Line #28 KarmicDeath/AnimeAndManga


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8	* [[spoiler:The death of Bertholdt]] in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan''. Being majorly responsible for the first Titan invasion, which resulted in a large chunk of humanity [[spoiler:(actually a large chunk of the isolated Eldians)]] being devoured by Titans, as well as directly feeding one of his own comrades to a Titan, [[spoiler:Bertholdt's]] final moments are to being EatenAlive by [[spoiler:a Titan-ized Armin that he had almost killed moments before, all the while screaming and begging for everyone to save him]].
9	* In ''Anime/BloodC'', Nono gets a brutal one. After [[PushedAtTheMonster shoving her twin sister, Nene, down so she could get her brains splattered out of her head and get eaten]], she gets an even ''worse'' death than the one she consigned her sister to when she's caught by another Elder Bairn. While being held upside down, her legs are spread apart so fast and hard that there's a cracking/crunching sound, probably either her hips dislocating or her groin being torn to shreds. After a few moments of agonizing screaming, she's ripped in half ''at her crotch and privates''.
10	* ''Manga/BrutalSatsujinKeisatsukanNoKokuhaku'': The manga follows SerialKillerKiller Dan Hiroki who makes ironic, inventive ways to murder the people who escaped the justice system in his opinion, with references to ''Film/TheExorcist'', due to being his favorite movie. An example includes fucking a rapist to death with a spiked crucifix dildo (both an ironic punishment for his crime and a reference of a scene from the aforementioned movie).
11	* In ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro'', the villain acquires Clarisse's ring in exchange for sparing Lupin's life (a deal he never intended to honor anyway) and uses it to unlock a [[AllThatGlitters valuable treasure]]. Unfortunately for him, the mechanism to unlock the treasure involves the hands of a large clock moving to the twelve o'clock position, and he gets crushed (and possibly decapitated) as a result. The camera cuts to a long GoryDiscretionShot but you can still hear a nasty crunching sound.
12	* ''Anime/CodeGeass'':
13	** The agents and soldiers whom [[TheChessmaster Lelouch vi Britannia]] orders to die with his [[MagicalEye Geass]] always hope and expect to kill him.
14	** [[CreepyChild V.V.]], after stooping to any possible low imaginable (including being the one behind the murder of Marianne and lying to Charles about it) and giving Lelouch hell throughout the series from afar, is finally defeated by Lelouch (with an assist from [[WarriorPrince Cornelia]]). Now bleeding and crawling towards his brother [[TheEmperor Charles]], he hopes for the latter's help. However, noticing that V.V. has been acting behind his back once again, Charles declares he has had enough and takes away his code, leaving the former immortal to die.
15	** After proudly confessing to serving in the military [[PsychoForHire just so he could publicly kill people]], [[SociopathicSoldier Luciano Bradley]] is ''[[CruelAndUnusualDeath brutally]]'' [[FacePalmOfDoom killed in battle]]. His killer, [[ActionGirl Kallen Kozuki]], whom he threatened with rape and torture, even tossed his own sadistic PreAssKickingOneLiner back in his face right before doing him in. [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing And no one misses him after he dies.]]
16	--->'''Luciano:''' [[VillainousBreakdown My life...?!]] [[ThisCannotBe My life is taken...]] [[FantasticRacism BY A LOWLY ELEVEN?!?]] '''''[[DeathCryEcho GAAAAAH...!]]'''''
17	** Emperor Charles' attempts at getting his children killed and/or letting his children get killed, which are described under and essentially the same as OffingTheOffspring (aside from the fact that he'd ''let'' them die rather than actively try to kill them), are eventually repaid in kind by his son after he nears his life goal of slaying God during Episode 21 of R2; it's doubly karmic when you take into account the fact that (according to [[DeathSeeker Suzaku]]) he could've saved [[RoseHairedSweetie Euphemia]].
18	* ''Anime/CombatMechaXabungle'', the BigBad Kashim King and his follower Biram Key who turn the series for the worse, are killed by having a huge missile dropped right at their faces.
19	* ''Manga/ACruelGodReigns'': Greg is killed after getting into a car accident in the car that he raped Jeremy in.
20	* ''Anime/{{Daltanious}}'': Dr. Namil groomed Kloppen into being a wrathful warlord; it is the wrath-filled Kloppen that blows up his ship and causes his demise, even though by then he has defected from the Zaal Empire.
