History DisproportionateRetribution / WesternAnimation

** In "Trusted Sources", Mariner is taken aside by a reporter and asked questions in private, though spotted by Commander Ransom. When the reporter, who was initially proud of Captain Freeman and the rest of the ''Cerritos'', changes her tune and reveals that she knows of the craziness going on on the ship, Freeman immediately blames Mariner and transfers her to [[AnythingButThat Starbase 80]] in anger. Then, it turns out that [[NotMeThisTime it wasn't Mariner, it was everyone else]] who revealed the craziness.

-->'''Muffy:''' We're talking about the mall! Stuff to buy, clothes to try on, ''fun''.
-->'''Francine:''' My inventions are ''not'' boring! Without lights you'd have to shop in the dark. ''(beat)'' Oh, sorry, I guess you already do. ''(Muffy runs away, sobbing)''
-->'''Prunella:''' That was mean!
-->'''Francine:''' She insulted incandescent filaments first.

** In a later episode, Gumball seems to think being a PoisonousFriend warrants [[WouldHitAGirl attempted murder]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'', Boimler and Mariner are assigned to a Starfleet recruitment booth at a hiring fair. An outpost scientist removes Boimler's rank pip and stomps on it. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Boimler preceeds to destroy the entire fair while screaming his grievances with everyone there.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' episode "Bonnie and Clyde", Nani grounds Lilo and Stitch for running around the house and burping. Unhappy with the unfair punishment, they run away from home and end up doing crimes with the eponymous experiments.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndTimesOfJuniperLee'' combines this with ArsonMurderAndJaywalking in an episode where [[MadGod Loki]] is arguing with his human AntiAntichrist son about the latter's refusal to kill June, as his son suspects Loki will banish him like his Uncle Teddy, his Aunt Gloria, and the pizza guy. Loki reasons he did that because "When I order a half veggie, half pepperoni pan pizza, [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I expect to GET a half veggie... half pepperoni... pan... PIZZA]]!"

-->Boimler:"WITHOUT STARFLEET, NONE OF YOU WOULD EXIST!!! WE DON'T WANNA TO PROTECT YOU FROM THE KLINGONS OR THE BORG, WE JUST WANNA EXPLORE AND STUDY {{BLEEP}}ING QUASARS! BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO!"

* In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'', Boimler and Mariner are assigned to a Starfleet recruitment booth at a hiring fair. An outpost scientist removes Boimler's rank pip and stomps on it. Boimler preceeds to destroy the entire fair while screaming his grievances with everyone there.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', a cranky old wizard [[BalefulPolymorph turns the eponymous protagonist into a chicken]]. Why? Because Jack gently nudged him as he was backing up away from a counter.

** The point of "Arthur's Big Hit" gives a more realistic (and [[BrokenAesop unintentionally justified]]) example. [[BrattyHalfPint D.W.]] constantly pesters him, destroys his model airplane and [[NeverMyFault blames him for it instead of apologizing]], so he [[BewareTheNiceOnes loses it and punches her]].

** 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 said prank was harmless? Twelve years dungeon. Elaborate, painful prank involving spicy food? [[UpToEleven One million years dungeon]]. (Lemongrab isn't evil -- he's just young, angry, and a bit of an idiot.)

** The Omicronians are frequent offenders. Every time King Lrr of Omicron Persei VIII shows up, something new and more ridiculous happens. Their first appearance in "[[{{Recap/FuturamaS1E12WhenAliensAttack}} When Aliens Attack]]" has him invading the Earth because his favorite (1000-year-old) TV show "Single Female Lawyer" was knocked off the air, and they demanded that the season finale be aired again or he would increase earth's temperature by "one million degrees a day... ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill for five days]]!''" In "[[{{Recap/FuturamaS4E3LoveAndRocket}} Love and Rocket]]", he tries to destroy the Planet Express ship for bringing sweetheart candies to their planet; not only were they "chalky and unpleasant", but he was further enraged that whoever made them spelled "love" as "wuv". "This concept of 'wuv' confuses and ''infuriates'' us!"
** In "[[{{Recap/FuturamaS2E1ISecondThatEmotion}} I Second That Emotion]]", 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.
** In "[[{{Recap/FuturamaS1E8ABigPieceOfGarbage}} A Big Piece of Garbage]]", Wernstrom held a grudge against Professor Farnsworth for a hundred years because Farnsworth gave him an A- on an exam due to Wernstrom's poor penmanship. His eventual revenge was slightly less disproportionate: rating Farnsworth's shoddy, hastily-made blueprint for the Smelloscope an A-double-minus. He did, however, manage to one-up Farnsworth a little later by gaining tenure.

