History Main / VictimizedBystander

* Axe's chocostein used an Axe product and turned into a chocolate monster [[AndIMustScream unable to express himself]], not even when women start literally ''eating'' him.
* The Disrespectoids in ''CapriSun'''s commercial campaign often found themselves at the bad end of this trope.

* This commercial for Turkish chips depicts three guys on the beach who discover that their snacks have [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext the power to suck in and shrink people]]. One of the guys use it to suck in a poor woman, who he then promptly devours. They then try to repeat the process with a lady on a boat, but just as she is about to be eaten she is saved by a group of women who get the guys back by doing the same to them.

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* In ''Manga/{{Parasyte}}'' one of the parasites turned a boy's right arm into a giant penis after he offered to show her an animal.

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* In [[ComicBook/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.

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* In ''Film/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.
* In ''Film/MenInBlackII'', it's implied the video store guy murders his mother after being neuralized by the protagonists and misinterpreting their commands.

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* In ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'': "The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis", the Gang, repeatedly and unknowingly, hit this one guy's car, eventually totaling it and sending it into flames. This is then promptly lampshaded when the guy goes mad from his misfortune--though our leads, being JerkAss[=es=], fail to notice or care.
* On ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'', there are many artifacts that control a person, usually causing them to try to murder people. After an artifact is neutralized, they are usually freed from its control. It's rarely discussed whether they end up in jail for the rest of their lives because they happened to own an evil antique.
* On Series/{{Angel}}, there was a man who could turn any man he touched into a woman-beating and murdering psycho. At the beginning of the episode he caused some man to murder his wife. He was apparently arrested by the police, and never discussed again.
* The final episode of Series/{{Seinfeld}} [[PlayingWithTropes played with this]] by having everyone whom the main characters had ever wronged track them down and see justice done.
* An episode of ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' 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.

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

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* In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' during the episode were Joe is introduced, a baseball player tastes joke gum that makes him addicted to heroin. After he laughed at the joke, he realises that he's feeling a cold chill.

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This trope manifests when a (often a minor) character's life is ruined in a few seconds and never mentioned again. Opposite this trope is when a [[AWinnerIsYou character wins the lottery and is also never mentioned again]] [[MadeOfWin (or anything in that direction.)]].

* In ''ComicBook/{{X-Men}}'', we get a clue of just how badly Mikhail Rasputin's mind has cracked when a teenager on a bike crashes into him in the street and gets thrown into a tree (and judging by what the tree looks like, he might still be conscious). The boy receives no help as the other characters never find out about it. As far as we know, he is still there.

* During one episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' - Abracadaver is seen transforming people into cards, saw-boxes and trees. He also generates giant saws on skyscrapers. It gets worse when you realise none of the above (excluding the saws) get undone, yet people just happily laugh after the magical zombie magician is locked back in his Iron Maiden.
** The girls tend to cause a large amount of collateral damage as part of their heroing. It's actually mentioned once when the girls move to a different city and they blow up a bridge to stop some bank robbers from escaping and are treated as criminals.

* In ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'', there is a fat tourist with an ice-cream cone, which he drops any time he runs into Lilo. In his last scene, the ice-cream is knocked off by the wing of a passing spaceship.

* In one of the early American NintendoDS commercials, the protagonist is laughed at by fellow students in the showers. The protagonist responds by shrinking their reproductive organs.

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

* The Jackass-inspired series of adverts for Franchise/RatchetAndClank that ran from the mid-to-late 2000's absolutely revelled in this trope. Each advert showcased a bunch of young boys using a weapon from the series of games, always to disastrous results:

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

Compare OffscreenInertia and WhatHappenedToTheMouse.

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

* Victimized Bystander, This bystander is usually used for comical or exemplified purposes: their cars will explode, houses wrecked or they will be assaulted. Quintessential example of that is the Cabbage Man from WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender. It's a RunningGag that the Gaang 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

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

* An episode of ''CSINewYork'' 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.

* The Jackass-inspired series of adverts for [[RatchetAndClank Ratchet & Clank]] that ran from the mid-to-late 2000's absolutely revelled in this trope. Each advert showcased a bunch of young boys using a weapon from the series of games, always to disastrous results:

* In ''ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'': "The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis", the Gang, repeatedly and unknowingly, hit this one guy's car, eventually totaling it and sending it into flames. This is then promptly lampshaded when the guy goes mad from his misfortune--though our leads, being JerkAss[=es=], fail to notice or care.
* On {{Warehouse 13}}, there are many artifacts that control a person, usually causing them to try to murder people. After an artifact is neutralized, they are usually freed from its control. It's rarely discussed whether they end up in jail for the rest of their lives because they happened to own an evil antique.

