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- Alien/Species Crossover: Return to LV-426: In the third story, the crew of the SS Craster. They land on Alfheim, looking to exploit whatever is valuable enough for there to be a classified and highly quarantined UAAC military colony on the planet. It quickly becomes clear all four men are also rapists, and two of them grab and attempt to assault Sophie Bayonet as she bathes nude in a pond. Sophie makes like Sil and slaughters all four men in horrific fashion, but they definitely had it coming.
- Charles Manson Vs The Teletubbies: Charles Manson is a slave-owning, mass murdering cultist who wishes to add the Teletubbies to the folds of his slave empire. When he's beaten, abused and humiliated after steaking their tubby custard, it's hard to feel any sympathy for him.
- This is initially the case with Beneda in The Dark Lords of Nerima. She attacks the Sailor Senshi and tries to use a child as a human shield, but fails and is grievously injured; the only reason she didn't immediately die is because Tuxedo Mask considering pursuing her when she fled to be infeasible. It takes some time struggling with the concept of a moral compass and the Nerima Wrecking Crew's willingness to protect her before she finally starts leaving this trope behind.
- Seija Kijin in Fantasy of Utter Ridiculousness. Given that she was plotting to turn Gensokyo upside down, something that she gets around to doing much later in the setting's timeline, the fairies in the area aren't really complaining when something hits her in the face at high speed and bowls her over.
- In Game of Touhou, during the sack of Muenzuka, Seiga tries to escape from there, picking one of Tewi's ships. The crew considers her too treacherous to take on board and leave her to drown.
- Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters has a couple of examples:
- Rhouglar is executed by Caleb right after raping a woman and bragging about it.
- Tharquin is brutally killed by Jade, who'd he just spent hours torturing for no other reason than being a Shapeshifter.
- Hearts Aflutter: All of Ayano Aishi's murder victims in the story so far are Taylor Hebert's bullies and an knife wielding mugger who was about to kill her and Aisha Laborn.
- In The Last Connor, while it may be a bit extreme to actually want a child dead, Newt’s school bully Bianca is so cruel to Newt that it’s hard to care much when the other girl is killed by a Terminator in Newt’s place, and Newt barely bothers to mourn her grandparents either after their continued attempts to control her and refusal to listen to her protests.
- A Man of Iron:
- A servant lying to get a prince in trouble, knowing the king will brutally beat him? Not cool. Jane Seaworth lying to get Joffrey in trouble for bullying Shireen? Awesome.
- Gregor Clegane gets blown to pieces after having a sunstone lodged in his chest battling Tony. No-one feels sorry for him, given that Clegane was an Ax-Crazy Serial Rapist and had already killed one of Tony's friends and taken his wife hostage.
- Ramsay Snow gets tortured to death via whipping at the hands of Asha Greyjoy and Ivan Vanko. It's gruesome to read, but by the Old Gods and the New does he deserve it.
- As far as Thor is considered, Prince Rhaegar Targaryen got what he deserved at the Trident — not because he eloped with Lyanna, but because his crazed belief in what turned out to be a false prophecy led him to abandon his wife and two children simply because Elia couldn't give him a third child.
- Melisandre has her hand cut off, her eye put out, her face destroyed by snake venom, and a spear shoved through her stomach by Loki. Since she's actually Amora, though, that means she's a straight up villain, not the Anti-Villain she was in canon, and she's such a sadistic, petty, sociopathic character that you can't really feel sorry for her. Not when she tried brainwashing King Stannis into sacrificing his own daughter, and tried to have Jane raped to death to remove an obstacle to her goal of gaining Thor's affections.
- The men who try to rape Jane themselves. Thor shows up and destroys all three of them in horrific ways, but you can't blame him, can you? The author said that he actually researched testimonials from convicted rapists in order to write this scene, and therefore seeing these monsters get slaughtered by a Physical God has a pretty large Catharsis Factor.
- After being an utter tyrant and self-absorbed psychopath for the whole series, Joffrey ultimately ends up being stabbed to death right after slapping Margaery at their wedding party and going on a long rant wherein he brags about ordering the deaths of all of Robert's bastards and plans to put the Boltons in charge of the North so that they'll flay everyone.
- Masayoshi Shido, an extremely corrupt politican who thought nothing of murdering people who got in his way, is the murder victim in the Ace Attorney/Persona 5 fic Mia Fey: Ace Attorney – The Fool's Turnabout. He also abused and manipulated his son into performing the murders, which led his son to kill him.
- DJ Sagara becomes this in Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations
. As Sagara is the avatar of the Helheim Forest and considering that he orchestrated the Helheim incident in Gaim's TV canon, Gandrayda gives him a Deadly Gaze that left him Taken for Granite. For Gandrayda, it was so satisfying to see Sagara being petrified all while having that agonized expression in his face states that he got what he had deserved. - Metal Gear: Green:
- The Brothers were sociopaths who decided to bite off more than they can chew, but the Colombians are happy the bastards bit the bullet.
- No one will miss the Congo Tyrant for all the crimes he committed.
- The Showmaster was a cruel bastard who kidnapped and forced children to play his sadistic games, so no one misses him once he bit the bullet. Or is he truly dead?
- The Mountain and the Wolf: The first few chapters consist of the titular Wolf giving some of the most hated people in Westeros (in-universe and out) a karmic and undignified death, not only killing them but insulting them the entire time (the Mountain is thrashed by a warrior even bigger than him, Ramsay is castrated and flayed alive, Baelish is backstabbed after a laughable attempt at fighting, and Euron is drowned). Euron gets a special mention in that when the Wolf tells the Silence's crew to cheer their captain, they just give him pointed looks.
- My Hero Academia: Unchained Predator: Literally anyone the Slayer puts in the hospital for months (if they're asshole heroes like Endeavor or just plain fucking lucky) or in the morgue in varying states of mutilation, ranging from clean kills to completely and utterly unidentifiable, even with dental records, deserved it one way or another.
- RWBY: Epic of Remnant: Hassan of the Cursed Arm uses Zabaniya to kill a racist who was attacking a little Faunus girl. Hassan points out no one would miss him.
- SAPR: Phoebe Kommenos, her sister, and her mother all qualify as this. They also are all killed by Cinder Fall as revenge for all the abuse they heaped upon her.
- Shadows over Meridian:
- Jade uses a Leech Khan to steal Nerissa's shadow, leaving her comatose. Considering everything Nerissa's done by this point and was planning to do, no tears should be shed for her in this.
- The Warden of Cavigor is killed by a Razor Khan shortly after ordering all the prisoners killed to prevent Frost's forces from freeing them for Phobos, regardless of the possibility Vathek uncovered that some of them might actually be innocent of the accused crimes that got them imprisoned in the first place.
- Jax, one of the Warden's lieutenants who agrees wholeheartedly with his plan to kill the prisoners, is killed by a spear thrown by Frost as he tries to kill Drake for daring to stand in his way. And before that, there's one nameless Cavigor soldier whom Vathek intentionally locks in a cell and leaves behind for the Razor Khan to finish off, for unrepentantly following the Warden's orders.
- Just like in Castlevania, the Priest is killed by Blue Fangs in A Song of Fire, Ice, and Heart. Even the narrative agrees....A moment of silence for this poor, prideful bastard who tried to be a false, tyrannical savior... even though he doesn't deserve what's coming for him.
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Oh who am I kidding, he so deserves it. - Stormwolf Adventures has Al Astor. Before the first season, he had beat up Leah to near death, then imprisoned her. He also controlled all channels and spewed fake news, which constantly demonized Stormwolf and kept telling the public that rebels deserve to be raped. He had a dungeon where he tortured those who disagree with the government and enabled all the crimes his fellow officials did. He was also the one who sent most assassins to kill the protagonists. When Finn and Leah confront him, he nearly kills the former. However, after he is beaten, Leah gives him her hardest beatdown, forcing him to feign a surrender. Finn, seeing Al is lying, throws him out of the window of the top of the one hundred and fifty story building they were in.
- Turnabout Storm has Ace Swift, the murder victim. He was an athlete that had rumors about him saying that he reached his victories by less-than-honest methods, which turn out to be true. He blackmailed every opponent that had a chance of beating him into dropping out of the race or hand victory to him so he could keep his victory streak untouched, and was willing to go as far as threatening the families of his competition to this end. In the end he's even more an asshole victim than anyone thought, as his attempt to kill his partner in crime when she (overwhelmed by guilt) decided to quit was the direct cause of his (accidental) death.
