Another Disney example: In ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'', the fruit vendor nearly cuts off Jasmine's hand for stealing an ''apple. That she didn't even steal for herself.'' An example of TruthInTelevision.
** Well, the penalty is made so the thief won't be able to steal ever again, but its usually done by the executioner.
*** It's also so that the thief is denied entry to Heaven or the afterlife, as in some religions you must be buried with all of your parts present to do so.
*** Actually, what she did isn't formally defined as theft under shari'a, because she didn't even try to sneak. Even if he'd produced the requisite witnesses, a functioning religious court wouldn't have cut off her hand. (Modern Iran can be...different.) Maybe levied a fine. But since Agrabah is a nonexistent principality, I can't say what its secular laws would have been, and those are the ones that would have actually come into play.
** An even worse example of a potential disproportionate retribution, imagine what would've happened to the vendor if Aladdin hadn't stopped him and word got out that he cut off the hand of the princess...
* On ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', most of Dr. Doofensmirtz's evil schemes run on this. In one episode, Doofenshmirtz tracks down a bully who used to kick sand in his face and tries to bury his entire house in sand.
** Pinky the Chihuahua's rival goes to the store to buy Stiff Beauty hair spray, which she finds out has been discontinued. After a beat, she zaps the messenger into another dimension.
** Doof also teleported a guy to another dimension because he hit on [[OverprotectiveDad his daughter.]]
* On ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', Squidward does this in "Fools in April" and "Funny Pants", as well as a number of other episodes, generally because Spongebob was doing something to amuse himself or bystanders, but it annoyed him.
** Squidward himself tends to be a target for DisproportionateRetribution himself. The earliest example in "Reef Blower": Squidward brushes a clam shell, off of his otherwise spotless lawn, onto Spongebob's lawn. By the end of the episode Squidward's yard is a mess of dirt and debris.
*** To be fair, the "Reef Blower" example was due to Spongebob's oblivious bumbling leading to a chain reaction of bad luck for Squidward rather than a deliberate retaliation.
* A harmless version in the ''{{WesternAnimation/X-Men Evolution}}'' ChristmasEpisode had Spyke and his father throw a couple of snowballs at {{Storm}} (with poor accuracy). Storm logically responds by creating a small snowstorm to show them why one should never pick a snowball fight with someone who can control the weather.
* In the second episode of the ''Series/MegaMan'' cartoon, Roll was attacked by a female cosmetics robot that strapped her to a chair and gave her a bad facial. Megaman's response was to throw a tube of makeup at the robot, giving her an equally bad facial. Roll's response when freed was to cut her in half, then vacuum her face off.
* Parodied on ''RobotChicken''. A guy, sick of rush hour traffic, goes insane and transforms his car into a rolling death machine. He heads to work the next day... only to find himself all alone on the road due to a Jewish bank holiday.
** Another episode had the GIJoe team make fun of an expert sniper who makes a bad first impression by slipping up and falling on his ass. [[WhosLaughingNow In response to about a minute of mocking that didn't seem to go beyond banter, he defects to COBRA and kills them all save Duke, to wallow amid his dead comrades.]]
* Lucius on ''JimmyTwoShoes'' frequently does this, including threatening to dunk the main characters in lave for releasing [[EmbarrassingOldPhoto an old home movie of him]] and leveling a hair salon for messing up his horns.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', Jake has a witch punish him by taking away his magical powers and gives him the body of a fat baby. The reason she did so was because he ate one of her doughnuts. Later, she does the same thing to a bagel. The bagel's crime? Not being a doughnut.
* A lot of the complaints people have over ''TomAndJerry'' is Jerry's tendency to do this to Tom.
* There's one episode of ''CourageTheCowardlyDog'' in which [[JerkASS Eustace]] calls on a gang of Courage's worst nemeses to kill him, just because the dog got a blanket he wanted for himself.
* [[{{WesternAnimation/Gargoyles}} The Hunter]] vows revenge on Demona, a vow that lasts through a thousand years, the role of the Hunter being passed down through the generations. What was her crime? Lashing out and scarring the face of the first Hunter when he came upon her stealing food. Granted, [[UnknownRival the fact that she didn't even consider him worth remembering before he began his hunt probably didn't help]], but still, DAMN.
** Gargoyles also averts (inverts?) this in the form of Vinnie Gregarino. This guy loses at least two jobs, a motorcycle, his driver's license and probably a lot of his reputation because of the Gargoyles' actions. He spends most of the episode "Vendettas" chasing Goliath with a custom-built weapon called "Mr. Carter", or "Mr. C.", finally shooting him in the face at point-blank range just after the climax of a big battle that had Goliath's attention all night. Fortunately, "Mr. Carter" only shoots cream pies, and Vinnie walked away very satisfied with himself, leaving a confused Goliath and Hudson to wonder who he was. Vinnie is notably the ''only'' character in the entire series to get vengeance to his satisfaction.
* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack: The Series'', Jay runs afoul of a HiveMind race that wants him dead for accidentally killing one of their own. When Kay blows his nose and shows them the mucus-covered handkerchief, they decide to let Jay go and take ''him'' instead.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' does this a lot, but the clearest case of this is in "Curse of the Flying Hellfish". When Burns takes old paintings from Abe Simpson at gunpoint, and Bart calls Burns a coward and an embarrassment to the name Hellfish, Burns points the gun at Bart's head; Abe says Burns can take the art, just not hurt the boy; Burns remarks that he would rather do both, and '''[[MoralEventHorizon kicks Bart into the empty case so hard that it ends up falling into the water, and then Burns boats away]]''', saying ''"so long, Sarge, see you at the reunion in November!"'' Seeing as how Burns could have taken the art without hurting the boy, trying to drown him was either in response to his insults or ForTheEvulz.
** Another good example is the Springfield-Shelbyville rivalry, summed up by Lisa.
-->''"They built a mini-mall, so we built an even bigger mini-mall. They made the world's largest pizza, so we burned down their city hall."''
** Another one is when in one of the many Treehouse of Horror episodes, France [[NukeEm freaking]] ''{{nuke|Em}}s'' the city of Springfield because [[SleazyPolitician Mayor Quimby]] made a bad joke to the country about frog legs.
*** Not just that, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous he refused to apologise for it as well]].
-->'''Quimby:''' I bet I'll get blamed for this.
** Ned Flanders' crusade to get Kent Brockman fired after swearing on public television, even though Brockman apologised for it a few seconds later and nobody was really watching the news when he swore. Ned even lampshaded it, when his sons asked him what he's doing.
-->''Imploring people I never met to pressure a government with better things to do to punish a man who meant no harm for something nobody even saw! That's what I'm doing!''
** In "Krusty Gets Kancelled", Snake throws an empty Duff can out of his truck, and to get revenge, Bette Midler lobs the can back at him, ''and causes his truck to spin off the road and '''explode.'''''
--->[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgK_NCKrDwc "I'LL GET YOU FOR THIS, MIDLER!"]]
** Itchy and Scratchy had one in "You Kent Always Say What You Want" (according to Krusty's narrative). Itchy built a trap involving a lady made of dynamite for Scratchy, and later juggled his three remaining body parts (his head, his heart, and his leg)
-->'''Krusty''': ''(narrating)'' That's what you get for, I don't know, messing with my wife.
** In the same episode, Lindsay Naegle fired Brockman for having Cocaine in his coffee, even when Brockman explained that it was actually Splenda, and it is also implied that she was actually using that as an excuse to fire him even when it was really just out of anger for his swearing on the air. The FCC also landed the entire Channel 6 station with a $10,000,000 fine just because Kent Brockman uttered a swear word. Sure, the swear was implied to be the worst one in the English language, but still, $10,000,000 is far too much even for that.
** "The Boys Of Bummer". When Bart screws up at a baseball game and costs Springfield the Little League Championship, ''[[WhatTheHellTownspeople everyone]]'' makes him pay dearly (only Marge stood by him). In fact, it [[DrivenToSuicide drives poor Bart to attempt suicide]]. Nobody in town regrets their actions. It only took [[MamaBear Marge]] to [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech set]] [[ShamingTheMob things]] [[Awesome/TheSimpsons straight]].
** "The Good, The Sad and the Drugly". After Bart forgets to [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything visit Milhouse during his suspension]] due to spending time with Jenny, Milhouse [[TookALevelInJerkass invades Bart and follows him everywhere, trying to force his anger into his life as harsh as possible]], until he corners Bart, forcing him to admit to Jenny that he is not who she thinks he is. This ends up with Jenny dumping Bart and leaving him a crying mess.
* Roger of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' IS this trope, committing extremely intricate plots for Revenge that traumatise or outright destroy the life of a fellow that commits some minor offense towards him. He managed to convince Steve he was adopted after eating a cookie he claimed was his, he labelled Francine a former mental patient to houseguests for compromising one of his dress-up acts (he did NOT study Economics!), and once tried to destroy the entire planet over an insult issued from Stan [[spoiler: though admittedly didn't get far with that one]]. And this is just for petty offenses; for the more criminal act of buying an expensive ring using his credit account, Roger actively proceeds to destroy the perpetrator's life in every manner possible, performing acts that cost him his job, his girlfriend, and later attempting to destroy all his possessions. [[spoiler: This leads to complications when said perpetrator turns out to be a split personality formed from Roger's few redeeming aspects - and when said split personality hires a bounty hunter to kill Roger for ruining his life.]]
** Roger proceeded to take this trope UpToEleven in a season 7 episode where he goes on to kill five people over twenty dollars. During the episode, he mentions that the week before, he killed six people over nineteen dollars.
* Happens quite often in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', most frequently by Lrr and the Omicronians. Basically every time he shows up, something new and more ridiculous happens: The first appearance has him invading the Earth because his favorite (thousand-year-old) TV show was knocked off the air, and later tries to destroy the Planet Express ship for bringing sweetheart candy to their planet. "These candies are chalky and unpleasant!"
** In their first appearance, they demanded that the season finale of a thousand year old television show be aired again or he would increase earth's temperature by "one million degrees a day... ''for five days!''"
** When Bender dumps toxic waste into the sewers, the mutants kidnap him, as well as Fry and Leela, who just happened to be with him at the time. The waste Bender dumped was so bright that it allowed the mutants to see how ugly they were. The mutants decide to punish all three of them by permanently mutating their DNA and then beating them up. Furthermore, when the trio tries to escape and are caught after a short chase, they decide to go for the death penalty instead.