21	* In ''Manga/DeathNote'', users of the titular notes have a nasty tendency to end up killed by one. Ryuk even states in the very first episode that he will write Light's name into his Death Note one day, which he does when Light is defeated in the very end of the series. It's especially fitting in the manga, where Light spends his remaining seconds lying on the ground, crying about how he doesn't want to die, appropriate for someone who inflicted the exact same fear on the world for years.
22	** Technically, it's not proven whether Mikami died by Death Note, but the rest follows true (indirectly, in Misa's case).
23	** Demegawa, meanwhile, gets ''eliminated'' for declaring himself the spokesman for Kira [[PathOfInspiration so he can collect millions in donations for "Kira's Temple."]]
24	* Moyuru from ''Anime/DevilmanCrybaby'' sides with the demons because he thinks he'll have better chances of survival this way following the revelation of the existence of demons. When the final showdown between humans, demons and Devilmen comes, Akira rips him apart before the battle really starts.
25	* Kurata meets his demise this way in ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'' as the climax of a ''very'' well-deserved HumiliationConga. His final plan to destroy the Digimon sets off a chain reaction, triggering an energy blast that vaporizes him.
26	* ''Manga/DragonBall'' is another prime example. Protagonist Goku seldom kills anyone. Many bad guys throughout the series are either killed by a superior bad guy, [[HeelFaceTurn reform and join Team Good]], or [[HoistByHisOwnPetard end up killing themselves]] through Karmic Death.
27	** Keep in mind with the examples of the Red Ribbon Army, Goku did not know how to pull his punches, and from his perspective, [[BlackAndWhiteMorality evil deeds make you an evil person]]. He actually explained his straightforward reasoning to Bulma (after he killed those Red Ribbon Army soldiers). If you survive, well, at least you're not moving, so Goku would leave you alone. Basically, if you're a bad guy, Kami must have a good reason to keep you alive when facing Goku ([[CosmicPlaything possibly]] [[LaserGuidedKarma for more]] [[HumiliationConga punishment]]). Goku notably mellowed out when he was 18-19, with the years spent with Kami. [[MessiahCreep After that]], [[AllLovingHero he couldn't stop]] ''[[AllLovingHero sparing]]'' [[AllLovingHero the bad guys]] (ironically, to his friends' surprise, even Bulma).
28	** A sort of twisting of this trope comes with Frieza. It follows the trope at first, with Goku refusing to kill Frieza and Frieza [[BackstabBackfire lashing out at him behind his back]], but the Karmic Death occurs when Goku turns around and destroys Frieza in his rage, no remorse. Though Frieza doesn't actually die. He later returns as a cyborg, and goes to Earth to kill Goku's friends in vengeance. It is then where he meets his actual death, in the form of Trunks, the son of Vegeta, whom he'd also killed, and it's really brutal. Trunks slices Frieza in half, then proceeds to slice those halves into even tinier bits, and he blows him to ashes with a ki blast. A rather expanded Karmic Death.
29	** This trope actually fits Frieza more than one would be led to believe. Think about it. He does all he can to destroy the Saiyan race for fear that one day a Super Saiyan will emerge and destroy him. So what happens? He kills Krillin and threatens to kill an already defeated and injured Gohan, causing Goku to finally transform into a Super Saiyan before tearing Frieza a new hole. That's right. ''[[{{Irony}} Frieza created the very being]] [[NiceJobFixingItVillain he spent such a long time]] [[GenocideBackfire trying to destroy.]]''
30	* Gendo Ikari's death in ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion End of Evangelion]]'' fits this: It's confirmed to be a hallucination, but what we see is that Eva-01, which has his dead wife Yui's soul in it, picks Gendo up and [[OffWithHisHead bites his head off]]. He spends the entire series safeguarding EVA-01 at the expense of the rest of the cast, particularly the pilots. Yui was the reason he was trying to initiate [[AssimilationPlot Instrumentality]], and why he treated others (''especially'' their child, Shinji) like shit. Gendo is even said by WordOfGod to have wanted this to happen:
31	--> "So, this is my retribution? I'm sorry, Shinji." '''Crunch'''
32	** The manga plays this straighter; Gendo is finally killed when Ritsuko, the woman he manipulated, humiliated, and discarded without a thought, shoots him in the neck before she dies.
33	* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', nearly all of the ways that the Homunculi are killed are either clearly ironic or a reference to [[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante]] (Alighieri, not to be confused with the character of the same name from ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'') who made punishments that were more subtly or symbolically ironic.
