Laser Guided Karma / Fan Works

Laser-Guided Karma in Fan Works.

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The following have their own pages:

• The Bolt Chronicles
• Codex Equus
• The Many Dates of Danny Fenton
• Ranma Club

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Crossovers

• In #8024, Lila and Hawkmoth successfully frame Marinette as an accomplice to the latter, resulting in her being shipped off to Arkham Asylum. This ends up screwing everyone over in two major ways. First of all, without Ladybug around, Chat Noir (who at this point had been content to let the former do most of the heavy lifting) is forced to fight Akumas himself, with said fights tending to be more destructive. Secondly, by unknowingly sending Ladybug out of the country, Hawkmoth has essentially denied himself a key component to his schemes.
• In Amazing Fantasy, the leader of the Rocket Racer Gang gets his hand mangled by the same rocket-powered glove he used to assault and rob people when Peter tricks him into punching a wall.
• The Boys: Real Justice: While the Justice League members are the ones who get the "heroes" of the Seven to publicly destroy their reputations, said "heroes" are the ones who expose themselves for the monsters they really are and only have themselves to blame.
• In the one-shot Accusation Fic Bridges Burned, Marinette's Fair-Weather Friends turn on her in favor of Lila, who claims to have all kinds of high-profile connections that can help launch their dream careers. Turns out that Marinette actually does have connections similar to what Lila claims, such as Lois Lane, Tony Stark and various real-life celebrities. She makes a point of using these to help other friends she's made at their school launch their careers, while the ones who turned upon her try comforting themselves with the notion that Lila's connections are much better... only to eventually learn they fell for a Consummate Liar whose promises were Too Good to Be True.
• Code Geass: Paladins of Voltron: Given Milly's antics throughout this story, this seems to be in effect when she is the one knocked out by the Nunvill.
• Code Prime: In the fifth chapter of R2, the Decepticons launch a full-scale assault on the Ark, filled with more than two million refugees. At the end of the battle, the plan to restart the Ark's engines work, and the Nemesis gets damaged, falling into the same spot on the seafloor the Ark was at...with lava bubbling up and damaging it further.
  • After spending much of the saga tormenting Arcee and Kallen, Airachnid is finally killed by both of them during the siege of Castle Wiesswolf.
• Child of the Storm
  • The Dursleys abuse Harry all his life, trying to stamp out the magic out of him well, doing the bare minimum to raise him. They value their reputations for being normal. Eventually, their abuse of Harry was made public to their neighbors and all of England, and their reputation was destroyed with their friends and neighbors abandoning them. They get the contempt of Harry's friends and guardians, who are keeping themselves from hurting them, and eventually, they are sent to life in prison with their life and reputation destroyed, where they will spend the rest of their lives in jail.
  • Vernon and Petunia Dursley are obsessive about appearing normal while they raise their son to be a spoiled bully who believes he's entitled to anything he wants. Because of their horrible parenting, their son eventually becomes a mutant and later a vampire who does horrible crimes to get what he wants. It's fitting that for all their obsession with appearing to be normal and how they raise their son, their son willingly, because that's what they would view as a freak and a monster because of the way they raised him.
• The Dragon and the Butterfly: Hiccup was mistreated by his father, every other child his age, and the entire village (despite his only wanting to help and be accepted). When it was discovered that he befriended a dragon, they were both sentenced to death (which they only narrowly escaped with the help of a Deadly Nadder^note Stormfly). When they leave the island, the Berkians celebrate, as the failure of a Viking and the offspring of lightning and death are gone. However, Hiccup and Toothless leaving has unforeseen consequences: the Dragon Queen is furious that her best warrior is gone and sends the dragons on more raids to cover the loss. This happens at the same time that Gobber (who rightfully blames everyone for Hiccup's leaving) enters a Heroic Bluescreen Of Death and refuses to work, leaving the Berkians practically defenseless.
• In Earth's Alien History, the Batarians end up being victims of the Space Pirates, who also like to take slaves and claim and raid planets. They find they don't care for the shoe being on the other foot.
• In Flashpoint 2: Advent Solaris, the sons of Darkseid are both killed before what’s technically their father's own eyes by a being created to be the successor of Doomsday and the Paradooms — both monsters he created during his time in the old timeline. This is especially karmic considering the events of the final DCAMU film.
• The Halloween Unspectacular anthology series has a few examples, most of them involving Gaz:
  • In "The Sea of Switching" in HU5, Gaz is the daughter of a colonial governor, who uses that family connection to get away with tormenting the crew of the ship transporting them to their colony. This angers a sea spirit of some kind, which transforms her into a member of the crew. And while her family no longer recognizes her (costing her their protection), the crew do and take advantage of her now being at their mercy.
  • In "Karma Punishment" from HU7, Gaz gets her hands on a machine which lets her control people, which she uses to enslave them and make them serve her. When the machine is damaged, Gaz's own mind gets erased, leaving her a drone who is then used as a servant by her former victims.
  • In "Iron Horses" from HU8, Gaz is the daughter of a Wild West railway baron, who rides hard and brutally on her father's workers. This eventually leads to a group of them breaking into her mansion to try and rob her, but accidentally start a fire, which due to the expensive construction methods Gaz wanted, spreads too fast for her to escape, leaving her to burn to death. And, it's implied, leading to her soul (rejected by Heaven and Hell) becoming trapped inside a train engine employed by the rail workers.
  • The fairytale parody "The Curse of the Cursed Curse" from HU9 features Gaz as a cruel noblewoman who likes to torment peasants, including Mabel, for her own amusement. When Mabel finally hits her Rage Breaking Point from Gaz's behavior, she goes to the fairies and makes a deal with them to switch lives with Gaz. Afterwards, Mabel goes on to live a wonderful fantasy life, while Gaz is condemned to a miserable existence as a peasant.
  • "Bother Can You Spare A Soul?" from HU9 is an example about someone other than Gaz. After Sandy dies, her ghost becomes enslaved by Mr. Krabs (whom she had sold her soul to as a joke to prove a point), who intends to make her work for him for free forever. She gets free by buying her soul back for 20 dollars, counting on his greed overriding everything else. In response to this lost opportunity, Mr. Krabs has a heart attack and dies... at which point it turns out he's sold his soul to numerous people over the years as a scam, and he'll now be enslaved by whichever one of them wins the resulting court battle.
• In Harry and the Shipgirls, Myrtle gets a karmic payback on Tom Riddle for killing her decades ago by helping Harry Potter destroy the same Horcrux that her death helped create in the first place, by helping drive the basilisk's fang through the diary.
• If Wishes Were Ponies: The Dursleys abused Harry for almost eight years (from when he was one until he was almost ten): beating him, depriving him of food, and manipulating people so that no one in their neighborhood liked or trusted him. When Harry arrives in Ponyville, Celestia, the hospital's doctors, and Twilight are all shocked, horrified, and infuriated. The same goes for their human lawyer, Lin Yueshi, when he learns about it. He verifies their claims by talking to the Dursleys and getting their verbal permission to leave Harry in Twilight's care, learns that yes, the Dursleys are that bad, and calls the police on them. The Dursleys face prison time, their reputation is ruined, and Dudley ends up in foster care^note Whether or not this was a fitting punishment is never explained, because Dudley isn't seen again. Meanwhile, Harry becomes a member of Equestria's royal family.
• In the backstory of the Jackie Chan Adventures and W.I.T.C.H. crossover J-WITCH Series, the four strongest members of Shendu's dragon army finally defied their master by bringing rain to China's suffering people on Xin Jing's begging. In response, Shendu imprisoned them inside mountains from where they could only watch helplessly as he massacred all life in a valley before Xin Jing combined the four dragons' spirits with her own to create the Heart of Kandrakar. When Lo Pei led a rebellion against Shendu years later, he used the Heart to enhance the spell he used to turn Shendu into a statue.
  • When Jade is turning back into the Queen of the Shadowkhan, Uriah and his gang give Martin a wedgie and steal his money. Jade wishes out loud for them to get a taste of their own medicine, and sure enough, the bullies are given wedgies by the Shadowkhan.
• Know Thyself: the Prelude: Harry's abusive uncle Vernon literally didn't know what hit him when Trinity kills him instantly in the middle of Vernon beating Harry.
• A Lost Owl:
  • For killing Hop Pop, Sasha is rendered blind in one eye by Anne.
  • One downplayed case: Boscha worms her way into Amity's "Applied Defenses" class to tank her grades by curb-stomping her in a duel with over-powered potions. Professor Hermonculous sees right through her plan and has her suspended for the rest of the school day.
  • Upon learning Willow's got a thing for Skara, Amity considers telling Skara as payback for Willow announcing her crush on Luz to the bard.
  • For selling out her classmates to the Emperor's Coven and getting Cat (who by that point was her Only Friend left) injured in the process, Boscha is expelled from Hexside.
• In Never Had A Friend Like Me, Adrien gets this twice over:
  • He sticks by his original "high road" mindset in regards to Lila, refusing to help Marinette with how she was being maliciously slandered and bullied. Years later, Marinette has launched a successful fashion line; when Adrien's father tries to form a partnership with her, she not only refuses, but she goes on to do an interview detailing exactly how Adrien and Lila (now a couple) treated her, leading to them becoming punchlines in the entertainment business.
  • Later, as Chat Noir, he physically threatens Marinette's new boyfriend when he sees him interact with Marinette as Ladybug, spouting his beliefs that Ladybug was "destined" to be with him. Said boyfriend gets akumatized as a result and strips Chat of his ring on live television before revealing every horrible thing Adrien has done in both forms.
• In the backstory of Not In Kansas, Senator Kinsey raped a young orphan girl. Years later, said girl is magically turned into Supergirl, whom upon finding him, beats him so badly others remark that he looks like he was "put into a cement truck with a bunch of rocks". Then she has his crimes exposed so he spends the rest of his life in prison.
• The multi-fictional wrestling interpromotional PPV Pride & Glory has this happen on several occasions:
  • Taiki Kudo had spent the several months prior to the PPV defeating and taking out the Z-Fighters, then overthrowing Davis Motomiya as head of their Digivolution stable. When he and Digivolution open the PPV bragging about their accomplishments, Ghost Rider shows up and gives Digivolution a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, sending them running for the hills.
  • Zoe Payne, alongside her E.N.D. stable, had in the previous Character Championship Wrestling PPV, brutalized Emmy to the point where it seemed unlikely that she'd ever be able to appear on CCW programming again. At P&G's Diamond in the Mine ladder match for a shot at any promotion's Women's Title, Zoe is on the verge of winning when Emmy associates Reggie Rocket and Anne Frazier interfere and cost Zoe the chance at winning the briefcase. And later, Emmy shows up at P&G as well, showing that Zoe and her associates failed to take her out permanently.
  • UEPW owner Mr. Billy has his Corporate Hierarchy break into the Elimination Chamber match for the WCW Championship and attack champ Deadpool in order to help UEPW's participant in the Chamber, Arkham Knight to win. Instead, Deadpool's friend Wolverine and WCW legend The Tick make a Big Damn Heroes moment, throwing the Corporate Hierarchy out of the Chamber where the rest of the WCW roster await to drive them away from ringside, allowing Deadpool to pin Arkham Knight and retain the title.
  • Gwen Tennyson has been a general terror in Character Championship Wrestling, acting like she's a literal goddess and pretty much getting away with several Moral Event Horizons on CCW programming. In her match against Avatar Korra, karma attacks her on several levels: First, several female wrestlers whom Gwen had insulted and beaten in previous cross-promotional PPVs show up to help Korra when Gwen's cult begins interfering and attacking Korra. Then CCW commentator Jonathon Ellis, who Gwen had stabbed several weeks before to open up an episode of XX, hits Gwen in the face with a chairshot when Gwen attempts to pile-drive Korra onto a pile of thumbtacks (which she had previously used to erase Emmy's two previous CCW Females Championship wins over her). Then, to top it all off, in a clash between the Avatar State and Mana, Korra manages to defeat Gwen, putting an end to her PPV winning streak both in CCW and in interpromotional PPVs.
  • Ever since Claude Speed had prevented The Joker from winning the WWE Championship from Charlie Brown, Joker had gone out of his way to make Claude's life miserable, mostly by attacking Claude's friends and associates in Xtreme Championship Wrestling in an attempt to break him. In their Gas Chamber match at P&G, not only does Claude defeat Joker, but reveals that he replaced the people setting up the Gas Chamber with GTA guys, who, in turn, replaced the laughing gas with liquid nitrogen, resulting in the Joker being frozen alive.
  • Haruhi Suzumiya had in the previous WWE Animated PPV won a Triple Threat for the Women's Championship against teenage Gwen Tennyson and Katara by faking a concussion heading into the PPV. When at P&G, she tries to have Emmy show up at her SOS Chat show, first other wrestlers show up instead mocking her actions in getting the title. Then Emmy does show up and gives a "The Reason You Suck" Speech regarding CCW Gwen, Zoe, and Haruhi herself, ending it by saying that "(Emmy) can't handle Haruhi but she can," resulting in Haruhi being attacked from behind by former champ teen Gwen who chases after Haruhi, only to get arrested by Steelport police. However, as Haruhi is mocking Gwen as she's being taken away, Katara shows up and kicks Haruhi off the stage before giving her a leg drop off the stage as well.
  • But the BIGGEST instance of this has to come at the conclusion of the Main Event: Vince McMahon and Lex Luthor had spent the last several months of WWE Animated bad-mouthing Character Championship Wrestling and everything associated with it, even going so far as to fire Dan Kuso, having him arrested, and making him join the Mr. McMahon Kiss My Ass Club simply because he was also a CCW wrestler who tried to speak up for the promotion. Meanwhile, WWE Animated commentator and former wrestler Vegeta, disgusted with what he saw as a "joke of a champion" holding the WWE Championship in Charlie Brown had beaten up Brown on several occasions, mocked Brown as an eternal Butt-Monkey, and at the previous PPV, had defeated CB for the title thanks to interference from Linus. At the conclusion, of P&G's main event, in which Vegeta had defeated twelve other wrestlers from other promotions, including Charlie Brown, in order to retain the WWE title, Vegeta celebrates by mocking a defeated CB some more, prompting Charlie Brown to slap Vegeta, enraging the Saiyan Prince and prompting him to begin giving another No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to Charlie Brown when Dan Kuso runs down to make the save for Charlie Brown, causing Vegeta to leave the ring, mocking the both of them all the while, only for Sokka and Jake Long, who were also involved in the main event, to grab Vegeta and throw him back into the ring to receive a Pyrus Plant from Dan. Dan then whistles for May and Dawn, who Luthor had also previously fired from WWE due to CCW ties, to come down to the ring with the Gold in the Fort briefcase Dan had previously won at a cross-promotional PPV, giving him a title shot at any company's title at any time, which he now chose to cash in on Vegeta. With Sokka and Long preventing the Saiyan Prince from getting a countout defeat, Dan hit Vegeta with another Pyrus Plant and Charlie Brown's Home-Run Elbow to win the title, before retreating and waving goodbye to an enraged McMahon and Luthor.
• Shadows over Meridian:
  • Vathek framed Raythor without remorse and made it clear that he would have done it again. During the jailbreak, Jade (who had befriended Raythor and also been abused by Vathek) locks him in a prison cell and forces him to watch as she frees Raythor and Phobos. And for some extra karma after all the abuse he put Jade through, he knocks himself out when he tries to get free. Jade even tells him to consider it overdue justice in Raythor's name.
  • While the heroes were the ones who assumed that Jade was a minion of Phobos, and they did hurt her in their initial confrontation, Nerissa was the one, in her Mage disguise, who confirmed their fears, thus solidifying Jade's status as a fugitive on Meridian. Ultimately, Jade is the one who ends up defeating her and revealing her plans to everyone, ruining her decades-long scheme.
  • During the Shadowkhan's attack on the castle, Caleb has the former rebels prioritize defending Elyon over the rest of the castle. When the guards protest this, Caleb (who like most rebels derisively looks down on them as holdovers of Phobos' regime) callously abandons them to fend off the attack by themselves. After the battle, one of the guards attacks Caleb for this, and after breaking up the fight, Elyon chews him out for his actions and reassigns him outside the castle as punishment.
• The Spectacular Spider-Man: Lost in Gotham: After spending nine months risking his life and facing trauma after trauma defending New York (and receiving little to no thanks for it), Spider-Man ends up in a dimension where he's loved/praised by the people, has a loving/supportive adoptive family, and he gets to be a part of a large community of superheroes (many of whom give him praise and support).
• In the Cars/The Transformers crossover The Unexpected Rookie, the Delinquent Road Hazards are planning to rip up the main road in Radiator Springs with farm tools. Unfortunately for them, the place they chose to plan their prank is the current camp site for the Dinobots.
• In The (Questionable) Burdens of Leadership of a Troll Emperor the Ascended try to keep Naruto and Xanna from interfering with lower beings and at one point attempt to forcibly descend Oma for giving them advice. At the end of the story, Naruto gets the entirety of his and Xanna's empire (over 70 billion people) to worship Oma when he makes her God-Empress^note An Ascended being's power is increased by worship and forcibly descends all of the Ascended before his group leaves that reality. Thus, the former Ascended have to appeal to Oma to get their powers restored; Oma is quite happy to refuse them, noting that being ascended has made them unworthy of it.
• Taylor in The Greatest Mind of Our Time got personal revenge on Emma by hiring her after high school, the details of her job Taylor shares with Emily Piggot.
  Taylor: I have a certain girl named Emma Barnes in my employ. You may recognise the name. Her job is to, every morning, bring me my coffee and then read out exactly how much money I have made that day. Every last innovation and resource at my hands, from all of my creations and companies, in excruciating detail. Every day, she is forced to come to terms with how much stronger I am than her.
• to forget is unforgivable: This trope is discussed quite a bit by Katsuki, who is at the receiving end of it. While he gets the criminal charges for inciting Izuku's suicide dropped because of Fantastic Racism, everything that follows makes Katsuki think that Izuku's cursed spirit is trying to inflict Ironic Hell on him. Katsuki becomes the social outcast and The Quiet One whereas Izuku was the one in this position, he lives in constant fear of curses because his quirk is completely useless against them (just like Izuku was completely helpless), Izuku himself constantly drives into Katsuki's head how he technically got what he wanted, and afterwards it's Katsuki who just can't look at Izuku in the eye. Katsuki thinks the whole thing is too precise not to be some form of karma against him. It gets to the point that Katsuki is Driven to Suicide himself, though Izuku manages to snap him out of it.

