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* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': A [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] story, ''ComicBook/TheBlakelyMineDisaster'', has Superman disguising himself as a miner and crashing a party hosted by Thornton Blakely, the [[BadBoss uncaring coal mine owner]] who has been ignoring the plight of his employees. Thornton comes up with the idea of bringing his wealthy part guests into one of his mines to have him show off the safety features and has Superman lead them there. This causes Supes to create a cave-in to trap Thornton and his guests into the mine, given them a taste of what the miners suffer through every day when in Thornton's faulty mines.

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': A [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] story, ''ComicBook/TheBlakelyMineDisaster'', has Superman disguising himself as a miner and crashing a party hosted by Thornton Blakely, the [[BadBoss uncaring coal mine owner]] who has been ignoring the plight of his employees. Thorton comes up with the idea of bringing his wealthy part guests into one of his mines to have him show off the safety features and has Superman lead them there. This causes Supes to create a cave-in to trap Thornton and his guests into the mine, given them a taste of what the miners suffer through every day when in Thornton's faulty mines.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: When Atomia escapes from transformation island and tries attacking Paradise Island Queen Hippolyta calls on Aphrodite for help with the unrepentant cruel woman, who had [[ReforgedIntoAMinion forced people through machines which altered them physically and mentally to become her near mindless slaves]]. Aphrodite then makes it clear that just because she's friends with and supportive of a PerfectPacifistPeople she's still an Olympian through and through when she permanently welds Atomia into a personality altering device that will force her to be kind for the rest of her life.

-->'''Charlie Brown:''' ''[mimicking Lucy]'' Well, hello, there, [[IronicEcho Charlie Brown, you blockhead]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': A [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] story, ''ComicBook/TheBlakelyMineDisaster'', has Superman disguising himself as a miner and crashing a party hosted by Thorton Blakely, the [[BadBoss uncaring coal mine owner]] who has been ignoring the plight of his employees. Thorton comes up with the idea of bringing his wealthy part guests into one of his mines to have him show off the safety features and has Superman lead them there. This causes Supes to create a cave-in to trap Thorton and his guests into the mine, given them a taste of what the miners suffer through every day when in Thorton's faulty mines.

* One [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] comic sees {{Franchise/Superman}} traveling to the Fifth Dimension and using his powers to prank Mr. Mxyzptlk the same way Mxy normally pranks him, while Mxy (who's running for mayor of his hometown) desperately tries to send Supes back home.

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: When Atomia escapes from transformation island and tries attacking Paradise Island Queen Hippolyta calls on Aphrodite for help with the unrepentant cruel woman, who had [[ReforgedIntoAMinion forced people through machines which altered them physically and mentally to become her near mindless slaves]]. Aphrodite then makes it clear that just because she's friends with and supportive of a PerfectPacifistPeople she's still an Olympian through and through when she permanently welds Atomia into a personality altering device that will force her to be kind for the rest of her life.

* ''Fanfic/LadyBugOut'': At one point, Chat Noir declares that Ladybug needs to ''prove'' that she really doesn't have any feelings for him by accepting a ForcefulKiss. When she rebuffs him, he smugly claims that the only reason she pushed him away is because if she'd let him kiss her, she wouldn't have been able to 'hide her true feelings'. Later on, after Adrien's SecretIdentity has been exposed, [[ShipSinking snuffing out her old crush for good]], Marinette demonstrates just how childish and selfish his reasoning was by acting the same way ''he'' did. After pretending that she's going to make him kiss her in order to "prove" he doesn't really love her, she directly compares his behavior to how Chloe and Lila clung to him, helping him realize [[HeelRealization he'd made Ladybug]] feel just as trapped.

* ''Series/BreakingBad'': Throughout season 5, Jack and his Neo-Nazi gang make a SignatureMove out of ambushing their enemies and overwhelming them with sheer gunfire, killing Declan's crew [[spoiler:plus Gomez and Hank]] with surprise attacks. [[spoiler:In the series finale, Walt turns their own trick on them, luring them to a meeting under the pretense of presenting them with a more efficient way to cook meth before wiping out the gang with a mounted machine gun hidden in the trunk of his car]].

** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'': Miyamoto relished turning people into paper when they show fear. Josuke turns him into a book.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Invincible|2021}}'': The Flaxans empire that shows up out of nowhere to kill indiscriminately meets an emissary from a warlike alien empire who shows up out of nowhere to kill them all indiscriminately. They fail to learn the lesson.

Contrast HoistByTheirOwnPetard, which is where a character's bad actions lead ''directly'' to their downfall, with no second-party intervention. Often a form of PayEvilUntoEvil. An IronicHell is the extreme version of this, where the sinners are punished with being the victim of (or making them horrified with) whatever crime they've done before. Can overlap with LaserGuidedKarma (or even go as far as KarmicDeath) if the character's fate is similar to that of his victims. See also WhosLaughingNow, which sometimes results from applying this trope, and OriginalPositionFallacy, which often involves a character advocating for poor treatment of others, only to change their mind when the same conditions are applied to them. Please note that SelectiveEnforcement and {{Hypocrite}} can pop up if the sinner makes a big show out of it.

* ''Fanfic/FeralnetteAUBigFatBreak'': Hawkmoth ''loves'' giving his victims {{Breaking Speech}}es to push them into akumatization. When he tries this on Marinette during the ''Enough Rope'' arc, however, she turns the tables by hitting him with an ArmorPiercingQuestion about [[spoiler:what happened to Mayura]], followed by a breaking speech of her own -- one that forces him into a traumatic flashback [[spoiler:that she ''witnesses'' thanks to his power of Transmission]].

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* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine/AnimeAndManga
* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine/FanWorks
* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine/LiveActionTV
* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine/WesternAnimation
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!!Other examples

* Killbane in ''Videogame/SaintsRowTheThird'' is a MaskedLuchador who was once part of a tag-team with Angel de la Muerte, but got sick of his partner being more popular than him and publicly unmasked him; Luchadors see losing their masks as a FateWorseThanDeath, and Angel immediately retired from the ring and ended up a recluse. When The Boss and Angel take on Killbane during the Murderbrawl event, you're given the option of taking his mask after he's been defeated.

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* ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'' gives us this in the tutorial case, no less. Phoenix Wright, having acquired shades of JadeColoredGlasses after [[spoiler:getting disbarred for being tricked into presenting forged evidence]], decides to return the favor to the one responsible: [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin]]. The result? Phoenix's new protege, Apollo Justice, unknowingly ends up getting [[spoiler:Kristoph]] convicted of murder by, you guessed it, [[spoiler:presenting forged evidence]].
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* InUniverse, this is Sebastian Castellanos' opinion about the fate of the AxeCrazy serial killer, torturer and MadScientist Ruvik in ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin'', who [[spoiler:winds up as a BrainInAJar trapped within his own mindscape-manipulating [=STEM=] machine, after brutally torturing and killing hundreds of others by connecting them to the same device]]. This helps him resist Ruvik's attempts to invoke [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds sympathy for his past and his plight]].

* In ''Film/{{Dredd}}'', Ma-Ma has three rival drug-dealers killed at the start of the film by dosing them with Slo-Mo (a FantasticDrug [[DrugsCausingSlowMotion which makes the user experience everything in slow-motion]]) before throwing them from the top of the Peach Trees complex. When Dredd has her cornered at the end of the film, he decides to execute her throwing her through the window of her penthouse on Peach Trees' top floor... and when he finds her stash of Slo-Mo, he forces her to take a dose so she can experience the fall exactly the same way her victims did.