* When [[KingOfTheHill Hank Hill]] saw his niece getting harassed by a golfer, he wanted the guy to pay. His usual method is to kick someone's ass, but this time he was [[PapaWolf especially pissed]]. So he threw the guy in a dolphin pool and had the dolphin rape the guy. The moral of the story is: don't piss Hank off (either that, or don't harass his niece in front of him). It was also a "two birds one stone" scenario since he wanted the raping dolphin removed from the club but had signed a nondisclosure agreement that kept him from complaining about it himself.
* In ''EdEddNEddy'', after Kevin wrecks one of Eddy's scams by merely picking up a soccer ball, Eddy spends the rest of the episode trying to enact revenge. Edd is not amused.
** In the infamous ''If It Smells Like An Ed'', Eddy gives Jimmy a wedgie, resulting in all the kids laughing at him. Jimmy then frames ''ALL THREE'' Eds for ruining his Friendship Day Celebrations, sends the Eds on a wild goose chase to find the real culprit, ending with the Eds having fruit thrown at them by the kids and being dragged off by the Kankers to be raped.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack'' episode "The Real Mighty Ducks", Donald wants Huey, Dewey, and Louie to clean their room, but they head over to Ludwig Von Drake's lab instead. They use one of his inventions to become Super Heroes. Their room, still a mess, Donald goes to Von Drake's lab and becomes a Super Villain, ''The Duck Of Doom'', who, still desperate for the boys to clean their room, goes on to tangle up a freeway, drain a lake, paint glasses on Mt.Rushmore, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous destroy every television set in existence]], and eventually destroys the entire universe. It doesn't matter how many times he told them to do it, '''no bedroom is ever that untidy'''. EvilIsPetty indeed.
* ''DanVs'' lives and breathes this trope. Each episode is centered on [[{{Jerkass}} Dan's]] need to get back at someone, or something, for a perceived slight.
* Joker does this in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''. Regularly.
** * In the episode which introduces Poison Ivy, she tries to kill Harvey Dent for building a corrections facility on top of a field containing a flower that was endangered. There is no evidence he knew about the endangered flower. She saved the flower before trying to kill him, anyway. Maybe he should've done an ecological survey to check for endangered species and done an environmental impact statement before starting construction, but she could've tried ''telling'' him there was an endangered flower before he started building to see if he would alter his plans in response.
** [[ClockKing Temple Fugate]] developed an obsessive, murderous grudge against Mayor Hamilton Hill...because when he was a lawyer, Hill suggested Fugate take his coffee break a little later to help him relax for a lawsuit against his company, which resulted in a series of accidents making him late, which resulted in him losing the suit.
* Subverted in one episode of ''MuppetBabies'' when, during a scene where Miss Piggy imagines herself as QueenElizabethI, Fozzie tells a crappy joke. Miss Piggy is not amused and puts him in the stocks. He asks if he's headed for fifty lashes for his crappy joke, and Miss Piggy snarls, "No, it's ''worse'' than that." Then, much to Fozzie's surprise...
** [[EdibleAmmunition "FIFTY TOMATOS!?!?!?"]]
* [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Marvin The Martian]] was going to blow up the Earth because it obstructed his view of the planet Venus.
* In ''{{Thundercats 2011}}'' A {{stock|Punishment}}aded Lizard, begging for mercy, tells {{Catfolk}} prince Lion-O that he and his fellow prisoner were only scavenging Thundera's crops when captured and [[MadeASlave made slaves]] of the Cats. When Lion-O [[DiscussedTrope points this out]] to a PowderkegCrowd harassing them, he's misinterpreted and they quickly become an AngryMob calling for the Lizards' ''deaths.''
* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' some ponies appear to be under the impression that Princess Celestia practices this. She does not.
** It's a highly contested point among the fandom, if [[spoiler: the mane 5's]] actions in the episode "The Mysterious Mare Do Well" went too far in [[spoiler: simply trying to humble Dash a little.]]
* Already known for his HairTriggerTemper, Burgermeister Meisterburger from ''SantaClausIsCominToTown'' trips on a toy duck and orders ''all'' toys banned and confiscated in the Sombertown city limits.
* In ''TheLooneyTunesShow'', Porky takes some of Daffy's french fries because he thinks they're for the table. Daffy goes into a HeroicBSOD and ends his friendship with Porky, calling him "garbage". [[spoiler:It turns out that the fries were, in fact, for the table. Incidentally, Daffy somehow [[HypocriticalHumor sees no problem with taking Porky's pizza]]]].
* ''HeyArnold'': In the episode "False Alarm" Curly tried to get Eugene expelled from school simply because he ruined his favorite pencil.
** [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Curly Snaps"]]. Curly locks himself in Principal Wartz's office, throws dodgeballs at everyone he sees, and has a big list of demands just because he DIDN'T GET TO BE BALL MONITOR THAT WEEK...
*** ...and this kid doesn't get sent to a therapist because...?
*** Because ThereAreNoTherapists.
** Curly's definitely got ''something'' going on, given that he's seemed to go on and off the hinges numerous times in the series.