Arrowverse

• In To Hell and Back (Arrowverse), Frank Chen betrayed his friend Robert to Malcolm and planted the bomb that stranded Oliver on Lian Yu. Ten years later, he's forced to take canon Moira's place in revealing the Undertaking to the public, while the friends he betrayed have all evidence of their involvement with Tempest erased and get off scot-free.
• What It Takes:
  • Felicity keeping the truth about what's happening in Starling City from Oliver destroys their relationship. Her refusal to return to Starling also costs her other relationships and her job. By the end of the story she appears to have nothing.
  • Ultimately, all of Quentin's actions over the course of the story come back to haunt him. He's forced to resign from the police force, his reputation is permanently tarnished, and he's destroyed his relationships with all of his friends and loved ones, including and especially both his daughters. When he dies a year later, no one is really surprised.

Avatar: The Last Airbender

• Still Stand in the Sun: Laser-Guided Karma is how Katara views the fates of the Fire Nation soldiers that she kills with her bloodbending. Given that they participated in the torturous and inhumane imprisonment of her and her fellow waterbenders, as well as the ruthless subjugation of many other innocents, as well as the fact that she only targets soldiers and not civilians unlike Hama, Katara may well be justified in her stance.

Bleach

• A positive example occurs in Game and Bleach when Ichigo and Tatsuki complete a dungeon to wipe out the ogres who've overtaken a castle. After slaying the ogre lord, they not only free the slaves they found but make sure they're well taken care of for the rest of their lives. Afterwards, they learn doing so was a secret portion of their quest and rewards them massively in both currency and experience.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

• All Because of Uncle Gary:
  • Abigail Brown gets suspended for humiliating Greta at school through the intercom. She and her cronies also get turned into boys by Uncle Gary at the end.
  • Manny refuses to accept Greta's identity as a girl and his continuing to insist Greta is his brother gets recorded by Abigail and played over the middle school intercom. He gets blasted to smithereens by the shockwave from the ritual that turns Abigail and her friends into boys.

Disgaea

• Tyrantly Ever After: After getting Former Netherworld President Hugo to open up about his late wife, Artina disguises herself as a member of the same species, exploiting the notion of him having a 'soft spot' for shadows in order to infiltrate a deposit hall. Her scheme falls apart when the guards try to verify her cover story, and she ends up with a Close-Call Haircut while barely avoiding a worse fate.

Dungeons & Dragons

• Vow of Nudity: During her adventure in the distant past (which ran on 1st-edition rules), Kay'la attempted to kill a sleeping man with his own sword and got immediately stripped of her paladin powers. She got them back upon returning to the present day, where that game mechanic no longer exists.

Family Guy

• Like the show, Family Guy Fanon has its moments where characters who do morally wrong get their comeuppance:
  • After spending the whole episode tormenting Peter and his family, Francis and Thelma are forced by Peter to work in a drill sergeant-like exercise as payback in "Between Sanity and Madness"
  • "Seahorse Seashell Party" ends with the Griffins locking Meg outside of the house while they're in the eye of the hurricane in hopes of killing her, and even barricades the doors so she can't get in. However, they get their karma when a double decker bus flies straight into the Griffin house and slams into the house, knocking it off it's foundation and getting the house launched up to higher air, endangering their lives, except for Meg.
  • After pretending to be old so they can get free service at Quahog Acres in "An Original Age Old Story", the Beer Bar Buddies get hit with some hard when one of the staff members recognizing Peter from him signing up his parents to the Acres and call the police. Which leads to them getting arrested and charged with fraud and impersonation, and sentenced to community service at the Quahog Acres.
  • After spending Brian's time working at the Suicide Hotline belittling and snidely humiliating him in front of the other workers whenever he messes up, Lance's rudeness toward Brian kind of came back to bite him on the ass in "Brian Come Home for Christmas", where Brian quit his job and the entire suicide hotline went down under because of it, driving Lance to commit suicide of his very own by jumping off the building of his crumbling business.
  • Stewie gets some in "In With the News" as he gets arrested and thrown in jail for rigging the mayor election to make him win.
  • The 500th episode "Karma's a Bitch" is one big karma episode for the Griffins, as it was written as a Distant Finale. With them all getting arrested for their crimes, having the entirety of Quahog and their creator turn against them in court, with their Freudian Excuse cards becoming no excuse for all they done, sentenced to life inprisonment with no possibility of parole, and even though they do escape, they lose everything they had and are banned from Quahog.

