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Adventure Time

  • Marceline in the Adventure Time fanfic Alex (MovieVillain). Most notable in chapter 4 where she gets owned by her own spit, beaten to a pulp by Alex, gets thrown with rotten tomatoes, and attacked by Finn and some wolves.

Calvin and Hobbes

  • Socrates, in a fit of berserker rage, unleashes one onto Hobbes (who idolizes him) in Calvin & Hobbes: The Series. He then loses all respect he had for Socrates. The conga itself, in all its glory:
    Suddenly, a water balloon splashed into Hobbes' head.
    "ACK!" Hobbes yelled.
    It was then that Hobbes realized that Socrates hads pushed Hobbes over sending him tumbling down the hill.
    He landed in the creek.
    However this wasn't enough for Socrates.
    Socrates rolled the garbage barrel over to the hill, and dumped it.
    Over a ton of garbage colapsed onto Hobbes, just as he was climbing out of the creek.
    Then, Socrates grabbed a barrel full of mustard, and sent it tumbling down the hill, screaming in anger.
    It hit Hobbes, and he went tumbling back into the creek, now covered in mustard.

Crossover

  • Code Geass: Paladins of Voltron: Cornelia is subjected to a massive one at Narita. In order: what should have been a Curb-Stomp Battle in her favor is derailed by the arrival of the Paladins of Voltron, who begin dismantling her forces. Then, the Black Lion shows up and utterly destroys her Knightmare, handing her the first defeat she has ever faced. Then, the Lions form Voltron and take out a sizable portion of her remaining forces, leading the survivors to call a retreat. Then, Zero makes his return, reveals Voltron is a weapon of the Black Knights, and then calls for all of Britannia to surrender or face the consequences.
  • Code Prime:
    • R1 is anything but kind to Cornelia and her ego.
      • Her first defeat ever comes at Saitama, where the Autobots and Zero are able to evacuate the entire ghetto and save the Yamato Alliance. She then faces Optimus Prime in single combat, and is completely trounced, getting only a scratch in on the Autobot leader.
      • Then the Autobots and their human allies make her and her soldiers look incompetent during the hostage crisis at Lake Kawaguchi, by successfully rescuing the hostages (including her sister Euphemia) while announcing the formation of the Black Knights and declaring war on Britannia and the Decepticons.
      • She suffers another loss at Narita, where nearly all her forces are wiped out. She only manages to escape thanks to Megatron and Suzaku's intervention, and she fails in destroying the Japan Liberation Front.
      • From there, Charles tells her that she will be under Megatron's supervision in all matters involving the Autobots and Black Knights.
      • She suffers another humiliation at Port Yokosuka, where the Black Knights are able to rescue the remnants of the JLF from under her forces' noses, Zero evades capture despite her best efforts and Bumblebee is able to beat her. To make things worse for her, the Glaston Knights, still reeling from heavy losses at Narita, are effectively wiped out with Darlton and Guilford as the only surviving members. At the end of it, she can only fume in frustration about her situation.
      • Cornelia's most humiliating episode comes in Chapter 22, during the mission to retrieve the Immobilizer. Both her and Starscream are abandoned by Airachnid and captured by the Autobots and Black Knights. She ends up Boundand Gagged in the trunk of Bumblebee's vehicle mode. Later, Lelouch uses his Geass on her to make her divulge information on all known Britannian and Decepticon activities in Area 11. Cornelia does manage to cut herself free and hold her own against Kallen in hand-to-hand combat, but was soon cornered by Bumblebee and knocked out by Kallen.
      • After Arcee and Cliffjumper manage to save Ashford Academy from Mao (with the Britannian military none the wiser), news of their exploits spread like wildfire across the Internet, garnering more support for the Autobots and Black Knights Cornelia was absolutely PISSED.
      • In Chapter 33, she challenges Megatron to single combat after learning of Euphie's kidnapping, the truth behind the SAZ Massacre, and Lelouch being Zero. Much like her duel with Optimus, Cornelia is utterly trounced by the Decepticon leader. To add insult to injury, she ends up joining Euphie as Airachnid's prisoner.
    • Emperor Charles zi Britannia suffers this big-time when the Decepticons attack Pendragon. His Knightmare, the Excalibur is destroyed by Megatron, who then makes Charles suffer his greatest fear under the influence of his Dark Geass, which is all of his children renouncing and leaving him. All the while, Megatron gives him a brutal "The Reason You Suck" Speech, calling his ideals and methods childish and pathetic. After being brought out of the illusion, Charles witnesses the Nemesis obliterate Pendragon with one shot. The final part comes when he sees his brother (unwillingly) siding with the Decepticons. Megatron then ends Charles’ life by incinerating him with one shot from his cannon.
  • Very blatantly done to Sasuke in the Naruto/Justice League crossover Connecting the Dots. Having just lost an eye in battle with Naruto, Sasuke is taken by the Spectre to Gotham City, where his chakra is taken away and he is beaten to a pulp by Johnny Rancid and his gangs, until he's forced to beg. Spectre very brazenly says that he does this to teach him humility.
