History KarmicDeath / LiveActionTV

** Despite thinking "everyone is mine to torment", King Joffrey's treatment of his favorite ChewToy Sansa directly leads to the motive of his assassination when he falls victim to someone who decided his constant sadism was a ticking time bomb not worth dealing with. It would be little exaggeration to label his death -- suffocating painfully on his own blood and vomit -- as quite possibly, and quite fittingly, the most brutal death in the entire show up until Oberyn's death at the hands of Gregor Clegane, which says a ''lot''. Further, in a fantastic twist of cosmic irony, he dies in the exact same manner as Robb Stark: brutally betrayed and butchered at a wedding while his mother is forced to watch. His death drips with irony. After Joffrey's openly misogynistic behavior and distaste for "the wailing of women", he dies listening to his mother's cries as he slowly suffocates thanks to Olenna Tyrell, a woman.

** Tywin Lannister constantly derided and expressed his hatred for his younger son, Tyrion, because he thought he was a continuous black mark in the family's dignity (among other things). Tywin was also a key conspirator in the Red Wedding. Tyrion kills him in a very undignified manner -- and better yet, he died the same way most of the people at the Red Wedding were killed: feathered with crossbow bolts by someone they least suspected would have the nerve to kill them.

** The aforementioned Ramsay Bolton, the AxCrazy psychopath with extreme ChronicBackstabbingDisorder enjoys hunting down innocent women and letting his vicious hounds [[EatenAlive rip them apart]] when they can't run anymore -- including his stepmother and newborn half-brother. He starves said hounds for a week before the battle with Jon Snow in anticipation of feeding Jon and his officers to them. [[spoiler: After Ramsay loses the battle, Jon's sister Sansa -- the woman Ramsay raped and abused for months, places Ramsay in their kennel, where the hounds proceed to eat him alive after he is informed House Bolton dies with him. {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in that he named his dogs after the girls he killed.]]

** The thing that truly cemented Littlefinger as a back-stabbing ManipulativeBastard was when he held a knife to Eddard Stark's throat. He is ultimately killed by having his throat slit by Arya Stark, the daughter of Eddard who was forced to witness her father be executed, thanks in part to Littlefinger's influence. Additionally, Littlefinger is killed by the same dagger that would have been used to murder Bran at the beginning of the series, an event that escalated the War of the Five Kings. And, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain this all only happens]] because Littlefinger made Sansa his BastardUnderstudy, giving her the skills to {{Out Gambit|ted}} him.

** Cersei goes out of her way to antagonize Daenerys and force her to attack King's Landing in full force, in the misguided belief that her armies can win and she can keep her hold on the Iron Throne. Instead, Daenerys utterly [[CurbStompBattle wipes the floor with them]], and causes such devastation that the Red Keep ends up collapsing on Cersei's head.

** ''Butcher's Block'': After failing to provide it with their latest required HumanSacrifice, the [[CannibalClan Peach family]] are all slaughtered by the [[GreaterScopeVillain Pestilent God]] whom they worship. The exception is [[TheDragon Smart Mouth]], who meets his own karmic end when Luke beats him to death with his own [[DropTheHammer hammer]].

** Locke spends all of Season 3 abusing and molesting two unarmed and powerless captives. In Season 4, he is killed by two unarmed and disabled captives (Bran physically, Hodor mentally). ZigZagged in that Locke is the man who crippled the man who crippled Bran.

** Maester Aemon Targaryen is a rare non-villainous example. He's the kindest, gentlest soul in all of Westeros, and he dies an old man peacefully in his bed.

** Gregor Clegane gets sent falling to his death in a fire by his younger brother, whose face he once burned as a child.

** The episode "Paradise" had a serial killer (played by Creator/WilWheaton) that would kill couples and then stage their bodies in cars at blind intersections so that they would get hit by tractor trailers and have the deaths blamed on an accident. When the team finally catches up with said killer, he runs away, only to get hit by a tractor trailer. [[IncrediblyLamePun Wesley got "Crushed"]].

*** Kemp spends the entire series with an [[UndyingLoyalty unshakeable loyalty]] to Bias, to the point where he willingly [[BrainInAJar gives up his brain]] to Bias just to sustain his master's immortality. He appears to have regretted this not long after, as (after hearing [[TheChick Megumi]]'s words) he uses his final moments of lucidity to rally the other students of Bias into rebelling against him, throwing a wrench in Bias's plans.

* ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Aubrey" had a former serial killer die at the hands of his estranged grand-daughter who was channeling his "genetic memory" and had essentially ''become'' him.

