Asshole Victim / Film

Films with their own pages:

• Saw

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Films without them::

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• The 24th: The Houston police, while horrible, racist, and physically abusive to the black soldiers of the 24th Infantry division, have never actually killed any of them despite their intent. Later when fueled by paranoia, the 24th Infantry later rolls into town and preemptively wipes out the cops before they could even get a chance to react.
• 68 Kill:
  • According to Violet, Ken fired her and got her evicted when she turned down his sexual advances, and eventually used financial pressure to coerce her into having sex with him anyway. He gets his throat slit by Liza.
  • Chip kills Monica, a depraved torturer and murderer, for murdering Violet.

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• The Alien series:
  • Carter Burke in Aliens. He willingly sells out a unit of Colonial Marines so that he can bring back the xenomorphs for Weyland-Yutani to study and mass produce. He's enough of an asshole that (in a meta example) Paul Reiser's own mother enjoyed the character's death.
  • Most of the characters in Alien³ are convicted murderers and rapists. Some even try to rape Ripley at one point, and Golic is straight-up Ax-Crazy. It therefore becomes hard to root for a lot of them when the Alien kills them.
  • Dr. Mason Wren in Alien: Resurrection. He cloned Ripley in the first place and brought the Aliens back, tries to kill Call, and leaves the others for dead so he can hijack their ship and still deliver the Aliens to Earth. His death is particularly karmic.
• A.M.I.: Artificial Machine Intelligence: While this doesn't apply to all her victims, most of the people Cassie kills have wronged her in some way. For starters, her best friend Sarah has been sleeping with every boyfriend Cassie's ever had, including her current one, Liam.
• Anger of the Dead: Rooker and his number two kill anyone they can, so who was shedding tears when they got eaten by zombies.
• Animal Factory: Buck Rowan is a despicable prison rapist who ruins Earl and Ronnie's chances of being released from prison out of spite, so no one sheds any tears when he's murdered in the prison infirmary for snitching on them.
• Army of the Dead:
  • Burt Cummings. No one misses this abuser of female refugees after he gets taken away by the Alpha zombies to be bitten by Zeus and inducted into the zombie horde.
  • Martin. Trying to leave Chambers and later Lily for dead and kill the pilot for a getaway? Yeah, you're not getting any sympathy when you're getting mauled by a zombified tiger and having your face bitten off.
• In the Korean film Assassination, there's two of them.
  • General Shunsuke established himself as the most deplorable character when he shot a young girl in cold blood in front of everyone. He also later gladly and blatantly admits that he killed 300 people without any hesitation. Earning ire from Hawaii Pistol, when he did eventually shoot him down, Shunsuke looks at him in confusion before collapsing on the ground and dying.
  • Seok-Jin Yum, who is the main antagonist of the movie, is responsible for not only betraying his country but also involving himself in the killing of several characters in the movie and other countless innocents as well (although most were indirect). So when he does pay his price in the end by the main protagonist, it is nothing but satisfying.
• In Art of the Dead, Tiffany is an Alpha Bitch and a Cruel Cheerleader, but probably didn't deserve the be murdered and cut up by the Envy affected Donna.
• Assassins: It's strongly implied that Rath only went after bad guys while he was working as an assassin. Of the two targets we see him (try to) kill, one was another assassin who took all the messy jobs that Rath refused to take, and another a corrupt billionaire who supplied South American death squads.
• The Assignment (2016): Everybody who Frank murders is a criminal whom he notes no one will miss. The only possible exception is Sebastian, but even he's a jerk who threw away the money that his sister provided to pay his debt.
• Attack of the Killer Donuts: Conrad and his friends are a trio of bullies who walked into Dandy Donuts and demanded Michelle flash them her breasts. When she stands up for herself and John defends her by beating them up, and she maces them, and Cliff barges in demanding to know what's going on, they act as if they were attacked unprovoked, and Cliff fires Michelle. John quits in protest, and Cliff tries to smooth things over by giving them a box of free donuts. Later, the donuts attack and kill two of them, while the third, having eaten a tainted donut, dies barfing and spewing green diarrhea.

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• Backdraft: Seagrave, Cosgrove, and Holcomb were all part of a corrupt plan to use firemen as pawns to get rich off of real estate while several firehouses got closed down and several firemen ended up being killed due to the cuts. So it’s ok not to feel bad about their deaths.
• Bad Moon: A con artist who tried to sue the family by provoking Thor into attacking him early in the film shows up in the middle of the night later on to try and kill Thor in revenge. He comes face to face with a different canine — a ferocious werewolf, to be exact — instead.
• Baghead (2023): Neil turns out to be such a skin-crawling piece of work that the audience can’t help but be on the Baghead's side when she brutally kills him via No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
• Kirby in Bait 3D. He's the robber responsible for killing the women at the start and tries to use another of the survivors as bait. Doyle attacks Kirby in turn and uses him as bait instead.
• In The Banana Splits Movie, three of the victims definitely fit this trope:
  • Stevie, the only human actor of the show, who acts all nice and childlike on set but backstage is revealed to be an egotistical alcoholic who takes great glee in rubbing in the fact that the show's going to be cancelled to the Banana Splits. He becomes the first victim when Drooper rams a giant lollipop prop down his throat.
  • Andy, the studio executive who decides to cancel the Banana Splits Show, despite it getting good ratings, simply because he thinks it's boring. He gets the worse death when the Banana Splits nail him to a new "Wheel of Endings" and it lands on "Banana Split," which leads to Fleegle and Drooper ripping Andy's arms and legs off.
  • Mitch, the husband of Beth and father of Harley and Austin, who's been cheating on Beth with his assistant, is a complete jerk to his kids, and when Beth finds out about the affair, he blames her for it. So it was quite satisfying to see him get run over by the Banana Buggie. Twice!
• AJ in Barbarian is a rapist and a Dirty Coward who throws the Final Girl, Tess, from a water tower as a diversion to save his own skin, especially since Tess went back to the house to save his life earlier in the film.
• Batman Film Series:
  • In Batman (1989), there's Lt. Eckhardt, a Fat Bastard Corrupt Cop who Jack kills just before becoming the Joker, and Carl Grissom, a vicious mob boss, who attempt to have Jack murdered is partly responsible for Jack becoming the Joker in the first place. There's also fellow mob lords Antoine Rotelli and Vinnie Ricorso, who learn the hard way the lesson of going over the Joker's head.
  • Batman Returns:
    • There was Max Shrek, a Corrupt Corporate Executive who tried to kill his secretary by shoving her off a building, and later tried to take over the city by recalling the mayoral election and supporting the Penguin in a bid to become mayor, which almost caused a disaster. And this all after murdering his business partner Fred Atkins to gain sole control of the company, dumped toxic waste on Gotham's sewer system, and implicitly offed his wife before the events of the film(And that's just what's known about.) It's unlikely that anyone felt the least bit sorry for him at the end of the movie when an electricity-enhanced kiss from Selena reduced him to a charred corpse.
  • And there is the nameless mugger and rapist whom Catwoman first uses as a claw sharpener.
  • Fred Stickley in Batman Forever. Stickley's continued verbal abuse toward Edward Nygma was the ignition of the latter's transformation to The Riddler, so nobody is really going to miss him.
• The Beach Girls and the Monster: Vicky. Among other things, she hits on and teases Richard, insults his friend Mark for his disability, cheats on her husband, and is disappointed that she missed the murder of the first girl. No one was sad when she is the third victim of the monster.
• Beast (2017):
  • Pascal. He is killed by Moll after she finds out he's a serial rapist and killer, and has been lying to her about it ever since they met.
  • Possibly the girl who Moll stabbed in high school. She had bullied her so relentlessly Moll stabbed her in self-defence. Moll later admits that she actually just did it for revenge and the now adult girl is still shown to be very distraught by the incident, potentially subverting this.
• Beast (2022): Any and all of the poachers who are killed by the lion. Not only are they poachers in the first place, they caused the events of the film by killing the rogue lion's pride in the opening and were about to kill Nate and his daughters for simply knowing Martin, who they recognize as an anti-poacher.
• Berkshire County: Marcus secretly recorded Kylie giving him a blowjob at a Halloween Party, causing her to be bullied and slut-shamed by her peers. When she runs into him again, he reveals he has a second video of the act and threatens to upload it to the internet if she doesn't get the principal off his back. He ends up impaled through his side by one of the intruders with a pitchfork.
• Bit: Duke tells Laurel her group make a point of trying to feed on bad men, like rapists, though she admits there are lapses.
• Black Christmas (2006) has Mrs Lenz and her lover. Mrs Lenz hated her husband and her son, and teamed up with her lover to kill her husband. Realizing that Billy was a witness, they locked him in the attic and kept him there for 15 years. When Billy was 12, his mother raped him to impregnate herself. After Billy's escape, they are his first two kills.
• In the film Black Cloud, the main character assaults his girlfriend's former boyfriend Eddie after he insults her. Eddie got the girl pregnant and apparently made no effort to make any contact with her or his son for close to four years. Not exactly the nicest person.
• It is doubtful many will have mourned the death of the sleazy real estate developer Stengler in Black Zoo.
• In Blade, we find out the morgue technician is a supporting character’s asshole ex-boyfriend seconds before he dies.
• Harry Prebble in The Blue Gardenia tries to rape Norah, and is promptly killed just not by her.
• This is the premise of The Boondock Saints. They kill gangsters who couldn't be touched by the police.
• In Bride of Chucky, most of Chucky and Tiffany's victims fit this trope. Needle Nose Norton gets paid extra money to follow Jesse and Jade (since Jade's uncle, Warren Kincaid, who is chief of police, hates Jesse and wants to keep him and Jade apart) under the pretense of suspecting them of drunk driving. Warren plants marijuana in Jesse's van to frame him for drug possession. And the couple who rob Jesse and Jade are killed by Tiffany with mirror shards.
• Bright plays with this trope: Some of Nick Jakoby's co-workers in the LAPD are racist and bigoted towards him for being an orc, and are later revealed to be dirty cops that want to keep the Artifact of Doom for themselves and attempt to kill him and his partner Ward, who ends up having to kill them in self-defense. While the audience will likely not grieve for them since they lacked any sympathetic qualities, the rest of the police ends up chasing Ward and Jakoby, thinking they are cop killers and don't know the full story. At the end of the movie, Agent Kandomere covers up the murders to protect the duo by making up a story where the corrupt cops were instead killed by a terrorist group, making sure they will be remembered as heroes by the public much to Ward's disgust.
• Bruiser (2000): Henry's boss Milosh, his wife Janine, 'best friend' Jimmy, and his maid who steals from him. They all get what is coming to them.
• The first victim of Bubba Ho Tep is an old woman who steals another nursing home resident's packages from home and swipes the glasses off a woman in an iron lung... while said woman is awake. In the commentary, Don Coscarelli discusses this trope.
• The murder victim in the movie Bully, which is based on a real homicide of a teen who bullied and abused his best friend, his best friend's girlfriend, and all of his associates.
• Byzantium: Ruthven deserves his death many times over.

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• Trevor in Candyman. Not only was he cheating on his wife Helen with a student, but it is implied that he was going to let her rot in the asylum while he would set off for a new life with his lover. He is shown grieving for Helen after she dies, but by then it is too late for him.
• This was the reason that nobody found any sympathy for the documentary crew in Cannibal Holocaust, who did everything they could to abuse the local Amazonian tribe they were filming. One of their crimes involved burning down a village for no reason other than to shoot a scene. One critic actually noted "The film crew more than deserved their deaths."
• Christmas Blood: In the intro montage of news reports of news about the Santa Claus killer, it's mentioned that his list of victims contained the names of lawbreakers.
• Claw (2021): The scientist who created the raptor decided to shoot Julia with a tranquilizer dart. Then, when he was getting things from a convenience store, he was very rude to the store clerk. After that part, he discovers the raptor woke up and is eaten by it.
• Conjoined: Alisa's second date, when he saw that she was conjoined to her sister, decided to take a picture of them and post it online for internet fame. Alisa decides to tackle him and slam his head into the floor until he's dead.
• Dr. David Drumlin deserved to get it in the neck for EVERYTHING he does to screw over Ellie Arroway in Contact.
• Creepshow, being the troperiffic delight that it is, has lots of fun with this. We've got Nathan (emotionally abusive, murderous father), Bedelia (his insane, drunk-driving, parricidal daughter), Richard (psychotic, murderous Leslie Nielsen), Billie (emotionally abusive, nagging Adrienne Barbeau), and Upson Pratt (Corrupt Corporate Executive E.G. Marshall). In the final scene of the Framing Story, the boy who was reading the comic is torturing his abusive, hypocritical dad with a voodoo doll. The EC horror comics it's influenced by are just chock-full of Asshole Victims and Karmic Deaths.
• Dr. William Barton in The Creature Walks Among Us. The man is a paranoid, cold-hearted, Crazy Jealous Guy who's prone to emotionally terrorizing his wife. When Barton murdered Jed Grant, instead of accepting responsibility, he tries to stage a Frame-Up for the Gill Man to take the fall. When the Gill Man broke out, Barton attempts to run for his life like the squirming coward he is. No tears were shed when Gill Man throws the bastard off from a balcony.
  • Now before you feel bad for Grant. Don't. The guy is a womanizing piece of shit. When Barton murdered him, it was completely out of pure jealousy when the latter was hitting on the former's wife, but the guy totally had it coming when you remembered that he tried to force himself on Marcia and still attempted to make moves on her afterwords. So, it was probably the only good thing Barton ever did in this movie (even though he's no better).
• Critters:
  • The landlord and janitor in Critters 3 are impossible to feel any sympathy for getting killed by the Crites because the former was willing to force his tenants to leave the hotel of their own accord to maximize his profits and the latter was hired by the former to unleash rats on one of his tenants and was generally a repulsive scumbag.
  • Captain Rick Buttram becomes the first victim of the Crites in Critters 4, with his domineering attitude towards his crew, willingness to cheat TerraCor out of property they had a claim to, and perviness by attempting to peep on Fran while she showers ensuring that his demise at the hands of the small, furry and carnivorous aliens is exactly what he deserves.