34	** The first Greed was impaled face down (as per Dante) then melted down for his most valuable part, Lust was incinerated (as per Dante), Gluttony was eaten alive by Pride, Envy pulled out his own heart out of self-hatred rather than live as a Homunculus, Sloth died after expending all his energy in a long and grueling fight, atheistic Wrath was killed by the rageful but religious Scar who survived the genocidal war that Wrath instigated (who got the opening when the sun (the symbol of God, which one of Wrath's victims said would fall on him) blinded Wrath), Pride unsuccessfully tried to take over the body of an "inferior being" (i.e. a human) and then was ultimately stripped of his power, the second Greed died performing a [[HeroicSacrifice selfless act]] while saying that he'd gotten all he could ever want, and finally, Father, whose horrible deeds came about only because he wanted freedom and all the knowledge in the world, was dragged back into the darkness whence he came.
35	** Shou Tucker, the infamous alchemist [[MoralEventHorizon who transmuted]] [[AbusiveParents his own daughter Nina and their dog Alexander into a chimera for his experiments]] so he could keep his State Alchemist title, gets fried from the inside out by Scar, who specifically ''targets'' State Alchemists gone bad.
36	** In ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'', Dante is presumed eaten alive by the mindless monster she turned Gluttony into.
37	*** Also from the 2003 anime, Sloth, the Homunculus who spends her time trying to kill the children of the woman she was based on (to prove she isn't that woman) ends up trapped in place (and thus easily dispatched by these children) because she developed a maternal relationship with a child-like Homunculus.
38	* In ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'', Suboshi tries to kill Tamahome and Miaka, but his own [[KillerYoyo weapon]] rebounds and plunges through his chest while the ghosts of Tamahome's family hold him in place. Suboshi had brutally murdered the family earlier in the series, making this doubly karmic.
39	* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'':
40	** In the original ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'', Kycilia Zabi murders her brother Gihren for killing their father by shooting him in the head. A few minutes later, Char Aznable comes in, looking to complete his revenge by ''blowing off'' Kycilia's head with a ''rocket launcher''.
41	** In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'', [[GeneralRipper Patrick Zala]] is so incensed with firing the [[KillSat GENESIS]] on [[ApocalypseHow Earth]] and [[FinalSolution killing all the Naturals]] that he shoots lowly subordinate Ray Yuki for trying to talk him out of it. As he [[VillainousBreakdown screams at his subordinates to fire GENESIS in an apoplectic rage]], Ray pulls a gun of his own and [[DyingMomentOfAwesome fatally shoots Patrick]] InTheBack ''multiple times''.
42	** In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'', Yuna Roma Seiran drags Orb to the war with ZAFT forces by allying with [[DiabolicalMastermind Lord Djibril]], the most evil man on Earth. Unfortunately for Yuna, he later dies in the battle he started -- and [[HumiliationConga in a manner completely bereft of dignity]]; a [[EliteMooks GOUF Ignited]] literally falls out of the sky as he tries to escape arrest, and it lands right on Yuna, squashing him flat.
43	** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00''
44	*** [[CuteAndPsycho Nena Trinity]] is killed by [[BrokenBird Louise Halevy]], the sole survivor of [[YouKilledMyFather the family Nena had callously murdered]] a long time ago. Louise herself, who committed atrocities in order to get to the point of killing Nena, [[KarmaHoudini gets the inversion of this trope]]: she ends up so messed-up that [[DeathSeeker she would rather die]], but instead lives in the end and must continue to struggle as TheAtoner.
45	*** [[HeroKiller Ali Al-Saachez]] dies at the hands of Lyle "Lockon Stratos" Dylandy, the twin younger brother of the original Lockon (Neil), whom Ali killed five years ago. The exact details of his death are even more ironic: his first on-screen kill was Michael Trinity, shot right through the heart with a lightning-fast quickdraw absolutely no one -- including Michael himself -- saw coming. When Lyle (''somewhat'' less revenge-driven than his brother) tries to give Ali a LastSecondChance, Ali taunts him over lowering his weapon and tries to quickdraw on him too... only for Lyle to out-quickdraw him and [[BoomHeadshot blow his brains out with a single headshot]], AndThereWasMuchRejoicing among the audience...
46	** In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamTheWitchFromMercury'', Norea Du Noc shows how ruthless she is when she and her Lfrith Thorn blast an Asticassia student's Mobile Suit in the cockpit, vaporizing the pilot. Later, in Episode 20, a Dominicus Team pilot in a Beguir-Pente [[SnipingTheCockpit abruptly snipes her out of the sky]], incinerating her in an instant with a single shot.
