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** It's a highly contested point among the fandom, whether [[spoiler:the Mane Five's]] actions in the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E8TheMysteriousMareDoWell The Mysterious Mare Do Well]]" went too far in [[spoiler:simply trying to humble Dash a little where Dash's friends don't really bother with simply telling her about it, and instead use a complex scheme to upstage her as the greatest hero in Ponyville]].
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* Fanfic/ApotheosisMHA, a My Hero Academia fic, is perhaps the standard bearer for this trope with several characters that often get this trope. The most prominent being All Might, who, for telling a Quirkless child that he really shouldn't try to be a hero because it is dangerous (and showing his ''crippling injuries'' for context), gets his reputation destroyed and quirk stolen by a VillainProtagonist that the fans of the story consider in the right, while the many Anti-Fans of the story declare it this trope.
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* ''Film/{{Seven}}'': Victor Allen was a drug dealer and a pederast who had also committed armed robbery and assault, but his fate at the hands of John Doe (being slowly pumped with drugs, starved, dehydrated, and riddled with bedsores for a year) is so horrific that many viewers felt sorry even for him. By contrast, while the movie treats his fate as horrific, both the police and the hospital doctor express NoSympathy for him, with one officer even stating "You got what you deserved", which many viewers found to be in poor taste.
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* ''Film/{{Seven}}'': ''Film/{{Se7en}}'': Victor Allen was a drug dealer and a pederast who had also committed armed robbery and assault, but his fate at the hands of John Doe (being slowly pumped with drugs, starved, dehydrated, and riddled with bedsores for a year) is so horrific that many viewers felt sorry even for him. By contrast, while the movie treats his fate as horrific, both the police and the hospital doctor express NoSympathy for him, with one officer even stating "You got what you deserved", which many viewers found to be in poor taste.
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** The episode "Living Doll" deals with Eric, a stepfather who is having a bit of trouble adjusting to his role as such. This is in part due to his own inability to father children and the fact his wife already has a daughter from a previous marriage named Christie. The titular Doll, dubbed Talky Tina, is purchased one day and adored by Christie however when Christie isn't present, Tina constantly harrasses Eric-- even beginning their disastrous feud by stating outright that she doesn't think she likes him very much. It culminates with Eric trying to destroy the doll ( thus further alienating his family) and eventually being murdered by it when he takes a nasty tumble down the stairs.
** A more famous example occurs in the episode "Time Enough At Last". Walter Bemis is a kind man who absolutely adores reading. However everyone in his life seems to hate his habit from his overbearing wife (Who destroys his books after feigning interest,) to his boss. After a huge explosion destroys everything and everyone apart from him, he finds that there is time enough to read. Then his glasses break, leaving him completely unable to.
** A more famous example occurs in the episode "Time Enough At Last". Walter Bemis is a kind man who absolutely adores reading. However everyone in his life seems to hate his habit from his overbearing wife (Who destroys his books after feigning interest,) to his boss. After a huge explosion destroys everything and everyone apart from him, he finds that there is time enough to read. Then his glasses break, leaving him completely unable to.
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** The episode "Living Doll" "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E126LivingDoll Living Doll]]" deals with Eric, a stepfather who is having a bit of trouble adjusting to his role as such. This is in part due to his own inability to father children and the fact his wife already has a daughter from a previous marriage named Christie. The titular Doll, dubbed Talky Tina, is purchased one day and adored by Christie however when Christie isn't present, Tina constantly harrasses Eric-- even beginning their disastrous feud by stating outright that she doesn't think she likes him very much. It culminates with Eric trying to destroy the doll ( thus further alienating his family) and eventually being murdered by it when he takes a nasty tumble down the stairs.
** A more famous example occurs inthe episode "Time "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E8TimeEnoughAtLast Time Enough At Last".Last]]". Walter Bemis is a kind man who absolutely adores reading. However everyone in his life seems to hate his habit from his overbearing wife (Who destroys his books after feigning interest,) to his boss. After a huge explosion destroys everything and everyone apart from him, he finds that there is time enough to read. Then his glasses break, leaving him completely unable to.
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* Elmer Fudd was an unpopular foe for WesternAnimation/BugsBunny with some ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' staff because of this trope (especially director Creator/FrizFreleng), since Elmer was such a meek and blatantly HarmlessVillain, it became a delicate dance to have Bugs do his usual slapstick runaround without it turning into overkill and devolving him from a KarmicTrickster into a petty bully. As a result more menacing foes such as WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam were created who could more properly provoke Bugs and rightfully earn his vengeance.
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* Elmer Fudd WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd was an unpopular foe for WesternAnimation/BugsBunny with some ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' staff because of this trope (especially director Creator/FrizFreleng), since Elmer was such a meek and blatantly HarmlessVillain, it became a delicate dance to have Bugs do his usual slapstick runaround without it turning into overkill and devolving him from a KarmicTrickster into a petty bully. As a result more menacing foes such as WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam were created who could more properly provoke Bugs and rightfully earn his vengeance.
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* ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': While Naofumi did believe that Malty (now Bitch) deserved to be punished for framing him for sexual assault and making him a social pariah in addition to having people killed with similar methods and her ChronicBackstabbingDisorder, her eventual fate of [[spoiler: being sent to her uncle, the grotesque king of Faubley to be raped and tortured to death]] was ''far'' too much, to the point where even Naofumi was extremely disgusted upon being sent [[spoiler:[[SnuffFilm crystal recordings of him raping and torturing her]] by said king]].
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** It's a highly contested point among the fandom, whether [[spoiler:the Mane Five's]] actions in the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E8TheMysteriousMareDoWell The Mysterious Mare Do Well]]" went too far in [[spoiler:simply trying to humble Dash a little where Dash's friends don't really bother with simply telling her about it, and instead use complex scheme to upstage her as the greatest hero in Ponyville]].
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* ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCdiGames Wand Of Gamelon]]'': Despite the fact that Hektan is an EvilSorcerer and was the one who locked up King Harkinian, his [[ImMelting death]] comes off as a little brutal which isn't helped by Zelda calling his death [[ComedicSociopathy good]].
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* ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCdiGames Wand Of Gamelon]]'': Despite the fact that Hektan is an EvilSorcerer and was the one who locked up King Harkinian, his [[ImMelting death]] comes off as a little brutal which isn't helped by Zelda calling his death [[ComedicSociopathy good]]."good"]].
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* This might as well be a running theme in ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'', as it's status as an AccusationFic avenging the unfair treatment of Chloe Cerise gets brutally deconstructed over time, with questions raised as to how much 'punishment' is valid for everyone's assorted sins.
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* This might as well be a running theme in ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'', as it's its status as an AccusationFic avenging the unfair treatment of Chloe Cerise gets brutally deconstructed over time, with questions raised as to how much 'punishment' is valid for everyone's assorted sins.sins. The author even wants readers to get into debates about this regarding Grace Monroe's karma in ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainVoyageOfWisteria''.
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* This might as well be a running theme in ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'', as it's status as an AccusationFic avenging the unfair treatment of Chloe Cerise gets brutally deconstructed over time, with questions raised as to how much 'punishment' is valid for everyone's assorted sins.
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* At the end of ''Series/WandaVision'', the villainous Agatha Harkness is brainwashed by Wanda into becoming the harmless sitcom neighbor, Agnes, that Harkness initially pretended to be. It's a convenient way to keep the character around for a possible return instead of the usual route of [[SuperheroMovieVillainsDie killing supervillains]], and Agatha had no qualms about killing children and [[KickTheDog puppies]]. However, to some viewers, it comes off as an unnecessarily harsh DeathOfPersonality, especially since earlier it was revealed those Wanda brainwashed [[AndIMustScream were still fully aware inside]] and every night had to psychically witness her nightmares.
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* At the end of ''Series/WandaVision'', the villainous Agatha Harkness [[spoiler:Agatha Harkness]] is brainwashed by Wanda into becoming the harmless sitcom [[spoiler:sitcom neighbor, Agnes, that Harkness initially pretended to be. be.]] It's a convenient way to keep the character around for a possible return instead of the usual route of [[SuperheroMovieVillainsDie killing supervillains]], and Agatha [[spoiler:Agatha]] had no qualms about killing children and [[KickTheDog puppies]]. However, to some viewers, it comes off as an unnecessarily harsh DeathOfPersonality, especially since earlier it was revealed those [[spoiler:those Wanda brainwashed [[AndIMustScream were still fully aware inside]] and every night had to psychically witness her nightmares.]]
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* At the end of ''Series/WandaVision'', the villainous Agatha Harkness is brainwashed by Wanda into becoming the harmless sitcom neighbor, Agnes, that Harkness initially pretended to be. It's a convenient way to keep the character around for a possible return instead of the usual route of [[SuperheroMovieVillainsDie killing supervillains]], and Agatha had no qualms about killing children and [[KickTheDog puppies]]. However, to some viewers it comes off as an unnecessarily harsh DeathOfPersonality, especially since earlier it was revealed those Wanda brainwashed [[AndIMustScream were still fully aware inside]] and every night had to psychically witness her nightmares.
