History TheDogBitesBack / ComicBooks

* In one [[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyG1Comics comic for]] Franchise/MyLittlePony G1, Applejack (going to seek help in becoming less of a WalkingDisasterArea), gets captured by an evil wizard who tries to enslave her. [[https://derpibooru.org/446450 It doesn't end well for him]].

--> "And though the Executioner stands alone, and the hordes of Hel seem numberless, not one sets foot on upon the bridge across the River Gjoll."

** His dying words: "Come and get it, demons! 'Tis Skurge's last laugh!" He howls this as shell casings are flying past his face, [[GunsAkimbo twin M-16's blazing]] at a limitless horde of skeletal warriors, and then spends his final moment with a quote that neatly summarizes how badly his 'friends' screwed up by treating him as the easily-swayed muscle of the group.

* In ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' story ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'', [[spoiler:Mr. Mxyzptlk]] spends one whole year making Kara's life Hell as part of a plan to seize infinite power... which Supergirl claims before he can do so. Cue beat-down.

* In ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' story ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInTheEightGrade'', [[spoiler:Mr. Mxyzptlk]] spends one whole year making Kara's life Hell as part of a plan to seize infinite power... which Supergirl claims before he can do so. Cue beat-down.

* During ''[[ComicBook/EarthX Universe X]]'', it's revealed that the [[ComicBook/TheInhumans Terrigen Mists]] ended up transforming SelfDemonstrating/{{Magneto}} and the Toad, swapping their powers. As a result, Toad makes Erik's life a living hell for all of the hell he put him through.

* When Franchise/SpiderMan faces Morlun, an enemy who has been sustaining his near-immortality for centuries by feeding on the life energy of people who have totemistic relationships with animals, and when he finally has him on the ropes, it's unclear whether he's about to cross the killing line, but the issue is quickly resolved when Dex, Morlun's Renfield-style cowardly, put-upon assistant, puts a bullet in him and leaves singing [[CrowningMomentOfFunny "ding dong, the witch is dead."]]

* When Comicbook/SpiderMan faces Morlun, an enemy who has been sustaining his near-immortality for centuries by feeding on the life energy of people who have totemistic relationships with animals, and when he finally has him on the ropes, it's unclear whether he's about to cross the killing line, but the issue is quickly resolved when Dex, Morlun's Renfield-style cowardly, put-upon assistant, puts a bullet in him and leaves singing [[CrowningMomentOfFunny "ding dong, the witch is dead."]]

* ComicBook/{{X 23}} does this to the Facility which [[OppositeSexClone cloned her]] from {{Wolverine}} to be an assassin. Somewhat subverted that it's actually her biological mother who tells her to rebel and destroy the Facility.
** It's ''very'' clear Laura is also acting for herself and not just her mother's orders when you consider how she deals with Zander Rice: Sarah Kinney told her to kill him. But when she corners him, she puts up her claws and gives him a truly epic NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. She could have ''easily'' killed him instantly, but once she disabled his gun she went after him with her ''bare hands'' as payback for everything he did to her. Laura then takes it UpToEleven when you look at her mission clock and realize she's pounding on him '''''for ten fucking minutes'''''. Capped by Laura's parting BondOneLiner and IronicEcho as she leaves him to die:

** In TheVerse of ''Preacher'', [[GodIsEvil God is a colossal douche]] and TheGrimReaper WasOnceAMan. [[spoiler:These two facts are not unrelated, as it turns out God deliberately ruined the Reaper's mortal life so he'd accept the job. It also transpires that God is only omnipotent while He's on His throne. Naturally, the series ends with the heroes tricking Him into leaving it, and the Reaper dishing out a well-deserved reaping]].
* In ''Franchise/GIJoe'' comics, Destro remarks that the Inuit mercenary Kwinn once told him something along these lines: "A man who whips his dogs will one day pull his own sled."

* In Creator/GrantMorrison's final issue of ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'', this trope is used tragically. Jean Grey has triumphantly returned and purged the BigBad of the [[TheVirus sentient bacteria]] that was making him evil. Just as the former BigBad appears to be coming to his senses... his abused [[TheIgor Igor]] decapitates him.

* In an issue of ''Comicbook/{{Cable}}'' that dealt with [[TheYugoslavWars the Balkan Wars]], an Albanian scientist [[HonorRelatedAbuse shoots his sister for disgracing the family by being raped]], and then, a few years later, clones her with all her memories intact (one of what was intended to be an army of clones for the Albanians to use to get revenge on the Macedonians). She, understandably, is pissed at him both for killing her and not allowing her to rest in peace after the worst experience of her life, and once Cable stops the scientists' plan and sends their base crashing down around them, she catches her brother in a back room and stabs the sorry guy to death.

* During ''[[ComicBook/EarthX Universe X]]'', it's revealed that the [[ComicBook/TheInhumans Terrigen Mists]] ended up transforming {{Magneto}} and the Toad, swapping their powers. As a result, Toad makes Erik's life a living hell for all of the hell he put him through.

* In ''Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', the Anti-Monitor destroyed Earth-Prime, homeworld of Superboy-Prime. In the ''SinestroCorpsWar'', Superboy-Prime joined Sinestro's FiveBadBand alongside the Anti-Monitor, but only as a means of getting revenge by acting out this trope when the opportunity arose.