* In ''Fanfic/FantasyOfUtterRidiculousness'', the [[{{VideoGame/Touhou}} Three Mischevious Fairies]] are fascinated by some Pop TV memorabilia that they find. This being a crossover with MegasXLR, where anything Pop TV-related gets blown to pieces, a stray missile inevitably explodes right where the trio is standing.

* Victimized Bystander, This bystander is usually used for comical or exemplified purposes: their cars will explode, houses wrecked or they will be assaulted. Quintessential example of that is the Cabbage Man from WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender. 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

* In ''Film/ulpFiction'' after Butch runs him over a disoriented Marsellus Wallace starts shooting wildly into the crowd around Butch's wrecked car, missing Butch but hitting an innocent bystander who falls to the ground screaming.

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* In Disney's ''Disney/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves'' opening song ''There's A Party Here In Agrabah'', Genie transforms a female bystander into fatter version of herself with glasses, before moving on with the rest of the song.

* In ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'', there is a fat tourist with an ice-cream cone, which he drops any time he runs into Lilo. In his last scene, the ice-cream is knocked off by the wing of a passing spaceship.

* In [[Film/MenInBlack Men In Black II]], it's implied the video store guy murders his mother after being neuralized by the protagonists and misinterpreting their commands.

* [[NominalImportance The "Very Unimportant Person"]] in [[Film/OceansEleven 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 ''PulpFiction'' after Butch runs him over a disoriented Marsellus Wallace starts shooting wildly into the crowd around Butch's wrecked car, missing Butch but hitting an innocent bystander who falls to the ground screaming.

* This commercial for Turkish chips depicts three guys on the beach who discover that their snacks have MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext the power to suck in and shrink people]]. One of the guys use it to suck in a poor woman, who he then promptly devours. They then try to repeat the process with a lady on a boat, but just as she is about to be eaten she is saved by a group of women who get the guys back by doing the same to them.

* The [[Jackass Jackass]]-inspired series of adverts for [[RatchetAndClank Ratchet & Clank]] that ran from the mid-to-late 2000's absolutely revelled in this trope. Each advert showcased a bunch of young boys using a weapon from the series of games, always to disastrous results:

* The [[Series/Jackass Jackass]]-inspired series of adverts for Ratchet & Clank that ran from the mid-to-late 2000's absolutely revelled in this trope. Each advert showcased a bunch of young boys using a weapon from the series of games, always to disastrous results.

* Victimized Bystander, This bystander is usually used for comical or examplefied purposes: their cars will explode, houses wrecked or they will be assaulted. Quintessential example of that is the Cabbage Man from WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender. 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

* In ''ComicBook/{{X-Men}}'', we get a clue of just how badly Mikhail Rasputin's mind has cracked when a teenager on a bike crashes into him in the street and gets thought into a tree (and judging by what the tree looks like, he might still be conscious). The boy receives no help as the other characters never find out about it. As far as we know, he is still there.

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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' features all three Types.
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--> [[ComicBook/TheSandman The Sandman: Brief Lives]]

* 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.

* In ''IronMan2'', when Tony Stark was in court, he claimed that foreign nations and business competitors are decades away from successfully recreating his achievements, and that the armor is in fact his own property. He did this by showing video clips of their (the competition's) failures. One of these had Hammer testing his own suit, with a man in the iron suit, spinning the torso 360° while the legs remained still. Hammer noted later that the pilot survived.

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

* CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory The other children who fell victim to events in the factory survived, but with "reminders" of their misbehavior. Augustus is thin as a rail from being squeezed through the pipes, Violet is purple, Veruca is covered in garbage, and Mike is a 10-foot giant (the end result of being put through a taffy puller to de-shrink him).

* During one episode of ''ThePowerpuffGirls'' - Abracadaver is seen transforming people into cards, saw-boxes and trees. He also generates giant saws on skyscrapers. It gets worse when you realise none of the above (excluding the saws) get undone, yet people just happily laugh after the magical zombie magician is locked back in his Iron Maiden.

* In ''LiloAndStitch'', there is a fat tourist with an ice-cream cone, which he drops any time he runs into Lilo. In his last scene, the ice-cream is knocked off by the wing of a passing spaceship.

* In Disney's ''Disney/{{Aladdin}} And The King Of Thieves'' opening song ''There's A Party Here In Agrabah'', Genie transforms a female bystander into fatter version of herself with glasses, before moving on with the rest of the song.