  • Dungeon Keeper Ami features an awesome version of this over an entire story arc. The War on Death Arc, to be specific. First the Dark God Crowned Death steals the Avatar's Mantle from Mercury, taking the time to taunt her in the process. That was a great idea. Really. What happens is this: First, Mercury personally assassinates the Death Priest responsible. Then she uses his atomised remains to track anyone who passes through the area, allowing her to identify the site of Crowned Death's planned sacrificial ritual. Then Mercury's forces successfully attack the temple in question half a world away, with only three days' warning. Not only does Mercury's Airship Fleet completely trounce Crowned Death's forces guarding the temple, she consumes one of his lesser aspects, and rescues the hostage sacrifices. All eight thousand of them. Soon afterward, Mercury uncovers the existence of a massive swimming fortress-temple, Crowned Death's base of operations. The temple is then destroyed in a tremendous conflagration of Chlorine Trifluoride, setting back Crowned Death's plans to break into the material world by centuries. Outraged, Crowned Death attempts to kill Mercury using corruption to rot away her dungeon, only for Mercury to escape him... and Azzathra, the Mighty Tyrant... AND The Unraveller of Mysteries. Three Dark Gods working together. In desperation, Crowned Death turns to Mukrezar, a powerful Keeper he revived using the Avatar's mantle, only for Mukrezar to assassinate the entire leadership of Crowned Death's cult (both to keep them from harassing him, and in an attempt to one-up Mercury). It was a bad day for Crowned Death.
  • Equestria Girls: A Fairly Odd Friendship:
    • Crocker's scheme to steal Cosmo and Wanda falls apart catastrophically. Sunset and Gilda are able to knock him off the balcony he is standing on, and not only does his laser break, but the fall breaks his leg for good measure. Then Principal Waxelplax discovers his scheme and demotes him to janitor. Then Gilda physically punishes him for messing with Timmy, with the Dimmsdale kids cheering and Waxelplax spitefully looking the other way.
    • The Dazzlings go through a harsh one: Timmy turns the tables on them during the Final Battle by tricking them into breaking Da Rules, they are hit with a combo of the Elements of Harmony and fairy magic, all of Canterlot High brutally beats them up, Zephyr Breeze spitefully shaves them bald as revenge for what they did to Fluttershy, Timmy punishes them by forcing them to repair the lawn, and finally Jorgen drags them off to jail.
  • The lethal version of this trope is how Ludlow meets his end in Episode 4 of Rise of the Galeforces, after he makes the mistake of pushing Violet too far.
  • Sognic: Mall-tiverse of Madness: Roter.exe suffers a lot of comic abuse in episode 3. He places each of the heroes in specialized nightmare worlds meant to scare them, but almost none of them work, and he gets more frustrated the more he fails to scare them. Airo One Hit Kills the Monster Clown that Roter.exe sends after him. Sognic easily runs away from the nightmare version of Ammy because she's doing an Ominous Walk. Ammy quickly overcomes her sadness at Sognic rejecting her in her nightmare. Knockles is the only one who is successfully scared, but Roter.exe feels that scaring him was so easy that it wasn't even fun. Roter manages to Rickroll Roter.exe. Blayz somehow wanders into Tals's nightmare, comforts Tals when he's scared, and gets the Tails Doll, who Roter.exe sent to chase Tails, to make a Heel–Face Turn. Then, later on, Roter does a Fusion Dance with Freddy Fazbear, but all the heroes laugh at him and quote FNAF memes. Finally, at the very end, he is trapped in the mall's PA system and forced to listen to Taylor Swift's "Blank Space," which he hates.
  • In Spiderverse The Movie - Edge of Time, Kang was close to obtain ultimate power but an army of Spider-Men intervened, defeating him and destroying his army and fortress. To add further salt to the wound, the other Kangs exiled him to the Quantum Realm where he'll received another defeat at the hands of Ant-Man
  • A more serious one than most, Bill Cipher goes through much confusion in A Triangle in the Stars when his efforts to appeal to Steven's darker side, for lack of a better explanation, backfire. This, and other events that play more to the Trauma Conga Line, lead to his confidence shattering.
  • Voltes V Versus Voltron The Godaikin Wars: Voltron is tricked into fighting Voltes V, labelled as a war criminal in spite of being innocent, beaten to near-death by tons of other Super Robots and eventually destroyed by being hurled into numerous buildings after having its neck snapped.
  • The former warlord Bahija's origin story in Zero Context: Woolgathering is one of these.
    • First, Acutus is summoned to the Muffin Continent to coerce a mouthy child into either joining her harem, being conscripted into her army, or being killed outright. She gets distracted when Callista arrives, lets her lust get the better of her, and taunts the seemingly powerless Callista into doing her worst. Less than two minutes later, the park they were in gets replaced with a lake, with an eviscerated Acutus left on the edge of death at the bottom of it.