Final Fantasy

• In The Fifth Act, Cloud is sent backwards in time, and decides to avert the events of the original game by killing Sephiroth before his descent into insanity. To do this, he travels to Wutai, hoping to ambush him there while Shinra is attacking the country. The problem is that at that moment, the general in command of Shinra's forces is Genesis Rhapsodos, and the two clash. However, Genesis quickly exhausts himself, and Cloud quickly realizes he's in the early stages of degeneration. Unthinkingly, Cloud hands him one of his rare spring water vials, giving him a quick cure to what otherwise would have been a painful and lethal ailment. While he sees nothing particularly special about the act, this entirely averts the events of Crisis Core, keeping Sephiroth's circle mostly intact and giving him the support he needs to stay stable in the face of the revelations that drove him insane in canon, leaves a fresh Genesis in place to destroy an otherwise defenseless Jenova, and saves the world more than anything else Cloud does in the entire story.

Godzilla

• Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Besides the multiple Karmic Deaths, this story has a few non-fatal earlier instances of bad guys getting bit in the ass in a way that fits some of their crimes. Alan Jonah gets assimilated and turned into part of the Many after he subjected numerous Disposable Vagrants to the same fate in experiments. MaNi/Elder Brother when he was still Ghidorah's right head abused San-2/Youngest Brother for eons, and he ends up on the receiving end of San-2's wrath when he crosses him since MaNi is even lower on the Ghidorah heads' pecking order than the attached/regrown Ni is.

Harry Potter

• The Peace Not Promised sees several of these:
  • Severus Snape, in his second time around, takes the reins of Slytherin House earlier and imposes a policy of looking out for each other, as a way of undermining the need for vulnerable students to rely on the prospective Death Eaters. After several cases where the intervention of older students (sometimes including Severus himself) rescues younger students from bullying, he has most of the House looking up to him. When he in turn is ambushed and disarmed by the Marauders, who are alarmed by the prospect of a unified Slytherin House, a younger student intervenes just long enough to let Severus break free and turn the tables.
  • Throughout this early period of mistrust, Lily repeatedly tells herself to ignore Severus' visible unhappiness, that the loss of their friendship was through his own choices and that she shouldn't feel responsible for what happens to him as a result. She may not have been wrong, but much later, when she sees the scars on his back from his father's beatings and wishes that she had known and could have done something about it, Severus reassures her that it was not her responsibility — unintentionally bringing her own words back to haunt her.
• The Rigel Black Chronicles: As Harry is leaving a disappointing meeting with her Potions Guild Cynical Mentor, she encounters Caelum Lestrange, who is amused to see her down and gleefully boasts of how his own mentor spent the morning discussing the Wolfsbane potion with him — which he knows is one of Harry's interests. Shortly before their research projects are published, though, Professor Snape publishes his groundbreaking new Wolfsbane recipe, which renders Caelum's work largely obsolete. Furthermore, Harry (as Rigel) was Snape's brewing assistant in that research.

Hetalia: Axis Powers

• Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità: Both the homophobe and the bully receive this. Germany and Japan beat the ever-loving crap out of the homophobe while they pointed out the flaw in the bully's logic, humiliating him.

How to Train Your Dragon

• In Lost Boy, while Snotlout is too stupid and egotistical to actually learn anything, he is often duly punished when he does something especially callous.
  • When Snotlout tries to kill Hiccup when he beats him on their first day of dragon-training, Gobber has him expelled, meaning that he won't be able to enter dragon-training until the next generation is trained. While Hiccup agrees to forgive him and allow him back into dragon-training to prevent Astrid from her losing her place with him, he immediately gets expelled again when he forces Hiccup into the open within line of sight with the Deadly Nadder to save himself.
  • Snotlout turns a catapult (a device he has no experience or authority to use) around into the village, destroying the forge and the Thorston's household. He is thoroughly reprimanded by everyone (including his father), loses Ruffnut and Tuffnut's respect, and even leads Stoick to openly question his decision to let Snotlout be his heir when he sees that Snotlout does not regret his actions in the slightest.
  • When Snotlout gives Hiccup to Alvin to be his hostage, he loses what little respect anyone else had for him. Not only was being the hostage himself something he as heir was obligated to do for the good of the tribe, but it was made abundantly clear that he would have been treated far better than Hiccup would. Astrid even points out that he could be banished for this level of betrayal.
• A Thing of Vikings: Years ago, a merchant's brother picked a fight with Drago because he was an ableist and Drago was crippled. Drago rightfully defended himself, but the merchant told Drago's boss that if he keeps Drago around, he will stop dealing with him, forcing his boss to abandon Drago in the middle of the desert for dead. It took years, but this resulted in a chain of events that led to Drago taming dragons and turning the Pechenegs into a major power that conquered the merchant's homeland. After finding the merchant again, Drago makes sure Kurya (the heir to the Pecheneg Kagan) learns what happened and he promptly punishes the merchant by confiscating his family's properties and sentencing them to death by being abandoned in the desert the way they intended for Drago to die.

The Hunger Games

• Many, many examples are present in Cheating Death: Those That Lived. Here's a few examples.
  • Elias Overwhill - a man who'd spent decades aiding the Capitol - ends up being wiped from history and assassinated after he tries and fails to kill his own grandson in the arena.
  • The Grim - President Snow's personal hitman, who'd assassinated one of the Victors and said Victor's girlfriend - ends up being brutally killed himself by another Victor scant years later.
  • A double whammy for Bronze Marley, who set up the system of Victor prostitution in order to get away with raping a fellow Victor, causing many other Victors to suffer. First, his role in establishing the system of Victor prostitution is exposed on television by Finnick, someone who suffered greatly from said system. Then, he's taken down by the very same Victor that he'd refused to mentor and always called a disgrace. Finally, he's mutilated and set ablaze by the very same Victor who he'd raped all those years ago.
  • Logger Barlow was a Victor who, among other things, repaid his district partner by torturing her to death, willingly collaborated with the Capitol, and was responsible for killing Johanna Mason's family, all to save his own skin. He ends up being beaten by a group that included the eldest sister of his district partner, tied to a tree, and eaten by a pack of wolf mutts.
  • A District-wide one: District 5 treated one of their Victors (Wattzon Holmes) incredibly poorly all his life, ostracizing and mocking him at every turn, turning him into a bitter, misanthropic shell by the time he becomes a Victor. Naturally, once the only things tying him to said District - namely, mentoring tributes and taking care of his little sister - are gone, he leaves with his husband and joins his friend at District 9, effectively leaving District 5 with only one Victor.

Invader Zim

• Asylum of Doom: While exploring the ruined and supposedly haunted Burke Lunatic Asylum, Gaz is utterly apathetic to how the patients were treated, and ultimately calls Dib a crazy freak for his insistence on telling everyone about his paranormal beliefs. Then she hits her head after falling down some stairs and wakes up back in time as a patient in the asylum, being subjected to those same treatments and with everyone telling her that she's the crazy one for insisting she's from the future.
• In Gaz's Horrible Halloween of Doom, Gaz discovers the hard way that if you destroy an offering to a god, they just might use their godly powers to punish you by means of Humiliation Conga.
• Gaz, Taster of PTSD: Dib notes that Gaz spent years joking about him getting institutionalized, only to end up in that situation herself due to Sanity Slippage caused by her repeated trauma nightmares.
• Karma Circle: Judgement: In their confrontation in the cafeteria, Gaz makes her usual threat to Daniel about sending him into a nightmare world as a metaphor for giving him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. In his true form as Daan Yel, he later literally sends her into a nightmare, where she's beaten by her past victims.
• The New Adventures of Invader Zim:
  • The Humiliation Conga that Viera puts Gaz through in Episode 8 is a direct result of the latter being exceptionally cruel to her for no reason.
  • The Tallest's treatment of Zim ultimately results in him going rogue and costing them their shot at retrieving Project Domination.
  • In the epilogue of Season 1, Gaz decides to sabotage the Spittle Runner just to spite Dib and the twins. The damage she causes electrocutes her, then triggers a security system that launches her through the air to crash into the skool. And then she's forced to clean up the mess by hand.
  • In Season 2 Episode 4, Gaz spends most of her time during her Career Day internship at Game Slave Incorporated headquarters goading the boss into having employees beaten by security guards for "discipline". Then one of them takes the opportunity to frame her for something not her fault, leading to her being "disciplined" herself.
  • In the same chapter, Tak uses her mind control implant to hack the Job Evaluator, in order to cheat the system and spend her Career Day assignment at her own front company. However, due to circumstances outside her control, this results in her having to fight the Ham Demon and apparently getting blamed for the damage it causes.
• Witching Hour: Early in the story, Gaz has Nick locked in the village pillory and pelted with produce for making her spill her drink in the tavern. Near the end of the story, once the villagers have what appears to be undeniable evidence that she's a witch, they do the same to her.

Jackie Chan Adventures

• Queen of All Oni:
  • It's revealed that Shendu did the same thing to Drago as Drago does to him: leaving him to rot in his sealed state.
  • The Matriarchs are obsessed with preserving their own chi, which is why they stopped creating Shadowkhan from themselves and instead began turning humans. If they'd never started this practice, Tarakudo would've never become a Shadowkhan and overthrown them.
  • Drew is a Jerkass bully who tormented Jade about her stories. Not only does no-one believe Drew when he becomes Skeptic No Longer like in canon, but in this Alternate Universe Fic he gets the tables turned further with Jade (returned to her Shadowkhan form and persona) being the one who inflicts the torment on him.
• The Ultimate Evil: When Hak Foo assaults Valerie's apartment, he beats her so viciously and severely that her skull and ribcage are almost completely destroyed, and then he leaves her for dead. When Shendu finds out what was done to his love interest, he literally breaks more than a few of Hak Foo's bones and then leaves his mangled but alive body huddling immobile in a corner.

Kung Fu Panda

• The Vow: Lampshaded. When Shen has at his mercy Haun who kidnapped Lady Lianne for ransom and then brutalized her while she was his captive, the peacock proceeds to mercilessly inflict a mirror image of each of Lianne's wounds on Haun before carrying out Haun's sentence of execution.

Mass Effect

• In Mass Effect: Synthesis, the Reapers abandon their cycle and strike up an alliance with pre-Mass Effect humanity, becoming the ultimate military powerhouse in the galaxy. The paranoid and elitist asari and salarians promptly try to wipe out mankind with a biological strike... and are promptly rendered extinct themselves in a wholesale genocide campaign.

Marvel Cinematic Universe

• In But I Haven't Thought of You Lately at All, after leaving the Avengers, Tony contacted Clint with some arrow upgrades he'd thought of, only for Clint to angrily blow him off, claiming "friendship can't be bought". Weeks later, the Avengers' gear is in noticeable disrepair and Pepper refuses to let it be fixed for free, even if she's willing to waive design and labor fees, only charging the Avengers for materials.

Mega Man

• In Mega Man Recut, Ballade is introduced torturing a man and woman for money. At the end of the episode, he fails to kill Dr. Wily and gets tortured by the Syndicate bosses as punishment.

