History Main / MockingTheMourner

* ''Anime/DeathNote'': After being outed as Kira in the finale of the series, Light Yagami tries to justify his heinous actions by saying that in such a CrapsackWorld, idealists like his father Soichiro Yagami will continue to be made fools. This pisses off his erstwhile comrade Matsuda, an ardent pupil of Soichiro and until this moment Light's biggest fan, driving him to shoot him five times and nearly kill him.

* ''ComicBook/{{Sideways}}'': Just in case there's any question about just how reprehensible the school bully is the jerk makes fun of Derek after his mom is murdered and attacks him when Derek isn't especially happy about Ernestine trying to force Derek to mourn differently since Derek wasn't appreciative of a girl being "nice" to him.

* At the beginning of ''Film/AntMan1'', Hank Pym confronts some of the higher-ups of S.H.I.E.L.D over trying to replicate his shrinking formula. One of them, Mitchell Carson, mocks him over losing his wife Janet back when they were still active in the field. Hank responds by slamming his head into the table. Even Howard Stark tells Mitchell he had that coming.

* ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''. In the BackStory Alan Quartermain takes his son on a mission for the British government, during which the son is killed. While he is fighting with the [[BigBad Fantom]], the Fantom mocks him, claiming that Quartermain is responsible for his son's death.

* ''{{Literature/Animorphs}}'': Two bullies run into Marco and start mocking him, one of them laughing off his mother's death as "running off with some other dude". Marco (whose mother is not dead but the host body to Visser One) starts partially morphing to hammerhead shark while staring hungrily at the bully's throat. Fortunately Jake shows up to calm him down, and the indifference with which he refers to the bullies as not worth fighting makes them back off.

* ''Series/TheLeftovers'': The Guilty Remnant demonstrate that they are Grade-A assholes and the series' StrawNihilist faction [[EstablishingCharacterMoment in the very first thing they do on-screen]]: arrive to a prayer vigil for the people who have disappeared in The Departure and unfurl a huge sign that reads: "'''STOP WASTING YOUR BREATH'''!".

* ''Series/VeronicaMars'': After the bus-crash kills several Neptune High students, the parents of one of the victims starts getting harassed by someone who keeps trying to trick them into believing their son is a ghost; not only do they hear audio recording of his voice, but they smell his cologne, see things getting moved around, etc. It's not upfront mockery, but a sinister act of psychological warfare concerning their murdered child.

* The [[https://rpcauthority.wikidot.com/rpc-548 Hateful Star]] from the ''Website/RPCAuthority'' is a sapient star that inexplicably decpises humans and threatens to kill us on a usual basis, but took it a bit far when it made fun of the site director's stillborn child, said his wife was a whore and ended it's message with the threat of bringing a painfully slow end to the human species.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': During "A Picture's Worth a Thousand Bucks", Peter and his friends are asked to leave "Bob's Funland" amusement park for causing trouble. The man who approaches the group ends up being both the owner of the park, Bob Funland, and a former classmate from high school that Peter and his friends used to bully. A flashback has him being mocked by them as ''he cries at his mother's grave.''

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In "Scott Tenorman Must Die", Cartman tricks Scott into eating chili made from his deceased parents. As Scott weeps from the revelation, Cartman [[LecherousLicking licks up]] his tears and comments about how delicious they are. This was a ''huge'' moment for Cartman, marking his transition from mere {{Jerkass}} to full on ''evil''.

* ''Film/BridgeToTerabithia'': JerkJock bully Scott Hoager decides to joke about Leslie's death while Jesse is heavily in mourning, only to get punched in the face and sent flying by him. Gary Fulcher decides to do the same and is met with a bloody nose from Janice Avery.

Compare LastDisrespects, where someone shows mocking behavior towards the deceased (typically at a funeral). Compare also TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and RelativeButton.

Then you have people who, for whatever reason, not only show a lack of sensitivity for another person's loss but will outright exploit the fact that a person lost a loved one in order to antagonize them, even if they had nothing to do with that person's death. It goes without saying that this is a '''big''' way to KickTheDog, marking the person doing this as a {{Jerkass}} or ''[[CompleteMonster worse…]]''

* ''VideoGame/{{Loopmancer}}'' has Xiang Zixu, the hero losing his daughter in an "accident" years ago that also crippled his wife. Said accident was arranges by Xiang's enemy, the triad boss Wei Long which he's investigating, and when Wei Long is confronted as a boss he'll taunt Zixu over his lost family while cursing him that his daughter's death is ''his own damn fault''.