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• Dance Me Outside: Clarence Gaskill. He's a Jerkass, a violent drunk, and a murderer. Not only that, he only spends a year in jail for murdering Little Margaret.
• In the cop drama Dark Blue, Detective Eldon Perry frames a bunch of known hoodlums for another crime to quickly solve a case on his superior Jack Van Meter's orders. He convinces his partner Bobby to kill an escaping suspect by pointing out that no one will miss the guy anyway, but Bobby is visibly shaken by the act as he points out that this still doesn't make it right.
• Das Finstere Tal: The villagers actually thank Greider for killing the Brenners. Given that the Brenners are inbred, sadistic rapists who terrorize the villagers on a regular basis, this is unsurprising.
• All the bikers in the original Dawn of the Dead (1978). Particularly that one guy who decides that it's a perfect time to check his blood pressure.
• It's not a murder mystery, but Steve in the remake of Dawn of the Dead (2004) more than qualifies. When he finally gets zombified and then shot in the head you're likely to cheer. Also somewhat applies to CJ, who's a bit of a jerk at first but does start to lighten up towards the end, and gets to die in a Heroic Sacrifice when he blows himself up to destroy a bunch of zombies so that everyone else can get away.
• Daylight's End: Seeing someone trapped in a car that is being swarmed by zombies and shooting himself while shaking uncontrollably isn't a pleasant sight. Still, if it had to happen to any of the survivors, then Dugan is by far the least pitiable of the bunch, after constantly insulting Rourke and unsuccessfully trying to convince Vince the pilot to abandon the rest of the survivors—including children— so the two of them can escape alone.
• DC Extended Universe:
  • A non-lethal example in Man of Steel. After a bully sexually harasses a waitress in a bar and (tries to) get violent when asked politely to leave, Clark takes out his truck. The damage is scary, but it's hard to feel sorry for the guy.
  • Wonder Woman (2017): Diana mistakes Ludendorff for Ares, which he is not, leading to a Curbstomp Battle where she effectively kills the wrong man. Still, Ludendorff is a vile and cruel man who wiped out a village of innocents, so it's doubtful anyone mourns him or blames Diana.
• Virtually each of the protagonists in Dead Birds. They are a group of deserters, which would not really be a problem. But they rob a bank and murder several innocent people, including a child. When they finally reach the house cursed by demons, they only get what they deserve.
• Dead Silence. As soon as he first appears, everyone knows that Det. Jim Lipton will get what's coming to him by the end.
• Death Sentence: Given the fact that Joe killed Brendan (an innocent), him getting killed isn't really that sad.
• There are a lot of examples in the Death Note (2017) adaptation. First, we see Kenny Doyle, who is a very brutal bully who beats or robs other students for no reason whatsoever. And shortly thereafter, we see Anthony Skomal, who repeatedly commits crimes, and is acquitted in court. He even drive over the wife of a policeman (who was also the mother of Light Turner) in his car (it is unknown whether he did it on purpose or accidentally) and was acquitted. But the biggest example is Light's right-hand woman Mia, who orchestrates everything that goes south for the other characters, and murders innocent people behind Light's back to safeguard Kira's identity from the public eye, and blackmails Light into transferring the Note's Ownership to her, all so she can continue her power-hungry massacre. Actually, almost all the victims of Light Turner qualify because he is much more of a hero than his anime/manga counterpart, Light Yagami.
• Miles Kennefik, who was killed by Frank Costello, according to Captain George Ellerby from The Departed. He said that they are not going to solve the case of the "missing scumbag".
• Dementia 13: Louise, a Gold Digger and all-around total bitch who covered up her husband's death just so she can get his part of the inheritance and attempts to manipulate a grief-stricken mother into thinking her dead daughter haunts her. Louise deserved that ax to the face.
• In Dogma, Loki visits a boardroom of Corrupt Corporate Executives, lists their individual sins (idolatry, adultery, statutory rape, intolerance, etc.), then kills them. He did spare the only one who didn't have any sins. Although she did forget to say GOD BLESS YOU!!
• In Dogville, the viewer actually feels relieved when mobsters kill the whole goddamn population of the titular town, including the children. They're just that awful.
• Everyone in Don't Breathe. The kids are hunted, tormented, and most of them are killed because they tried to rob a blind man's house. The Blind Man turns out to have a kidnapped woman trapped in his basement, pregnant with his child. And she is the drunk driver who killed the Blind Man's daughter and got away with a slap on the wrist because she came from a wealthy family (he figures she owes him a child since she took the one he already had).
• Mr. Dietrichson in Double Indemnity, for the sake of making Neff a Sympathetic Murderer.
• Downfall, a historical drama film detailing the last days of the Nazi high command as the Soviets close in on Berlin, from the viewpoint of Gertrude "Traudl" Junge, one of Adolf Hitler's secretaries. Most of the Nazi high command are depressed wrecks, burning any evidence that could tie them to their crimes, trying to enjoy what time they have left with whatever comforts they can get, or popping Cyanide Pills like candy^note This is all Truth in Television. Hitler himself flip-flops between being the dignified captain of a sinking ship, a delusional optimist, and a petty, paranoid man who rants about how the Germans don't deserve to survive as a people for losing "his" war.
• The black comedy Drowning Mona. Bette Milder played Mona, a woman so universally despised that when she was killed, no one cared about her death (beyond wondering who had finally done the deed) and only her son and husband showed up at her funeral (and they weren't too broken up about it). This made the jobs of the investigators much more difficult because practically everyone in town had a reason for wanting to kill Mona, making everyone a suspect.
• Mental from Dumb and Dumber accidentally gets killed by Harry and Lloyd when they give him rat poison instead of his ulcer pills. Thing is, he was a contract killer who deliberately murdered Harry's parakeet in cold blood, and the rat poison that killed him was actually the same substances that he was planning to use in order to kill the duo.

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• The titular character in El Esqueleto de la Sra. Morales (Skeleton of Mrs. Morales) suffers a severe case of assholism. To wit: Exploiting a malformation of hers for sympathy, feigning to be a victim of domestic violence, attempting to poison her husband's pet owl, and breaking his newly bought camera.
• Kirsten’s mother from Elves is a complete bitch to her, being both physically and verbally abusive, she also suspends her bank account because she was out late with her friends one night and drowns her cat while she’s away at work, just because it scratched her little brother protecting him from the murderous elf, even with the reveal that Kirsten was born because her father raped her, that is still no excuse for her poor treatment of her, so it’s difficult to feel sorry for her later on when the elf kills her by electrocuting her in the bathtub.
• Carlyle and Delacourt in Elysium. The former was picked by Max for exactly that reason.
• Empire of the Ants: Only a handful of the main characters are even remotely likeable, so several of the victims are this by default. But a particular standout is Larry, who assaults Coreen within minutes of getting to the island and abandons his wife Christine when she falls and twists her ankle. Watching him get brutally chomped by giant ants is extremely satisfying.
• Ross Stennis from Ernest Goes to Camp. He's the first camp counselor assigned to the boys and is incredibly tough on them (most likely because they came from a detention center and he doesn't trust them). During swim time, he finds out that Moose can't swim and rather than teach him or give him a floating device, he picks him up and drops him into the deep end. After Ernest saves Moose from drowning, the other boys push the lifeguard tower into the lake while Stennis is still on it, causing him to break his leg and forcing him to leave his job.
• Scotty, in The Evil Dead (1981). As well as the two rednecks in Evil Dead 2.
• Ex Machina: Nobody can feel much sympathy for Nathan when he gets killed, considering his manipulative and abusive behavior towards Caleb and the bots he created.
• In the 2009 comedy film Ex Terminators, a few women working for the ABC Pest Control company secretly engage in exterminating various types of abusive husbands and boyfriends. Their last victim before the film ended was an IRS agent with a really shady past history that was investigating the pest control company.
• Eye for an Eye is about a mother who hears her daughter raped and murdered by a grocery deliverer while talking to her on the cell phone, who gets off on a technicality, and decides to kill him.

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• Everyone in Falling Down. Bill Foster may be a bit crazy, but he's an absolute saint compared to a lot of the people in LA he terrorizes.
  • The straightest example is the homophobic neo-Nazi military surplus store owner. Absolutely nobody thought Foster was a bad guy for stabbing and shooting him.
  • The Latino hoodlums who tried to mug him and then tried to shoot him when the mugging attempt failed. They hit a few innocent bystanders though.
  • The Korean store owner, who is rude, callous, overcharges for things at his store and won't lift a finger for a guy who clearly needs help and only wanted some change for a phone call. Foster retaliates by overpowering him, taking his bat, and smashing up his store.
  • The golfers are elitist jerks and one of them launches a ball at him. Foster threatens them with a shotgun and taunts the one who has a heart attack. This time Foster comes off as a jerk.
  • The Whammy Burger manager Rick, who is passive-aggressive and smarmy.^note Notice after Foster produces a machine-pistol and Rick finally acquiesces to his demands for breakfasts (3 minutes after breakfasts stopped), the counter girl picks up a box from a big rack of twenty on the warmer. They could have just sold him a breakfast, Rick was just being a stickler.
• Mary Lou Barebone from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them spends most of her screentime being needlessly cruel towards her foster children (especially Credence), and she eventually ends up suffering from the wrath of Credence, leaving her in horrific agony.
• Final Destination has mostly sympathetic characters that are trying to escape death by physics, but there are exceptions:
  • Final Destination 4 has two standout examples in the cast, in the form of Carter Daniels, and Hunt. Carter calls Nick a freak after Nick's premonition saves his life, has no compunctions whatsoever about using the N-word in mixed company, and his Karmic Death comes when he is about to erect a burning cross in George's front yard—for reference, George is an African-American who also escaped the opening disaster and prevented Carter from going back for his wife, also saving his life. Hunt, meanwhile, went to the race specifically to see a car crash, is Vitriolic Best Buds at best with Nick, doesn't care about the satisfaction of his sexual partner at the pool, and steals a kid's water gun and tossed it in the trash.
  • Final Destination 5 offers us Isaac, who is such a ridiculous sleazeball that his death is practically played for laughs.
• Firewall Bill Cox and his henchmen (except for Vel). Considering Bill Cox was a loathsome con-artist who kidnapped and held the family of wealthy banker Jack Stanfield hostages, and forced Jack to give in to his demands. He manipulate, antagonized and forced Jack Stanfield into electronically transferring ten thousand dollars from the ten thousand largest depositors at the bank he works to Cox's own offshore accounts and wanted to commit the perfect crime by erasing every single trace of his crimes by killing Jack and his family and framing him for the robbery and the murder, and that many of Bill Cox's henchmen (except for Vel) were loathsome as well, they will not be missed by anybody at all, for they deserved nothing but death.
• Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)
  • Aunt Jane's vandals break into the pizzeria with the intent of smashing the place up and getting Mike fired. The four of them, rather justifiably, get picked off one-by-one by the animatronics.
  • Aunt Jane herself, who tries to take Abby away from Mike merely to receive government funding and orders her goons to arrange Mike's discharge from his new post so this can happen, gets killed by Golden Freddy and her death isn't even mentioned afterwards.
  • William Afton, the serial killer who murdered Mike's little brother and the five Missing Children, as well as emotionally abused his own daughter Vanessa into being his accomplice, meets his end via springlock failure. Given everything he's done, nobody will mourn for him.
• Martin Brundle from The Fly II turns into a giant fly monster. After the transformation, he only kills the people who mistreated him when he was a human being and spared the innocent among them. He is a remarkably nice monster who wants to (and will) become human again.
• In Force of Nature: The Dry 2, Alice, the missing woman, is a bully who was embezzling from her employer and then cut a deal with the police to inform on her bosses in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
• Every single character but one dies in Frankenstein's Army, and all but three of them deserve it. The Soviets are war criminals who raze a farmstead and later execute non-combatants. The Nazis are the Nazis. Frankenstein is an insane sociopathic maniac who not only mutilates and lobotomizes people, but also reserves a particular fate for those who really piss him off, as seen with his beheaded but still alive mother. Dimitri, our protagonist, is a manipulative and ruthless jerkass who forces his comrades to go through with the mission with their families as collateral, and once he comes face-to-face with the doctor, expresses nothing but admiration at his work and offers to let him get away scotfree as a USSR scientist. The only people who don't deserve their fates are the nurse, the Hitlerjugend boy, and the elderly Nazi who's shown to be quite grandfatherly to the boy.
• In Frankenstein Created Woman, the obnoxious Anton who uses his position to take what he wants without paying, mercilessly mocks the crippled and disfigured Christina, and kills Kleve when the cafe owner catches Anton stealing from him. He even continues to mock the dead Christina in the moments before he dies: not realising that the woman he is with is Christina returned from the grave. At least his two companions express regret for their role in the murder, but Anton goes to his grave unrepentant.
• The main characters in Freaks (2018) use their powers to murder several police officers. But it is hard to feel sorry for them when the police so readily shoot to kill anyone suspected of being "abnormal".
  • Also, Nancy Reed, who sells Chloe out to the ADF.
• Future World (2018): The sadistic, murderous Warlord gets stabbed to death by Ash, while Big Daddy Love Lord, a sex slaver, is beaten to death by the women he had enslaved.

