History Main / OffingTheAnnoyance

* In the ''WesternAnimation/PinkPanther'' cartoon "Pink, Plunk, Plink" the Little Man is conducting an orchestra but before he can start he is constantly interrupted by a coughing audience member, so he pulls out a gun and shoots him, making it a real Symphony of Fate for him.

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* An Argentinian printing company called ''Type & Magic'' released three commercials in 2000, which featured three guys pranking people in public and end up getting shot by a bald man at the end. The commercials were "hidden camera" pranks involving a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDRK9HTVHCk mailbox]], a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTtarRuANEc a taste test]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5C4J_odiTU falling off a bridge]].
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The "cathartic" side of this trope is usually used in more lighthearted shows, where the victim will have been bad enough to almost make you think they deserved it. They may even be a reflection of a common real-life annoyance, such as someone loudly talking on their cell phone during a movie or screaming at a waiter. The most extreme examples of this type overlap heavily with BullyingADragon -- in other words, the victim was intentionally harassing his killer to the point where almost any sane person would've wanted to KickTheSonOfABitch too.

* The Joker in ''Film/Batman1989'' kills his most loyal and faithful henchman Bob, just for being in close proximity while Joker was upset about Batman. Bob wasn't doing anything to actually annoy him; the Joker is just [[BadBoss that bad of a boss]]. This is by far his biggest KickTheDog moment in the movie.

* In the last episode of the original ''[[Anime/DiGiCharat1999 Di Gi Charat]]'', Dejiko puts together a bomb disguised as a Christmas cake in order to off her annoying co-worker Hikaru Usada. [[spoiler:She repents after Usada expresses gratitude for the cake and heads home with it, but it ends up blowing up anyway right after she returns to share it with everyone, destroying the store but failing to actually kill anyone.]]
* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Freyja summons a monster to kill a man who asked if he could borrow her cellphone (she didn't have a cellphone, but she was speaking into a magic talisman in a way that made it look like she was on the phone).

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* In ''FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'', [[spoiler:a dementor sucked Harry's warmth away, leaving him an EmptyShell incapable of warmth or love--but quite capable of annoyance. "X is annoying. They should die." becomes a short-lived catchphrase of his.]]
* The ''Literature/HarryPotter'' parody fic ''FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheSomethingSomething'' has Voldermont kill a series of girls who knock on his door for getting on his nerves. But coming up with a list of ways to annoy the Dark Lord (and then reading it to him) was probably asking for it...

* In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', The Other makes the mistake of trying to intimidate Ronan the Accuser, and immediately gets a NeckSnap for his trouble.

* Attempted by Yvonne Criddle from ''Series/{{MADtv}}'', who wanted to buy a shovel to brain her neighbor's dog for making her car wet, and then tried to kill a family by running them off a cliff after they took her parking space in front of the store.

* A RunningGag in one-shot comics in ''WebComic/NeglectedMarioCharacters'' has VideoGame/{{Kirby}} do nothing but sleep, which eventually drives Fred the Spanyard into obliviating him with one of his rays.

* In [[WebVideo/{{Jerma985}} Jerma Rumble 3]], Demon Lord Zeraxos is pissed off by the Slim Jim Guy being in the Royal Rumble, whom he's supposedly had a feud with for over 2000 years, and proceeds to enter the ring to choke-slam him into Hell. [[spoiler:He then goes on a frenzy, killing The Mime, [[VideoGame/{{LethalLeague}} Candyman]] and Count Chocula before he is eliminated and incapacitated by Mr. Sneak Man]]. He returns in the Live-Action Rumble pissed off that he wasn't invited and proceeds to shoot a poorly-animated fireball at Jerma, leaving him with a few broken bones.

* In the last episode of the original ''Anime/DiGiCharat'', Dejiko puts together a bomb disguised as a Christmas cake in order to off her annoying co-worker Hikaru Usada. [[spoiler:She repents after Usada expresses gratitude for the cake and heads home with it, but it ends up blowing up anyway right after she returns to share it with everyone, destroying the store but failing to actually kill anyone.]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Utawarerumono}}'', Nuwangi's soldiers try to kill Aruruw simply for throwing a stone at their leader, and the elderly village leader Tuskur gets in the way and takes the blow for her. In a twist, Nuwangi is clearly aware this is neither appropriate nor something he can get away with, and quickly flees the village for fear of his life despite being the son of that village's lord. In fact, the village is so furious at this that this event ends up being the spark that triggers a rebellion that overthrows the Emperor and winds up taking over the entire landmass.

* In ''VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus'', actor Ronald Reagan (yes, [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan that]] Reagan) is shot dead by Adolf Hitler for calling him "Mr. Hitler".

* In the bad ending of ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow]]'', this is [[spoiler:[[RogueProtagonist Dark Lord Soma]]'s]] rationale for killing off the BigBad:

* In ''Film//{{Sleepers}}'', having been [[PrisonRape horrifically abused]] and [[BrokenBird broken]] in the [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors Wilkinson's Home for Boys]], John and Tommy became violent mobsters, with the former even killing a man simply for cutting in front of him in a line.

