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* Teru Mikami in ''DeathNote''.

* Quoted verbatim in an episode of ''TaleSpin'' by a now-gloating ButtMonkey after his rather amoral plan to be taken seriously appears to be succeeding.

* The {{Columbine}} High shooters are sometimes portrayed as this. While they are actually an exception, many school shooters, both before and after, were this trope to a T. Most notably is the 2007 V-Tech shooter Seung Hui Cho. His videos that he mailed to NBC directly stated that this was his motive.

** Another one comes from some of their ''StarWars'' sketches. At one point, when Anakin is coming back from the Sand People with his dead mother in his arms, Owen Lars cracks a joke about how "That makes him [[LittleOrphanAnnie Little Orphan]] [[AWorldwidePunomenon Ani]]!" Anakin protests that it's TooSoon, while everyone else basically tells him to get over it. Later, when the stormtroopers are interrogating Owen and Beru over the location of C-3P0 and R2-D2, and the stormtrooper squad is about to [[KillItWithFire set Owen and Beru on fire]], the leader of the squad leans over to Owen and says "Oh, and I have a personal message from Lord Vader; he says ''now'' you can laugh at that Little Orphan Ani joke". Owen looks shocked and stunned for a second, then [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu chooses to give Vader the finger]] as he dies by responding "You tell him it was funny then, and it's funny now! Little Orphan Ani! Tell him that to his face!" [[http://video.adultswim.com/robot-chicken/anis-dead-mom.html Relevant]] [[http://video.adultswim.com/robot-chicken/owen-and-beru-burn.html Links]]

* TheUnfairSex has, unfortunately, caused a few murders. While perhaps DispraportionateRetribution, the fact remains that men facing serious wage garnishments will sometimes kill their soon-to-be ex, although the media tends to play it down like he's just being an asshole and leave the details about Alimony and Child Support out. It should be noted however, that the rare inversion is just as likely to cause the women to murder the man.

* The {{Columbine}} High shooters are sometimes portrayed as this by people who DidNotDoTheResearch.

->'''Mr. Incredible:''' I was wrong to treat you that way. I'm sorry.
->'''Syndrome:''' See?! ''Now'' you respect me, because I'm a ''threat!'' That's the way it works.

* In one episode of the 2002 ''{{He-Man|AndTheMastersOfTheUniverse}}'' series, Skeletor spends the episode being mocked by his minions, because he is wearing a belt that shocks him whenever he thinks an evil thought, and [[ClingyMacGuffin seemingly can't be removed]]. When he finally gets the belt off, he gets his revenge by suspending his minions over a tub of lava.

*** We don't really know Jonathan's back story here, but it could just be that the sniper rifle is the only gun he could actually get his hands on and he simply used what was at hand - remember, he's only a high school student.

*** Raymond Shaw managed it

* In ''{{Portal 2}}'', after [[spoiler: Wheatley gets plugged into GLaDOS's body]].

* Garland of ''FinalFantasyI'' is both the WarmUpBoss and the FinalBoss.

* ''MartinMystery'' finishes off its three season run with the two part episode It's Alive!, where all the frustration of being lesser than Martin in the Center, and his constantly annoying her to no end, is finally ignited when she's given a 'Needs Improvement' evaluation over Martin's 'Glowing Evaluation'. A bit more of Martin's prodding as a result of that sends her over, and when given the chance to join [[EvilMentor Octavia Paine's]] organization, she leaps at the chance. She then proceeds to humiliate Martin by stealing two monsters away from him, as a result of his over-confidence streak, and even laughs after the second capture. The seconds involves Octavia revealing her true intentions for the monsters, leaving her and Martin to stop her [[WeaponOfMassDestruction Super-creature]] from destroying the Center.

** Professor Snape however was bullied by them, and while less effective to those directly responsible, spends his profession making the majority of Hogwart's pupils' studies hell.

* Invoked by ''TheEconomist'' on the subject of {{NATO}} intervention in [[FlamingFruitVendorsAndAngryArabs Libya's civil war]]:

* One of the {{Quirky Miniboss Squad}}s in ''ExitFate'' says pretty much exactly this when they come after Daniel when [[spoiler:Brunhild summons demons into them]]. A HopelessBossFight is involved.

So you have a character who is the [[ButtMonkey butt of every joke]]. They are regularly [[ChewToy put through hell]], purely for the audience's amusement. And they have [[UnstoppableRage had enough]].

A [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]] of tropes such as ButtMonkey and ChewToy, a specific variant of FaceHeelTurn, and a form of FreudianExcuse. Compare StartOfDarkness, BewareTheNiceOnes, BreakTheCutie, WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds, KickTheDog, NotSoHarmless, and ThenLetMeBeEvil.

Not to be confused with ''[[{{Journey}} Who's Crying Now]]''.

-->'''Amber''': [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Because there's nothing funny about a dickless moron with a battery up his ass.]]

* In one episode of ''Series/{{Flashpoint}}'', Billy, a high school boy, is bullied viciously by his best friend's JerkAss boyfriend. Guess who shows up the next day with a loaded gun? [[spoiler:However, Billy reveals that [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim he doesn't want to hurt them]], and simply wants to scare the shit out of them until they apologize. The aforementioned best friend manages to talk him out of continuing his rampage in a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming that may never be equaled, [[HopeSpot right before the JerkAss boyfriend stumbles into things, and an overenthusiastic cop comes in and mucks everything up.]] It ends well, though.]]

* The CoheedandCambria song Apollo II: The Telling Truth mentions this trope in the lyrics. It involves The Writer losing it and taking out his anger at his ex-girlfriend on the character he based off of her.

** In ''DawnOfWar'', the [[TankGoodness Baneblade]] (the Imperial Guard's ultimate unit) says a slight variation on this: "Who's dying ''now''?!" Considering how well Guardsmen [[CurbstompBattle usually fare]] in close combat with the other factions, it's very appropriate.

* ''{{Exalted}}'': The Primordial War is basically Autochthon's one huge WhosLaughingNow moment. After aeons of being the ButtMonkey amongst "fellow" titans, he eventually had enough and made the Exaltation to massacre the gigantic dicks. Moral of the story: don't piss off the shy genius.

* Barnacleboy in ''{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}'' becomes a villain after various put downs by the people he saves. To be fair though, Spongebob promises to respect him even though it doesn't convince him.

** It didn't last after the episode however and she returned to ButtMonkey [[StatusQuoIsGod status]].

* DoubleSubversion in ''{{Disney/Aladdin}} The Return of Jafar''.