Times where someone Kicks the Morality Pet in Live-Action TV series.
- Angel does this (sorta) with Gunn and Wesley fighting over Fred, but when Gunn goes to hit Wesley, he accidentally hits Fred instead. Whoops!
- In Breaking Bad Walt Slowly Slipping Into Evil is shown by his increasingly frequent mistreatment of Jesse and Skylar. By Season Five, only his children are safe.
- Whilst elsewhere in the Buffyverse, in "Wrecked", Willow's downward spiral of magic addiction is brought to a halt when she crashes her car with Dawn in the passenger seat while under the influencenote . Her manipulative friend Amy, who has been encouraging her magic abuse, is hurt by Willow's decision to quit magic and eventually becomes a Big Bad in the Season 8 comics.
- Later, when Warren fatally shoots Tara while trying to kill Buffy, Willow goes off the wagon again and absorbs a massive quantity of Black Magic, becoming Drunk on the Dark Side and flaying Warren alive. Her rampage doesn't stop there; she proceeds to go after Warren's accomplices, Jonathan and Andrew, considering them guilty by association, and doesn't hesitate to attack the other Scoobies from trying to stop her, going so far as to threaten to turn Dawn back into an Energy Ball and end her human existence just to put an end to her constant whining.
Buffy: You're hurting the people who love you now?
Willow: Only the ones in my way. - This is key to the Doctor Who Series 9 finale "Hell Bent", in which the Doctor temporarily becomes a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds in the wake of Clara Oswald's death, which leaves him without a Morality Chain and then solitary imprisonment and torture by his enemies. In hopes of saving Clara's life, he risks destroying the entire universe by creating a Reality-Breaking Paradox, and most of those trying to stop him have No Sympathy for what he went through so it would seem no one can bring him around; the one exception is Clara herself but since that's the whole reason he's going to extremes... But then he tries to erase her memories of him with the intent of returning her to Earth. The objection to this is enough to make him realize he's invoked this trope and he returns to his best self, even accepting Mind Rape to excise the emotional cancer that made him so selfish.
- Game of Thrones:
- On his return to King's Landing, Jaime goes so far low as to force himself on Cersei, when they are right next to their son's corpse in the sept.
- The only reason the Dothraki tolerate Viserys is because he is their Queen's older brother. Any mercy he had from Daenerys or the Dothraki evaporated the second he threatened Daenerys' unborn child.
- In Mindhunter, Bill and Holden interview Real Life spree killer Richard Speck, who has a pet bird he helped health a broken wing and fed with a dropper. When Speck is (soon) angered by Holden's questioning, he throws the bird into a moving fan.
- Post her Face–Heel Turn, Angela from Mr. Robot spent the majority of the third season knowingly exploiting her closest friend Elliot's mental illness to complete Stage 2 and later went as far as to verbally abusing him when the latter confronted her for her treachery.
- In the climax of Power Rangers Time Force, the Big Bad Ransik has trashed the rangers and is getting ready to finish them of, when his daughter Nadira (having gained an appreciation for human life after helping deliever a baby) tries to talk him down. He ignores her, and during the fight she gets caught in one of his blasts. Horrified at having nearly killed his own daughter, Ransik voluntarily surrenders himself to the rangers.
- In the Saved by the Bell precursor show, Good Morning, Miss Bliss, one episode features Zack trying to join a club of popular jerks called the Rigmas. They tell him to start bullying his friends as part of his initiation. The biggest Kick the Morality Pet moment comes when he yells at Screech "Why would I want to be seen with a nothing like you?!" Thankfully, Zack later realized the error of his ways, and his friends forgave him. They together spend the last few minutes of the episode remarking on how stupid people often act in order to fit in with various groups. The episode ends with Zack symbolically dumping the bullies club membership jacket in the garbage while his friends give him the thumbs up.