Miraculous Ladybug

• Dodged a Beetle: When Lila schemes to get closer to Adrien on his birthday, all her plans end up backfiring against her in this fashion:
  • Her exploiting Marinette and Nino's generosity by getting them to handle all the hard work of setting up a party in the park tips off Tikki to her true nature, making the little kwami much more hostile towards her holder and determined to forcibly remold her into an Ideal Heroine.
  • Her attempt to steal the credit for all their hard work and make a good first impression on Gabriel completely backfires; he's not impressed by her skipping school to come meet with him, her fashion sense, or her claims to be friends with Adrien, ordering her to stay away from his son.
  • She unintentionally breaks the ice between Adrien and the rest of the class, who were largely avoiding him due to his friendship with Chloé. When Nino learns that Adrien never had a party before, he immediately latches onto him as his new best friend.
• Everything You Deserve: Chat Noir betrays Ladybug in order to make a series of selfish Wishes with the intent of molding reality into his personal playground. Instead, he winds up in a Self-Inflicted Hell where his desire to 'have fun' with his Miraculous has made him a notorious villain. Instead of 'his lady' being forced to love him, Chloé has the Ladybug Miraculous instead, and the original Ladybug is one of the heroes fighting to stop him.
• Fashion Upgrade: After Marinette's transfer, Adrien steps up to keep Lila from targeting her further behind her back. Unfortunately, his efforts to speak up against Lila land him on the receiving end of her signature victim blaming act, putting him in much the same position Marinette was in (thanks to his own "high road" advice, which Adrien lampshades) prior to the transfer.
• I'm In Love With Another Boy: After learning that Ladybug has a crush on his civilian identity, Adrien starts intentionally endangering himself during akuma attacks in order to force Ladybug to rescue him, enjoying how flustered this makes her. This causes Chat Noir to repeatedly miss out on battles, showing up late if he manages to make an appearance at all; when Ladybug calls him out on this, his attempt to brush this off by claiming she's 'overreacting' spurs her to declare enough is enough and strip him of the ring. Seeing that he was Adrien all along just kills her already-waning crush for good.
• Central to The Karma of Lies: it turns out that the Ladybug Miraculous ensures that those who wrong its holders will eventually be subjected to this, with Adrien being hit especially hard due to his staunch belief that he's protected by Protagonist-Centered Morality.
  • Adrien defends his refusal to deal with Lila by claiming that nobody is seriously being harmed by her con artistry, and that none of his friends are losing anything that can't be replaced. This stems in part from his belief that Lila can't hurt HIM since he already knows about her true nature, coupled with him not understanding the full value of money. Lila exploits his arrogance and naivete to steal the Agreste emergency funds from him; after being betrayed, he's suddenly much more willing to out her, only to find that getting others to believe him after he vouched for her for so long is easier said than done. His efforts to protect Lila also result in him getting all of her karma as well, while she gets off scott free.
  • Adrien also considered it more important to placate Lila, Chloé, and the rest of his classmates by telling them what they wanted to hear and keeping the latter unaware of Lila's true nature. As a direct result, he finds himself unable to slip away and transform, which he dismisses as no big deal since Ladybug can handle herself. This means that Chat Noir misses out on the Final Battle — and since he'd repeatedly refused to take his responsibilities seriously, this cements his status as The Load in the minds of the public. All the more so when he shows up uninvited to a post-battle interview and acts entitled to compensation for all his service. This ultimately contributes to his being Convicted by Public Opinion after Mayura swipes the Ring from him, as it's misinterpreted as him giving her the Ring.
  • In addition, once Gabriel is publicly exposed as Hawkmoth, Adrien immediately decides to try defending him from the consequences of his actions as well, insisting that nobody was ever really hurt by his reign of terror. Sure, people got akumatized, injured and outright killed all the time, not to mention all the rampant destruction, but none of that matters since Ladybug's Miraculous Cure restored everything afterwards, right? His Lack of Empathy for everyone affected by his father's cruelty doesn't help endear him to anyone, especially when he publicly defends Hawkmoth as Chat Noir even while eagerly asking about what kind of financial compensation they'll be receiving for their heroism, acting as though the only damage that Hawkmoth and his akumas inflicted that actually matters is what was done to him. Which is a huge part of why the public largely assumes that he was working with his father all along after he's unmasked.
  • Alya and most of the class latched onto Lila out of the belief that she'd use all the connections she lied about having to help them achieve their greatest dreams. Instead, she scammed them all, sabotaging their prospects — in several cases, she outright stole and sold their work to others. Others get ruined by their association with her, blamed for her crimes.
  • Principal Damocles and Miss Bustier never bothered looking into any of Lila's claims about her various conditions, which proves to be a major issue when it's revealed they tapped into government funding meant to help students with disabilities. This makes it appear as though they were deliberately scamming the system in order to get more money for their school, getting them into serious trouble with the school board and causing Bustier to lose her job.
• In LadyBugOut, Alya goes full Paparazzi and posts a photo of Ladybug and Chat Noir kissing while under the influence of Oblivio's memory-erasing powers, deliberately omitting the context for the sake of getting views. This prompts Ladybug to start her own blog, starting with a video clarifying what really happened with Oblivio. This naturally ruins the Ladyblog's reputation — and to top it off, Rena Rouge finds herself permanently retired, because Ladybug no longer trusts her with the Fox Miraculous.
  • Lila's lies blow up in her face when she tries to Play The Victim Card at the wrong time, causing most of her classmates to connect the dots and realize just how much she deliberately deceived them. Lila ends up a social pariah, having lost all the clout she'd gained through her fibbing.
  • Chat Noir constantly ignoring Ladybug's feelings and insisting that they're going to get together regardless of what she wants Because Destiny Says So leads to an argument they have about it getting accidentally broadcast on the blog, turning all of Paris against him and leading to him losing the Cat Ring.
• Marinette's Week Off:
  • Marinette's classmates exploited her kindness, expecting her to handle everything for them even after they broke off their friendship. So she deliberately scheduled her vacation during the busiest week of the school year, ensuring they wouldn't be able to badger her into doing all the heavy lifting. Without her around, all of the major events that week — like the fundraiser for their class trip, Mylène's play, and the school dance turn into umitigated disasters.
  • Miss Bustier saw nothing wrong with letting bullies and liars do whatever they pleased, and shunted off the bulk of her responsibilities onto Marinette. She also doesn't lift a finger to help Alya and the rest of the class out as they're struggling with everything. Since she let things spiral so far out of control, the school district cracks down HARD in the sequel, adding student aides to ensure rules actually get enforced and forcing Miss Bustier to do her job for fear of losing it.
  • Alya hoped to leech off of all of Lila's supposed "connections" with big-name celebrities, unaware she was lying about all of that. When Marinette unexpectedly becomes a rising star herself, Alya disgusts her peers with how eager she is to call Marinette her "bestie" again, making no effort to hide that she just wants to exploit their "friendship". But she can't cross that burnt bridge no matter how hard she tries, while Lila also privately laments not being able to make nice with Marinette after everything she did to her.
• Miraculous Ladybug Salt-Shots:
  • In Nothing Comes For Free, Marinette reveals to her mother how Miss Bustier has been forcing her to bend over backwards catering to the whole class in an All Take and No Give relationship while refusing to punish Chloé for any of her bullying. Sabine and Tom proceed to take evidence of Bustier's mismanagement of her class to the school board, getting her fired — along with Principal Damocles, whose own corruption is exposed during the investigation. On top of this, Mayor André is forced to step down thanks to the scandal, while Chloé gets sent to juvenile prison.
  • My Compensation has Alya's parents learn how she's been taking advantage of Marinette by pawning off all of her babysitting duties onto her "bestie" while pocketing the money she was being paid for looking after her sisters. They also learn that she assumed her friendship meant she could help herself to "free goodies" from the Dupain-Cheng bakery. She promptly gets grounded, banned from anything to do with the Ladyblog or spending time with Nino until she's managed to work off the debt.
  • "Being A Good Example Isn't So Easy, Is It?": After repeatedly refusing to do anything about Chloé's bratty bullying, pressuring Marinette to Turn the Other Cheek and "set a good example" for everyone while she foisted off her own responsibilities onto her, Miss Bustier winds up having to reap what she's sown when Marinette transfers to another class, as Chloé becomes the new class rep and outright refuses to do any work whatsoever. She casually makes clear to Bustier that if she dares try and exploit HER at all, she'll call her daddy in and get her fired.
  • A Price to Pay features Adrien and Gabriel getting hit by this several times after he helps his father make his Wish:
    • Since they knew reality would be altered in the process of granting the Wish, both arrogantly assumed that nobody would ever connect them to whoever wound up dying to bring Emilie back; what's more, Gabriel spitefully Wished that the sacrifice would come from Marinette's family as punishment for her heroism. The Wish responded by claiming her father's life through a car accident which Gabriel caused; while he brazenly bribed the court to avoid any legal consequences, he's still widely recognized as being a murderer who only got off by abusing his wealth.
    • Emilie is so disgusted by Gabriel's utter Lack of Empathy or remorse over causing Tom's death that she divorces him, and disowns Adrien for trying to defend his father's actions. So while she was brought back to life by their Wish, they're no longer a family.
    • Neither Gabriel or Adrien have a Miraculous in the new reality; while there's still a Hawkmoth and new Miraculous heroes, he and his son don't hold the power they did in the original world. Making matters worse for them, all of the main Miraculouses are held by people they screwed over.
    • Adrien also learns that Marinette retained her memories of the original world, meaning she's fully aware of how he betrayed her. Though she spells out for him that she wouldn't have wanted anything to do with him regardless, given how his dad was responsible for her dad's death, the fact that she remembers all his sins further ensures that he can't get any help from his former partner, or force her into the relationship he felt so entitled to.
    • Adrien belatedly realizes that after betraying the world to join his Archnemesis Dad, all they have left is each other... and Gabriel was already a massive Control Freak who treated his son like crap before all of this went down. With Emilie now alive, but completely unattainable, and lacking most of the power he held as Hawkmoth, chances are good that he'll take out his frustrations on Adrien by doubling down on his controlling behavior.
  • In Masked Hearts, Adrien starts dating Kagami while continuing to lust after Ladybug. Once Hawkmoth is defeated, he promptly reveals his Secret Identity to Ladybug and asks her out, heedless of how they're in front of a crowd of witnesses... including Kagami. Both call him out on his selfish, entitled behavior, with Kagami breaking up with him right then and there and asking Ladybug out.
• The One to Make It Stay:
  • After recording a video of Chat confessing his feelings to his partner, editing it to look like Ladybug returned his feelings rather than letting him down gently, and posting it to her Ladyblog, Alya gets confronted and called out by her heroine, with her own heroic persona getting benched for the summer. The video itself also doesn't bring in the sort of attention she wanted, as a good chunk of her readers recognize that the footage was doctored. Worst of all, Hawkmoth is inspired by her video to exploit Chat's crush to his own ends. Alya comes to suspect this and is horrified by the implications.
  • Alya also gets hit with this when she stages an 'emergency meeting' at Marinette's place without her bestie's permission, calling the other girls there and forcing their way into her room. Her refusal to listen to Marinette or let her defuse the situation calmly leads to Mari putting her foot down and declaring that they need to take a break from each other over summer vacation.
  • Chloé blithely bullies Aurore for being akumatized, claiming that "once a bad guy, always a bad guy." This convinces Marinette that Chloé will never change her ways, and leads to her permanent retirement from being Queen Bee.
  • Adrien's Secretly Selfish attitude and sense of entitlement towards Ladybug catches up to him in All the Laughs We Had in the Past. His insistence that Ladybug should give in to his advances and do what he wants leads him to fall for Miracle Queen's Illusion of a Ladybug who acts just the way he wants, despite her behavior not making any sense. As a result, Miracle Queen successfully steals his ring and passes it on to Hawkmoth, revealing his Secret Identity in the process.
• Of Patience and Pettiness:
  • Lila's Karma Houdini Warranty runs out once Marinette exposes her by calling Jagged Stone on the pretense of having him play the song she claimed he wrote for her. This leads to her mother finding out how she lied about the school being closed for several months, and she's yanked out of Dupont to be sent out of the country.
  • Alya dismisses the akuma Truthseeker as this, suggesting that they shouldn't intervene to keep her from tracking the liar down:
    Alya: Lila brought this onto herself. She tried claiming that you were her best friend, Ladybug!
    Ladybug: Yes. And you posted the interview.
  • Speaking of Alya, her decision to dismiss Marinette's warnings as just jealousy and refusal to admit her mistakes costs her Mari's friendship, as well as her status as Rena Rouge. The Ladyblog's reputation also takes a hit due to the interview she posted on it and further degrades as she uses it as a platform to slander the new Fox.
  • Generally speaking, all of Marinette's classmates deal with karma in some form after Lila's exposure. Those who shift the blame and ignore their mistakes naturally lose her trust — and with it, any chance of being trusted with a Miraculous. The handful of her peers that do recognize how they messed up and strive to make amends, meanwhile, all eventually become heroes.
  • Chat completely ignores Ladybug's warning against provoking Hothead, as the akuma grows stronger the angrier he gets. After the battle, Master Fu strips the Ring away from Adrien — something he'd already been contemplating after his threat to quit during "Syren", but Chat's behavior during this last fight only further cements his unworthiness.