* After some heartwarming EpiphanyTherapy, TheDragon and QuirkyMinibossSquad of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' went on to completely trash ([[http://dvdscreenshots.avatarspiritmedia.net/305/836.jpg and maybe burn down!]]) the house of someone who had mildly "insulted" them by kicking Zuko out of his party for hurling a guy into his grandma's vase, and being afraid of Azula. Hey, they ''are'' villains.
** Also there's [[BigBad Fire Lord]] [[CompleteMonster Ozai's]] solution to minor rebellions in the conquered Earth Kingdom. [[spoiler:Because ''burning the entire continent to the ground'' is clearly a reasonable response.]]
** Ozai seems to be a fan of this. Your thirteen-year-old son doesn't know when to shut up? [[AbusiveParents He obviously deserves to be permanently disfigured and kicked out of the country on a]] SnipeHunt.
** Azula embodies this trope after her VillainousBreakdown. Forgot to remove a cherry pit? Banished! Didn't arrive as quickly as Azula wanted you to? Banished! Do your duty as an advisor and actually advise Azula? [[DuelToTheDeath Agni Kai!]] You're not a firebender and can't Agni Kai? Okay, one of you is banished.
*** And the banished for the cherry thing? That was "merciful."
** Then again, this seems to run in the family. Fire Lord Azulon's response to Ozai wanting the throne over his brother Iroh after Iroh's only heir has died? [[spoiler: Telling him to kill his ''own'' son so he can feel what it's like to lose his firstborn.]] Zuko is ''definitely'' the ButtMonkey of this family.
** Ty Lee initially doesn't want to leave the circus to accompany Azula, since she really loves her new life. Azula not-so-subtly ensures that there is no circus for Ty Lee to work at. Ty Lee gets the message.
* Subverted in ''ThePowerpuffGirls'', in which after being criticized by a temp that he relies on the girls way too much, the Mayor promptly reaches for the hotline to have the girls beat her up. About midway, he finally gets it and hangs the phone up.
** Incidentally the episode becomes more or less ''about'' this trope as the mayor compensates by flying around in a hot air balloon punishing any and all crimes he sees, (whether actual or not) from robbery to jay walking with an extendable boxing glove to the face.
** In another episode, the Girls' next door neighbours, the Smiths, are led by the mother to become supervillains, destroy the Girls home, and try to ''kill'' them, because she was angry at them ruining the dinner party she had invited them to (which by the way, they did because they were trying to stop Mr. Smith, who had become a villain because he was bored with his average suburban life, from ''melting the Professor's head!''). The daughter of the family also got into it because the Girls had accidentally lost her jacks. The Girls {{lampshade|Hanging}} this when, after Mrs. Smith's MotiveRant, Blossom simply says "That's not a good reason at all!" before beating the Smiths up.
** In "Bubblevicious", upon proving she can be as strong and aggressive as her sisters by defeating the highest-level monsters in their training simulator, Bubbles begins to attack people for the smallest crimes such as littering and jaywalking.
* Señor Senior, Sr. (and his son, Señor Senior, Jr.) was kicked out of an ultra-exclusive club for billionaires because of their embarrassing losses to ''KimPossible''. Senior's idea: freeze them all solid with a stolen cryogenic device. [[LampshadeHanging As he puts it]], "[[InvokedTrope true villains are characterized by disproportionate revenge, Junior.]]"
** Kim does this in the movie where only the writer's intervention stopped her from killing Shego. Keep in mind that this was in response to Shego making a crack about [[spoiler: kidnapping her prom date. Who turned out to be a synthodrone who was in on it. Because she was ordered to by Drakken. As part of a scheme she knew nothing about until the very end.]] She didn't even take out her revenge on the right person: ''Drakken'' was behind the whole thing. Shego was JustFollowingOrders as always.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' episode "Past Tense", Dr. Venture, Brock, Mr. White, and Baron Underbheit are kidnapped by an old acquaintance, Mike Sorayama, who has devised a complex revenge plot with the intention of killing them all... in vengeance for a variety of minor pranks they all played on him in college, most of which revolved around his pathetic unrequited crush on a girl called Leslie Cohen. It turns out that Venture didn't even ''do'' what Mike claims he did (sleep with the girl -- although Brock did), although he does lampshade the overall ludicrousness of Mike's obsessive vendetta with what he ''thinks'' Mike blames him for:
-->'''Doctor Venture''': Oh ''come on''! You're gonna kill me for having fake sex on graph paper with a girl who barely spoke to you in real life?!
** Also there is the Monarch's yet to be explained vendetta against Doctor Venture. Even Doctor Venture doesn't know why the Monarch wants him dead.
** Then there's Dr. Orpheus, who absolutely excels at this trope. Two rednecks decided to tease him about his appearance, so he trapped their spirits in a small Homeboy figurine, which he now keeps on his car dashboard. In another instance, he predicts Action Man's exact date and cause of death, though to be fair the guy did attack him without provocation and put a bullet in his shoulder before the mix-up was resolved.
** Brock Samson has a tendency to murder or brutalize people who don't show him respect. He lost his college football scholarship when he accidentally killed his own QB for ''not giving him the ball''. He gets incredibly frustrated when either his license to kill has expired or the insulter is a member of a protected group (specifically children, since he seems willing to brutalize women if his relationship with Molotov Cocktease is any indication).