    • After being rescued a year later, Acutus is stuck with a Jusenkyo curse that turns her into the sheep-girl Bahija, depriving her of her power-set upon application of cold water.
    • While stubbornly keeping tabs on Callista, Bahija is forced to stay as a sheep-girl at all times lest she wants her masquerade to fall apart. While doing so she garners a good reputation as a humanitarian, but being forced to fake goodwill results in her getting sick to the point of vomiting every other evening.
    • Meanwhile, Bahija's empire elsewhere in the universe comes to an abrupt end when Callista's faction goes on the attack, freeing all of the worlds she subjected. Upon discovering this, Bahija is emotionally distraught to the point where she almost goes through with submersing herself in her new role entirely, despite the damage it would do to her health.
    • Finally, Acutus attempts to clone Callista's negative traits, with the ultimate goal of altering her positive ones to make her more receptive to her. The cloning succeeds, but Acutus realizes too late that the clone retained most of Callista's memories, and is subsequently forced to tell the complete truth. Too ensnared by her lust to be anything but pleasing to her target, she is forced to follow all of the newly-christened Missy Coco's orders as if Callista had given them. A few days later her good reputation is ruined when a music video of her doing a Spy Crab dance makes the rounds, cementing her role as the Brotherhood's Butt-Monkey for years to come.
Harry Potter
  • A Bad Week at the Wizengamot: Fudge and the Wizengamot's decision to expel Harry and break his wand turns out to be the biggest mistake of their lives.
    • To start with, after Harry departs Britain and takes his money with him, it turns out his family fortune was supporting a great deal of Wizarding Britain's economy, including assets managed by the goblins (which pisses them off so much that they seize the Ministry of Magic's assets) and a trust that pays 45% of the bills for Hogwarts (causing tuition to be raised by 200%).
    • It comes out that the Ministry sent Sirius to Azkaban for more than a decade without trial, which is conclusively proven by Pensieve evidence, ruining the Ministry of Magic's reputation in the worldwide magical community.
    • Harry's departure also broke an ancient magical contract his family signed that kept the government running, resulting in the dissolution of the Ministry of Magic and the Wizengamot. When the European Magical Union arrives to clean up the mess, they uncover a mountain of evidence of corruption and law-breaking among Britain's magical government, including Umbridge's possession of Dark artifacts, Snape casting Unforgivable Curses, and Fudge taking bribes and having his wife locked up in a Muggle sanitarium.
    • When Voldemort finds out the Wizengamot caused Harry to leave Britain and interfered with his plans for the prophecy, he gets so mad he orders the assassinations of all the Wizengamot members who voted to convict Harry.
    • Meanwhile, much to Fudge's chagrin, Harry himself is hailed as a hero by the international magical community, offered citizenship in no less than eight different countries, and made Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor.
  • In Harry Potter and the Nightmares of Futures Past, the Dursleys are prosecuted for their abuse of Harry, but their solicitor persuades the Ministry to drop the charges in exchange for avoiding a breach of the Statute of Secrecy. However, Harry then takes matters into his own hands. Having purchased a significant number of shares in Grunnings (Vernon's employer), he arranges to have Vernon investigated for accounting discrepancies, fired, his fate published to the local newspaper, the Dursleys' mortgage bought out and foreclosed due to their lack of income, and the Dean of Smeltings notified in order to call Dudley's enrolment into question. Account manager Goldfarb, having seen the documentation of Harry's injuries, is a little surprised that he doesn't want to just hire a "discreet removal specialist", but Harry tells him that would be too quick. The Weasley Twins then sabotage Vernon when he tries to appeal his dismissal, by slipping him "Veritamints" containing a short-acting Truth Serum, and Petunia is later arrested for shoplifting groceries, leaving Dudley to be raised by his strict (and abusive) Aunt Marge.
  • Dolores Umbridge copped a few embarrassments in Harry Potter canon, but that's nothing compared to what she gets for throwing her weight around as a bully in a school full of budding counter-intelligence agents in Hermione Granger and the Boy Who Lived. She gets busted for torturing Harry (although cleared of official charges); threatened at knifepoint, and compelled to soil herself or die on the spot; repeatedly dumped in a septic tank, and caught on dozens of cameras when being fished out; dosed with cocktails of chemicals so she smells like rotting fish for days without realising it; her food is tampered with to give her vomiting and diarrhoea; Hermione deliberately vomits in her lap; she's removed from the school in disgrace; she gets long-term radiation poisoning; and she never realises that Hermione was working against her and staged half of this.