- In Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Supergirl story The Vampire of Steel, Zol-Am's first two victims are... two demons who planned to eat him.
- The Westerosi: Jade is a Starfleet Ranger who tries to uphold the Prime Directive as much as possible. Therefore she tends to stun and/or humiliate anyone going up against her instead of killing them. The one person she doesn't extend this courtesy to is the Mountain who gets his head unceremoniously blown off by Mr. Zappy.
- In With Pearl and Ruby Glowing, Tyler ends up needing medical attention from being kicked in the groin hard enough to make him bleed after sexually assaulting Mei.
- Dirty Sympathy:
- Kristoph Gavin and Daryan Cresend. The former physically, emotionally and sexually abuses his employee and traps him by being the only person that would hire him and controls where he lives, has emotionally abused his younger brother when he was Promoted to Parent, and had an fellow lawyer disbarred and would have poisoned a young girl. The latter is a Domestic Abuser who uses his connections as a Dirty Cop to prevent his lover from getting help or running away. So you don't feel too sorry for them when they are successfully framed for crimes they didn't commit.
- Lana Skye's Parole: Lana Skye and Jake Marshall hold nothing but disgust towards Shadi Enigmar/Zak Gramarye, given that he not only abandoned his daughter Trucy and failed to reveal the torn diary that could have helped Phoenix clear his name but also tried to sabotage Phoenix’s reputation as an unbeatable gambler, which would have impacted Trucy’s standard of living. Lana’s only concern at Shadi’s death is how it implicates Phoenix as the murderer.
- Also Shadi Enigmar, who sexually harassed a waitress and tries to beat her to death for failing to see Phoenix cheat at cards.
- The murder victim in Operation: Turnabout is Janus Harvey, a corrupt military captain who had a habit of hazing the privates who worked under him. Apparently, he was such a massive Jerkass that none of his co-workers have ever had any respect for him. He was also involved in smuggling explosives to insurgents in Aresia, and orchestrated the "Helios-6 Incident", which killed several peacekeepers including the case's defendant's brother, to cover this up.
- In Showtime, the first two parts are Matt Engarde torturing Phoenix for revenge. In the last chapter, Shelly finds Matt, takes his own revenge and forces Phoenix to deal the finishing blow. Even Phoenix doesn't feel too bad in the end.
- Overall, any fanfiction that has Matt escape prison plays this trope straight, even if Shelly is the one who dies instead.
- How to Break a Family has D.W. being kidnapped and tortured, but it's played with in that despite her being quite an unpleasant character in canon, Arthur and the rest of her family still wants to see her rescued.
- The Dilgar War has warmaster Len'char, whose actions and political meddling make Jha'dur (whose body count of innocent is so high she's called Deathwalker) look sympathetic, especially as Jha'dur did what she did to save her people and just couldn't see a pacifistic solution while Len'char put such survival at serious risk. When Jha'dur finally crossed the Moral Event Horizon, her promise to not kill him no matter how much he begged for it is quite satisfying.
- Vow of the King: Practically nobody has a good word to say about Mayuri, beside his scientific genius, after Ichigo kills him. The fact that Mayuri's Bankai causes over eighty casualties during the aforementioned fight earns him no favors with Yamamoto, and Unohana agrees with Ichigo that he was an awful excuse for a person. Even his own daughter laments more that he was such a horrible father than the fact he died.
- The Bolt Chronicles: Nearly everyone has a motive to kill the murdered Director in "The Murder Mystery." His "ends justify the means" approach to filming and abrasive, inconsiderate manner have clearly not endeared him to his colleagues.
- Danganronpa: The Immersive Learning Program:
- Korekiyo, before his death, set up a trap with the intention of killing Celeste so he can find out if his sister is alive or not. The trap ends up being sprung by Sonia, who came to the library as normal, and when it misses, he rushes to protect her. Unfortuently, both Sonia and Kazuichi thought that he was planning to kill Sonia, and Kazuichi throws a wrench with the attempt of stopping him, only to kill him instead.
- The trope is played straight with Byakuya. After Monokuma reveals the identities of the Remnant of Despair, the Remnants are forced away by most of their classmates. Byakuya decided to get revenge on the Remnants by dossing the gumbo Teruteru made with laxative, keeping the Remnants away and allowing him to strangle Sonia, who had become a Broken Bird between Korekiyo and Kazuichi's death and regaining her memories as a Remnant of Despair. However, Nekomaru, who developed a tolerance to laxatives since their a part of his medication, recovers sooner than planned and sees Byakuya killing Sonia. In rage, Nekomaru grabbed his head and slammed him into the wall.
- In Danganronpa: Last Hurrah, Ichimako (aka Mako) and Reyes seem to qualify, the latter posthumously. The culprit of the fourth chapter, Umeko obtains a photo showing Samuru with her mother's headless body and Mako preparing to feed her decapitated head to sharks, and another showing Reyes killing Umeko's father. Since Reyes was murdered in the previous chapter by someone who'd been targeting Nao, Umeko kills Mako and seemingly sets up Samuru to take the fall for their murder, but claims she never sought to get away with it. While this would suggest that Umeko has an understandable reason for wanting Mako and the others dead, Samuru claims that he doesn't remember executing Umeko's mother or enlisting Mako's help, so Mako may not have been guilty of what prompted Umeko to kill them.
- Despair's Last Resort:
- The victim of the second chapter, Hikaru Nagai, apparently cheated on every girl he dated and got away with it. Since Monokuma's threat to reveal that secret is the second chapter's motive, Hikaru invites his best friend, Ayame Ishikawa, to his room in hopes of killing her, only for her to accidentally kill him. Lampshaded when Naomi, hearing about Hikaru's motives after the end of the trial, notes that she doesn't feel so bad about his death anymore.
- The victims of the third chapter, Shigeru Kitagawa and Naomi Williams. The former wasn't well liked among most of the students, while the latter showed their true colors as a jerk in the same chapter. It doesn't help their case that the reason they died was when they tried to kill Shizuka, who overheard their plans to commit a double murder and wanted to talk them out of it, Shigeru ended up killing Naomi while he was killed by Shizuka. The only person who bothers to act sympathetic about their deaths is the one they tried to kill in the first place, as she didn't intend to cause said deaths.
- New Hope University: Major In Murder:
- Subverted with Earl Morale. During the third trial, the students manage to discover that he killed Ashley shortly before Nicole killed him, with him seemingly having committed the crime for no good reason. It isn't revealed until later that Ashley was the initial mastermind behind the killing game, and Earl was rather broken up about having to kill her.
- Juliet Mountebank, the Ultimate Girlfriend, is, in reality, a rather unhinged individual who is responsible for several murders, including manipulating JP Laettner into killing Emily Voss. She ends up dead in Chapter 5, and Saya goes so far to conclude that Juliet is the one who most deserves to die, while the killer is the least deserving of death.
- Eugene Alameda was the architect behind the killing games, forcing seemingly dangerous young people to kill each other in order to mold the survivors into productive members of society. He was also an Abusive Parent to his daughter Ashley, who ended up killing him.
- Ashley herself ended up being this, as the initial mastermind of the killing game, having betrayed Earl and been willing to let Nicole kill him. As a result, Earl's killing of her comes off as justified.
- The killer of chapter two in Point of Divergence considers Kuzuryuu to be this due to his role in the Twilight Syndrome game. The other students disagree, claiming that while he was a jerk, he didn't deserve death.
- In System Restore, the plot diverges from canon when Togami trips while rushing to prevent the first murder, resulting in Hanamura killing Komaeda instead of accidentally killing Togami. Once it turns out that the victim was plotting a murder and hoping to kick-start the mutual killing, the survivors consider the victim as such.
- The second victim, Pekoyama, ends up becoming this when it turns out that she tried to convince Kuzuryuu to kill Koizumi in revenge for Koizumi destroying evidence to protect the girl who killed Kuzuryuu's sister. Koizumi, who had considered Pekoyama a friend, feels shocked and betrayed after learning this.