*** Molotov is the exception, and with her it's like really brutal foreplay. He wouldn't kill his own mentor because he had a sex change.
** Dr. Mrs. The Monarch explains The Guild's policy of DisproportionateRetribution to Jonas Venture, Jr. in "The Lepidopterists".
--->'''Dr. Mrs. The Monarch:''' You throw a rock, The Guild throws a knife, you throw a knife, they come to your house when you're sleeping and ''murder your family.''
** Baron Von Undherbeit, when he was the ruler of his own country, had no prisons. Any violation of the law met the death penalty.
* ''InvaderZim'' is pretty much comprised of this trope. Many episodes show Zim taking a small thing way too serious and often goes too far to get even.
** A prime example would be where Zim kidnaps Dib and puts him into a dream state, resulting in a deep depression, because he suspected Dib threw a muffin at his head.
*** Actually, the dream-depression was just to gather evidence. The actual ''retribution'' was to throw a muffin at DIB's head. 1:1 tradeoff, on that one. Considering the lead-in, this probably counts as a subversion.
** All this goes without even mentioning Gaz, who had this as her trademark trope. Good luck finding a Gaz line that ''doesn't'' have something to do with inflicting revenge in the most painful and absurd way possible.
* In "[[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Scott Tenorman Must Die]]", Scott cheats Cartman out of $16.12, makes him beg for the money back (in a very humiliating fashion), burns the money in front of him, then tapes Cartman begging for his money and shows it to the entire town of South Park. So after more mundane revenge pranks fail, Cartman lures Scott's parents to their deaths, steals the bodies, grinds them up, uses the meat to make chili, then makes Scott [[ImAHumanitarian eat the chili]]. He also gets [[{{Music/Radiohead}} Scott's favorite band]] to [[RefugeInAudacity laugh at him as he cries]], while [[BeyondTheImpossible Cartman laps the tears up right off his face]]. (See the page "JerkASS" for a picture.)
** Of course, [[spoiler: Scott Tenorman proved the old Klingon proverb that, yes, revenge is a dish BestServedCold]].
** One time Cartman [[{{Saw}} tied a boy's ankle to the flag pole, gave him a hacksaw and told him he had poisoned his milk, and the only way to get the antidote was hacking off his own leg.]] The reason for this, you might ask? The boy called Cartman "Chubby".
** Quite a few characters get this inflicted upon them, especially Stan. (Example: He just expresses his opinion about voting and this gets him threatened, kicked out of town, and almost killed, in that order.)
*** He actually expresses his opinion about voting for two joke candidates, which just makes it even worse
* The Mysterons of ''CaptainScarlet'' decide that, having had their city destroyed, they're going to wipe out all life on earth. Which seems a bit silly really, given they managed to rebuild the city in seconds, but hey. They've watched us for centuries, they know best, right?
* In the first part of ''TheFairlyOddparents'' [[TheMovie Wishology]] after [[spoiler: Timmy uses the Tooth Fairy's factory to transport himself instead of a quarter to under a pillow]], the boy who was lying on the pillow woke up and accused Timmy of stealing his quarter. Shortly after, Timmy was being chased by the police and wanted posters of him were placed everywhere. For some reason, stealing a quarter is just as bad as breaking a priceless statue if not worse.
** Then there's the matter of the last scene, or rather next to last scene, in "Bad Heir Day", an otherwise [[Heartwarming/TheFairlyOddparents touching episode]]. Poof, who incidentally [[spoiler: bounced out of the stroller]] wound up with Crocker for a time. Timmy does everything he can to find his little brother and quickly becomes a BadlyBatteredBabysitter. Poof arrived home without a scratch and Timmy came in clothes torn, scratched and burned. When he explains what happens Wanda gives him NoSympathy and [[spoiler: poofs Timmy BACK into the same rabid alligator pit]] that he was in earlier while trying to find Poof. Apparently, someone who loses a child accidently, even if they go through horrendous things to bring them back safely deserves [[spoiler: to be nearly killed, if not actually]]. Add to this the fact that Poof is immortal while Timmy is human, as well as a child himself, adds a FridgeHorror element to it if you think too long about it!
* ''FamilyGuy''. Peter tickles Lois playfully who keeps telling him to stop while laughing. She then breaks his nose with a frying pan. Peter {{lampshade|Hanging}}s it:
-->'''Peter:''' ''I tickle you, you hit me in the face with a ''frying pan?!''
-->'''Lois:''' I told you to stop.
-->'''Peter:''' ''I taste blood!''
-->'''Lois:'' Well there's a lot of it.
** And there's also his feud with Ernie the giant chicken. Peter then tries to kill Ernie just because he gave him a coupon that turned out to be bad.
*** [[spoiler: And, later, refusing to let him pick up the chech.]]
** Joyce Kinney, a news anchor at Quahog News, revealed on the show that Lois starred in a porno in retaliation for a prank she pulled when they were in high school.
*** Granted, said prank was a {{Carrie}}-style humiliation.
** Played with when Peter throws acid in the face of a New Yorker because he said the Patriots suck. He meant to splash holy water in his face but there was a mix-up.