* [[TheBrute Martinez]] in ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' constructed special pits around his safe-zone to capture zombies for [[BigBad the Governor]] to use as weapons to kill other groups and experiment on. He is shown having great joy at torturing zombies and is enthusiastic about using them against other people. Then, the Governor decides he's [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no longer necessary]] and kills him by dumping him into one of his own pits where he's EatenAlive ''slowly''.
** [[CorruptCop Gorman]] experiences a truly epic one in Season 5, courtesy of the two women he'd been harassing. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything After forcing a lollipop into Beth's mouth,]] he later tries to [[AttemptedRape assault]] her in Dawn's office. Beth fights him off by smashing a jar of lollipops over his head, then leaves him to be eaten alive by the zombified Joan; a woman he had been repeatedly raping.

%%* Numerous ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'' victims, including [[https://youtu.be/Bi3y5LgIoxg Booty Trapped]].

* ''Franchise/SuperSentai

*** Guildos, who boasted of an alien with an "unlimited life force", is [[RoboticRevealed revealed to be a robot]] before falling off a cliff and dying once his power runs out.

** An interesting case on [[Franchise/SuperSentai the other side of the world]] would be the Big Bad of ''Series/ChoujuuSentaiLiveman'', Great Professor Bias. After spending an untold amount of time trying to find eternal youth while showing a clear disgust of any other form of life, he ultimately dies as a weak old man who needs to be taken care of by his Dragon.
** Similarly, in ''Series/MiraiSentaiTimeranger'', after it's revealed that Captain Ryuya was [[TheManBehindTheMan the true mastermind behind the events]], and that his motivation was to ensure that someone would die instead of him in the catastrophe he foresaw, he ends up getting killed in a GunStruggle with Ayase while trying to prevent the Timerangers from returning to the past.

%%* ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' is practically made of this trope.

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** Although many victims suffer karmic deaths, a particular favourite was in "Ending Happy" where the abusive bouncer Lorenzo "Happy" Morales survived being hit over the head with a club, poisoned (twice) and shot (all arguably deserved) - but ultimately died from falling off the chair (and into a swimming pool) that he had failed to fix.

** Viserys brings a sword into Vaes Dothrak to threaten his sister - a woman he's abused his entire life, and demand Khal Drogo's army. Viserys believes he's at an advantage because the Dothraki cannot use weapons in their holy city. The Dothraki overpower Viserys and burn him to death by pouring a pot of molten gold (which Viserys intended to be forged into a crown for himself) over his head, while he fruitlessly begs his sister for mercy.

** Despite thinking "everyone is mine to torment", King Joffrey's treatment of his favorite ChewToy Sansa directly leads to the motive of his assassination when he falls victim to someone who decided his constant sadism was a ticking time bomb not worth dealing with. It would be little exaggeration to label his death — suffocating painfully on his own blood and vomit — as quite possibly, and quite fittingly, the most brutal death in the entire show up until Oberyn's death at the hands of Gregor Clegane, which says a ''lot''. Further, in a fantastic twist of cosmic irony, he dies in the exact same manner as Robb Stark: brutally betrayed and butchered at a wedding while his mother is forced to watch. His death drips with irony. After Joffrey's openly misogynistic behavior and distaste for "the wailing of women", he dies listening to his mother's cries as he slowly suffocates thanks to Olenna Tyrell, a woman.

** Tywin Lannister constantly derided and expressed his hatred for his younger son, Tyrion, because he thought he was a continuous black mark in the family's dignity (among other things). Tywin was also a key conspirator in the Red Wedding. Tyrion kills him in a very undignified manner - and better yet, he died the same way most of the people at the Red Wedding were killed: feathered with crossbow bolts by someone they least suspected would have the nerve to kill them.

** The aforementioned Ramsay Bolton, the AxCrazy psychopath with extreme ChronicBackstabbingDisorder enjoys hunting down innocent women and letting his vicious hounds [[EatenAlive rip them apart]] when they can't run anymore - including his stepmother and newborn half-brother. He starves said hounds for a week before the battle with Jon Snow in anticipation of feeding Jon and his officers to them. [[spoiler: After Ramsay loses the battle, Jon's sister Sansa - the woman Ramsay raped and abused for months, places Ramsay in their kennel, where the hounds proceed to eat him alive after he is informed House Bolton dies with him. {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in that he named his dogs after the girls he killed.]]