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• The mission director in Gattaca was... not universally liked, making the movie an example of reason number three.
• Ghost Note: Late in the movie, we see a redneck who was cleaning his guns, and argued about whether he or his wife should walk their dog. When he eventually does it, he's shown berating the dog for not pooping. He's then killed by Eugene Burns.
• The Gillymuck: Three of the four girls are nasty brats who scared one of their own into leaving in tears, leading to her finding The Gillymuck. Whatever the Gillymuck did to them, they brought on themselves.
• In A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, two out of three victims of the vampire are this. The vampire makes clear that she prefers to kill bad people, and spares one young boy who asserts he is a good boy. She just steals his skateboard.
• In Glass Onion, the first victim that we know of is a men's rights activist Youtuber who was banned from Twitch after advertising "rhino-horn boner pills" to teenagers. Unsurprisingly, nobody liked him all that much. Almost immediately after, the other characters realize that his death may have been an accident, and the real target was, somehow, someone even worse.
• The Godfather: There are a fair number of asshole victims throughout the franchise.
  • Connie's first husband Carlo Rizzi definitely qualifies after spending most of the first movie cheating on Connie and beating her at the slightest provocation, along with luring Sonny into a trap in which the elder Corleone brother is assassinated. Very few people shed any tears when Clemenza strangles him to death on Michael's orders. Even Connie is quick to move on.
  • In Part II, it's revealed that Sicilian mafia boss Don Francesco Ciccio had Vito Andolini's father and brother killed and then killed Vito's mother killed when she tried to convince Ciccio to spare the nine-year-old Vito. Ciccio then tries to locate and kill Vito - who escapes to America with the help of family friends. Many years later the now Vito Corleone returns to Sicily and avenges his deceased brother and parents by slicing the elderly Ciccio open. Not too many people shed any tears over his death given how cruel he was, and locals are happy that the more benevolent Don Tommasino is taking over.
• Godzilla:
  • Mothra vs. Godzilla: Torahata and Kumayama, about midway through the film, once the human plot is mostly done and the kaiju plot is taking center stage.
  • Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster: Malness and his men. His men die when one of Ghidorah's energy beams cause a landslide that also injures Malness. Malness dies after another energy beam causes another landslide.
  • The American soldiers who get killed in the opening by the Saradian agent in Godzilla vs. Biollante.
  • Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah:Wilson and Glenchico are both killed by Godzilla after their Evil Plan is foiled.
  • Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth: Takeshi Tomokane in the manga adaptation. Yeah, you should've looked where you were driving. At Godzilla's foot.
  • Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019): In an extra scene in the film's novelization, the paramilitary Eco-Terrorist Big Bad Wannabe Alan Jonah and his Mook Lieutenant Asher mention they once went after big-game hunters in the Democratic Republic of Congo. You'd have to be a piece of work to argue that those particular victims of theirs didn't have it coming.
• Gone (2012): The abductor, who would have murdered (and likely raped) Jill (while he's also had many more victims), gets shot painfully and burned to death by her.
• Golden Swallow has the pair of wealthy landlords, the Chao Brothers, who framed an innocent farming family over the theft of a goose in order to confiscate their land, resulting in the farmer's eight-year-old son committing suicide, the farmer getting killed in the ensuing struggle, and the wife being driven insane after losing her family in a single morning. Completely without remorse, in their next scene the Chao brothers are shown ordering their mooks in tearing down the farmers' house to build their new mansion, but it just so happens the assassin Silver Roc is passing by the area looking for evil-doers to kill. Both brothers end up dying by Silver Roc's sword, barely a day after the farming family's massacre, and no tears were shed.
• Gosford Park. Though the victim as we see him is portrayed relatively sympathetically, seeming to be a fairly nice old duffer with a horrible harpy of a wife (she tears chunks out of him at dinner in front of all their friends), his past is not so clear and when he is murdered it turns out everyone had a motive. Though in fact all the people with real, personal motives are ignored as they are only the servants.
• Mrs. Deagle from Gremlins was SUCH a bitch, especially in the deleted scenes that reveal she was forcing people out of their homes to put down a strip mall, effectively destroying Kingston Falls.
  • In the novelization, she was selling their land to a chemical company (named "Hitox"), so one can assume she was going to turn the town into a toxic waste dump.
  • Even in the onscreen version, she is a heartless ice-bitch who casually evicts poor widows with children on Christmas Eve, and gleefully threatens to kill helpless little dogs by throwing them in the drying machine.
    • Almost Lampshaded herself after seeing the Gremlins for the first time, convinced "they're" coming for her. Her breakdown into delusional sobbing before she activates her tampered stairlift and her own demise almost makes you feel sorry for her makes you cheer as she flies down to Hell where she belongs (the Latin American translation even adds "to go to Hell" to the line below).
      Mrs. Deagle: I'm not ready!!!
  • There's actually a bit cut out of the scene leading up to her death, where she looks at a picture of her dead husband and sighs "Oh, Donald..." It was so good they had to cut it out because it made her too sympathetic. And this after she's threatened to put a friendly, cute dog into a spin dryer on high heat!
• Very deliberately invoked in the 2008 nature horror film, Grizzly Park. The 8 characters forced into community service in Grizzly Park as rehabilitation for their misdemeanors are deliberately set up to be as obnoxious, apathetic, and unsympathetic as possible, each appearing to get a Karmic Death from the bear trying to kill them. In the end, it's revealed the bear belonged to the park ranger who trained it to kill any members of the group. The ranger lets the last survivor live, believing she has made a Heel Realization and learned from her previous mistakes. Nope, he later overhears her (unaware that the ranger was part of the plot) calling her friend telling her she had manipulated him and planned to kill him later — prompting her to be mauled by the bear towards the end of the movie.

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• John Strode and Barry Simms in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, and a quite number of people in Rob Zombie's Halloween (2007) and Halloween II (2009).
  • Pointedly defied in Halloween (2018). Every one of Michael's victims has redeemable qualities - Dana, who is nice to Laurie during the interview; Vicky the babysitter who gets a cute moment with her charge and dies trying to protect him from Michael; the two cops who got a funny scene comparing their lunchies, etc. Played straight however by Dr. Sartain.
• Michael Horrigan's death at the climax of Halo: Nightfall—being eaten by feral Lekgolo worms—is particularly deserved, considering he'd been an inexcusable jerkass to the ONI team's Sedran companions, then topped that by, in succession, using one of their prisoners as bait for the Lekgolo, turning on his CO Jameson Locke and leaving him to die, using his fellow traitor Greg Ramos as bait for the Lekgolo, and finally gunning down the other prisoner to stop him leaving him behind.
• In Hannibal Rising, Hannibal's first kill is Paul Momund, a foul-mouthed butcher and unrepentant Vichy collaborator who insulted Hannibal's Japanese aunt with racial epithets. Hannibal takes the family's katana to him in a memorable scene in which he slices him up and then takes his head.
• Jeff the child molester in Hard Candy.
• Hatched: Sargeant Fletcher is a soldier in the British Military who's more interested in studying the dinosaurs Simon created and keeping the family from leaving the house than he is in helping them. He even shoots and kills Bernard when the latter stands up to him. At the end of the movie, he's eaten by a raptor.
• Both used and deconstructed in the film Heathers — most of the victims are (or seem to be) Asshole Victims but then through the heroine's eyes we see how their deaths affect their loved ones, and see her realize that being an asshole isn't worth being killed over.
• Hellboy:
  • Liz Sherman from Hellboy (2004) is hunted down in childhood by other children and insulted, and pelted with stones. As one of the stones hurts her, she loses control of her powers and kills the children.
  • In Hellboy (2019), while hunting for three giants, the Osiris Club turns their back on Hellboy, claiming that he will bring about the apocalypse. Not too long as they're about to execute him, they are promptly killed by the giants they're hunting, the leader getting decapitated first.
• Hellraiser:
  • Frank Cotton starts the first movie being condemned to an eternity of body mod S&M torture. It's established fairly quickly that Frank was a misogynistic criminal sleazebag before that happened, so it's not surprising when he returns from the dead that he is willing to commit multiple murder and fratricide to get his skin back. We don't feel bad when he gets claimed by the Cenobites the second time.
  • Julia Cotton, Frank's sister-in-law and lover, is so willing to also become his partner-in-crime and lure numerous innocents to their death and skinning at the hands of Frank that she more or less fills this role just as much as he is. And by the second movie she gets even more points.
  • In Hellraiser: Inferno, Detective Joseph Thorne's snitch Bernie is strongly implied to be a pedophile and becomes the third of the Engineer killer's victims.
    • Joseph Thorne is damned, not murdered, but it's hard to feel bad for an adulterer who frames good cops, deals and uses drugs, steals from the evidence room, shows no concern for victims, assaults suspects, hides evidence in investigations, lies to his family, ignores his aged parents, and is kinda a smug jerk after winning at chess.
  • Happens in Hellraiser: Hellseeker, where it's revealed that Kirsty killed her sleazy husband Trevor, who had planned on murdering her for her money; Trevor's best friend, who was in on the plan; and three women Trevor actually videotaped himself cheating on Kirsty with (the women were all also in relationships).
• Hobo with a Shotgun: The bum fight guy, the pimp, the pedophile Santa, the Dirty Cop, Slick, Ivan, and Drake.
• Captain Wade Hunnicutt (Robert Mitchum) in Home From The Hill gets a rather lethal taste of Laser-Guided Karma when, after years of womanizing, he is killed by the father of a local girl whom the father, in light of Wade's reputation, believes that Wade fathered a child with. Turns out it was actually Wade's son Theron who knocked the girl up — so ironically Wade himself gets killed for something he didn't actually do.
• Hood of Horror: the whole film revolves around making people pay for their crimes against man by grotesque brutal death and then hell.
• Horrible Bosses has this as the reason the three protagonists are attempting to murder their respective employers. Two of the bosses are dealt with in other ways and survive thus being subversions, but Colin Farrell's character does get killed (albeit not in the way the trio were considering killing him), which makes him an example of this trope.
• Everyone in Hostel spends most of the movie doing everything they can to make you hate them, even after they know their friends are being kidnapped and killed. Paxton could be a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, as he risks his life to save complete strangers. Josh is also always kind to everyone.
• Howl (2015): Adrian. He proves himself a Dirty Coward and an Ungrateful Bastard towards the rest of the group who will throw any of them under a bus when he thinks it suits his own survival in addition to generally being an unpleasant person. After he locks Joe and Ellen onboard the train with the werewolves to die whilst he escapes into the woods alone, he ultimately gets hunted down and ripped apart by the werewolf pack before ever making it back to civilization.
• Matthew Burke from House of Wax (1953). He's shallow, lecherous and by far worst of all greedy (to a murderous extent), and implied to be stringing along Cathy, who thinks he has marriage plans, though granted she is herself a Gold Digger. He gets fittingly murdered by Jarrod, his death is disguised as a suicide and his body ends up being coated in wax and used to recreate said faked suicide.
• House on Haunted Hill (1959): Annabelle and Dr. Trent, the ones who orchestrated the whole in a crazy attempt to kill the former's husband so they can get his fotune, really had it coming.
• The Hug: Aiden is a demanding little brat who didn't care about playing skee ball by the rules, or listening to the guy who warned him away from Pandory having his "dinner break". By the end of the short, he ends up inside of Pandory's stomach.
• The Hunt for Red October. Political Officer Putin is cold-bloodedly murdered by Captain Ramius early on. Because his killer is a hero in the movie, the victim is shown to be very rude (entering another character's quarters without permission and speaking to him in an insulting way) to justify his killing. This is later Lampshaded by another character, 2nd. Lt. Victor Slavin:

  Slavin: So he was murdered. I have no problem with that. The man was a pig.

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• The Crown Prince from The Illusionist (2006). Sure, he's an absolute jerk with a history of beating and maybe even killing women. But the protagonists end up driving him to suicide over a murder they know for a fact he did not actually commit.
• In Broad Daylight. Len Rowan torments the town of Darby, Missouri and bullies its people until someone shoots him. Outside his family and few friends, no one's really sorry Rowan is dead. The county sheriff himself is more upset that the citizens of Darby took the law into their own hands than the fact that Rowan is dead. Rowan was based on "town bully" Ken McElroy, who similarly harassed and terrorized Skidmore, Missouri until his murder in the summer of 1981.
• Inglourious Basterds. Expectedly, Nazis, all the way up to Adolf Hitler himself. Real-life examples may not be allowed, but the Nazi Party is both similar enough to the real ones and yet fictional enough on an individual level to make it here.
• I See You's Greg is ultimately a ruthless child predator who abuses his power as a detective to kill, torture and gaslight his victims without repercussions. It's difficult to feel sorry when Alec, a former victim, finally kills Greg with his own gun.
• Island of Death has a pair of hippies who attempt to rape Celia in the bathtub, only to find themselves on the receiving end of Christopher's wrath. And at the end, there's Christopher and Celia themselves, who had spent the entire film up to that point murdering completely innocent people on the island of Mykonos.