* There was an episode of ''JohnnyBravo'' where the titular character got 40 life sentences for littering. [[spoiler: It turns out that he wasn't really the one who littered.]]
** Inverted in an episode, where stealing his mother's car to use in a race meant a week's worth of chores for Johnny (and for Carl, who helped Johnny steal it and added illegal technology to it, to help him).
-->'''Bunny:''' Grand theft auto in ''my'' house means chores for a week!
* Disney's ''Disney/SleepingBeauty''. The curse was put on her for one stated reason - because the witch wasn't invited to the birthday party. Now THAT is Disproportionate Retribution done ''right!''
* Another Disney example: In ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'', the fruit vendor nearly cuts off Jasmine's hand for stealing an ''apple. That she didn't even steal for herself.'' An example of TruthInTelevision.
** Well, the penalty is made so the thief won't be able to steal ever again, but its usually done by the executioner.
*** It's also so that the thief is denied entry to Heaven or the afterlife, as in some religions you must be buried with all of your parts present to do so.
*** Actually, what she did isn't formally defined as theft under shari'a, because she didn't even try to sneak. Even if he'd produced the requisite witnesses, a functioning religious court wouldn't have cut off her hand. (Modern Iran can be...different.) Maybe levied a fine. But since Agrabah is a nonexistent principality, I can't say what its secular laws would have been, and those are the ones that would have actually come into play.
** An even worse example of a potential disproportionate retribution, imagine what would've happened to the vendor if Aladdin hadn't stopped him and word got out that he cut off the hand of the princess...
* On ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', most of Dr. Doofensmirtz's evil schemes run on this. In one episode, Doofenshmirtz tracks down a bully who used to kick sand in his face and tries to bury his entire house in sand.
** Pinky the Chihuahua's rival goes to the store to buy Stiff Beauty hair spray, which she finds out has been discontinued. After a beat, she zaps the messenger into another dimension.
** Doof also teleported a guy to another dimension because he hit on [[OverprotectiveDad his daughter.]]
* On ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', Squidward does this in "Fools in April" and "Funny Pants", as well as a number of other episodes, generally because Spongebob was doing something to amuse himself or bystanders, but it annoyed him.
** Squidward himself tends to be a target for DisproportionateRetribution himself. The earliest example in "Reef Blower": Squidward brushes a clam shell, off of his otherwise spotless lawn, onto Spongebob's lawn. By the end of the episode Squidward's yard is a mess of dirt and debris.
*** To be fair, the "Reef Blower" example was due to Spongebob's oblivious bumbling leading to a chain reaction of bad luck for Squidward rather than a deliberate retaliation.
* A harmless version in the ''{{WesternAnimation/X-Men Evolution}}'' ChristmasEpisode had Spyke and his father throw a couple of snowballs at {{Storm}} (with poor accuracy). Storm logically responds by creating a small snowstorm to show them why one should never pick a snowball fight with someone who can control the weather.
* In the second episode of the ''Series/MegaMan'' cartoon, Roll was attacked by a female cosmetics robot that strapped her to a chair and gave her a bad facial. Megaman's response was to throw a tube of makeup at the robot, giving her an equally bad facial. Roll's response when freed was to cut her in half, then vacuum her face off.
* Parodied on ''RobotChicken''. A guy, sick of rush hour traffic, goes insane and transforms his car into a rolling death machine. He heads to work the next day... only to find himself all alone on the road due to a Jewish bank holiday.
** Another episode had the GIJoe team make fun of an expert sniper who makes a bad first impression by slipping up and falling on his ass. [[WhosLaughingNow In response to about a minute of mocking that didn't seem to go beyond banter, he defects to COBRA and kills them all save Duke, to wallow amid his dead comrades.]]
* Lucius on ''JimmyTwoShoes'' frequently does this, including threatening to dunk the main characters in lave for releasing [[EmbarrassingOldPhoto an old home movie of him]] and leveling a hair salon for messing up his horns.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', Jake has a witch punish him by taking away his magical powers and gives him the body of a fat baby. The reason she did so was because he ate one of her doughnuts. Later, she does the same thing to a bagel. The bagel's crime? Not being a doughnut.
* A lot of the complaints people have over ''TomAndJerry'' is Jerry's tendency to do this to Tom.
* There's one episode of ''CourageTheCowardlyDog'' in which [[JerkASS Eustace]] calls on a gang of Courage's worst nemeses to kill him, just because the dog got a blanket he wanted for himself.
* [[{{WesternAnimation/Gargoyles}} The Hunter]] vows revenge on Demona, a vow that lasts through a thousand years, the role of the Hunter being passed down through the generations. What was her crime? Lashing out and scarring the face of the first Hunter when he came upon her stealing food. Granted, [[UnknownRival the fact that she didn't even consider him worth remembering before he began his hunt probably didn't help]], but still, DAMN.
** Gargoyles also averts (inverts?) this in the form of Vinnie Gregarino. This guy loses at least two jobs, a motorcycle, his driver's license and probably a lot of his reputation because of the Gargoyles' actions. He spends most of the episode "Vendettas" chasing Goliath with a custom-built weapon called "Mr. Carter", or "Mr. C.", finally shooting him in the face at point-blank range just after the climax of a big battle that had Goliath's attention all night. Fortunately, "Mr. Carter" only shoots cream pies, and Vinnie walked away very satisfied with himself, leaving a confused Goliath and Hudson to wonder who he was. Vinnie is notably the ''only'' character in the entire series to get vengeance to his satisfaction.
* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack: The Series'', Jay runs afoul of a HiveMind race that wants him dead for accidentally killing one of their own. When Kay blows his nose and shows them the mucus-covered handkerchief, they decide to let Jay go and take ''him'' instead.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' does this a lot, but the clearest case of this is in "Curse of the Flying Hellfish". When Burns takes old paintings from Abe Simpson at gunpoint, and Bart calls Burns a coward and an embarrassment to the name Hellfish, Burns points the gun at Bart's head; Abe says Burns can take the art, just not hurt the boy; Burns remarks that he would rather do both, and '''[[MoralEventHorizon kicks Bart into the empty case so hard that it ends up falling into the water, and then Burns boats away]]''', saying ''"so long, Sarge, see you at the reunion in November!"'' Seeing as how Burns could have taken the art without hurting the boy, trying to drown him was either in response to his insults or ForTheEvulz.
** Another good example is the Springfield-Shelbyville rivalry, summed up by Lisa.
-->''"They built a mini-mall, so we built an even bigger mini-mall. They made the world's largest pizza, so we burned down their city hall."''
** Another one is when in one of the many Treehouse of Horror episodes, France [[NukeEm freaking]] ''{{nuke|Em}}s'' the city of Springfield because [[SleazyPolitician Mayor Quimby]] made a bad joke to the country about frog legs.
*** Not just that, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous he refused to apologise for it as well]].
-->'''Quimby:''' I bet I'll get blamed for this.
** Ned Flanders' crusade to get Kent Brockman fired after swearing on public television, even though Brockman apologised for it a few seconds later and nobody was really watching the news when he swore. Ned even lampshaded it, when his sons asked him what he's doing.
-->''Imploring people I never met to pressure a government with better things to do to punish a man who meant no harm for something nobody even saw! That's what I'm doing!''
** In "Krusty Gets Kancelled", Snake throws an empty Duff can out of his truck, and to get revenge, Bette Midler lobs the can back at him, ''and causes his truck to spin off the road and '''explode.'''''
--->[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgK_NCKrDwc "I'LL GET YOU FOR THIS, MIDLER!"]]
** Itchy and Scratchy had one in "You Kent Always Say What You Want" (according to Krusty's narrative). Itchy built a trap involving a lady made of dynamite for Scratchy, and later juggled his three remaining body parts (his head, his heart, and his leg)
-->'''Krusty''': ''(narrating)'' That's what you get for, I don't know, messing with my wife.
** In the same episode, Lindsay Naegle fired Brockman for having Cocaine in his coffee, even when Brockman explained that it was actually Splenda, and it is also implied that she was actually using that as an excuse to fire him even when it was really just out of anger for his swearing on the air. The FCC also landed the entire Channel 6 station with a $10,000,000 fine just because Kent Brockman uttered a swear word. Sure, the swear was implied to be the worst one in the English language, but still, $10,000,000 is far too much even for that.
** "The Boys Of Bummer". When Bart screws up at a baseball game and costs Springfield the Little League Championship, ''[[WhatTheHellTownspeople everyone]]'' makes him pay dearly (only Marge stood by him). In fact, it [[DrivenToSuicide drives poor Bart to attempt suicide]]. Nobody in town regrets their actions. It only took [[MamaBear Marge]] to [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech set]] [[ShamingTheMob things]] [[Awesome/TheSimpsons straight]].
** "The Good, The Sad and the Drugly". After Bart forgets to [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything visit Milhouse during his suspension]] due to spending time with Jenny, Milhouse [[TookALevelInJerkass invades Bart and follows him everywhere, trying to force his anger into his life as harsh as possible]], until he corners Bart, forcing him to admit to Jenny that he is not who she thinks he is. This ends up with Jenny dumping Bart and leaving him a crying mess.
* Roger of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' IS this trope, committing extremely intricate plots for Revenge that traumatise or outright destroy the life of a fellow that commits some minor offense towards him. He managed to convince Steve he was adopted after eating a cookie he claimed was his, he labelled Francine a former mental patient to houseguests for compromising one of his dress-up acts (he did NOT study Economics!), and once tried to destroy the entire planet over an insult issued from Stan [[spoiler: though admittedly didn't get far with that one]]. And this is just for petty offenses; for the more criminal act of buying an expensive ring using his credit account, Roger actively proceeds to destroy the perpetrator's life in every manner possible, performing acts that cost him his job, his girlfriend, and later attempting to destroy all his possessions. [[spoiler: This leads to complications when said perpetrator turns out to be a split personality formed from Roger's few redeeming aspects - and when said split personality hires a bounty hunter to kill Roger for ruining his life.]]
** Roger proceeded to take this trope UpToEleven in a season 7 episode where he goes on to kill five people over twenty dollars. During the episode, he mentions that the week before, he killed six people over nineteen dollars.