** In "Lost in [[Website/{{MySpace}} MySpace]]", Donna sends [[FlashMob a large group of her MySpace friends]] to Strickland Propane with the intent of getting Hank beaten to a pulp. Why? Because Hank ''called her an idiot on social media.''

* In the second episode of the ''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.

* ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain''; in one episode, the Brain nearly realized his goal of world domination, after Pinky, by complete accident, became President, and an actual success as one. (He had gained the public attention by writing a letter to the editor complaining that ''ComicStrip/TheFamilyCircus'' was no longer funny, and everyone took that to mean "jokes about family values are no longer funny". Before he knew it, he was running the country.) This "plan" was later ruined by no fault of his or the Brain's, but because a reporter found "dirt" about Brain's previous schemes from an anonymous tipster, leading to Pinky's impeachment. Who was the tipster? Bill Keane. He had taken offense to his strip being called unfunny.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode "Ice Moon Enceladus", the kids set up a sno-cone stand in order to raise money to send astronauts to Mars. Now, an important characteristic of Sean's is that he wants to grow up to be the leader of the first human mission to Mars. Mr. Peterson comes by the kids' sno-cone stand, and Mindy informs him that buying a sno-cone will help send Sean to Mars. Mr. Peterson recognizes Sean as the kid who keeps kicking his soccer ball into his yard, and then Mr. Peterson proceeds to purchase several. In short, ''Mr. Peterson wants to banish Sean to Mars just for kicking his soccer ball into his yard.''

** Recurring character Robot Santa, a robotic Santa Claus with [[KnightTemplar nigh-unachievable standards for "nice"]], doesn't give people coal for being naughty so much as he [[BadSanta turns them into coal]].

** Many episodes show Zim taking a small thing way too serious and often goes too far to get even.

* ''WesternAnimation/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.
** In the teaser of "Anger Management", Dan is attempts to launch nuclear missiles and instigate World War III to take revenge on a [[NoodleIncident family of squirrels]].
** Occasionally can be subverted too. In the Wolfman episode, it seems like Dan is doing everything in his power to kill the Wolfman just for getting his car scratched. [[spoiler: Then at the end, it turns out everything he did was just to locate the Wolfman's car and scratch it in return. When a surprised Chris reveals that he thought Dan was going to do otherwise, a genuinely shocked Dan responds that killing him just for scratching his car is a bit extreme.]]

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/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.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' episode "Fear Itself," Control Freak attacks a video store and threatens one of the employees all because they didn't have his favorite movie on their top rentals list.

** In another episode, the Girls' next door neighbors, 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 son doesn't even have a reason, but states that as a teen, he hates everyone including the Powerpuffs. The Girls {{lampshade|Hanging}} this when, after Mrs. Smith's MotiveRant, Blossom simply says, to Mrs. Smith's surprise, "[[DisappointedByTheMotive That's not a good reason at all!]]" before beating the Smiths up.

** In another episode, the Girls' next door neighbors, 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 son doesn't even have a reason, but states that as a teen, he hates everyone including the Powerpuffs. 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.

** Perhaps the most severe case is "Demolition Doofus". Yet another boating failure from [=SpongeBob=] has ruptured Mrs. Puff's inflation sac. Due to this (and years of having to put up with the reckless student driver), Mrs. Puff becomes obsessed with trying to get him ''killed'' in a demolition derby.

** There's also the Cat King, who is so [[PerpetualFrowner sad]], he orders the other cats to throw some kind of chilli into [[EyeScream the eyes]] of everyone who smiles or laughs. He gets better.

