History KarmaHoudini / AnimatedFilms

* ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'': The barracuda that brutally kills Coral, Nemo's mother, all of his siblings and almost kills Marlin, Nemo's father, completely disappears afterwards and never pays for its act.

* At the end of ''{{WesternAnimation/Balto}}'', [[GloryHound the evil Malamute Steele]] nearly succeeds in killing off the population of Nome by deliberately getting Balto and his team lost in the Alaskan wilderness, knowing that this will kill them as well, and then tricks everyone into [[FakeUltimateHero thinking that Steele is actually a hero]], however his punishment for all of the crimes he committed against Nome are surprisingly very lenient given the sheer villainy of his character: shortly after Balto and his team finally safely arrive in Nome with the diptheria medicine, [[KarmicShunning everyone turns against him and start branding Steele as an outcast instead.]] Interestingly enough, there was a DeletedScene where [[spoiler: at the end of the movie, Steele would've tried to kill Balto one last time, with their final battle ending with Steele accidentally being hung on a lever used to open a coal shaft, and then BuriedAlive underneath a pile of coal dropped onto him, and thus killing him,]] but it was scrapped for being too dark, and the fate Steele received instead was far more lenient in comparison.
* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/Cars3'': Jackson Storm is never given any comeuppance of any sort [[spoiler: for deliberately sabotaging Cruz Ramirez's victory by slamming her into a wall, only for her to still overtake him anyway by flipping herself over him]] during the final race, aside from the possibility of him eventually becoming Cruz's archrival.

** WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}: Though not a completely straight example, as they [[ButtMonkey suffer much]] throughout the movie, Pain and Panic ultimately don’t share Hades fate of being banished to the River Styx. They just watch their former boss get dragged down, presumably getting off scot free despite aiding him in his plans.

** ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'': Played with regarding the Enchantress that curses the Prince into the Beast and gets the entire plot rolling. The Enchantress shows up in an old crone disguise, offers the prince a rose that he doesn't have any real reason to take even if he wasn't a massive JerkAss at the time, and turns her away. She promptly reveals herself and curses him for [[DisproportionateRetribution being rude to an old woman he had no reason to suspect was a powerful enchantress]] (a reaction she obviously deliberately tried to invoke). Worse is that the Enchantress doesn't just curse the Prince for this, she curses all of his otherwise perfectly innocent servants and anyone else who happen to be in the castle at the time into appliances as well as the castle itself and much of the area around it into a grotesque shadow of it's former self, andputs a time limit to breaking said curse to "teach him a lesson", all of which for no reason as far as the viewers are ever shown. Worst of all, the Enchantress gets away scot-free for her terrible actions for all this without even a single mention of her by anyone after the introductory scene. It's probably worse, since in the movie, the Beast's servants mention they've been stuck as objects for ten years, and the rose dies when the Beast is twenty. This means Beast was either 9 or 10 when he was cursed. In other words, he was cursed because he didn't know any better.

** Biff Buzzard and Buzz Blister receive no consequences for tricking Gorthan into [[TongueOnTheFlagpole licking a pole]], which results in him being stuck adrift at sea, unable to participate in the race any further, with his tongue still stuck to a pole.

** A minor example: Dash gets away with putting thumbtacks on his teacher's chair and undermining him in front of the class scot-free ([[CassandraTruth because even with a hidden camera installed, he ends up moving fast enough to make the teacher look crazy]]), and it's implied this isn't the first time it's happened.

* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'': Diego's pack members Oscar and Lenny flee after [[BigBad their leader Soto]] is killed by Manny. Zeke might join them in that category depending on whether or not he managed to dig himself out of the hollow rock he got stuck in.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'':

* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'':

* ''Anime/PatlaborTheMovie'' rolls credits before we find out if Shinohara Heavy Industries suffered any long-term consequences for one of their lead programmers using their new Labor operating system to spread a computer virus to half the Labors in Tokyo; the sequels never bring it up either.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'': Lock, Shock and Barrel receive precisely no comeuppance for trying to feed Santa to Oogie Boogie, although admittedly they were serving him out of fear, and did go and get the Mayor to show that Jack was alive. The closest they came to comeuppance is in a deleted scene, in which Jack scared Lock, Shock and Barrel when they were watching Oogie Boogie trying to put Sally and Santa Claus in the stew.
* ''Anime/PatlaborTheMovie'' rolls credits before we find out if Shinohara Heavy Industries suffered any long-term consequences for one of their lead programmers using their new Labor operating system to spread a computer virus to half the Labors in Tokyo; the sequels never bring it up either.

** In their version of ‘’Literature/{{Pinocchio}}’’ The Coachman gets away with turning Pinocchio, Candlewick, and several other boys into donkeys and selling them into labor.

** WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}: Though not a completely straight example, as they [[ButtMonkey suffer much]] throughout the movie, Pain and Panic ultimately don’t share Hades fate of being banished to the River Styx. They just watch their former boss get dragged down, presumably getting off scot free despite aiding him.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Home}}'': Captain Smek is arguably responsible for everything bad that happens in this film, but other than losing the captaincy, he's never punished.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'''s got four of them, despite the UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode being in effect. Foulfellow and Gideon trick Pinocchio twice, first to send him to Stromboli (who lost his star attraction and his investment in Pinocchio when he escapes, so it can be assumed the karma bullet manages to get a decent hit on him), and later to Pleasure Island and the absolute worst of them, The Coachman, who they're in cahoots with. Pleasure Island lures in and encourages boys to behave badly so they'll be [[TransformationTrauma transformed into jackasses]] and sold to salt mines as workers. Even though they turn children into slaves, wayward as they may be, they don't get their comeuppance. This arguably tells an aesop that you can't simply defeat or get rid of temptations in life, you just learn not to be drawn in by them.

** In the opening of the film, Bomb Voyage robs a bank, tried to kill [[BigBad Buddy Pine]] and destroyed a railway bridge causing the {{Super Registration Act}} to be enforced. Yet he managed to get away scot-free and possibly stayed at large for the remainder of the film.
** A mugger got away with his assaulting a civilian after Mr Hugh threatened to fire Bob if he tries to go after him.
* In ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'', the Underminer gets away with doing a lot of property damage and stealing money from banks.

*** [[HumongousMecha The Leviathan]] is a non-human example, [[spoiler:having massacred nearly all of the 200-man crew aboard the Ulysses]], and for all we know, it's still out there preying on unsuspecting trespassers.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretLifeOfPets'': Even though Snowball [[HeelFaceTurn switches sides]] near the end of the movie, he is the only flushed pet to not suffer any punishment (nor face real redemption, since Ozone--who took Max and Duke's collars--was shown at Leonard's party during the credits) for his actions halfway into the movie.

** Vector's father, the Bank President who was actually the true mastermind behind what Vector was doing. It comes off as sort of ironic that the truly evil villains are the ones that get off scotfree.