* Happens quite often in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', most frequently by Lrr and the Omicronians. Basically every time he shows up, something new and more ridiculous happens: The first appearance has him invading the Earth because his favorite (thousand-year-old) TV show was knocked off the air, and later tries to destroy the Planet Express ship for bringing sweetheart candy to their planet. "These candies are chalky and unpleasant!"
** In their first appearance, they demanded that the season finale of a thousand year old television show be aired again or he would increase earth's temperature by "one million degrees a day... ''for five days!''"
** When Bender dumps toxic waste into the sewers, the mutants kidnap him, as well as Fry and Leela, who just happened to be with him at the time. The waste Bender dumped was so bright that it allowed the mutants to see how ugly they were. The mutants decide to punish all three of them by permanently mutating their DNA and then beating them up. Furthermore, when the trio tries to escape and are caught after a short chase, they decide to go for the death penalty instead.
* When [[KingOfTheHill Hank Hill]] saw his niece getting harassed by a golfer, he wanted the guy to pay. His usual method is to kick someone's ass, but this time he was [[PapaWolf especially pissed]]. So he threw the guy in a dolphin pool and had the dolphin rape the guy. The moral of the story is: don't piss Hank off (either that, or don't harass his niece in front of him). It was also a "two birds one stone" scenario since he wanted the raping dolphin removed from the club but had signed a nondisclosure agreement that kept him from complaining about it himself.
* In ''EdEddNEddy'', after Kevin wrecks one of Eddy's scams by merely picking up a soccer ball, Eddy spends the rest of the episode trying to enact revenge. Edd is not amused.
** In the infamous ''If It Smells Like An Ed'', Eddy gives Jimmy a wedgie, resulting in all the kids laughing at him. Jimmy then frames ''ALL THREE'' Eds for ruining his Friendship Day Celebrations, sends the Eds on a wild goose chase to find the real culprit, ending with the Eds having fruit thrown at them by the kids and being dragged off by the Kankers to be raped.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack'' episode "The Real Mighty Ducks", Donald wants Huey, Dewey, and Louie to clean their room, but they head over to Ludwig Von Drake's lab instead. They use one of his inventions to become Super Heroes. Their room, still a mess, Donald goes to Von Drake's lab and becomes a Super Villain, ''The Duck Of Doom'', who, still desperate for the boys to clean their room, goes on to tangle up a freeway, drain a lake, paint glasses on Mt.Rushmore, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous destroy every television set in existence]], and eventually destroys the entire universe. It doesn't matter how many times he told them to do it, '''no bedroom is ever that untidy'''. EvilIsPetty indeed.
* ''DanVs'' lives and breathes this trope. Each episode is centered on [[{{Jerkass}} Dan's]] need to get back at someone, or something, for a perceived slight.
* Joker does this in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''. Regularly.
** * In the episode which introduces Poison Ivy, she tries to kill Harvey Dent for building a corrections facility on top of a field containing a flower that was endangered. There is no evidence he knew about the endangered flower. She saved the flower before trying to kill him, anyway. Maybe he should've done an ecological survey to check for endangered species and done an environmental impact statement before starting construction, but she could've tried ''telling'' him there was an endangered flower before he started building to see if he would alter his plans in response.
** [[ClockKing Temple Fugate]] developed an obsessive, murderous grudge against Mayor Hamilton Hill...because when he was a lawyer, Hill suggested Fugate take his coffee break a little later to help him relax for a lawsuit against his company, which resulted in a series of accidents making him late, which resulted in him losing the suit.
* Subverted in one episode of ''MuppetBabies'' when, during a scene where Miss Piggy imagines herself as QueenElizabethI, Fozzie tells a crappy joke. Miss Piggy is not amused and puts him in the stocks. He asks if he's headed for fifty lashes for his crappy joke, and Miss Piggy snarls, "No, it's ''worse'' than that." Then, much to Fozzie's surprise...
** [[EdibleAmmunition "FIFTY TOMATOS!?!?!?"]]
* [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Marvin The Martian]] was going to blow up the Earth because it obstructed his view of the planet Venus.
* In ''{{Thundercats 2011}}'' A {{stock|Punishment}}aded Lizard, begging for mercy, tells {{Catfolk}} prince Lion-O that he and his fellow prisoner were only scavenging Thundera's crops when captured and [[MadeASlave made slaves]] of the Cats. When Lion-O [[DiscussedTrope points this out]] to a PowderkegCrowd harassing them, he's misinterpreted and they quickly become an AngryMob calling for the Lizards' ''deaths.''
* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' some ponies appear to be under the impression that Princess Celestia practices this. She does not.
** It's a highly contested point among the fandom, if [[spoiler: the mane 5's]] actions in the episode "The Mysterious Mare Do Well" went too far in [[spoiler: simply trying to humble Dash a little.]]
* Already known for his HairTriggerTemper, Burgermeister Meisterburger from ''SantaClausIsCominToTown'' trips on a toy duck and orders ''all'' toys banned and confiscated in the Sombertown city limits.
* In ''TheLooneyTunesShow'', Porky takes some of Daffy's french fries because he thinks they're for the table. Daffy goes into a HeroicBSOD and ends his friendship with Porky, calling him "garbage". [[spoiler:It turns out that the fries were, in fact, for the table. Incidentally, Daffy somehow [[HypocriticalHumor sees no problem with taking Porky's pizza]]]].