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• James Bond:
  • Due to legal issues dogging the franchise at the time, Ernst Stavro Blofeld appears as an unnamed villain in The Teaser for For Your Eyes Only. By then, he's lost all of the power and wealth he had in the earlier films and is now permanently crippled, thanks to the exploding oil rig at the end of Diamonds Are Forever. Due to this, Blofeld tries to kill his Arch-Enemy 007 in a remote-controlled helicopter, but Bond manages to turn the tables by regaining control over the chopper (whose pilot had just died inside). With the wheelchair firmly hooked by the skids (It Makes Sense in Context), Blofeld is then easily reduced to being a screaming wreck pathetically crying uncle, but 007 ignores his attempts to bargain it and dumps him down a chimney, killing him off for good. Despite having an Undignified Death, it truly means that a monster like Blofeld well-deserved it given his ungrateful murder attempt on Bond, who was visiting his wife's grave.
  • In No Time to Die, Dr. Valdo Obruchev is a sniveling weasel who sides with anyone who can help and protect him, and at one point he even suggests wiping out ethnicities such as Africans with his terrifying invention, Heracles. He meets his Death by Racism by way of an Acid Pool, courtesy of agent Nomi.
• The music group "Low Shoulders", which kills Jennifer in Jennifer's Body and sacrifices her to a demon, are killed by Needy at the end of the movie.
• Kirk from Jeepers Creepers 3 catches wild rabbits with his traps, only to torture them afterwards. When he approaches the Creeper's car, he is killed by one of the traps installed there.
• Arthur's first killings in Joker (2019) were three drunk businessmen on a train who were harassing a random woman and then started beating him up for their amusement. Many of the public even rally around the killings, saying that they got what they deserved. However, Arthur's bar of what justifies murder gets lower and lower as the film progresses. He kills his mother because he discovers she abused and neglected Arthur in his youth which is understandable but then he kills his former coworker Randall simply because he threw Arthur under the bus to protect his own job and finally he kills Murray Franklin because he made fun of Arthur's standup attempt on his talk show, and it's left ambiguous whether he killed the psychiatrist at the end (who had done nothing to wrong him). Or as he puts it, he killed those three guys "because they were awful", but by the end of the film he comes to see everyone as awful.
• In Juncture, everyone Anna kills has been responsible for the death or harm of a child: a rapist, a junkie mother whose children died in a fire while she was out scoring, a Pedophile Priest, etc.
• There are a few examples in the Jurassic Park films.
  • Jurassic Park (1993):
    • Gennaro, the smarmy self-serving lawyer sent to investigate the safety of the park, very quickly forgets his "investigation" once the images of dollar signs start dancing around in his head. And when it all goes inevitably keel up, he abandons the children to a grisly death to save his own skin. So you'll find very few sympathizers in the audience when his bold ploy of hiding and cowering in the toilet fails. "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Jurassic Park" puts it best:
      A huge tyrannosaurus ate our lawyer
      Well, I suppose that proves
      They're really not all bad.
    • Nedry, who drives the whole plot, is about as unappealing a character as he could possibly be without doing intentional murder. And Wayne Knight plays all his slovenly abrasiveness with Newman-esque glee. Needless to say, nobody mourns him when he gets blinded and eaten by a Dilophosaurus whom he was being very condescending towards.
  • In The Lost World: Jurassic Park:
    • Peter Stormare's character (Dieter) Kicks The Compsognathus. Then a mob of them eat him.
    • Smug Snake Peter Ludlow has the bright idea to travel to the island they bred the dinosaurs on and go on a safari so they can bring them back to the mainland and proceeds to have absolutely no common sense while doing it. This little decision manages to play a distinct part in the deaths in the movie, including his own. The Designated Heroes coming in also played Spanner in the Works; their actions played a much more significant part in the movie's deaths. Ludlow then lets desperation override common sense and decides on bringing the T. rex to the mainland after the main characters release all of the considerably less dangerous herbivores he had intended in capturing. He ends up meeting his end at the hands of the T. rex’s offspring, who kill and eat him.
  • Jurassic World
    • Vic Hoskins. It's hard to feel sorry for him after his foolish and nefarious schemes to engineer weaponized dinosaurs fails, and he gets torn apart by a Velociraptor he tries to control.
    • Zara Young. For being unenthusiastic about having to watch Claire Dearing's nephews, and being so selfish she lets the boys run off by getting distracted by a phone call regarding her wedding details, we get to see her getting thrashed violently by Pteranodons then getting eaten alive (along with the Pterandon carrying her) by the Mosasaurus. Subverted however as one scene earlier with Claire shows Zara did actually care for the boys' whereabouts, and most people (even Sam Neill) agree Zara didn't deserve such a Cruel and Unusual Death compared to the other Asshole Victims whose deaths were quick compared to hers.
  • Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom sees the dinosaurs taken from their island to an Auction of Evil. Everyone who takes part in said auction and gets killed deserves it. Highlights include:
    • Mills, who runs the auction out of Lockwood's estate, and then kills the old man to keep him quiet. Oh, and he's cruel to Maisie. All hail our lord and savior, the Motherf**king T-Rex, who takes him down just like she did Gennaro.
    • Eversoll actually conducts the auction, and throws in the Indoraptor over Henry Wu's objections. He and several others get torn apart after a failed escape from the Indoraptor.
    • Ken Wheatley, who tranqs Owen, leaving him to the approaching lava. He also takes a tooth from each dino as a trophy... until he tries it on the Indoraptor. He loses an arm, and then his life.
  • Jurassic World Dominion has people and dinosaurs trying to co-exist.
    • Rainn Delacourt, who runs a dinosaur fighting ring. A young baryonyx tears his head off after Owen and Claire help bust up the ring.
    • Dodgson. He became Biosyn’s leader and unleashed crop-eating giant locusts. He’s surrounded and killed by a pack of dilophosaurus just like Nedry 30 years earlier.

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• Rasul from Kick-Ass also qualifies for this. He was involved in various drug trafficking, the leader of a gang of criminals, robbed a young girl and struck her, and wanted to kill the superhero Kick-Ass. But then the superhero Hit-Girl was there in time.
• Kill Bill:
  • The orderly/pimp Buck and his customer, who is paying for access to the comatose patients.
  • Budd, during a moment of contemplation states that all the members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad are this.
    "That woman deserves her revenge, and we deserve to die. Then again, so does she."
    • Oddly enough, although Elle is likely far more evil than the others, the Bride lets her live, showing Cruel Mercy. (Although it's doubtful she lived very long after the encounter; the Bride snatches out her second eye — she lost the first after angering Pai Mei, who Elle later murdered — and then leaves her to die in the desert, screaming in a blind panic.
    • Plus, she's thrashing around blindly in a trailer with a poisonous snake. it's not going to end well.
• Killer Under the Bed: Tina. She blackmailed Kilee into giving her her father's jacket under threat of spreading rumours throughout the school about her. Kilee then wishes with the doll, and Tina's lips swell up while she's in class. Later on, the doll actually tries to kill Tina, which wasn't Kilee's intention at all.
• Discussed in Kill List. Jay is very insistent that all the people on the titular list are bad people that deserve their deaths. But while there's ample evidence of this for the librarian, you have to take his word for it on the others, raising the possibility that it's just him trying to rationalize the killings.
• Implied to be the fate of the mayor in Kingdom of the Spiders, since by the end it is pretty clear no one made it out of the town alive, and it seems unlikely he’d miss the chance to attend the county fair.
• Kingsman: The Secret Service:
  • The congregation of the church where Valentine tests the small-scale version of his device to make sure it works are extremely anti-Semitic, racist, sexist, and homophobic so it's hard to feel that sorry for them when they all go berserk and get slaughtered by each other and Harry (who's also affected by the device but retains his lethal skills and is the only one standing by the end of the brawl.).
  • The Swedish Prime Minister's death by head explosion likewise garners little sympathy given he turns on his Princess and country to buy into Valentine's plan, handwaving it by claiming to be a republican anyway.
  • By extension, the other world leaders who get their heads blown up after Merlin activates their implants also qualify, as having implicitly agreed to be willing participants in a genocide.
• Every victim in Kiss of the Tarantula, with the possible exception of Nancy (because it wasn't clear how much she knew about her friends' harassment of Susan).
• Zigzagged in Knives Out regarding Harlan, depending on your viewpoint of him. Overall, personality-wise, he seems like a likable and nice man who is kind to the staff, especially Marta, though he clearly admits and regrets mistakes made in the past which has caused his family to turn out the way they did. While he had legitimate contentions with his family such as Joni stealing money from him or Richard cheating on his daughter, the way he fired Walt from his position in the publishing house as a supposed act of kindness and disinheriting Linda and Walt when they did nothing wrong can be read as unreasonable and unfair. In the end, it's made clear Harlan is a flawed man who did not deserve what happened to him.

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• Lampshaded in M. Night Shyamalan's Lady in the Water. When a Straw Critic character runs into a monster, instead of running he starts a long monologue on this trope in which an "unlikable" character flees the monster, shuts the door behind him at the last second, and learns a valuable lesson. He is then torn to death by the monster.
• Lake Placid vs. Anaconda:
  • Tiffani sets herself up as a likely victim every single second she's on screen. She bullies her sorority pledges even during the monster attacks. She pushes her Beta Bitch Amber at the crocodiles to distract them from her and claimed that she tried to save Amber but failed. She cares more about the destruction of her car than any of the deaths. She even makes Cassie run back to Jennifer's car to hide from the crocodiles instead of letting her into Tiffani's car when she's standing right in front of the door because "I don't like your bikini." She does indeed get eaten, and no one is the least bit sorry.
  • Earl Sr. is a smarmy poacher who kills a deer out of season (and helps his son kill another), lies shamelessly when confronted by a Fish & Wildlife agent, and then sets out to poach yet another deer within hours of being ticketed for his last act of poaching.
• The Last Voyage of the Demeter:
  • Petrofsky and Larsen. The former makes derogatory comments about Clemens and Anna, and the latter holds his knife at Clemens when he attempts to retaliate. Fittingly, the two men are Dracula’s first human victims.
  • Joseph seems like an all right guy early on, but once Dracula has killed several members of the crew, his self-righteousness boils to the surface. He claims Dracula's appearance is a curse from God, and chews out the crew for various "sins" they committed (while conspicuously not bringing up any "sins" of his own). He then knocks out one of his crewmates and tries to steal a boat to escape, so the audience is unlikely to mourn him when Dracula simply flies out to his boat to eat him.
• Law Abiding Citizen has quite a few for one movie:
  • Clarance Darby. During a home invasion robbery, he stabbed Clyde even after he was subdued, raped and killed his wife even after she was subdued, and killed (and possibly raped) their daughter, who was no threat to him, all For the Evulz. He lied in court and said it was his partner Ames (when really Ames just thought it was going to be a robbery and no one would be seriously hurt or killed, and actually tried to stop him), getting Ames executed.
  • Clyde's unnamed cellmate, who threatens to kill him if he does not share his food with him.
  • Darby's Amoral Attorney.
  • The judge who agreed to Darby's plea bargain.
• Let Me In:The main character bullies are ripped apart by the vampire Abby. While this may seem harsh they were in the midst of torturing Owen by holding him underwater and threatening to either drown or blind him. Also, their abuse of him went beyond schoolyard bullying into sadism throughout the film i.e they threatened to rape him, they whipped him bloody with a metal antenna, they hurt him so badly that he wet himself, etc, so when they die the audience feels no sympathy for them whatsoever.
• The downright homicidal bullies in Let the Right One In, both in the original and the remake. Their ultimatum at the end was this: Owen had to hold his breath for 3 minutes, and be rewarded with a cut across the cheek. Fail, and he loses an eye. You'll be glad when Eli arrives to kill them all.
• In Life Blood, Warren James is portrayed as an arrogant movie star and a rapist. However, Brooke is an Unreliable Narrator and later admits that her original description of his death was not accurate.
• Lippy: The two girls who star in the short end up in their situation because they decided to shoplift some lipstick.
• Everyone who is killed in The Little Girl Who Lived Down the Lane. Except Gordon.
• In The Little Shop of Horrors, the dentist is practising without a licence. Seymour kills him with the drill (and is then forced to operate on a young Jack Nicholson). In Little Shop of Horrors, based on the musical, while the dentist is fully licensed he's now a sadist to his patients and an abusive boyfriend to Audrey. Audiences aren't too put out when Seymour and Audrey II decide to turn him into "plant food".
• Lockjaw: Rise of the Kulev Serpent: The incident that triggers the plot is the protagonists' running over someone. The major difference between these teens and the teens from I Know What You Did Last Summer? They never noticed they hit anyone and when pointed out that they did, they believe they hit an animal and moved on. Kiiiiinda makes one of the protagonist's What the Hell, Hero? speech towards the villain of the film stupid considering they were the ones that caused him to do it in the first place.