** 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 said prank was harmless? Twelve years dungeon. Elaborate, painful prank involving spicy food? [[UpToEleven One million years dungeon]]. (Lemongrab isn't evil--he's just young, angry, and a bit of an idiot.)
*** PB and Finn decide to play a harmless prank on Lemongrab--they leave a sign beside his bed that says "YOU REALLY SMELL LIKE DOG BUNS." He clenches his fists, starts shaking, and opens up his mouth wide to scream loudly in sheer outrage for several seconds, and to punish those responsible, rounds up everyone in the castle, to sentence them to seven years in the dungeon without trials.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', two {{Caustic Critic}}s (parodies of Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert) give Slappy's old cartoons a rather cruel review. Slappy gets even by ''dropping a bomb on their house'', and then pulling a gauntlet of [[DeadlyPrank rather dangerous pranks]] on them at a movie debut, including tricking them into running off a ledge and liposuctioning fat from one of them[[note]]Skippy: [[{{Squick}} Spew!]][[/note]], culminating in [[CartoonPhysics sending them into the movie itself]] where a hungry Tyrannosaurus Rex starts chasing them. In the final scene, the two of them are on their show again - covered with bandages and in traction - and Skippy clearly thinks they haven't had enough, so he pulls a lever that drops a huge anvil on them.[[note]]Slappy: Now THAT's comedy![[/note]]

* ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'': "Ski-Hi I.Q." had Muttley taking command of the Vulture Squadron after I.Q. tests assigned to the squadron showed him most qualified. He proceeds to be subjected to the same HumiliationConga Dick Dastardly goes through. When Dastardly is reassigned as the leader (thanks to a mistake in the test results), he punishes Muttley, sentencing him to thirty days in the dog house--literally.

** The Omicronians are frequent offenders. Every time King Lrr of Omicron Persei VIII shows up, something new and more ridiculous happens. Their first appearance in "[[{{Recap/FuturamaS1E12WhenAliensAttack}} When Aliens Attack]]" has him invading the Earth because his favorite (thousand-year-old) TV show "Single Female Lawyer" was knocked off the air, and they demanded that the season finale be aired again or he would increase earth's temperature by "one million degrees a day... ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill for five days]]!''" In "[[{{Recap/FuturamaS4E3LoveAndRocket}} Love and Rocket]]", he tries to destroy the Planet Express ship for bringing sweetheart candies to their planet; not only were they "chalky and unpleasant", but he was further enraged that whoever made them spelled "love" as "wuv". "This concept of 'wuv' confuses and ''infuriates'' us!"

* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', the original Hunter vows revenge on Demona--a vow that lasts through a thousand years, the role of the Hunter being passed down through the generations, albeit for different reasons. 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/SolarOpposites'': Why some (implied to be most) of the people in The Wall are put there by Yumyulack. Cherie, the Benihana chef, is punished for serving Yumyulack unwanted shrimp (he justifies this to Jesse by stating he could have died if he had allergies). The (mouse) milk man was the CEO of AT&T, before he farted in an elevator and blamed "The small blue alien boy". Tim, shrunk at the end of episode 2, was taken because ''he was wearing a red shirt'' (Yumyulack claims he needs a red shirt to complete his collection of every color).

** The police of Bikini Bottom have arrested people for ''littering'' throught many occasions in the series.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode "Ice Moon Enceladus", the kids set up a sno-cone stand in order to raise money to send astronauts to Mars. Now, an important characteristic of Sean's is that he wants to grow up to be the leader of the first human mission to Mars. Mr. Peterson comes by the kids' sno-cone stand, and Mindy informs him that buying a sno-cone will help send Sean to Mars. Mr. Peterson recognizes Sean as the kid who keeps kicking his soccer ball into his yard, and then Mr. Peterson proceeds to purchase several. In short, ''Mr. Peterson wants to send Sean to Mars just for kicking his soccer ball into his yard.''

** Anais could have been nicer about rejecting Billy in "The Friend". His reaction to this to is [[LovingBully bully the absolute 'shit' out of her]].