Haruhi Suzumiya

  • In Kyon: Big Damn Hero, Tsuruya got to catch Yamane Jun note  in his clubroom off-guard and outnumbered with the help of his second-in-command. Since he had the bad idea of pushing Tsuruya to the window for a three-story fall, Kyon, after ensuring she was OK, held him by an ankle, making his body dangle outside the same window, allowing people who were passing by to take photos with their phones. Then he just had to wet himself.
    Tsuruya: That's precious! I'll make sure one of those pictures of you that's being taken down there now is right next to the article about this that'll be in the paper!

Homestuck

  • Hivefled: the extremely Not Safe for Work depiction of Dualscar's death is one of these. He's offered his freedom in exchange for telling a joke, attacks the Grand Highblood instead, and ends up with his own gun lodged in an uncomfortable place, in front of his entire crew and the Empress (who, incidentally, he intends to beg for help until he realises she's masturbating), while still being forced to tell the joke. Which he doesn't even manage to finish.

Invader Zim

  • Gaz's Horrible Halloween of Doom: Gaz suffers from a magically-induced one as a result of destroying an offering that was meant for Samhain, Celtic god of death and the harvest. She's forced to wear the pinkest, girliest fairy princess costume imaginable after the costume shop mysteriously loses the witch costume she pre-ordered, gets kidnapped by a paranormal investigator who mistakes her for a "Sugar Fairy," has to walk home in the pouring rain after escaping, falls into a thorn bush, gets her costume torn up (meaning she can't even return it for a refund), and gets splashed with mud by a passing truck. After she finally gets home and prepares to enjoy her candy, several cavities spontaneously appear in her mouth as soon as she bites down on one piece, prompting her father to throw out all her candy and haul her down to the basement for a round of painful dental surgery.
  • Misery Loves Company: Gaz is forced to play a game where she has to escape Hecate's house. She stumbles into a series of traps that give her a tan, change her hair color to blonde and tie it into braids, and dress her up in a ridiculously girly outfit complete with hair ribbons and sparkly nail polish. Being a tomboy, she finds this infuriatingly embarrassing.
  • The New Adventures of Invader Zim:
    • Minimoose in Episode 4, as he gets dragged across the city by GIR and Phil as the latter chases MIMI, repeatedly getting slammed into things in the process, and finally gets tossed into a meat processor.
    • Viera puts Gaz through this in Episode 8 in an attempt at teaching her humility, first through a bad luck curse, and then magically dressing her up as a clown in front of the whole skool.

Jackie Chan Adventures

  • Queen of All Oni:
    • After Valmont's attempted coup, he gets beat up by Tohru, before Jade has her Shadowkhan strip him and dump him in public, where he ends up getting arrested. And this is after the months of living like a common thief before Jade recruited him.
    • Daolon Wong fails to restore his power, gets beat up by Jade's Shadowkhan, locked in a closet, sent back to prison, tricked into helping his enemies, sent back to prison again, and then dies of old age. You almost feel sorry for the old bastard.
    • Drago's attempt to steal the Talismans is thwarted by Karasu, his bank robbery attempt is interrupted by Blankman, to whom he loses the subsequent fight, Karasu prevents him from stealing the immortality power from Scruffy, and he gets sent back to the future, where the Matriarch (future Jade) has him beaten with metal baseball bats.

