History PlayingWith / LaserGuidedKarma

* '''Parodied:''' Alice listens to violent GangstaRap. Her ears are profusely bleeding.

* '''Played For Laughs:''' Alice [[PokeThePoodle steals ice cream from a child]]. Later on, when she gets ice cream for herself, she learns that the local ice cream store has removed her favorite flavor and raised the prices for scoops.

** Alice’s meanness is a [[SourOutsideSadInside coping mechanism]] ever since her grandma died. Being publicly humiliated for her acts of cruelty and everyone going all “You get what you deserve, Alice!” only [[DespairEventHorizon deepened it as a result.]]

** Alice’s meanness is a [[SourOutsideSadInside coping mechanism]] ever since her grandma died. Being publicly humiliated for her acts of cruelty [[DespairEventHorizon deepened it as a result.]]

** Alice turns out to [[SourOutsideSadInside to be hiding a secret feeling of sadness underneath her mean personality ever since her grandma died.]] Being publicly humiliated for her acts of cruelty [[DespairEventHorizon deepened it as a result.]]

* '''Played For Drama''': Alice turns out to [[SourOutsideSadInside to be hiding a secret feeling of sadness underneath her mean personality ever since her grandma died.]] Being publicly humiliated for her acts of cruelty [[JerkassWoobie deepened it as a result.]] By the end, [[AlasPoorVillain you’ll feel sorry for her]] despite her bad actions.

** Alice devises a scheme to publically humiliate Bob. Shortly after she goes bald.

** Revenge[=/=]PayEvilUntoEvil

“I don't believe in what goes around comes around. I believe that whatever happens, happens."
** Alice, worrying about Karma catching up to her, decides to kill all people aware of her misdeeds. So much to the point where she kills 5,000 people just because one of them saw her calling Bob an idiot.

* '''Defied:''' "I don't believe in what goes around comes around. I believe that whatever happens, happens."

** Alice breaks Bob’s leg and later [[PayEvilUntoEvil gets killed by Charlie]].

* '''Played For Drama''': Alice turns out to [[SourOutsideSadInside to be hiding a secret feeling of sadness underneath her mean personality ever since her grandma died.]] Being pubically humiliated for her acts of cruelty [[JerkassWoobie deepened it as a result.]] By the end, [AlasPoorVillain you’ll feel sorry for her]] despite her bad actions.

* '''Deconstructed:'''
** Alice suffers karmic retribution, but this didn't stop others to celebrate it, [[ReformedButRejected especially when she actually is trying to atone for her actions]]. This proves that every character is no better than the other, and even worse, [[KarmaHoudini karma didn't bother to bite them all in the asses.]]
** See Exaggerated #3. Because of his actions, Charlie is [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome arrested because murder is still murder]] [[AssholeVictim regardless of how much the victim deserved it]].

* '''Played For Drama''': Alice turns out to [[SourOutsideSadInside to be hiding a secret feeling of sadness underneath her mean personality ever since her grandma died.]] Being pubically humiliated for her acts of cruelty [[JerkassWoobie deepened it as a result.]]

* '''Discussed:''' "There's nothing satisfying to people than to see people get what they deserve."

** Alice, Damien, and Flynn put together a huge, high-budget smear campaign so that everyone will run Bob out of town because he lied about how tall he was once in the second grade. Shortly after it's success, Damien's marriage grows turbulant and leads to a divorce, Flynn's career experiences a severe slump, Alice loses all her hair and gets hit by a car and hospitalized.

** See Exaggerated #3. Because of his actions, Charlie is [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome arrested because murder is still murder]].

** Alice [[HeroWithBadPublicity ruins Bob’s reputation,]] only to get [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown badly injured by Charlie.]]

** It turns out Charlie went [[DisproportionateRetribution way too far with punishing Alice.]] Thus, she ends up in the ICU, or even [[KilledOffForReal worse…]] The citizens now view him as a [[CompleteMonster monster.]]
* '''Reconstructed:'''
** The people who [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten never let Alice forget her misdeeds]] and rejoice in her misery receive a ''vicious'' ShamingTheMob speech from an enraged bystander, who points out that in acting self-righteous and petty, they've become no better than Alice herself.
** It may have been wrong for Charlie to murder Alice, as much as the citizens hate Charlie, they all agree [[AssholeVictim she deserved it.]]

* '''Played For Drama''': Alice turns out to [[SourOutsideSadInside to be hiding a secret feeling of sadness underneath her mean personality ever since her grandma died.]] Being pubically humiliated/badly injured by Charlie for her acts of cruelty [[JerkassWoobie deepened it as a result.]]

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

* '''Played For Drama''': Alice turns out to [[SourOutsideSadInside to be hiding a secret feeling of sadness underneath her mean personality ever since her grandma died.]] Being pubically humiliated/badly injured by Charlie for her false acts of cruelty [[JerkassWoobie deepened it as a result.]]