- Three-Point Shot:
- The fic diverges from canon when Shuichi realizes, with some help from Kokichi, that Kaede's shot put ball didn't actually hit Rantaro, thus preventing her from being executed. As a result, he exposes Tsumugi as Rantaro's killer, and Tsumugi is promptly cast aside and executed for the killing. Considering what she did, it's hard to feel sorry for her.
- Korekiyo Shinguuji. After Kokichi ends up giving him and Tenko each other's motive videos, Kiyo and Tenko meet up to exchange them, and during the meeting, Kiyo tries to kill Tenko. Unfortunately for Kiyo, Tenko is able to thwart his attempt on her life, and finishes him off when he threatens to kill her best friend, Himiko. When Shuichi reveals that Kokichi is indirectly responsible for the murder, Kokichi asks if anyone is sad that Kiyo is dead, then says that Kiyo deserved to die.
- In Turnabout Twilight, Natsumi Fuyuhiko zigzags this. Just as in canon, she bullied Mahiru for getting into the Ultimate Class, which Natsumi wanted so she can be by her brother's side. This led to Sato wanting to kill her in order to protect Mahiru. However, it is suspected that when Natsumi invited to talk in the music room, she planned on revealing her developing piano skills that she planned on using to apply as the Ultimate Pianist. But due to the bad blood between them, Sato thought Natsumi was going to kill Mahiru to open a spot for herself, and thus killed her in misguided retalliation.
- Where Talent Goes to Die:
- The first victim, Shiro Kurogane, counts. He spends most of his limited screentime antagonizing the main protagonist, Kaori Miura, for defeating and humiliating him in a shogi match as a demonstration of her talent. Not long after their last encounter, in which Kurogane gives Miura a vicious "The Reason You Suck" Speech after she tries to apologize to him, Kurogane is found dead in the boys' bathroom, murdered in an attempt to escape from the killing game. Unlike many examples, his being an asshole didn't directly lead to his death- his killer knew about the bad blood between him and Miura and so decided to frame her for his death.
- Subverted with the fourth chapter's victim, Komaki Katsura. While she'd attempted to kill Miura shortly before her death, it turns out that Katsura had been told that her family would be killed if anyone completed Final Dead Room: VR Edition, and Miura seemed like the closest to finishing it. Unfortunately, Katsura was unable to go through with the murder due to an attack of conscience, and was accidentally killed not long afterward.
- Where Talent Goes on Vacation:
- The second victim, Shigeru Kojima, zig-zags this. When it's revealed that he was plotting to kill someone during the costume party, Akira Azuki, who'd already been disgusted with his unwelcome advances on her, promptly loses what little respect she had for him. That said, Hikaru Kurogane proposes that he had a sympathetic motive- to get back to his family and friends, and see whether they'd survived the Tragedy. This, combined with the killer being relatively sympathetic, causes Azuki to begin to wonder if right and wrong are really clear-cut in the killing game.
- The victims in the fifth Chapter are Yuichi Asakura and Satoshi Karita. The former was a Jerkass who repeatedly antagonized Nagato just for having the same talent as he did, resulting in everyone hating him, while the latter was a con artist who was largely distrusted due to his willingness to swindle people out of their money (although it turns out after his death that he was only pretending to be one). Both victims killed each other, resulting in the group being forced to sacrifice someone who had done nothing wrong.
- In Murder Most 'Orrible, every murder victim is a complete asshole. Investigator Joan Sanderson-Reeves thoroughly sympathizes, having as an Assassin terminated the assholery of eighteen wastes of oxygen. But she still has to bring an unlicensed assassin in before the Watch do, so that the Guild can make her an offer....
- In The Fifth Act Hojo is shot to death by Vincent, mourned by no one. It was extremely easy to cover up his death.
- In Off the Line, Cloud/Rainstorm's massacre victims tend to be perverts who sexually harassed him or others or Bounty Hunters trying to kill him.
- Us and Them:
- Professor Hojo is shot by Vincent after the former kidnapped Aeris' parents, but are rescued by an unknown party. He's teetering on the edge of full-on lunacy when Vincent just shoots him right then and there.
- President Shinra, while he never gets the chance to do anything like dropping a sector plate, is still an unrepentant sociopathic dictator. So when Rufus tricks him into trying to take on a WEAPON that he thinks is hanging by a thread, there is much rejoicing when the thing drags him to an unceremonious demise.
- Abraxas (Hrodvitnon):
- The Mook Lieutenant who deliberately pushes Monster X to rage and gets turned into a red splat for it is acting on Alan Jonah's orders when he does that.
- But one particular guard who's among the other casualties of the above event was not acting on orders at all in earlier scenes, where he cruelly taunted the Vivienne Graham half of Monster X multiple times when she couldn't get to him.
- Generally speaking, Jonah's Basement Club and the rest of his paramilitary could count, when San's old Ghidorah-head which their boss is keeping around starts psychically inducing Sanity Slippages in them and when the Many assimilate them, though it's hard not to feel the latter is a worse fate than even they deserve for their crimes.
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi/The Untamed
- The Lost Cause is full of them:
- Jin Yan, who made Jin Guangyao eat a whole hot pepper when he made her food too spicy, dies not too long after. Nie Huaisang doesn't really feel bad for her.
- The Nie Master of swords, as in canon, was awful to Meng Yao. And made Huaisang practice saber too much, so again he doesn't feel too bad about his death.
- There are references to the Jin Clan's dwindling ranks, suggesting there are a lot more of these at Lanling.
- Jin Guangshan, of course, who is plotting Nie Mingjue's murder and who routinely abuses his second son. Few tears are shed over his death, even by his wife.
- Jin Zixun also does himself no favors, to the point that no one really feels sorry for him even if he's the fall guy for the plot against Guangshan.
- Love Song in Reverse: After learning of Mo Xuanyu's abusive circumstances, Lan Jingyi and Sizhui outright declare the Mo family deserved to die. Note that Lan Wangji doesn't even protest, while Mo Xuanyu angsts more about the fact he did it with demonic cultivation.
- Lampshaded in Allusion To Fate when Sirius learns that Harry was behind Umbridge's "unfortunate end."Sirius: Harry, you can't just go around killing people because you don't like them.
Harry: She sent dementors for me over the summer to suck me dry, and this year her goal was to make me get detention so she could use her blood quill on me.
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Sirius: Did it hurt?
Harry: (smirking) Every moment of it. - Rita Skeeter in The Darkness Series- Dark!Harry uses her to test the curses he's learning. Also Moaning Myrtle is Retconned into one-she was one of the girls that ruthlessly mocked Tom after he was outed while still attending school in the 30s.
- In Heir Harry feeds Lockhart to the basilisk. And There Was Much Rejoicing.
- In Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Rita Skeeter is killed off by Professor Quirrell. This occurs after she starts a slander campaign against Harry to further her career so no one really felt bad. According to word of God this was supposed to prove once and for all that Quirrell is evil and the author was horrified that people were rooting for the professor despite that it was a disproportionate response to an issue that Harry had already solved.
- No Competition: After Dudley Dursley and friends vandalize the gardens of several vampires and try to commit arson at Prudence's Bed and Breakfast, the dark beings of Little Whinging have had enough of the Dursleys. The Lich removes Petunia and Vernon Dursley's souls from their bodies and turns said bodies into zombified puppets so they stop causing trouble. Even Harry is glad that the Dursleys have been dealt with.
- Professor Karkaroff in The Parselmouth of Gryffindor, who, as in canon, was still a ruthless, immoral Death Eater, just an unusually cowardly one in the face of Dementors. Lampshaded when Dumbledore acts concerned about the murder:Dumbledore: I mean to say that he has probably been viciously murdered.
Hermione: ...Ah, erm, not to make light of any human life, but why do you particularly care? - The Queen Who Fell To Earth: After Umbridge fails to hit Harry with a killing curse, Harry's dragon swoops in, plucks a suddenly magically exhausted Umbridge out of her hiding spot, and drops her Between.
- In Sorry About That Harry, Ron strangles and stabs Hermione, then forces his girlfriend Lavender into BDSM by threatening her. McGonagall makes Harry's broom snap while Ron is (involuntarily) flying it over the Acromantula colony in the Forbidden Forest.
- In Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità, the homophobe is this to Germany and Japan. They would have beaten the absolute crap out of him for nearly raping their precious Italy had Italy not begged them to stop.
