History Main / AssholeVictim

** [[Characters/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisneyJudgeClaudeFrollo Judge Claude Frollo]] in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'' is sent [[DraggedOffToHell plummeting]] off of Notre Dame cathedral into a lake of molten lead; all in all, a fitting fate for a holier-than-thou religious hypocrite like him.

* ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/jackbeanstalk/stories/esbenwitch.html Esben and the Witch]]'' has Sir Red, who tries repeatedly to get Esben's brothers executed by lying that they told him they could fetch a wonderful or magical item (a dove with feathers of gold, a boar with bristles of silver and gold, a lamp that shines brightly enough to light seven kingdoms, a coverlet that is the most beautiful in the world, and if touched, sounds loudly enough to be heard in eight kingdoms). Sir Red is Hanged in the end, "for his wickedness... and so he got the end he deserved." The brothers are assholes, but not victims, while the witch's daughters are guilty of nothing more than being her daughters.

* CatharsisFactor: When the audience rejoices when a character they hated is killed/severely harmed.

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* The Influencer Files of WebOriginal/ImATherapistAndMyPatientIsGoingToBeTheNextSchoolShooter [[PlayedForHorror plays this for horror]]. One story has a terrorist stream his torture of someone with a history of making bigoted and otherwise offensive comments online. While some of the comments about the videos hope the victim will be saved, others believe her past awful behavior means she deserves it. Some people outright express pleasure that she's suffering, one calling it the best stream of the year and another [[NightmareFetishist asking if anyone else was getting a boner]]. Dr. Harper notes that he feels no need to join that particular website now.
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** Bill Cipher uses his {{Reality Warp|er}}ing powers to torture others and destroy worlds [[ForTheEvulz for his own amusement]] and submits all of Equestria to Weirdmaggedon, so as such him being given what is possibly [[PyrrhicVictory the most hollow victory]] in the show's history via Discord [[SealedEvilInACan trapping him in the Nightmare Realm]] at the [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil (temporary)]] cost of his life, with Bill's attempts at freeing himself by offering make a {{deal with|TheDevil}} [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou the viewing audience]] [[SubvertedTrope having fallen flat]] as he is last shown fruitlessly threatening Wiz and Boomstick in a vain attempt to free himself, implying the audience collectively turned him down, is well-deserved.

* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'': Captain Flowers not only sacrificed both an entire squad of potential sergeant candidates and his own assistant to Sarge, but ''also'' used Pvt. Jimmy as a host to implant the Alpha in, resulting in his demise. However, the reason he dies is because he's given aspirin by someone who doesn't realise he has an allergy to the medicine.

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** The JerkAss cockroach chef, [[FantasticRacism who insults Cale and calls humans "unsanitary"]] (Despite the fact that [[{{Hypocrite}} he serves]] [[FoulCafeteriaFood alien feces and living creatures]]). When the Drej attack the cafeteria, he seems to care more for the safety of himself and his food than Cale and Korso. Also, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking his voice is annoying.]] Therefore, it's hard to call it tragic when the Drej shoot and splatter him over the wall, especially when he tried to [[DirtyCoward sell out the two humans just to save his own hide seconds before]].
** An early conversation between Cale and [[PromotedToParent Tek]] hints that this could be why humans aren't [[FantasticRacism held in very high regard]] and [[NoSympathy are treated with scorn rather than sympathy]] after the destruction of their home world. According to Tek, if Cale had bothered to read a history book like instructed, he would know that his people [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters weren't exactly the nicest race in the galaxy]] before their planet blew up. Now that it has, most of the other aliens [[WhosLaughingNow aren't inclined to pity or help them]].

** The JerkAss cockroach chef, [[FantasticRacism who insults Cale and calls humans "unsanitary"]] (Despite the fact that [[{{Hypocrite}} he serves]] [[FoulCafeteriaFood alien feces and living creatures]]). When the Drej attack the cafeteria, he seems to care more for the safety of himself and his food than Cale and Korso. Also, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking his voice is annoying.]] Therefore, it's hard to call it tragic when the Drej shoot and splatter him over the wall, especially when he tried to [[DirtCoward sell out the two humans just to save his own hide seconds before]].

