Quotes / Asshole Victim

Anime and Manga

Waiting for that? Because it's all you deserve.

— Lucy after decapitating her attempted rapist Kakuzawa, Elfen Lied

You get no sympathy, your dictator caused this war, and you picked your side. There's a real thin line between victim and offender.

— Havia, Heavy Object

That bastard... He'd be better off dead!

—Dr. Kenzo Tenma on his corrupt boss, Dr. Heinemann, Monster

Thug: This bitch tricked my sister and her friends! They didn't do anything wrong! They were just teasing her, then all of a sudden... And yet they're settling out of court as if she's innocent!
Rinne: That's... what she told you? (breaks her restraints) That's what she told you?! That's not the truth. I was not friends with them. It wasn't just a little teasing. Their attacks were much more cruel and abusive. If they'd apologized for what they did to me, my grandpa and Scuderia, I'd apologize for becoming violent with them. And then, if they wanted to beat me the same way I beat them, I'd accept it without protest. But... if they've even lied to their own families... (gives a Death Glare) then I would never forgive them.

— ViVid Strike!

Thank you, Djibril... And, good riddance.

—Gilbert Durandal after Rey Za Burrel destroys the Girty Lue, with Lord Djibril inside, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, "Prelude to Revolution"

Comic Books

[Bullseye has collapsed, screaming in agony]
Bullseye's parole officer: Guard! Guard! He's having one of his headaches!
Harry: Yeah, yeah. Put the cuffs on, Bulls.
Bullseye: [with his arms in two large metal cuffs] They're on. They're on. Hurry. It hurts—
Harry: Yeah, yeah. Sorta funny, isn't it? Mister high-and-mighty-master-assassin... cryin' like a baby. Maybe they fixed that brain tumor of yours but you still get headaches — which means you need these pills. And old Harry's the guy what's got 'em. Lessee... push the cap down, turn counter-clockwise... no, clockwise...
Bullseye: The pill... Give me...
Harry: Yeah, yeah... [gives Bullseye his medication, making the headache stop] Feel all better now?
Bullseye: Peachy. You're a dead man, Harry.
Harry: Yeah, yeah...
[later, as Bullseye is escaping from his prison, he locks the guards in a cell]
Bullseye: You boys just stay locked in the cell and I'll... Gee. I almost forgot. Harry. I made you a promise, Harry. Remember?
Harry: Bullseye— Please— Don't—
[BLAM]
Bullseye: Yeah, yeah...

— Daredevil #181

If you searched into the lives of some of these victims, you would find out that they, themselves were the cause of their very deaths. In those cases, the so-called "victim," at some earlier time played some part in the creation of their "killer."

— Johnny the Homicidal Maniac

"Two shots to the head. If you ask me, it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy."

— Harvey Dent/Two-Face, The Long Halloween

"I love hitmen. No matter what you do to them, you don't feel bad."

— Marv, Sin City

Once his home life had been investigated, [Walter "Rorschach" Kovacs] was removed from his mother's custody and put into care. Away from her, he seemed to improve. [...] Even in 1956, when informed of his mother's brutal murder, he restricted his comments to one word: "Good."

— Dr. Malcolm Long, Watchmen

Fan Works

Daisuke Hiyori: Haiji Towa. He was the man we found dead.
Monokuma: And the world is a better place! He had it coming to him! I really regret not snapping that bastard's neck myself, but oh well, what can you do?
Daisuke: Wait, why are you so happy about the fact that he's dead?!
Monokuma: What he did to all those kids, man! Child predators are sick, sick fucks! And that's coming from the mouth of a bear who kidnapped all of you just so he could force you into murdering each other for no real reason. Just kept coming out of the horse's mouth.
Daisuke: ...I can agree.

— Danganronpa: Paradise Lost

Shizuka: Hikaru... tried to kill his best friend? But why? Why would he ever do such a thing?
Ayame: I don't know! He didn't say shit when he was trying to slice and stab me!
Monokuma: Usually people have the right to remain silent, but since Nagai's already dead there's no way for him to stop me from telling you all why he went down the road of despair! (unfolds a piece of paper saying "Hikaru Nagai has cheated on every single girl he's ever dated and always got away with it.")
Kazumi: What da fuck?! Who even does dat?!
Naomi: I suddenly don't feel sorry for him now that he's dead.

— Despair's Last Resort

I can forgive him for killing Champ. The guy was asking for it anyway.

— Trigger about Mihaly shooting down Champ in the Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown fic Grounded Aces

Juliet, evil, confounding Juliet... was dead. I didn't believe in the death penalty even before coming to murder-college, but even the small glimpses I had of her crimes shook the foundation of that particular moral value. If anyone deserved to die, she did. If anyone didn't deserve to die, it was whoever killed her. This unfair, vicious place was going to act out its cruelty again.

— Saya Wild narrating, New Hope University: Major In Murder

As a former nun, Lily would normally have been appalled by such measures. But ever since she had been tied to that post by the Black Dogs to be fed to the demons... it was hard to be sympathetic to her fellow man.

— The Night Unfurls

Tell me, are any of you honestly upset that Shinguuji-chan is dead? And I don't mean generally upset that a person is dead at all, I mean him specifically. (silence) There are people in this world that are too horrible to be kept alive. From our first day here, I could tell from the look in his eye that Shinguuji-chan was off his rocker. People with blood on their hands, they have this look about them that I can recognize. It just wasn't until the video that I started to put two and two together. He's better off where he is.

