History Main / KarmicInjury

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie''. Early on, [=SpongeBob=] accidentally steps on Plankton. Later, when [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick run into Dennis, the hitman sent by Plankton, he tells them that "for some reason [[BigBad Plankton]] wanted me to step on you." He's about to do just that when [[spoiler:Dennis gets stepped on himself by the GreaterScopeVillain, the Cyclops from Shell City (who appears to have done so accidentally as well).]]

* ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyJusticeForAll'': The final culprit committed unspeakable crimes for his image. His breakdown is him ripping his own face off.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'': The Jetstream DLC reveals that this is how Sam Rodrigues lost his arm, requiring him to get a cybernetic replacement. [[spoiler:During their fight, Sam manages to slice off Senator Armstrong's arm. Thanks to his {{Nanomachines}}, Armstrong isn't deterred by this at all and simply uses the sharpened of his stomp to impale Sam's arm. To add insult to injury, Armstrong simply reattaches his own arm, an option Sam doesn't have.]]

* In the ''ComicBook/BatmanBlackAndWhite'' story "Broken Nose," Alfred treats Bruce for the first [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin broken nose]] he receives during his career as Batman. Bruce grumpily comments that he was beaten by Mabuse, a criminal in a self-made suit of armor (or, to use Batman's description, "a geek in a trash can"). After Albert patches up both the wound and Bruce's ego, the Dark Knight tracks Mabuse down again, overpowers him, and, after the villain has surrendered, breaks his nose as well.
* ''ComicBook/DetectiveComics'': In issue #741, the Joker murders Sarah Gordon, Jim Gordon's second wife. Jim shoots the Joker in the kneecap, prompting the clown to jokingly comment that Jim has crippled him the same way [[ComicBook/TheKillingJoke the Joker crippled Barbara Gordon]].
* ''ComicBook/NewWarriors'': The origin of Night Thrasher and Midnight's Fire's enmity has Fire slashing Night Thrasher across the face as revenge for getting the latter's sister shot. When they fight in the present, Thrasher slashes Midnight's Fire across the face in return.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'': The Jetstream DLC reveals that this is how Sam Rodrigues lost his arm, requiring him to get a cybernetic replacement. [[spoiler:In their fight, Sam manages to slice off Senator Armstrong's arm. Thanks to his {{Nanomachines}}, Armstrong isn't deterred by this at all and simply uses the sharpened of his stomp to impale Sam's arm. To add insult to injury, Armstrong simply reattaches his own arm, an option Sam doesn't have.]]

* Early in ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'', Hiccup's trap disabled Toothless by damaging his left tail fin, requiring Hiccup to invent a device to help him fly again. At the end of the movie, Hiccup loses his left leg to dragon fire (though would have lost more if not for Toothless), requiring a prosthetic of his own. [[https://youtu.be/T5KjTcbQVMs?t=81 This shot]] in particular highlights the parallels. Discussed in ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2'' as possibly being purposeful on Toothless's part:

* Invoked on ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie''. Early on, [=SpongeBob=] accidentally steps on Plankton. Later, when [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick run into Dennis, the hitman sent by Plankton, he tells them that "for some reason [[BigBad Plankton]] wanted me to step on you." He's about to do just that when [[spoiler:Dennis gets stepped on himself by the GreaterScopeVillain, the Cyclops from Shell City (who appears to have done so accidentally as well).]]

* The tragic finale of ''Film/TheKiller'' has Ah Jong getting shot in the eyes by [[BigBad Wong Hoi]]. The events that led to Ah Jong going on his last job and Wong Hoi [[ContractOnTheHitman turning against him]] began when Ah Jong accidentally blinded Jenny with the muzzle flash of his gun during the opening shootout.

* ''Literature/{{Twig}}'': Baron Richmond stabs Sy in the eye when they first meet. "In Sheep's Clothing" has Sy get his revenge by using poison stored within that very same eye to paralyze him, before giving him an overdose of Wyvern via [[EyeScream an injection right through the eye.]]

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': This example is a variation as the initial injury was due to indirect action. When he was a small child, Shoto Todoroki received a burn scar from his mother, who had snapped from the abuse suffered at the hands of his father, Endeavor. In a fight with a High End Nomu, Endeavor receives a scar in the same place. Despite being worried about him possibly being killed on TV, Todoroki doesn't hesitate to make his dad suffer the irony that he will now always have a scar that's very similar to his, via one extremely sarcastic comment:

* ''Film/ThePrincessBride'': When Inigo finally catches up with Count Rugen, he slashes his cheeks the same way Rugen did to him as a child. Inigo even stabs Rugen in the same places Rugen had just stabbed Inigo.

--> '''Todoroki''': That's a nice scar you've got there. ''[slurps soba as loudly as possible]''

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* ''Film/Daredevil2003'': During their fight, Bullseye impales Elektra's hand with her own sai. Daredevil defeats Bullseye and avenges Elektra by maneuvering the assassin's hands into the path of a sniper's bullet, damaging them severely. [[spoiler:A post-credits scene shows Bullseye is still able to use his fingers to throw a syringe at a fly that's bothering him while he's hospitalized.]]

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-->'''Buttercup''': ''[=[=][[OhCrap frightened]]]'' Uh, girls, uh... a little help here?\\
'''Blossom''': Sorry, Buttercup, you know what they say; an eye for an eye...\\
'''Bubbles''': And a tooth for a tooth!