* In ''Film/{{Dredd}}'', AggressiveDrugDealer Ma-Ma has three rival dealers killed at the start of the film by dosing them with Slo-Mo (a FantasticDrug [[DrugsCausingSlowMotion which makes the user experience everything in slow-motion]]) before throwing them from the top of the Peach Trees complex. When Dredd has her cornered at the end of the film, he decides to execute her throwing her through the window of her penthouse on Peach Trees' top floor... and when he finds her stash of Slo-Mo, he forces her to take a dose so she can experience the fall exactly the same way her victims did.

* In ''Film/{{Dredd}}'', AgressiveDrugDealer Ma-Ma has three rival drug-dealers killed at the start of the film by dosing them with Slo-Mo (a FantasticDrug [[DrugsCausingSlowMotion which makes the user experience everything in slow-motion]]) before throwing them from the top of the Peach Trees complex. When Dredd has her cornered at the end of the film, he decides to execute her throwing her through the window of her penthouse on Peach Trees' top floor... and when he finds her stash of Slo-Mo, he forces her to take a dose so she can experience the fall exactly the same way her victims did.

Contrast HoistByTheirOwnPetard, which is where a character's bad actions lead ''directly'' to their downfall, with no second-party intervention. Often a form of PayEvilUntoEvil. An IronicHell is the extreme version of this, where the sinners are punished with being the victim of (or making them horrified with) whatever crime they've done before. Can overlap with LaserGuidedKarma (or even go as far as KarmicDeath) if the character's fate is similar to that of his victims. See also WhosLaughingNow, which sometimes results from applying this trope. Please note that SelectiveEnforcement and {{Hypocrite}} can pop up if the sinner makes a big show out of it.

* In the ''Literature/MortalEngines'' series, towards the end of ''Infernal Devices'' Tom attempts to rescue Fishcake from Brighton during an attack by the Green Storm, but Hester flies their airship away and leaves Fishcake to fend for himself. Fishcake spends most of ''A Darkling Plain'' brooding over ways to get revenge on them for leaving him behind, but eventually settles for hijacking their only means of transport and leaving them stranded at Erdene Tezh.

* In ''Film/{{Dredd}}'', Ma-Ma has three rival drug-dealers killed at the start of the film by dosing them with Slo-Mo (a FantasticDrug [[DrugsCausingSlowMotion which makes the user experience everything in slow-motion]]) before throwing them from the top of the Peach Trees complex; when Dredd has her cornered at the end of the film, he decides to execute her by dosing her with Slo-Mo and throwing her through the window of her penthouse on Peach Trees' top floor.

Contrast HoistByTheirOwnPetard, which is where a character's bad actions lead ''directly'' to their downfall, with no second-party intervention. Often a form of PayEvilUntoEvil. An IronicHell is the extreme version of this, where the sinners are punished with being the victim of (or making them horrified with) whatever crime they've done before. Can overlap with LaserGuidedKarma if the character's fate is similar to that of his victims. See also WhosLaughingNow, which sometimes results from applying this trope. Please note that SelectiveEnforcement and {{Hypocrite}} can pop up if the sinner makes a big show out of it.

!!Examples:

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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': In the manga, when Sado fights Yammy, the latter hits him so hard that the attack tears Sado's arm apart...twice! Then Ichigo arrives at the scene, sees what happened to Sado's arm, then he goes straight to cutting Yammy's arm off. The anime downplays the damage on Sado's arm significantly, which makes Ichigo's reaction look more like DisproportionateRetribution.
* ''Franchise/DragonBall''
** ''Anime/DragonBallZ'':
*** [[GalacticConqueror Freeza's]] entire fighting style revolves around ColdBloodedTorture, physically overwhelming his enemies with his power and making sure that they die in pain and despair, knowing that [[HopeCrusher they never stood a chance against him]]. After Goku becomes a [[SuperMode Super Saiyan]], he spends most of the fight toying with and brutalizing Freeza just as Freeza had done to his victims, wanting to ensure that Freeza realized that even at full power, he never stood a chance against him. In the end, the ''only'' reason Goku tries to spare Freeza is because [[CruelMercy he felt that letting Freeza live with his pride ripped to shreds was a far worse punishment]].
*** This was [[MadScientist Dr. Gero's]] intention with creating the androids. After Goku destroyed the Red Ribbon Army, he wanted to create a fighter that could beat Goku on his terms and inspire the same sense of fear and dread he gave the army. Cell came the closest to doing this to Goku (if only because he was the second of Gero's creations who fought him), but even then, Goku never once displayed fear of Cell, no matter how much stronger he was than him, and died on his own terms.
*** The psychotic Androids 17 and 18 of Future Trunks' [[BadFuture timeline]] spent twenty years rampaging across the Earth killing whoever and whenever they wanted ForTheEvulz, later ganging up on Future Gohan in the rain and brutally murdering him. When Future Trunks returns to that time, he wastes no time [[MookHorrorShow putting them in their place]], stating outright that he's doing to them ''exactly'' what they did to Future Gohan and what they've been doing to the rest of the planet: making them feel completely outmatched, helpless, and afraid before killing them.
*** When Goku and Vegeta [[FusionDance fuse]] into Vegito, the latter spends his entire fight with Super Buu toying with and brutalizing him, making sure the monster felt every moment of the pain and terror he dealt to Vegito's friends and all of his other victims.
--->'''Vegito:''' It's not much fun being hunted down, is it, Majin Buu? Being hunted down just the way you hunted down our friends! Does it hurt?!
** ''Anime/DragonBallGT'': Baby is a PuppeteerParasite who invades other people's bodies, laying eggs inside them to keep control of them and attacking them from the inside. Majuub tries to transform him using Majin Buu's Chocolate Beam, but Baby sends it back at him and devours him afterwards. However, it later turns out that Majuub deliberately let himself be changed and swallowed so he could [[EatMe attack Baby from the inside, incapacitating him with pain during his fight with Goku]]; Majuub even tells Baby that he's doing what Baby himself does to other people.
-->'''Majuub:''' Isn't that how ''you'' operate, Baby?! You lay your eggs in people and attack them from the inside!
** ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'':
*** The first time Beerus meets Goku, he effortlessly defeats the latter with a neck chop. Later, when Goku's recieved a new powerup and they fight on something resembling equal ground, Goku repeats the neck chop to Beerus, [[LampshadeHanging pointing out the time Beerus did it to him]].
*** Not an intentionally invoked example, but [[DestroyerDeity Beerus]] loves to make mortals squirm and submit to him under the threat of destroying their entire planet if they don't do ''exactly'' what he wants (usually providing him with good enough food). Then his boss [[TopGod Zeno]] shows up and provokes the same terrified reaction from ''him'' without even trying.
* ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'': Onizuka punishes Anko and her friends for [[TeensAreMonsters abusing Noboru]] by tying them up and pulling down their underwear, writing stuff on their butts, and taking photos to blackmail them, just like they did to Noboru.
* ''Manga/LoveHina'': In the 10th volume of the manga, Keitaro's little sister Kanako submits ''all'' of the Hinata's tenants to this to punish them for their [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale constant abuse and mistreatment of Keitaro]]. She actually succeeds in driving the girls out of the house completely.
* In ''Anime/RanpoKitanGameOfLaplace'', 20 Faces serves this type of revenge. [[spoiler:He was once a morally right police officer who, after the horrific mutilation and murder of his sister, did the same to the one who did it. The twist in this case but not the rest of his murders was that 20 Faces kept the murderer alive]].
* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': During the introduction of the PrivateMilitaryContractors ("hunters") Elena and Sara into the story, they’re ambushed by a group of male hunters turned to raiders out of desperation. After dropping a grenade while running past them, they take Elena hostage and demand Sara come out of cover. On her way towards them with her hands up, they demand Sara humiliatingly strip out of her clothing because it might be PoweredArmor, before shooting her legs anyway. After the UnscrupulousHero Akira intervenes, attacking those hunters out of hatred due to [[TraumaButton his trauma]] from being taken advantage of, one of the male hunters surrenders to him. Akira demands that he strip out of his clothing, then shoots him dead after he does so.
* A horrible version of this trope happens in [[spoiler:Hiroko]]'s revenge on [[spoiler:Aki Honda and her GirlPosse]] from ''Manga/ShadowStar'' upon obtaining her Shadow Dragon. Said tormentors had previously abused her ''horribly'', up to and including [[spoiler:''raping her with a test tube'']]. So how does [[spoiler:Hiro-chan]] pay them back for this? [[spoiler:Upon getting her Shadow Dragon, she commences in completely tearing each of the posse apart, the only one she spares being the one who objected to Aki raping her. And when she finally catches up to Aki herself? She has her raped with the Shadow Dragon's clawed finger, just before tearing her apart as well]]. By the time her vengeance is complete, [[spoiler:Hiro-chan]] has gone into full StartOfDarkness mode.
* ''Anime/StreetFighterIITheAnimatedMovie'': During his fight with [[KickChick Chun Li]], [[SissyVillain Vega]] makes the mistake of cutting her cheek then taunting her by [[LickingTheBlade licking the blood off his claw.]] Bad decision. She pays him back... ''with interest''. First, by hitting him square in the face by throwing the couch at him, followed by repeatedly kicking his face with her [[HurricaneKick Spinning Bird Kick]], then pushes him back down on the floor by stepping on his chest, so she could plant her barefoot on his cheek and perform a full pirouette on his face! And, yes, it's as awesome as it sounds (seen at [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggPU8L_4E1o 5:07-6:03).]]
* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'': When Kaneki is tortured by Yamori after being captured, he's forced to count down from 1000 by seven over and over to keep himself sane so he can feel each and every cut. When Kaneki accepts that he's a ghoul and beats Yamori in a fight, he pins him to the ground and forces him to count down the exact same way. Yamori had also made clear his intention to eat Kaneki after he finally snapped, and Kaneki takes care to remind him...
-->''"What's 1000 minus 7? ... Remember, you're the one who tried to eat me first. So you'll get what's coming to you when I eat you instead."''