- Valkyrie on Fire:
- After Glimmer kills Clove in her and Katniss's first major confrontation with the Careers, after the two girls meet Peeta, the first thing all three agree on is that Clove deserved to die.
- Cashmere, Glimmer's original mentor, is established as such a twisted figure, warped by her years in the Capitol, that Glimmer has no hesitation about killing Cashmere once she gets the chance to do so and get away with it.
- Hivefled has Lereal and Dualscar. Both undeniably douchebags (Lereal was a fundie whackjob whose over-optimistic faith was responsible for the deaths of two hundred children and Dualscar was a slave-taking privateer who tried to get his ex murdered), but it's still pretty hard to argue that they deserved what happened to them (both effectively got raped to death).
- In Warbound Widow Vriska is captured by the Church and subsequently imprisoned and tortured, including being victim to an Eye Scream. However Vriska had previously spent her time desperately mimicking Mindfang via slavery and rampant mind control, so it's very hard to work up any sympathy for her.
- Gaz Dreams of Genie: As Gaz is presented as an unrepentant Jerkass, there's zero sympathy for her when all her wishes blow up in her face.
- Zim the Warlord: Irken Reversion: As far as Gaz is concerned, Malinda Dunn — the sole survivor of the thugs who tried to mug Zim — fully deserves the Fate Worse than Death as an experiment that she's subjected to afterwards, for daring to attack Zim and trying to rob her father's lab.
- Queen of All Oni: The first human character to die in the story is Lung — since he was a Smug Snake and spent his chapter torturing Jade in an attempt to break her to his will, no one was complaining when Right chased him through his own fortress and brutally killed him mere inches from his escape boat. One reviewer applauded it and called it justice.
- Nor was anyone complaining when Jade killed Kaito, or later, Ikazuki — both being Oni who loyally served Tarakudo, and who betrayed Jade and treated her like crap (respectively).
- Webwork: Simon Leston, the new Squid Khan General, is an Ax-Crazy Misanthrope Supreme who intends to move on up to full on Omnicidal Maniac (oh, and he kills his own mother). As such, no one, in-universe or out, was complaining when Jade brutally killed him.
- In Wheel of Fortune, one of the fanfics in the Horseshoes and Hand Grenades world, Mei Shirakawa's parents get eaten by and maimed by Renenutet for being evil parents to Mei. Ros and Guil also get similar treatment for only thinking about lining their pockets and pretending to be Mei's friends.
- The Vow: A mongoose bandit Haun kidnaps Lady Lianne in order to ransom her to her father and smacks her for deriding him defiantly. With these acts combined with his arrogance, the sadistic way used by Lord Shen to execute him leaves no one to miss him.
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has an original character, Clayton, who works in the Ice Caverns trying to make a profit from stuff he can find. He probably crosses the Moral Event Horizon when he feeds his workers a serum that is intended to make them strong, but it turns them into hideous mutants instead, revealing that he has no problem with this. Later on, he retreats to a swimming pool within the Water Temple (which holds Morpha) and accidentally spills the rest of his serum into it, intending to drink it himself and fight it off. Morpha drinks up the serum and becomes ridiculously powerful and Clayton is defenstrated in one hit, crashing out the window and leaving his fate unknown.
- In TorontoBatFan's Let Me In, the bullies who nearly drowned and/or mutilated Owen are the last people Abby will ever kill for human blood. While she has spent her life since she was turned regretting the need to kill until Owen helped her find another way, considering what these bullies almost did to Owen she has no problem making their deaths particularly unpleasant.
- BURN THE WITCH: After Witch Hunter (the Akumatized character of the story) exposes Lila Rossi as a Compulsive Liar and con artist, she then uses her Akuma powers to brainwash the entirety of Paris (except for Marinette) into going full Spanish Inquisition on Lila's butt. While even Marinette admits that Lila deserves some kind of punishment for her crimes, burning her to death is just too much.
- Everyone who gets an unhappy ending in The Karma of Lies is portrayed as this, with their misfortunes being justified in-universe as Laser-Guided Karma catching up to them for the ways they mistreated Marinette.
- Adrien is the most prominent example; he enabled Lila in her bullying and ostracizing of Marinette and did nothing while Lila repeatedly scammed his classmates, showing no empathy for the harm Lila was causing. Then the tables flip on him when Lila cons him out of millions of euros at the worst possible time, kicking off a chain of Disaster Dominoes that gets Adrien evicted from his house into a tiny apartment with nothing but a few changes of clothes and leaves him functionally penniless. Adrien's earlier refusal to report Lila's crimes works against him when he goes to the police, as his story is so shady and unbelievable they decide he must be trying to pin his crimes on Lila, rather than the other way around, and stop short of arresting him only because they don't have enough evidence to do so. Adrien's former friends view his suffering as his just desserts for not caring when they were the ones being scammed — especially since, thanks to him, the police don't believe them when they report how Lila scammed them. Marinette also gets a The Dog Bites Back moment when she blatantly brushes off his misfortune in an Ironic Echo of the way Adrien dismissed her suffering earlier.
- Marinette's classmates were selfish, Entitled Bastards who expected her to bend over backward for them even after they blatantly abandoned and ostracized her in favor of Lila. Notably, their main motivation was wanting to take advantage of Lila's supposed "celebrity connections" to boost their own careers. They don't realize until it's too late that Lila was a Con Man all along, by which point she's stolen their hard work and sold it off or used their names to leave them on the hook for things like selling private contact information to advertisers and charity fraud, which will have serious long-term repercussions for their future education and career opportunities. And unfortunately for them, by this point Marinette has found better friends and has no interest in bailing them out, despite their demands to the contrary. Only the few who realize they were wrong and set out to make up for what they did manage to earn Mariette's forgiveness and avoid the worst of the fallout.
- Ms. Bustier and Principal Damocles spent years enabling bullies like Chloé at the expense of their victims, with Ms. Bustier batantly pressuring Marinette to "try harder" when her classmates turned on her rather than doing anything to address the problem. Lila took full advantage of this, manipulaing them into giving her all sorts of special priviledges and accomodations she didn't really deserve. Bustier and Damocles even went so far as to request government funds to accomodate Lila's "disabilities" at the expense of other students without ever bothering to keep proper documentation or check if her claims were true. Once Lila skips town, the teachers' failure to do their jobs properly gets them into serious trouble for apparently defrauding the government. Both of their careers are ruined in the fallout, with Bustier being fired outright and Damocles being forced to retire at the end of the school year.
- Karma's a Bitch: A Recursive Fanfiction to The Karma of Lies that showcases a different resolution to Lila's swindling. Zoé Lee, who in the story is a Little Miss Con Artist, decides to target Lila because she knows the latter has done such terrible things no one will believe her when she claims innocence for one specific crime after she's exposed as a manipulative liar. She walks away with all of the money Lila managed to con out of the cast in the original tale (leaving Adrien equally penniless), but Lila is exposed and destroyed, so it's portrayed as a Pay Evil unto Evil resolution instead of The (other) Bad Guy Wins.
- Karma Overbalance: Another Recursive Fanfiction to The Karma of Lies. Subverted with Adrien. Marinette begins the story believing that he is in this territory, but once Adrien spells out for her exactly the kind of living hell his existence has become, to the point that going to jail for the rest of his life after killing Lila is an actual improvement, Marinette is revealed to be a Wrong Genre Savvy Innocently Insensitive heroine who is utterly horrified about what has happened and wonders with increasing dread about how she is also to blame for this mess.
- Karmic Backlash: Yet another Recursive Fanfiction to The Karma of Lies that subverts and deconstructs Adrien's status as one in the original story. One year later, all of his former friends admit that they are still sore about his actions and wanted him to squirm a little, but when Adrien tries to kill himself once he hits the Despair Event Horizon about how bleak his future prospects have become (Mistaken for Terrorist because of his connection to Hawk Moth, abusive aunt, once he is 18 he will be cut off from any (already meager) support and will most probably end up homeless), they accept that this just can't go on and try to help him. Even Marinette Dupain-Cheng, who this story does not portrays as completely sympathetic and keeps believing he deserved it until it's too late, is still taken aback at seeing him in a hospital bed after his suicide attempt. As for Lila, she got some karmic retribution of her own in the end, shivved to death by the next girl she tried to bully with her lies, and provides another deconstructive bullet point when Lila's mother tells Marinette that she understands that her daughter was a monster and better off out of everybody's hair, but she would have preferred her in jail, Marinette had the opportunity to put her in jail but let her go with a slap on the wrist (and thus open to bully said girl) for the sake of prioritizing her revenge over Adrien, and Marinette better not even try to paint Lila's death as a good thing.