47	* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}''
48	** Zorin Blitz is killed by Seras Victoria, the very person she sought to target and kill. It becomes even more karmic as her wasting time gloating after having mutilated Seras and killed Pip gave her the opportunity to drink his (whom she just killed earlier and mocked his death as being in vain) blood and become a full-fledged vampire, obliterating her forces and then herself, and that she wanted to paint the Hellsing Manor in Seras's blood, only for the inverse to happen. To top the cherry on the karmic cake, just as how Zorin destroys people's minds with her illusion magic, Seras literally destroys her mind by grinding her head to a wall at full speed. Her PreMortemOneLiner to Zorin as she kills her says it best:
49	---> ''"How does it feel having someone fuck with '''your''' head!? HOW DOES IT FEEL, YOU '''BITCH!?'''"''
50	** Enrico Maxwell, the leader of the Iscariot Organization, who had shown himself to be as horrifically evil as Millennium by [[MoralEventHorizon ordering the slaughter of everyone in London due to hating all Protestants]], is betrayed by his right-hand man Alexander Anderson in true Iscariot fashion when Anderson destroys the reinforced glass barrier protecting Maxwell from Alucard's unleashed familiars, resulting in him getting horrifically impaled to death.
51	* ''Anime/HighschoolOfTheDead'' has a great example. As the school is being overrun by the [[ZombieApocalypse shambling, biting dead]], you see [[RedShirt two female students]], presumably [=BFF=]s, who spend every on-screen moment holding hands, with the intention to survive together. Later on, as they're trying to escape the horde up some stairs, one of them gets grabbed and bitten. With the terrified girl crying and whimpering for help and still holding her hand, the other cries "Let go of me! Damnit, bitch, I said LET GO!" and ''[[MoralEventHorizon kicks her "cherished friend" down the stairs into the waiting horde]]''. Shortly after, she is herself killed by zombies who came around behind her.
52	* Shion Sonozaki in ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' (more exactly, the ''Meakashi-hen'' arc), after killing most of the cast disguised as Mion, her twin sister, falls to her death when the air gun holster that Mion always wears snags on the wall while Shion's scaling a building.
53	** It was more so a suicide in the visual novels and manga. Played straight with Rina (every world) and Teppei (at least three).
54	* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' practically makes this trope a staple of how each Part's BigBad is defeated:
55	** ''Manga/BattleTendency''[='=]s Kars, having lived for millennia as a pseudo-vampiric Pillar Man and in that time, focusing his efforts on becoming a truly immortal, unending being at "the top" of all life on Earth, while also slaughtering many Ripple users that tried to stop him, is granted that desire in every sense of the word when he uses the [[MineralMacGuffin Red Stone of Aja]] combined with his own creation, the Stone Mask to become the UltimateLifeForm. He doesn't last long enough to relish his newfound superiority as Joseph Joestar, a Ripple user tricks him into causing a volcanic eruption. The force of the blast launches him beyond Earth's atmosphere. Eventually, the AdaptiveAbility of the Ultimate Lifeform transforms him into a large stone husk to survive in the cold vacuum of space. Combined with his CompleteImmortality, Kars can do nothing but drift aimlessly forever and eventually shuts down mentally from the sheer boredom. '''Karmic Living''', instead.
56	** ''Manga/StardustCrusaders'' actually has two cases that fit the trope:
57	*** The deranged J. Geil is killed by Jean-Pierre Polnareff, elder brother of one of his victims that the killer bragged about raping and murdering ''to his face''. Polnareff's response is to eviscerate him with his sword-wielding Stand, Silver Chariot, rendering him helpless like he did his victims. Additionally, his corpse, left strung up upside down from a metal gate, resembles the Hanged Man card of the Tarot that he and his Stand are based on.
58	*** The BigBad of both Parts 1 and 3, DIO, having escaped the result of his first defeat by Jonathan Joestar [[spoiler:whose body he stole for himself in the time in-between Parts]], is ultimately rendered helpless and eventually killed thanks to Jonathan's descendant Jotaro Kujo's mastering [[spoiler:the ability to [[TimeStop stop time]]]] with his Stand, Star Platinum, the same ability that DIO with his Stand, The World used to murder, torture, and intimidate many others in his bid to rule over humanity.