Miraculous Ladybug

  • best (fake) smile: Upon becoming incensed at Lila's treatment of Marinette, Adrien carefully and methodically and thoroughly ruins her reputation, approaching one celebrity after another with her on his arm, letting her fake stories about knowing famous people unravel when she comes face to face with them — and Adrien live-streams it all, to sink the boot in.
    Adrien: We're not doing this for fun, Plagg. We're doing this for justice.
    Plagg: But we’re still gonna crush her like a soda can, right? Good. Great. Glad we’re on the same page.
  • LadyBugOut: Lila unintentionally sets hers into motion by claiming to be helping her 'BFF Ladybug' with her new blog. Unaware of this, Marinette sets up an interview with herself so she can work on the blog while protecting her Secret Identity. When Marinette arrives at school the next morning, Lila attempts to play her favorite card and accuses Marinette and Ladybug of deliberately trying to humiliate her... only for Ivan to point out that Marinette was never around for any of Lila's bragging about her involvement. Casting about widely for somebody else to blame, Lila only succeeds in alienating her classmates further with her wild, baseless accusations... and then she attempts to invoke Exact Words, claiming that she never actually said that she was working on the blog, only that Ladybug had asked her to help. Called out on this, she spins a sob story about Ladybug turning on her because she remained loyal to Alya and her Ladyblog — bad move, given how most of the class was already mad at Alya for taking a very Paparazzi attitude towards their heroine. Cue said classmates demanding to know Was It All a Lie? Just to rub more salt into the wound, after hearing an exchange, most of the class firmly takes Marinette's side, cementing the fact that in their eyes, not being Lila is a very good thing. Lila's forced to watch all the popularity she'd garnered through her fibbing go spiraling down the drain, all because she couldn't resist trying to play the victim.
    Alya: Why'd you help Ladybug out with her blog?
    Marinette: Ladybug needed help. How could I say no to that?
    Alya: Lila did.
    Marinette: I'm not Lila.

My Hero Academia

  • The Fundamental Essence of Villainy: Tectonic has all of his crimes exposed to the public, all of the money drained from his bank account, and is strung up by his ankles and left hanging off his agency building in nothing but his boxers.
    Izuku: A friend of mine suggested it.
  • One for All and Eight for the Ninth puts All for One through the ringer like you would not believe. First, Izuku publicly calls out his apprentice as a tantrum-throwing brat. Then, his attempt to steal Overhaul results in the villain Overhaul mangling his arms to prevent him from using the Quirk at all, much less fix himself. After that, though the League succeeds in kidnapping Izuku, they lose more than half of their members in the process, and then his attempt to steal One for All results in him losing over thirty Quirks, with nearly half of them (including Search and Overhaul) being absorbed into One for All, causing it to become even more powerful. To cap it all off, the rescue mission results in all but three members of the League being captured or defecting and All Might paralyzing him while All for One is unable to break him due to Eri healing him. And things only get more humiliating for him in prison; the Torchbearers engage in a slow raid campaign of exploiting the connection between OFA and AFO (the very thing Mugen needed so he could steal One for All) to systemically delete Mugen's stock of Quirks without him realizing. While he eventually realized he was losing Quirks, Mugen's severing of the connection causes him to lose a few more, including one of his favorites, Air Cannon. And as the cherry on top of the whole experience, Tomura reveals he caught onto Mugen's scheme, admits he would've gone along with his schemes if he'd just been honest with him as opposed to manipulating him for years, points out how stupid and self-destructive his obsession with One for All is, shuts down Mugen's claim that he's the only one who knows how to work AFO by stating he's happy to experiment on his own, and leaves him braindead in his prison cell.

