History KarmaHoudini / LiveActionFilms

* ''Film/UltramanGaiaTheBattleInHyperspace'': Already a bully to the main character, Tsutomu, Hiroshi actually wished for TWO monsters (Satan-Bizorm and King of Mons) to attack Japan in hopes of having them kill Gamu/Ultraman Gaia, but when you think about it, those two monsters (ESPECIALLY King of Mons) have probably killed thousands of innocent lives in his neighborhood, and the damage worth would cost over millions. Granted for King of Mons's case, this is partially [[{{Justified}} justified]], as [[ArtifactOfDoom a wish-granting orb]] was corrupting Hiroshi and making him act evil. But in the case of Satan-Bizorm, he was fully aware of his actions [[KidsAreCruel and he brought him to the real world purely to smite Tsutomu]]. To further rub salt in this trope, by the end of the movie, [[MookFaceTurn Hiroshi winds up becoming friends with Tsutomu]]!

* ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'': Richard Detmer, Andrew's alcoholic and abusive father. All we see from him throughout the film is nothing but [[AbusiveParents him berating and attacking]] [[KickTheDog his own son]]. Even the death of his wife doesn't cover the sheer volume of bad karma he had accumulated, ESPECIALLY during his final scene with him and Andrew in the hospital, where he blames his son for his wife's death. [[CaughtOnTape Not that it wasn't being recorded by a camera the police installed]], or that [[BullyingADragon Andrew didn't then]] [[SelfMadeOrphan try to kill him]] by tossing him down from the hospital building (Matt caught him because he had just arrived and thought Andrew had simply lost his mind), he just disappears from the rest of the movie. There's actually enough evidence to imply that making it out alive [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty is the only thing he's really getting away with]].

* ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'': Richard Detmer, Andrew's alcoholic and abusive father. All we see from him throughout the film is nothing but [[AbusiveParents him berating and attacking]] [[KickTheDog his own son]]. Even the death of his wife doesn't cover the sheer volume of bad karma he had accumulated, ESPECIALLY during his final scene with him and Andrew in the hospital, where he blames his son for his wife's death. [[CaughtOnTape Not that it wasn't being recorded by a camera the police installed]], [[BullyingADragon or that Andrew]] [[SelfMadeOrphan didn't then try to kill him]] by tossing him down from the hospital building (Matt caught him because he had just arrived and thought Andrew had simply lost his mind), he just disappears from the rest of the movie. There's actually enough evidence to imply that making it out alive [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty is the only thing he's really getting away with]].

* ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'': Richard Detmer, Andrew's alcoholic and abusive father. All we see from him throughout the film is nothing but [[AbusiveParents him berating and attacking]] [[KickTheDog his own son]]. Even the death of his wife doesn't cover the sheer volume of bad karma he had accumulated, ESPECIALLY during his final scene with him and Andrew in the hospital, where he blames his son for his wife's death. [[CaughtOnTape Not that it wasn't being recorded by a camera the police installed]], [[BullyingADragon or that Andrew]] [[SelfMadeOrphan didn't then try to kill him]] by having him fall from the hospital building (Matt caught him because he had just arrived and thought Andrew had simply lost his mind), he just disappears from the rest of the movie. There's actually enough evidence to imply that making it out alive [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty is the only thing he's really getting away with]].

* ''Film/TheIdesOfMarch'': Presidential candidate, Governor Mike Morris, presents himself to the world as an honest, family man who will clean up dirty politics. Instead, he's a ManipulativeBastard who had a sexual affair with an Intern, [[DrivenToSuicide driving her to commit suicide]] after he abandoned her. Not only does he not answer for this, he's able to [[EvilMentor convinces the one guy]] who could expose him that politics is dirty and he needs to be just as dirty to survive. The guy [[FaceHeelTurn continues to help]] Mike Morris become President.

** Nick van Owen in ''Film/{{The Lost World|Jurassic Park}}'', who caused all the deaths in the movie (mostly innocent people) and wound up making [=InGen=] order the ''T. rex'' and her kid to be brought to San Diego ([[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever which goes as well as you'd expect]]). Also Doesn't get any comeuppance -- he simply disappears from the film's final act.
*** The same applies to Trophy Hunter Roland Tembo, he is the one who shot the Buck Rex (after Van Owen stole his bullets) with a tranquilliser that allowed Ingen to take the Rex off-island and to subsequently rampage through San Diego. -- He too disappears from the final act.

* ''Film/{{Oldboy 2003}}'': Played with. The villain, Lee Woo-Jin, kills himself at the end of the movie, but not out of guilt for having Oh Dae-Su kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years, hypnotically manipulating Oh Dae-Su and his daughter Mi-Do into falling in love, killing Oh Dae-Su's wife and best friend (and framing Oh Dae-Su for his wife's death), and many more acts of bastard y-- no, it's just that, having exacted revenge from Oh Dae-Su for spreading a rumor that Lee Woo-Jin had been having sex with his sister -- which he had been, by the way]], he's got no real reason to live anymore. To say that his death isn't particularly satisfying is an understatement.

* ''Film/TransformersTheLastKnight'': Despite the constant threat that The Decepticons pose to Humanity, with the latest being [[Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon the destruction of Chicago]]; its' revealed that unlike their Autobot counterparts who were being actively hunted and gunned down by groups like ''[[Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction Cemetery Wind]]'' and later the various governments of Earth aside from Cuba at every opportunity: The Decepticons presented in the film were instead shown to have simply been arrested by the Humans and sent to Prison, where all but [[AxCrazy Berserker]] were given a pardon at the behest of Megatron whom they were released into the custody of.

* ''Film/TransformersTheLastKnight'': Despite the constant threat that The Decepticons pose to Humanity, with the latest being [[Transformers/DarkOfTheMoon the destruction of Chicago]]; its' revealed that unlike their Autobot counterparts who were being actively hunted and gunned down by groups like ''[[Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction Cemetery Wind]]'' and later the various governments of Earth aside from Cuba at every opportunity: The Decepticons presented in the film were instead shown to have simply been arrested by the Humans and sent to Prison, where all but [[AxCrazy Berserker]] were given a pardon at the behest of Megatron whom they were released into the custody of.

* ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'': Mr. Potter faces no repercussions for stealing the $8,000 from the Building and Loan, despite this going against UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode in effect at the time]]. How it got through then is anyone's guess, but in case it didn't, the makers had a scene ready where he has a heart attack after failing to ruin George.

'''Note:''' Before the end of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode, it was far less common for {{Film}}s to feature a KarmaHoudini as the first rule of the code was that "The villain must always get his comeuppance by the end of the movie." (This usually applied only to the BigBad, as it would take far too much time showing every single one of the {{Mooks}} getting punished.) This, of course, doesn't mean that villainous Karma Houdinis didn't exist in movies from that time period. But they were much more of a rarity until the code was dissolved in TheSixties.

* ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'': Mr. Potter faces no repercussions for stealing the $8,000 from the Building and Loan, despite this going against the {{Media Watchdog}}s' [[UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode production code at the time]] (which stated that a villain ''must'' get his comeuppance, to make it clear that he should not be seen as a good role model for young, impressionable viewers). How it got through then is anyone's guess, but in case it didn't the makers had a scene ready where he has a heart attack after failing to ruin George.