• A number of quicksilversquared's fanfics deal this out to Hawk Moth, Nathalie, Lila, others, or all of the above, often as a result of the guilty parties taking their villainy too far and running headlong into Marinette’s traps and countermeasures.
  • Alya and Nino take a turn to receive karma in The Babysitting Fiasco when Marinette accidentally reveals to Alya's mother that Alya and Nino have been secretly dumping their babysitting duties on her to go out on dates. Marlena is not impressed, since Marinette is clearly stressed and overworked and Alya (who has plenty of free time) reacts passive-aggressively when Marinette tells her no for once. Both Alya and Nino are grounded, forced to take a break from dating, enrolled in classes on healthy relationships, and their allowances are docked to pay Marinette for the babysitting. Lila, who suggested the arrangement, gets taken down too. After learning about her involvement, Marinette and Alya's mothers approach Mrs. Rossi directly and inform her of exactly what her daughter has been up to.
  • A Christmas Liar has Lila trying to exploit the annual holiday charity drive by setting up another Fake Charity scam. Marinette manages to fend off her efforts to make said fake charity the sole focus of the drive, and coordinates with Aurore to alert Ms. Rossi to what's happening.
  • In Coffee Catastrophe, Lila "accidentally" trips and hurls a giant cup of boiling coffee at Marinette, setting off a Humiliation Conga that ultimately leads to her downfall. Marinette sees the trick coming a mile away and dodges, while Lila loses points with her classmates for breaking a rule by not using a lid and potentially losing them all a nice privilege. As a result, she has to clean up the giant mess she made all by herself. In the chaos, Adrien snatches her phone, which he uses to send Lila's mother evidence of all her lies. Then he sneaks it back into Lila's bag, making her look even worse when she finds it there after repeatedly insisting that someone (Marinette) must have taken it. Then her akumatized mother shows up and magically forces her to admit to every one of her lies in front of the entire class. Once Ladybug and Chat Noir have taken their time showing up, Lila is yanked out of school and sent away from Paris for good. Gabriel is also put under investigation by Child Protective Services thanks to incriminating text messages Adrien found on Lila's phone and forced to ease up on his controlling behavior.
  • In Designer Decoy, Lila takes advantage of her position as a Gabriel model to destroy Marinette’s entry in a design contest, shredding it with a convenient pair of scissors and openly gloating about how she'll twist Marinette's reaction to make her look bad. She doesn't realize until it's too late that the dress she destroyed was just a mock-up and Marinette has been broadcasting her actions live via a hidden camera. Gabriel fires her on the spot, she's sued by both the company and Marinette's parents, and to add insult to injury, the incident becomes the front-page headline the next day. After a psychiatric evaluation, Lila winds up in jail outside of Paris, where she can’t get akumatized and come back for revenge.
  • In A Frozen Supervillain, a heavy snowstorm that knocks out power to most of Paris deals out both good and bad karma. Marinette and Adrien get to have an impromptu sleepover with their friends when the storm strands them at the Agreste mansion. Meanwhile, upstairs, Gabriel has to give up on the idea of akumatizing someone in favor of battling the encroaching cold in his uninsulated atelier, which he can’t leave because the elevator runs on electricity. When Nathalie finds him the next morning, he’s hypothermic and frostbitten. Hawk Moth is out of action for months while he recovers.
  • Helpfulness With A Side of Spite hits Lila with karma twice over. First, she learns that all of the missed school and ignored make-up work from her "charity trips" have put her in danger of being held back a year and the school won't excuse any more absences. When she gets akumatized over this, Ladybug "helpfully" takes her to Ms. Bustier's classroom, knowing full well that Lila is "out of the country" at the moment. By the time Marinette returns to class, Principal Damocles is on the phone with Lila's mother and her classmates are furiously shouting at Lila for deceiving them. By the end of the day, plans have been made to ship Lila back to Italy to live with some very strict relatives so she can't get akumatized again and will be kept in line going forward.
  • Kill Shot: Marinette gathers evidence of Lila's deception to take to her mother, including recordings of her threatening to call in a fake health alert against the Dupain-Cheng Bakery... and going after a black butterfly trying to get akumatized. Most of the evidence goes straight to Ms. Rossi, but that last video goes instead to the Parisian authorities.
  • The (Not-So) Truther involves Lila intercepting an akuma Hawkmoth intended for somebody else, getting akumatized into The Truther — who forces those struck by her powers to only tell lies. Naturally, she claims that her victims must tell the truth, zapping Adrien and making him "confess" that he enjoys her company... but Marinette prompts Alya to ask him a series of questions about the current color of the sky, the name of her blog, and other things with obvious answers. This completely shatters both The Truther and Lila's credibility, and the fic ends with Ms. Bustier calling her mother.
  • Pants On Fire has Lila refuse to get Marinette's expulsion reversed after the events of "Ladybug". This bites her back hard, as Marinette now has plenty of free time to dig up verified proof that all of Lila's stories are false and give that evidence to the relevant authorities. Once she has enough ammunition, she walks back into school, presents her mountain of evidence to the class, and slaps Lila with a lawsuit for slandering her. She also brings along a truancy officer who will see that Lila faces appropriate consequences for her months-long "charity trip". Buster and Damocles get some karma too, in the form of a school board investigation, a news story covering the incident, and their own lawsuit over their improper handling of Marinette's expulsion and for letting Chloé get away with bullying her classmates for years.
  • Papa Bear is an alternate ending for "Chat Blanc" where Tom responds to Gabriel's demand that Marinette break up with Adrien by calling Child Protective Services. In short order, Gabriel loses custody of Adrien, he's put up on charges for emotional abuse and neglect, the investigation into his wife's disappearance is reopened, and he's exposed as Hawk Moth, going down without so much as a whimper when the police find a pretext to confiscate his and Nathalie's Miraculouses.
  • Scandal Scandal has Lila claim to a paparazzo that she's dating Adrien. When he overhears his Control Freak father considering going along with the lie, Adrien runs away, encounters Nadja and gives an impromptu live interview exposing her deception. Nadja then goes straight to Ms. Rossi to interview her as well, while her coworker Alec harasses Principal Damocles and other reporters camp out in front of the Agreste Mansion, preventing Lila's akumatization.
  • In Snapped Wrist, Broken Lies, Lila tries to snatch the lucky charm Adrien made for Marinette, starting a scuffle that ends when Marinette accidentally breaks Lila's wrist. Multiple other students saw the incident and confirm Marinette was just trying to get the charm back, foiling Lila's attempts to claim it was her fault. The incident also gets Lila's mother called, leading to Ms. Rossi comparing notes with Principal Damocles and landing Lila in a massive heap of trouble. Her last few weeks before being transferred to a correctional school are less than pleasant since everyone now knows about her lies and refuses to help her deal with her real injury because of how many times she invented fictional ones to take advantage of them. To top it all off, Lila tries to blow off steam by repeatedly getting akumatized...but her wrist is still broken, so Ladybug easily defeats her every time by snagging that wrist and grabbing Lila's akumatized object while she doubles over in pain, denying her any chance at revenge.
  • Traps and Sneaks sees Lila breaking into Marinette's room and picking open a locked box that was carefully hidden at the bottom of a storage chest. Said box contains the Miracle Box and is armed with a bear trap designed to do damage to an akuma or to Hawk Moth himself if necessary. Lila's bare forearm doesn't stand a chance. Lila ends up in the hospital and is promptly charged with breaking and entering and with theft since she pocketed some of Marinette's jewelry before opening the box. Alya also gets into trouble for letting Lila into the bakery without permission. This is also Played With for Marinette; while she doesn't face any direct consequences, since this isn't the first time someone has broken into her room for blackmail material, neither her parents nor the police are happy about her having such a dangerous booby-trap. And while no one found out what was in the box, Marinette is still uncomfortable with the idea of others knowing it exists and won't feel secure again until she constructs a better hiding place for it.
  • An Unusual Run-In features Ms. Rossi having a chance encounter with Adrien and introducing herself, eager to finally get to know her daughter's boyfriend... only for Adrien to calmly inform her that he's not dating Lila, as he doesn't date liars, bullies or thieves. This prompts her to call the school, much to Principal Damocles' delight — he was trying to get in touch with her before the trip Lila claimed they were about to depart on. After an extensive discussion, they work together to get her transferred to a strict boarding school in Italy, carefully arranging things so that she won't be in Paris when she learns about it and can't be akumatized again. She then visits Lila's former class, learns that her daughter is still spinning lies to cover her absence, and sets the record straight once and for all.
  • A Very Jagged Takedown is a collection of one-shots that all revolve around the same premise: Jagged Stone is responsible for Lila's downfall.
    • Dissonant Chord has Jagged learn about Lila's lies and bullying while commissioning Marinette. He decides to make one of those falsehoods true by writing a song that, without naming names for legal reasons, calls out all of Lila's other lies. When Marinette's classmates listen to the song, it doesn't take long for them to figure out who it's talking about.
    • In Career Day, Lila claims she's going to bring Jagged Stone in as her presenter for the titular event, intending to string the class along before claiming he had a schedule conflict. Marinette sees an opportunity and uses her actual connections to Jagged to bring him in as her presenter, with strict instructions to not say anything about Lila and just let his presence start the dominoes falling. While Jagged sticks to this, he can't resist making a pointed comment about how people like to make up lies and start rumors about him for attention, which clues in everyone who was still confused about how he made it to their classroom when Lila said he was out of the country.
    • The Last Lie features Lila claiming to know the designer who made a cool dragon-themed outfit for Jagged Stone's birthday, unaware that the designer was Marinette herself. All Marinette has to do is sit back and wait for Jagged to start bragging about who really made the clothes, which leaves Lila caught out with no way to recover.
  • Lila, Gabriel, and Nathalie all get theirs in The Wavering Peahen. Lila's repeated misuse of the broken Peacock Miraculous to lend credence to her lies sends her spiraling into a coma and reveals her identity to Marinette when she discovers the Miraculous after Lila collapses. Duusu readily gives her and Chat Noir enough information to identify Gabriel and Nathalie as Hawk Moth and Mayura, and the two of them are taken down in an ambush and carted off to prison. Lila also gets prison time once she’s brought out of her coma, with her former kwami stepping up to testify against her during her trial. In addition, since the Miraculous is the only thing that can heal the lingering damage from her coma and she’s proven she can’t be trusted with it, she’ll have medical problems for the rest of her life.
  • In The World's Most Obvious Trap, Hawkmoth eagerly seizes the chance to snatch up the Miracle Box when Ladybug loses her grip on it. Unknown to him, the Box he's just stolen is a fake filled with booby-trapped decoys. The minute Gabriel and Nathalie touch the fake Miraculouses, they're sucked into pocket dimensions, after which the fake Box sends up a beacon that leads Ladybug and Chat Noir right to them, ending their reign of terror for good.
• Rate This (Trust is Hard to Come By):
  • After everything Lila did to turn Marinette's Fair-Weather Friends against her, all her lies get exposed by an akuma whose powers reveal how much Ladybug trusts every single person in Paris. Lila Broke the Rating Scale by scoring -51, and her absymal rating causes her to go viral, getting all the attention she'd yearned for in the worst possible way.
  • Alya, Adrien, and the rest of the class also learn that they've completely lost any trust Ladybug placed in them before thanks to Lila's Toxic Friend Influence. While their scores aren't as hideously low as Lila's, they find themselves being regarded with suspicion and disdain, and realize that they Easily Condemned their "everyday Ladybug" for no good reason at all.
  • Miss Bustier was perfectly aware that most of her students were harassing and Cyberbullying Marinette, but refused to intervene, expecting Marinette to "lead by example" and Easily Forgive their awful treatment of her. Marinette secretly filmed how she was conducting her classes and gives that evidence to the school board, along with the nasty messages; this results in Bustier losing her job for her flagrant neglect.
• Recommencer:
  • Chat Noir's Karma Houdini Warranty runs out when he decides not to cooperate with Ladybug's plan, declaring that he'll only do what she asks if she 'admits that she loves him'. This spurs Félix to step in and do the job himself, calling him out on his Skewed Priorities. As do all the other witnesses present. What's more, this proves to be the last straw for Master Fu, who decides he's proven unfit for such a dangerous Miraculous.
  • Mark's transphobic harassment of Jay is witnessed by Mr. Cesar, who immediately boots him out of the music showcase and orders him to the principal's office. Mark then compounds his mistake by intentionally getting akumatized; unfortunately for him, this is Caught on Tape, getting him into even more trouble.
  • Vice Principal Durant's Control Freak tendencies, ableism and sexism trigger a particularly dangerous akuma. Afterwards, while the school board thinks this was an isolated incident caused by stress, Principal Achthoven decides to 'relieve' that stress by stripping him of most of his duties, having him work primarily on paperwork. She also makes clear that if he continues misbehaving, she will report him to the CPA and ensure he faces proper punishment.
  • Lila attempts to falsely accuse Marinette of harassing her online. This triggers the akumatization of Ringleader, who declares that if she wants to play the victim card so badly, she'll be her villain. After the akuma is dealt with, Principal Achthoven forces her to publicly admit she has no evidence for any of her claims, humiliating her further.
• In Satisfaction Brought it Back (NSFW), the villain is fired at the end with a hefty compensation, so as to avoid a scandal over his embezzlement and abuse of power. He decides he’ll have his revenge and immediately starts calling some thugs to hire for roughing up a couple of people. He's so busy with the call he ignores both the signs and the people trying to keep him from drowning in ten thousand gallons of sewage.
• Scarlet Lady:
  • Generally speaking, most episodes feature Chloé suffering some kind of karmic punishment for her actions, on both short and long-term scales. For example, her callous treatment of Chat Noir makes Adrien much more acutely aware of what a Spoiled Brat his Childhood Friend is. So instead of defending or making excuses for her selfish behavior, he calls her out, growing increasingly frustrated when she refuses to change and keeps clinging to her "Adrichou". By the second season, he's irritated enough that he starts physically shoving her away; once "Despair Bear" rolls around, he outright breaks off their friendship.
  • In the comic's version of "Stormy Weather", Alec's decision to taunt Aurore about just how severely she lost comes back to bite him once she becomes an akuma. What really hammers this home, though, is that he also rigged the contest in the first place — and when Mireille finds out, she immediately reveals the truth to the public, leading to massive backlash against his station.
  • In a positive example, Sabrina's fortunes gradually improve as she starts to resist Chloé rather than continuing to serve as her Beta Bitch. During "Reflekta", for instance, she refuses to act against Juleka, forcing Chloé to take matters into her own hands. After Juleka is akumatized, Rose defends Sabrina, telling Reflekta that she shouldn't be hurting people who haven't done anything to her. Sabrina later gets invited to join her classmates for the retake while Chloé refuses to participate and is left out.
• So you time travel to the future and your classmate gets punched... has Alya and the rest of her classmates save for Marinette and Chloé get shunted twenty years into the future by an akuma, where they learn that Lila manipulated them into betraying their former friend. Unfortunately, this revelation comes too late for the majority to actually salvage their relationships, and the future Chloé takes considerable pleasure in spelling out just how hard karma hits those who hurt her the most, knowing that they can't avert the coming fallout.
  • Kim drank protein shakes that Lila secretly laced with steroids, making him more violent. This led Ondine to break up with him. A routine drug test catches them while they're still in his system, ruining his athletic prospects.
  • While writing up his college applications, Max accepted suggestions on subject matter from Lila and didn't do his own research on the subjects, meaning he didn't learn that those concepts were either outright fabrications or plagiarized until it was too late.
  • Ivan and Mylene unintentionally committed charity fraud by helping Lila promote her fake charities, with her pocketing the money.
  • Sabrina repeatedly broke into Marinette's room and stole her fashion designs, believing that she was reclaiming them for their 'rightful owner' Lila. Her father found out and put her into a behavioral program.
  • Downplayed with Nino: while Future!Chloé notes that he achieved his dreams of becoming a DJ, working various parties and events, he passed up many honest opportunities to advance his career while waiting for Lila to deliver on her promised connections.
  • Miss Bustier's career was ruined when the truth about Lila came out, prompting an investigation into the school which uncovered the full impact of her Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher methods. Including that the bullies she refused to discipline ended up never changing...with one particularly Barbaric Bully beating one of his victims into a coma, then ending up at the bottom of the Seine.
  • Alya's posting all of Lila's claims without ever fact-checking ruined her reputation, turning the Ladyblog into a glorified tabloid and completely wrecking any chances of her becoming an Intrepid Reporter.
• Tattered Remains of Broken Dreams (Yours, Not Mine): Lila convinces most of the class to Easily Condemn Marinette, and that the best way to punish her for her supposed crimes is shredding her school sketchbook. None of the culprits takes a moment to consider that Marinette is currently working on several projects for them, such as various costumes and uniforms, set designs, work for the school funderaisers and the yearly class trip. Naturally, all of that is inside the sketchbook they destroy... and now that they've demonstrated just how ungrateful they are, she has no interest in redoing any of that, canceling everything and informing them that she won't do free commissions anymore.
• Two Letters: Marinette, feeling unappreciated and exploited by the citizens of Paris, decides to give up being Ladybug, passing on the Earrings to a new heroine whom she considers to be "exactly what Paris deserves". Said successor proves to be a karmic nightmare for others:
  • Mayor Bourgeois wanted a Ladybug that he could bribe into endorsing him. The new Ladybug is more than happy to take his money... as well as that of various political rivals. And he's terrified of her followers, and what might happen should he stop appeasing her...
  • Bob Roth decided to stop paying for her protection, figuring he'd call her bluff - no way she wouldn't still save him, right? And indeed, she still defended him from a disgruntled employee who got akumatized...but then, during an interview afterwards, remarked in passing about how he "didn't support her". The resulting public backlash led to the complete collapse of his record label as artists fled en masse, and his reputation was ruined to the point that he and his son had to use most of their remaining fortune to craft new identities and start over.
  • Alya liked to brush off and downplay the consequences of her reckless impulses, claiming they were "no big deal", "not her fault" and just part of being an Intrepid Reporter who was always Going for the Big Scoop. After Marinette retired, her Karma Houdini Warranty ran out when she tried to learn the new Ladybug's secrets and 'self-destructed': she crashed an akuma attack while disguised as Chat Noir as part of an ill-thought out plan to 'expose' the new Ladybug. The new Ladybug then shielded her from the akuma, playing up her injuries while giving a heartfelt plea to the public not to interfere with fights 'just to get clips for social media'. Without Marinette around to bail her out, Alya had to face the fallout, becoming a disgraced recluse.
  • Adrien/Chat Noir constantly harassed Ladybug while treating akuma fights like a game, forcing her to shoulder all of the physical and mental load while he goofed off. After he transferred his affections to Marinette and began to make advances on her, she pretended to reciprocate his feelings in order to steal the Ring, stripping him of the freedom it offered him. In the present, he spends all his time cooped up in his mansion, training himself physically and doing a poor job of hiding his bitterness and refusal to admit his failings behind a front of Zen-like acceptance.
  • Felix has been on the run from Interpol ever since he betrayed Ladybug and gave the Miraculous to Hawk Moth. Now he lives in hiding and uses Sentimonsters impersonating Chat Noir to defend Paris with the goal of eventually engineering the reveal that a Sentimonster was responsible for his crimes so he can return to some semblance of a normal life.
  • Gabriel Agreste has them all beat, given how he was killed three months into the new Ladybug's reign. His funeral was then crashed by Gigantitan, who broke his coffin and desecrated his body. Not long afterwards, his body was turned into a zombie by a sentimonster.
• In Watch Me Burn, Adrien takes advantage of his newfound knowledge of Ladybug's identity to make her as uncomfortable as possible. As Adrien, he emotionally abuses her by disrespecting her boundaries, encouraging her Gibberish of Love tendencies and using them as an excuse to feign ignorance. As Chat Noir, he escalates his sexual harassment and begins trying to coerce Ladybug into saying she loves him by sitting out of fights or actively sabotaging her, all the while reveling in the thought of her complete mortification when she finally learns that Chat and Adrien are the same person. This finally backfires on him when Rat King takes him by surprise and claims his Miraculous, revealing his identity and Hawkmoth's in the ensuing argument. Adrien's complete disregard for Marinette's safety in the aftermath cements Ladybug's realization that he never really cared about her, and she abandons him on a rooftop without his ring in favor of recruiting a more trustworthy ally to take down his father.
• Weight Off Your Shoulder: As a Lighter and Softer Recursive Fanfiction of Two Letters, the new Ladybug proves to be adept at this; where the original work had all of Paris suffering under Marinette's Sketchy Successor, only a few select characters are hit by laser-guided karma:
  • Chloé's Karma Houdini Warranty comes to an end when the new Ladybug publicly reveals that she betrayed the Miraculous Heroes and joined forces with Hawk Moth... as well as revealing/reminding everyone that Queen Bee's debut involved her nearly crashing a train when she paralyzed its driver in a botched attempt at Engineered Heroics. This results in a massive public outcry against the Spoiled Brat that also impacts her biggest enablers: Mayor Bourgeois, Ms. Bustier, and Principal Damocles, all of whom are taken to task for letting her get away with countless cruelties for so long.
  • Chat Noir refused to take his heroic duties seriously, finding it more important to harass Ladybug about wanting a Relationship Upgrade, refusing to take no for an answer. The new Ladybug puts her foot down with him, warning him that he's on thin ice... and when he rejects her plans to expose Shadow Moth and outright attacks her, she strips him of the Ring.
  • Adrien shows No Sympathy for how Marinette and her classmates were bullied by Chloé for years, haughtily scolding them for daring to be happy about her finally facing consequences for her actions. Not only does he get a harsh reality check as Chat Noir, he gets an outright Trauma Conga Line when his father reveals himself as Shadow Moth by transforming in public — meaning Ladybug was right all along — and attempts to akumatize his own son.
  • Gabriel's reign of terror comes to an end when the new Ladybug tricks him into transforming into Shadow Moth in full view of countless witnesses. He then gets beaten up by an angry mob and arrested.
  • Following Gabriel's downfall, Lila is hit by Offscreen Karma — quite fittingly so, given how many of her antics were fueled by her desire to be the center of attention.
  • Future!Alix cares more about preserving her timeline than all the suffering that Marinette, the kwami, and countless Parisians have (and would have) endured. While trying to convince Marinette that all the pain will eventually be worth it, she accidentally lets slip a tidbit hinting at how much more horrifying things will be, and her utter Lack of Empathy for others convinces Marinette that she needs to change the future — and relieve her of the Rabbit Miraculous. And this comes before the revelation that she's been rampantly abusing said Miraculous to manipulate the timeline to her own selfish ends.
• What Goes Around Comes Around:
  • Gabriel Agreste effectively ensures his own defeat when he attacks the Dupain-Cheng Bakery, forcing Marinette past the Godzilla Threshold in order to defend her home. Not only does this result in his Secret Identity being revealed to the world and his arrest, the records he'd made provide ample amounts of evidence against him, Nathalie, Chloé, and Lila.
  • After learning that Marinette is Ladybug, Chloé arrogantly assumes she can force her to hand over the Miracle Box, threatening to ruin the bakery if she refuses. Instead, her Karma Houdini Warranty completely runs out, as her father's efforts to shield her from the consequences of her actions instead ensure his downfall as well.
  • In Truth & Journalism, Andre the Ice Cream Man's tendency to be a Control Freak triggers another example: he refuses to accept that Marinette is dating Luka because Luka doesn't fit the profile he created for her 'Sweetheart Ice Cream', and tries convincing her to break up with her boyfriend. People witness him making this utterly ridiculous demand, and word spreads swiftly, damaging his reputation and making them less interested in trying out his treats.
• Who You Know hits Lila and Alya with this:
  • Lila claims to know the hot new fashion designer MDC, despite their identity being a well-kept secret. She tells Alya that she's going to offer Marinette the chance to meet her, having no intention of making that claim to the other girl, as she knows Marinette won't fall for it and just wants to make her look ungrateful. What she doesn't realize is that Marinette is MDC, and said revelation causes all of her lies to blow up in her face.
  • Alya, meanwhile, refuses to believe Marinette, hitting her with a brutal lecture about how "it's all about who you know, and Lila is someone people dream of knowing". Her own words and actions come back to haunt her when she realizes far too late that because she refused to hear her 'best friend' out, she missed out on the incredible opportunity she was being offered and has to hear her own words coming back to haunt her.
• The Wolves in the Woods:
  • Ms. Bustier's insistence on Blaming the Victims and pressuring them to "make nice" with their abusers turned most of her students into a Gang of Bullies who mistakenly saw themselves as Bully Hunters. When she encourages them to continue harassing Marinette after she transfers to another school, even leading them to march on the Dupain-Cheng bakery in an effort to demand she bow to her will, Ms. Mendeleiev and several others report her to the school board. The subsequent trial results in her losing her teaching license and getting blacklisted, along with serving a stint in prison... and of course, her reputation is completely ruined.
  • Principal Damocles turned a blind eye to what was happening in Bustier's class. The investigation into Francoise Dupont reveals that he was misusing school funds on gambling and buying superhero merchandise for himself, getting him into serious trouble.
  • Adrien refused to do anything about how Marinette was being slandered and bullied, buying into Bustier's insistence on blaming victims for speaking out against their abuse. During the trial, he unthinkingly defames Marinette's character on the witness stand before admitting that he knew about the Malicious Slander. Not only does his father yank him out of Francoise Dupont and return him to homeschooling, his reputation as 'Paris' Golden Boy' is ruined and he starts hemorrhaging disappointed and disillusioned fans.
    • As Chat Noir, he refused to take his heroic responsibilities seriously, caring far more about harassing Ladybug and trying to force her into a Relationship Upgrade she didn't want. He was also incredibly jealous of any other heroes she got help from, seeing them as a threat to their "special connection". When he throws a hissy fit over the existence of the Iberian Heroes and acts aggressively towards Ladybug in front of them, he gets curb-stomped and stripped of the Ring. On top of this, Nadja runs a special exposé revealing all of Chat Noir's worst transgressions to Paris, utterly tanking his reputation.
  • All of Marinette's Fair-Weather Friends who joined in on bullying Marinette are disciplined by their parents once they find out. They're all forced to attend mandatory therapy sessions in order to help them come to grasp with how what they did was wrong.
    • Alya is revealed as the real ringleader behind the abuse, having encouraged the others to turn upon Marinette en masse. Her refusal to admit fault and stubborn insistence on continuing to harass Marinette and Lila after the class is collectively punished causes them to recognize her toxic influence and start cutting her out of their lives.
    • Kim and Alix also get singled out for their Barbaric Bullying; the pair were the most physically abusive, even subjecting Marinette to a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. In order to save their kids from juvie, their parents agree to ship them off to Military School following the winter break.
  • Compared to all of the above, Chloé provides a much more Downplayed example: she left Francoise Dupont after Marinette transferred out, voluntarily returning to private tutoring... only to find herself with a Stern Teacher who isn't cowed by her usual threats.