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

  • The Conversion Bureau: Conquer the Stars gives a truly brutal one to the ponies who supported Conversion, which is so thorough that it almost Crosses the Line Twice. Let's see — After the Gryphon Queen declared Celestia's Omniscient Morality License was revoked at the end of Not Alone, Equestria goes through this. First, all of the other countries in Equis launch a massive economic embargo on Equestria, forcing the heavily import-dependent country to develop on its own, while dealing with scarcities of several different resources in the meantime. Some time later, negotiations were re-established for the next five years, during which things seemed like they'd be okay... only for, on the fifth Hearth's Warming Eve, all nations to declare war on Equestria simultaneously. The following campaign was so devastating to Equestrianote  that the Princesses were forced to relocate to another, inhospitable planet, and even that was done by leaving several pieces of Equestria, like the entirety of Appleloosa and literally half of Hoofington, behind. By the time the USS Calvin discovers Equestria, the country is ravaged by civil war, extremely impoverished, has lost use of the Elements of Harmony, and a resistance movement is midway through a plan to "bring the Princess to her miserable knees". You almost have to feel sorry for them... Almost.
  • Earth and Sky: After Chrysalis' impersonation of Diamond Tiara is exposed and she's arrested, Blueblood looks like he's in the clear... only for Fancypants to end up forcing him to hand over majority shareholding in his own company at risk of his involvement being uncovered, followed by Diamond Tiara's lawyers blocking his access to her money. And then on top of that, his airship gets blown up by the Wrong Brothers' errant rockets. And things just get worse for him in the final chapter, as Diamond returns, divorces him, and leaves him with so little that he'll have to move back in with his mother (an apparent Fate Worse than Death).
  • All of Ace Ray's appearances in My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic are this trope overall. Soon after the narration introduces him, it reveals he lost all his friends and the Wonderbolts kicked him out. He later fights a changeling (It Makes Sense in Context) and, if it wasn't for Rainbow Dash's interference, he "would have [gotten] seriously hurt". His sister Skye and him later get held hostage by two robots, leaving two members of Starfleet (which Ace hates) to save them, with one of the robots knocking him unconscious. Additionally, he repeatedly attempts to get other ponies to hate Starfleet. However, none of them (sans the ponies that were on his side) even listen to him! According to the narrator, Ace was even recommended to get help and Starfleet's defenders frequently told him he was a "failure". One day, he and a mob arrive at a cafe and protest there... except everybody initially ignores them! Oh, Skye (who he hates) later attempts to get him to stop his protest. However, Ace tries to beat the Starfleet love out of her, causing Starfleet to interfere. Moreover, Lightning Dawn (who he despises) stops him from assaulting his sister and subjects him to a Curb-Stomp Battle. During the "fight", Ace tried to attack Lightning, only for him to No-Sell his attacks. It also ended with Lightning arresting him and him being put on trial. There, after getting dissed by Captain Spitfire, Ace attempts to blame Starfleet for everything. Everybody ignores him and, when he attempts to attack the judge, Twilight stops him by surrounding him with a shield. The court later finds him guilty and, while he's being dragged away to Xandra (an inescapable planet possessing multiple asylums that he was sentenced to)note , he blames Starfleet again. Predictably, the other ponies ignore him again. Although he tells the staff is fine mentally, this only results in them sedating and restraining him. When Mykan rewrote his final appearancenote , he made Ace's conga worse. Not only do the previously-mentioned events still occur, and other ponies begin cheering on Skye after she begins telling off her brother for dissing Starfleet. She even testifies in court, with her testimony revealing Nightmare Moon once enslaved him. Afterwards, Ace has another outburst, causing the judge to call him out on his misbehavior.
  • The Ponies of Olympus series:
    • Rainbow Dash ends up going through this in Ditzy Don't after Ditzy is turned into Mademoiselle Doo: she's so badly outclassed that she and Ditzy basically switch roles, leading to her public humiliation and being fired from her weather management job, followed by Mademoiselle Doo deciding to start babying her. And that's before she goes obsessive and starts hunting Dash all over town until she's snapped back to normal. All of this helps lead to Dash's Jerkass Realization.
    • Atlas Strongest Tournament: Rarity puts Blueblood through one of these during their match in the preliminary rounds, as payback for the Gala — first, she hits him in the eye, then in the pole, then immobilizes him with acupuncture needles (which also cause him to lose control of his bladder) before finishing him off.
  • Lightning Dust in the Reading Rainbowverse. Let's see. Lightning was kicked out of the Wonderbolts, which ruined her relationship with her mother, set up on a blind date with the mare that she blames for that, accused of getting said mare into prison and getting more dissapointment from her mother, went into heat for the first time and became heatlocked on said mare, attracted the attention of an anonymous eldritch abomination, had a mail organ drawn on her forehead by said eldritch abomination, hospitalized herself trying to do a sonic rainboom, was disowned by her mother shortly thereafter, and forced to wear a frilly dress.

Noel's House Party

  • Tellygunge's fictional 2011 revival of Noel's House Party (plus the sequel/Dead Fic Davina's House Party) uses this with a lot of gunge. Interestingly, the fic used a voting system on who would go through one. Although some are subverted due to the victims enjoying it. Cheryl Cole, Sheridan Smith, Zoe Salmon, Amanda Lamb, the Coronation Street girls, Miley Cyrus, and Rhianna are all subjected to this in the 2011 revival, while Sarah Michelle Geller, Bérénice Marlohe, the Strictly Come Dancing contestants, Sophie Dahl, Oliva Godfrey, Hayley McQueen, Claire Tomlinson, and Sally Bercow undergo this in Davina's House Party. Rachel Riley also takes the brunt of it in every episode after announcing the half-time results in Davina's.