- In Le Papillon Rising, Adrien looks for these for a little bit in the beginning, to make into deserving akumas. This falls apart quickly though.
- The Murder of Lila Rossi focuses on Detective Stella Wolfe investigating the murder of 18-year-old Lila Rossi. But as she investigates, she finds out that Lila was a Consummate Liar and Sociopath who manipulated and took advantage of her former classmates to nearly ruin both Marinette's social life and her career in design and tried to force herself on an unwilling Adrien. And as it turns out, it's not the first time she's done this. The murderer turned out to be a former classmate of Lila's from Italy who fell for her lies and participated in ostracizing a girl who tried to warn them about Lila's true nature. When she happened to bump into Lila in Paris and realized she hadn't changed, she killed Lila to keep her from hurting anyone else.
- Two Letters explores and deconstructs this concept, alongside the Fandom-Specific Concept of "Saltinette". After spending two years as Ladybug, dealing with Jerkasses and Entitled Bastards who take her efforts completely for granted, Marinette decides to retire, passing on the Earrings to a Sketchy Successor whom she sees as "the hero the people of Paris deserve". She then takes considerable amounts of quiet glee in seeing those who exploited her suffering. Problem is, it's not just certified assholes like Mayor Bourgeois, Bob Roth and Gabriel Agreste who are suffering; good people are being affected as well... but in Marinette's eyes, everyone in Paris wronged her.
- She's particularly invested in the concept of Cartesian Karma, believing that everyone who's been akumatized by Hawkmoth intentionally let themselves succumb rather than resisting, and/or got akumatized for petty, frivolous reasons. In some cases, like Xavier Ramier/Mr. Pigeon, she's completely correct; however, she applies this to everyone who's ever been akumatized, including her own parents.
- Conversations with a Cryptid:
- Averted with Bakugou's cronies; they were horrible kids who liked to pick on the weak but their disappearances and probable death by experimentation seem very disproportionate.
- Played straight with Endeavour. Izuku, Todoroki, and many others enjoyed seeing All Might outshine him at Endeavour's own gala and publicly humiliated when Todoroki calls him out.
- All for One's prison psychiatrist deliberately delayed All for One's message to All Might despite the fact Izuku's life was threatened because she was jealous of Izuku's success. She hoped she could force All for One's cooperation with her for an academic paper by bargaining the message's delivery. All for One is absolutely gleeful when he reduces her to fine red paste in his breakout.
- Zigzagged with Bakugou. On one hand, Bakugou has physically and emotionally abused Izuku for nearly a decade and continues to demean him. Izuku is so traumatized that he still hears Bakugou's voice calling him useless and carries the literal and emotional scars from the bullying. On the other hand, Bakugou has grown to become a marginally more kinder person, is a product of Mitsuki Bakugou's abusive parenting and Masaru Bakugou's enabling and their society's Fantastic Ableism. All for One's public strangulation of Bakugou, vicious "The Reason You Suck" Speech, and taking Bakugou's Quirk blurs between justified punishment and Disproportionate Retribution.
- In The Emancipators, Izuku sees Katsuki as one and has sworn to himself to make his childhood bully pay for all the pain he's inflicted upon him and others. He's been considering all the best ways to go about it for years, such as figuring out his Quirk's weaknesses and the best way to neutralize them, and the primary thing holding him back from acting on his worst impulses is his desire to tear him down and crush all of his dreams before his eyes first.
- Izuku also sees Monoma Neito as one, immediately deciding that he hates him once they meet right before their match in the Sports Festival. This leads him to enact a rather cruel bit of Briar Patching during their fight...and then gets Deconstructed when his plan works exactly as intended and leaves him aghast by his own reaction to the grisly results. Yeah, he was rude and snobbish, but getting him to blow up his own arm with a copy of One For All might have been overdoing it...
- The Fundamental Essence of Villainy: Tectonic, an extortionist hero who takes bribes and evades taxes. He gets his just desserts.
- Nemesis: All of the hostages Midoriya takes are former teachers who allowed Bakugou to get away with bullying him throughout their childhood, whether by encouraging Katsuki's belief that 'Quirkless = Useless' or simply turning a blind eye.
- One for All and Eight for the Ninth:
- Overhaul, who gets his skull crushed by All for One (though not before crippling All for One's hands in one last act of defiance) and his body washed over the sewers. The only people who care about his demise and want to avenge him are his fanatical followers, which boils down to Chronostasis, Mimic and Nemoto.
- The President of the HPSC. After the woman is killed during a (unwilling) suicide bombing at the beginning of the MLA Uprising, no one bats an eye over it.
- All for One himself, by the end of Chapter 74. By the end of his life, the only person who would bother to care about him would be his Mad Scientist lieutenant, Garaki, and Garaki himself finds himself suffering A Fate Worse Than Death at the hands of Tomura in the following chapter, being turned into a Nomu.
- The MLA top brass, who all get their Quirks stolen and are killed when Tomura hijacks Mugen's body and riggs it to self-destruct, blowing up Tartarus front gate and letting the prisoners out. An appropriate fate, for a bunch of Quirkist terrorists.
- Subverted in Peace's Apprentice: While Shinsou was an utter Jerkass to all of his classmates, taking advantage of the fact that Aizawa openly favored his apprentice and let him get away with insulting others and abusing his quirk to humiliate them, Momo takes no satisfaction from the Laser-Guided Karma he suffers at the USJ. Jerkass or not, nobody deserves to lose their Quirk the way he did.
- Supporting a Hero:
- All for One and Garaki once they are killed under the rug by the Meta Liberation Army. No one will shed tears over two dead monsters.
- Pretty much any MLA agent that gets killed by Stain, special mention goes to Native, who in very little screentime manage to stands out as a particular brand of Hate Sink.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Cheerilee's Garden:
- Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon are among Cheerilee's victims, and although their deaths are just as gruesome as those of her other victims, their bullying ways may paint it as deserved.
- Cheerilee herself becomes this in the follow-up fic Scarlet Harvest when Twilight kills her after finding out she was behind the murders. Unfortunately, this, combined with misintepretion of the letter for help that Spike sent to Celestia, leads the police to think that Twilight was the one behind the murders and that Cheerilee was just another innocent victim.
- ALL of Equestria in The Conversion Bureau: Conquer the Stars.
- Gilda, Trixie, Diamond Tiara and Angel Bunny from Cupcakes (Sergeant Sprinkles). Also, to some, Rainbow Dash.
- In Fall of Starfleet, Rebirth of Friendship, Celesto is tortured to death after attempting to blow up Equestria. By a monster that is so strong because of Celesto's hatred.
- Feral World:
- Before escaping the city, Spike decides to give his power suit a few "test runs" by blowing up both of Surf & Turf's respective cars, destroying Flintheart's house with a falling tree, savagely beating Rumble to a pulp and leaving him in a trash can, did the same to Hoops, Dumbbell, and Score and even broke their wings for good measure. Was all that unnecessarily petty and cruel? Probably, but they all had it coming. Surf and Turf were a pair of pampered Alpha Bitches who look down on Spike, Flintheart was a racially biased Stern Teacher (bordering on Sadist Teacher) who lets the other students gang up on Spike but punishes him when he tries to defend himself, Rumble was a Jerkass who constantly badmouthed Spike and humanity as a whole and never gets punished for it, and Hoops, Dumbbell, and Score are barbaric bullies who treats Spike as their personal punching bag on a regular basis. So, it's hard to feel sorry for any of them. Even Rainbow Dash commented (At least regarding the bully trio and Flintheart) that they kinda deserved it.
- In her introduction chapter, Starlight beats up (and most likely killed) a gang of earth pony stallions who tried to sneak up on her and planned to do some... less than savory things to her.