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* At the end of ''Series/WandaVision'', the villainous Agatha Harkness is brainwashed by Wanda into becoming the harmless sitcom neighbor, Agnes, that Harkness initially pretended to be. It's a convenient way to keep the character around for a possible return instead of the usual route of [[SuperheroMovieVillainsDie killing supervillains]], and Agatha had no qualms about killing children and [[KickTheDog puppies]]. However, to some viewers viewers, it comes off as an unnecessarily harsh DeathOfPersonality, especially since earlier it was revealed those Wanda brainwashed [[AndIMustScream were still fully aware inside]] and every night had to psychically witness her nightmares.
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** The fate of Septa Unella. While many fans agree she deserved some comeuppance for forcing [[spoiler: [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Cersei]]]] to make her atonement by walking the streets of King's landing naked, [[spoiler: leaving Unella at the mercy of [[TheDreaded Gregor Clegane]] might have been overkill considering that it's implied that ''she'll probably be raped and tortured by a zombified Gregor until she dies.'']]
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** The fate of [[spoiler: Septa Unella. Unella.]] While many fans agree she deserved some comeuppance for forcing [[spoiler: [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Cersei]]]] to make her atonement by walking the streets of King's landing naked, [[spoiler: leaving Unella at the mercy of [[TheDreaded Gregor Clegane]] might have been overkill considering that it's implied that ''she'll probably be raped and tortured by a zombified Gregor until she dies.'']]
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** [[SmallNameBigEgo Viserys Targaryen's]] final moments consist of him pleading and begging for his life as Khal Drogo melts some gold into a pot to pour on his head while Danerys watches in quiet contempt for him. Now he ''did'' threaten both her and her unborn child ''[[TooDumbToLive right in front of Drogo and his tribe]]'' but to hear his screams as he dies in such an anti-climatic and pathetic way makes some feel sorry for him.
** Talisa Maegr. Arguably one of the series [[TheScrappy scrappies]]. What happens to her? Well [[spoiler: she gets stabbed in the belly repeatedly by a Frey during The Red Wedding while she's ''pregnant''.]]
** [[AlasPoorVillain Amazingly enough]] [[spoiler: Joffery]] got this reaction from some fans. Though considering how he [[NightmareFuel died]] it's not hard to see why.
** Talisa Maegr. Arguably one of the series [[TheScrappy scrappies]]. What happens to her? Well [[spoiler: she gets stabbed in the belly repeatedly by a Frey during The Red Wedding while she's ''pregnant''.]]
** [[AlasPoorVillain Amazingly enough]] [[spoiler: Joffery]] got this reaction from some fans. Though considering how he [[NightmareFuel died]] it's not hard to see why.
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** [[SmallNameBigEgo Viserys Targaryen's]] final moments consist of him pleading and begging for his life as Khal Drogo melts some gold into a pot to pour on his head while Danerys Daenerys watches in quiet contempt for him. Now he ''did'' threaten both her and her unborn child ''[[TooDumbToLive right in front of Drogo and his tribe]]'' but to hear his screams as he dies in such an anti-climatic and pathetic way makes some feel sorry for him.
** TalisaMaegr.Maegyr. Arguably one of the series [[TheScrappy scrappies]]. What happens to her? Well [[spoiler: she gets stabbed in the belly repeatedly by a Frey during The Red Wedding while she's ''pregnant''.]]
** [[AlasPoorVillain Amazingly enough]] [[spoiler:Joffery]] [[TheCaligula Joffrey]]]] got this reaction from some fans. Though considering how he [[NightmareFuel died]] (He's poisoned and chokes on his own vomit while the guards and his parents are unable to help him) it's not hard to see why.why.
** The fate of Septa Unella. While many fans agree she deserved some comeuppance for forcing [[spoiler: [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Cersei]]]] to make her atonement by walking the streets of King's landing naked, [[spoiler: leaving Unella at the mercy of [[TheDreaded Gregor Clegane]] might have been overkill considering that it's implied that ''she'll probably be raped and tortured by a zombified Gregor until she dies.'']]
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** The fate of Septa Unella. While many fans agree she deserved some comeuppance for forcing [[spoiler: [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Cersei]]]] to make her atonement by walking the streets of King's landing naked, [[spoiler: leaving Unella at the mercy of [[TheDreaded Gregor Clegane]] might have been overkill considering that it's implied that ''she'll probably be raped and tortured by a zombified Gregor until she dies.'']]
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* In ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie'', one of the segments is about a bigot after making spiteful racist remarks, being made to expierence racial injustice himself by being teleported to several eras and locations in different bodies. He almost gets lynched as a black man in Dixy South, nearly shot as an Vietnamese civilian by trigger-happy US troops during the war and finally is hunted in France by Nazis as a Jew. The segment ends on him being put on a train to a Nazi deathcamp, all over saying something racist.
**In the original script it would have ended in Vietnam with him saving two children from an US helicopter attack and redeem himself, but the shooting of the scene ended in a disaster with the helicopter spinning out of control, killing the actors and forcing the production to end the segment on the train scene as the last remaining footage.
**In the original script it would have ended in Vietnam with him saving two children from an US helicopter attack and redeem himself, but the shooting of the scene ended in a disaster with the helicopter spinning out of control, killing the actors and forcing the production to end the segment on the train scene as the last remaining footage.
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* At the end of ''Series/WandaVision'', the villainous Agatha Harkness is brainwashed by Wanda into becoming the harmless sitcom neighbor ?Agnes? that Harkness initially pretended to be. It?s a convenient way to keep the character around for a possible return instead of the usual route of [[SuperheroMovieVillainsDie killing supervillains]], and Agatha had no qualms about killing children and [[KickTheDog puppies]]. However, to some viewers it comes off as a too harsh DeathOfPersonality, especially since earlier it was revealed those Wanda brainwashed [[AndIMustScream were still fully aware inside]] and every night had to psychically witness her nightmares.
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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone2002'' had a segment called "The Pool Guy", where the main character finds himself trapped in a GroundhogDayLoop experiencing his own murder over and over again. At the end it's revealed that he's a murderer himself who was forced to undergo a memory wipe before being placed in a MindPrison and that the man who kills him every time was his victim. According to his jailers and even the narrator, it's just deserts, but viewers felt that [[AndIMustScream killing a confused, helpless man thousands of times until he goes insane]] is infinitely worse than killing someone once.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheRoyalProtector'', Brittney Wong ends up issuing a FalseRapeAccusation against Marco after they make out in a dark room after both mistaking the other for their date, not only does the accusation fall flat due to everyone figuring out it was a misunderstanding immediately, Brittney suffers a HumiliationConga soon after, however, since Marco threw the party in an attempt to boost his social status, which hinges largely on Brittney enjoying herself, starts trying to keep her out of trouble as things fall apart around her.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheRoyalProtector'', Brittney Wong ends up issuing a FalseRapeAccusation against Marco after they make out in a dark room after both mistaking the other for their date, not date. Not only does the accusation fall flat due to everyone figuring out it was a misunderstanding immediately, Brittney suffers a HumiliationConga soon after, however, after. However, since Marco threw the party in an attempt to boost his social status, which hinges largely on Brittney enjoying herself, he starts trying to keep her out of trouble as things fall apart around her.
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---> '''Lester''' Did you hear about Lifeinvader?
---> '''Franklin''' Oh shit, ya'll two did that?
---> '''Lester''' Eyes foward. We're just two strangers having a friendly chat. [[EvenEvilHasStandards And don't pretend that you liked Jay Norris.]]
---> '''Franklin''' Oh man I don't know homie. I mean yeah the dude outsourced work to child slaves, then stole and sold everybody's private information, and even ripped his own friends' ideas off and walked around like the messiah doin' it but. Man I don't think the nigga deserved to have his fuckin' head blowed off on TV.
---> '''Franklin''' Oh shit, ya'll two did that?
---> '''Lester''' Eyes foward. We're just two strangers having a friendly chat. [[EvenEvilHasStandards And don't pretend that you liked Jay Norris.]]
---> '''Franklin''' Oh man I don't know homie. I mean yeah the dude outsourced work to child slaves, then stole and sold everybody's private information, and even ripped his own friends' ideas off and walked around like the messiah doin' it but. Man I don't think the nigga deserved to have his fuckin' head blowed off on TV.
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'''Franklin''' Oh shit, ya'll two did
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'''Lester''' Eyes foward. We're just two strangers having a friendly chat. [[EvenEvilHasStandards And don't pretend that you liked Jay Norris.
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'''Franklin''' Oh man I don't know homie. I mean yeah the dude outsourced work to child slaves, then stole and sold everybody's private information, and even ripped his own friends' ideas off and walked around like the messiah doin' it but. Man I don't think the nigga deserved to have his fuckin' head blowed off on TV.