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• M3GAN: Pretty much everyone M3GAN kills throughout the movie qualifies to some degree, but special mentions go to Brandon—a cruel bully who attacked Cady and M3GAN—and Celia, Gemma's nasty and inconsiderate neighbor who doesn't appear at all concerned about her dog injuring a child.
• Most of the victims in Madhouse (1974) — a proto-slasher movie set in a BBC studio — don't really deserve to die. However, it's hard to feel sorry for the actress who plays Vincent Price's assistant, or for his insane stalker, or for her completely insane parents.
  As they say in horror movies, you will come to a bad end.
• Towards the end of The Mad Magician, The Great Rinaldi meets a fiery demise when he gets trapped in the furnace used for one of his rival Don Gallico's illusions. Bonus points because instant karma caught him in the act of attempting to plagiarize said illusion.
• Magnum Force: A gangster who ordered a union boss murdered along with his family and a sadistic pimp are killed by one of the vigilante cops, along with two more gangsters who don't have their crimes shown (though doubtless qualify as well given what they mention of their activities).
• Maniac Cop:
  • Commissioner Pike and Lieutenant Ripley are implied to have helped frame Cordell and are total Jerkasses and Obstructive Bureaucrats who are Too Dumb to Live to boot.
  • Heavily implied to be the fate of Killium.
  • Fowler, the officer assigned to guard Mallory, spends his brief screen time flirting with her and insulting her. Thus, it's hard to feel bad when Cordell kills him.
  • Sally Noland.
• Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence: A good chunk of the victims in this movie such The cameramen who falsified the footage to make Kate look bad, Jessup's lawyer, and Houngan.
• Malignant:
  • Madison's abusive husband Derek, who dies first and is indirectly responsible for all the deaths in the movie following the prologue.
  • The women who assault Madison in the prison cell are torn apart by Gabriel.
    • The woman with the mullet gets special mention as not only was the ringleader of the women in the prison cell but she shoves at least two women into Gabriel’s rampage just to save her own skin, so when she is the last one left, Gabriel uses her as a human shield as a guard shoots at him.
• Malevolent (2018): This is how Mrs. Green views the murder of the three foster kids in her home. Apparently the girls weren't very nice.
• Every single character in the horror movie Marcus (2006) except Brooke (who's not an asshole) and Marcus (who's not a victim).
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • Iron Man has The Ten Rings organization: Raza is left to be killed by Obadiah Stane's mooks, Abu's unseen fate is left by Iron Man in the hands of the Gulmira people (whose village he raided) and the rest are butchered by Tony himself. Since they are the kind of people who are willing to kill innocent women and children in their houses and blow up their homes, a bit hard to feel sorry for them. Obadiah himself also counts when he dies in the climax, given he tried to kill Tony from the beginning.
  • In The Incredible Hulk (2008), Bruce Banner is harassed by some greasy co-workers because he stopped them from sexually harassing a female co-worker. When he's on the run from Blonsky and General Ross he's chased and cornered by them and beaten up a bit. What ensues may be one of the most satisfying moments in a Marvel movie: he Hulks out and throws them through walls to their death.
  • Iron Man 2 has Anton Vanko, a former colleague of Howard Stark, dying at the start, triggering his son Ivan's Roaring Rampage of Revenge. Anton as Nick Fury and Agent Carter reveal was a greedy Jerkass who wanted to use Arc Reactor technology for profit, while Howard wanted to use it for the benefit of mankind and soon after Anton committed espionage and was deported back to Russia where he was left to rot in prison before dying. Considering his son Ivan was even worse, as a murdering lunatic who killed anyone who got in the way of his revenge before Tony and Rhodey took him down he counts too. There's also a non-lethal variant with Justin Hammer, a Smug Snake and Corrupt Corporate Executive who got a man paralyzed trying to build his own Powered Armour getting beaten up and arrested in the climax.
  • Thor has the Jotunn aka the Ice Giants, whose leader Laufey and realm gets decimated by Loki in the climax. They were an Always Chaotic Evil race who happily invaded Midgard and attacked innocent Scandinavians in a Flash Back and jumped at the chance to kill Odin while he was sleeping so don't bother feeling sorry for them.
  • In Captain America: The First Avenger two SS officers come to investigate HYDRA and Red Skull's plans and one of them notices in a panic that Berlin is pinned to their Take Over the World map. Red Skull proceeds to atomize them both. Again, these are two Nazi officers so any sympathy for them is nonexistent. Red Skull counts as well, being given a well-deserved Fate Worse than Death having to live for eternity as a barely alive ghost on Vormir after the Tesseract/Space Stone teleports him across the universe.
  • In The Avengers (2012) Loki gets absolutely brutalized by the Hulk (and in an Alternate Universe goes through a Humiliation Conga in the first episode of his Spin-Off show immediately after). But for the innocent people of New York he butchered, the murder of Agent Coulson, and the pain he brought to the heroes especially his brother he deserved every second of it. Although Loki does get better with Character Development making his later death genuinely sad.
  • Iron Man 3: Ellen Brand and Eric Savin, who were killed by Tony, were psychotic individuals with the latter being the kind of man who Would Hurt a Child and willing to blow a hole in Airforce One, making 13 people fall to their deaths before Tony saved them. Their boss Aldrich Killian was no better since he shot Maya Henson in cold blood and tortured Pepper, making his death via missile kicked into him by Pepper well-earned.
  • Thor: The Dark World Kurse getting ripped apart by a miniature black hole and Malekeith getting crushed beneath his own ship are well deserved considering the former killed Frigga and the latter tried to commit genocide on both Asgard and Earth.
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier has tons of these after The Reveal of SHIELD being full of HYDRA agents. Smug Snake Jasper Sitwell gets tossed out of a car by Bucky and splattered by a truck. Thug Jack Rollins gets knocked unconscious by Black Window and his body is crushed by a falling Helicarrier. Number Two Brock Rumlow also gets crushed by a helicarrier, is horribly disfigured, and blows up in a later movie. Russo, who piloted one of the helicarriers (which were gonna wipe billions off the map), gets killed when Cap makes the helicarriers target each other. There's also Big Bad Alexander Pierce, who betrayed Nick Fury and tried to kill billions of with Project Insight before being shot by Fury. The World Security Council also count as this considering they were willing to nuke New York to stop Loki's invasion.
  • In Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) the Other gets his head snapped by Ronan, since he was the skulking minion of Thanos no tears are shed for him (not even from Thanos himself). There's also Korath the Pursuer and Ronan the Accuser, intergalactic sadistic family murdering terrorists who are killed by the Guardians in the Final Battle.
  • Avengers: Age of Ultron: Baron Von Strucker getting killed by Ultron is no sad loss given not only he was a HYDRA scientist, but he also experimented on loads of people and helped shape Wanda and Pietro into supervillains. Ultron himself committing Suicide by Cop thanks to Vision, also counts given he's a Killer Robot who gunned down Pietro and tried to Kill All Humans by the end of the film.
  • Ant-Man has Darren Cross, a Mad Scientist who thanks to trying to please his father figure Hank Pym was unstable long before messing with brain-altering Pym Particles. His inhumane shrinking experiments on sheep, murdering Ant-thony, and trying to kill Scott's adorable daughter Cassie, makes his death via getting horrifically mangled to death when Scott internally destroys his shrinking suit well deserved.
  • In Captain America: Civil War, Zemo has a lot of these. First there's former HYDRA brass Vasily Karpov. Then towards the end, given what we've already seen of what it's like to be a Winter Soldier, Zemo would have been crossing the Moral Event Horizon by shooting the other five of them while they were in cryostasis, except it was mentioned earlier that, unlike Bucky, the other five were already enlisted HYDRA agents before they got the serum, and were chosen for enhancement because they already had massive kill counts.
  • In Doctor Strange (2016) has Kaecilius and his Elite Mooks suffer a Fate Worse than Death from Dormammu as they are granted "immortality" i.e., living in his realm in horrific torment forever. Since they were the kind of evil sorcerers willing to butcher anyone who got in the way of quest, they certainly count as this.
  • In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 The traitorous Ravagers led by Taserface who betrayed Yondu, chucked those still loyal to him into space and poured alcohol on Baby Groot earned their fate at One-Man Army Yondu's yaka arrow. Ego who killed Peter's mother Meredith along with countless others of his own children and tried to make Peter a Living Battery deserved getting blown up by his own son.
  • Spider-Man: Homecoming: The first Shocker getting turned to ash accidentally by the Vulture is hardly tragic since he was an Arms Dealer who sold destructive superweapons to crooks.
  • Thor: Ragnarok has Magnificent Bastard Grandmaster and his Number Two Topaz, who killed and enslaved countless people in the Sakaar Gladiator Games. The latter explodes when Bruce Banner distracts her with fireworks fired from his ship, making her crash and the former's fate is left in the hands of his own subjects. There's also Hela, who gleefully butchered billions of people including the Valkyries, The Warriors Three Volstagg, Fandral, and Hogun, and tried to kill her brothers Thor and Loki, making her fate when Thor manages to Summon Bigger Fish Surtur well-earned.
  • Black Panther has Ulysses Klaue, who calls the Wakandans "savages" and generally acts like a crazy, racist jerk. He eventually gets gunned down by Erik "Killmonger" Stevens and then presented wrapped in a tarp as a "little gift" at the Wakandan border. Linda, Erik's girlfriend, counts as well as she winds up being killed by Erik in a case of Shoot the Hostage. But given that she's a criminal who willingly took part in all of her boyfriend's plans beforehand, including poisoning a museum historian, it's hard to feel sorry for her.
  • In Avengers: Infinity War whatever happened to the Collector when Thanos attacked his lair, he had it coming given all the people he shoved in boxes and cute Krylorians babes he enslaved. Thanos' Black Order, Ebony Maw, Cull Obsidian, Proxima Midnight, and Corvus Glaive, who butchered races across the universe all met with well-deserved grisly ends (Maw blown into space by Tony, Obsidian horribly disintegrated by Bruce, Midnight chucked into some rotors by Wanda and Glaive stabbed In the Back by Vision. Off-screen Thaddeus Ross gets dusted by Thanos' Badass Fingersnap and since he's the General Ripper who hunted Hulk and helped split the Avengers in Civil War so unlike most of the characters he deserved that fate. Before he got resurrected, ironically by Bruce Banner himself.
  • In Captain Marvel while the rest of the Kree Starforce members flee after being defeated by Carol, Minn-Erva is shot down by Monica Rambeau. Considering she was trying to kill innocent Skrulls (including their children) and had no qualms about trying to kill her former ally (whom she said she always disliked), she had it coming.
  • Avengers: Endgame: Thanos, who killed half the universe is beheaded not even half an hour into the film by Thor in revenge. After the Time Skip and thanks to Time Travel, 2014 Cull Obsidian is killed again, this time by Spider-Man and Giant Man and 2014 Thanoa and the rest of his forces get karmically dusted by Tony's Badass Fingersnap.
  • Spider-Man: Far From Home: Quinten Beck aka Mysterio is shot by his own drones in the climax, this guy was a Heroic Wannabe who considered civilian casualties good PR, bullied and threatened to kill his own subordinates, and tried to kill several teenagers for entirely petty reasons during the climax.
  • Thor: Love and Thunder: It's really hard to feel any sorrow for Jerkass God Rapu when Gorr sticks the Necrosword through his throat.
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: What Rocket did to The High Evolutionary during his escape is horrific, except the guy is painted to be as repugnant as possible, with list of his actions including being responsible for perverse experimentation that made Rocket an Uplifted Animal, destroying whole planet because it failed to meet his standards, and killing Rocket's friends from Batch 89, so he deserves every second of it. Theel, a Dirty Coward and someone who has hand in all experiments of his boss is one as well, actually so much that Peter is not only willing to break his no-killing rule for him, but goes an extra mile to ensure that his death is as cruel and drawn out as possible.
• The Mechanic (2011): In the sequel, Mechanic: Resurrection, the Big Bad of the film blackmails professional hitman Bishop into killing his three rivals. The first is a power-hungry mass murderer, and the second is a human sex trafficker (whose victims are underage no less). Bishop poisons Krill and collapses Adrian Cook's pool from below, giving him a Disney Villain Death. The third target, on the other hand, is infinitely more likeable, and rather than kill him, Bishop works with him to fake his death and get to Crain.
• It varies with the arrogant millionaire Jack Morris from The Meg because even though he's quite a smug snake, he's actually not a really bad guy. Even so, he is killed and eaten by the megalodon.
  • However, it is played straight with a fishing boat, which is first attacked by the megalodon. The fishermen caught ordinary sharks, cut off their fins to make shark fin soup, and left the mutilated animals cruelly dying. The protagonists are quite disgusted when they see this, and one of them even says the megalodon avenged the other sharks.
• Meg 2: The Trench:
  • Jess, who betrayed her team and showed no remorse for causing the deaths of Lance, Sal, and Curtis, gets swallowed whole by a Meg after assuring herself that she was behind Meg-proof glass.
  • The Casanova Wannabe at the resort gets snatched up by the giant octopus after trying to hide behind the two women he was previously hitting on.
• Men in Black
  • The opening scene where Kay ends up killing the alien "Mikey" had to be re-shot when the producers realized audiences were feeling bad for Mikey.
  • Just before he is killed by the Bug, Edgar is revealed to be a spousal emotional abuser (and possibly a physical abuser too).
    Edgar: I go out, I work my butt off for a living, all I want is to come home to a nice clean house with a nice fat steak on the table, but instead I get this. It looks like poison. Don't you take that away, I'm eating that, damn it! It IS poison, isn't it? I swear to God I would not be surprised if it was, the way you skulk around here like a dog that's been hit too much or ain't been hit enough, I can't make up my mind. You're useless, Beatrice. The only thing that pulls its weight around here is my goddamn truck!
    (Spaceship crashes into the truck; Edgar proceeds to walk out to investigate)
    Edgar: ...Figures.
    (Edgar walks to the crash site)
    Beatrice: What the heck is it, Edgar?
    (Edgar turns around quickly)
    Edgar: Get your big butt back in that house!
• Men in Black II: After Serleena assumes human form as a lingerie model she is attacked by a man with a knife, who licks her face and tells her she tastes good and drags her behind a bush, with clear malicious intent. So we don't feel too bad when she effortlessly turns the tables on the guy and swallows him whole, then proceeds to spit him out and steal his clothes when she realizes that she gained an immense gut as a result of eating him.
• And again in Men in Black 3. It seems to be a recurring pattern. The villains would first kill someone who honestly deserved it, then follow through with someone who DOESN'T. This villain did it faster than the others.
• The Mean One: Both the Mayor and the Sheriff died by the Mean One's hands and are responsible for sacrificing people to the creature and gaslighting Cindy, Downplayed with the Sheriff after having a Redemption Equals Death.
• The Menu: The diners at Hawthorn are all wealthy and entitled people who all die at the end. Except Margot, a working-class escort whose worst sin is a few snide comments here and there.
• In M.F.A., all of vigilante girl Noelle's victims are rapists. She herself invokes the idea, suggesting to Detective Kennedy that his skills could be better used in solving crimes other than their murders.
• Miss Meadows: The men whom Miss Meadows kills were an attempted kidnapper (likely rapist or killer too), a mass murderer, and two child molesters. Even aside from them being involved, it's thus not too surprising Mike is willing to let her off for them (the first legitimately was self-defense anyway, though he doesn't know).
• The death of Mrs. Carmody in The Mist is probably the only joyous moment in the film, being as she very nearly got the protagonist's little boy killed. Also everyone in the supermarket could possibly count if they also eventually succumb to the mist creatures.
• Mongolian Death Worm: Kowlan and his henchmen are drug runners whom Daniel is indebted to. When Daniel, Alicia, and Phillip begin their escape from his camp, the titular worms show up to eat Kowlan and his side.
• Monsieur Verdoux: While none of the rich ladies targeted by Verdoux come off as particularly sympathetic, the most unlikeable of the lot is Lydia Floray, the only one he gets to kill in the film (just out of camera range).
• This trope is exaggerated with the victim in Murder on the Orient Express (1974). It turns out that he was everybody's victim. In case you didn't know that already.
• Most Likely to Die: Averted. Based on their past actions, Ray comes about as a Jerk Jock and the biggest a-hole in the group of friends, having led the bullying against John Doe since the first grade, being known for his bad temper, and having coerced DJ into planting the gun in John's locker so that his hockey scholarship isn't jeopardized. As an adult, he seems to be a surly sort, though a lot of this is because he was cut by the New York Rangers. Yet he's one of the few survivors of DJ/The Graduate's killing spree, as DJ had deliberately kept Ray alive and tied up in the trunk of his car, hoping to frame him for the murders. However, his actions cause his girlfriend and most of his friends' deaths.
• My Animal: Heather mauls Richard after she turns into a wolf and kills him. Prior to this he had beaten her brutally and is confirmed as having hit his girlfriend Jonny as well.
• Mystery of the Wax Museum: Joe, Ivan's former partner who is still running shady deals (booze-related mostly) after burning down Ivan's first wax museum and leaving his partner to die in the flames.
• Leroy in Mystery Team. He was a cold-blooded thug and drug dealer who was perfectly willing to kill two people even when it wasn't required and treated it like a minor thing when his boss complained. Said boss ends up putting a bullet in his brain.

