Regardless of whether an episode has a Sympathetic Murderer or a less likable character who did the killing, many episodes have other characters who are prominent jerkasses who deserves more hatred, especially since it's rarer for them to receive any comeuppance:
- Doreen from "Disco Inferno" is an unpleasant, Manipulative Bitch who hurls racist slurs at her dance rival at the disco, seduces and pays off an impressionable kid to cripple said rival's partner, and indirectly caused the deaths of over 20 people in a fire. Yet, she isn't so much as charged with anything by the episode's ending or was even hurt by the blaze.
- Dr. Thayer from "The Boy in the Box" (which features an Accidental Murder by a remorseful killer) has zero remorse for using orphaned children as Unwitting Test Subjects in his radiation experiments (which sterilized some of them and may have contributed to the deaths of others).
- The killer from "The Badlands" has a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds vibe and, despite committing some of the most shocking violence in the show, does it in more of a panicked Crime After Crime way than a sadistic or cold-blooded fashion. Jamaal, from the same episode, beats both his girlfriend and one of the victims who flirted with her while also having no compunctions about cheating on her.
- Brandi from "The Sleepover". Even with abusive parents and her other friend, Ariel, committing the murder, it barely excuses her inviting Rita over for a sleepover just to humiliate her, bullying her own friends then and in the present day, and feeling no remorse about any of it.
- The Red Scare-embodying cops and bigoted principal in "Red Glare" spread pitiless misery with every second they are onscreen, while the killer at least started out with good intentions.
- "Wishing":
- Leah's father is a Smug Snake with zero empathy seeing a dying woman left unable to care for her son after he gets the boy expelled.
- Colin's father abandoned him for being neurodivergent, never paid child support, refused to take in his son while his mother was dying (which would likely leave him as a ward of the state), and even long after Colin's death, coldly admits that his son never meant a thing to him alive or dead.
- The mill owner in "Kensington" never breaks any laws and is quite polite while onscreen, while most of his employees end up committing crimes or being bitter toward each other. However, the reason that the employees are acting that way is because their boss sold the mill rather than operate it at a lower profit and wait for better times, leaving the entire neighborhood in poverty while he lined his pockets. What really makes him infuriating is that he lied to his entire workforce about keeping the mill open after signing the paperwork to close the business, setting them all up for a devastating and unexpected fall.
- The doer from "The War at Home" feels genuine remorse about accidentally killing his best friend and fellow soldier Dana, and confesses to his crime. Another soldier who was featured in an assembly at Dana's daughter's school, Charles Kozlowski, on the other hand is a nasty Domestic Abuser who couldn't care less about Dana's missing arm or her obvious PTSD, feels that women have no place in the service, and doesn't have the least bit of sympathy when he learns of her death.
- Carl from "The Key" is a self-indulgent swinger who dragged his reluctant and dutiful wife into his lifestyle, then got angry with her when she started to enjoy it herself. When she's murdered by the teenage son of one of her partners after unintentionally leading him on and it remains unsolved for decades, any sympathies felt are for their bereaved daughter instead of him.
- The elder daughter, Natalie, from "A Dollar, A Dream". She wasn't the one who killed Marlene, but she nonetheless constantly berates and blames her struggling, widowed mother for their homelessness and acts like a Spoiled Brat throughout the episode, even though at least one of their hardships (getting the car towed with her younger sister sleeping inside) was her own fault. After Marlene's murder, Natalie is convinced that her mother abandoned her and her sister (even though they had just made amends after a fight), and even when she learns years later of her body being found, she still feels no empathy, believing that her mother took her own life to escape from taking care of her daughters.
- The corrupt principal from "Saving Sammy", who forces the victims to bribe him to help their special needs son, tends to get more contempt than the confused and eventually remorseful killer.
- The teacher, Miss Boyd, from "8:03 AM". She regularly embarrasses one of the victims, Skill, by having him read above his grade level, humiliating him in front of his classmates, and undermining his intelligence. When Skill finally has enough of her viciousness and leaves her class, she just yells at him further, saying how he'll never amount to anything other than a drug dealer.
- Brie, the one-time babysitter from "Baby Blues", is at one point suspected of fatally poisoning the infant Iris to get her to sleep since she did it previously. Although that didn't kill Iris, Brie is still an obnoxious, stuck-up, Spoiled Brat and negligent babysitter who even had her boyfriend over for sex when she was supposed to be watching the kids. When caught by the previous sitter, Brie threatens her into silence by citing her parents' connections and implies that she'll have the woman, who's Hispanic, deported.
- Gerald Carter from "Wunderkind" is a Jerkass and Glorified Sperm Donor who willingly abandoned his wife and two sons. His abandonment caused his older son to become a drug dealer and wannabe gang member who manipulated his kid brother for his math talents, and even shot him to join said gang, and his younger son to nearly turn away from a benign mentor to make his deadbeat dad proud. When Gerald calls the cops stupid and lazy for not solving his son's murder and keeps being such a huge asshole overall to the point of nearly being assaulted by Jeffries, he simply brags that he hopes he hits him so that he can sue.
- Coach Watkins of "Glory Days" is a ruthless football coach who cares more about winning games than his players' physical or psychological well-being. When he's confronted by detectives for his curt and uncaring attitude, he defends himself by claiming that showing sympathy is considered "mollycoddling".
- Captain Hughes from "Wings" is a pilot who in spite of his arrogance and serial cheating on his wife, is nonetheless blindly adored by one of the stewardesses who killed her coworker just to hold onto his "love" and become his wife. In the end, not only does it come out that he was stringing the woman along, in the present day he remains a jerkass even nearly 50 years after the crime.
- The killer from "The Dealer" may have a nasty ego, but Frank and Mickey spend most of their screentime bullying their subordinates, being disloyal to their employer, expressing blatant racism, sexism, and ageism, and ripping off low-income customers at their used car lot to infuriating degrees. Worst of all, nothing of consequence has ever happened to them and they still continue their underhanded ways while making comfortable livings.
- Councilman Boone from "Street Money" hasn't done much to improve his struggling district (or at least certain neighborhoods of it) in multiple terms, is willing to use his influence to threaten the livelihoods of hardworking people who support his opponent, and cheated on his wife while she was dying. While he does admit to eventually seeing the victim as a Worthy Opponent, and the guy told him that they could accomplish more working together, Stillman is highly skeptical about whether Boone would have kept that truce.
- "Stealing Home" and "Frank's Best" both have killers who deeply regret their actions (although the latter one is a lot less creepy in general than the other) and likely inspire less contempt than the guest characters from those episodes who help desperate immigrants into America, but only when they think they can exploit them in one or way or another (although the two from the former episode get a little more nuance).
- Ronde, the record producer from "Soul", is less sympathetic than the A Tragedy of Impulsiveness killer, even under the most charitable reading of his character. He works his employees a lot harder than he has any right to considering that he also underpays them, gives them little respect, steals Billy's glory after initially dismissing his ideas (although he has seemingly accomplished a lot on his own since parting ways with Billy), possibly sleeps with his secretaries (although he denies it and that may have been mere gossip), and repeatedly ruins Chandra's chances to work on the record due to feeling that attractiveness matters more than skill for female singers.