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* In ''Webcomic/VeganArtbook'', Shawn gets his food stolen by vegans, gets scalding hot tea thrown into his face, is on the receiving end of a GroinAttack, and is constantly bullied verbally by his sisters and other vegans. All because he is an omnivore. The readers who don't share the author's extreme views tend to think that Shawn is treated way more harshly than he deserves (especially since he isn't even ''against'' veganism in general, he simply doesn't want to go vegan himself, while the vegans in the comic tend to think everyone who isn't one of them deserves all the bad karma in the world).
* In ''Webcomic/VeganArtbook'', Shawn gets his food stolen by vegans, gets scalding hot tea thrown into his face, is on the receiving end of a GroinAttack, and is constantly bullied verbally by his sisters and other vegans. All because he is an omnivore. The readers who don't share the author's extreme views tend to think that Shawn is treated way more harshly than he deserves (especially since he isn't even ''against'' veganism in general, he simply doesn't want to go vegan himself, while the vegans in the comic tend to think everyone who isn't one of them deserves all the bad karma in the world).
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* In ''Webcomic/VeganArtbook'', Shawn gets his food stolen by vegans, gets scalding hot tea thrown into his face, is on the receiving end of a GroinAttack, and is constantly bullied verbally by his sisters and other vegans. All because he is an omnivore. The readers who don't share the author's extreme views tend to think that Shawn is treated way more harshly than he deserves (especially since he isn't even ''against'' veganism in general, he simply doesn't want to go vegan himself, while the vegans in the comic tend to think everyone who isn't one of them deserves all the bad karma in the world).
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* In ''Webcomic/VeganArtbook'', Shawn gets his food stolen by vegans, gets scalding hot tea thrown into his face, is on the receiving end of a GroinAttack, and is constantly bullied verbally by his sisters and other vegans. All because he is an omnivore. The readers who don't share the author's extreme views tend to think that Shawn is treated way more harshly than he deserves (especially since he isn't even ''against'' veganism in general, he simply doesn't want to go vegan himself, while the vegans in the comic tend to think everyone who isn't one of them deserves all the bad karma in the world).
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* ''Website/GoAnimate'': Whenever a troublemaker is punished for whatever they've done (i.e. killing someone or destroying something), they will often receive a [[HumiliationConga Punishment Day]]. [[BrokenBase Depending on who you ask]], the punishments they get from their [[AbusiveParents parents]] are too excessive, especially if they're ''killed'' or mentally broken for their actions.
* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': Whenever Sniffles tries to catch the ant family, they get back at him by tormenting him in gruesome ways, such as killing him via PsychicAssistedSuicide. Even though he does try to eat them, they go too far in their self-defense.
* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': Whenever Sniffles tries to catch the ant family, they get back at him by tormenting him in gruesome ways, such as killing him via PsychicAssistedSuicide. Even though he does try to eat them, they go too far in their self-defense.
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When the BigBad or any other villainous character (Maybe even innocent ones.) die or suffer such terrible fates that even the audience believes they got more than they really deserved. Whatever happens to them is usually met with horror, cringing, or tearjerker reactions from the witnesses. This is strictly a YMMV trope as there is always someone out there who will disagree and they did in fact have it coming. Other than villains this can also apply to TheScrappy.
Compare FateWorseThanDeath, DeathIsDramatic, AlasPoorVillain, AlasPoorScrappy, AntagonistInMourning, ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill, DisproportionateRetribution, UnintentionallySympathetic, EasyRoadToHell, JerkassWoobie.
Compare FateWorseThanDeath, DeathIsDramatic, AlasPoorVillain, AlasPoorScrappy, AntagonistInMourning, ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill, DisproportionateRetribution, UnintentionallySympathetic, EasyRoadToHell, JerkassWoobie.
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When the BigBad or any other villainous character (Maybe (maybe even innocent ones.) ones) die or suffer such terrible fates that even the audience believes they got more than they really deserved. Whatever happens to them is usually met with horror, cringing, or tearjerker reactions from the witnesses. This is strictly a YMMV trope as there is always someone out there who will disagree and they did in fact have it coming. Other than villains this can also apply to TheScrappy.
Compare FateWorseThanDeath, DeathIsDramatic, AlasPoorVillain, AlasPoorScrappy, AntagonistInMourning, ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill, DisproportionateRetribution, UnintentionallySympathetic,EasyRoadToHell, EasyRoadToHell and JerkassWoobie.
Compare FateWorseThanDeath, DeathIsDramatic, AlasPoorVillain, AlasPoorScrappy, AntagonistInMourning, ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill, DisproportionateRetribution, UnintentionallySympathetic,
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "No Such Luck", when Lincoln's sister Lynn thinks that he's bad luck, Lincoln goes along with it and lies to get some free time. His parents and sisters then make him sleep outside, which was meant to be karma, but many fans felt he didn't deserve it.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "No Such Luck", when Lincoln's sister Lynn thinks that he's bad luck, Lincoln goes along with it and lies to get some free time. His parents and sisters then make him sleep outside, which was meant to be karma, but many fans felt he didn't deserve it.
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Contrast: KarmaHoudini, DeathIsCheap, DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist, JokerImmunity.
Contrast: KarmaHoudini, DeathIsCheap, DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist, JokerImmunity.
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When the BigBad or any other villainous character dies or suffers such a terrible fate that even the audience believes they got more than they really deserved. Whatever happens to them is usually met with horror, cringing, or tearjerker reactions from the witnesses. This is strictly a YMMV trope as there is always someone out there who will disagree and feel that they did in fact have it coming. Other than villains, this can also apply to TheScrappy.
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When the BigBad or any other villainous character dies (Maybe even innocent ones.) die or suffers suffer such a terrible fate fates that even the audience believes they got more than they really deserved. Whatever happens to them is usually met with horror, cringing, or tearjerker reactions from the witnesses. This is strictly a YMMV trope as there is always someone out there who will disagree and feel that they did in fact have it coming. Other than villains, villains this can also apply to TheScrappy.
* ''Film/{{Seven}}'': Victor Allen was a drug dealer and a pederast who had also committed armed robbery and assault, but his fate at the hands of John Doe (being slowly pumped with drugs, starved, dehydrated, and riddled with bedsores for a year) is so horrific that many viewers felt sorry even for him. By contrast, while the movie treats his fate as horrific, both the police and the hospital doctor express NoSympathy for him, with one officer even stating "You got what you deserved", which many viewers found to be in poor taste.
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** [[SmallNameBigEgo Viserys Targaryen's]] final moments consist of him pleading and begging for his life as Khal Drogo melts some gold into a pot to pour on his head while Daenerys watches in quiet contempt for him. Now he ''did'' threaten both her and her unborn child ''[[TooDumbToLive right in front of Drogo and his tribe]]'' but to hear his screams as he dies in such an anti-climatic and pathetic way makes some feel sorry for him.
** Talisa Maegyr. Arguably one of the series [[TheScrappy scrappies]]. What happens to her? Well [[spoiler: she gets stabbed in the belly repeatedly by a Frey during The Red Wedding while she's ''pregnant''.]]
** [[AlasPoorVillain Amazingly enough]] [[spoiler:[[TheCaligula Joffrey]]]] got this reaction from some fans. Though considering how he [[NightmareFuel died]] (he gets poisoned and starts choking on his vomit while the people are helpless to do a thing about it) it's not hard to see why.
** Talisa Maegyr. Arguably one of the series [[TheScrappy scrappies]]. What happens to her? Well [[spoiler: she gets stabbed in the belly repeatedly by a Frey during The Red Wedding while she's ''pregnant''.]]
** [[AlasPoorVillain Amazingly enough]] [[spoiler:[[TheCaligula Joffrey]]]] got this reaction from some fans. Though considering how he [[NightmareFuel died]] (he gets poisoned and starts choking on his vomit while the people are helpless to do a thing about it) it's not hard to see why.
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** [[SmallNameBigEgo Viserys Targaryen's]] final moments consist of him pleading and begging for his life as Khal Drogo melts some gold into a pot to pour on his head while Daenerys Danerys watches in quiet contempt for him. Now he ''did'' threaten both her and her unborn child ''[[TooDumbToLive right in front of Drogo and his tribe]]'' but to hear his screams as he dies in such an anti-climatic and pathetic way makes some feel sorry for him.
** TalisaMaegyr.Maegr. Arguably one of the series [[TheScrappy scrappies]]. What happens to her? Well [[spoiler: she gets stabbed in the belly repeatedly by a Frey during The Red Wedding while she's ''pregnant''.]]
** [[AlasPoorVillain Amazingly enough]][[spoiler:[[TheCaligula Joffrey]]]] [[spoiler: Joffery]] got this reaction from some fans. Though considering how he [[NightmareFuel died]] (he gets poisoned and starts choking on his vomit while the people are helpless to do a thing about it) it's not hard to see why.