N-O

• Night of the Living Dead has Harry Cooper who is demanding and confrontational at best and a treacherous coward at worst.
• A Nightmare on Elm Street:
  • Coach Schneider in A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge. And this trope is rare in the Nightmare movies (except Freddy vs. Jason, which is part Friday the 13th, which follows this trope all the time).
• Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight: The priest of the church Bartek sought shelter in knocked Bartek unconscious and tied him to a chair. When one of the killer twins comes by, he gouges the priest's eyes out and shoves him headfirst into a wood chipper.
• No Escape (1994): Robbins, a US Marine, murdered his CO because he'd ordered him to kill civilians.
• Nothing but Trouble:
  • The second batch of perps Dennis hauls in are a bunch of drug-addled yuppies who fully expect to be able to buy their way out of trouble. Not a chance in hell.
  • Chris and Diane also find tons of newspaper clippings and IDs in the attic belonging to the Judge's previous victims, most of whom are various disreputable people such as mafioso, ex-Nazis, and biker gangs. And Hare Krishnas.
• Not Okay: Deconstructed. There's no question that Danni is a horribly selfish person and her actions were despicable but the devastating consequences she faces for it and the fact that it was a genuine misunderstanding she simply got caught up in and went along with simply because she was extremely lonely make it hard not to sympathize with her.
• Nurse Betty: Betty's husband steals a bunch of drugs and tries to re-sale them, cheats on his wife, is insensitive toward her attempts to find happiness, has an inflated view of his superiority, and mocks Native Americans. That being said, his scalping and subsequent death are so horrifying that even the killers are shaken.
• Nutcracker Massacre: Melissa "Mousey" is a very unpleasant woman who spends the movie tearing down Clara, not being concerned about her boyfriend James' disappearance, and even climbs on top of Paul as Clara enters a room they're in to make her think they're having an affair. Late in the movie, she becomes a murder victim of the Nutcracker.
• A recent updated version of the Oliver Twist story called Twist featured the character of Dodger finally snapping, and shooting Bill. By that point in the movie, Bill had either seriously injured or murdered about three-quarters of the cast. In short, he really had it coming.
• Once Were Warriors: Uncle Bully gets beaten to a bloody pulp by Jake when the latter discovers that he was the one who raped his daughter Grace, indirectly leading her to commit suicide. He deserved every bit of it.
• One Night in October: Freddie, Jason, and Hewitt are a trio of people who tied up Michelle and planned to rob her house. For their troubles, Michelle kills them in gruesome ways once her more murderous Split Personality comes out.
• Orphan: John, Kate's husband, is viciously stabbed to death by their adopted daughter Esther, after he turns down her advances. Given that he constantly sided with Esther over his own wife and the fact he cheated on Kate after she suffered a miscarriage, it's really hard to sympathize with him.
• Orphan: First Kill: Tricia and Gunnar Albright, who were both fine with covering up the real Esther’s death, both meet gruesome ends.
  • The guard Leena beats to death may also count, as it's strongly implied he's attracted to her because she looks like a little girl.

P-Q

• Hannibal Chau in Pacific Rim has one of the other characters sent to a public shelter in the hopes that he'll get eaten by a Kaiju. Later he gets eaten alive by a baby Kaiju. Subverted in that he survives and cuts his way out in The Stinger.
• Pain & Gain:
  • Victor Kershaw which is part of the reason why cops don't believe his story at first (he was so unpleasant that not one person reported him missing). Ed even says that he is a "very difficult victim to like".
  • Subverted, with the later victims who are certainly sleazy, but are nowhere near the jerk levels Kershaw is.
  • It also subverted in that as the movie proceeds, Kershaw ends up far more sympathetic than Lugo.
• In the finale of Pan's Labyrinth, when Captain Vidal is cornered by the angry crew, he asks them to break his pocket watch so that his child would know at what time he died, only to be told that he won't even know his name before shooting him. However, since he was a Falange officer and had killed and tortured so many people, few, if any, people cried at his death.
• In Pet Sematary Two Gus Gilbert is shown, who is not only a brutal police officer but also beats and abuses his adopted son. He even shot his dogs because he felt annoyed by the barking. Therefore, no one feels exaggerated when he is killed by the exact same (now undead) dog.
  • Clyde Parker is a bully who likes to bully weaker classmates. He even goes so far as to beat her up. Ultimately, he is killed by the zombie Gus and turned into another zombie.
• The Phantom of the Opera (1998): Debatable with the majority of his victims, who either traversed in while doing their job or under false belief of hidden treasure. The manager who tried to prey on a child ballerina, however, got what's coming to him (even though he, too, unknowingly entered the Phantom's underground lair).
• The Phantom of the Opera (2004): Joseph Buquet is given a few scenes of perving on the ballerinas, that exist mainly so we don't lose sympathy for the Phantom when he violently throttles Buquet to death during Il Muto.
• In Pink Flamingos, Connie and Raymond Marble definitely fit the bill. Granted, Divine is extremely evil herself, but considering that Connie and Raymond were running a black-market baby ring, and then using the money earned to sell drugs to school children, it's hard to feel sorry for them when they eventually suffer a very humiliating death by Divine's hand.
• Predator
  • In Predator 2, most of the predator's victims are drug dealers, criminals, and gang members. This is justified because Los Angeles has become a criminal city in this film. But in the middle of the movie, it is inverted as the Predator kills two good police officers and several armed but innocent civilians on his hunt.
  • None of the humans in Predators are particularly nice, but Stans, a condemned murderer, takes the cake for being the most unsympathetic. Even so, he gets a pretty badass sendoff.
  • Dale, Nick, and Mark in Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem aren't very nice, either. Dale, as the leader of the trio, gets the most vicious of the three, the alien's blood burning his face.
  • Prey has a couple of these:
    • The Comanche hunters that are tasked with finding her are nothing but assholes to Naru, so naturally, you won't shed a tear seeing them turned into Predator fodder.
    • The French tracking leader is a massive sack of shit who leads a party to massacre the endangered Buffalo, cages both Naru and Taabe, and later abandons his men. After Naru captures him and uses him as bait, as he did to her, it's damn satisfying to see him get massacred by the Predator.
• Problem Child: About 95% of Junior's targets. The other 5% is mostly poor Ben getting caught in the crossfire.
• Prom Night (1980) has Wendy and Lou. Wendy is the Alpha Bitch who initiated the coverup of Robin Hammond's death while Lou is the school bully who sexually harasses Kim and joins up with Wendy intending to hurt Nick for whatever reason. Downplayed with Kelly and Jude; while they also played a hand in Robin's death they aren't as mean as Wendy.
  • Leonard Murch could count as well. Even though the guy who was wrongfully charged with killing Robin and was innocent of that particular crime, he was still a serial rapist, so there were hardly, if any, tears that were shed for him.
• In Psycho Beach Party Rhonda spends her days being incredibly rude and insulting everybody so watching her die was rather satisfying.
• Pulp Fiction:
  • Brett, because with the fortune he stole from Marsellus Wallace, it's sweet, sweet karma when two of Wallace's men spray a bunch of bullets on him.
  • Zed, though his death isn't shown on-screen, is even moreso given his sadistic, depraved personality.
• Discussed by Jabootu.net's Ken Begg in his review of The Punisher (2004). It's likely the only reason Livia Saint (as opposed to her husband, Howard) is the one to order the death of Castle's family, is so that when Castle sets up an Othello inspired frameup that leads to her Cruel and Unusual Death ^note  Getting dropped off a high bridge, then run over by a train after she somehow survives the former , the audience will feel, not that Castle indirectly brought about the death of an innocent woman, but that the bitch got what she deserved. ^note  He also points out that Livia is quick to see Castle dead, then, when the Saints learn he survived, she responds by going shopping & to the movies like nothing is wrong. This depends on whether those watching believe that Castle was given Adaptational Heroism / Protagonist-Centered Morality.
• Queen & Slim: Officer Reed already wasn't gonna have tears shed for him after Slim kills him in self-defense, but his status as this is cemented when Queen and Slim are told that Reed killed an unarmed black man years earlier (in front of the man's child, no less).
• In Queen of the Damned, the first vampire Akasha butchers a club full of remorseless, bloodthirsty vampires who tried to kill Jesse earlier. The other vampires are still shocked at her sheer carnage and delight at devouring them.
• The Quiet: You are not going to feel sorry for Nina's father Paul at all when he is killed by Dot, as he had just attempted to rape Nina (having already previously raped her multiple times).

R

• Reap the Wild Wind: Widgeon is brutally hung in his cell to prevent him from testifying against Jack and Cutler. However, his first scene shows him knocking Jack unconscious to wreck their ship for money, which destroys Jack's career. He also tries to shanghai Steve and Captain Phil, and helps wreck the Southern Cross.
• Rear Window: All we know of Anna Thorwald is what we see from Jeff's window. We see her "nagging" her husband in one scene. In another scene, he serves her dinner in bed, and she dismissively tosses away the flower he left for her on the tray. When he goes into the next room and makes a call (presumably to his mistress), she gets out of bed (in spite of acting like an invalid) and mocks him derisively. When she disappears, the audience won't be too upset by the prospect of her being murdered.
• In The Reckless Moment, Ted Darby is a sleazy mooch who's dating a girl way too young for his age and admits to her face that he wanted her mother to buy him off. His death isn't saddening at all.
• Renfield: When choosing potential victims for Dracula, Renfield tries to ensure that he only selects horrible people who have hurt others. Unfortunately, according to Dracula at least, their low character has a detrimental effect on their blood’s flavour.
• Reservoir Dogs: Mr. Blonde. A Psycho for Hire who kills the clerks in the diamond store, tortures Marvin Nash for fun, and attempts to set him on fire while he's still alive. Apparently, the audience didn't feel any sympathy for him when he gets killed by Mr. Orange, who is the real undercover cop.
• Respire: Sarah. She berates and abuses Charlie throughout the film and her comeuppance feels certainly like Laser-Guided Karma
• In Return to Cabin by the Lake, Stanley kills at least two people involved with the production of the Film Within a Film who are also complete assholes (an obnoxious film director and a rude AD). It's partially karmic, but the sheer brutality of the kills (one is decapitated with a boat engine and another buried alive) is so disproportionate that it still emphasizes Stanley's murderousness.
• The Ring Two: Thanks for killing Dr. Emma Temple, Samara.
• The female lead character in Catherine Breillat's Romance (1999) blows up her boyfriend in a rigged gas explosion at the end. The murder is about the only happy event in the film...
• Clarence Boddiker in RoboCop (1987) gets thrown through several panes of glass and all over a factory while the eponymous Robo reads him his Miranda rights. Seeing as Clarence has proven a sadistic Cop Killer, folks cheer for Robo.
• The Rocketeer: Bigalow is folded in half by Lothar, but he did mockingly bill Cliff and Peevy for accident damage that wasn't their fault and showed complete disregard for the safety of his guests and pilots during an air show mishap.
• In R.O.T.O.R., Sonya's fiancé is given one scene to establish that he's a dickhead, then he's shot dead by the robot.

