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Unlike the BastardUnderstudy and TheStarscream, Bob attacks the BigBad as a crime of opportunity. There is no danger that he will take over the villain's place in the grand scheme of things, though he might give the heroes [[TrueFinalBoss one last fight]]. Nor will Bob [[MookFaceTurn come over to the side of good]], even if he [[RedemptionEqualsDeath dies in the process of killing the villain]], because his motive is not noble. If Bob were an innocent victim, he's only out for {{revenge}}; if Bob were evil, he was fine with all of the BigBad's crimes except the one committed against ''him''.

* Sakura Matou in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. Her target is awesome, she's the love interest here and a good guy. But she seems to enjoy [[spoiler: beheading Shinji Matou with pure magic or ripping Zouken Matou out of her heart, gloating and then crushing him]] a ''little'' too much for it to be 'heroic'. Plus the whole [[spoiler:'[[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds stealing the show and becoming an apocalypse in the form of a teenage girl]]']] thing. By that point, she's clearly ''not'' heroic [[spoiler:(the 'killing Shinji' bit is where she ceases to be, even if [[KickTheSonOfABitch he deserved it]])]]. She's also clearly not herself, and the rest of the route consists of Shirou and (eventually) Rin trying to save her from the darkness that is consuming her.

Enter Bob. He's the {{mook}} you humiliated, the hostage you locked up, the politician you blackmailed, the scientist whose invention you stole. [[ButForMeItWasTuesday You may even have forgotten]] just [[KickTheDog what you did]] to Bob, but ''he'' remembers, and he'll be more than happy to remind you...

* In "Graciosa and Percinet," Princess Graciosa's WickedStepmother Grognon calls on a fairy to give Graciosa impossible tasks. With help from Prince Percinet, Graciosa completes them all, and Grognon gets so angry at the fairy that she would have killed her if it was possible. At the end, the fairy realizes she has been punishing Graciosa and [[NeckSnap snaps]] [[KarmicDeath Grognon's neck]] for her trouble.

[[caption-width-right:349:In which [[BadBoss the hunter]] becomes the hunted.]]

It's all gone to hell. [[CollapsingLair The base is collapsing about your ears]], your EvilPlan is [[OutGambitted unraveling]], the heroes are lining up for the HumiliationConga -- what more could go wrong?

Enter Bob. He's the {{mook}} you humiliated in front of his friends, or the hostage you kept chained in the basement, or the subordinate whose invention made ''you'' rich but not him. [[ButForMeItWasTuesday Maybe you can't even remember]] just [[KickTheDog what you did]] to Bob, but ''he'' does, and he's been waiting for a moment just like this one...

Unlike the BastardUnderstudy and TheStarscream, Bob attacks as a crime of opportunity. There is no danger that he will take over the villain's place in the grand scheme of things, though he might give the heroes [[TrueFinalBoss one last fight]]. Bob almost never [[MookFaceTurn comes over to the side of good]], even if he [[RedemptionEqualsDeath dies in the process of killing the villain]], because his motive is not noble. If Bob were an innocent victim, he's only out for {{revenge}}; if Bob were evil, it proves that he was fine with all of the BigBad's crimes except the one committed against ''him''.

[[Pun It was a pretty good gag!]]

* "I Remember Larry," by Music/WeirdAlYankovic, is about a cruel prankster who torments the narrator incessantly. The narrator eventually snaps and takes his revenge by breaking into Larry's house at night, dragging him BoundAndGagged into the middle of the woods, stuffing him into a plastic bag, and leaving him for dead.

It was a pretty good gag!

* Music/PinkFloyd's [[Music/{{Animals}} "Sheep"]] has its Psalm 23 parody opening with how the sheep are led to slaughter, but the final lines are them grouping up to gang up on the pigs and dogs instead:

Lo, we shall rise up)\\
And then we'll make the bugger's eyes water)

* Nickleback: The last portion of "Never Again":

* "Coward of the County", sung by Kenny Rogers, tells of a young man named Tommy who refuses all fights on the deathbed advice of his father (who wanted his son to stay out of the kind of trouble he'd gotten himself into) and is considered "yellow" by everyone as a result. That is, until his wife is raped by a trio of brothers, who Tommy takes violent revenge on.

* "I Remember Larry," by Music/WeirdAlYankovic, is about a cruel prankster whom the narrator eventually gets his revenge on... specifically by breaking into his house and dragging him into the middle of a forest, where Larry is stuffed inside a garbage bag and left for dead.

When the {{villain|s}} is dispatched by an abused member of "their" side once an opportunity for revenge presents itself.

When the {{villain|s}} is dispatched by an abused member of "their" side when an opportunity for revenge presents itself.

