History Main / DeathByIrony

*** Makoto Naegi: The Ultimate Lucky Student. Tied to a school desk on a conveyor belt slowly heading towards a giant crusher as Monokuma gives him a sex-ed lesson (i.e. a lesson about "getting lucky"). Also, he survives due to a lucky intervention by the last remnants of Alter Ego.[[note]]It is possible for Kyoko to get this execution in the non-canon bad ending. [[SquashedFlat She isn't so lucky]].[[/note]]

* [[MadScientist The Inventor]] in ''ComicBook/MsMarvel''. Although Kamala warns him the area is unstable, he [[spoiler: climbs atop his fallen Mega-Bot while ranting how all of the teenagers and young adults -- who had just earlier worked together to provide a distraction -- are far too selfish and idiotic to appreciate or equal his genius. When he carelessly rests his boot against some delicate machinery, the levers shift and he's killed in the sudden collapse]].

*** Byakuya Togami: The Ultimate [[LonelyRichKid Affluent Progeny]]. He came from a long line of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive morally bankrupt businessmen]] who saw their children as tools to increase their family's prestige and forced them to fight amongst themselves to be chosen as the successor, with the losers being banished. His execution has him being thrown into a garbage can with Monokuma dressed as a child stoning him before he's cast out into the cold and left to succumb to his wounds and hypothermia.

* All through ''ComicBook/ContestOfChampions 2015'', Jake Gallows, the Punisher of 2099, holds Nigel Higgins aka Outlaw in utter contempt for [[CategoryTraitor giving up the crusade after being approved by Frank Castle himself]], telling him he doesn't deserve to wear the skull. In the final issue, Jake is [[BoomHeadshot shot through the head]]...by Civil War-verse Frank Castle, who dryly notes:

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', As Ursula is about kill in Ariel with the trident, she bellows, "SO MUCH FOR TRUE LOVE!!!" Then, Eric, steering one of the sunken ships Ursula rose from the waters, [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice plows the bow of the ship into Ursula's chest,]] killing her. True love ''does'' conquer all!

* Jaune's death in ''Fanfic/FromBeyondRWBY''is a result of evading Pyrrha's javelin that would have pinned him to a tree and broken his fall. A boy with no combat experience managed to dodge a deadly weapon thrown at him from seemingly nowhere, that was thrown by a famous prodigy with the intent to save his life. He also views his dodging the Javelin as a sign he may be able to save himself, furthering the irony.

* [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Stormfront]] in ''ComicBook/TheBoys'' was a Nazi who was brutally beaten to death by a Brit, a Frenchman, an American, and a Russki.

* At the climax of ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', the last thing Judge Claude Frollo says before his DisneyVillainDeath is "And He shall smite the wicked and plunge them into the fiery pit!" The gargoyle he is standing on then breaks and seems to come to life, as [[DraggedOffToHell he falls into the pit of molten copper below to his doom]], letting out a BigNo all the way.

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': In "Doomy Tales of the Macabre", quite a few of the "doomy fates" Strong Sad imagines for his friends and neighbors qualify as this. [[BigEater The King of Town]] is drowned in a giant pot of mutton stew, and Bubs gets his head bitten off by his own concession stand after accidentally bringing it to life.

*** Kiyotaka Ishimaru: The Ultimate [[YellowSashOfPower Moral Compass]]. His grandfather was the former Prime Minister of Japan, but was impeached over a scandal. He resented him for the shame he brought to his family name, and swore to work hard and develop a good sense of morality and duty to restore it. His execution has him being forced to sit through a parade in his honor calling him "[[TurnOutLikeHisFather Prime Minister]]" before being shot by Monokuma dressed as Manga/Golgo13.