- Highschool Dragon:
- Grogar in the first story, A kaiju-sized, rage-induced Spike grabs him and squeezed the life out of the necromancer until he popped, leaving nothing but blood on Spike's claw. As gruesome and messy as his death was however, bear in mind that he was a Smug Snake who: killed Stone Edge's parents by using some very underhanded tactics; raised said father as an undead pawn years later to attack innocent bystanders and even his own son, while making him aware of what he's doing but unable to do anything about it; and tried to make Spike feel despair, by casting an illusion spell that made him experience the death of the girls he loves, in an insane attempt to take control of him so he could use the power of the Dragon King to overthrow Tirek, which caused Spike to turn into a giant mindless berserker in the first place. Needless to say, his death was very deserving.
- The Storm King in the sequel, Harem Legion, as well as he was turned to stone by the Titans and was left at the bottom of the ocean. Though Spike and the girls may have trade one threat for a more powerful one, The Storm King was a ruthless conqueror who, a couple chapter ago, tried to kill Tempest for disobeying him and subjucated the Titans to his will with magical devices in the chapter after that.
- Isle Of She Beasts:
- Tirek, Chrysalis, Cozy Glow, Sombra, and The Storm King. These individuals were Grogar's previous benefactors and when they got impatient and threatened to cut his founding, Grogar trapped them and became victims of his experiments as a result and turning them into nearly mindless Berserkers. Do NOT feel sorry for these people as each one of them were horrible pieces of work: Tirek was an arms dealer who sold weapons to third world countries and gave Grogar his first test subject, who was his own brother; Chrysalis was a sex trafficker who kidnapped young women off the streets and sells them as prostitutes, she was also verbally and emotionally abusive to her children; Cozy Glow was a Spoiled Brat with an explosive temper and had ties with the mafia as well as abused poor Loona when she was still a normal dog; Sombra was corporate scumbag who was sexually abusive to his fiancé, Radiant Hope, and he treated her as nothing more than a baby maker; And the Storm King was a big time Californian crime lord who ruled the west coast with an iron fist. On top of that, they were the ones who let Ēferno loose which destroyed Grogar's credibility in the first place.
- Blueblood, Rarity's Bastard Boyfriend who not only treated her like crap but tried to let Grogar experiment on her first instead of him. Needless to say, even the mad scientist was disgusted and experimented on him first, turning him into a literal Butt-Monkey.
- Prince Jewelius, the Big Bad of Loved and Lost, is eaten alive by the Changelings he used and double-crossed to steal Equestria's throne on the day of his cousin Princess Cadance's wedding. He was up until that point portrayed as despicable as possible by being a manipulative, egotistical and heartless tyrant who ruins everyone's lives due to jealousy towards his cousin and aunt Princess Celestia.
- Master Thief Dragon has plenty of these:
- The people Dragon and his servants usually steals from are jerks of the highest degree at best or ruthless crime lords at worst, so you won't feel sorry for them when they are robbed blind.
- Benedict Gunn. A Dirty Cop who killed his partner, Shining Armor, along with his and Twilight's parents just to keep him quiet about his black-market dealings. One of his men accidently shooting him and bleeding to death afterwards is somewhat satisfying.
- Downplayed with Chet Hoarder, whom Gunn also killed. He was a smuggler but that's all we know about him.
- Tirek ordering the Maulers to wipe out the Dragon Heads and taking control of their assets can be seen as this considering the latter gang were ruthless thugs and greedy hoarders who kidnapped Twilight and her friends to use as ransom in case the cops found them as well as have them as "service entertainers".
- The Maulers find themselves on the receiving end of this when Tirek ordered Byakko to wipe most of them out, including the leader Big Jon and his second-in-command Desertstorm, for failing to capture Dragon. Considering they nearly burned down Sweet Apple Acres and later attacked Canterlot High School just to draw Dragon out, they had it coming.
- According to Cadance, Byakko literally sliced up Don Gladmane and let him bleed to death. Don't feel sorry for him though, as he was a mobster who tried to get both Spike and Celestia killed in the latter's Origins Episode.
- While killing his comrades was a pretty immoral thing that ninja assassin Shibizo Taizo has done, bear in mind that they were also assassins as well.
- Louie Kaboom. Just when he is about to kill Dragon, Fluttershy goes ballistic and chokes him until his neck snapped. While Fluttershy was horrified of what she just did and Dragon willingly took the fall for her, Louie was a sadistic, ex-military Psycho for Hire and a mass murdering Mad Bomber who gleefully pursued Fluttershy and used her as bait for Dragon. He also bragged that after he turns Dragon over to Tirek, he was gonna take Fluttershy as a... bonus. So, it's doubtful anyone is going to cry for the likes of him anytime soon.
- In a flashback where Granny Smith was telling AJ about her run in with a previous Dragon, she used to work as a maid for Mr. Buck, an elitist snob who not only treated her like crap, but one time slapped her butt while feeling proud about it (and it's implied that he treated the other maids this way as well). When the master thief suddenly appeared in front of him, he had a sudden heart attack and literally dropped dead.
- During Spike's final fight with Tirek, He told the latter that he went to a party full of drunk teenagers that hurt a girl who wanted to kill herself. He made them pay for what they did and even paralyzed the ringleader by throwing him out a second story window. He never walked again; A year later, he tormented and chased down a cheerleader who bullied a classmate into suicide, only for her to get run over by a truck; Lastly, he mutilated a guard in his first year as Dragon. Not because he was in the way, but because he wanted to violate the curator of the museum.
- Lastly there's the Big Bad, Tirek himself. He was a ruthless Bad Boss who would kill anyone who fails him, including wiping out entire gangs and sent assassins and bounty hunters after Dragon by targeting the girls he cares about mainly for petty reasons. And during his final fight with Spike, he had a sniper ready to kill the young thief should the fight not go his way, only for another sniper to shoot and kill the mob boss instead.
- In the deleted (because of the subject matter) work Pattycakes, it is revealed that Rainbow Dash is one for not only having participated in the bullying of Fluttershy as a filly and only standing up for her to look good, but also emotionally and physically abusing Scootaloo. After all that, it's very hard to feel sympathy for Dash in this fic, despite the fact that's she's essentially kidnapped and psychologically tortured until she devolves into a child-like mindset and develops Stockholm Syndrome for her captor.
- Spike's Gambit:
- A non-lethal example with Flim and Flam, the corrupted joint owners of the Flimflam Resort and Casino. When Impossibly Rich took control of their resort, she left the two men with almost nothing except for the flying casino which could be easily seen as Cruel Mercy. While her taken control of their assets is NOT seen as a good thing and it resulted with Spike and the majority of his friends losing their jobs, the Flimflam Bros weren't exactly squeaky clean themselves as they were greedy conmen who supported a toxic work enviroment and put their employees through some of the most grueling and humiliating tasks, and some of them can't leave becuase they owe the duo a LOT of money. Spike and his friends don't feel bad for them in the slightest, considering all the crap the two brothers pulled and everything they put them all through, and didn't even bother recruiting them in their plan to take Rich down. Heck, Spike and Moondancer were even planning a coup on them, Impossibly just beated them to it.
- A MORE lethal example with Spoiled Rich, Filthy Rich's wife, Impossibly Rich's daughter-in-law, and Diamond Tiara's abusive mother. Impossibly killed her near the end, and while that may have been her absolute worst moment, Spoiled was a Gold Digger who was just as bad as her mother-in-law, if not worse, and wasn't what you would call mom of the year. She was emotionally and verbally abusive towards her daughter which made Diamond's life miserable, who in turn made a few attempts to run away as a result, and planned to send her away to get married to some rich snob without her consent. When Spike and the others stormed the casino, she tried to make off with the counterfeit printing plates, leaving both her husband and daughter to their fates. The fact that both Filthy and especially Diamond don't seem to be too broken up about her death is rather telling.
- Vinyl and Octavia in 'Dial D for Detectives' has a downplayed example - the murder victim is mentioned to be a small-time gangster, but nothing else about him is revealed.
- Most of Naruto's victims in Demon's Dirty Dreams are either people who regularly put him down, stole from him, or tried to get him arrested. Thus, when he thinks back on having had sex with an unconscious Hinata, he feels like crap and decides to do something nice for her.
- A Growing Affection: Danzo doesn't play a huge role, but when he does, he tries to subvert Tsunade or otherwise acts like a jerk. He gets framed as Gouki's mole and ends up dying saving Tsunade from the real mole.