59	** '' Manga/DiamondIsUnbreakable''[='=]s Yoshikage Kira's MO in his life as a serial killer was to remove the hands of his female victims and treat them as his "girlfriend". Things became worse when he was granted the power of his Stand, Killer Queen to cause his victims to explode and/or turn into ash, allowing him to go unnoticed for ''years'' until the events of the Part owing to his desire to live an incognito, peaceful life despite occasionally falling back into his murderous ways. Towards the story's end, his good luck finally runs out as he is struck and killed by an ambulance that had come to try and help who they thought was a normal man. When he tries to circumvent the attempt by the ghost of one of his previous victims to destroy his spirit for good, he gets his arm bit off by the ghost dog he'd also killed, causing him to fall prey to an otherwordly mass of hands that proceed to drag him to what is essentially Hell, a place where he "can never rest in peace".
60	** ''Manga/GoldenWind'' has two cases of this trope of its own:
61	*** Diavolo has spent over a decade as a Don controlling his branch of TheMafia, Passione, from the shadows, never allowing anyone to see his face or know his identity. He is helped in that regard by the power(s) of his Stand, King Crimson, which can [[spoiler:[[TimeMaster erase a section of time]]]] and has a secondary ability of [[CombatClairvoyance limited precognition]], always allowing him to stay one step ahead of anyone who manages to get close to him. When he is killed by Giorno Giovanna's evolved Stand, Gold Experience Requiem, with its powers to reverse the actions of an enemy to "zero", he is forced to experience an unending loop of death for eternity, never able to know when, how, or by who his demise is going to occur. An added bonus to this is that one of Passione's most lucrative operations under Diavolo was drug smuggling. The very first death in his endless cycle had him being stabbed by a drug addict and bleeding out.
62	*** Polpo, the Capo/Lieutenant in charge of Passione's operations in the city of Naples, is notorious for his gluttony and extravagant lifestyle even while sitting in a prison cell thanks to his status, as well as a firm belief that murder is considered a rightful act if done to someone who disrespects you. As part of Giorno's plan to infiltrate the organization, he has to gain Polpo's blessing to become a member. In the process, Giorno uses his Stand's ability to manipulate life energy to change one of Polpo's guns into a banana, tricking the mobster into shooting himself in the head when he peels it and unknowingly pulls the trigger. He did so as revenge for Polpo's Stand killing an innocent man and thus disrespecting the value of his life. It also has the bonus benefit of not only allowing Giorno to kill Polpo without making it look like foul play (very few people knew of Gold Experience's abilities at that point), but it also benefited Giorno's companions by giving Bruno Bucciarati an opportunity to step up as a new Capo, eventually leading to the gang meeting Trish Una.
63	** ''Manga/StoneOcean'''s Enrico Pucci hoped to achieve the vision of "heaven" that his close friend Dio has always hoped for until Jotaro killed him in Part 3. Pucci used his position as the priest of the Green Dolphin Street Prison facility to get Jotaro's daughter incarcerated and trick Jotaro into letting him steal his memories and Stand with his own Stand, Whitesnake. During the final battle, despite Pucci's power-up, Jotaro is able to trick him into giving up the Stand power of Weather Report that Emporio Alnino then uses to kill Pucci once and for all, ending his plan to reach "heaven" moments before it could be completed.
64	* A fairly standard way of tying up stories with murderers, con artists, etc. in ''Manga/TheKurosagiCorpseDeliveryService'' if they're not caught by the police. Insurance salesman killed by an unlikely probability, cryopreservation scammer trapped in a glacier -- whatever your sin, [[TheoryOfNarrativeCausality Narrative Causality]] has a death suitable as your punishment.
65	* ''Manga/MariaNoDanzai'': Nozomu Okaya and his gang are a bunch of [[TeensAreMonsters horrifyingly sociopathic kids]] that like to [[BullyBrutality torture]] their classmates [[ForTheEvulz for fun]], with one of their named victims being Kiritaka Nagare. After months of torture, Kiritaka is forced to jump onto a road because they threaten to post a heavily-edited sex video of his mother on the internet unless he jumps. Kiritaka dies from being run over by a truck, and the bullies balk not at his death, but at the fact that they will get into trouble if his death is connected to them. To avoid this, they [[FrameUp plant fake evidence]] and overall [[NeverSuicide make his death look like a suicide]] caused by AbusiveParents. Two years later, Okaya and his gang continue to destroy the lives of their classmates, but unbeknownst to them, Kiritaka's mother, Mari, [[DeadManWriting discovered the truth about her son's death]] and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge swore to avenge him by destroying Okaya and his gang]], [[ThatWomanIsDead erasing her former identity]], changing her name to Maria Akeboshi and infiltrating their school as a [[SchoolNurse nurse]] to do so. Maria plans not to just get revenge on Okaya and his friends: she plans to make them ''[[CruelAndUnusualDeath suffer]]''.