*** Kiyotaka Ishimaru: The Ultimate Moral Compass. His grandfather was the former Prime Minister of Japan, but was impeached over a scandal. He resented him for the shame he brought to his family name, and swore to work hard and develop a good sense of morality and duty to restore it. His execution has him being forced to sit through a parade in his honor calling him "[[TurnOutLikeHisFather Prime Minister]]" before being shot by Monokuma dressed as Manga/Golgo13.

* All through ''ComicBook/ContestOfChampions 2015'', Jake Gallows, the Punisher of 2099, holds Nigel Higgins aka Outlaw in utter contempt for giving up the crusade after being approved by Frank Castle himself. In the final issue, Jake is [[BoomHeadshot shot through the head]]...by Frank himself, who dryly notes he didn't approve him.

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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
** Roman Torchwick's last words are him shouting about how he's going to "do what I do best: [[IronicLastWords lie, cheat, steal, and survive]]" right before he's EatenAlive by a giant Grimm.
*** For extra irony points, Grimm are attracted to negative emotions. Y'know, like the ones that drive you to beat a disarmed girl with a cane while ranting about how [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids idealism sucks]]. It's very likely that Roman summoned that Nevermore ''himself''.
*** ''Literature/RWBYRomanHoliday'' adds to the irony by revealing that Roman himself had previously tricked someone into getting angry in the presence of a Grimm so that the Grimm would attack them instead of him, making the same mistake that would later prove fatal to Roman.
** [[DirtyCoward Leonardo Lionheart]] betrays Ozpin and the Huntsmen under him out of fear that Salem cannot be defeated. When her forces' attack on Haven fails, [[YouHaveFailedMe Salem executes Lionheart via Seer for his failure]].
** As revealed in Adam's character short, when Adam was horrified with his first kill, [[WellIntentionedExtremist Sienna Khan]] instead praised him and his ability. This would start the growth of Adam's fame among the White Fang and his bloodlust—which would eventually be turned on Sienna herself when he murders her to seize control of the White Fang.
** In his first confrontation with Blake and Yang in Volume 3, Adam Taurus defeats Blake by stabbing her through the stomach, and when Yang charges in to attack, uses his [[ChargedAttack Moonslice]] to defeat Yang and [[AnArmAndALeg slice off her arm]] in a single stroke. In their final fight in Volume 6, Yang's CharacterDevelopment leads to her fighting more cautiously while Adam's SanitySlippage over his repeated failures and obsession with Blake leads to him spamming his Moonslice until it is weak enough that Yang can [[BarehandedBladeBlock grab his sword and disarm him]] with her prosthetic hand, giving her and Blake an opening to fatally stab him through the torso.
** Tired of Cinder's arrogance, Arthur Watts ends up delivering a major TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to her, mocking her for her short-sightedness and entitlement, telling her that if she desires power, she needs to be ''worthy'' rather than simply "deserving". Cinder takes these words to heart in the finale, pulling off a plan that disposes of many of her adversaries...[[GoneHorriblyRight including Watts himself]], whom Cinder traps in the burning Atlas command center.
** James Ironwood swears not to end up like the above-mentioned Leonardo Lionheart. However, his own fear and paranoia of Salem leads to him betraying and abandoning his allies in an attempt to escape Salem's wrath, just as Lionheart did. Yet in the end, with his efforts to save Atlas ultimately in vain, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Ironwood does indeed get what he wanted]]: while Salem had Lionheart executed, [[NotWorthKilling she completely ignores Ironwood and leaves him to die in the falling Atlas]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'' ends with Lord Shen crushed to death by his own cannon.
* Syndrome’s Omnidroid in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' originally rips out its own innards while attempting to kill Mr. Incredible, who has snuck inside the droid, having realized that “the only thing strong enough to penetrate it is itself”.

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* One of the things that can kill a [[BasiliskAndCockatrice Basilisk or Cockatrice]] is the crowing of a rooster--roosters also tend to be one half of the parentage of a Basilisk or Cockatrice (the other being a snake or a toad).