[[folder:Fan Works]]
* PlayedForLaughs in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13504008/6/Conduit-of-Central-City Conduit of Central CIty]]'' when [[InsufferableGenius Wells]] quickly grows annoyed at Ace reading his mind and speaking his thoughts and calculations, with Cisco stating that's how it feels for the rest of them being around him.
* ''Fanfic/FeralnetteAUBigFatBreak'': Hawkmoth ''loves'' giving his victims {{Breaking Speech}}es to push them into akumatization. When he tries this on Marinette during the ''Enough Rope'' arc, however, she turns the tables by hitting him with an ArmorPiercingQuestion about [[spoiler:what happened to Mayura]], followed by a breaking speech of her own -- one that forces him into a traumatic flashback [[spoiler:that she ''witnesses'' thanks to his power of Transmission]].
* ''[[Fanfic/TheHighRoadMiraculousLadybug the high road]]'' features [[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug Marinette]] taking Adrien and her other {{Fair Weather Friend}}s' advice and 'taking the high road'... while dragging the rest of them along for the ride. The more that ''they'' get inconvenienced by her efforts to [[BotheringByTheBook cater to Lila's every whim]], the more they turn against Lila, eventually investigating her claims and realizing they've all been had.
* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBoilingPoint'' has Boscha decide to teach the Apex what it feels like to be on the receiving end of their usual treatment, and since this Boscha's an AdaptationalBadass who doubles as a PersonOfMassDestruction, ''they get the message loud and clear''.
* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'' has Chloe refusing to reply to Goh's messages throughout Act 1, as he himself would only ever answer her to provide hollow apologies for being late. And when she ''does'' answer, it's to let him know she wants nothing to do with him anymore. This also serves as a [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] example, as it demonstrates that it can be difficult to keep up one's sense of ''scale'' when they feel victimized. Sure, Goh's actions may have been hurtful, but when viewed from an objective viewpoint, there were some [[InnocentlyInsensitive fairly convincing]] extenuating circumstances. First, Goh's habits of not texting Chloe may have made her feel unappreciated, but Goh was always secure in the fact that he would see his ChildhoodFriend in person ''the next day,'' if not in a matter of hours. Similarly, his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech may have crossed the line, but from his perspective, she had ''started'' the confrontation by [[RageBreakingPoint nearly destroying his phone]] and screaming at him. By waiting two weeks before responding to Goh's texts, Chloe may have ''thought'' she was paying him back in kind... but really, [[DisproportionateRetribution she was giving him]] ample reason to believe that she was ''dead,'' and she later threatened to remove herself from Vermillion City altogether if her treatment [[EntitledBitch didn't reach her standards]]. Once the characters get the full picture of what happened InUniverse, the universal conclusion is that this was "a jerk move." Even ''[[IHatePastMe Chloe]]'' agrees that she was over the top, once the initial InUniverseCatharsis had left her system.
** Chloe's classmates loved bullying and harassing her and gleefully told her brother, Parker, everything they did without a single lick of empathy. [[spoiler:When Parker gets his hands on the Unown, ''he'' gets to unleash all sorts of punishments without crying for them.]]
* ''Fanfic/JerkInSheepsClothing'' has this happen to both the class AND Adrien, although not as salty as other fics do, all courtesy of [[JerkassAtYourDiscretion Henri [=LeRoi=]]].
** In the [[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS03E01Chameleon "Chameleon"]] episode, the class all flocked to Lila, and when Marinette tried to out her as a ConsummateLiar, Lila [[WoundedGazelleGambit turned the tables on her and got the whole class to assume Marinette was bullying her out of spite]]. When Henri transfers and starts dating Marinette, he manipulates things to push Alya to the back of the room. Whenever anyone in the class tries to stand up to him or show Marinette his true colors, he pulls the same game as Lila and twists things around to turn Marinette on her friends. And [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard because Marinette has seen how nasty the class can be, and because Henri has treated her more like a friend than the others have lately]], she believes him over them and accuses them of picking on her boyfriend.
** Adrien, who has always had the bad trait of being too trusting of people, allows bad people to be close to him, even when there are many red flags alerting people of their true colors, while his real friends, namely Marinette, must sit back and watch said bad people take advantage of his too-trusting nature. Now, Adrien is the one watching Marinette get taken advantage of by Henri, who even threatens him in the bathroom just like Lila did to Marinette in "Chameleon".
* ''Fanfic/TheKarmaOfLies'':
** Adrien ignored Marinette's pleas to help her deal with [[ManipulativeBitch Lila]], as he simply [[LackOfEmpathy did not]] ''[[LackOfEmpathy care]]'' about how she was scamming their classmates and deliberately isolating her. After all, he presumed that since he already knew she was a ConArtist, [[OriginalPositionFallacy he'd never fall for any of her tricks]]. After Lila [[TheFarmerAndTheViper successfully scams him]], he expects Marinette to help him out, only to learn that she's StoppedCaring and is willing to let him cope with the consequences of his BetrayalByInaction alone.
** Similarly, the rest of the class shunned Marinette, taking her kindness and generosity completely for granted. By the time they learn the truth about Lila and are willing to accept her back, they find she's not in a forgiving mood; instead, she transfers to another class and cuts ties with the lot of them, letting them know how it felt to be shunted aside.
* ''Fanfic/LadyBugOut'': At one point, Chat Noir declares that Ladybug needs to ''prove'' that she really doesn't have any feelings for him by accepting a ForcefulKiss. When she rebuffs him, he smugly claims that the only reason she pushed him away is because if she'd let him kiss her, she wouldn't have been able to 'hide her true feelings'. Later on, after Adrien's SecretIdentity has been exposed, [[ShipSinking snuffing out her old crush for good]], Marinette demonstrates just how childish and selfish his reasoning was by acting the same way ''he'' did. After pretending that she's going to make him kiss her in order to 'prove' he doesn't really love her, she directly compares his behavior to how Chloe and Lila clung to him, helping him realize [[HeelRealization he'd made Ladybug]] feel just as trapped.
* In ''Fanfic/LovedAndLost'', an extended retelling of [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic "A Canterlot Wedding"]], the [[HeroWithBadPublicity disgraced and exiled heroes]][[note]]Celestia, Cadance, Shining Armor, the Mane Five (sans Twilight) and Spike[[/note]] sneak into Canterlot with the intention to redeem themselves by helping Twilight Sparkle. Unfortunately, Cadance is separated from the others and injured by the secret BigBad while the others find Twilight. Twilight, [[CorruptTheCutie having been manipulated]] by [[ManipulativeBastard Prince Jewelius]] to lose all trust in her friends, brother and mentor after they walked out on her at the wedding rehearsal for [[WoundedGazelleGambit "upsetting"]] the false Cadance, mistakenly thinks Cadance ([[UndyingLoyalty the only one of the exiles she hasn't stopped trusting]]) was injured because the others brought her to Canterlot before she could be reinstated. Angry and hurt, she [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech chews her former loved ones out]] like her brother did with her. She then coldly leaves them at [[TheBrute Commander Hildread's]] mercy to check on Cadance, just like they ditched her to check on the false Cadance, [[IronicEcho throwing the words they used back to them]] for a good measure and also as payback.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' fanfic ''Fanfic/MonsterChronicles'' While [[spoiler:he's blackmailing him]] Cedric takes great pleasure in picking on Duncan and tormenting him much like the latter would do to Harold in canon. Chris even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this at one point.