S

• Save the Green Planet! focuses on the kidnapping and torturing of a CEO who the Villain Protagonist Byeong-gu suspects of being a space alien. The executive's Establishing Character Moment is him being a jerk to his taxi driver, and he's a Corrupt Corporate Executive who had a hand in Byeong-gu's mother's accident.
• In Scanners II: The New Order, the main character kills a pair of store-robbing thugs who already killed two clerks and were either about to do the same to his girlfriend or kidnap her/hold her hostage.
• Scanner Cop: A creepy doctor who subjects his psychic patients to horrible experiments is shown to have been killed by the main bad guy in a minor flashback, apparently to simply show him getting some comeuppance.
• Scarface (1983): Several of Tony Montana's victims qualify, such as Emilio Rebenga, an ex-Castro official who tortured a few guys to death while he was working for Fidel; and Mel Bernstein, the corrupt narcotics cop that tries to shake him down and kill him on behalf of Frank Lopez, who is also under this trope but is instead killed by Manny so that Tony can evoke a sense of irony.
• Scarred: Tiny's father is an Abusive Parent who beats his daughter every time she says that Jonah Kandie is still alive, while he insists Jonah is dead. His final scene in the movie has him being tortured by Jonah.
• Played for Laughs in a scene in horror movie parody Scary Movie. One of the teenagers being stalked by the masked killer is watching a movie in a crowded theater; she's being loud and obnoxious and ends up spoiling the movie's ending for everyone else. The masked killer is then shown to be sitting in the seat next to her with a knife... but before he gets the chance, one of the other moviegoers steals his knife and stabs her. Then another takes a knife of their own and does the same. Soon all the other audience members continue to stab her to death. When she stumbles in front of the screen and finally falls dead, they applaud, as the masked killer is just sitting back and sipping a soda.
• Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019):
  • Tommy Milner. He is a typical Jerk Jock. He has four teenagers and his date locked up in an abandoned house where they would probably not have been found quickly and where no one could have come to their aid. It is also implied that he has been harassing and beating other teenagers for years, he obviously has racist tendencies and uses the family scarecrow as a punching bag when he's frustrated. Finally, said scarecrow comes to life, stabs him with a pitchfork, and then Tommy is turned into a scarecrow himself.
  • Chief Turner is not just a useless policeman, but also a racist. He accuses Ramon of cowardice after he refused to do conscription in order not to have to be sent to Vietnam. Shortly before, Ramon's older brother came back from the war, completely ripped apart. So no one is sad when the Jangly Man kills the chief.
  • The Bellows elite family owned several paper mills in the area. Several children died as a result of the mercury leaking into the water supply. Sarah, who had previously been abused, was made a scapegoat by her family, and her brother Ephraim even tortured her to make a false confession. It is implied that her family members have fallen victim to the monsters Sarah created.
• Scream:
  • John Milton from Scream 3 is revealed to be the biological father of Roman Bridger, whom was conceived when he gang raped Sidney’s mother before Sidney was born. Fittingly enough, he eventually ends up falling victim to Roman himself.
  • Charlie in Scream 4. An interesting example as he's actually one of the killers.
• In Se7en, John Doe thinks he's doing this, though from what we see, less than half of the victims objectively qualify as assholes. The "sloth" victim is the only one besides John Doe himself who's established as a genuinely bad person (specifically, a drug-dealing child molester). All the others are just not fleshed out at all.
• In Serenity, The Operative's first kill in the movie was Dr. Mathias, the head scientist of the Academy, whose horrible experiments were responsible for River being driven insane.
• The drunk man in The Shallows; he sees Nancy stranded out in the ocean, and goes to steal her money and other accessories rather than send for help. As he goes into the water to get her surfboard, he's grabbed and torn in half by the shark that had been hunting Nancy throughout the film.
• In Shaun of the Dead, David is torn apart and eaten by zombies after saying "I think we can all agree, that was the right thing to do," after Shaun had to kill his own mother. He'd also been an asshole most of the movie, and at one point, even tried to shoot Shaun.
  • Apparently this trope was taken into consideration when doing that scene. Originally they had him apologize for his behavior before suffering his fate, but they decided to edit that out, albeit not for character reasons (i.e. they wanted his death to be scarier and seem more sudden). Either way, it worked; when his scene came up, audiences cheered.
  • Like most of the movie, this is probably in reference to Night of the Living Dead (1968) and in particular the dynamic between Ben and Harry; like Harry, David is right about a lot of the things that they should be doing, but that doesn't stop him from being an asshole.
• Bogs from The Shawshank Redemption gets beaten senseless by Captain Hadley to the point where he gets permanently paralyzed. We would feel horrible for him... if not for the fact that he was a sadistic rapist who took such pleasure in mercilessly beating up and terrorizing his victims. All of the inmates (especially Red) are even happy when he gets immobilized.
  Red: Two things never happened again after that. The Sisters never laid a finger on Andy again, and Bogs never walked again. They transferred him to a minimum security hospital upstate. To my knowledge, he lived out the rest of his days drinking his food through a straw.
• Invoked in Shoot 'Em Up, in which the hero deliberately singles out which car to steal because he'd seen its able-bodied driver park in a handicapped spot. No, he doesn't kill the guy, but he explicitly calls him a prick, establishing a similar justification for targeting his vehicle.
• The Silence of the Lambs. Dr. Chilton, who was in charge of the facility where Hannibal Lecter was originally imprisoned. He sleazily hits on Clarice Starling and doesn't take it well when she declines him. Hannibal says that Chilton has harassed in the past and there is no reason to disbelieve him. He reveals the FBI's attempt to trick Hannibal into cooperating - not because he's offended by their dishonesty, but because he wants to cut his own deal and get publicity. At the end of the movie, Lecter is seen trailing Chilton and it's made clear that he's going to kill him and eat him ("I'm having an old friend for dinner.").
  • Hannibal has a few as well. Pazzi loses his sense of morality as he seeks to turn in Hannibal for the reward money, and is gruesomely disemboweled by him. Paul Krendler is a corrupt agent who destroys Starling's career because she rejected him 10 years ago and caught Buffalo Bill before him, as well as taking a bribe from Verger. At the end of the film, Hannibal cuts his head open and feeds him his own brain. He proceeds to take the rest of Krendler's brain onto a plane for his lunch.
• The Cult members in Silent Hill. Very hard to feel sorry for them after you learn they tried to kill Alessa years before by burning her alive, leaving her horribly disfigured and unable to get out of her hospital bed. Also they had just killed Cybil this way.
• Silver Bullet: At least one of the werewolf's victims fell under this category. The first was Milt Sturmfuller, the overbearing father of Marty's girlfriend. From the way he talked to his daughter, it could be inferred that he was pretty emotionally abusive to her at the very least. He also made some pretty nasty remarks about Marty even though Marty hadn't done anything to him.
• Slaughter High: The Gang of Bullies tortured and humiliated Marty so badly that it is hardly a surprise that he decided to respond in kind, especially after the burn of his face with nitric acid.
• A Slight Case of Murder: Little Dutch and his cronies are hardened gangsters plotting to murder Reformed Criminal Marco. They decide to kill their partner Innocence for voicing doubts about their scheme (and so they can split his share of a recent robbery). Innocence overhears their conversation and promptly guns them all down.
• The guy in Snakes on a Plane who's a Jerkass that feeds a woman's dog to a snake.
• It's hard to feel sorry for the inhabitants of the title cities in Sodom and Gomorrah when Jehovah rains vengeance down upon them; their behaviour as buildings collapse around (and on top of) them shows just how many of them frankly deserve to die. There are multiple scenes of people being buried by piles of rubble while carrying valuables, and passers-by helping themselves to the valuables, only to be killed themselves moments later. A man sees two children sheltering in a doorway and drags them out so he can have their shelter; just to make sure we understand how evil he is, he cackles maniacally until the doorway falls on his head and kills him. As for Queen Bera, she plays Hebrew leader Lot like a fiddle and manipulates him into killing her brother Astaroth, ending the threat he posed to her rule; her reward is to be crushed to death as her throne room collapses.
• Sorority Row probably has a record for the number of deliberately unsympathetic victims; out of all the people killed maybe one or two qualify for Jerk with a Heart of Gold status. The killer actually lampshades how horrible the murdered characters all were.
• In Sorry, Wrong Number, Leona is a vain, spoiled woman who gets whatever she wants because of her wealth and manipulates her heart condition to keep Henry in her life.
• Spider-Man (2002):
  • Peter deliberately lets a burglar who has just managed to steal a handful of money go. It would have been a despicable act if it weren't for the fact that the person in question that is robbed had cheated Peter out of his prize money and still expects Peter to save him. This ends up backfiring on Peter later, though.
  • General Slocum deserved to get fried by Goblin for going out of his way to try to put Oscorp out of business.
  • The Oscorp Board of Directors, who fire founder Norman Osborn in order to sell the company to rival Quest Aerospace, are killed by Osborn (as the Green Goblin) in Oscorp's World Unity Festival. It's hard to feel any empathy for the board since they did all they could to badly screw Osborn over.
• Splatter: All of Johnny Splatter's victims in the short are people who screwed him over in life.
  • Dr. Bellows took advantage of his therapy sessions with Johnny to write a best-selling book.
  • Krule stole a hit song Johnny wrote and made millions off of it.
  • Spencer Pope was a terrible manager to Johnny.
  • Mortis was always envious of Johnny.
• In Spree, several of Kurt’s victims fit this trope. Frederick is a white supremacist, Mario sexually harasses Jessie, and Bobby “pranks” homeless people by making them chase fake money.
• Admiral Marcus from Star Trek Into Darkness gets his head crushed by John Harrison (or rather, Khan).
  • Kalara in Star Trek Beyond gets squashed by the saucer section of the destroyed U.S.S. Enterprise after having led it to its destruction and the crew to their deaths.
• From the Star Wars movies:
  • The Tusken robbers in Attack of the Clones kidnapped and tortured the mother of Anakin Skywalker. Several humans who persecuted her to save the woman also are killed by them. When Anakin wanted to free his mother but came too late to save her, he killed them all.
  • Nute Gunray and the other Separatists in Revenge of the Sith, who are all killed by Anakin Skywalker, who thereby regains a little sympathy after having lost it in his raid on the Jedi temple.
  • Director Krennic from Rogue One. Being the guy who oversees the construction of the Death Star, he deserves everything that happens to him—and this includes being vaporized by his own weapon.
  • Grand Moff Tarkin from A New Hope truly deserve getting blown up on the Death Star after he destroyed Alderaan.
  • And of course, Emperor Palpatine. For all the bullshit he pulled through out the saga, the entire galaxy celebrate when he got killed twice, the first time by being thrown off the second Death Star by the redeem Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker in Return of the Jedi and the second time by his own lightning deflect by Rey in The Rise of Skywalker.
• Steps Trodden Black: Since it is partially a deconstruction of slasher movies, this trope is inverted. The first to die is the Lovable Jock Ryan, followed Jerk with a Heart of Gold Alex (although whether or not he's an asshole is up for debate), Action Girl Emma, and waifish Sam. Fletcher, who arguably displays the most assholish behavior in the film survives the whole ordeal.
• Strangers on a Train: Miriam Haines, Guy's unfaithful wife. To be clear, she cheats on him, runs out on him and demands a divorce, gets pregnant by the other man, and then refuses to divorce Guy^note likely because the other man left her and uses the pregnancy as leverage against him to prevent him from leaving her for his new girlfriend^note Since no one knows it's not Guy's baby. She's clearly a thoroughly unpleasant person, and the only thing that wins her any sympathy points when she's murdered is the fact that she was pregnant.^note Even then, the sympathy would skew to her unborn child, not necessarily her.
• In Sudden Impact, the victims of Jennifer Spencer's murder spree are the people who gang-raped her and her sister years ago. At the end of the film, the protagonist, knowing what happened and having just shot the lead rapist while he was wielding her weapon, pins her killing spree on him, allowing her to get away.
• Summer Camp Nightmare: John Mason, one of Franklin Reilly's Co-Dragons in the takeover of Camp North Pines by the teenagers, raped Debbie Stewart, one of the girls from the nearby Camp South Pines, after the takeover extended to their camp as well. John was given a trial by ordeal by being forced to cross the broken rope bridge over the ravine to prove his innocence, and although he survives it and rubs it in his rape victim's face, the other girls take John out into the woods and hang him from a tree.
• Suspect: Michael, a violent, razor-wielding homeless racist. He certainly appears to be a good suspect in Elizabeth Quinn's murder, but is himself killed by the actual murderer to stop him from revealing anything about it.
• Swamp Shark: Tyler, Rachel's boyfriend, was a smug, pushy person towards his girlfriend. He meets his end late in the film at the shark's teeth.
• Sweet Country is about a black farmhand, Sam Kelly, who kills a white property owner in self-defense and goes on the run. Even before the fatal confrontation, March treats Sam like dirt, assaults Sam's wife, and repeatedly threatens Sam and his family.
• Sweetheart: Lucas and Mia are both insensitive, condescending pricks who are strongly implied to have murdered one of the group's friends. Lucas is also shown to act possessive and entitled when it comes to Jenn. As such, it is unlikely anyone will feel particularly upset when both wind up being monster chow by the end of the movie.
• Sweetwater: All of the people Sarah kills are unsympathetic jackasses at best, if not outright thugs.

