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* ''WebOriginal/LoomingGaia'': In the end of "Evangelites Skip, Matuzans Sway", Lukas and Jelani's abusive mother Moswen dies, with the implication that Lukas poisoned her, and Jelani tells Dr. Asha to send Lukas a thank-you card and a bouquet for his deed.

* [[PlayingWith Explored]] and [[DeconstructionFic deconstructed]] in ''Fanfic/TwoLetters''. After retiring, Marinette is pleased to see that her [[SketchySuccessor replacement]] is not only getting the job done, but has been making many of the {{Jerkass}}es and [[UngratefulBastard Ungrateful]], {{Entitled Bastard}}s who caused Marinette so much grief utterly ''miserable''. At one point, she's practically shaking with glee as [[MayorPain Mayor Bourgeois]] laments his lot in life. Problem is, Marinette was so worn down from her time as Ladybug that she came to see ''all of Paris'' as [[AllTakeAndNoGive taking her efforts to protect them all for granted]] and [[TheResenter resents]] ''[[TheResenter everyone]]'' who ever got akumatized, regardless of the circumstances. This means that aside from [[LivingEmotionalCrutch Luka]], she's pretty pleased to see just about ''anybody'' suffering, considering it all to be LaserGuidedKarma.
* ''Fanfic/WeightOffYourShoulder'': Adrien is displeased to see how happy his classmates are when Chloe's KarmaHoudiniWarranty runs out, chiding them for showing NoSympathy and not considering how ''she'' must feel about everything. Since Chloe was a completely unapologetic SpoiledBrat, all Adrien accomplishes is irritating his friends, as they collectively realize that Adrien considers ''her'' feelings to be far more important than those of her ''victims''.

* ''Series/{{iCarly}}'': At the very end of "iHave a Lovesick Teacher", after Ms. Ackerman gets arrested by the FBI for illegally downloading music, which Carly, Sam, and Freddie secretly set her up with using the [=PearPod=] she gave Spencer as proof and that she admitted it on iCarly the night before, all of the students in the classroom break out in cheers and applause now that their SadistTeacher is finally out of their lives.

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E145TheMasks The Masks]]", Jason Foster's relatives Emily, Wilfred, Sr., Wilfred, Jr., and Paula Harper are absolutely delighted when he finally dies as they are the sole heirs to his vast fortune. However, their happiness is short-lived as they soon remove their masks and discover that their faces have been transformed.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "Shelter Skelter", Sally Dobbs smiled at the thought of her [[DomesticAbuse abusive]] husband Harry having been buried alive when their hometown of Dunston, Kansas was destroyed by the accidental detonation of a nuclear cruise missile.

The polar opposite of AntagonistInMourning, AlasPoorVillain, and AlasPoorScrappy. Compare AND contrast LonelyFuneral. A staple of BlackComedy. See also AssholeVictim, a SisterTrope. See also BreakTheHaughty and HumiliationConga. May include TheFunInFuneral and LastDisrespects.

* ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'': At the end of "The Call Of Duty Blackout", Black Yoshi shoots and kills Brooklyn Guy's annoying 5-year-old son...and Brookyln Guy happily proclaims that he's free.

* ''Series/CanadasWorstDriver'': During Colin's [[NonGameplayElimination expulsion]] in Season 2, many of the contestants and their nominators were happy to see him get kicked off, with one of them emitting a soft "woo hoo". This would be confirmed with ConfessionCam clips done after that event.

--> '''Ichimatsu:''' ''(wiggling)'' [[BlatantLies Oh no. Oh no. Oh no, oh no...]]
-->'''[[OnlySaneMan Choromatsu:]]''' Stop dancing, Ichimatsu. Don't celebrate your brother's disappearance.

* ''Fanfic/AnImpracticalGuideToGodhood'': Hera's status as the goddess of marriage causes her to behave unpleasantly toward gods and goddesses who conceive demigods, making her HatedByAll. Consequently, [[spoiler:after Perseus engineers her downfall, he and his companions are showered with gifts by all of Hera's many enemies.]]