* Skurge, of TheMightyThor, in one of the most memorable ways possible. He's been treated as a joke by his allies and lover, and ultimately regarded as no more than a dumb brute who occasionally fills in as the VillainOfTheWeek for Thor. Then he snaps. He knocks out Thor before he can make a last stand to let his friends flee Hel, and opts to stand in Thor's place. His reason?

* In ''Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', the Anti-Monitor destroyed Earth-Prime, homeworld of Superboy-Prime. In the ''SinestroCorpsWar'', Superboy-Prime joined SelfDemonstrating/{{Sinestro}}'s FiveBadBand alongside the Anti-Monitor, but only as a means of getting revenge by acting out this trope when the opportunity arose.

* During ''[[EarthX Universe X]]'', it's revealed that the [[ComicBook/TheInhumans Terrigen Mists]] ended up transforming {{Magneto}} and the Toad, swapping their powers. As a result, Toad makes Erik's life a living hell for all of the hell he put him through.

* {{X-23}} does this to the Facility which [[OppositeSexClone cloned her]] from {{Wolverine}} to be an assassin. Somewhat subverted that it's actually her biological mother who tells her to rebel and destroy the Facility.

** Snively had better luck in issue 50 of [[ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog the original ''Sonic'' series]]. Robotnik had created an "Ultimate Annihilator" that would cause the universe to cease to exist for a billionth of a second, then to spring back into existence, minus Sonic and his friends. Snively seizes the opportunity to be rid of his oppressor and reprograms the machine to annihilate Robotnik instead.

** In particular, how Laura deals with Zander Rice: She puts up her claws and gives him a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. She could have ''easily'' killed him instantly, but once she disabled his gun she went after him with her ''bare hands'' as payback for everything he did to her. Capped by Laura's parting BondOneLiner and IronicEcho as she leaves him to die:

* ''DeathOfTheFamily'': Joker is usually this...and he seems intent on cranking it UpToEleven this time.

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* When Comicbook/{{Spider-Man}} faces Morlun, an enemy who has been sustaining his near-immortality for centuries by feeding on the life energy of people who have totemistic relationships with animals, and when he finally has him on the ropes, it's unclear whether he's about to cross the killing line, but the issue is quickly resolved when Dex, Morlun's Renfield-style cowardly, put-upon assistant, puts a bullet in him and leaves singing [[CrowningMomentOfFunny "ding dong, the witch is dead."]]
* In the climax of the original twelve-issue maxi-series ''AmethystPrincessOfGemworld'', the series' BigBad Dark Opal is literally stabbed in the back by his adopted son Carnelian, whom he had abused in the previous chapters.

* {{X-23}} does this to the Facility which [[OppositeSexClone cloned her]] from Wolverine to be an assassin. Somewhat subverted that it's actually her biological mother who tells her to rebel and destroy the Facility.
* In the original ''VForVendetta'' (not TheMovie), Mr. Almond's wife, Rose, originally securely within the party, but royally screwed over by them after Almond's death, actually kills the fascist despot BigBad.

* In the ''CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', the Anti-Monitor destroyed Earth-Prime, homeworld of Superboy-Prime. In the ''SinestroCorpsWar'', Superboy-Prime joined {{Sinestro}}'s FiveBadBand alongside the Anti-Monitor, but only as a means of getting revenge by acting out this trope when the opportunity arose.
* Subverted near the end of ''{{Preacher}}''; Herr Starr's two henchmen try this trope on him after they realize how far gone he is, but he gets the drop on them first.

* In ''GIJoe'' comics, Destro remarks that the Inuit mercenary Kwinn once told him something along these lines: "A man who whips his dogs will one day pull his own sled."

* "Nature," an issue of ''GothamCentral'', opens with Officers [[DirtyCop Munroe and Decarlo]] beating up Trigger, a corner drug dealer, when he is late with their regular cut. At the end of the issue, Trigger confirms who they are to Poison Ivy right before she kills them.

* In GrantMorrison's final issue of ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'', this trope is used tragically. Jean Grey has triumphantly returned and purged the BigBad of the [[TheVirus sentient bacteria]] that was making him evil. Just as the former BigBad appears to be coming to his senses... his abused [[TheIgor Igor]] decapitates him.
* Averted in a recent issue of ''[[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic Universe]]'' - tired of Dr. Eggman's lunacy, Snivley bails on the mad doctor and attempts to squash him once and for all. Instead, Eggman wins and, as a side effect, ''strengthens'' his hold on many of his captives.
* Trachta is by no means a minion, but in ''Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison 3'', we learn that a rogue Jedi Padawan was responsible for his loss of eyes, his loss of limbs, and his being confined to a respirator. When he finds out the rogue Jedi was onboard the Prism and located his cell, his immediate action is to visit the cell and exact revenge by beating the Jedi to a bloody pulp with his cybernetic limbs, even stating that Thom and Vader leave seal the cell and leave without him, as he's not going to be back for several hours.
* In an issue of ''{{Cable}}'' that dealt with TheBalkanWars, an Albanian scientist [[HonorRelatedAbuse shoots his sister for disgracing the family by being raped]], and then, a few years later, clones her with all her memories intact (one of what was intended to be an army of clones for the Albanians to use to get revenge on the Macedonians). She, understandably, is pissed at him both for killing her and not allowing her to rest in peace after the worst experience of her life, and once Cable stops the scientists' plan and sends their base crashing down around them, she catches her brother in a back room and stabs the sorry guy to death.

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