-->'''Chris:'''I thought I hit a gold mine with that kiss back in London! With the hate Duncan's been getting lately with 75% of the fan base, seeing him on the other side of the punch will totally be ratings central! I just wish there wasn't a wanted criminal holding us all hostage.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13372846/1/Of-Wolves-and-Dragons Of Wolves and Dragons]]'', a string of various incidents cause many superstitious Northerners to believe the Old Gods are taking vengeance on those who have turned against them. The Northerners start to blame Catelyn Stark for bringing the Faith of the Seven to the North and incurring the Old Gods' wrath, causing the Stark Matron to become [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer isolated and (privately) slandered]], not unlike the treatment Jon Snow (who, incidentally, set off the above mentioned string of incidents, albeit not of his own free will) endured at Catelyn's hand.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13620958/1/O-Mother-Where-Art-Thou O Mother, Where Art Thou?]]'', [[WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends Thomas]] is shocked, disappointed and worried when he learns that Emily has left Sodor for an adventure, then realises that this must be how ''she'' feels whenever ''he'' leaves Sodor to travel the world.
* ''Fanfic/PeterParkersFieldTripOfCourseItsToStarkIndustries'': One of the punishments Principle Morita was going to issue Peter was to have him write hand-written apology letters to all of his teachers and classmates for "lying." When it comes to light that not only did they not check the validity of Peter's internship contract with SI like they were supposed to, they destroyed the documents, Tony only agrees to let the school continue their field trip to his company if they provide proof that they did destroy the papers (for security reasons) and issues handwritten apologies to him, Peter and Pepper the day before the field trip.
* ''[[Fanfic/RecommencerMiraculousLadybug Recommencer]]'': When [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Mark]] is punished for bullying and misgendering Jay, he whines about how he didn't do anything wrong, because [[BlamingTheVictim Jay totally deserved everything they got]]. Miss Desrosiers responds by insulting his faith, declaring that since he's Christian, that ''must'' mean that all the nastiest negative stereotypes and claims about those sorts apply to him. She barrages him until he's reduced to tears, forcing him to realize just how it feels to be slandered and attacked on such a personal level.
* ''Fanfic/TheRedemptionOfHarleyQuinn'': Lyle Bolton uses the Mad Hatter's MindControl technology to force Poison Ivy to striptease, and then asks what it's like to be in the same state as the victims of her pheromones.
* In [[https://www.wattpad.com/962398167-sister-floriana-the-warm-up Chapter 33]] of ''Fanfic/SisterFloriana'' Sister Isabel tries to rig a soccer game in her friends' favor by telling the opposing team that there are important stretches they've been missing out on. When they ask to know what the stretches are, she has them do tiring exercises and spins a yarn about how they're related to stretching. Unfortunately, they catch on to the fact she's improvising and make her team do exercises too, before easily winning the game.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11781093/11/Strawberries-and-Lemons Strawberries and Lemons]]'': After Garnet shows his jealous side when Sage showed an interest in Yang in a previous chapter, Team WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} (but mostly Yang) continuously tease him for it. Later on, when Team RWBY meets Garnet's new friend Penny, Yang has to deal with ''her'' jealous side since Penny is being just as affectionate with Garnet as she usually is.
* ''Fanfic/TemporalAnomaly'': Three has suffered a ''severe'' fall into madness, going so far as to [[spoiler:experiment on her own citizens and turn them into monsters]]. After dealing with that issue, Sougo, in order to restore Three's sanity and morals, preforms a MindRape on her that [[spoiler:has Three experience that very experimentation process done to her]]. [[CrazyEnoughToWork It works]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/21417982 to lose someone]]'', Lila's goon squad destroys Marinette's sketchbook in an attempt at making Marinette "feel" this trope thanks to Lila ([[ConsummateLiar as usual]]) telling them that Marinette "bullied" her. This retaliation [[VandalismBackfire backfires big-time on them]] when Marinette reveals that [[CrazyPrepared the only sketchbook she brings to the school]] is the one with the designs of the requests they asked her to do (which she won't redo for free and [[ShockinglyExpensiveBill cost several thousand dollars as professional-grade work]] if they actually want to request her) and her notes as class president (which included the contact information for several trips they were looking forward to do most earnestly and are now gonna have to be cancelled). Thus making them all feel as awful as she felt ever since the bullying started, she walks away.
* ''Fanfic/WithConfidence'': Izuku's classmates constantly bullied him for being Quirkless, insisting that he'd never be able to become a Pro Hero. Izuku turns this around when he takes control of their latest lesson and painstakingly points out their own flaws and failings -- highlighting the weaknesses of their various Quirks and all the ways they've proven themselves to be less than heroic.
* Happens to [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Stain]] in ''Fanfic/AWaterbendingQuirk'' in a twofold manner. His Quirk lets him paralyze those he drinks the blood of, but here, he ends up a victim of [[PeoplePuppets bloodbending]], courtesy of [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Katara]], forcing him to endure similar pain that his victims underwent; additionally, his crippling of Tensei Iida makes his bloodbending experience far more karmic, as Tensei served as a genuine hero, shielding Katara from her actions due to her being a FishOutOfTemporalWater (even after she attacked Endeavor) for no reason other than to help her, so Stain ends up looking like a self-righteous villain with his ranting against "fake heroes", something Katara brutally chews him for.
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* Played literally in ''Series/AmericanGothic1995''. Caleb Temple cites the trope to a doctor who poisoned Sheriff Buck. When we next see the doctor, he's choking to death from an overdose of pills that Caleb has somehow forced him to eat.
* ''Series/TheATeam'', "[[Recap/TheATeamS2E18ItsADesertOutThere It's a Desert Out There]]". When the Scorpions fall into the trap the A-Team laid for them, Hannibal explicitly mentions their leader punching Max, and punches him in the same place.
* ''Series/BreakingBad'': Throughout season 5, Jack and his Neo-Nazi gang make a SignatureMove out of ambushing their enemies and overwhelming them with sheer gunfire, killing Declan's crew [[spoiler:plus Gomez and Hank]] with surprise attacks. [[spoiler:In the series finale, Walt turns their own trick on them, luring them to a meeting under the pretense of presenting them with a more efficient way to cook meth before wiping out the gang with a mounted machine gun hidden in the trunk of his car]].
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': In season 7's "Vigilante," a serial rapist is found bound, gagged and injured in the same manner as he had done to his victims, complete with the gag being a purple cloth. Only difference? He's dead. The "vigilante" turns out to be someone avenging the survivors.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** The villain in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E10TheBattleOfRanskoorAvKolos "The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos"]], [[spoiler:Tzim-Sha/Tim Shaw]], keeps his prisoners and [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame trophies from his "hunts"]] in stasis chambers that [[AndIMustScream preserve them in a state somewhere between life and death]]. At the end of the episode, Graham and Ryan opt to seal him in one of his own stasis chambers in a display of CruelMercy, with Graham quoting the trope name as he prepares the chamber.