* Invoked in the Naruto Fanfic ''Roku Naruto'', when Naruto makes Sakura trip on a rock.

* ''Fanfic/RobbReturns'': When the innkeeper who was cheating Dacey Surestone, along with pretty well everyone else he dealt with, drowns in a slops bucket after being slugged by the wife of a merchant for sexually harassing her, everyone "had a moment of silence that might have been as much as a heartbeat long before proceeding to celebrate a great deal."

* ''WesternAnimation/BebesKids'': Robin starts his story at a funeral. And he summed up the general sentiment thus: "''Everybody was there...'cause everybody was glad he was dead.''"

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'':
** At the climax of the first movie, the antagonist Lord Farquaad is swallowed by a dragon... and the entire town bursts into cheers. Then again, on the "Karaoke Party" DVD bonus feature, he's heard singing "Stayin' Alive" from ''inside'' the dragon, so it seems he's NotQuiteDead -- until he was eventually digested, of course.

* In the Creator/{{Netflix}} original film ''Film/TheDoOver'', when Max fakes his and Charlie's deaths, Charlie's family, who were very disrespectful and pushy towards him, don't so much rejoice his death as not give a rat's ass that he is "dead". It's not until he finds his step-sons [[ThisIndexTouchesItself masturbating under their covers]] and his ex-wife going at it with her ex-boyfriend immediately after his funeral that Charlie decides that he's better off without them.

* In the Creator/{{Netflix}} original film ''Film/TheDoOver'', when Max fakes his and Charlie's deaths, Charlie's family, who were very disrespectful and pushy towards him, don't so much rejoice his death as not give a rat's ass that he is "dead". It's not until he finds his step-sons masturbating under their covers and his ex-wife going at it with her ex-boyfriend immediately after his funeral that Charlie decides that he's better off without them.

** Jaimie Lannister offed [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Mad King]] seventeen years before the beginning of the sereis. As The Mad King's [[KillItWithFire idea of fun included burning people to death]], no one much minded. (Although Lannister was stuck with the reputation of being an [[HonorBeforeReason oathbreaker]], as he had once promised to guard the king with his life.)

* Series/GameOfThrones:
** Jaimie Lannister offed [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Mad King]] seventeen years before the beginning of ''Series/GameOfThrones''. As The Mad King's [[KillItWithFire idea of fun included burning people to death]], no one much minded. (Although Lannister was stuck with the reputation of being an [[HonorBeforeReason oathbreaker]], as he had once promised to guard the king with his life.)

** Mike and the Bots have this reaction to the death of [[TheProfessor Russell Johnson's]] character, a drunken, abusive parent, in ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S09E06TheSpaceChildren The Space Children]]''. After the man gets his mind fried by The Blob That Came From Heaven and the paramedics are wheeling his corpse out of his trailer in front of the rest of the cast:
--->'''All:''' (''as crowd'') Hooray!\\
'''Crow:''' Are you sure he's dead?\\
'''Mike:''' (''as paramedic'') Oyah.\\
'''All:''' Hooray!

-->'''All''': Yeeeeeeeeees! MEGAWEAPON MEGAWEAPON MEGAWEAPON!\\
'''Crow''': Make it last!\\
'''Tom''': Yes, yes, make it slow, Megaweapon, yeeeeeees!\\
'''Joel''': Our long national nightmare is over!\\
'''Tom''': I can't tell you how richly satisfying this is.
** In an earlier episode, ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E12HerculesAndTheCaptiveWomen Hercules and the Captive Women]]'' (billed at the time as the show's last ''Hercules'' movie, although they ended up with one more later), Joel and the Bots held a funeral for Hercules, which quickly became a party. Crow at one point declared, "He's dead as a doornail and I'm gonna party like it's 1999!"
** In ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E03TheMolePeople The Mole People]]'' episode, after TheLoad gets killed:
--->'''Crow:''' Is the first stage of grief pure, unbridled joy?
** In ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E21TimeChasers Time Chasers]]'', when a character gets crushed by the wreckage of a plane:
--->'''Mike:''' Oh!... Well, thank you, movie!