66	** Tsubasa Kowase is a scumbag who has a habit of [[SinisterSuffocation drowning his victims]] and {{blackmail}}s girls with embarrassing pictures to abuse them and exploit them for money in his spare time. Maria kidnaps him and puts him in a DrowningPit after saving Yashima, his favorite punching bag, from being drowned for hacking Kowase's phone ([[MisplacedRetribution which was actually Maria's work]]). Maria lets Kowase know that she plans to kill him by drowning him, and gives him a chance to free himself if he can guess the number representing his greatest sin; failing that, she leaves him a rusty cleaver to [[LifeOrLimbDecision cut off his own hand]]. Kowase assumes that his greatest sin was Kiritaka's death, but then he realizes [[ButForMeItWasTuesday he can't even remember the month of Kiritaka's death]]. He is thus forced to try and free himself by cutting off his hand, but [[HopeSpot the blade breaks before it could get through the bone]]. The last thing Kowase sees as he drowns is Maria mockingly showing him a picture of himself on her phone. A fitting end for [[DirtyCoward such a cowardly scumbag]].
67	** Kumiru Shikimi is a heartless harpy who likes to blackmail people by [[FrameUp framing them]] for crimes she committed. For example, [[ManipulativeBitch she framed Kiritaka for stealing her gym clothes to isolate him from their classmates]], and later it's shown that [[Really17YearsOld she would fake her age in a dating app]] so that [[HoneyTrap she could manipulate vulnerable men into giving her money by blackmailing them after revealing her actual age]]; any men who refused to give in to her demands would be brutalized by her thug Iijima. After Maria [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine isolates her from her friends and classmates]], Shikimi sends Iijima to beat her up; Maria responds by kidnapping Shikimi from her own home and hanging her above a well. Maria then proceeds to [[VillainousBreakdown utterly crush Shikimi's spirit]] by giving her a lifeline and letting her waste it by texting Iijima, [[CrazyPrepared whom Maria has already turned against Shikimi]], before [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech telling her exactly why she's such a horrible person and how she's the only one to blame for her current situation]] as the rope holding Shikimi burns up and she's dropped into the well. [[CreepyCrawlyTorture She falls straight into a colony of insects]], which proceed to [[OrificeInvasion enter her orifices]]. Shikimi ends up dying alone and [[VillainsWantMercy screaming her lungs out]] in utter horror.
68	* Played straight at the final showdown between Johan and [[MessianicArchetype Tenma]] in ''Manga/{{Monster}}'', during which Tenma is presented with a choice of shooting the former or watching him kill a small boy, when Johan is instead shot down by [[PapaWolf the child's drunken, raving father]] who just happened to stumble upon the scene. Promptly subverted when the paramedics discover that Johan is still alive, and Tenma decides to try to save his life once again.
69	* In ''Manga/MuhyoAndRoji'', two Executors, a DirtyOldMan who forced Rio to wear revealing outfits for his pleasure and a woman who bullied her for it, caused Rio's StartOfDarkness when they refused to save her mother from a haunt simply because they didn't like her. Not only do they end up being killed, but the anime shows their deaths in a flashback, with Rio standing there and doing nothing to help them.
70	* [[spoiler:All For One]] in ''Anime/MyHeroAcademia'' spent his entire life fulfilling his dream of becoming [[spoiler:a feared [[MaouTheDemonKing demon lord]] nobody could ever stand up to. To that end he steals Quirks from heroes and civilians to become ever more powerful and feared, but in the end he is forced to use a quirk, Rewind, so powerful he fears it because of the power of friendship allows the heroes to inflict critical injuries to himself. After that his body keeps regressing as the heroes keep fighting him until he literally becomes a screaming baby, feared by nobody and regresses past that to become nothing at all.]]
71	* In ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'', BigBad Gargoyle suffers one of these in a big way when he enters a space intended solely for Atlanteans and is promptly turned into salt, revealing that he, who has been fighting for years to subjugate the human race under Atlantean rule, is himself a human adopted by the Atlanteans.
72	* ''Anime/PacificRimTheBlack'': After spending all of Season 2 trying to brainwash [[HalfHumanHybrid the Boy]] into the [[ApocalypseMaiden Kaiju Messiah]], the [[BigBad High Priestess of the Sisters]] is killed by him in the finale when he rejects her.