** The Grand Serpent, one of the villains in the six-part episode "Flux", has this happen to him twice in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS39E6FluxChapterSixTheVanquishers "Chapter 6: The Vanquishers"]]:
*** He tries to interrogate the Doctor with a torture device, only for the Doctor to escape and trap him in the same device instead, quoting the trope name at him as she does so.
*** An earlier part reveals that a soldier named Vinder [[spoiler:discovered a plan to assassinate the family of one of the Grand Serpent's political rivals and tried to blow the whistle, and the Grand Serpent retaliated by ruining Vinder's career and having him [[ReassignedToAntarctica exiled to be the only crew member of an isolated watch post at the edge of the universe]]. Vinder eventually gets revenge by forcing the Grand Serpent through a portal that leaves him stranded on a solitary astaroid devoid of any contact with civilisation.]]
* Season 2 of ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' provides a horrifying example. [[spoiler:After tormenting, murdering, and publicly displaying countless victims, Hannibal gets a taste of his own medicine in ''Mukozuke''. Matthew Brown tortures and nearly kills Hannibal, and had Brown succeeded, Hannibal's corpse would have been on public display. Hannibal is narrowly rescued by Jack and Alana, neither of whom realize that he is a serial killer like his tormentor.]]
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': In "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS7E08TheSluttyPumpkinReturns The Slutty Pumpkin Returns]]", Robin gets revenge on Barney for constantly mocking Canada by revealing that he himself is a quarter Canadian.
* ''Series/{{Imposters}}'' focuses on Maddie, a professional con artist who specializes in marrying a rich person and then taking them for almost all they're worth. While prepping her latest mark, she does get close to the handsome Patrick and falls for him, meeting his family and working hard to win him over. But three of Maddie's past marks/exes (Ezra, Richard and Jules) have tracked her down and want their money back. At a party to celebrate her "birthday," Maddie is shocked when Ezra shows up, posing as her big brother with Jules his girlfriend and Richard one of the bartenders. It's obvious the trio are getting a total kick out of this as Maddie is working hard not to freak out.
** A major turn in the next episode is the trio revealing that [[spoiler:Patrick is actually an FBI agent who's been working all this time to sucker Maddie in so she can give up the guy she works for]]. After finding this out, Maddie is kicking herself that [[spoiler:she fell for ''exactly'' the same tricks ("accidental" first meeting, fake family, playing hard to get, staging a breakup) that she's used on her own marks. Her trio of exes, meanwhile, get some pleasure seeing Maddie get the same treatment she gave to them]].
* ''Series/{{LazyTown}}'': In one early episode of the series, Robbie Rotten uses [[TrickedOutShoes remote-controlled boots]] to control the movements of Sportacus's once he puts them on. However, near the end when the tech-savvy [[GadgeteerGenius Pixel]] gets the remote and launches the boots off, he gets Robbie to put them on himself and sends him clumsily walking home with his own invention.
* Happens a lot on ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', as the team will often use the mark's own corrupt tactics against them and ruin them exactly the way they've ruined so many other people.
* In the season 3 finale of ''Series/{{Revenge}}'', Emily has the woman responsible for committing her as a child committed as payback: [[spoiler:Victoria Grayson]]. BestServedCold, indeed.
* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'':
** Lampshaded in an episode in which Kramer's GirlOfTheWeek repeatedly [[TheHeckler heckles]] Jerry during his set while a reporter is in the audience. Jerry can't bring himself to insult her back since she's Kramer's girlfriend and Kramer is sitting right there next to her, so his show completely bombs and the reporter slams him in his article. Later, George brings up how comedians always ask hecklers "How would ''you'' like it if ''I'' went to where ''you'' work and heckled ''you''?" and encourages Jerry to do it for real. He goes to her office and heckles her mercilessly until she runs out in tears. Kramer is angry at him for it, but a fellow comedian praises Jerry for his courage, comparing him to Rosa Parks.
** In another episode, Jerry gives a telemarketer a taste of his own medicine.
--->'''Jerry:''' Oh, gee, I can't talk right now. Why don't you give me your home number and I'll call you later?\\
'''Telemarketer:''' Uh... well, I'm sorry, we're not allowed to do that.\\
'''Jerry:''' Oh, I guess you don't want people calling you at home.\\
'''Telemarketer:''' No...\\
'''Jerry:''' Well, now you know how ''I'' feel. ''[hangs up]''
* In ''Literature/SherlockHolmes: The Case of the Illustrious Client'', [[AristocratsAreEvil Baron Gruner]] is left horribly disfigured after one of his former mistresses, Kitty Winter, attacks him with vitriol. The [[Series/SherlockHolmes Granada Television adaptation]] portrays this as a revenge attack for an earlier incident in which the Baron had himself used vitriol to attack Kitty, leaving nasty scars on her neck and chest.
-->'''Kitty:''' Be done by, as you did to me.
* In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', [[BigBad The Dominion]] isn't above infecting a whole species (Teplans) with a plague. In the final season, it's revealed that [[spoiler:Section 31]] infected the Changelings (ruling race of the Dominion) with a plague.
* The 1989 mini-series ''Twist of Fate'' has SS Colonel Helmut von Schrader, realizing the war is lost, hitting upon the wild idea of getting plastic surgery and a new identity as Jewish prisoner Benjamin Grossman. The plan is for him to be sent to a low-level prison hospital in an area the Allies will reach in a few weeks. However, when the Allies attack earlier than expected, the train holding von Schrader is rerouted. Thus, the former SS colonel finds himself spending the last year of the war in the hellish Belsen concentration camp, getting exactly the same type of brutality and horrible conditions he's put countless Jewish prisoners through.
* ''Series/YoungSheldon'': In "A Docent, a Little Lady and a Bouncer Named Dalton", Sheldon is fired from being a docent at the railroad museum for his usual habit of being a know-it-all. Constance tries to show him what it's like by droning on about knitting. Instead of being bored by it, however, Sheldon finds it fascinating.
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* Used several times in ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}''. For instance, Malloy has been [[GroinAttack attacked in the groin]] at least twice, which is something he's done to Steve multiple times.
* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': In "A Twist Of Ed", the Eds are tired of [[LovingBully the Kanker Sisters]] constantly [[StalkerWithACrush harassing them and assaulting them with kisses.]] Double D eventually figures out they can get rid of them for good by using ReversePsychology, as he puts it "in order to defeat our enemy, we must ''become'' our enemy." So he and Ed spend most of the episode successfully scaring away the Kankers by pretending to have fallen in love with them, and harassing them with unwanted affection the same way they have done to them. Unfortunately, the Kankers realize what the Eds are doing when Eddy is too nervous to flirt with them, and use "Reverse-Reverse Psychology" to lure the Eds into a trap by pretending to still be scared of them, and reestablish "dominance" against their "boyfriends" with another [[TakeThatKiss unwanted make-out session]].
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Peter's nemesis James Woods steals Peter's ID and assumes his identity, using it to assume Peter's place in the family and make Peter homeless. Peter gets revenge by using a forged ID to assume Woods' identity, then makes a completely tasteless film (a comedy about 9/11, with David Spade as the voice of the plane) that ruins his acting career.
* In ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', the following instances involve Garfield constantly attempting to mail the cute kitten, Nermal, to Abu Dhabi:
** In "First Class Feline", Jon, Odie, and Nermal decide to teach Garfield a lesson by substituting Nermal with a stuffed cat doll in the package and making Garfield's favorite meal but saying they can't eat without Nermal. Unfortunately, they underestimated the lengths Garfield would go for food as he chased after the package all the way to the central post office. When Garfield learned of the trick, he decided to turn the tables by using the stuffed cat (after painting its tail to look like his own) [[PrankGoneTooFar to make them think he mailed himself to Abu Dhabi]].
** Near the end of the episode "Cute for Loot", Garfield poses as a cute kitten to get free food from an old man. Unfortunately for him, the old man had a large cat who deals with cute kittens the same way Garfield does, and mails ''him'' to Abu Dhabi.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': At the end of Episode 65, [[spoiler:Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack chase Mr. Cat around with weapons and try to beat him up]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "After the Mold Rush" has Hank do this to a couple of dishonest mold inspectors who ordered an inconveniently timed and unnecessary extermination at his house by coming over to their house and threatening an intrusive inspection of his own.
* In the Disney short, "WesternAnimation/LonesomeGhosts", a quarter of ghosts lure ghost exterminators Mickey, Donald, and Goofy to their abandoned mansion to scare them silly. When their antics end up getting the trio covered in molasses and flour, [[{{Irony}} they mistake them for ghosts, freak out and flee for the hills]].
-->'''Donald:''' So you can't take it, you big sissies!
* Used regularly by ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' protagonists such as WesternAnimation/BugsBunny Perhaps most directly in "WesternAnimation/RabbitFire", after Elmer Fudd spends the whole short hunting Bugs and WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck, a new poster reveals it is "Elmer Season", with a [[OhCrap very worried Elmer]] evading the two, now with hunting garb and rifles.
** Another Elmer-related example is in "Ant Pasted". In this cartoon, he deliberately throws lit firecrackers at an ant nest [[ItAmusedMe because their complaints amused him]] and starting a war against them when they retaliate. At the end, the ants blow him up with his own fireworks (which are leaking and creating a trail), which is implied to have killed him.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** In "Honest Apple", Rarity hires Applejack to be a judge for her fashion show because of her reputation for honesty, but the only thing she's honest about is her hatred of fashion, and she ends up driving away several designers with her [[BrutalHonesty much-too-brutal honesty]] when she calls fashion ''Ridiculous''. With her show in jeopardy, Rarity tries to show Applejack how honesty can be hurtful when she takes her to a pony named Strawberry Sunrise, who flippantly badmouths apples to her face.
--->'''Rarity:''' Applejack, why are you so angry? It's just Strawberry's ''honest opinion''. What's wrong with that?\\
'''Applejack:''' Well, that's fine if she doesn't like 'em, but if she knew how hard we work to make our apples perfect, [[ExplainExplainOhCrap maybe she wouldn't be so mean about]]--''(realization)'' [[JerkassRealization Ohhhhhh]]...[[OhCrap Oh boy.]]
** In "A Trivial Pursuit", after Twilight intentionally gets Pinkie Pie disqualified from a game of Trivia Trot due to seeing her as a threat to her winning streak, she gets paired up with Sunburst, who wants to preserve his "correct answers" record. In so doing, he refuses to let Twilight answer questions, causing her to accuse him of trying to get her disqualified...which makes her realize she had done the exact same thing to Pinkie.
* Throughout the first two seasons of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', BigBad Emperor Belos shows himself to be a [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder serial backstabber]] who [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates countless people into helping him]]--including the main character Luz--only to then [[ILied renege on the deals he made with them]] and [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness toss them aside once he no longer needs them]], all to pull off his EvilPlan of branding every witch in the Boiling Isles with a coven sigil and kill them with the Draining Spell to [[WitchHunter exterminate all witchkind]]. In the season 2 finale, Luz turns the tables on him by doing these same things: to convince him not to go through with petrifying her, she promises to give him something she knows he wants and needs in exchange for him sparing her and her friends. He agrees and undoes the petrification (though almost certainly not planning on actually sparing her friends in the end)...which gives her the chance she needs to put a coven sigil brand on ''him'' to try to force him to undo the Draining Spell.
* An aversion on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' despite the trope name being dropped verbatim as Homer watches the Thanksgiving parade.
-->'''Announcer 1:''' And here comes our friend: Bullwinkle J. Moose.\\
'''Homer:''' Heh heh heh, Bullwinkle's antler sprung a leak!\\
'''Announcer 2:''' Uh-oh, looks like ol' Bullwinkle's finally gotten a taste of his own medicine!\\
'''Announcer 1:''' He certainly did, Bill.\\
'''Announcer 2:''' Wait, what did...did what I just say make sense?\\
'''Announcer 1:''' Well...no, not really.\\
'''Announcer 2:''' Boy, now I know how the Pilgrims felt!\\
'''Announcer 1:''' ...What are you ''talking'' about, Bill?!
* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'': Upon becoming Venom, Eddie Brock launches a campaign of psychological warfare against Spider-Man in-between [[CurbStompBattle beating him up]], stalking [[LoveInterest Mary Jane]], trying to publicly unmask him, and going so far as to show up at Peter's house to charm his Aunt May. Spidey ultimately defeats Venom by using his own tactics against him, exploiting Brock's anger and bitterness at being fired from the Daily Bugle to lure him to a shuttle launch, with the roar of the rocket forcing the symbiote off Eddie and leaving him powerless.
-->'''Spider-Man:''' He'll never stop torturing me! I've got to fight... and I know just the way to do it.
** Used for a StartOfDarkness with the show's main villain. Wilson Fisk tried to [[WellDoneSonGuy win his father's approval]] by assisting him with illegal activities, only for the older man to abandon him to the cops with the comment "Sacrifices must be made." Fisk used his time in prison to [[PrisonsAreGymnasiums get in shape]] and built a massive criminal empire of his own when he got out, becoming [[LargeAndInCharge the Kingpin]]. As his final revenge, he had his minions track down his father, who begged forgiveness--only for Kingpin to kill him with the same ruthlessness and lack of compassion that he had learned from him.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Krusty Towers," Mr. Krabs turns the Krusty Krab into the titular hotel, with the policy "We shall never deny a guest, even the most ridiculous request". Patrick becomes the first guest and makes multiple ridiculous and unreasonable requests. When Squidward complains, Mr. Krabs outright tells him that the policy ensures that Patrick can be as unreasonable as he wants. Eventually, Squidward gets sick of it and quits...only to immediately return as a guest so he can force Mr. Krabs to fulfill ''his'' outrageous demands. However, when his antics go too far and end up sending him, Mr. Krabs, Spongebob, and Patrick to the hospital, Krabs ends up getting the last laugh when he, after seeing the expensive medical bill, sends the boys (including Patrick, who doesn't even work for him) to medical school with plans to [[HereWeGoAgain turn the Krusty Krab into a hospital]].
* In a short of the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode "The Buster Bunny Bunch", Babs' classmates become offended by her impersonations of them and retaliate by impersonating her.
* A literal example in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' called "Passion Patties", when the spies force the villain of the episode to drink a vial of the highly-concentrated sugar extract that was the main ingredient in the cookies she invented (the titular "passion patties"). The episode's villain blimps up within seconds of drinking her extract straight up.
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* ''Fanfic/LadyBugOut'' has [[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug Chat Noir]] stubbornly pursuing Ladybug over her protests. At one point, he tries to force her to kiss him, claiming her refusal to do so means that she secretly loves him back and is afraid that those feelings will shine through if they kiss. After Marinette learns that [[SecretIdentity Adrien was Chat Noir all along]], [[ShipSinking snuffing out her old crush for good]], she helps him understand where he went wrong via demonstration: pretending that he's obligated to return her feelings, and acting like she's going to force him to kiss her in order to 'prove' that he doesn't really love her. She then compares this to how he felt with Chloe and Lila pursuing him, causing him to [[HeelRealization realize he made Ladybug feel the same way]].