Monsters vs. Aliens

• God Help the Outcasts: Derek gets one much like in canon. He breaks up with Susan after she becomes Ginormica, as he cares about his career more than anything and having a Giant Woman for a wife would hurt it. Once she and the other monsters defeat Gallaxhar, however, he tries to get back together with her so he can get an exclusive interview. She pretends to care for a moment...then tells him he's the reason their relationship fell apart and flicks him into the sky (where he lands in B.O.B.).

My Hero Academia

• Failure to Explode:
  • Katsuki doesn't bother applying to anything aside from U.A.'s Hero Course. No other schools, and no other courses or programs at U.A. or anywhere else. He's so completely convinced that he's destined to make it into the Hero Course that he ignores his parents' advice to make some backup plans... and as a result, when he doesn't get in, he's got no place else to go aside from Aldera High.
  • After learning that Midoriya got into U.A. while Bakugou didn't, one of Aldera's teachers sees it as a form of this for the middle school, given how they turned a blind eye to how the Quirkless kid was being bullied while building up Bakugou's ego in hopes of riding his coattails. As a result, the teacher doubts Midoriya will ever say anything positive about Aldera.
• Haigha: For years, the staff at Aldera allowed Katsuki to be the Big Jerk on Campus, letting him get away with being an abusive, Barbaric Bully. As a result, Katsuki is so used to being a Karma Houdini that he doesn't think twice about attacking Shinsou after their match is over, on live television. Not only does this ensure that Katsuki finally faces consequences for his actions, it spurs Nezu to investigate Aldera, getting its teachers arrested.
• Peace's Apprentice:
  • Shinsou goes out of his way to be a Jerkass to his classmates every day and continues to do so even during the attack on the USJ. As a result, he doesn't realize the villain he brainwashed has gotten free and receives severe electrical burns to his throat from the villain's quirk. The aftermath reveals that Shinsou can no longer use his Quirk without causing severe internal bleeding in his throat and he resigns from the hero course.
  • Aizawa decided to expel Izuku before even the first day of classes in order to get Shinsou into the Hero Course, threatened to expel anyone who gainsaid him, and punished anyone who got into a confrontation with Shinsou even though Shinsou was always the one who started it. In the aftermath of the USJ, he's fired when it comes to light that his gross negligence is responsible for almost every death that occurred during the attack and that he's trying to force Shinsou to remain a hero course student even when he can no longer use his Quirk.
• Supporting a Hero: Bakugou's attempts to outright murder Izuku on live TV ends with him being expelled from UA and blacklisted from every hero school across the planet. The only school who'll take him is a front for the MLA.
• Whispered Tribulation ends with Aizawa, Vlad King, and Snipe being arrested for essentially kidnapping and torturing a minor for what boils down to a hunch. While Aizawa is sent to OLYMPUS to receive therapy, losing his teaching license and his hero license but avoiding criminal prosecution under the Insanity Defense, Snipe and Vlad King are just straight up arrested. Katsuki also gets expelled from UA and blacklisted from heroics for being an unapologetic bully.

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

• In Getting Back on Your Hooves, Checker Monarch's decision to screw over her own allies, the Diamond Dogs, is what ends up motivating them to turn on her. What's more, her decision to follow through with her threat to ruin the protagonists' lives and homes even though she's gotten what she wanted (forcing Trixie to become a homeless recluse) is horrifying enough that her own henchman Helping Hoof betrays her, helps rescue Trixie back, and helps the protagonists to take Checker down. Ultimately, Checker suffers a complete mental breakdown when her two favorite pawns slip from her grasp.
• Loved and Lost:
  • At the end of the 12th chapter, the author explains how the Mane Five, Shining Armor, Celestia, and Spike trying to tell Twilight a truth she doesn't believe is intended to be a karmic punishment for not believing what she tried to tell them about Queen Chrysalis.
    Some of you may be quite disturbed by Twilight's dark change in character and the misfortunes happening to her friends, brother, and mentor. But if you think about it a little, what just happened to them in this chapter is a bit karmic. They all refused to listen to Twilight's suspicions about the evil bride and in the end she was right. Now they're the ones trying to tell Twilight that her new friend and mentor is evil, but due to Jewelius's manipulations, she won't listen to them. They're going through the same treatment they gave Twilight.
  • Not only does Celestia walk out on Twilight along with everypony else, but when Jewelius tries to say Twilight only acted out of a big misunderstanding, Celestia refuses to even consider it and shushes him. She later gets detained by her own Royal Guard when Jewelius tricks everypony into blaming her for the collateral damages of the invasion, and the resentful wedding guests do nothing to help her. Celestia lampshades the irony by wondering if she's having the same feelings of betrayal as Twilight had.
  • As soon as Jewelius is defeated in the final battle, he desperately begs to be spared by the same heroes whom he had begging for mercy as he sentenced them to slavery. He's then brutally slaughtered by the Changelings whom he set to invade Equestria, double-crossed, and stubbornly refused to consider as a threat after they escaped from his dungeons.
• Nosflutteratu: The vampire who attacked and turned Fluttershy got ashed by Garlic Flank Stake that same night.
• The Nuptialverse has a few examples:
  • The Flim Flam brothers suffered this, as told by Apple Fritter in Post Nuptials. She tells Applejack they tried their luck at Appleloosa, but Braeburn and Thunderhooves weren't pleased with what occurred in Ponyville and ran them out of town, trashing their machine in the process. Then they went to Canterlot to see if they'd do any better there, but skipped town as fast as they could when they found out that Celestia was friends with Applejack.
  • At the end of Families, Olive Branch gets his in the form of a spell performed by Luna herself. The spell subjects him to feel all the pain and torture that he inflicted on others, directly or indirectly. All of it. And the best part? If he ever causes anypony pain ever again, he'll feel that too.
  • Also at the end of Families, Speedy and Quick Delivery are "rewarded" for their abuse by being forced into a Sadistic Choice. Either rot in jail for the rest of their lives or be forced to give up their child in trade for lighter sentences.
• In Princess Trixie Sparkle, Trixie opens the story by tricking Twilight into switching bodies with her and spends a large part of the story as a Smug Snake, using her newfound "royal" status to frame The Mane Six, has Twilight locked up, and even boasts that she will have her and her friends left to rot for the rest of their lives. So when they are forced to work together in the latter half of the story, Twilight eventually double-crosses and attacks her, thinking she was just trying to manipulate them again and no one tries to come to her aid.