** Talisa
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* At the end of ''Series/WandaVision'', the villainous Agatha Harkness is brainwashed by Wanda into becoming the harmless sitcom neighbor Agnes that Harkness initially pretended to be. It's a convenient way to keep the character around for a possible return instead of the usual route of [[SuperheroMovieVillainsDie killing supervillains]], and Agatha had no qualms about killing children and [[KickTheDog puppies]]. However, to some viewers it comes off as a too harsh DeathOfPersonality, especially since earlier it was revealed those Wanda brainwashed [[AndIMustScream were still fully aware inside]] and every night had to psychically witness her nightmares.
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* At the end of ''Series/WandaVision'', the villainous Agatha Harkness is brainwashed by Wanda into becoming the harmless sitcom neighbor Agnes ?Agnes? that Harkness initially pretended to be. It's It?s a convenient way to keep the character around for a possible return instead of the usual route of [[SuperheroMovieVillainsDie killing supervillains]], and Agatha had no qualms about killing children and [[KickTheDog puppies]]. However, to some viewers it comes off as a too harsh DeathOfPersonality, especially since earlier it was revealed those Wanda brainwashed [[AndIMustScream were still fully aware inside]] and every night had to psychically witness her nightmares.
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When the BigBad or any other villainous character (Maybe even innocent ones.) die or suffer such terrible fates that even the audience believes they got more than they really deserved. Whatever happens to them is usually met with horror, cringing, or tearjerker reactions from the witnesses. This is strictly a YMMV trope as there is always someone out there who will disagree and they did in fact have it coming. Other than villains this can also apply to TheScrappy.
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When the BigBad or any other villainous character (Maybe even innocent ones.) die dies or suffer suffers such a terrible fates fate that even the audience believes they got more than they really deserved. Whatever happens to them is usually met with horror, cringing, or tearjerker reactions from the witnesses. This is strictly a YMMV trope as there is always someone out there who will disagree and feel that they did in fact have it coming. Other than villains villains, this can also apply to TheScrappy.
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** [[SmallNameBigEgo Viserys Targaryen's]] final moments consist of him pleading and begging for his life as Khal Drogo melts some gold into a pot to pour on his head while Danerys watches in quiet contempt for him. Now he ''did'' threaten both her and her unborn child ''[[TooDumbToLive right in front of Drogo and his tribe]]'' but to hear his screams as he dies in such an anti-climatic and pathetic way makes some feel sorry for him.
** Talisa Maegr. Arguably one of the series [[TheScrappy scrappies]]. What happens to her? Well [[spoiler: she gets stabbed in the belly repeatedly by a Frey during The Red Wedding while she's ''pregnant''.]]
** [[AlasPoorVillain Amazingly enough]] [[spoiler: Joffery]] got this reaction from some fans. Though considering how he [[NightmareFuel died]] it's not hard to see why.
** Talisa Maegr. Arguably one of the series [[TheScrappy scrappies]]. What happens to her? Well [[spoiler: she gets stabbed in the belly repeatedly by a Frey during The Red Wedding while she's ''pregnant''.]]
** [[AlasPoorVillain Amazingly enough]] [[spoiler: Joffery]] got this reaction from some fans. Though considering how he [[NightmareFuel died]] it's not hard to see why.
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** [[SmallNameBigEgo Viserys Targaryen's]] final moments consist of him pleading and begging for his life as Khal Drogo melts some gold into a pot to pour on his head while Danerys Daenerys watches in quiet contempt for him. Now he ''did'' threaten both her and her unborn child ''[[TooDumbToLive right in front of Drogo and his tribe]]'' but to hear his screams as he dies in such an anti-climatic and pathetic way makes some feel sorry for him.
** TalisaMaegr.Maegyr. Arguably one of the series [[TheScrappy scrappies]]. What happens to her? Well [[spoiler: she gets stabbed in the belly repeatedly by a Frey during The Red Wedding while she's ''pregnant''.]]
** [[AlasPoorVillain Amazingly enough]][[spoiler: Joffery]] [[spoiler:[[TheCaligula Joffrey]]]] got this reaction from some fans. Though considering how he [[NightmareFuel died]] (he gets poisoned and starts choking on his vomit while the people are helpless to do a thing about it) it's not hard to see why.
** Talisa
** [[AlasPoorVillain Amazingly enough]]
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When the BigBad or any other villainous character (Maybe even innocent ones.) die or suffer such terrible fates that even the audience believes they got more than they really deserved. Whatever happens to them is usually met with horror, cringing, or tearjerker reactions from the witnesses. This is strictly a YMMV trope as there is always someone out there who will disagree and they did in fact have it coming. Other than villains this can also apply to TheScrappy.
Compare: FateWorseThanDeath, DeathIsDramatic, AlasPoorVillain, AlasPoorScrappy, AntagonistInMourning, ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill, DisproportionateRetribution, UnintentionallySympathetic, EasyRoadToHell, JerkassWoobie.
Contrast: KarmaHoudini, DeathIsCheap, DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist, JokerImmunity.
The heroic version of this is CantGetAwayWithNothing.
[[KickTheSonOfABitch If the character's death was voted for or otherwise long expressed in eagerness]] by viewers and this occurs this is a case of BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor.
This is typically a given with some of the Slasher and Horror genres more... ''[[TheScrappy ann]][[HateSink oying]]'' characters. Despite this they'll usually get a whole lot more than just a headshot or a knife wound.
For the {{Inversion}} see LaserGuidedKarma.
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* ''Manga/BungoStrayDogs'': In the Cannibalism Arc, Chuuya is forced to kill Fukuzawa within two days or his own boss along with Fukuzawa will die, causing him to declare war on the ADA. While the executive makes it clear it's not personal and he hates the situation they're stuck in, Ranpo taunts him about Dazai to trap him in one of Poe's more brutal books containing one thousand characters, five hundred of whom are bloodthirsty murderers that must be identified to escape. On top of that, without access to his powers in the book world and not being especially good at puzzles, Chuuya is fully expected to die. Luckily, he eventually gets out, but one has to admit the trap was over the top.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': [[ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily Jason Todd's death was originally treated as a tragedy]]. However, [[https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/2821274.html?thread=94207130 later writers portrayed Jason as the "bad Robin"]] for disobeying orders (something every Robin has done, including the original, Dick Grayson). This had the implication that Jason was responsible for his own death and that it was deserved.
* ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'': At the end of ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice'', Oliver kills Prometheus, a villain who, among other things, had maimed Oliver's son Roy Harper, killed Lian, Roy's daughter and bombed Star City. After this, Oliver hunts down and kills any villains who allied with Prometheus, which the story treats as him having fallen from grace (since superheroes, particularly in the DC universe, are generally not supposed to kill people). For this, he is rebuked by his JLA teammates, his wife Dinah leaves him, and he is banished from Star City.
* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': This is the reason why ''ComicBook/TheJudasContract'' has become so divisive over the years. The story depicts Terra, a teenage girl, as TheSociopath who [[ForTheEvulz reveled in her deeds]]. She ends up being killed when she loses control of her powers while ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} is treated as a sympathetic AntiVillain. This is despite the fact that Deathstroke is the one who came up with the plan to kill the Titans in the first place as revenge for his son's death ([[MisplacedRetribution which wasn't even their fault]]) and was in a sexual relationship with Terra, a girl young enough to be his daughter. Modern adaptations of this story tend to excise the sexual relationship between the two and make Deathstroke the more evil of the two.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fanfiction ''The Diary of a Loud'', Lincoln [[WouldHitAGirl punches Lola]] in the [[EyeScream eye]], hard enough to send her to hospital, just because she read his diary to her classmates. This was meant to be portrayed as karma in the fanfic, but it became unpopular because [[WouldHurtAChild Lola is only a little girl]] and it seemed disproportionate.
* ''Fanfic/TheLastWar'', a quintessential RonTheDeathEater fic, has it with both Ron and Ginny.
** Ron is an abusive drunkard. However, the readers (the ones who ''don't'' hate him [[DieForOurShip for marrying Hermione]]) agree that it doesn't justify Hermione brutally and calculatingly murdering him, especially since she only married him "to get closer to Harry" and never really loved him, so the readers have speculated that her attitude is what drove him to drink, while neither his wife nor Harry (his alleged best friend) cared enough to seek help for him.
** It's even worse with Ginny. She cheats on Harry, is (suddenly) a pureblood supremacist, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking has put on weight since retiring from sports]]. It's supposed to justify Harry announcing his wish to divorce her out of the blue, telling her to leave the house ''with nothing except what she's got on'' in the same breath, and forbidding her to see the children or even say goodbye to them. However, the readers who don't hate Ginny for marrying Harry believe that, even if the spouse is cheating, throwing them out like that with no prior warning, especially if there are children involved, is inexcusably cruel. ''Especially'' since Harry himself has only married Ginny for her looks and has only ever really loved Hermione.