* ''Fanfic/{{Recommencer|MiraculousLadybug}}'': When [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Mark]] is punished for bullying and misgendering Jay, he whines about how he didn't do anything wrong, because [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming Jay totally deserved everything they got]]. Miss Desrosiers responds by insulting his faith, declaring that since he's Christian, that ''must'' mean that all the nastiest negative stereotypes and claims about those sorts apply to him. She barrages him until he's reduced to tears, forcing him to realize just how it feels to be slandered and attacked on such a personal level.

-->'''Sidney:''' [Using the voice changer] We're going to play a little game. It's called...
-->'''Sidney:''' [normal voice] ...guess who just phoned the police and reported your sorry motherfucking ass!

* ''Literature/BurglarBill'': Bill learns how it feels to have someone break into your house and steal from you. Likewise, Betty learns how it feels to have someone take something precious from you.

* In ''Literature/SherlockHolmes: The Case of the Illustrious Client'', [[AristocratsAreEvil Baron Gruner]] is left horribly disfigured after one of his former mistresses, Kitty Winter, attacks him with vitriol. The [[Series/SherlockHolmes Granada Television adaptation]] portrays this as a revenge attack for an earlier incident in which the Baron had himself used vitriol to attack Kitty, leaving nasty scars on her neck and chest.
-->'''Kitty:''' Be done by, as you did to me.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''

* ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'' gives us this in the tutorial case, no less. Phoenix Wright, having acquired shades of JadeColoredGlasses after [[spoiler:getting disbarred for being tricked into presenting forged evidence]], decides to return the favor to the one responsible: [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin]]. The result? Phoenix's new protege, Apollo Justice, unknowingly ends up getting [[spoiler:Kristoph]] convicted of murder by, you guessed it, [[spoiler:presenting forged evidence.]]
* In ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic IV'', the necromancer Gauldoth is wrongfully accused of being a child-murderer by the citizens of Vitross, and a town guard named Mardor tries to have him [[BurnTheWitch Burned at the Stake]]. Gauldoth flees from Vitross, but returns several months later with an army which he uses to besiege and capture the town. He makes sure Mardor is captured alive during the siege, and has him burned to death.
* In ''Videogame/FalloutNewVegas'', The Legion attacks the NCR outpost at Searchlight by opening up an old radioactive waste dump within the town, turning Searchlight into an irradiated wasteland. In one quest you can undertake for the NCR, you have the option of destroying a Legion outpost at Cottonwood Cove by finding a toxic waste transport vehicle on a cliff overlooking the cove and making it dump its cargo into the outpost below. If you choose this option, the quest-giver compliments you on your sense of irony.
* Killbane in ''Videogame/SaintsRowTheThird'' is a MaskedLuchador who was once part of a tag-team with Angel de la Muerte, but got sick of his partner being more popular than him and publicly unmasked him; Luchadors see losing their masks as a FateWorseThanDeath, and Angel immediately retired from the ring and ended up a recluse. When The Boss and Angel take on Killbane during the Murderbrawl event, you're given the option of taking his mask after he's been defeated.

* Garrus from the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' series enjoys finding ironic ways to inflict this trope on criminals if the situation presents itself. His ways include sabotaging an environment suit worn by a saboteur and setting it to suffocate him, giving a drug dealer a lethal overdose of their own product, and offing a serial killer with a specialist knowledge of viruses with an infection (the target was a Quarian). Subverted towards Saleon, a doctor who ran an illegal organ-cloning business; Garrus had a plan to kill him by harvesting his organs, but settles for simply shooting him when they finally meet.
* InUniverse, this is Sebastian Castellanos' opinion about the fate of the AxeCrazy serial killer, torturer and MadScientist Ruvik in ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin'', who [[spoiler:winds up as a BrainInAJar trapped within his own mindscape-manipulating [=STEM=] machine, after brutally torturing and killing hundreds of others by connecting them to the same device]]. This helps him resist Ruvik's attempts to invoke [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds sympathy for his past and his plight]].

* Subverted in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' by [[ChaoticEvil Belkar]] and [[LawfulGood Miko,]] after Belkar trolls Miko by [[BotheringByTheBook getting a restraining order]] which prevents her from using her Detect Evil ability against him. Miko attempts to retaliate by getting a restraining order to prevent Belkar from hurting her horse...which Belkar ignores because, unlike Miko, he only cares about the law when he can exploit it to his benefit.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'', Ariel's AxCrazy half-sister Kalki attacks her and cuts off her arm. When Ariel finally corners Kalki, having just been told that her shapeshifting powers allow her AppendageAssimilation from any victim related to her, she promptly decides to get her arm back by stealing Kalki's.

* ''Film/NoobLaCroiseeDesDestins'': Ash regularly seems to show genuine support to Gaea's enterprise, only to be asked to be paid for that support later. Gaea has been shown doing similar things to her guildmates and other acquaintances to get in-game currency from them in previous installments of the franchise.

* Used regularly by ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' protagonists such as WesternAnimation/BugsBunny Perhaps most directly in "WesternAnimation/RabbitFire", after Elmer Fudd spends the whole short hunting Bugs and WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck, a new poster reveals it is "Elmer Season", with a [[OhCrap very worried Elmer]] evading the two, now with hunting garb and rifles.
** Another Elmer-related example is in “Ant Pasted”. In this cartoon, he deliberately throws lit firecrackers at an ant nest [[ItAmusedMe because their complaints amused him]] and starting a war against them when they retaliate. At the end, the ants blow him up with his own fireworks (which are leaking and creating a trail), which is implied to have killed him.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Krusty Towers," Mr. Krabs turns the Krusty Krab into the titular hotel, with the policy "We shall never deny a guest, even the most ridiculous request". Patrick becomes the first guest and makes multiple ridiculous and unreasonable requests. When Squidward complains, Mr. Krabs outright tells him that the policy ensures that Patrick can be as unreasonable as he wants. Eventually, Squidward gets sick of it and quits...only to immediately return as a guest so he can force Mr. Krabs to fulfill ''his'' outrageous demands. However, when his antics go too far and end up sending him, Mr. Krabs, Spongebob, and Patrick to the hospital, Krabs ends up getting the last laugh when he, after seeing the expensive medical bill, sends the boys (including Patrick, who doesn't even work for him) to medical school with plans to [[HereWeGoAgain turn the Krusty Krab into a hospital]].