Pokémon

  • Cori Falls makes it a point to give Ash Ketchum one of these in every story after a certain point in her timeline, including but not limited to: having James's baby Articuno peck and curse at him in Pokemon language and being given a wedgie while everyone makes fun of his choice in underwear, being called out on every single mistake he's ever committed, Brock and Misty turning against him and siding with Jessie and James, losing every battle or other competition he participates in, and more than half his Kanto League badges revoked. By the end, he's little more than a pathetic Manchild who exists to be mocked and feared as a dirty, smelly monster. The worst might be "A White Today" where after jumping off of five or six cliffs, including a couple waterfalls, being pecked by Spearow, stung fifty times by Beedrills, electrocuted, pelted black and blue with apples causing him to be covered in cuts, scrapes, welts, and bruises and wetting his pants, Meowth mercilessly Fury Swipes him, gets beaten by Team Rocket with brass knuckles and electrocuted again. Cori REALLY doesn't like Ash.
  • Tobias from Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl gets one in A Champion's Commupance [sic], a fanfic that doubles as a Take That, Scrappy!. He is stripped of his conference title, has his Legendary Pokemon confiscated, and goes to jail after it's figured out that they're not Legendaries but illegal genetically altered Pokemon.

RWBY

  • Professor Arc: Oh boy, poor, poor Cinder gets put through the wringer, worse than in canon. Thanks to Jaune's intervention, she is stopped from killing Pyrrha and claiming her power, who has managed to convince two of her subordinates to switch sides. Beacon and later Atlas forces manage to repel her invasion and beat back the Grimm. Jaune is not only able to stand up to Cinder, but tear her eye out, maiming her badly enough to send her running. When we see her, she is left with a paralyzing fear of Jaune.

Real-Person Fic

  • Jeft in With Strings Attached: First, the Hunter ends up befriending the four rather than fighting them. Then the five of them destroy one of Jeft's pet places of evil, the Plains of Death and its associated Heart of Evil (which is very expensive). Then he sees some of his best and toughest baddies easily and quickly neutralized with no danger to anyone. Then the Hunter manages to throw his mind-controlling BFS over a cliff and escape Jeft's clutches entirely. Finally, Shag and Varx inform him that they've ratted on him to the Dalns gods, prompting an Oh, Crap! moment and his quick exit from the book.

A Song of Ice and Fire / Game of Thrones

  • In the The North Remembers, House Frey, who are already despised by many for their role in the Red Wedding, are betrayed by the Lannisters when they force Walder to send his daughter Roslin to Casterly Rock as a hostage. Then as punishment for letting Jeyne Westerling escape from Riverrun, Cersei orders Roslin and the Westerling family's execution, effectively nullifying everything House Frey gained from the Red Wedding. Walder, who at that point was already suffering from apoplexy, dies upon hearing the news. And if that wasn't enough, his successor Edwyn takes two dozen of his relatives out to seek revenge against the Lannisters... only to be ambushed and hanged by the Brotherhood without Banners.
  • Purple Days: Renly suffers from this in the Blackworks loop. First, Joff attacks his massive army with a vastly numerically inferior force - and the 100,000 strong army gets its ass kicked. In the same battle, Joff personally rides and sets fire to Renly's pavilion and kills four of his Rainbow Guard in succesion. Then, Renly's big idea to stop his nephew turns out to be a deathtrap, and gets revealed as an incompetent leader as his army gets whittled down, with provisions running low and desertions at an all-time high. It boils over in a heated argument between Reachlords and Stormlords, in which his biggest disciplinarians (the main reason his army hasn't collapsed) get killed. And then Joff swoops in, finishes the Rainbow Guard (including his lover) and exposes him as a Puppet King in front of everyone. Small wonder he ends up killing himself shortly after.
  • In the fanfic series WinterRoses, this happens to Catelyn Tully. As background knowledge, Daenerys is captured as a baby in Dragonstone, Robert is convinced to give her to Ned Stark as a ward and betroths her to Jon Snow in a bid to humiliate House Targaryen. Being betrothed to a princess causes Jon to be given lands and titles, exacerbating Catelyn's hatred for him. She is also envious that Bran is not automatically given titles and lands too. She severely mistreats Jon as a result. When Ned finds out, he exiles her back to her father, Hoster Tully. After Ned makes it clear that he is never taking her back, Hoster sends Catelyn to the Faith to become a septa, because keeping her home would just bring expense and shame upon him. Catelyn becoming a septa effectively annuls her marriage to Ned, even if their children retain their trueborn status. The moment the marriage is annulled, Ned proposes marriage to Ashara Dayne, who is disguised as Sansa's and Arya's lowborn governess. To add insult to injury, they even marry in the Sept of Baelor, where Catelyn serves. Ashara goes on to give Ned multiple Stark-looking children with black hair and grey eyes, unlike Catelyn, who bore him four children with Tully red hair and blue eyes. Even after this, Catelyn keeps committing blunder after blunder that alienate all her children from her. In a bid to try and gain back their acceptance, she kidnaps Jaime and Tyrion Lannister, which starts a war. During said war, it comes out that Jon is the son of Rhaegar and Lyanna, making Catelyn's persecution of him as a child even more pointless. Due to the kidnapping, she is kicked out of the Faith and ends up having to beg Jon and Daenerys for a place to stay and food to eat.