- in dreams you follow (but I dream in the dark): In order to be declared an S-rank missing-nin and catch Akatsuki's eye, Kiba needs to either kill a lot of people or take out a single target of sufficiently high profile. He immediately suggests Danzo, with Tsunade and Genma approving of his choice.
- Your Heart a Haven of Thorns: Kikyō warns Hiruzen that if he insists on holding the Chuunin Exams despite knowing about Orochimaru's interference, she and her family will personally hunt down his personal summons, Enma the Monkey King. In order to make his Death by Adaptation more palatable, it's revealed that Enma previously wronged the Tiger clan, having negotiated a trade deal in bad faith wherein he tricked them into giving up the pelt and life of an innocent cub in exchange for things the Monkey clan didn't actually have to offer. What's more, Enma displays absolutely no remorse for his actions, proudly wearing Yume's pelt and bragging about how he obtained it.
- Ghosts of Evangelion: Dr. Kotetsu, a psychiatrist who attempted to rape Asuka, is found dead. It is implied that Misato got him killed. Since he is a rapist, no one cares.
- Luffy's Mother is WHO?:
- Just like in canon, Sanji fights Judge in an attempt to save Baratie and the Strawhats. However, when Judge tries to use his men as human shields, Luffy (who was brought along as one of Big Mom's children meant to marry Reiju), knocks them away and keeps Reiju from following Judge's orders, allowing Sanji to unleash every bit of rage against him. Given that Judge was an Abusive Parent that experimented on his children and locked Sanji away with an iron mask because the boy had compassion, he deserved every kick coming, as well as a touch of poison from Reiju to end his life
- A played with example involving Kanjuro, who planned on sabotaging the heroes attempt at fighting Jack the Storm only to be killed by Jack in the process. This trope is played with because at that point in Zou, none of the Nine Scabbards nor the Strawhats and their allies know that Kanjuro was a spy working for Orochi, and that he has been trying to kill the Scabbards and Momonosuke, so it instead motivated Kin'emon, Nekomamushi, and Inurasha to kill Jack out of vengeance. And when Kanjuro arrives in the next world, Oden doesn't even give him even a sample of his rage, letting the traitor be captured by wrath-filled spirits for his crimes.
- In This Bites!, Chapter 32, several Marines come across Inspector Shepherd during the Straw Hats' infiltration of the base. Said inspector, whom Robin Mugged for Disguise, is bound and gagged in a supply closet with a sign around his neck that reads, "I'm a stuck-up ass from HQ looking to shut this base down for the glory of it!" Which is completely true; the closest he gets to freedom is one Marine un-gagging him long enough for Shepherd to threaten to court-martial him for hesitating to free him, then re-gagging him before going about his business. A few hours later, if that, hearing the number of Marines that have found him and left him tied up makes Commander Jonathan fall off his chair laughing.
- Lance in Blasting Off! uses Team Rocket as scapegoats so to shut down his various naysayers, uses the conquered Kanto to prop up Johto, and makes a point of having anyone who might actually defeat him surreptiously murdered on their way through Victory Road. As such, he's the only person in the story that Cam explicitly steals a pokemon from after defeating.
- A New Chance Series has Rico. Not only did he successfully and brutally rob Jessie and James in this story, he also sold Larvitar's mother to Team Magma, and after his defeat he bragged about it and then tried to kill Ash out of spite. Latios murders him behind Ash's back and sleeps like a baby afterward. It's deconstructed since Officer Jenny witnessed it, and regardless of how evil the victim was, the act is something a police officer can't ignore, which could have gotten Ash and Latios both in serious trouble...had his old friend Skailyn not used one of her servants to alter Jenny's mind.
- Pokémon Reset Bloodlines has Dario, who is every bit a Jerkass and a cheater as much as in canon, but it's shown more explicitly just how far he's willing to go to win the Big P Pokémon Race, setting up traps for his opponents and getting many people gravely injured in the process. So when Sabrina gets her hands on him and gives him a good "The Reason You Suck" Speech about how he prefers to hamper those with talent to make himself look good instead of working hard to be better, it's hard to disagree, and his death via a telekinetic Neck Snap feels more like a Karmic Death than an Alas, Poor Villain.
- Symbiosis has Damian and his friends. Damian was bragging that he abandoned his Charmander to die. When Ash catches him and Misty and Brock nearly gets Damian arrested, Damian planned to kill Ash to teach them a lesson. Fortunately, Pikachu overheard and decided to test his new move on him...
- In Crimson Rising, Kat Hillard’s ex-husband Malcolm Renaldi is clearly established as a crime boss and a very unpleasant human being who tricked Kat into marrying him and then abused her for most of their marriage; when Billy hacks Malcolm’s accounts to steal his money, the other Rangers all assure him that Malcolm deserves it, and the man is swiftly taken apart in court after he exhausts his remaining assets.
- In Prehistoric Earth, the animal smugglers trying to make money off of prehistoric animals brought to the present via the time portal are shown to be smug jackasses who show blatant disregard for the animals' wellbeing at best and equally blatantly beat the animals up and torture them simply for the fun of it. The Novum Black-Ops squadron are likewise shown to be very cruel and mean-spirited scumbags who take great pleasure in inflicting pain and suffering upon their victims. Naturally, this means no one feels at all sorry when they all end up dying horribly over the course of the action packed final 'episodes'.
- In Pretty Cure Perfume Preppy, Ashley's very first on-screen casualty, in her official debut in episode 24, was someone who tried to touch her inappropriately.
- Old West has a few examples:
- A posthumous character, Amos, the previous sheriff of Dirt, was killed when Rattlesnake Jake injected venom into him, making him die slowly. Amos doesn't get much sympathy for this because before his death, he openly showed contempt towards Jake's abused mother and killed her when the last of her husband's domestic beatings left her badly wounded.
- Another posthumous example: Jake's memories reveal that after he dragged away Tortoise John at the end of the movie, he tortured the corrupt mayor for days before ending him with venom as well.
- The estranged husband of Grace Glossy, Benjamin Hares, left his pregnant wife penniless to escape his debts. He returns ten years later just to sell Grace's property in order to save his own hide again. When Grace tries to throw him out for good, he starts hitting her while relishing in it. Jake beats him up in return before injecting into him all the venom his fangs can provide, and no one grieves the coward's death.
- A third posthumous example: shortly after his mother's death, Jake was caught in a rattlesnake round-up where he witnessed a human taking sadistic pleasure in skinning and toying with the snakes. Before escaping, little Jake made his first kill by using all his venom in the man.
- All the villains killed in the penultimate chapter by the heroes qualify. In particular, Ramirez Arvenga gets his head blown to smithereens by Sheriff Rango who's maddened at Ramirez for destroying Beans' home. As his last act, Dufayel aims at Grace and her son, with the the bullet hitting Rango, and Jake in turn fills the fox with bullets.
- Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness has a few examples:
- In Act I, most of Ghaldin Rayazo's screen time consists of him physically abusing the Ezrana sisters, who are Artificial Humans he created to serve him and declaring them to be nothing but his living weapons and tools for him to use as he wishes. When Moka takes him down, they all agree that he was a complete bastard who had it coming.
- Then, in Act II, when it's discovered that Miyabi raped Mizore, Dark goes ballistic and makes him pay for it in the most brutal manner possible by slowly crushing the bones in his arms and legs to powder before ripping them off, punching him in the face so hard that his jawbone snaps clean off, and finally ripping his spine out of his body with his bare hands. As shocked as they are by Dark's brutality, Tsukune and the others nevertheless have No Sympathy for Miyabi and unanimously agree that he deserved every last second of the beating.
- Coeur Al'Aran's works:
- A Rabbit Among Wolves: Adam was a vicious terrorist who was horrible to enemies and allies alike. When Jaune kills him with a stab to the throat, Sienna Kahn and Cinder Fall, Adam's ostensible allies in terrorism, are more concerned about the consequences of Jaune's apparent usurpation of power than they are upset by his death. Only Blake feels some semblance of loss, considering the tumultuous relationship they had.
- Relic Of The Future: Cardin Winchester's father is killed when the Winchester house is burned down with him inside. Considering he was just as racist toward Faunus as his son if not more, didn't care about Cardin's bullying of other students at Beacon, tried to get Emerald expelled from Beacon altogether, and then tried to extort Jaune for over a million lien out of greed, no tears will be shed for him.