* As befits [[AxCraxy Trevor Philips]] of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', homicide is one of the ways he express his anger. For exemple, he beat Johnny Klebitz to death on learning Michael was still alive.

But whatever the reason, the point is that he's in absolutely ''no'' mood to be fucked with. So, of course, here comes some [[RedShirt pitiable]] [[VeryPunchableMan fool]] to do just that. The unfortunate loudmouth shows up just at the villain's most irate moment and immediately starts pissing him off even further.

-->'''John Bigboote:''' We've had our chance! Your overthruster's for shit! We're lost!
-->'''Lord John Whorfin:''' One more word out of you, Bigbooty...\\

Our villain's had a bad day.

OffingTheMouth is a SubTrope which deals specifically with characters who die for [[DeadpanSnarker their snark]]. Compare RageBreakingPoint, VeryPunchableMan, ShutUpHannibal, ShootTheMessenger, YouHaveFailedMe, and YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness, which are often more situation-specific examples of this trope in action.

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Eustass Kidd and his first mate Killer do not like being argued against and will immediately use lethal force against anyone who disagrees with them. Demalo Black attempts to kill the bartender with his flintlock for not serving drinks fast enough and then at Nami when she refuses to sit next to him. The most extreme case are the Celestial Dragons. These guys not only aim their guns at anyone who doesn't bow down and do everything that they're told to do quickly (and often unreasonably so), but will shoot immediately, up to and including firing a cannon and sinking [[spoiler:a little boy whose boat happens to cross the path of one of their ships.]] At least Demalo just hovers his gun without shooting to give the victim another chance.

* Near the ending of ''Fanfic/LovedAndLost'', King Jewelius seethes over the fact that Twilight Sparkle and Canterlot's citizens have stopped supporting him and returned to rooting for the [[HeroWithBadPublicity heroes whose reputations he destroyed]]. He then gets the sinister idea to [[spoiler:wipe out the entire town of Ponyville along with the heroes]]. All [[EvenEvilHasStandards his chief minions are disturbed by this]], but when an unnamed guard dares to question if this is a little extreme, Jewelius has a {{twitchy eye}} before he [[DestinationDefenestration chucks the poor guy out of a window]]. As a ShoutOut to the ''Film/BatmanReturns'' example, he proceeds to say that it's a ''lot'' extreme.

* The climax of ''Film/TheRocketeer'' features a Gestapo officer who shows up with a bunch of Nazi soldiers in a Zeppelin and seems to spend pretty much all of his screen-time screaming furiously at Nazi turncoat [[spoiler:Neville Sinclair]] about how he's screwed up all their plans to acquire the rocket pack. Guess how long it takes said turncoat to get fed up of this annoying nonsense and shoot him out of the Zeppelin.

* ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'': Kingpin kills the leader of a rival gang by brutally bashing the man's head in via slamming a car door into it repeatedly. The reason? The other gang leader had interrupted Kingpin while he was on a date... to say that he wanted to accept the offer Kingpin had made him.

* Happens near the end of ''VideoGame/JaggedAlliance 2'', when [[TheScrappy Elliot]] informs the [[BigBad evil Queen Deidrenna]] that the rebels have breached Meduna's outer lines of defense. She goes on a rant how she should've hired the player character in the first place and Elliot doesn't pick up on her sarcasm, prompting her to finally snap and shoot Elliot in the head. Subverted, since Elliot, much to Deidrenna's shock, [[MadeOfIron somehow survives]], causing her to remark that he can't even ''die'' properly.

* At the beginning of the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "WesternAnimation/RhapsodyRabbit", WesternAnimation/BugsBunny's attempts to start the concerto keeps getting interrupted by a guy having an increasingly loud coughing fit, whom Bugs simply silences with a gun in his coat midway into the third coughing fit.

* During July 2010, a 14-year-old boy was shot and killed by his neighbour for constantly blowing a vuvuzela during that year's World Cup, which was hosted in South Africa that year. While an important part of South African culture, vuvuzelas are ''extremely'' infamous internationally for their loud, monotonous drone that can cause permanent hearing loss to unprotected ears; but that does not make the boy's murder any less tragic.

OffingTheMouth is a SubTrope which deals specifically with characters who die for [[DeadpanSnarker their snark]]. Compare RageBreakingPoint, VeryPunchableMan, ShutUpHannibal, ShootTheMessenger, YouHaveFailedMe, and YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness, which are often more situation-specific examples of this trope in action. And sussy faces

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OffingTheMouth is a SubTrope which deals specifically with characters who die for [[DeadpanSnarker their snark]]. Compare RageBreakingPoint, VeryPunchableMan, ShutUpHannibal, ShootTheMessenger, YouHaveFailedMe, and YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness, which are often more situation-specific examples of this trope in action.

* In the last episode of the original ''Anime/DiGiCharat'', Dejiko puts together a bomb disguised as a Christmas cake in order to off her annoying co-worker Hikaru Usada. [[spoiler:She repents after Usada expresses gratitude for the cake and heads home with it, but it ends up blowing up anyway right after she returns to share it with everyone, decimating the store but failing to actually kill anyone.]]