* In ''Fanfic/PoundAndPumpkinCakesAdventuresAndMisadventuresInPottyTraining'', the chapter "The 'Joy' of Flushing" is so-named because the Cake twins [[FunWithFlushing flushed a joyboy (a type of gaming device) down the toilet]]. As a punishment for this, Mrs. Cake [[CorporalPunishment spanks them]], and some people in the comments objected to this, especially since they're only two. Even the author himself admitted that it was a bit controversial and warned the readers that he would delete any arguments in the comment section.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheRoyalProtector'', Brittney Wong ends up issuing a FalseRapeAccusation against Marco after they make out in a dark room after both mistaking the other for their date, not only does the accusation fall flat due to everyone figuring out it was a misunderstanding immediately, Brittney suffers a HumiliationConga soon after, however, since Marco threw the party in an attempt to boost his social status, which hinges largely on Brittney enjoying herself, starts trying to keep her out of trouble as things fall apart around her.
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* ''Film/JurassicWorld'': The kids' babysitter, Zara, is portrayed as somewhat neglectful of the boys and more concerned with talking on the phone and planning her wedding. Later when a flock of pterosaurs escape, she's grabbed by one and carried screaming into the sky, dropped, grabbed by another pterosaur who drops her into a lagoon, grabbed ''again'' by a third pterosaur who tries to bite her in half with its beak, ''and then'' the Mosasaur leaps out and devours both of them in its enormous jaws. Many viewers, [[https://www.comicbookmovie.com/sci-fi/jurassic_park/jurassic-park-star-sam-neill-praises-jurassic-world-says-the-actors-were-real-good-a130433#gs.ykbtx6 including]] Creator/SamNeill himself, thought this was an unusually cruel death for a character who was most an annoyance, since the ''Jurassic Park'' series tends to save its most gruesome deaths for truly evil characters.
* Meredith in ''Film/TheParentTrap1998'' embodies almost all the tropes of children's movie villains: she is a GoldDigger, ChildHater and a potential WickedStepmother. However, a part of the viewers feel that Hallie and Annie crossed the line with their last prank on her: they pushed her mattress to float in the lake while she was asleep. Since she can't swim, she could very well have ''drowned''.
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* The bad kids' fates in ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' can be considered this. Chew gum constantly? Get turned into a giant blueberry. Watch too much TV? Get shrunk and then stretched out in a taffy pull.
* ''Franchise/HarryPotter'':
** It's heavily implied in latter books that Dolores Umbridge, the sadistic, smug teacher that some considered to be [[JerksAreWorseThanVillains worse in some ways than Voldemort]], was dragged into the woods and gang-raped by a group of centaurs. While the implication is subtle enough to fly over the heads of some readers, the ones who catch it often feel that it was ''too cruel'' a fate for Umbridge.
** Marietta Edgecombe is often viewed more sympathetically than it was probably intended. She betrays Dumbledore's Army to Umbridge and gets SNEAK written on her face in boils ''forever'', thanks to Hermione's spell that she put on all the Army's members beforehand. However, first, Marietta never wanted to join it in the first place and was pressured to do so by her friend Cho. Second, her mother works at the Ministry of Magic, so Marietta was quite possibly afraid her participation in LaResistance would also bring harm to her mother. Third, Marietta was never warned about the consequences of her betrayal: if she had known she'd be revealed at once and scarred permanently, she could have balked. Fourth, she is seventeen at most, and the series have shown people who were bastards or outright villains at that age can get redeemed later. The readers tend to feel that Marietta didn't quite deserve her punishment.
* ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'' (and its AnimatedAdaptation ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'') frequently utilised these sorts of punishments onto the locomotives for their bad behaviour.
** One of the most infamous being "The Sad Story of Henry/Come Out Henry", where after the vain Henry refuses to make his runs in the rain and stays in a tunnel, the workmen lose patience and brick him up in there "for always and always". The narrative puts emphasis on [[AndIMustScream the miserable state]] this has left Henry, though assures the reader that he deserved his punishment.
** In "Granpuff", to scare Falcon and Stuart into behaving, Duke explains of a rowdy American engine who often derailed and toppled his goods trains. He ignored warnings over and over ("Who cares about a few spills?"), until eventually the manager got sick of his carelessness and had him rebuilt into a pumping engine.
* ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': While Naofumi did believe that Malty (now Bitch) deserved to be punished for framing him for sexual assault and making him a social pariah in addition to having people killed with similar methods and her ChronicBackstabbingDisorder, her eventual fate of [[spoiler: being sent to her uncle, the grotesque king of Faubley to be raped and tortured to death]] was ''far'' too much, to the point where even Naofumi was extremely disgusted upon being sent [[spoiler:[[SnuffFilm crystal recordings of him raping and torturing her]] by said king]].
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* ''Series/GameOfThrones''
** [[SmallNameBigEgo Viserys Targaryen's]] final moments consist of him pleading and begging for his life as Khal Drogo melts some gold into a pot to pour on his head while Danerys watches in quiet contempt for him. Now he ''did'' threaten both her and her unborn child ''[[TooDumbToLive right in front of Drogo and his tribe]]'' but to hear his screams as he dies in such an anti-climatic and pathetic way makes some feel sorry for him.
** Talisa Maegr. Arguably one of the series [[TheScrappy scrappies]]. What happens to her? Well [[spoiler: she gets stabbed in the belly repeatedly by a Frey during The Red Wedding while she's ''pregnant''.]]
** [[AlasPoorVillain Amazingly enough]] [[spoiler: Joffery]] got this reaction from some fans. Though considering how he [[NightmareFuel died]] it's not hard to see why.
* ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': While they started out as malicious bullies, Bulk and Skull became harmless {{Butt Monkey}}s over their tenure on the show. Despite this, they were often subjected to numerous painful and humiliating experiences, no matter how badly they behaved. In one episode, the Rangers erase the evidence Bulk and Skull have acquired about their identities, humiliating them in public.
* One episode of ''Series/NightVisions'' had a crewman aboard a cargo ship discover some stowaways inside a crate. He does his job and informs his superiors about it, who ignore him, and when it becomes clear the stowaways are trapped and that there may be something inside killing them, he tries to break them out. Suddenly, his superiors reveal the stowaways are cannibals that they transport around so the mob can use them to assassinate people and stick him inside the crate, where the stowaways mock him and then brutally kill him. This would ordinarily be a CruelTwistEnding, but the episode treats it as entirely deserved, with everyone, even the narrator, mocking him for the "crime" of being a NiceGuy who did his job to the best of his ability and didn't act like a selfish monster.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''
** The episode "Living Doll" deals with Eric, a stepfather who is having a bit of trouble adjusting to his role as such. This is in part due to his own inability to father children and the fact his wife already has a daughter from a previous marriage named Christie. The titular Doll, dubbed Talky Tina, is purchased one day and adored by Christie however when Christie isn't present, Tina constantly harrasses Eric-- even beginning their disastrous feud by stating outright that she doesn't think she likes him very much. It culminates with Eric trying to destroy the doll ( thus further alienating his family) and eventually being murdered by it when he takes a nasty tumble down the stairs.
** A more famous example occurs in the episode "Time Enough At Last". Walter Bemis is a kind man who absolutely adores reading. However everyone in his life seems to hate his habit from his overbearing wife (Who destroys his books after feigning interest,) to his boss. After a huge explosion destroys everything and everyone apart from him, he finds that there is time enough to read. Then his glasses break, leaving him completely unable to.
* At the end of ''Series/WandaVision'', the villainous Agatha Harkness is brainwashed by Wanda into becoming the harmless sitcom neighbor ?Agnes? that Harkness initially pretended to be. It?s a convenient way to keep the character around for a possible return instead of the usual route of [[SuperheroMovieVillainsDie killing supervillains]], and Agatha had no qualms about killing children and [[KickTheDog puppies]]. However, to some viewers it comes off as a too harsh DeathOfPersonality, especially since earlier it was revealed those Wanda brainwashed [[AndIMustScream were still fully aware inside]] and every night had to psychically witness her nightmares.
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* Mime's fate in ''Theatre/TheRingOfTheNibelung'' can seem way too harsh. Yes, he wants the Nibelung treasures and the RingOfPower for himself, but he decides to go after them after being cruelly taunted and beaten by his own brother who usurps power in Nibelheim (before that, as Mime recalls, life was wonderful). Then he takes in baby Siegfried to raise him to fight Fafner (who owns the treasures). He treats Siegfried decently, clothing, feeding, teaching him and making toys for him, but Siegfried only taunts and humiliates him even more ''for years'', even ''setting a bear on him'' ForTheEvulz. Then Wotan randomly drops in and bullies Mime a bit more, finally telling him he'll get killed. After that Mime snaps and starts planning to kill Siegfried, but with the HumiliationConga he endures ''before'' that for no particular fault of his own, it's hardly a shock.
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* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3'': [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysWilliamAfton William Afton]], a [[WouldHurtAChild child-murdering]] SerialKiller, suffers a springlock failure, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath where a animatronic endoskeleton crushes one's body, with them being alive for long enough to realize they are dying]]. And then, he possesses his corpse, and is left slumped against a wall in a boarded-up room for thirty years. While the majority views this as a KickTheSonOfABitch moment, others (mostly the ones who [[DracoInLeatherPants paint him in a sympathetic light]]) say even he didn't deserve that.