** The JerkAss cockroach chef, [[FantasticRacism who insults Cale and calls humans "unsanitary"]] (Despite the fact that [[{{Hypocrite}} he serves]] [[FoulCafeteriaFood alien feces and living creatures]]). When the Drej attack the cafeteria, he seems to care more for the safety of himself and his food than Cale and Korso. Also, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking his voice is annoying.]] Therefore, it's hard to call it tragic when the Drej shoot and splatter him over the wall, especially when he tried to sell out the two humans just to save his own hide seconds before.
** An early conversation between Cale and [[PromotedToParent Tek]] hints that this could be why humans aren't [[FantasticRacism held in very high regard]] after [[NoSympathy the desctruction of their homeworld]]. According to Tek, if Cale had bothered to read a history book like instructed, he would know that his people [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters weren't exactly the nicest race in the galaxy]] before their planet blew up. Now that it has, most of the other aliens [[WhosLaughingNow aren't inclined to pity or help them]].

* A shroud's preferred victim in ''TabletopGame/{{Anathema}}'' is almost certainly this, at least from that individual shroud's perspective. Especially considering that killing a preferred victim actually increases your will to live.

** An early conversation between Cale and [[PromotedToParent Tek]] hints that this could be why humans aren't [[FantasticRacism held in very high regard]] after [[NoSympathy the desctruction of their homeworld]]. According to Tek, if Cale had bothered to read a history book like instructed, he would know that his people [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters weren't exactly the nicest race in the galaxy]] before their planet blew up. Now that it has, most other of the aliens [[WhosLaughingNow aren't inclined to pity or help them]].

** An early conversation between Cale and [[PromotedToParent Tek]] hints that this could be why humans aren't [[FantasticRacism held in very high regard right now]]. According to Tek, if Cale had bothered to read a history book like instructed, he would know that his people [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters weren't exactly the nicest race in the galaxy]] before their planet blew up. Now that it has, most other of the aliens [[WhosLaughingNow aren't inclined to pity or help them]].

Normally when something bad happens to an individual you feel some degree of pity for them. But then when that person is a {{Jerkass}} or an outright monstrous villain, when horrible things happen to them it's less sympathy and more satisfaction (or, at best, just plain apathy). They may or may not be [[HoistByHisOwnPetard directly responsible for their misfortunes]], but their behavior means something like this was going to happen eventually. This can range from the victim merely being a dick to them being a far worse criminal than the person they are a victim to. If there is a correlation, the response may or may not be {{disproportionate|retribution}}.

In other words, when a victim-shaped hole in the plot is filled with a character who is sufficiently repugnant, the audience feeling bad about what happened to them is unlikely. The character doesn't have to die or be brutalized, just that they suffer in some way. In some cases, "victim-shaped hole" can mean "victim of non-violent theft". If able to confront their attacker, there is a high likelihood [[ButForMeItWasTuesday they have no idea what earned their ire]].

Sometimes, the [[TitleDrop Asshole Victim]] is a {{Jerkass}} for the entire time they were alive, or in the cases of a PosthumousCharacter, in all of the accounts other people share about them. In other cases, though, it may not be apparent that the dead character is not a good person, with the character's transgressions coming to light as their death is investigated.

While the RealLife violent deaths of certain dictators and certain kinds of criminals might qualify for this {{trope}}, which ones qualified and which ones didn't would be endlessly debated, depending on your perspective, so we kindly ask that you '''[[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease refrain from adding any real life examples]]'''.

** ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'': Grem and Acer is last seen getting themselves beat up by the bar patrons. Given the dirty job they'll have done they deserve it.

* Fanfic/OldManHenderson, the living embodiment of [[OffTheRails plot derailment]], was originally created as a revenge plot against a particularly dickish KillerGameMaster who'd, among other actions, killed off the player's previous character because "[the aforementioned player] actually disagreed with [the GM's] self-insert fetish-fuel character with two katanas!" Needless to say, the GM had it coming.

* Many of the people the ''Literature/BastardOperatorFromHell'' antagonizes are not very nice or honest people. In fact, this is exactly ''why'' so many of his schemes succeed; people that have substantial skeletons to hide in their closets are much easier to manipulate.
* ''Literature/TheCityOfNever'': Joe Candy is a seemingly unhinged thief who eventually resorts to murdering an innocent woman and tries to kill Daniel's children. He's later consumed by the Emperor of Ashen Rain, and isn't missed by anyone.
* ''Literature/JeffTheKiller'': Jeff's first kills were Randy, Keith, and Troy, a trio of bullies who went around mugging kids and threatening them with knives. After Jeff beat the crap out of them, they got his brother sent to Juvy, and later attacked him at a birthday party to try and kill him, threatening to shoot anyone if they interfered.

* In ''Literature/StormOfSouls'', no one is too upset when Brelith gets the dagger he just threw heated into molten metal and flung back into his face.