73	* Many stories in ''Manga/PetShopOfHorrors''. Others tend to be the brighter side of LaserGuidedKarma, like the little girl and the Doberman.
74	* Although it's not ''quite'' the same thing, Creator/OsamuTezuka's ''Manga/{{Phoenix}}'' masterpiece is rife with examples of karmic retribution. Consider the one in ''Strange Beings / Life'': A woman, raised by her evil father as a warrior, learns that her father is dying but might yet be saved by a mysterious nun who lives on a remote island. She travels to the island to kill the nun. After killing the nun, she finds she can't leave the island, and circumstances cause her to pretend to be the nun for some travelers. She finally works out that time is flowing backward, and not only is ''she'' the nun, but she can look forward to a day when she gets killed by her own hand. Which will of course continue the cycle indefinitely, unless she can work off her sins through healing those who come to visit the nun. In other words, this is Karmic Death, or dying through one's own actions, a little more directly than most, and with a delay of over ten years between act and payback. Also notable in that by the time of death, the woman had learned her lesson and was no longer a villain type in the slightest.
75	* Of all series, ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' did this with BountyHunter J ([[NeverFoundTheBody assuming she actually died]]). After capturing one of the Lake Trio (Azelf), Mesprit and Uxie arrive and during a battle with her, use Future Sight on her ship. After capturing them and handing them to Team Galactic (and [[OnlyInItForTheMoney collecting her payment]]), her ignoring/forgetting about Future Sight leads to the pixies' attack striking her ship and sending it sinking into Lake Valor, followed by [[NoKillLikeOverkill the glass breaking and flooding the chamber, and the ship marvellously exploding, killing J and all her henchmen]]. Shows what you get for trying to capture three superpowered pixies almost as old as time itself...
76	* In ''Anime/RomeoXJuliet'', [[MagnificentBastard Lord Montague]] kills one of his allies and friends in front of his son, [[KickTheDog for no real reason at all]]. Said son [[SanitySlippage goes insane]] and later stabs Montague to death.
77	* Shishio Makoto of ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' suffers a Karmic Death, succumbing to a fatal condition that does not allow him to fight for more than 15 minutes at a time without overheating (and in this case, causing his body fats and oils to catch fire), just as his opponent Kenshin is lying exhausted and helpless on the floor. This is made even more karmic due to his wealth of fire-based attacks, and the series implies that his death is ''literally'' karmic; "The man does not choose the age: the age chooses the man."
78	* A majority of ''Anime/SailorMoon'''s humanoid villains were killed by their superiors for [[YouHaveFailedMe failing once too often]], or by other, envious members of the same QuirkyMinibossSquad. Said superiors usually [[OneWingedAngel changed into monsters]] for the [[GrandFinale season finale]] and thus could be blown to bits.
79	** Subverted in the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]], where the Senshi themselves killed the minor villains (Sailor Moon herself got a few too.)
80	** Zoisite's death in the anime is this. First, he siccs some assassin youma on Nephrite so that he would be killed in front of someone he cared about (Naru), as Nephrite was deemed a traitor for trying to save a human. A season later, Zoisite is killed by Queen Beryl for going against her command to capture Tuxedo Mask alive and slowly dies in the arms of his lover Kunzite.
81	*** Nephrite's death also counts given that he exploited Naru's love for him to further his agenda. By Zoisite kidnapping Naru along with the Heavenly King developing his own feelings for the girl, Nephrite ends up dying as a result.
82	** Rubeus from ''Sailor Moon R'' was an abusive boss towards the Specter Sisters as he left them to die for their failures while calling them disgraces to the Black Moon Clan. When he finds himself battered and desperate to escape his self-destructing ship, his colleague Esmeraude appears only to give him a well deserved TheReasonYouSuckSpeech while leaving him to die on his [=UFO=].
83	** Mimete in the anime dies when she is trapped in the machine she was intending to use to kill the Sailor Guardians, the same machine invented by her colleague Eudial whom Mimete had killed earlier to take her position.
84	* In ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'', an episode discussing Church and one woman's faith in God employs karma to kill the false priest attempting to profit from the persecution of UsefulNotes/{{Japanese Christian}}s of the Endo Period by crushing him beneath a statue of Jesus: it fell because of a fracture created by the misfiring of a rifle.
85	* In ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'', the main character, Makoto, is TheCasanova who has spent 90% of the series playing with the hearts and interests of several girls, becoming more and more of a {{Jerkass}} as the story advances. In the end, though, Sekai, who is supposedly expecting his baby, snaps violently after he suggests she should have an abortion; she violently kills him by repeatedly stabbing him to death with a kitchen knife.
