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* In TheManWithTheGoldenGun Sheriff Pepper (from the previous film LiveAndLetDie) just happens to be vacationing in Thailand when Bond shows up and [[FlashedBadgeHijack carjacks]] him (while he's still inside), ultimately crashing his car into a display window.

* The people who end up on [[TheOmnipotent minus]]'s bad side in early ''WebComic/{{minus}}'' strips.

* Disrespectiod'd Bystander (alt. Cursed Bystander or Bystander-Disrespectoid), This bystander will experience a (sometimes) life ruining event, for a scene (or two). [[JustIgnoreIt when the said character experience this (s)he will often be met with ridicule or no reaction or acknolagement at all]]. Example: The Capri Sun commercials (Disrespectoid Saga) are a well examples of this, since all of them contain this type. This trope largely overlapps with the TethercatPrinciple and WhatHappenedToTheMouse. It always falls under a form of FridgeHorror

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* One of the early American Nintendo DS commercials the protagonist is laughed at by fellow students in the showers, the protagonist responds by shrinking their reproductive organs.

- In the online version of the Nintendo DS commercials, the site contains a a ''mini-game'' where you must go into a movie theatre to test your ''DS Powers'' but first you must shrink the afro coup of the gentleman blocking the view, imagine his reaction after you've ruined his time at the theatre by constantly moving the movie, and his initial reaction to the loss of his hair, which he might've spend his entire life working on.

* One of the early American Nintendo DS commercials the protagonist is laughed at by fellow
students in the showers, the protagonist responds by shrinking their reproductive organs.

* In ''{{SonOfTheMask}}'', the neighbor's head was transformed into a giant nose. This was because the god Loki thought her to be nosy. She was later demonstrated to the protagonist's wife as an example to confirm his stories: Norse mythology being real and their son the product of a Mask.

* An episode of CSI: New York played with this idea. It featured a fat woman at a basketball game who was chosen to try to shoot a basket from half court as part of a promotion. An obnoxious heckler [[YouAreFat started mocking her for her weight]]. Because the incident was televised, she became an object of ridicule around the city, her boyfriend broke up with her, and complete strangers would come up to her on the street and tell her to eat a salad. Unlike in most cases, however, she wasn't forgotten; the episode was about the DisproportionateRetribution she brought on the heckler.

* In ''{{Iron Man 2}}'' when Tony Stark was in court he was claiming that foreign nations and business competitors are decades away from successfully recreating his achievements, and that the armo(u)r is in fact his own property. He did this by showing video clips of their (the competition's) failures one of these had a man in an Iron suit spinning the torso 360° while the legs remained, the creator noted later that the pilot survived. The pilot is never mentioned again.

* {{Axe}}'s chocostein used an Axe product and turned into a chocolate monster unable to express himself.

* [[NominalImportance The "Very Unimportant Person"]] in Ocean's Thirteen has one of the worst nights of his life just because he was doing his job -- reviewing the antagonist's hotel while Danny Ocean's gang was working multiple cons to ensure its opening would be disastrous. At least after harassing him, humiliating him, and making him physically ill, [[AvertedTrope this trope is later averted]] when they fix a slot machine so he wins an 11 million dollar jackpot.

* In Lilo And Stitch there is a fat tourist with an ice-cream cone, which keeps dropping anytime he runs into Lilo. In his last scene, the ice-cream is knocked off by the wing of a passing spaceship.

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* In [[TheSandman the Sandman story Brief Lives]], Delirium gives a highway patrolman the permanent delusion that he is covered in stinging insects as "punishment" for pulling her over for very reckless driving. It is outright stated that he'll be suffering this delusion for the rest of his life. Delirium's driving warrants attention from a highway patrol officer, who scolds and angers her. She punishes him by inflicting hallucinations upon him: "I think you'll have invisible insects all over you now for all your life and for ever and always."

* [[VictimizedBystander Broken Bystander (or Scarred Bystander)]], This is a bystander who suffers a traumatical experience because of the main plot, usually these characters are nameless and rarely mentioned. Example: TheMatrix has a little girl whose mother morphs into Agent Smith with astonishment.

* VictimizedBystander, This bystander is usually used for comical or examplefied usage, their cars will explode, houses recketed or sometimes even assulted. Quintessential example of that is the Cabbage Man from [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar: The Last Airbender]]. It's a RunningGag that the Gang will somehow cause his cabbage cart to get destroyed and he'll scream [[CatchPhrase "MY CABBAGES!"]]. His life might not be ruined forever, but his livelihood is ruined for at least the rest of the day

* [[VictimizedBystander Disrespectiod'd Bystander (alt. Cursed Bystander or Bystander-Disrespectoid)]], This bystander will experience a (sometimes) life ruining event, for a scene (or two). [[JustIgnoreIt when the said character experience this (s)he will often be met with ridicule or no reaction or acknolagement at all]]. Example: The Capri Sun commercials (Disrespectoid Saga) are a well examples of this, since all of them contain this type. This trope largely overlapps with the TethercatPrinciple and WhatHappenedToTheMouse. It always falls under a form of FridgeHorror

* in ''{{Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia}}''--"The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis"--over the course of which they repeatedly, accidentally, hit this one guy's car repeatedly, eventually totaling it and sending into flames. This is then promptly lampshaded when the guy goes mad from his misfortune--though our leads, being Jerk Asses, fail to notice or care.

* The final episode of Seinfeld played with this by having everyone whom the main characters had done wrong (and that was a lot, since the show ran on Comedic Sociopathy when it wasn't running on So Unfunny Its Funny) track them down and see justice done.

''Delirium's driving warrants attention from a highway patrol officer, who scolds and angers her. She punishes him by inflicting hallucinations upon him: "I think you'll have invisible insects all over you now for all your life and for ever and always."

-- [[TheSandman The Sandman: Brief Lives]]