* ''Literature/TailsSeries'':
** ''Literature/TailsOfFame'': Rast Racklyn's first two victims are a pair of pranksters who filmed him having sex with them and later humiliated him by leaking the video online and showing the video across their college campus. No one's remotely concerned about their disappearance even a month after they're murdered.
** ''Literature/TailsOfTheBountyHunter'': Boris Trovmar was involved in various embezzlement schemes and even sexually harassed multiple women. No one's even slightly upset when Milz Dillvor assassinates him.
** ''Literature/TailsOfTheSpaceGladiators'': In chapter 3, a dozen inmates are in the process of being transferred into the Gladiator Detention Facility, and one of them openly brags that he's a serial killer who murdered fifteen humans and consumed their brains. One of the guards wastes no time activating his ExplosiveLeash immediately afterwards.
* ''Literature/{{TOT}}'': Toby and his gang are all shot in the head by Maximus Slade, but all three of them were vandals and shameless bullies. Sheriff Umberton and Tully are also violently killed in the penultimate chapter, but given that they intentionally ignored phone calls from the Green Water division and later tried to cover up the massacre there, they deserved it.
* ''Literature/Touch2017'' offers a deconstruction in the Lee interlude, where [[spoiler:James' rapist]] is burned alive for what he did. It's presented in a fairly sobering light.
* In ''Literature/AWorldLessVisible'', you can be forgiven for being upset Sima's death isn't horrible enough.
* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'':
** The first people that the Slaughterhouse Nine (Superpowered Psychopaths) attack in the city are The Merchants, a gang of violent, drug dealing assholes.
** Bakuda is an unrepentant MadBomber. In her backstory she held her university hostage [[DisproportionateRetribution for giving her a less than perfect grade]]. She goes on to implant bombs in innocents and carry out an indiscriminate Brockton Bay-wide bombing spree. When she meets her end, no one weeps.

* All of Cody's victims in ''Literature/AngelOfDeath'' are criminals, and were killed in the process of committing crimes. In particular, he has stopped at least one rape and at least one mugging. Then again, the narrative doesn't really treat them like they had it coming, only like they're the best option available for Cody because killing them means saving someone else.

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* All of Cody's victims in ''Literature/AngelOfDeath'' are criminals, and were killed in the process of committing crimes. In particular, he has stopped at least one rape and at least one mugging. Then again, the narrative doesn't really treat them like they had it coming, only like they're the best option available for Cody because killing them means saving someone else.
* Many of the people the ''Literature/BastardOperatorFromHell'' antagonizes are not very nice or honest people. In fact, this is exactly ''why'' so many of his schemes succeed; people that have substantial skeletons to hide in their closets are much easier to manipulate.
* Variant in ''Podcast/BlackJackJustice'': The Stopped Clock, where the wrongly accused ''killer'' is the asshole.
* ''Literature/TheCityOfNever'': Joe Candy is a seemingly unhinged thief who eventually resorts to murdering an innocent woman and tries to kill Daniel's children. He's later consumed by the Emperor of Ashen Rain, and isn't missed by anyone.
* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': Trent Ikithon is Caleb's EvilMentor, who spent years torturing and conditioning Caleb and two others into becoming [[TykeBomb Vollstruckers]], culminating with him [[spoiler:implanting false memories in Caleb's mind to trick him into murdering his own parents]]. All encounters the Mighty Nein have with him showcase his sadism, from inviting them over for dinner just to read their minds and poke at their insecurities, to trying to capture their loved ones (Jester's mother and [[spoiler:Veth's husband and young son]]), to [[spoiler:setting fire to the Blooming Grove for seemingly no reason other than that Caduceus pissed him off during the aforementioned dinner]]. [[spoiler:When the Nein finally subdue him, Veth and Beau use Sovereign Glue (a magical glue that only comes undone with a Wish-spell) to lock a silencing collar around his neck, and Jester uses that same glue to stick his hands together. Trent is then dragged to the Cobalt Soul Archive and tried, and is locked in the darkest cell in Rexxentrum, unable to talk, unable to move his hands, force-fed, and left with nothing to do but ''think.'']]