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'':
** [[Characters/GrandTheftAutoVTrevorPhilips Trevor Philips]] is a [[AxCrazy insane]], [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]], [[ILoveTheDead necrophilic]] [[DrugsAreBad drug dealer]], among many others. [[spoiler:But in Ending A, seeing him burn to death, screaming in pain while his killers were his two best friends is deeply tragic]].
** Franklin has this reaction after finding out Lester and Michael were the ones who organized the death of Mark Zuckerberg {{Expy}} Jay Norris and murdered him respectively.
---> '''Lester''' Did you hear about Lifeinvader?
---> '''Franklin''' Oh shit, ya'll two did that?
---> '''Lester''' Eyes foward. We're just two strangers having a friendly chat. [[EvenEvilHasStandards And don't pretend that you liked Jay Norris.]]
---> '''Franklin''' Oh man I don't know homie. I mean yeah the dude outsourced work to child slaves, then stole and sold everybody's private information, and even ripped his own friends' ideas off and walked around like the messiah doin' it but. Man I don't think the nigga deserved to have his fuckin' head blowed off on TV.
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* In ''Webcomic/VeganArtbook'', Shawn gets his food stolen by vegans, gets scalding hot tea thrown into his face, is on the receiving end of a GroinAttack, and is constantly bullied verbally by his sisters and other vegans. All because he is an omnivore. The readers who don't share the author's extreme views tend to think that Shawn is treated way more harshly than he deserves (especially since he isn't even ''against'' veganism in general, he simply doesn't want to go vegan himself, while the vegans in the comic tend to think everyone who isn't one of them deserves all the bad karma in the world).
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''Website/GoAnimate'': Whenever a troublemaker is punished for whatever they've done (i.e. killing someone or destroying something), they will often receive a [[HumiliationConga Punishment Day]]. [[BrokenBase Depending on who you ask]], the punishments they get from their [[AbusiveParents parents]] are too excessive, especially if they're ''killed'' or mentally broken for their actions.
* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': Whenever Sniffles tries to catch the ant family, they get back at him by tormenting him in gruesome ways, such as killing him via PsychicAssistedSuicide. Even though he does try to eat them, they go too far in their self-defense.
* Website/SFDebris invokes this in his commentary on the Series/WonderWoman2011Pilot, pointing out how the rule of law is supposed to protect the innocent as well as the guilty, and to protect the guilty from getting more than they deserve. Otherwise, people should be saying that Willis' death from a drug overdose was well-deserved because he cheated to get his scholarship, or by Wonder Woman's example, whoever Willis hedged out with his use of performance enhancing drugs should break into the hospital and beat him up for cheating.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode "Arthur's Big Hit", Arthur hits D.W., then later Binky hits him. It's meant to be a case of "what goes around, comes around", but many viewers objected to this because Arthur didn't do anything wrong to Binky and [[BrokenAesop the moral was meant to be "don't hit".]]
* The Urpneys of ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone'' spent nearly every episode suffering violent retributions from the heroes for helping their evil overlord try to steal their dream making trinket so as to give them nightmares. The real kicker is that most of the Urpneys don't even want to do that, their Bad Boss abuses or executes ones that don't. The heroes are explicitly clear that they get exactly what they deserve. The later episodes tried to downplay the ComedicSociopathy, but since they were still unwilling pathetic villains, some suspension of disbelief was still required.
* ''WesternAnimation/GrizzlyTalesForGruesomeKids'' The kids in this book/cartoon series will often be killed or suffer a FateWorseThanDeath for very minor "crimes" that kids will often do, such as talk when they are told to be quiet, or eat nothing but sweets, or do nothing but watch TV... basically things that could be stopped by simply talking to the kids about it, and explaining why it's bad.
* Elmer Fudd was an unpopular foe for WesternAnimation/BugsBunny with some ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' staff because of this trope (especially director Creator/FrizFreleng), since Elmer was such a meek and blatantly HarmlessVillain, it became a delicate dance to have Bugs do his usual slapstick runaround without it turning into overkill and devolving him from a KarmicTrickster into a petty bully. As a result more menacing foes such as WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam were created who could more properly provoke Bugs and rightfully earn his vengeance.
* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry''. Tom ends up the undisputed IronButtMonkey, even for committing a minor slight or when Jerry had actually started the feud. Allegedly, it was because of this that more shorts had Jerry hindered or outright lose to Tom altogether whenever he stooped to crueler levels of slapstick assault, in order to to avoid the DoubleStandard karma.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "No Such Luck", when Lincoln's sister Lynn thinks that he's bad luck, Lincoln goes along with it and lies to get some free time. His parents and sisters then make him sleep outside, which was meant to be karma, but many fans felt he didn't deserve it.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** Trixie elicited this response from a lot of fans. Sure, she was a lying egotist who humiliated people on stage, but getting her home and livelihood smashed in addition to getting outed, humiliated and shown up by Twilight Sparkle felt a bit too much.
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E16TwentyEightPranksLater 28 Pranks Later]]", the response of ''[[MassiveMultiplayerScam all]]'' of Ponyville to Rainbow Dash going on an unrelenting pranking campaign (and in their defense, they ''do'' try to beg her to stop and tell her some pranks are too mean to their targets, but Rainbow refuses) is to make Rainbow believe that one of her pranks has GoneHorriblyWrong and she had accidentally unleashed '''a ZombieApocalypse'''. Understandably, some audience members find this as divisive as the "Mare-Do-Well" scheme.
** It's a highly contested point among the fandom, whether [[spoiler:the Mane 5's]] actions in the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E8TheMysteriousMareDoWell The Mysterious Mare Do Well]]" went too far in [[spoiler:simply trying to humble Dash a little where Dash's friends don't really bother with simply telling her about it, and instead use complex scheme to upstage her as the greatest hero in Ponyville]].
** In "The Ending of the End", Cozy Glow gets [[TakenForGranite turned into stone]] as punishment. While she did conspire with two other villains to commit genocide on all other ponies, some say this is still going too far as [[EnfantTerrible she's a foal]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Pingu}}'' episode "Pingu Runs Away", Pingu's mother spanks him as a punishment for acting up at the dinner table. Many viewers consider this her lowest point.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In "Moral Decay", Buttercup [[TheToothHurts knocks out several villains' teeth unprovoked]] to give to the Tooth Fairy. At the end of the episode, Bubbles and Blossom have [[DoWithHimAsYouWill those same villains knock Buttercup's teeth out]]. Some fans consider this too harsh of a punishment, especially since Blossom is shown grinning at Buttercup during the ending and Bubbles is sticking her tongue out.
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Compare: FateWorseThanDeath, DeathIsDramatic, AlasPoorVillain, AlasPoorScrappy, AntagonistInMourning, ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill, DisproportionateRetribution, UnintentionallySympathetic, EasyRoadToHell, JerkassWoobie.
Contrast: KarmaHoudini, DeathIsCheap, DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist, JokerImmunity.
The heroic version of this is CantGetAwayWithNothing.
[[KickTheSonOfABitch If the character's death was voted for or otherwise long expressed in eagerness]] by viewers and this occurs this is a case of BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor.
This is typically a given with some of the Slasher and Horror genres more... ''[[TheScrappy ann]][[HateSink oying]]'' characters. Despite this they'll usually get a whole lot more than just a headshot or a knife wound.
For the {{Inversion}} see LaserGuidedKarma.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Manga/BungoStrayDogs'': In the Cannibalism Arc, Chuuya is forced to kill Fukuzawa within two days or his own boss along with Fukuzawa will die, causing him to declare war on the ADA. While the executive makes it clear it's not personal and he hates the situation they're stuck in, Ranpo taunts him about Dazai to trap him in one of Poe's more brutal books containing one thousand characters, five hundred of whom are bloodthirsty murderers that must be identified to escape. On top of that, without access to his powers in the book world and not being especially good at puzzles, Chuuya is fully expected to die. Luckily, he eventually gets out, but one has to admit the trap was over the top.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': [[ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily Jason Todd's death was originally treated as a tragedy]]. However, [[https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/2821274.html?thread=94207130 later writers portrayed Jason as the "bad Robin"]] for disobeying orders (something every Robin has done, including the original, Dick Grayson). This had the implication that Jason was responsible for his own death and that it was deserved.
* ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'': At the end of ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice'', Oliver kills Prometheus, a villain who, among other things, had maimed Oliver's son Roy Harper, killed Lian, Roy's daughter and bombed Star City. After this, Oliver hunts down and kills any villains who allied with Prometheus, which the story treats as him having fallen from grace (since superheroes, particularly in the DC universe, are generally not supposed to kill people). For this, he is rebuked by his JLA teammates, his wife Dinah leaves him, and he is banished from Star City.
* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': This is the reason why ''ComicBook/TheJudasContract'' has become so divisive over the years. The story depicts Terra, a teenage girl, as TheSociopath who [[ForTheEvulz reveled in her deeds]]. She ends up being killed when she loses control of her powers while ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} is treated as a sympathetic AntiVillain. This is despite the fact that Deathstroke is the one who came up with the plan to kill the Titans in the first place as revenge for his son's death ([[MisplacedRetribution which wasn't even their fault]]) and was in a sexual relationship with Terra, a girl young enough to be his daughter. Modern adaptations of this story tend to excise the sexual relationship between the two and make Deathstroke the more evil of the two.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fanfiction ''The Diary of a Loud'', Lincoln [[WouldHitAGirl punches Lola]] in the [[EyeScream eye]], hard enough to send her to hospital, just because she read his diary to her classmates. This was meant to be portrayed as karma in the fanfic, but it became unpopular because [[WouldHurtAChild Lola is only a little girl]] and it seemed disproportionate.
* ''Fanfic/TheLastWar'', a quintessential RonTheDeathEater fic, has it with both Ron and Ginny.
** Ron is an abusive drunkard. However, the readers (the ones who ''don't'' hate him [[DieForOurShip for marrying Hermione]]) agree that it doesn't justify Hermione brutally and calculatingly murdering him, especially since she only married him "to get closer to Harry" and never really loved him, so the readers have speculated that her attitude is what drove him to drink, while neither his wife nor Harry (his alleged best friend) cared enough to seek help for him.
** It's even worse with Ginny. She cheats on Harry, is (suddenly) a pureblood supremacist, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking has put on weight since retiring from sports]]. It's supposed to justify Harry announcing his wish to divorce her out of the blue, telling her to leave the house ''with nothing except what she's got on'' in the same breath, and forbidding her to see the children or even say goodbye to them. However, the readers who don't hate Ginny for marrying Harry believe that, even if the spouse is cheating, throwing them out like that with no prior warning, especially if there are children involved, is inexcusably cruel. ''Especially'' since Harry himself has only married Ginny for her looks and has only ever really loved Hermione.
* In ''Fanfic/PoundAndPumpkinCakesAdventuresAndMisadventuresInPottyTraining'', the chapter "The 'Joy' of Flushing" is so-named because the Cake twins [[FunWithFlushing flushed a joyboy (a type of gaming device) down the toilet]]. As a punishment for this, Mrs. Cake [[CorporalPunishment spanks them]], and some people in the comments objected to this, especially since they're only two. Even the author himself admitted that it was a bit controversial and warned the readers that he would delete any arguments in the comment section.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheRoyalProtector'', Brittney Wong ends up issuing a FalseRapeAccusation against Marco after they make out in a dark room after both mistaking the other for their date, not only does the accusation fall flat due to everyone figuring out it was a misunderstanding immediately, Brittney suffers a HumiliationConga soon after, however, since Marco threw the party in an attempt to boost his social status, which hinges largely on Brittney enjoying herself, starts trying to keep her out of trouble as things fall apart around her.
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[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/JurassicWorld'': The kids' babysitter, Zara, is portrayed as somewhat neglectful of the boys and more concerned with talking on the phone and planning her wedding. Later when a flock of pterosaurs escape, she's grabbed by one and carried screaming into the sky, dropped, grabbed by another pterosaur who drops her into a lagoon, grabbed ''again'' by a third pterosaur who tries to bite her in half with its beak, ''and then'' the Mosasaur leaps out and devours both of them in its enormous jaws. Many viewers, [[https://www.comicbookmovie.com/sci-fi/jurassic_park/jurassic-park-star-sam-neill-praises-jurassic-world-says-the-actors-were-real-good-a130433#gs.ykbtx6 including]] Creator/SamNeill himself, thought this was an unusually cruel death for a character who was most an annoyance, since the ''Jurassic Park'' series tends to save its most gruesome deaths for truly evil characters.
* Meredith in ''Film/TheParentTrap1998'' embodies almost all the tropes of children's movie villains: she is a GoldDigger, ChildHater and a potential WickedStepmother. However, a part of the viewers feel that Hallie and Annie crossed the line with their last prank on her: they pushed her mattress to float in the lake while she was asleep. Since she can't swim, she could very well have ''drowned''.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* The bad kids' fates in ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' can be considered this. Chew gum constantly? Get turned into a giant blueberry. Watch too much TV? Get shrunk and then stretched out in a taffy pull.
* ''Franchise/HarryPotter'':
** It's heavily implied in latter books that Dolores Umbridge, the sadistic, smug teacher that some considered to be [[JerksAreWorseThanVillains worse in some ways than Voldemort]], was dragged into the woods and gang-raped by a group of centaurs. While the implication is subtle enough to fly over the heads of some readers, the ones who catch it often feel that it was ''too cruel'' a fate for Umbridge.
** Marietta Edgecombe is often viewed more sympathetically than it was probably intended. She betrays Dumbledore's Army to Umbridge and gets SNEAK written on her face in boils ''forever'', thanks to Hermione's spell that she put on all the Army's members beforehand. However, first, Marietta never wanted to join it in the first place and was pressured to do so by her friend Cho. Second, her mother works at the Ministry of Magic, so Marietta was quite possibly afraid her participation in LaResistance would also bring harm to her mother. Third, Marietta was never warned about the consequences of her betrayal: if she had known she'd be revealed at once and scarred permanently, she could have balked. Fourth, she is seventeen at most, and the series have shown people who were bastards or outright villains at that age can get redeemed later. The readers tend to feel that Marietta didn't quite deserve her punishment.
* ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'' (and its AnimatedAdaptation ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'') frequently utilised these sorts of punishments onto the locomotives for their bad behaviour.
** One of the most infamous being "The Sad Story of Henry/Come Out Henry", where after the vain Henry refuses to make his runs in the rain and stays in a tunnel, the workmen lose patience and brick him up in there "for always and always". The narrative puts emphasis on [[AndIMustScream the miserable state]] this has left Henry, though assures the reader that he deserved his punishment.
** In "Granpuff", to scare Falcon and Stuart into behaving, Duke explains of a rowdy American engine who often derailed and toppled his goods trains. He ignored warnings over and over ("Who cares about a few spills?"), until eventually the manager got sick of his carelessness and had him rebuilt into a pumping engine.
* ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': While Naofumi did believe that Malty (now Bitch) deserved to be punished for framing him for sexual assault and making him a social pariah in addition to having people killed with similar methods and her ChronicBackstabbingDisorder, her eventual fate of [[spoiler: being sent to her uncle, the grotesque king of Faubley to be raped and tortured to death]] was ''far'' too much, to the point where even Naofumi was extremely disgusted upon being sent [[spoiler:[[SnuffFilm crystal recordings of him raping and torturing her]] by said king]].
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/GameOfThrones''
** [[SmallNameBigEgo Viserys Targaryen's]] final moments consist of him pleading and begging for his life as Khal Drogo melts some gold into a pot to pour on his head while Danerys watches in quiet contempt for him. Now he ''did'' threaten both her and her unborn child ''[[TooDumbToLive right in front of Drogo and his tribe]]'' but to hear his screams as he dies in such an anti-climatic and pathetic way makes some feel sorry for him.
** Talisa Maegr. Arguably one of the series [[TheScrappy scrappies]]. What happens to her? Well [[spoiler: she gets stabbed in the belly repeatedly by a Frey during The Red Wedding while she's ''pregnant''.]]
** [[AlasPoorVillain Amazingly enough]] [[spoiler: Joffery]] got this reaction from some fans. Though considering how he [[NightmareFuel died]] it's not hard to see why.
* ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': While they started out as malicious bullies, Bulk and Skull became harmless {{Butt Monkey}}s over their tenure on the show. Despite this, they were often subjected to numerous painful and humiliating experiences, no matter how badly they behaved. In one episode, the Rangers erase the evidence Bulk and Skull have acquired about their identities, humiliating them in public.
* One episode of ''Series/NightVisions'' had a crewman aboard a cargo ship discover some stowaways inside a crate. He does his job and informs his superiors about it, who ignore him, and when it becomes clear the stowaways are trapped and that there may be something inside killing them, he tries to break them out. Suddenly, his superiors reveal the stowaways are cannibals that they transport around so the mob can use them to assassinate people and stick him inside the crate, where the stowaways mock him and then brutally kill him. This would ordinarily be a CruelTwistEnding, but the episode treats it as entirely deserved, with everyone, even the narrator, mocking him for the "crime" of being a NiceGuy who did his job to the best of his ability and didn't act like a selfish monster.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''
** The episode "Living Doll" deals with Eric, a stepfather who is having a bit of trouble adjusting to his role as such. This is in part due to his own inability to father children and the fact his wife already has a daughter from a previous marriage named Christie. The titular Doll, dubbed Talky Tina, is purchased one day and adored by Christie however when Christie isn't present, Tina constantly harrasses Eric-- even beginning their disastrous feud by stating outright that she doesn't think she likes him very much. It culminates with Eric trying to destroy the doll ( thus further alienating his family) and eventually being murdered by it when he takes a nasty tumble down the stairs.