* ''WebVideo/AskAMortician'': Caitlin points out that on several occasions, the crew of the Essex shipwreck decided against coming onto land because they feared they would be killed and eaten by cannibalistic tribes. They ended up [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty eating each other]] after their piddly ration stores ran out.
-->'''Caitlin:''' The irony is that, if they had only chanced those alleged "scary cannibals" in the Society islands, perhaps they themselves wouldn't have to ''become'' the cannibals.
* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': In "Doomy Tales of the Macabre", quite a few of the "doomy fates" Strong Sad imagines for his friends and neighbors qualify as this. [[BigEater The King of Town]] is drowned in a giant pot of mutton stew, and Bubs gets his head bitten off by his own concession stand after accidentally bringing it to life.

* Season 3 of [[WebVideo/AcquisitionsIncorporated Penny Arcade's D&D Podcast]] ends with Aeofel dying in the villain's mansion by getting caught in a acid pit. Later in the first PAX live game, the group ventures [[ToHellAndBack to hell so they can bring him back]] while getting their revenge on the BigBad. When they finally get to her, she ultimately falls into an acid pit and dies.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
** Roman Torchwick's last words are him shouting about how he's going to "do what I do best: [[IronicLastWords lie, cheat, steal, and survive]]" right before he's EatenAlive by a giant Grimm.
*** For extra irony points, Grimm are attracted to negative emotions. Y'know, like the ones that drive you to beat a disarmed girl with a cane while ranting about how [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids idealism sucks]]. It's very likely that Roman summoned that Nevermore ''himself''.
*** ''Literature/RWBYRomanHoliday'' adds to the irony by revealing that Roman himself had previously tricked someone into getting angry in the presence of a Grimm so that the Grimm would attack them instead of him, making the same mistake that would later prove fatal to Roman.
** [[DirtyCoward Leonardo Lionheart]] betrays Ozpin and the Huntsmen under him out of fear that Salem cannot be defeated. When her forces' attack on Haven fails, [[YouHaveFailedMe Salem executes Lionheart via Seer for his failure]].
** As revealed in Adam's character short, when Adam was horrified with his first kill, [[WellIntentionedExtremist Sienna Khan]] instead praised him and his ability. This would start the growth of Adam's fame among the White Fang and his bloodlust—which would eventually be turned on Sienna herself when he murders her to seize control of the White Fang.
** In his first confrontation with Blake and Yang in Volume 3, Adam Taurus defeats Blake by stabbing her through the stomach, and when Yang charges in to attack, uses his [[ChargedAttack Moonslice]] to defeat Yang and [[AnArmAndALeg slice off her arm]] in a single stroke. In their final fight in Volume 6, Yang's CharacterDevelopment leads to her fighting more cautiously while Adam's SanitySlippage over his repeated failures and obsession with Blake leads to him spamming his Moonslice until it is weak enough that Yang can [[BarehandedBladeBlock grab his sword and disarm him]] with her prosthetic hand, giving her and Blake an opening to fatally stab him through the torso.
** Tired of Cinder's arrogance, Arthur Watts ends up delivering a major TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to her, mocking her for her short-sightedness and entitlement, telling her that if she desires power, she needs to be ''worthy'' rather than simply "deserving". Cinder takes these words to heart in the finale, pulling off a plan that disposes of many of her adversaries...[[GoneHorriblyRight including Watts himself]], whom Cinder traps in the burning Atlas command center.
** James Ironwood swears not to end up like the above-mentioned Leonardo Lionheart. However, his own fear and paranoia of Salem leads to him betraying and abandoning his allies in an attempt to escape Salem's wrath, just as Lionheart did. Yet in the end, with his efforts to save Atlas ultimately in vain, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Ironwood does indeed get what he wanted]]: while Salem had Lionheart executed, [[NotWorthKilling she completely ignores Ironwood and leaves him to die in the falling Atlas]].
* General W of the ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' locked two small children in a room with [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-682 SCP-682]] an immortal, extremely malevolent EldritchAbomination claiming it was an attempt to kill the ''creature''. They both got brutally murdered. Later, someone else locked ''him'' in a room with 682, claiming ''it'' was an attempt to kill the creature. He got brutally murdered.
** It's all but explicitly stated, however, that this was supposed to be karma.
-->'''Dr. Clef''': Fucking sadistic asshole. I've got no sympathy for that moron whatsoever. Introducing children to this fucking monster? [[EvenEvilHasStandards What the hell…]]
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-823 SCP-823]] ran on this trope before it was abandoned. The following are just ''a few'' deaths that occurred there:
--->Two (2) individuals, male and female, [[BodyHorror fused together at multiple points after emerging from the "Tunnel of Love" dark ride]]. (dead)\\\
One (1) individual wearing a "Happy Hippo" mascot uniform, found dead of suffocation. Mouth, trachea, and lungs were discovered to be filled with a fibrous substance later determined to be identical to the stuffing in said mascot uniform. (dead)\\\
Fifteen (15) individuals recovered from the "Thriller Chiller" roller coaster, [[OffWithHisHead all decapitated by blunt force]]. Witnesses reported that the deaths did not occur simultaneously, but in groups of two, starting with the front row of seats and ending with the back. Forensic analysis indicates that each set of deaths corresponded to a loop or turn in the roller coaster's tracks. (dead)\\\
One (1) individual recovered from under the "Thriller Chiller" roller coaster, dead of [[NeckSnap broken neck]] and massive cranial trauma caused by a [[GravityIsAHarshMistress fifty-foot fall from an inverted position]]. Individual was seated at the back of said roller coaster, and somehow managed to extricate self from the ride's safety harness halfway through the ride. (dead)\\\
One (1) individual found [[NotEnoughToBury dismembered]] inside the "House of Mirrors" attraction. Left arm was found sixteen feet to the north from the torso. Left leg was found inverted and attached to the ceiling by sinews. [[ImAHumanitarian Right leg was found in the possession of Subject 79, partially consumed]] (forensic analysis indicates that teeth marks found on flesh and bone of said leg are human in origin). To date, no trace of right arm has been found. ([[AndIMustScream alive]])