86	** That was only in the anime however. In the game's ending that was closest to that scene, Sekai stabbed Makoto because he decided to simply abandon her and go back to his old girlfriend, Kotonoha. Of course, as he's crawling across the ground and bleeding to death, Makoto becomes TheAtoner and realizes the error of his ways, then dies.
87	** Sekai ends up this way in the anime, too. Kotonoha had suffered bullying and a rape at the hands of a fellow classmate because of Sekai's actions, and after learning Sekai has killed Makoto, she goes insane. Kotonoha then proceeds to pay Sekai back for all the psychological abuse she's suffered, and slits her jugular vein open with a dozuki.
88	* In ''Manga/ShadowStar'', one of the main character's best friends is bullied to truly monstrous extents by the local AlphaBitch Aki Honda and her GirlPosse. The peak of it is when Aki ''rapes'' the poor girl with a test tube. What does [[{{Yandere}} the victim do]] when [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity she gets a shadow dragon?]] Well... she uses said dragon to ''kill'' all but one of them -- and even the sole survivor gets her leg ripped off. Oh, and she kills other people too. The one who gets the ''worst'' death of all is Aki herself, who gets the shadow dragon raping her with its clawed finger and then ripping her body in half. Then things go considerably FromBadToWorse. The fact that this is even considered Karmic Death at all speaks volumes on just how [[CrapsackWorld completely messed up]] the world of ''Shadow Star'' is.
89	* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'' has a few:
90	** Vassago Casals is the man responsible for many a bad thing that has befallen on Kirito and the others since ''Aincrad'', including having an obsession over Kirito. [[spoiler:Therefore, it was only natural that Kirito is ultimately the one who kills him at the end of ''Alicization''. Extra karmic in that one of his former acolytes, Johnny Black, was the person who got Kirito trapped in the Underworld in the first place]].
91	** [[spoiler:After arrogantly promising to grant Chudelkin's wish to touch her body if he disposed of the rebels, with no intention of keeping her word, guess who ends up killing Quinella? Chudelkin using [[NotQuiteDead his last breath]] to Incarnate the remains of his broken body into a fiery swarm and launches himself at Quinella so he can finally get the reward she longed for, with Quinella both horrified and disgusted at the repulsive clown touching her body.]]
92	* ''Anime/ShowByRock'' The backstory of the main villain of Season 2, Victorious, uses this trope. As a little girl, Victorious was friends with another girl named Astrael. They both decide to work together to complete the hardest trial for their school on their home planet, which involves climbing a mountain. As they climb, Astrael nearly slips and falls, but Victorious catches her and encourages her to keep going. As they get very close to the top, the tables turn and Victorious slips. Rather than save her friend, Astrael abandons her to fall, so she can get to the top alone and claim the prize for herself. Completely devastated by this betrayal, Victorious becomes consumed by darkness and flies up to the top of the mountain just before Astrael reaches it. Astrael is so startled by Victorious that she loses her grip and she falls to her death. If she hadn't been selfish and greedy, she could've lived and shared the prize with Victorious.
93	* ''Manga/StriderHiryu'': Vice-Director Matic gets his just desserts in the manga when Yggdrasil, the heart of the ZAIN Mind Control Project he wanted to use in his quest for world domination, impales him in the heart.
94	* Folken Lacour de Fanel in ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne''. After his HeelFaceTurn, Folken tries to attack his ex-boss Dornkirk, but the sword he uses breaks in two and the tip injures Folken fatally by impaling him in the chest. It doesn't help that the Zaibach has a machine that actually ''uses'' {{karma}} and destiny as its fuel.
95	** There's also a subversion here, as Folken went to battle fully knowing that [[YourDaysAreNumbered his days were numbered]] due to all the experiments Dornkirk had performed on him through the years.
96	* The bandit in Creator/MarkBaker's segment in ''Anime/WinterDays'' is crushed to death by a falling tree while trying to retrieve the lumberjack's hat, which had stuck to the trunk by an arrow he had shot earlier.
97	* ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', Episode 37, when [[PsychicPowers Divine]] sends [[IntrepidReporter Carly]] falling to her death. He immediately regrets it.
98	** It wasn't permanent, but after [[EngineeredPublicConfession being tricked into revealing]] that he killed Misty's little brother (she had blamed that on Aki), he [[EvilGloating pisses her off even further]] and [[TooDumbToLive gets devoured by her Jibakushin/Earthbound God]].

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