Paying evil unto evil in web original media.
- BuzzFeed Unsolved: Ryan and Shane don't agree on much, but they do believe that the unsolved murder of Ken Rex McElroy, who had terrorized a small town for decades and gotten away with it because of friends in law enforcement, was thoroughly deserved.
- This is the rationale everyone has for setting Dr. Insano on The Nostalgia Critic in Kickassia. Notably, Spoony and Linkara disagreed. Spoony because he WAS Insano, and Linkara...well:Angry Joe: Sometimes the best way to deal with a madman is to send in another madman...
Linkara: That is a stupid plan!
Angry Joe: A stupid plan, for a stupid man!
Linkara: Are you high?! - In the Bridge to Terabithia movie review, The Nostalgia Critic doesn't generally like bullying but also is against using violence to respond to bullying. That said, when the bully in the movie made a joke about the protagonist's best friend dying tragically, the protagonist lost it and attacked the bully and the Critic approved.
- The Kindness of Devils: Hardestadt Delac and his allies almost always kill the villains — sometimes in very brutal fashions. That being said, nearly every major villain is a Hate Sink and/or someone who desires to kill thousands, millions, or eradicate all life on earth. Whenever these villains perish, it's nothing but cathartic.
- Speaking of Spoony, The Nostalgia Chick raped him two years after he raped her because she wanted revenge.
- In Worm, Shadow Stalker repeatedly attempted to kill Grue for no other reason than that his powers countered hers, had killed before, attempted to give the same treatment to Skitter before the Undersiders caught her solely because Skitter accidentally discovered her civilian identity, and in said civilian identity, tormented and bullied Taylor almost to the point of suicide and gave her a Traumatic Superpower Awakening. So, when Regent body-jacked her into outing her own crimes, ruining her relationship with her family and best friend, and faking an attempted suicide, all of which resulted in her being sent to Juvie for violating her probation, only her teammates really minded. Later, Regent permanently enslaves the mass-murdering supervillain Shatterbird, and treats her in ways that his more moral teammate Skitter finds extremely discomfitting, but he and Tattletale argue that, since Shatterbird has murdered entire cities worth of people, she deserves whatever she gets. They also provide a similar argument for why temporarily enslaving Victor the skill-stealing Neo-Nazi and having Grue borrow his power and use it on him is okay, but Skitter has a harder time believing it because she isn't familiar with his rap sheet (and until the sequel, neither was the audience).
- Otherverse: There are many supernatural "Others" who, by their very nature, would probably be considered Always Chaotic Evil by humans. Bogeymen, for instance, feed on fear and pain. Ghouls eat human flesh. Goblins brutalize and torture people. These Others can't not do these things because if they didn't, they'd cease to exist. Stories set in the world show, however, that these Others are not necessarily evil, and many of them compromise by exclusively preying on people who deserve it (according to the rules of karma in the Verse, that is, which the stories take pains to point out are not always in line with modern societal values). The one exception is demons, which are universally considered absolute evil no matter what.
- Legatum:
- The Green Wanderer has Marrox encountering a werewolf raping another werewolf. He doesn't even attempt to subdue her; he immediately creeps behind the rapist and snaps her neck.
- The Road to Hell... has Harvon and Shurrmvin banding together to start a rebellion in Kosslivo. Chapter 7 shows them and their four allies massacring an entire battalion of (mostly) unarmed orcs who had just got done slaughtering a peaceful community of ogres.
- Scrambled Egg has Sonya and Tanya seeking out criminals and other sinners in the world and slaying them in an attempt to bring peace in the world.
- Done fairly goofily in this
annotation to Skippy's List.Skippy: I examined my options carefully. I didn’t own a suit. I certainly wasn’t going to buy one. I wasn’t particularly interested in renting a tux. Well, technically I was allowed to wear a dress. A female interrogator in my unit offered to let me borrow a pretty green sequined number that she owned. The way I figured it, if my chain of command was going to spend an evening making me uncomfortable and awkward, the least I could do was return the favor. - Whateley Universe: This is the official school policy for someone who violates the Accords (the agreement establishing the school's neutrality and establishing the rules about protecting the student body) in general, and especially for anyone reckless enough to dare attack, threaten, or blackmail a student's family in order to get at the student and/or the school.
- In 2006, when an evil cult tries to blackmail a student by threatening the families of her friends at school, Headmistress Carson calls the alumni association, and suddenly all of the superhero alumni are looking the other way while the supervillain alumni take action (one of whom, Dr. Diabolik, stated that a 'measured response' to this would be 'something on the order of orbital bombardment'). By the end of that week, the group was almost entirely liquidated and their assets taken as booty.
- Prior to this, the last case of something like this occurred in 1996; the Serbian terrorists responsible were made the senior project of that year, and of the members of the group still living, every last damn one of them was on life support… and profusely grateful to be in jail.
- Outside of the Whateley school policy, there is also The Syndicate, which has very precise rules on where the actual lines are. Cross those lines, and not only will a supervillain be unable to draw from the world's largest bevy of resources, but they'll get explicitly targeted by those with those resources — such as when Dr. Diabolik went after the Purifier. The Syndicate also doesn't typically interfere with grudges between two parties, but that's a different kettle of fish.
- SCP Foundation:
- The Foundation "D-Class Personnel" are death row inmates (or ex-Foundation staff that really screwed up) that are used as human test subjects, and are almost guaranteed to suffer horrible fates. Nobody loses sleep over it since the vast majority of them did something to deserve it, although the Foundation Ethics Committee prevents the researchers from treating them too harshly.
- In the test logs for SCP-682, a "guest researcher" notes that 682 (a reptilian Omnicidal Maniac) was friendly toward SCP-053, a young girl and Creepy Child who usually makes everyone around her incredibly hostile. Instead of going to the obvious conclusion, that 053's anomalous properties affected 682 differently, that 682's warped world view made it see 053 as a friend, or that 682 attacking the girl would only hurt it in the long run, the guest researcher instead tested to see if other children might have a similar effect on it. They don't. Dr. Clef throws the guest researcher into 682's chamber personally.
- SCP-1034 traps the souls of its victims in their desiccated corpses and leaves them in horrible pain, and it's heavily implied that the owner was using the victims as sex toys. The Foundation uses him as a test subject.
- Can You Spare a Quarter?: After Jamie's father almost rapes the boy to death, Frank goes to him and beats him senseless. The police who came to arrest Jamie's father realize that Frank did this but decide to look the other way.