* In ''Machinima/FalloutLoreTheStoryteller'', the Nuka-Junkie, a psychopath addicted to [[FantasticDrug Nuka-Cola]] who appears in the Season 1 finale and a mini-story arc spanning two episodes in Season 2, is blown up with a Nuka-Grenade, which is a weapon powered by the very same special edition Nuka-Cola Quantum that he was threatening the Storyteller's life for.
* In WebVideo/NonePiece, Luffy gets unreasonably mad at a group of pirate cat neuterers and kills them all by [[FreudWasRight ripping off the front rod of their cat-shaped ship]] and hitting them with it. He even lampshades it.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Roman Torchwick's last words are him shouting about how he's going to "do what I do best: [[IronicLastWords lie, cheat, steal, and survive]]" right before he's EatenAlive by a giant Grimm.
** For extra irony points, Grimm are attracted to negative emotions. Y'know, like the ones that drive you to beat a disarmed girl with a cane while ranting about how [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids idealism sucks]]. It's very likely that Roman summoned that Nevermore ''himself''.

The more lethal variations of HoistByHisOwnPetard, TurnedAgainstTheirMasters and VehicularTurnabout double as examples of this trope. When frequently {{invoked|Trope}} by one person, it falls under PoeticSerialKiller. Compare RussianReversal for a humorous play on this.

* Stockyard in ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'' dies from hanging ([[OffWithHisHead which also decapitates him]] [[{{Gorn}} for good measure]]). He is clearly fixated on noose imagery (he ties his hair into noose shapes and uses noose iconography in his brothel), and [[GenerationXerox his father was hung]] -- with an implication that he took the fall to save his son, no less.