* ''WebVideo/EscapeTheNight'': It's hard to feel much sympathy for Jesse and [=DeStorm=] when they die. Jesse decided to abandon his friends and only has his own stupidity to blame for his death, while [[TokenEvilTeammate DeStorm]] is a full-blown {{Jerkass}} who happily gloats about having killed Alex' girlfriend Lauren.
* ''Literature/JeffTheKiller'': Jeff's first kills were Randy, Keith, and Troy, a trio of bullies who went around mugging kids and threatening them with knives. After Jeff beat the crap out of them, they got his brother sent to Juvy, and later attacked him at a birthday party to try and kill him, threatening to shoot anyone if they interfered.
* The Influencer Files of WebOriginal/ImATherapistAndMyPatientIsGoingToBeTheNextSchoolShooter [[PlayedForHorror plays this for horror]]. One story has a terrorist stream his torture of someone with a history of making bigoted and otherwise offensive comments online. While some of the comments about the videos hope the victim will be saved, others believe her past awful behavior means she deserves it. Some people outright express pleasure that she's suffering, one calling it the best stream of the year and another [[NightmareFetishist asking if anyone else was getting a boner]]. Dr. Harper notes that he feels no need to join that particular website now.

* Alex Kralie from ''WebVideo/MarbleHornets'' definitely qualifies as one. He murdered Jay, Seth, Sarah, Amy, and a man in Rosswood park, indirectly causing Brian's death, and attempting to murder Tim, Jessica, and Brian, yet he still was just another of The Operator's victims when you get down to it.
* Fanfic/OldManHenderson, the living embodiment of [[OffTheRails plot derailment]], was originally created as a revenge plot against a particularly dickish KillerGameMaster who'd, among other actions, killed off the player's previous character because "[the aforementioned player] actually disagreed with [the GM's] self-insert fetish-fuel character with two katanas!" Needless to say, the GM had it coming.
* Parodied in [[https://www.theonion.com/no-leads-sought-in-assholes-murder-1819568597 this article]] by Website/TheOnion, where upon discovering that the victim of a New York brutal murder, Don Hewson, was a well-known local asshole, the local police have announced that they will not be doing any investigation into who the murderer was for as long as possible and would fine people if they contacted them for evidence over Hewson's death.
* [[PlayedForLaughs Discussed for laughs]] in an ''WebVideo/OutsideXbox'' LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/Hitman2016''. At one point, Mike kills a security guard and is penalized, since the game deducts points when you kill anyone but the assigned target(s). Mike lamely protests this:
-->"Yes, non-target kill, but he was a bad man, I'm...fairly sure..."

* ''WebVideo/SgtDucky'': Discussed, when Tony returned from the hospital and explained why he had to walk home, Ducky tells the audience that neither he nor his friends felt too bad for him because of what happened during the party since he nearly got them all arrested. The incident where he got vomited on during a house party is famous among the boys because they saw it as divine punishment from the god of brotherhood for betraying his oath to get their friend laid.

* While many characters in ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' [[KillTheCutie clearly don't deserve getting killed]], there are also many who are enough of a {{Jerkass}} to the point where it's hard to sympathize with them. Some of these border on KarmicDeath, such as Anthony Burbank (who was repeatedly stabbed [[GroinAttack in the groin]] by the same cousin who he had bullied) and Philip Ward (beaten to death by [[MilesGloriosus Jimmy Brennan]], a character he had previously beaten up in a hockey game in [[DevelopingDoomedCharacters pre-game]]). A notable aversion, though, would be Monty Pondsworth of v4 pre-game. Although he was the most prominent {{Jerkass}} in pre-game, he did not make an appearance on the island, much to the disappointment of many handlers.

* The WebSerialNovel ''Literature/Touch2017'' offers a deconstruction in the Lee interlude, where [[spoiler:James' rapist]] is burned alive for what he did. It's presented in a fairly sobering light.
* Parodied in WebVideo/TheWarpZone's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6breBHLGus8 PC Gaming in the 90's]]" video. A boy's MoralGuardian mother walks in on him playing ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'', but he explains that he's slaying demons and doing The Lord's Work. She accepts this and leaves him to it. Later, she walks in on him playing ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'' but he says he's killing Nazis "just like Grandpa." She accepts this as well. But then she catches him playing ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' and...he's got nothing.

* The WebSerialNovel ''Literature/{{Worm}}'':

* Both deaths shown in ''WesternAnimation/{{Igor}}'' (Not counting Scamper's many "deaths") come from those who had it coming big time: [[BadBoss Dr.]] [[TooDumbToLive Glickenstine]] who is killed due to a malfunction in his own invention and [[GreaterScopeVillain King]] [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant Malbert]] [[spoiler: who is crushed by the very weather ray he created]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday'': Toyman's death at the hands of Superman [[spoiler:(or so Metropolis thought)]] is horrifying, but he recently killed an innocent 4-year-old girl in cold blood so it's safe to say that he deserved it.