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-->-- EvilOverlordList, Rule #48

When the villain is dispatched by an abused member of "their" side when an opportunity for revenge presents itself.

Enter Bob. He's the {{mook|s}} you humiliated in front of his friends, or the hostage you kept chained in the basement, or the subordinate whose invention made ''you'' rich but not him. [[ButForMeItWasTuesday Maybe you can't even remember]] [[KickTheDog just what you did]] to Bob, but ''he'' does, and he's been waiting for a moment just like this one...

'''As a DeathTrope, more than one Spoiler will be unmarked ahead. Beware.'''

Well, remember Bob? He's the {{mook|s}} you humiliated in front of his friends. Or the victim you kept chained in the basement. Or the member of your crew you abandoned to the cops when they came knocking. Perhaps you've [[ButForMeItWasTuesday forgotten exactly what you did]] to Bob; but ''he'' remembers just how badly you [[KickTheDog hurt him]], and he's been waiting for just the right moment to remind you...

Well, remember Bob? He's the {{mook|s}} you humiliated in front of his friends. Or the victim you kept chained in the basement. Or the member of your crew you abandoned to the cops when they came knocking. Perhaps you've forgotten exactly what you did to Bob; but ''he'' remembers just how badly you [[KickTheDog hurt him]], and he's been waiting for just the right moment to remind you...

* ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'': [[TheBully Hiyoko Saionji]] spends most of her screentime bullying [[ShrinkingViolet Mikan Tsumiki]] (and to a lesser extend Kazuichi Souda). [[spoiler: Come the third chapter Hiyoko is found dead and guess who is the killer this time around? Granted this is all downplayed because Mikan kills Hiyoko because [[SheKnowsTooMuch she walked in on her murdering Ibuki Mioda]] and not as a revenge for the bullying, although the method she uses is somewhat karmic: silencing her forever by slashing her throat and then turning the knot of her obi around to the front of her kimono, as that's how prostitutes used to wear them as it made it easier to take them on and off, which is translated as [[DesecratingTheDead Mikan non-verbally calling Hiyoko a "trashy skank"]], which was one of Hiyoko's favorite insults for Mikan.]]
* In ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'', one of the Monokubs, Monodam, is said to have closed off his heart to others thanks to Monokid bullying him so much. Guess who the first Monokub is to die and who causes it? More specifically [[spoiler: Monodam shoves Monokid into the iron maiden used to snuff out Kaede's lights]].
* Shuichi Saihara is one dog that bites back hard to Tsumugi, Monokuma, and the audience themselves in Chapter 6, by ending [[ImmoralRealityShow Danganronpa]] forever.

* Shuichi Saihara is one dog that bites back hard to Tsumugi, Monokuma, and the audience themselves in Chapter 6, by ending [[Immoral Reality Show/Danganronpa]] forever.

* Shuichi Saihara is one dog that bites back hard to Tsumugi, Monokuma, and the audience themselves in Chapter 6, by ending [[Immoral Reality Show Danganronpa]] forever.

An abused member of the villians' side or otherwise unlucky character gets their vengeance on the abuser.

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* In an episode of Wrestling/WWESmackDown, Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin called The Alliance to the ring and assured them that he can still be trusted, despite Vince [=McMahon=] telling everybody that Austin would betray the Alliance. Reluctantly, the members of the group were obliged to believe him. Except for Tazz. Given how he has been a [[ButtMonkey target for Stone cold's beat downs,]] Tazz finally tells him that [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating the Alliance doesn't like him,]] [[BadBoss that he's a poor leader]] and that the Alliance shouldn't trust Austin. He doesn't take the humiliation well and [[AllForNothing attacks Tazz as a result.]]

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** Commissars have the reputation of being trigger-happy bastards who keep guardsmen from fleeing by making them fear the Commissar behind them even more. [[TooDumbToLive These types of Commissars tend to be]] [[UnfriendlyFire shot by their own men, run over with a]] {{tank|Goodness}} [[UnfriendlyFire pushed into a deathtrap, left to die or many other unpleasant fates.]] The only way a commissar can survive long enough to get their peaked cap is by learning to be either [[ProperlyParanoid properly paranoid]], [[FatherToHisMen gain their loyalty/respect]], or a mixture of both. It's even a rule on the tabletop. A unit that's been taken over by a Commissar after a failed Morale check gets a boost to its Leadership stat, but if it fails ''another'' Morale check despite the boost, the Commissar is removed from play. This is meant to represent the Commissar trying to shoot someone to maintain morale only for the rest of the squad to ''shoot back''.

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An abused member of the villians' side or otherwise unlucky character gets their vengeance on the abusrer.

When the villain is dispatched by an abused member of 'his' side when an opportunity for revenge presents itself.