* '''Played For Drama''': ???

** It turns out Charlie went [[DisproportionateRetribution way too far with punishing Alice.]] Thus, she ends up in the ICU, and the citizens now view him as a [[CompleteMonster monster.]]

* '''Deconstructed:''' Alice suffers karmic retribution, but this didn't stop others to celebrate it, [[ReformedButRejected especially when she actually is trying to atone for her actions]]. This proves that every character is no better than the other, and even worse, [[KarmaHoudini karma didn't bother to bite them all in the asses.]]
* '''Reconstructed:''' The people who [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten never let Alice forget her misdeeds]] and rejoice in her misery receive a ''vicious'' ShamingTheMob speech from an enraged bystander, who points out that in acting self-righteous and petty, they've become no better than Alice herself.

* '''Played For Drama''': Bob spent life all alone with a [[DarkAndTroubledPast horrific past.]] When Alice decides to befriend him, he gladly accepts. [[YankTheDogsChain Only for Alice to]] [[InnocentlyInsensitive accidentally remind Bob of what he experienced in the past.]] [[BerserkButton Bob ends up getting so enraged]] that he tells Alice [[KickTheDog that he wishes that she were dead for saying that]] and leaves her. Bob later finds out that Alice’s “just desserts” were [[KilledOffForReal getting brutally murdered]] [[KarmicOverkill for hurting his feelings.]] Bob ends up [[IWishedYouWereDead regretting saying that to Alice]] and ends up [[DrivenToSuicide killing himself.]]

* '''Averted:'''
** KarmaHoudini
** Nobody is repaid with good or bad consequences. In short, karma doesn't exist.

* '''Played For Drama''':
** Bob spent life all alone with a [[DarkAndTroubledPast horrific past.]] When Alice decides to befriend him, he gladly accepts. [[YankTheDogsChain Only for Alice to]] [[InnocentlyInsensitive accidentally remind Bob of what he experienced in the past.]] [[BerserkButton Bob ends up getting so enraged]] that he tells Alice [[KickTheDog that he wishes that she were dead for saying that]] and leaves her. Bob later finds out that Alice’s “just desserts” were [[KilledOffForReal getting brutally murdered]] [[KarmicOverkill for hurting his feelings.]] Bob ends up [[IWishedYouWereDead regretting saying that to Alice]] and ends up [[DrivenToSuicide killing himself.]]

* '''Reconstructed:'''
** The people who [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten never let Alice forget her misdeeds]] and rejoice in her misery receive a ''vicious'' ShamingTheMob speech from an enraged bystander, who points out that in acting self-righteous and petty, they've become no better than Alice herself.
** For a double reconstruction: The citizens treat the bystander even WORSE than Alice.

** Bob spent life all alone with a [[DarkAndTroubledPast horrific past.]] When Alice decides to befriend him, he gladly accepts. [[YankTheDogsChain Only for Alice to]] [[InnocentlyInsensitive accidentally remind Bob of what he experienced in the past.]] [[BerserkButton Bob ends up getting so enraged]] that he tells Alice [[KickTheDog that he wishes that she were dead for saying that]] and leaves her. Bob later finds out that Alice’s “just desserts” were [[KilledOffForReal getting brutally murdered.]] Bob ends up [[IWishedYouWereDead regretting saying that to Alice]] and ends up [[DrivenToSuicide killing himself.]]

* '''Played For Drama''': Bob spent life all alone with a [[DarkAndTroubledPast horrific past.]] When Alice decides to befriend him, he gladly accepts. [[YankTheDogsChain Only for Alice to]] [[InnocentlyInsensitive accidentally remind Bob of what he experienced in the past.]] [[BerserkButton Bob ends up getting so enraged]] that he tells Alice [[KickTheDog that he wishes that she were dead for saying that]] and leaves her. Bob later finds out that Alice’s “just desserts” were [[KilledOffForReal getting brutally murdered.]] Bob ends up [[IWishedYouWereDead regretting saying that to Alice]] and ends up [[DrivenToSuicide killing himself.]]

* '''Reconstructed:''' The people who [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten never let Alice forget her misdeeds]] and rejoice in her misery receive a ''vicious'' ShamingTheMob speech from an enraged bystander, who points out that in acting self-righteous and petty, they've become no better than Alice herself.

* '''Reconstructed:''' The people who [[NeverLiveItDown never let Alice forget her misdeeds]] and rejoice in her misery receive a ''vicious'' ShamingTheMob speech from an enraged bystander, who points out that in acting self-righteous and petty, they've become no better than Alice herself.

** Alice kills innocent lives, but later suffers a KarmicDeath.