* Invoked on ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie''. Early on, [=SpongeBob=] accidentally steps on Plankton. Later, when [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick run into Dennis, the hitman sent by Plankton, he tells them that "for some reason BigBad Plankton wanted me to step on you." He's about to do just that when [[spoiler:Dennis gets stepped on himself by the GreaterScopeVillain, the Cyclops from Shell City (who appears to have done so accidentally as well).]]

* Invoked on ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie''. Early on, [=SpongeBob=] accidentally steps on Plankton. Later, when [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick run into Dennis, the hitman sent by Plankton, he tells them that "for some reason [Plankton] wanted me to step on you." He's about to do just that when [[spoiler:Dennis gets stepped on himself by the BiggerBad, the Cyclops from Shell City (who appears to have done so accidentally as well).]]

* ''Film/ThePrincessBride'': When Inigo finally catches up with Count Rugen, he slashes his cheeks the same way Rugen did to him as a child.

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-->'''Buttercup''': ''[=[=][[OhCrap frightened]]]'' Uh, girls, uh...a little help here?\\

SubTrope of ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine and LaserGuidedKarma. Can sometimes overlap with the darker variant of MakesUsEven. Compare also AttackReflector and {{Synchronization}}, which inflict the attack near-instantaneously on the original perpetrator.

->'''Johnny:''' I got shitty hearing.
->'''Tony:''' (''shoots Johnny in the kneecap'') Now you got a shitty ''leg''!
->'''Johnny:''' (''stabs Tony in the foot'') So do you!
-->--'''Johnny Gat''' and '''Big Tony''' demonstrating this trope in ''VideoGame/SaintsRow1''.

--> '''Todoroki''': That's a nice scar you've got there. [slurps soba as loudly as possible]

** Taken UpToEleven between Anakin Skywalker and Count Dooku. In ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', Dooku cuts off Anakin's arm during their duel. In their rematch in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', Anakin cuts off ''both of Dooku's hands'' before decapitating him.

* ''Series/TheATeam'': In "It's a Desert Out There", When the Scorpions fall into the trap the A-Team laid for them. Hannibal explicitly mentions their leader punching Max and punches him in the same place.

* ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'': When Thaco was a prisoner of Dellyn Goblinslayer, Dellyn cut off one of Thaco's ears, and had it framed as a trophy. When Thaco defeats Dellyn in a duel and has him at his mercy, he cuts off Dellyn's ear and throws it away in a display of both CruelMercy and ButForMeItWasTuesday.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': In "Arthur's Big Hit", Arthur [[WouldHitAGirl punches D.W. in the arm]] because she broke his toy airplane despite being told not to. Later in that episode, Binky punches Arthur in the face, leading to Arthur learning the episode's aesop about violence.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': "Joe's Revenge" reveals that Joe lost his ability to walk when he was shot multiple times in the legs by a criminal named Bobby Briggs. Near the end of the episode, Joe returns the favour by shooting Briggs in the legs. However, one of Joe's shots hit a femoral artery, causing Briggs to bleed to death.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': In "Moral Decay", Buttercup [[TheToothHurts knocks villains' teeth out]] to get money from the tooth fairy. When she becomes too impatient to wait for crimes to happen, she starts breaking their teeth unprovoked. Blossom and Bubbles hear of this and [[DoWithHimAsYouWill send Buttercup to the bank so that the villains can beat the crap out of her]]. The next scene reveals that she has also lost a good chunk of her teeth from the beating.
-->'''Buttercup''': ''([[OhCrap frightened]])'' Uh, girls, uh...a little help here?
-->'''Blossom''': Sorry, Buttercup, you know what they say; an eye for an eye...
-->'''Bubbles''': And a tooth for a tooth!

-->'''Johnny:''' I got shitty hearing.
-->'''Tony:''' (''shoots Johnny in the kneecap'') Now you got a shitty ''leg''!
-->'''Johnny:''' (''stabs Tony in the foot'') So do you!

* The tragic finale of ''Film/TheKiller'' has Ah Jong getting shot in the eyes by [[BigBad Wong Hoi]]. The events that led to Ah Jong going on his last job and Wong Hoi [[ContractOnTheHitman turning against him]] began when Ah Jong accidentally blinded Jenny with the muzzle flash of his gun.

* The tragic finale of ''Film/TheKiller'' has Ah Jong getting shot in the eyes by [[BigBad Wong Hoi]]. The events that led to Ah Jong going on his last job and Wong Hoi [[ContractOnTheHitman turning against him]] began when Ah Jong accidentally blinded Jenny with the muzzle flash of his gun.

* The tragic finale of ''Film/TheKiller'' has Ah Jong getting shot in the eyes by [[BigBad Wong Hoi]]. The events that led to Ah Jong going on his last job and Wong Hoi [[ContractOnTheKiller turning against him]] began when Ah Jong accidentally blinded Jenny with the muzzle flash of his gun.

* ''Fanfic/TheMountainAndTheWolf'': The Wolf repeatedly ([[KickTheSonOfABitch but unintentionally]]) inflicts Karmic Injuries on his enemies. Justified since he's sacrificing them to the Chaos gods (of rage, hedonism, betrayal and decay respectively) and tries to make the victim's death match the intended god:

** [[spoiler:The (zombified) Mountain]] getsan eye stabbed, just as it had gouged out one of [[spoiler:Sandor's]] eyes.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': In "Arthur's Big Hit", Arthur [[WouldHitAGirl punches D.W. in the arm]] because she broke his toy airplane despite being told not to. Later in that episode Binky punches Arthur in the face, leading to Arthur learning the episode's aesop about violence.