** Near the end of the episode "Cute for Loot", Garfield poses as a cute kitten to get free food from an old man. Unfortanetely for him, the old man had a large cat who deals with cute kittens the same way Garfield does, and mails ''him'' to Abu Dhabi.
* A literal example in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' called "Passion Patties", when the spies force the villain of the episode to drink a vial of the highly-concentrated sugar extract that was the main ingredient in the cookies she invented (the titular "passion patties"). The episode's villain blimps up within seconds of drinking her extract straight up.
* An aversion on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' despite the trope name being dropped verbatim as Homer watches the Thanksgiving parade.
-->'''Announcer 1:''' And here comes our friend: Bullwinkle J. Moose.\\
'''Homer:''' Heh heh heh, Bullwinkle's antler sprung a leak!\\
'''Announcer 2:''' Uh-oh, looks like ol' Bullwinkle's finally gotten a taste of his own medicine!\\
'''Announcer 1:''' He certainly did, Bill.\\
'''Announcer 2:''' Wait, what did...did what I just say make sense?\\
'''Announcer 1:''' Well...no, not really.\\
'''Announcer 2:''' Boy, now I know how the Pilgrims felt!\\
'''Announcer 1:''' ...What are you ''talking'' about, Bill?!

* In a short of the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode "The Buster Bunny Bunch", Babs' classmates become offended by her impersonations of them and retaliate by impersonating her.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': At the end of Episode 65, [[spoiler:Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack chase Mr. Cat around with weapons and try to beat him up.]]
* The ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "After the Mold Rush" has Hank do this to a couple of dishonest mold inspectors who ordered an inconveniently timed and unnecessary extermination at his house by coming over to their house and threatening an intrusive inspection of his own.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "Honest Apple", Rarity hires Applejack to be a judge for her fashion show because of her reputation for honesty, but the only thing she's honest about is her hatred of fashion, and she ends up driving away several designers with her [[BrutalHonesty much-too-brutal honesty.]] when she calls fashion ''Ridiculous''. With her show in jeopardy, Rarity tries to show Applejack how honesty can be hurtful when she takes her to a pony named Strawberry Sunrise, who flippantly badmouths apples to her face.
-->'''Rarity:''' Applejack, why are you so angry? It's just Strawberry's ''honest opinion''. What's wrong with that?
-->'''Applejack:''' Well, that's fine if she doesn't like 'em, but if she knew how hard we work to make our apples perfect, [[ExplainExplainOhCrap maybe she wouldn't be so mean about]]--''(realization)'' [[JerkassRealization Ohhhhhh]]...[[OhCrap Oh boy.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': In "A Twist Of Ed", the Eds are tired of [[LovingBully the Kanker Sisters]] constantly [[StalkerWithACrush harassing them and assaulting them with kisses.]] Double D eventually figures out they can get rid of them for good by using ReversePsychology, as he puts it "in order to defeat our enemy, we must ''become'' our enemy." So he and Ed spend most of the episode successfully scaring away the Kankers by pretending to have fallen in love with them, and harassing them with unwanted affection the same way they have done to them. Unfortunately, the Kankers realize what the Eds are doing when Eddy is too nervous to flirt with them, and use "Reverse-Reverse Psychology" to lure the Eds into a trap by pretending to still be scared of them, and reestablish "dominance" against their "boyfriends" with another [[TakeThatKiss unwanted make-out session.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'': Upon becoming Venom, Eddie Brock launches a campaign of psychological warfare against Spider-Man in-between [[CurbStompBattle beating him up]], stalking [[LoveInterest Mary Jane]], trying to publicly unmask him, and going so far as to show up at Peter's house to charm his Aunt May. Spidey ultimately defeats Venom by using his own tactics against him, exploiting Brock's anger and bitterness at being fired from the Daily Bugle to lure him to a shuttle launch, with the roar of the rocket forcing the symbiote off Eddie and leaving him powerless.
-->'''Spider-Man:''' He'll never stop torturing me! I've got to fight... and I know just the way to do it.
** Used for a StartOfDarkness with the show's main villain. Wilson Fisk tried to [[WellDoneSonGuy win his father's approval]] by assisting him with illegal activities, only for the older man to abandon him to the cops with the comment "Sacrifices must be made." Fisk used his time in prison to [[PrisonsAreGymnasiums get in shape]] and built a massive criminal empire of his own when he got out, becoming [[LargeAndInCharge the Kingpin]]. As his final revenge, he had his minions track down his father, who begged forgiveness--only for Kingpin to kill him with the same ruthlessness and lack of compassion that he had learned from him.

* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'':
** [[GalacticConqueror Freeza's]] entire fighting style revolves around ColdBloodedTorture, physically overwhelming his enemies with his power and making sure that they die in pain and despair, knowing that [[HopeCrusher they never stood a chance against him]]. After Goku becomes a [[SuperMode Super Saiyan]], he spends most of the fight toying with and brutalizing Freeza just as Freeza had done to his victims, wanting to ensure that Freeza realized that even at full power, he never stood a chance against him. In the end, the ''only'' reason Goku tries to spare Freeza is because [[CruelMercy he felt that letting Freeza live with his pride ripped to shreds was a far worse punishment]].
** This was [[MadScientist Dr. Gero's]] intention with creating the androids. After Goku destroyed the Red Ribbon Army, he wanted to create a fighter that could beat Goku on his terms and inspire the same sense of fear and dread he gave the army. Cell came the closest to doing this to Goku (if only because he was the second of Gero's creations who fought him), but even then, Goku never once displayed fear of Cell, no matter how much stronger he was than him, and died on his own terms.
** The psychotic Androids 17 and 18 of Future Trunks' [[BadFuture timeline]] spent twenty years rampaging across the Earth killing whoever and whenever they wanted ForTheEvulz, later ganging up on Future Gohan in the rain and brutally murdering him. When Future Trunks returns to that time, he wastes no time [[MookHorrorShow putting them in their place]], stating outright that he's doing to them ''exactly'' what they did to Future Gohan and what they've been doing to the rest of the planet: making them feel completely outmatched, helpless, and afraid before killing them.
** When Goku and Vegeta [[FusionDance fuse]] into Vegito, the latter spends his entire fight with Super Buu toying with and brutalizing him, making sure the monster felt every moment of the pain and terror he dealt to Vegito's friends and all of his other victims.

* ''Anime/DragonBallGT'': Baby is a PuppeteerParasite who invades other people's bodies, laying eggs inside them to keep control of them and attacking them from the inside. Majuub tries to transform him using Majin Buu's Chocolate Beam, but Baby sends it back at him and devours him afterwards. However, it later turns out that Majuub deliberately let himself be changed and swallowed so he could [[EatMe attack Baby from the inside, incapacitating him with pain during his fight with Goku]]; Majuub even tells Baby that he's doing what Baby himself does to other people.

* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'':
** The first time Beerus meets Goku, he effortlessly defeats the latter with a neck chop. Later, when Goku's recieved a new powerup and they fight on something resembling equal ground, Goku repeats the neck chop to Beerus, [[LampshadeHanging pointing out the time Beerus did it to him]].
** Not an intentionally invoked example, but [[DestroyerDeity Beerus]] loves to make mortals squirm and submit to him under the threat of destroying their entire planet if they don't do ''exactly'' what he wants (usually providing him with good enough food). Then his boss [[TopGod Zeno]] shows up and provokes the same terrified reaction from ''him'' without even trying.

-->'''Piccolo:''' Did you just...hold a grudge?