** When Quark screws over a weapons deal with a genocidal warlord preparing to kill 28 million people with a biological weapon, neither he nor Sisko has a problem with the warlord's eventual demise:
--->'''Quark''': The Regent's dead?!\\
'''Sisko''': The Purification Squad caught up with him this morning.\\
'''Quark''': I can live with that too. And I can think of 28 million other people who won't mind either.\\
'''Sisko''': 28 million and ''one''.

* In the Creator/{{Netflix}} original film ''Film/TheDoOver'', when Max fakes his and Charlie's deaths, Charlie's family, who were very disrespectful and pushy towards him, don't so much rejoice his death as not give a rat's ass that he is "dead". It's not until he finds his step-sons [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbating under their covers]] and his ex-wife going at it with her ex-boyfriend immediately after his funeral that Charlie decides that he's better off without them.

* In ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'', the anniversary of the start of Valerian Mengsk's reign over the Terran Dominion is a holiday. Said reign started when Kerrigan killed his father and predecessor, Arcturus.

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo4gYh5K-Ls When Azami quits her job]] because of an incident during a wedding day and her boss scolding her for it, everyone in the workplace sighs in relief that she is finally gone.

-->'''All''': Yeeeeeeeeees! MEGAWEAPON MEGAWEAPON MEGAWEAPON!
-->'''Crow''': Make it last!
-->'''Tom''': Yes, yes, make it slow, Megaweapon, yeeeeeees!
-->'''Joel''': Our long national nightmare is over!
-->'''Tom''': I can't tell you how richly satisfying this is.

--->'''Puppet:''' Gee, is he gonna make it?
--->'''Janitor:''' Eh, it doesn't look good.
--->'''Puppet:''' Yay!

--->'''Quark''': The Regent's dead?!
--->'''Sisko''': The Purification Squad caught up with him this morning.
--->'''Quark''': I can live with that too. And I can think of 28 million other people who won't mind either.
--->'''Sisko''': 28 million and ''one''.

** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0246.html "Rumors of Her Death".]] The only subversion is that Miko was, in fact, still alive, and [[RightBehindMe right behind the one celebrating]]. Maybe it wouldn't have been openly celebrated, but no one would've been sorry to see her go (she's routinely sent off on missions that keep her out of the country for years at a time, because not even her fellow paladins like her). Ironically, when she ''did'' [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0464.html die]], [[AlasPoorScrappy no one celebrated]].[[note]]Granted, the only witnesses to her death were [[PrecursorHero Soon Kim]]'s ghost (who then passed on to the afterlife), O-Chul (who at least [[NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead respected her enough to not speak ill of her after the fact]]), and Xykon and Redcloak (who didn't know who she was in the first place). [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0567.html Later on,]] Haley, Belkar, and (unbeknownst to them) Roy learned of her passing from the Oracle, but they didn't dwell for long on the notion (and the former two couldn't even retain this knowledge due to the [[LaserGuidedAmnesia memory chasm]] around the Oracle's tower, anyway).[[/note]]

-->'''Leela:''' [[spoiler:So that moon hillbilly who got murdered was just an innocent husband and father!]]
-->''({{Beat}})''
-->'''All:''' [[BlackComedy YAYYYYYYYY!]]

--->'''Krusty:''' Um, what town did we just crush?
--->'''Skinner:''' Shelbyville.
--->'''People:''' Hooray!

-->''Farewell to Gargamel, Gargamel is gone!''
-->''Oh what a happy day to sing our smurfy song!''

'''As the editors organized the page's category tabs, [[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease the Real Life examples tab was eaten by pigs]]. [[SelfDemonstratingArticle And there was much rejoicing.]]'''[[note]][[FlatJoy Yaaaaaaay]].[[/note]]

* ''Fanfic/CrimsonAndEmerald'': Dabi is ecstatic to see Endeavor [[spoiler:his father]] pushed down a rank. Especially since Hawks, whom Dabi's idol Stain complimented, was the one who took the number two spot from him.
* Discussed in ''Fanfic/TheCuttingEdge''; when attending the funeral of [[spoiler:Malcolm Merlyn]], Laurel affirms that she'd be dancing a jig over his grave if she thought she could get away with it.