Star Wars

  • Princess Leia Slave To Jabba The Hutt: The whole story, which expands upon Princess Leia's brief time as Jabba the Hutt's slave girl, is this for Leia. She is caught red-handed by Jabba and his cronies, forced to strip naked right in front of them under the threat of her friends being executed, forced to wear a collar and a skimpy Go-Go Enslavement outfit and then to dance for them, and is constantly mocked, groped and molested by Jabba. Fortunately, she does get her revenge.

Tolkien's Legendarium

Total Drama

  • In Deserving, Courtney wins the million dollars at the end of Total Drama Action, but she ends up having to spend nearly all of it to pay her lawyers for getting her back into the competition, leaving her with just $20. On top of that, she nearly let Duncan fall off a cliff while she was grabbing the briefcase with the money in it, making him so disgusted with her that he dumps her and hooks up with Gwen instead. And to rub salt in the wound, Heather attacks her with an electric razor and shaves all her hair off.

Worm

  • A Darker Path: Ravager attempts to hire Atropos to kill Mouse Protector, but Atropos, recognising that Ravager is a blight on society while Mouse Protector is an asset, instead makes a deal with Mouse Protector to destroy Ravager's credibility. She intercepts Ravager attempting to rob a shop, takes her shotgun, scares off her goons, drives her frothing mad by repeatedly misnaming her, trips her all over the place with marbles, sticks googly eyes over her real ones, glues a giant toy pacifier into her mouth and gives her a fake clown nose, throws ravioli all over her, writes RAVIOLI across her jacket as her new name, breaks her down to the point where "Ravioli" just starts doing as she's told rather than keep resisting — and gets a shopkeeper to film the entire thing, which she then posts online, drawing reactions like "That reputation didn't just die, it was murdered, buried, exhumed, cremated, mixed with glitter, and then tossed out of a plane to be literal Dust in the Wind all on camera with Yakety Saxx playing," and "What's also clear is that death is *not* the worst punishment she can mete out."
    Mouse Protector: You did all this to her … just to mess with her credibility?
    Atropos: That's what I said I'd do, right? You didn't want her dead. She might want to be dead right now, but that's totally not my problem.

Young Justice (2010)

  • With This Ring: The SI basically humiliates the Light one by one; every time one of them messes with him or the Team, it ends badly for them. Klarion the Witch Boy nearly kills him with chaos magic? Paul turns his familiar into a construct, which robs Klarion of his power and sends him scrambling to find another source. Ocean Master fights the Team while trying to kidnap the queen of Atlantis and sacrifice her unborn child? Paul cuts his hands off and carries them around for days in his subspace pocket before remembering to return them for magical reattachment — just in time for Ocean Master's trial and execution. Queen Bee's employee Psimon erases the Team's memories? Paul, in his amnesiac state, thinks that Earth 16 is All Just a Dream, and uses his ring to make a half-mile-high, indestructible, naked statue of himself in the middle of Queen Bee's country, which her army is unable to remove. Satanus tries to turn Paul into a demon so he can be recruited? Paul disrupts his plans to rule Hell, puts a partially mind-controlled Mammon in his place, and gets him arrested for good measure. Even Lex Luthor, who mostly keeps his head down, gets a bit embarrassed when his paranoid efforts to magically block ring scans of his office building mean that the Team has a much harder time rescuing him from their parallel universe doppelgangers. Klarion, meanwhile, hates Paul so much that he couldn't possibly enact all the revenges he wants to, because some of them are mutually exclusive.

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