** A more famous example occurs in the episode "Time Enough At Last". Walter Bemis is a kind man who absolutely adores reading. However everyone in his life seems to hate his habit from his overbearing wife (Who destroys his books after feigning interest,) to his boss. After a huge explosion destroys everything and everyone apart from him, he finds that there is time enough to read. Then his glasses break, leaving him completely unable to.
* At the end of ''Series/WandaVision'', the villainous Agatha Harkness is brainwashed by Wanda into becoming the harmless sitcom neighbor ?Agnes? that Harkness initially pretended to be. It?s a convenient way to keep the character around for a possible return instead of the usual route of [[SuperheroMovieVillainsDie killing supervillains]], and Agatha had no qualms about killing children and [[KickTheDog puppies]]. However, to some viewers it comes off as a too harsh DeathOfPersonality, especially since earlier it was revealed those Wanda brainwashed [[AndIMustScream were still fully aware inside]] and every night had to psychically witness her nightmares.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* Mime's fate in ''Theatre/TheRingOfTheNibelung'' can seem way too harsh. Yes, he wants the Nibelung treasures and the RingOfPower for himself, but he decides to go after them after being cruelly taunted and beaten by his own brother who usurps power in Nibelheim (before that, as Mime recalls, life was wonderful). Then he takes in baby Siegfried to raise him to fight Fafner (who owns the treasures). He treats Siegfried decently, clothing, feeding, teaching him and making toys for him, but Siegfried only taunts and humiliates him even more ''for years'', even ''setting a bear on him'' ForTheEvulz. Then Wotan randomly drops in and bullies Mime a bit more, finally telling him he'll get killed. After that Mime snaps and starts planning to kill Siegfried, but with the HumiliationConga he endures ''before'' that for no particular fault of his own, it's hardly a shock.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3'': [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysWilliamAfton William Afton]], a [[WouldHurtAChild child-murdering]] SerialKiller, suffers a springlock failure, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath where a animatronic endoskeleton crushes one's body, with them being alive for long enough to realize they are dying]]. And then, he possesses his corpse, and is left slumped against a wall in a boarded-up room for thirty years. While the majority views this as a KickTheSonOfABitch moment, others (mostly the ones who [[DracoInLeatherPants paint him in a sympathetic light]]) say even he didn't deserve that.
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'':
** [[Characters/GrandTheftAutoVTrevorPhilips Trevor Philips]] is a [[AxCrazy insane]], [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]], [[ILoveTheDead necrophilic]] [[DrugsAreBad drug dealer]], among many others. [[spoiler:But in Ending A, seeing him burn to death, screaming in pain while his killers were his two best friends is deeply tragic]].
** Franklin has this reaction after finding out Lester and Michael were the ones who organized the death of Mark Zuckerberg {{Expy}} Jay Norris and murdered him respectively.
---> '''Lester''' Did you hear about Lifeinvader?
---> '''Franklin''' Oh shit, ya'll two did that?
---> '''Lester''' Eyes foward. We're just two strangers having a friendly chat. [[EvenEvilHasStandards And don't pretend that you liked Jay Norris.]]
---> '''Franklin''' Oh man I don't know homie. I mean yeah the dude outsourced work to child slaves, then stole and sold everybody's private information, and even ripped his own friends' ideas off and walked around like the messiah doin' it but. Man I don't think the nigga deserved to have his fuckin' head blowed off on TV.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* In ''Webcomic/VeganArtbook'', Shawn gets his food stolen by vegans, gets scalding hot tea thrown into his face, is on the receiving end of a GroinAttack, and is constantly bullied verbally by his sisters and other vegans. All because he is an omnivore. The readers who don't share the author's extreme views tend to think that Shawn is treated way more harshly than he deserves (especially since he isn't even ''against'' veganism in general, he simply doesn't want to go vegan himself, while the vegans in the comic tend to think everyone who isn't one of them deserves all the bad karma in the world).
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''Website/GoAnimate'': Whenever a troublemaker is punished for whatever they've done (i.e. killing someone or destroying something), they will often receive a [[HumiliationConga Punishment Day]]. [[BrokenBase Depending on who you ask]], the punishments they get from their [[AbusiveParents parents]] are too excessive, especially if they're ''killed'' or mentally broken for their actions.
* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': Whenever Sniffles tries to catch the ant family, they get back at him by tormenting him in gruesome ways, such as killing him via PsychicAssistedSuicide. Even though he does try to eat them, they go too far in their self-defense.
* Website/SFDebris invokes this in his commentary on the Series/WonderWoman2011Pilot, pointing out how the rule of law is supposed to protect the innocent as well as the guilty, and to protect the guilty from getting more than they deserve. Otherwise, people should be saying that Willis' death from a drug overdose was well-deserved because he cheated to get his scholarship, or by Wonder Woman's example, whoever Willis hedged out with his use of performance enhancing drugs should break into the hospital and beat him up for cheating.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode "Arthur's Big Hit", Arthur hits D.W., then later Binky hits him. It's meant to be a case of "what goes around, comes around", but many viewers objected to this because Arthur didn't do anything wrong to Binky and [[BrokenAesop the moral was meant to be "don't hit".]]
* The Urpneys of ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone'' spent nearly every episode suffering violent retributions from the heroes for helping their evil overlord try to steal their dream making trinket so as to give them nightmares. The real kicker is that most of the Urpneys don't even want to do that, their Bad Boss abuses or executes ones that don't. The heroes are explicitly clear that they get exactly what they deserve. The later episodes tried to downplay the ComedicSociopathy, but since they were still unwilling pathetic villains, some suspension of disbelief was still required.
* ''WesternAnimation/GrizzlyTalesForGruesomeKids'' The kids in this book/cartoon series will often be killed or suffer a FateWorseThanDeath for very minor "crimes" that kids will often do, such as talk when they are told to be quiet, or eat nothing but sweets, or do nothing but watch TV... basically things that could be stopped by simply talking to the kids about it, and explaining why it's bad.
* Elmer Fudd was an unpopular foe for WesternAnimation/BugsBunny with some ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' staff because of this trope (especially director Creator/FrizFreleng), since Elmer was such a meek and blatantly HarmlessVillain, it became a delicate dance to have Bugs do his usual slapstick runaround without it turning into overkill and devolving him from a KarmicTrickster into a petty bully. As a result more menacing foes such as WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam were created who could more properly provoke Bugs and rightfully earn his vengeance.
* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry''. Tom ends up the undisputed IronButtMonkey, even for committing a minor slight or when Jerry had actually started the feud. Allegedly, it was because of this that more shorts had Jerry hindered or outright lose to Tom altogether whenever he stooped to crueler levels of slapstick assault, in order to to avoid the DoubleStandard karma.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "No Such Luck", when Lincoln's sister Lynn thinks that he's bad luck, Lincoln goes along with it and lies to get some free time. His parents and sisters then make him sleep outside, which was meant to be karma, but many fans felt he didn't deserve it.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** Trixie elicited this response from a lot of fans. Sure, she was a lying egotist who humiliated people on stage, but getting her home and livelihood smashed in addition to getting outed, humiliated and shown up by Twilight Sparkle felt a bit too much.
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E16TwentyEightPranksLater 28 Pranks Later]]", the response of ''[[MassiveMultiplayerScam all]]'' of Ponyville to Rainbow Dash going on an unrelenting pranking campaign (and in their defense, they ''do'' try to beg her to stop and tell her some pranks are too mean to their targets, but Rainbow refuses) is to make Rainbow believe that one of her pranks has GoneHorriblyWrong and she had accidentally unleashed '''a ZombieApocalypse'''. Understandably, some audience members find this as divisive as the "Mare-Do-Well" scheme.
** It's a highly contested point among the fandom, whether [[spoiler:the Mane 5's]] actions in the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E8TheMysteriousMareDoWell The Mysterious Mare Do Well]]" went too far in [[spoiler:simply trying to humble Dash a little where Dash's friends don't really bother with simply telling her about it, and instead use complex scheme to upstage her as the greatest hero in Ponyville]].
** In "The Ending of the End", Cozy Glow gets [[TakenForGranite turned into stone]] as punishment. While she did conspire with two other villains to commit genocide on all other ponies, some say this is still going too far as [[EnfantTerrible she's a foal]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Pingu}}'' episode "Pingu Runs Away", Pingu's mother spanks him as a punishment for acting up at the dinner table. Many viewers consider this her lowest point.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In "Moral Decay", Buttercup [[TheToothHurts knocks out several villains' teeth unprovoked]] to give to the Tooth Fairy. At the end of the episode, Bubbles and Blossom have [[DoWithHimAsYouWill those same villains knock Buttercup's teeth out]]. Some fans consider this too harsh of a punishment, especially since Blossom is shown grinning at Buttercup during the ending and Bubbles is sticking her tongue out.
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