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• A theme in every Tales from the Hood movie:
  • Tales from the Hood:
    • "Welcome to my Mortuary" has Stack, Ball, and Bulldog, three murderous gang members and drug dealers.
    • "Rogue Cop Revelation" has officers Strom, Crumfield, and Newton, a trio of Dirty Cops who murdered a civil rights activist and planted drugs on his body. Averted with Clarence, their Guilt-Ridden Accomplice, who comes off as more of a victim than an asshole.
    • "Boys Do Get Bruised" has Carl, an abuser who Would Hurt a Child and Would Hit a Girl.
    • "KKK Comeuppance" has Duke Metger, a racist politician and former Klansman.
    • Finally, "Hard-Core Convert" has Crazy K, a gang member and murderer.
  • Present in every segment of Tales from the Hood 2 except "The Sacrifice".
    • "Robo Hell" has Dumass Beach, a racist and sexist Corrupt Corporate Executive.
    • "Good Golly" has all the teens, who break into the "Museum of Negrosity" after the owner refuses to sell the eponymous Golliwog to Aubrey.
    • "The Medium" has a Phony Psychic get hijacked by a generous former pimp's soul, and eventually kill a trio of robbers who were holding a woman hostage and were responsible for the murder of said former pimp.
    • "Date Night" features a duo who not only lie about who they are in an attempt to pull a Casting Couch but also drug their dates to make it even easier.
  • Tales from the Hood 3:
    • "The Mouths of Babes and Demons" has William, a Serial Killer of children and snuff filmer.
    • "Ruby Gates" has both David Burr, who arranged for the titular apartment complex to be burned down, and the guy he hired to do the deed.
    • "The Bunker" has Denton Wilbury, a Politically Incorrect Villain and general Jerkass who brags about beating his wife.
    • "Operatic" has Chela, who plots to kill Marie for criticizing her once.
    • "Dope Kicks" has Percy, a violent mugger who beat one victim to death.
• All of Travis Bickle's victims in Taxi Driver. Despite being something of a psychopath, he is sympathetic compared to them — though this may be a case of Protagonist-Centered Morality since viewers saw what he did when not murdering people.
• Tammy and the T-Rex: Billy is the one who started everyone's problems by kidnapping Michael, beating him, and leaving him to be mauled by lions. He gets one of the more brutal deaths by getting his head ripped off.
• In T2 Trainspotting the sectarian customers of a certain pub get their comeuppance when Renton and Sick Boy steal their credit cards and take money from their bank accounts (if the 1690 PIN doesn't work, the cards are simply thrown away).
• Terminator:
  • In the first film The Terminator, the Terminator's very first victim pulled a knife on him, swore at him, and generally made us feel not too sorry for him.
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day:
    • Though he doesn't kill any of them, the Terminator injures three rude and surly bikers when he first arrives in the present day, walks into their bar, and demands some clothes; he throws one of them through a window, another onto a hot stove, and stabs the third guy in the shoulder with his own knife, pinning him to the pool table.
    • The asylum attendant licks Sarah's face while she's helpless. That way we don't feel bad that her escape plan includes bashing his face in. He's even worse in the extended cut, where he and another guard also assault Sarah before forcing her medication down her throat, which makes the scene where Sarah dispatches him with extreme prejudice while his fellow guard gets beaten up by the T-800 (Arnold's Terminator) even better.
    • Todd and Janelle, John Connor's foster parents, are portrayed as uncaring and unpleasant, respectively. When the T-1000 (in Janelle's form) speaks in a friendly manner to John on the phone, he says "She's never this nice". The T-1000 kills both Janelle (off-screen) and Todd (on-screen).
  • Terminator: Dark Fate: A nonlethal example. The police officers (who are implied to be corrupt) who encounter Grace after her arrival in the present make fun of her and attempt to not only arrest her but the couple who found her and asked them to help her. Grace gives them a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown in response.
• All the victims in Texas Chainsaw 3D besides Kenny:
  • The Sawyer family, a family of sadistic cannibalistic serial killers.
  • Ryan, who cheats on his girlfriend with his best friend's girlfriend.
  • Nikki, who cheats on her boyfriend with her best friend's boyfriend.
  • Darryl, a thief.
  • Mayor Burt Hartman, the corrupt mayor who tries to kill Heather just for being a Sawyer.
• Thanksgiving (2023): The vast majority of people John Carver targets are one of these, with various degrees of responsibility for a riot that left three people dead and many injured.
  • Lizzie the waitress was one of the most aggressive rioters, killing Amanda with her shopping cart and not even noticing what she'd done. John Carver takes her out first, and displays her corpse on the store's sign to signal the beginning of his killing spree.
  • Another victim is an obnoxious jerk who helps instigate the riot. He later gets gets killed via Neck Snap.
  • Jessica's stepmother Kathleen is a selfish, uncaring woman who deleted the security footage of the riot, ensuring that no one would face legal consequences. She is ultimately burned to death in the killer's oven.
  • Evan was by far the most obnoxious about taunting the crowd outside the superstore, and refused to stop recording with his phone even as the tragedy unfolded and his own friends were hurt, thinking only of social media likes. A year later, he never showed a bit of remorse and got angry when the other characters acted like he should. He was also a general bullying asshole in his daily life, referring to Ryan as an "NPC" and forcing a smaller student to write essays for him, then denying that student his promised pay.
    • For that matter, the smaller student, Jacob, gives Evan an essay plagiarized from something his own teacher wrote, likely knowing he wasn't going to pay up. Evan is left completely humiliated after reading it aloud in class, and may have been about to be suspended for plagiarism if he hadn't been killed before it could happen.
  • Downplayed with Yulia and her father. While Yulia came off as bratty and was one of the kids who insisted on going into the superstore, she's never shown doing anything as nasty as the victims above and spends most of the riot hiding and fending off attackers. Her father also comes off as pretty rude and abrasive, but when he learns his daughter is being targeted by a killer, he immediately tries to get her out of the state, and his final moments before being tranqed by Carver are trying to warn Yulia that the killer is in their home.
  • Downplayed with Manny the security guard as well. While he did run away when the Black Friday riot started, and the only other security guard got killed, there wasn't anything he could really do as security was severely understaffed and he might have gotten killed by the mob himself. One could understand why he ran away. That doesn't stop the Carver from targeting and killing him for failing to protect his wife though.
  • In hindsight, Amanda is a downplayed example as it's revealed that she was cheating on Mitch with Sheriff Newlon, who also reveals that she was going to leave her husband when she found out that she was pregnant with his child. Still, compared to the other horrible people targeted, she's by no means the worst.
  • While Doug, another victim of the riot, is this to a lesser extent than others, he was revealed to have been illegally selling prescription drugs to high schoolers. He tried offering Xanax to his co-worker Manny right before the Black Friday riot but it's unknown if it's to get Manny hooked on it for profit or just to calm him.
• Theatre of Blood: Each one of the critics, except Devlin (who might be an Asshole Survivor depending on what you think of his reaction to Lionheart's death).
• Harlan, from Thelma & Louise, tries to rape Thelma but is thwarted by Louise. Louise tells him to be more considerate of women "in the future" but he insists on being a Jerkass...
  Harlan: Bitch! I shoulda gone ahead and fucked her!
  Louise: What did you say?
  Harlan: I said suck my cock!
  Louise's Gun: BANG!
  • Followed later by the police investigation:
    Policeman: Who do you think did it?
    Cocktail waitress: Has anyone asked his wife? She's the one I hope did it.
• Theresa & Allison: Miranda tells Theresa she decided hunting down rapists to feed on would be all right, if refraining from feeding on humans didn't work. She's killed twelve.
• They/Them (2022): The victims are all cruel, abusive people involved with conversion therapy.
• At least two of the films in The Thin Man series feature these: The (first) victim in After the Thin Man is a cold-hearted philanderer, while in Another Thin Man he's a cantankerous demanding old coot.
• Thirst (2015): Trapper's thing in the movie is mainly bullying Roth, calling him the "Camp Bitch". When an escape vehicle becomes available, he gets on it by himself and drives off, leaving the others to deal with the alien themselves. For his trouble, the alien shoves its proboscis through Trapper's torso.
• This Is the End:
  • The convenience store clerk rudely denies a little girl the usage of the restroom. Fittingly enough, she is the first to fall victim to the apocalypse.
  • Michael Cera presents himself as a rude, foul-mouthed cokehead who cares more about his cell phone than the collateral damage going on in front of him. Even Danny McBride states that "if Michael Cera's dead, it's not a total loss."
  • Jonah Hill actually prays to God to kill Jay Baruchel — which leads him to be punished by demon rape/possession and eventual death.
• Thoroughbreds:
  • Mark. While he mostly refrains from physical abuse to Lilly, he's so rude, nasty, and aggressive that it seems unlikely anyone will feel any sympathy for him even after Lily kills him.
  • Amanda is a deconstruction. She's an asshole by her own admission, but the end is, at best, bittersweet for her.
• Kevin's parents in Time Bandits, who don't seem to care all that much about their own son, see a piece of evil in the microwave. Kevin tells them not to touch it. But they ignore him and touch it anyway. They blow up. On the DVD Commentary [not on the 2013 remaster], Terry Gilliam says "Parents have to listen to their children."
• Carl Lee's victims in A Time to Kill. Carl Lee shot and murdered two white men and severely injured a guard in a courthouse after they raped and nearly murdered his little girl, and would've likely gotten off due to racial bias. The trial boils down to whether they were such massive Asshole Victims that Carl Lee can be ruled to have been out of control of his actions by sheer rage to avenge his daughter. It helps that he feels remorse for the security guard and apologized as soon as he could. Thanks to a powerful speech by Jake, he's acquitted.
  • The Ku Klux Klan grandmaster as well, who is set on fire with his own molotov grenade after inciting a riot.
• Everyone killed by the titular protagonist of The Toxic Avenger film series is a despicable crook who did something horrible enough that they deserved to get murdered. Notable examples include the three robbers who shot Sarah's seeing eye dog in the first film and the Diaper Mafia in the fourth film, who attempted to bomb a school for the mentally handicapped.
• Tragedy Girls: Averted. All the victims, while sometimes stupid or self-centered, come off as genuinely decent people who don't deserve to die. The only exception to this is Lowell, who is, after all, a Serial Killer himself.
• Tremors 3: Back to Perfection has Agent Frank Statler, Agent Charlie Rusk, and Dr. Andrew Merliss, who prevent the citizens of Perfection from hunting the Graboids so that one can be captured alive for study. They're also willing to seize the property in the valley and kick out the townsfolk under "Eminent Domain" to set up a preserve. None of the three survive the film.
• Trilogy of Terror: In the "Julie" segment, there's Chad Morgan who is a college student introduced degrading his female co-eds as "dogs.' After meeting his English professor Julie Eldridge, Chad constantly asks her out until she agrees to go on a date with him. During the date, he drugs her to take compromising photographs and blackmail her into a relationship. Right before Julie kills him, Chad flat-out admits that what she wants means nothing to him. To say that the son of a bitch had it coming at would be an understatement.
• The Trouble with Harry: Everyone thinks they are responsible for his death, but they don't really care.
• Harry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) uses this justification in True Lies. Given that he's under the influence of Truth Serum at the time, he must really believe it. And given that he fights terrorists and trigger-happy enemy agents, it sure seems like it could be true:
  Helen Tasker: Have you ever killed anyone?
  Harry: Yeah, but they were all bad.
• Tucker & Dale vs. Evil takes the slasher movie approach to this trope to it's logical extreme; the 'psycho degenerate hillbillies' are actually a pair of well-meaning but not incredibly bright guys who, through various misunderstandings, are taken to be that way by a bunch of prejudiced, elitist college kids. Very gory hilarity ensues as the kids, much to the confusion and bewilderment of the two, end up accidentally killing themselves while trying to attack the 'evil killers'.

U

• Unforgiven deconstructs this. Will Munny, Ned Logan, Bill Daggett and English Bob are all pretty bad people but the moment they lose their guns, they are beaten severely or even killed yet viewers are supposed to sympathize with their plight just because they have become defenseless.

V

• Valentine: Almost everyone who dies in the film qualifies with the exception of the housekeeper. Dorothy, Paige, Lily, and Shelley participated in the Frame-Up of a middle-schooler (now grown and targeting them over what happened) and haven't changed one bit from that time, Gary stalks Kate (who is openly afraid of him) and steals her clothes, Campbell is a Gold Digger taking advantage of Dorothy, Detective Vaughn sexually harasses Paige, and Ruthie is trying to steal from Dorothy when she stumbles upon the dead housekeeper.
• In Van Helsing (2004), there's Top Hat, the undertaker of Anna's village. He led the village to kill both Frankenstein and his creation, is very rude towards Van Helsing, tried (And failed) to attack him from behind, and in the novelization, there's were some heavy implications that he may have been in league with Count Dracula. So you'll most likely to cheer when he gets killed by the Velkan-werewolf.
• A somewhat failed example of this trope happened in the Vault of Horror movie. A woman was driven to kill her husband by his OCD need to keep the house neat. However, the actor never really went over the top and came across more as lecturing than yelling and screaming, to the point where you felt more like they needed to sit down and have a long talk, rather than him deserving to die.
• General Sparks in Venomous, who gets done in by a mix of the hyper-dangerous mutated snakes he helped create and his own trigger-happiness.
• In V for Vendetta, every named antagonist qualifies as this, with the sole exception of Dr. Delia Surridge. She's a remorseful Death Seeker who seems to anticipate that Death Equals Redemption. If her journals can be believed, she hated (or convinced herself to hate) the people she experimented on. V managed to form a connection with her, which brought her to confront her actions and apologize to her only living victim. It's no coincidence, then, that out of all the named antagonists, Dr. Surridge is the only one granted a quiet, painless death.
  Delia: Is it meaningless to apologize?
  V: Never.
  Delia: I'm so sorry.
• Viking Wolf has Vidar, who constantly pokes fun of Thale and even condescendingly asks her why she didn't save Elin when she was killed while also taunting her bite wound. It's hard to feel sympathy for him when Thale kills him as a wolf.

W

• In We Are the Night a group of Russian pimps and criminals are torn to pieces by the four female vampires who are the protagonists of the film. However, one of them survives but is considered crazy by the police when he talks about the vampires.
• In Weekend at Bernie's there was, well, Bernie himself. He was a Corrupt Corporate Executive who was planning on killing the protagonists for unknowingly discovering his scheme, but the mobsters he hired to do it double-crossed him.
• Anna Walsh stabbed her abusive Con Man boyfriend, Mike Mitchell, and kicked him down the stairs in When the Bough Breaks.
• The remake of The Wicker Man (2006) featured a hysterically funny unintentional example. "Oh no! NOT THE BEES!"
• The two cops in Wolf Creek 2, who try to give Mick a speeding ticket even though he was going under the limit and give him an order to take his truck off the road. Special mention goes to the one officer who insulted his truck and called him ugly.
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit
  • R.K. Maroon, to a certain degree. Even though he is murdered by Judge Doom, the fact that he made Jessica Rabbit cheat on Roger with Marvin Acme (or Roger would face termination from Maroon Cartoons) with the intent to blackmail the latter makes the audience apathetic toward Maroon's death. He gets points for being genuinely remorseful of what he did after he learns what Doom's plan really was.
  • And Judge Doom, who after trying to destroy Toontown with Dip ends up getting drenched in it.
• Willy's Wonderland: Lund is a corrupt sheriff who had set up many innocent people to be sacrificed to the Hostile Animatronics and tries to feed the Janitor to Willy in spite of the fact that the former was already taking care of the other animatronics. The audience won't feel bad for her when she gets sliced in half by Willy himself. Additionally, Tex and Jed, Lund's two accomplices, get blown up by Siren Sara.
• The Wolfman (2010):
  • The sadistic Dr. Hoenneger and his equally cruel orderlies subject Lawrence to torturous "treatments" such as dunking him in ice baths, drugs, and electroshock therapy, and are later killed by Lawrence during the public display to the other doctors ^note To be fair these were thought of as legitimate medical treatments for the insane at the time period. Frankly the mere thought that someone could help them at all was radical and noble but it doesn’t mitigate their assholeness one bit
  • The hunters slain by Lawrence during his first rampage might fit as well, considering their earlier attempt to lynch him (though in light of the fact that he actually did become a ravening monster under the full moon, their conduct might have been justified).
  • Sir John counts, too, though he's less of an asshole victim and more an asshole losing combatant in a fight.
• Wolves: The thugs Cayden ends up killing while on the run. They were beating up a girl he spoke to earlier. He tells them to leave her alone. They tell him to get lost. He's not remotely in control of his wolf yet, so they die violently.
  Cayden: When I let the wolf out... it can be hard to stop.
  • Connor's pack of feral werewolves. They're all dead by the end, and they had it coming.
• The World Is Not Enough: Sir Robert King turned out to be kind of a jackass, all things considered. He was willing to destroy an ancient church in Azerbaijan—his wife's homeland, no less—for his oil pipeline (which caused the local villagers to riot), and he stole his wife's inheritance to further his own ambition and greed.
• The World of Kanako:
  • When finally the truth is revealed, Kanako dies at the hands of her teacher, but when you see how much suffering she has brought over the people that believed to be her friends, the latter can't be blamed.
  • Matsunaga is heavily beaten and sliced up by the Yakuza. No one cares after what he has done to the narrator.

X

• X-Men Film Series
  • Mitchell Laurio in X2: X-Men United. He's a thug who's shown to enjoy beating up an old man stripped of any powers that would allow him to fight back, so no one minds too much when Mystique sets him up for a death allowing Magneto to escape.
  • X-Men Origins: Wolverine: Agent Zero murders the middle-aged couple who took Logan in after he escaped the Weapon X facility. At the end of the chase that follows this, Logan forces Zero's helicopter to crash, trapping him inside, and after a brief exchange admonishing Zero for killing two perfectly innocent people, uses his newly-acquired adamantium claws to ignite a line of gasoline leaking from the downed chopper and blow Zero to kingdom come.
  • X-Men: First Class:
    • The two SS escapees that Magneto killed in Argentina
    • Sebastian Shaw when he's killed by Magneto near the end. Considering in his first scene he murdered Erik's mother right in front of the boy's eyes, it's highly doubtful anybody in the audience really feels any sympathy for him. Charles on the other hand, who was telepathically linked with Shaw and felt all the pain of his death, is someone to feel sorry for.
    • Most of the CIA Agents. A couple of them walk by the mutant's room, saying "I didn't know the circus was in town!" Then, seconds later, they all get dropped from the sky. One of them is even begging to live, telling Shaw where they are, only to then get killed.
  • The Wolverine: Logan catches up to a group of hunters who used poisoned arrows to mortally wound a grizzly bear that he was forced to Mercy Kill and stabs one of them with one their own arrows. His soon-to-be sidekick Yukio, who can predict how and when people die, stops Logan from gutting the lot of them, then proceeds to inform the hunters that they'll all soon be dead anyway in a drunk-driving accident. We don't get to see this happen, but Yukio's never wrong.
  • Logan:
    • The carjackers in the opening scene.
    • The corrupt ranchers who try to attack Logan and Mr. Munson at the water pump. They show up again at the worst possible time and get cut to pieces by X-24.
    • For that matter, Pierce, Rice, the Reavers, and X-24 all get extremely brutal yet very much warranted deaths after all the shit they've pulled — Pierce is slowly and painfully murdered by a combination of all the X-23 children's powers, Rice is shot in the throat and left to choke on his own blood, and X-24 is shot in the head with an adamantium bullet that blows most of his skull off.
  • The sadistic Orphanage Headmaster from Deadpool 2, who gets ran over by Dopinder's taxi right after he slurs insults at the mutants who spared him from Russel's fiery wrath. Not even Colossus — the same guy who objected to Wade killing off Ajax — bats an eye at the Headmaster's demise.

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