* In the ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'' episode [[Recap/MerlinS02E04LancelotAndGuinevere "Lancelot and Guinevere"]], Hengist is eaten alive by his own pet monster that he has fed many other people to after the heroes escape. However, this is unusual for the series - most of the villains are killed a little more directly.
* Inverted in ''Series/TheNewStatesman'' when B'Stard is ''saved'' from death by his own greed and dishonesty in "Who Shot Alan B'Stard?" After he gets the death penalty brought back and then arranges for one of his companies to get the contract to build the new gallows, he becomes the first person sentenced to hang (for a crime he didn't actually commit) - but the gallows breaks because he had it built on the cheap, his survival is deemed an act of God and he is reprieved.

* Several in all seasons of ''Series/{{Primeval}}'', the most notable pair being Season 3, where Christine gets chomped by a future predator after getting into a pissing match with Helen over who is the bigger JerkAss, and Helen herself finds the punishment for trying to RetGone humanity is death by Dromaeosaurus.

* ''Series/TeenWolf'': It was implied that Gerard might die after his defeat in season two. His master plan, you ask? To cure his cancer by becoming a werewolf. Only after Scott tampers with his medicine, does Gerard's body rejects the werewolf bite, and he starts violently oozing black goo. Of course, this is just an implication, so viewers are still gonna have to wait for season three.

** [[spoiler: Chuck Lorre]] is revealed to be an In-Verse character and it's through him that [[spoiler: seasons 9-12 exist in the first place and that Charlie ended up in his predicament throughout those seasons to begin with.]] Almost immediately after [[spoiler: he has a piano dropped on Charlie just as he returns home]], just as [[spoiler: Lorre is gloating over what he's done, [[DeathByIrony another piano]] falls on top of him]].

* ''Series/{{Taken}}'': KarmicDeath: In "Acid Tests", Owen Crawford dies of a stroke after he learns that his younger son Sam, who has always been his favorite, is dead. In his final moments, his elder son Eric, very much TheUnfavorite, tells Owen that this fate could have been avoided if he had not been so horrible to him for all of those years.

** "[[Recap/TheRatPatrolS2E21TheFieldOfDeathRaid The Field of Death Raid]]": Major von Brugge, who is obsessed with getting {{revenge}} against the Rats, kidnaps Sgt. Troy's brother as part of an EvilPlan to lure the team into a DeathTrap involving landmines. Eventually, von Brugge is blown up when he steps on one of his own landmines.

** "[[Recap/TheRatPatrolS2E21TheFieldOfDeathRaid The Field of Death Raid]]: Major von Brugge, who is obsessed with getting {{revenge}} against the Rats, kidnaps Sgt. Troy's brother as part of an EvilPlan to lure the team into a DeathTrap involving landmines. Eventually, von Brugge is blown up when he steps on one of his own landmines.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E6TheAgeOfSteel "The Age of Steel"]]: John Lumic, creator of the Alternate Universe Cybermen, clearly didn't anticipate that they would turn against him. While he doesn't ''die'', he gets to live out a FateWorseThanDeath by being [[UnwillingRoboticisation Cyber converted]].

** Doreah betrayed her people for Xaro. And once Xaro's house is overtaken by Daenerys' forces, Doreah is found in bed with the merchant prince, and soon both are locked in Xaro's vault, condemned to slowly starve to death.

** The aforementioned Ramsay Bolton, the AxCrazy psychopath with extreme ChronicBackstabbingDisorder enjoys hunting down innocent women and letting his vicious hounds [[EatenAlive rip them apart]] when they can't run anymore - including his stepmother and newborn half-brother. He starves said hounds for a week before the battle with Jon Snow in anticipation of feeding Jon and his officers to them. [[spoiler:After Ramsay loses the battle, Jon's sister Sansa - the woman Ramsay raped and abused for months, places Ramsay in their kennel, where the hounds proceed to eat him alive after he is informed House Bolton dies with him. {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in that he named his dogs after the girls he killed.]]

** The thing that truly cemented Littlefinger as a back-stabbing ManipulativeBastard was when he held a knife to Eddard Stark's throat. He is ultimately killed by having his throat slit by Arya Stark, the daughter of Eddard who was forced to witness her father be executed, thanks in part to Littlefinger's influence. Additionally, Littlefinger is killed by the same dagger that would have been used to murder Bran at the beginning of the series, an event which escalated the War of the Five Kings. And, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain this all only happens]] because Littlefinger made Sansa his BastardUnderstudy, giving her the skills to {{Out Gambit|ted}} him.

** There was an episode where a comic book artist (played by Creator/FrankieMuniz) went insane after he and his girlfriend were ambushed by a gang, and was ForcedToWatch as they gang-raped and murdered his girlfriend before they gutted him. He survived psychically, but not mentally. He goes on a rampage and brutally slaughters the gang responsible. Even after he's eventually arrested, the cops can't help but sympathize with him and call his victims "[[AssholeVictim animals]]".