* Subverted in ''Fanfic/TheMountainAndTheWolf'': Despite the Wolf insulting Cersei at every other turn, he does not do so when Tyrion is obviously in deep grief at not finding her body under the ruins of King's Landing. The fact that he sees Tyrion as a friend [[spoiler:and that he abducted Cersei earlier]] might have something to do with it.

* ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}} 1'': [[spoiler:Rick, our hero, is [[MercyKill forced to kill his beloved Jennifer]] after she is mutated into a monster, with her [[DyingAsYourself fading away as herself in his arms]]]]. Seconds later, a {{mook}} wanders up to the mourning Rick and points forward as if laughing at him.

* ''Literature/NightHuntressWorld'': In "Devil to Pay": Xaphan torments Cat Crawfield with the voices of her late grandparents, who had been killed in the events of ''Halfway to the Grave''.

* ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'': While holding Scrooge hostage, Soapy Slick read various letters as a means to mock Scrooge, including one informing Scrooge that his mother passed away. Unfortunately for Soapy, mocking the death of Scrooge's mother ends up infuriating Scrooge enough to [[UnstoppableRage break free and tear Soapy's boat down with his bare hands]]

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* The [[https://rpcauthority.wikidot.com/rpc-548 Hateful Star]] from the ''Wiki/RPCAuthority'' is a sapient star that inexplicably decpises humans and threatens to kill us on a usual basis, but took it a bit far when it made fun of the site director's stillborn child, said his wife was a whore and ended it's message with the threat of bringing a painfully slow end to the human species.

* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', Roy gets into a fight with a vampire who was raised from the corpse of Roy's comrade. The vampire looks through its host's memories of Roy and starts mocking him over the accident that killed his younger brother Eric. It backfires because the sheer callousness tips off Roy that the vampire is not the comrade-turned-evil that it claimed to be, but a [[PossessingADeadBody different person]] entirely.

Then you have people who, for whatever reason, not only show a lack of sensitivity for another person's loss but will outright exploit the fact that a person lost a loved one in order to antagonize them, even if they had nothing to do with that person's death. It goes without saying that this is a '''big''' way to KickTheDog, marking the person doing this as a {{Jerkass}} or ''[[CompleteMonster worse.]]''

Then you have people who, for whatever reason, not only show a lack of sensitivity for another person's loss but will outright exploit the fact that a person lost a loved one in order to antagonize them, even if they had nothing to do with that person's death. It goes without saying that this is a '''big''' way to KickTheDog, marking the person doing this as a {{Jerkass}} or worse.

* ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'': While holding Scrooge hostage, Soapy Slick read various letters as a means to mock Scrooge, including one informing Scrooge that his mother passed away. Unfortunately for Soapy, mocking the death of Scrooge's mother ends up [[BerserkButton infuriating Scrooge]] enough to [[UnstoppableRage break free and tear Soapy's boat down with his bare hands]]

!As a death trope, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff all spoilers will remain unmarked]].

* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', Roy gets into a fight with a vampire who was raised from the corpse of one of Roy's former comrades. The vampire looks through its host's memories of Roy in order to find something to use against him, and starts mocking him over the accident that killed his younger brother Eric. It backfires because it finally tips of Roy that the vampire is not "the comrade with a forced alignment change" as it claimed to be, but a different mind entirely.

->''"You shall not afflict any widow or orphan."''

-->-- Literature/BookOfExodus, 22:21

* Near the end of ''VideoGame/Jak3Wastelander'', Jak ends up watching his mentor Damas die from injuries sustained in a crash, with Damas' LastRequest being for Jak to find his missing son and heir, Prince Mar, whom Jak [[PlotRelevantAgeUp is the grown-up version of]]. It is then that [[BigBad Count Veger]] shows up, mocks Damas for losing his son, and never knowing they've reunited because Mar should be 4 instead of 18. Veger also gloats on how he kidnapped Mar from his parents but lost him to [[VideoGame/JakIIRenegade Kor and the Underground]]. This infuriates Jak to the point he momentarily takes on his SuperpoweredEvilSide, leading to him and Daxter chasing Veger into the Catacombs to get payback for Damas.

* The [[http://rpcauthority.wikidot.com/rpc-548 Hateful Star]] from the ''Wiki/RPCAuthority'' is a sapient star that inexplicably decpises humans and threatens to kill us on a usual basis, but took it a bit far when it made fun of the site director's stillborn child, said his wife was a whore and ended it's message with the threat of bringing a painfully slow end to the human species.

* ''Literature/NightHuntress'': In "Devil to Pay": Xaphan torments Cat Crawfield with the voices of her late grandparents, who had been killed in the events of ''Halfway to the Grave''.

->-- Literature/BookOfExodus, 22:21