- Raise: The reporters who hounded Jaune until he tripped and fell into a brief coma are revealed to have been dragged out of their homes and beaten to death by angry villagers. It's deconstructed, as the fact that the victims happened to be shitty people doesn't mean they deserved to die, and the people who did it only did so out of selfish rage.
- Pretty much every time a villain dies in Ruby and Nora.
- Chasing Dragons: Gregor Clegane (who is presented as no better than canon) is killed during the fighting between the Sunset Company and Myr, which is enough to almost make the reader root for the slavers.
- Forum of Thrones has a few examples:
- Lord Trymon Brune, over his short lifspan in the story, proves himself to be nothing but a Jerkass and a firm example of Aristocrats Are Evil. Ultimately, he tries to rape Maya, to avenge the honour of his daughter, who had been seduced and deflowered by Maya's employer, Lord Royce. It is incredibly satisfying to see him dying at her hands instead.
- Halla Peddle, the housekeeper of House Raylan has been reviled in and out of universe for the heavy physical and psychological abuse through which she put the servants under her command. No one legitimately mourns her passing when she is murdered by Wolfius and Kersea.
- Rodrik Stone has been an unrepentant Jerkass and Hero Killer from start to finish of his lifetime in the story. In the end, he is killed by his intended victim, simply because he could not give up on his revenge towards her.
- In Purple Days, Joffrey's first loops tend to end with him dying either in extreme pain, humiliated, or both. After many failures and horrible deaths, it stops being funny. A morose, desperate Joffrey collapses in Winterfell's godswood and has a heartfelt chat with Ned Stark. And from there on, it's a whole different story.
- Prison Island Break: Silver was sent to prison for killing someone who will later rape and kill a bus full of children.
- In Severe Misery, Sally Acorn, Bunnie Rabbot, Fiona Fox, and Nicole Lynx are meant to be seen as this, having been written as sadistic Alpha Bitches. But considering that the author's Self-Insert character had arranged for them to be murdered by a demon dog over having been mean to her one time and then later vandalizes their memorial wall without getting caught, it makes her look much worse and the attempt falls flat.
- My Super Best Friend: Deconstructed with Cartman when Kyle gives him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown before trying to kill him. While Cartman definitely deserve getting that vicious beatdown and probably deserves getting killed more than most, Kyle trying to murder Cartman is viewed as a bad thing by the other kids as it will send Kyle to juvie with Butters and Heidi trying to intervene to prevent Kyle from making that mistake.
- The Bikini Bottom Horror: Mr. Krabs, unlike everyone else, very much had his death coming. It is revealed that Krabs is the reason why Patrick wants revenge; he cut off one of Patrick's limbs, imprisoned the clone, and harvested the clone's limbs to use as an ingredient for Krabby Patties. When SpongeBob undercooked a Krabby Patty, the original Patrick unwittingly assimilated the tortured memories of his clone, driving him insane with murderous rage.
- In By the Sea, one of Cody's enemies opposes Cody's marriage and courtship of the human Obi-Wan, and when Cody refuses to back down, the man sends a group of assassins after Obi-Wan. When this attempt fails thanks to Obi-Wan's combat skills from the war, Cody openly challenges the man to a duel in front of the royal court and unceremoniously guts the man. The man otherwise has no role in the story beyond getting Cody to set a round-the-clock merfolk protection detail on Obi-Wan until they can be reunited.
- The Will of the Empire: While they aren't ones for wanton violence or assassination, even Yoda and Obi-Wan agree that the galaxy is better off with Lumiya dead. The same goes for most of the other high-ranked Imperials who get killed by Vader's orders.
- The Heart Trilogy has a few examples.
- In Heart of Fire, a mercenary group captures Kathryn after she manages to escape from Smaug. Their leader Karst tries to rape her, but Smaug finds them and kills the mercs, scorching Karst in the process.
- In Heart of Ashes, King Wilhelm of Dorwinion is a Jerkass who keeps Kathryn against her will in his court to entertain them with her singing and visions, treating her like his possession/pet. He's killed in his bed by Andraya who slashes his throat.
- Andraya is a misandristic and conceited witch and an Abusive Parent who lures Kathryn into the clutches of Fankil, placing the world in the danger of Morgoth's return, just to get Revenge by Proxy against Smaug and a resurrection spell to regain the daughter she both mistreated and loved. At the climax of Heart of Ashes, Smaug mauls and swallows Andraya whole, letting her boil alive in his stomach.
- Old Man Henderson, the living embodiment of plot derailment, was originally created as a revenge plot against a particularly dickish Killer Game Master who'd, among other actions, killed off the player's previous character because "[the aforementioned player] actually disagreed with [the GM's] self-insert fetish-fuel character with two katanas!" Needless to say, the GM had it coming.
- The king of Kaedwen was a monstrous rapist who used his position to torture and kill hundreds of girls. Geralt deciding he was a monster and killing him for it makes the next king, whom Geralt had ensured wasn't in on the prior king's crimes before allowing him to take the throne, consider himself Geralt's vassal, hence Geralt becoming a Warlord by accident.
- Borys of Leyda made a deal with the Ladies of the woods, trading his peasants' children to them as snacks in exchange for them guaranteeing he'd never have any bastards. The scumbag actually tries to get out of any trouble for this by calling them only "peasant children, worthless brats" and Letho is quite amused by the whole display as Geralt kills him.
- Out of her lust for power Lytta betrays Yen and Geralt and nearly assassinates Geralt, having him shot with ten crossbow bolts as he comes through a portal. Yen rips her apart and decorates the battlements with her corpse.
- Henselt breaks his treaty with Geralt by conspiring with Lytta to assassinate him, badly mistreats the dwarves on his lands and cheated on his wife with Lytta. Only other nobles in on his moronic plotting truly mourn him when Eskel takes off his arrogant head.
- Princess Agata decides to abduct Jaskier and Milena in a hair brained plot to get revenge for her loss in station and return to power after being shown mercy for trying to kill Jaskier by being allowed to enter a monastery instead of getting her head cut off. Milena kills the ungrateful woman.
- Stregobor is a creep who sexually assaults an underage girl and plans to experiment on her and kill her. He's also a bigoted pig and thinks himself above all others, expecting Geralt to give him what he wants and trust him after he stiffed Geralt on a job and lied to villagers about it the last time they met. Geralt decapitates him mid sentence.
- Aridea was a horrid Wicked Stepmother who abused her stepdaughter throughout her life, then tried to sell her to Stregobor and when that didn't work hired a creep to kill her. She is also bigoted towards non-humans and initiated prejudicial policies against them and had a bunch of soldiers sworn into her care until they could return home poisoned and thrown in a lime pit, breaking not only her own oath but Coën's and Geralt's as well.
- Gustavus tortured and experimented on Aren and tortured, experimented on and killed hundreds of girls and in his plot to uncover how to make more witchers, also giving the violent rapist Duke Velen access to his victims before he was trough with them. Gustavus exalted in using blood magic to bind other's wills and control what they could say or how they could react.
- Vizimir funded and organized his head mage Gustavus's experiments, helped ply his monstrous cousin Duke Velen with more victims, had Jaskier sent to Kaer Morhen as a Sex Slave to be raped and probably killed, and broke his treaties in all kinds of disgusting small ways. Geralt gives his death to Aren, who was held against is will and experimented on for twenty years on Vizimir's orders.
- In A Darker Path, the ruthless killer Atropos targets Coil, Kaiser, Lung and Skidmark, and kills them all on successive nights. Given that she'd offered them the out of either leaving town or surrendering to the PRT, and they did neither, the general opinion is that they kind of asked for it. (She also kills Oni Lee as a way of delivering the warning, but nobody's shedding tears over him either).
- There's several examples in With This Ring.
- Theodore Adam gets his soul eaten when he loses his trial by Teth Adom's gods.
- According to Teth Adom, his father was so awful that even the Wizard thought he deserved Adom killing him.
- Wotan, Felix Faust and Wizard are executed by the Chinese government in the Renegade timeline for their part in causing a global genocide of children.
- Sportsmaster and Bane become Grayven's constructs.
- After he takes the pregnant Queen Mera hostage, Prince Orm loses his hands when the Team were trying to rescue her.
