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* ''WebOriginal/JeffTheKiller'': Jeff's first kills were Randy, Keith, and Troy, a trio of bullies who went around mugging kids and threatening them with knives. After Jeff beat the crap out of them, they got his brother sent to Juvy, and later attacked him at a birthday party to try and kill him, threatening to shoot anyone if they interfered.

** AssholeVictim/KingExplosionMurdertheShieldHero

** Hercules was known for his rages involving lots of death. What sets him apart from some other Greek heroes is the victim usually loses some sympathy by cheating Hercules or being a complete asshole. Herc usually accepted punishment when he was in the wrong.

* Both deaths shown in ''WesternAnimation/{{Igor}}'' (Not counting Scamper's "deaths") come from those who had it coming big time: [[BadBoss Dr.]] [[TooDumbToLive Glickenstine]] who is killed due to a malfunction in the invention and [[GreaterScopeVillain King]] [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant Malbert]] [[spoiler: who is crushed by the very weather ray he created]].

** The JerkAss cockroach chef, [[FantasticRacism who insults Cale and calls humans "unsanitary"]]. When the Drej attack the cafeteria, he seems to care more for the safety of himself and his food than Cale and Korso. Also, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking his voice is annoying.]] Therefore, it's hard to call it tragic when the Drej shoot and splatter him over the wall, especially when he tried to sell out the two humans just to save his own hide seconds before.
** An early conversation between Cale and [[PromotedToParent Tek]] hints that this could be why humans aren't [[FantasticRacism held in very high regard in the galaxy]]. According to Tek, if Cale had bothered to read a history book like instructed, he would know that his people [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters weren't exactly the nicest race around]] before their planet blew up. Now that it has, most other of the aliens [[WhosLaughingNow aren't inclined to pity or help them]].

* The rake in "The Mariner's Revenge Song" by Music/{{The Decemberists}}, big time. He wastes all his money on gambling, booze, and prostitutes, and then saddles an innocent mother and child with his debts, causing them to lose their home. Over time, the mother falls ill and dies, but not before telling the son to find the bastard, [[{{Fingore}} shatter his fingers]], and [[{{BuriedAlive}} bury him alive]]. The wordless, but increasingly frantic tone of the last minute heavily implies that he does just that.
* "[[Music/BadHairDay I Remember Larry]]" by ''Music/WeirdAlYankovic'' has the eponymous Larry pull all sorts of increasingly-horrible pranks on his neighbor, who eventually snaps, ties Larry up in a plastic bag, and leaves him for dead, in the middle of the forest.

* The rake in "The Mariner's Revenge Song" by Music/{{The Decemberists}}, big time. He spends all his money on gambling, booze, and prostitutes, and then saddles an innocent mother and child with his debts, causing them to lose their home. Over time, the mother falls ill and dies, but not before telling the son to find the bastard, [[{{Fingore}} shatter his fingers]], and [[{{BuriedAlive}} bury him alive]]. The wordless, but frantic tone of the last minute heavily implies that he does just that.

* The rake in "The Mariner's Revenge Song" by Music/{{The Decemberists}}, big time. He spends all his money on gambling, booze, and prostitutes, and then saddles an innocent mother and child with his debts, causing them to lose their home. Over time, the mother falls ill and dies, but not before telling him to find the bastard, [[{{Fingore}} shatter his fingers]], and [[{{BuriedAlive}} bury him alive]]. The wordless, but frantic tone of the last minute heavily implies that he does just that.

* KarmicDeath: A human (or the closest thing the setting has to one) villain dies in a way that fits their misdeeds, not involving the hero(es) killing them.

This {{trope}} can show up for a variety of reasons, but a common one is to make the criminal (or NonMaliciousMonster) into a SympatheticMurderer. This is especially likely if the Asshole Victim's dickery [[TheDogBitesBack is what motivated the criminal to commit the crime in the first place]]. This often occurs in works that feature an AntiHero or VillainProtagonist; their victims are such horrible people that [[BlackAndGrayMorality the protagonist looks heroic by comparison]], and/or StartOfDarkness stories will have the protagonist's first victims be terrible people so they don't lose audience sympathy at the beginning of the tale.

* "Goodbye Earl" by the Music/TheChicks is about two best-friends, Mary-Anne and Wanda, teaming up to [[SisterhoodEliminatesCreep to murder Wanda's abusive ex-husband]] after he puts her in intensive care.

* "Goodbye, Earl" by the Music/TheChicks is about a woman and her friend murdering another friend's abusive ex-husband.

* "Goodbye, Earl" by the Music/DixieChicks is about a woman and her friend murdering another friend's abusive ex-husband.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': Ernesto de La Cruz gets trapped beneath a giant bell and left to be forgotten about in the Land of the Living. Given that he [[EtTuBrute murdered his best friend, Hector]] and stole his songs, leeching off his talent to become famous, as well as trying to [[WouldHurtAChild murder Hector's descendant, Miguel]], let's just say few tears will be shed for him.

* '''WesternAnimation/Coco''': Ernesto de La Cruz gets trapped beneath a giant bell and left to be forgotten about in the Land of the Living. Given that he [[EtTuBrute murdered his best friend, Hector]] and stole his songs, leeching off his talent to become famous, as well as trying to [[WouldHurtAChild murder Hector's descendant, Miguel]], let's just say few tears will be shed for him.

* ''WesternAnimation/WalkingWithDinosaurs'': After the way [[BigBrotherBully Scowler treated Patchi the entire film]], it feels deserving when he gets mauled to near-death by Gorgon.

* ''WesternAnimation/WalkingWithDinosaurs2013'': After the way [[BigBrotherBully Scowler treated Patchi the entire film]], it feels deserving when he gets mauled to near-death by Gorgon.