* ''Fanfic/TheDragonAndTheButterfly'': After Hiccup and Toothless flee the archipelago, the Vikings of Berk celebrate as they believe that the two biggest threats to their survival ([[TheUnfavorite Hiccup due to his accident-proneness]] and Toothless because he's one of the most dangerous dragons in existence) are gone for good. Their happiness is short-lived, though, [[LaserGuidedKarma as the raids get worse, they have no weapons due to a grief-stricken Gobber refusing to work, and Stoick is working through a HeroicBSOD]].
* ''Fanfic/FantasyOfUtterRidiculousness'': A group of fairies continue one of ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'''s [[RunningGag Running Gags]] by cheering whenever Seija Kijin gets hit in the face by something.

* ''Fanfic/ImHalping'': Upon realising that [[spoiler:Mama Mathers]] has disappeared from her Paths, Contessa throws a huge party in Cauldron base and gets drunk off her face. Alexandria first notices when there's a conga line outside her office.

* Once the news of Joffrey's unlamented demise reaches the Starks in the AlternateUniverseFic ''Fanfic/NedStarkLives'', Arya is by far the most overjoyed of her family (and that of the Northmen) and is hoping to learn more about how he died. For the record, Arya is a 10-year-old girl who just nearly had her father killed by his family, was forced to abandon her pet dire wolf Nymeria and had her friend killed for extremely petty reasons. Ned is actually a little creeped out by how happy she is.

** Averted with Littlefinger's death. No one liked the man and several people wanted him dead, but the consequences of his death will cause prevent anyone from celebrating it.
* Discord's original defeat several thousand years ago in the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'' got this reaction from Equestria in the "Origins" Arc, including a song celebrating Celestia and Luna's victory. Considering it was a prequel and Discord was an EvilOverlord whose entire reign can be summed up as ForTheEvulz, wiped out two of the five pony races, and generally put the entire country of Equestria through a living hell for 1000 years, [[ForegoneConclusion this was to be expected]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' fanfic ''[[https://unmaskedagain.tumblr.com/post/189195237867/teenage-rebellion Teenage Rebellion]]'', when Adrien shows up at school with a new all-punk wardrobe, Nino immediately assumes that [[AbusiveParents his father]] died and makes plans to throw a party ending with "a conga line over the SOB's grave".
* [[PlayingWith Explored]] and [[DeconstructionFic deconstructed]] in ''Fanfic/TwoLetters''. After retiring, Marinette is pleased to see that her [[SketchySuccessor replacement]] is not only getting the job done, but has been making many of the {{Jerkass}}es and [[UngratefulBastard Ungrateful]], {{Entitled Bastard}}s who caused Marinette so much grief utterly ''miserable''. At one point, she's practically shaking with glee as [[MayorPain Mayor Bourgeois]] laments his lot in life. Problem is, Marinette was so worn down from her time as Ladybug that she came to see ''all of Paris'' as [[AllTakeAndNoGive taking her efforts to protect them all for granted]], and [[TheResenter resents]] ''[[TheResenter everyone]]'' who ever got akumatized, regardless of the circumstances. This means that aside from [[LivingEmotionalCrutch Luka]], she's pretty pleased to see just about ''anybody'' suffering, considering it all to be LaserGuidedKarma.
* ''Fanfic/WithThisRing'': When the Renegade kills Klarion the Witch Boy and then hands himself in to the police, Wonder Woman comes to express her disappointment at his violent action. However, one of his fellow inmates, upon hearing what he's done, is ''thrilled'' and calls the Renegade his hero, since Klarion's actions killed hundreds of thousands of children including the inmate's sister. The leader of the Chinese Communist Party, who lost his young nephew, is very happy with the Renegade, too, and the president of the United States arranges a medal. Of particular relevance is that even ''[[LegionOfDoom the Light]]'' wanted Klarion dead, and in fact made it a condition of the Renegade joining them.