Naruto

• First Try Series:
  • Sasuke and Sakura refuse to believe that Naruto legitimately graduated from the Academy, so they spread rumors that he actually dropped out and is just faking being a ninja. Sakura then tries to report Naruto for defending himself when she tried to hit him, only for the clerk to publicly humiliate her while asking for clarification; she's further humiliated by her own incompetence after joining Team Tetsuo with Naruto. Sasuke is also informed that he got passed over for early graduation due to his attitude, and discovers that Naruto completely outclasses him.
  • In Team Tetsuo, Sakura and Sasuke find out that Naruto outclasses them in skill by a mile and they are not as good as they thought they were when they are made to go on a three-month training trip when they are transferred to Naruto's team.
  • In First Try, an Iwa genin sets up a fatal trap for the Konoha team in the Kiri Chunin Exams to get revenge on Konoha for her father's death. The trap kills and maims the Konoha team; but unfortunately for her, Naruto survives and rips her Iwa team to literal shreds.
• A Growing Affection: Naruto spent most of Part I watching Sakura fawn all over Sasuke. Sakura spends most of the fanfic watching Naruto and Hinata fawn all over each other.
• Space to Breathe:
  • Kakashi's apathetic teaching style and refusal to do anything about Sasuke and Naruto's selfish treatment of Sakura spurs her to take an apprenticeship with Ibiki, leaving Team Seven. His reputation subsequently nosedives following the Chunin Exams, as Sakura excels thanks to Ibiki's tutelage while Kabuto, her replacement, betrays Konoha. He proceeds to lose Naruto to Jiraiya when the sannin takes him as an apprentice, while Sasuke, his sole remaining student, trashes both their reputations further with his self-absorbed and bratty behavior.
  • Sasuke, as noted above, only cares about himself, arrogantly believing that he's 'naturally superior' to everyone around him. He gets humiliated at the Chunin Exams, then proceeds to dig himself deeper by throwing a massive temper tantrum and publicly assaulting a fellow leaf-nin, with his inability to accept that the world doesn't revolve around him and his whims ruining his standing in Konoha, even before he attempts to defect.

One Piece

• Convergent Devil: Arlong is killed by a staff made out of the same cross he left the dying Bell-mere tied to.
• A positive example in The Logia Brothers. Hatchan being the kindest and most merciful of the Arlong Pirates results in Nami specifically requesting her crewmates show him mercy in kind when they destroy the rest of Arlong's crew.

Our Miss Brooks

• In The Reunion Assembly, political straw man Fred Fields' elevator crashes and he ends up in the hospital.

Persona

• In You See Them, this is Goro Akechi's fate - he's Spared by the Adaptation and gains the ability to see the dead after the Engine Room battle. Of course, this comes with a catch - he gets to see exactly how displeased all of the people he killed are with him. And their final judgement as to what he's going to do is that, after Shido (and later Maruki) are defeated, he's going to help all of them with their Unfinished Business, on pain of being haunted until he's done. Absolutely nobody has any sympathy for him over this.

Pokémon

• In Ashes of the Past, Pikachu ends up being captured by the Iron Masked Marauder, and near the end of the movie, his Poké Ball winds up in the hands of the Team Rocket Trio... who give it back to Ash. One region later, Jessie's contest prowess wows Wallace, who gives her a Cosplay Pikachu as a gift.
• In the Pokémon: The Series fanfic The Bonds We Share, Ash re-encounters Damian, Charizard's cruel former trainer. The asshole challenges Ash to a battle for his Orange Island Badges. Ash proceeds to wipe the floor with his Pokemon with Charizard, the very Pokemon he abandoned, and later when Damian punches Ash in the face over his defeat (in front of Charizard), the lizard puts Damian in the hospital with a Skull Bash to the chest.
• Borne of Caution: In Act 1, Chapter 6, Brendan and Lee help with a fire at the Pokémon Center, which is soon revealed to be caused by a giant Manectric whose egg had been stolen due to interest in the giant's gene. Lee carefully pacifies the Manectric by returning the egg. Much later, in Act 2, Chapter 2, that same Manectric tracks down Lee to request that he raise the Electrike that hatched from the egg (though as he's already raising a Shinx, he suggests Brendan instead, which Manectric accepts).
• In Chapter 27 of Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, during the Fuchsia Tag Tournament Paul ends up releasing his Raichu after she loses one too many battles. She is later found by Ash, who shares with Red that Paul discards his Pokémon if they don't live up to his expectations. Despite being in the middle of a rather big argument with each other at the time, the fact that Paul released Raichu without properly healing her makes them set their differences aside enough to work together and make sure that he doesn't win the tournament.
• In Travels of the Trifecta, when traveling through Route 216, Paul threatens to release Weavile and his other Pokémon for wanting to help him get through a giant wall of snow. He ends up being able to break through the snow wall on his own, but is too tired and frostbitten to notice his surroundings and ends up falling off a cliff, where he would have died frozen and bleeding if his Pokémon hadn't disobeyed his orders and gone to get him help along with Conway's Slowking and Castform.

Ranma ½

• After a thug rapes Nabiki Tendo in Tears of Vengeance, Ranma buys a packet of Jusenkyo powder to turn him into a girl and drop him off naked in the worst part of town.

Rosario + Vampire

• Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness Act III: Apoch and Astreal spend several chapters treating Yukari like crap and even try to kill her out of fear that she would steal Ahakon from them. After said attempt to kill her goes wrong, Tsukune unleashes Inner Moka, who is anything but pleased with how Apoch and Astreal have been treating Yukari and promptly beats them senseless.

RWBY

• Children of Remnant: Self-imposed examples: after realizing their actions almost led to a war humanity could never win, James, Jacques, Winter, Ghira, and Kali all resign from their posts, with the latter four all hoping to stand trial for their crimes.
• Strawberries and Lemons: After Garnet shows his jealous side when Sage showed an interest in Yang in a previous chapter, Team RWBY (but mostly Yang) continuously tease him for it. Later on, when Team RWBY meets Garnet's new friend Penny, Yang has to deal with her jealous side since Penny is being just as affectionate with Garnet as she usually is.

A Song of Ice and Fire

• The Raven's Plan:
  • A lot of this happens in general to various people post-Remembering, to the point that those who don't remember are barely able to hold their friends back from taking their revenge.
  • Word of God is that Melisandre being rendered brain dead is this for her actions in the old timeline.
  • Lomys was part of the Maesters' conspiracy to destabilize the realm, and murdered Alleria and Luthor Tyrell to achieve that. When this is exposed, he's promptly killed by Mace, who stabs him in the back in retaliation for the death of his wife and father.
  • Zigzagged in regards to Hizdar (at least in his mind). He died saving Daenerys' life; in exchange, he and his family are the only masters in Mereen whose lives are spared when the slaves rise up again. The zigzag part comes in when he is forcibly co-opted into ruling Mereen in Daenerys' name...with Daario.
  • Qyburn reveals that his canonical Painful Transformation of the Mountain into a zombie was revenge for nearly being killed by him at Harrenhal. As is his killing of the Mountain and his men when given the chance in the new timeline.
  • Euron is killed by the crew of a ship that he destroyed in the original timeline.
• In Robb Returns, Lysa Arryn attacked Jon Arryn because he had Littlefinger killed, and Jon managed to make a cut on her. This cut proceeds to fester and corrupt, making it likely that she will lose her arm — and perhaps even die.
• In Yr Hen Ogledd, Aegon V smugly refuses to wage war against the True North when Rhaella and her lover Bonifer Hasty elope there in spite of his son Jaehaerys raging because it ruined his plan to marry her to Aerys. After all, Jaehaerys did reject his father's offer for an Arranged Marriage because he wanted to follow his heart — how does it feel to be on the other side of the equation now ?

Spider-Man

• In The Web of The Spider-Man, this is integrated as a mechanic in the story known as Great Power; Great Responsibility. If Peter acts up to his uncle's ideals and becomes a true hero, he won't be plagued by the same Parker luck experienced by his comic counterpart. But if he decided to act like the Amazing Spider-Douche, then things will go seriously downhill for him.

Star vs. the Forces of Evil

• Deconstructed in The Royal Protector: Brittney Wong uses a False Rape Accusation against Marco but everyone immediately realizes it's Not What It Looks Like, she begins suffering a Humiliation Conga. Marco tries to avert it since it was a misunderstanding, and because he wanted to raise his social status by throwing a good party and needs her approval.

Thomas & Friends

• In Imitation Steamrollers, after causing Emily and Gina to derail, George the steamroller rolls over several rocks and down a slope, then hits a big rock and is sent flying through the air before landing upside-down in a muddy ditch. More karma comes his way when his actions prove to be the final straw that gets him banished from Sodor for five years.
• Lampshaded in Restoring Lost Honour, when Emily mentions that Sudrian karma is terrifyingly punctual.

Total Drama

• In Monster Chronicles, Duncan and Alejandro spend most of chapters 4 and 5 scheming against Cody for his role in winning the Area 51. The plan then gets turned around on them, resulting in Alejandro getting framed, eliminated, and murdered within 20 minutes. Duncan is forced into being one of Cedric's minions for most of the story.
• Total Drama Do Over: Both Alejandro and Heather undergo a lot of pain in their respective elimination episodes.
  • In Action, Heather still gets her hair shaved off!
  • Vanessa gets one during Action when Heather locks her away and takes her place on the show.
  • Mel received a huge "The Reason You Suck" Speech from Beth in "Drumheller", and is subsequently eliminated by her later on, the bonus being she's punched by Courtney.
    • In All Stars, she receives her karma for cheating on Duncan with Alejandro, then on Alejandro with Jose when she is eliminated and dumped by all three.

Touhou Project

• This is Played With in the Gensokyo 20XX series. The first instance is in 20XXIII when Seija tries to brainwash Yukari into killing the children and she is punished in the harshest way there most possibly can be and that was by having her limbs cut off and having her gapped far enough away. However, in 20XXV, this is an arguable case with Reimu stabbing Yume Ni with a pair of scissors in the arm for kicking her in the face and breaking her teeth. Considering what Yume Ni had been doing so far, it's either this or Disproportionate Retribution.

Victorious

• In "Double Trouble"- a spin-off of The Wolf in me- one of the alternate universes depicted has Jadelyn (the local version of Jade) finally move out of her abusive family to live with Tori and her father after Jadelyn has spent years being abused by her own father for her mother dying in childbirth and then having to deal with her arrogant stepmother and Jade's half-sister Krista. As a "parting gift", Jadelyn exposes her father's tax fraud and her stepmother's affair, with the result that her father spends years in jail and her step-mother and half-sister are reduced to working at diners as they can't afford to keep up with the music program Krista was part of.

Worm

• Blanket: After Sophia and Emma heckle Blanket about how close she and Panacea are getting during a training exercise, Weld points out that it's pretty stupid to antagonise not one, but both of the group's healers. Brandish later hears about it, and decides that she's found some "volunteers" for melee combat pointers.
  Brandish: NOT A WORD.
  Aegis: About what exactly? I heard nothing but the thunder of Karma on the horizon.
• Confrontation II: The Reckoning, shortly after Coil spends a couple disposable timelines torturing Rune and Othala for kicks^*He technically did it to get information on the Empire 88 but admitted to himself that he went far further than he remotely needed to simply because it was fun, he gets runover by Squealer's tank in two different timelines at once.
• This trope is weaponized in It Gets Worse, where Taylor's new power delivers instant and delicious karma on anyone who would wish her harm, in ways that are swift, improbable, and above all, hilarious. As long as you leave her, her father and her friends alone, you're fine. Attacking them will get you slapped HARD by a chain of Disaster Dominoes set up a week in advance...before you even knew about them. The best part? Taylor's power isn't under conscious control. It does it all on its own!

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