— Kokichi Oma, Three-Point Shot

I know who he is... [...] He's dead as a doorknob and to be perfectly honest, that jerk had what was coming to him. I hope it was painful.

— Cruise Control, Turnabout Storm

"Listen, Kurusu-san: you must have already realized what kind of man Shido was, even if you only knew him briefly. And I promise you that he was way worse than what you think. Money laundering, fraud, blackmail, intimidation, sexual harassment and sexual assault, drug and human trafficking, corruption, contract killing... there's very few illegal things that Shido hasn't done already, and frankly, the world is objectively a better place without him in it. There’s no need for you to feel guilty for the death of such a man."

— Goro Akechi, Shards of me, too sharp to put back together

Film — Animated

"Just be happy I only killed one of them. They're all assassins."

— Red Hood, Batman: Under the Red Hood

Jack Horner: WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS?!
Everyone: (glares at him incredulously)
Jack: I MEAN, WHAT SPECIFICALLY?!

— Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Film — Live-Action

Junior Bruce: Frankenstein scores! Frankenstein scores at last! But what kind of a score, boys and girls? Just 80 points out a possible big 700. What do you think, Gracie?
Grace Pander: Well, those doctors - dear friends of mine - have been pretty smug all these years setting up the old folks. Frankenstein must have decided it was their turn.

— Death Race 2000

Chief Wyatt Rash: Tell me something, Cubby, you notice anything odd lately?
Cubby: You mean other than the fact that no one seems to care about this woman's death?
Chief Wyatt Rash: Along those lines.
Cubby: Hell Wyatt, I've seen people more upset over losing change in a candy machine.

— Drowning Mona

Now, I don't know about y'all, but I sure as hell didn't come down from the goddamn Smoky Mountains, cross five thousand miles of water, fight my way through half of Sicily and jump out of a fuckin' air-o-plane to teach the Nazis lessons in humanity. Nazi ain't got no humanity. They're the foot soldiers of a Jew-hatin', mass murderin' maniac and they need to be destroyed. That's why any and every son of a bitch we find wearin' a Nazi uniform, they're gonna die.

— Lt. Aldo Raine, Inglorious Basterds

James Bond: You live well, Scaramanga.
Francisco Scaramanga: At a million dollars a contract, I can afford to, Mr. Bond. You work for peanuts. A hearty "Well done!" from Her Majesty the Queen and a pittance of a pension. Apart from that, we are the same. To us, Mr. Bond. We are the best.
Bond: There's a useful four-letter word, and you're full of it. When I kill, it's on the specific orders of my government. And those I kill are themselves killers.
Scaramanga: Ha! Come come, Mr. Bond, you disappoint me. You get as much fulfillment out of killing as I do, so why don't you admit it?
Bond: I admit killing you would be a pleasure.

— The Man with the Golden Gun

Yes, they deserved to die, and I hope they burn in Hell!

— Carl Lee Hailey, A Time to Kill, about the rapists of his daughter he murdered.

Helen: Have you ever killed anyone?
Harry: Yeah, but they were all bad.

— True Lies

YOU GET WHAT YOU FUCKING DESERVE!

— The Joker, Joker (2019), to both Murray Franklin and Thomas Wayne

I would have loved to have killed him... but some lucky bastard beat me to it!

—Bizu, The Pink Panther (2006)

"They blew up Congress! Ha ha ha ha!"

—Florence Norris, Mars Attacks!

Max Cartwright: Vicki, you don't have to die.
Vicki Summers: I'm the mean girl in the 80s horror movie and we're past the midpoint, so, you know, I'd say that I'd overstayed my welcome.

—The Final Girls

"Guess if Michael Cera's gone, it's not a total loss."

—Danny McBride, This Is the End

Vladislav: What are you doing tonight? Are you going to kill some perverts?
Child Vampire: Yeah, we're meeting a pedophile.
Vladislav: Cool.

—What We Do in the Shadows

Men get arrested. Dogs get put down.

—Rorschach, Watchmen, to a child killer.

He had it coming
He had it coming
He took a flower in its prime
And then he used it
And he abused it
It was a murder, but not a crime

—Chicago, "Cell Block Tango"

Beck: Tell me, who will suffer next?
Kayla: Only people who deserve it.

—Choose or Die

Literature

A man well hated, and in so short a space.

— Hugh Beringar on Father Ailnoth, The Raven in the Foregate

Tenkaichi: However, going on the behaviour of Jirou last night it was almost like he was yelling: "Hey! I'm about to be murdered!" I couldn't bear to watch.
Banzo: When a frivolous tightwad shows up before a great detective, nine out of ten times he's going to die.

— Lessons for a Perfect Detective Story

I pity Martissou and you others for the consequences; but as for that scoundrel there, I have no pity for him at all. He has got what he deserved a hundred times over.

— The husband of Mion of Puymaigre, Jacquou The Rebel

In the meantime, private-sector contractors have been identified entering the New Annex. Presumably they're having some issues with site security — Residual Human Resources, being dead, are not on payroll and were not covered by the shutdown order — but after a couple of days, the new arrivals no longer wear body armor and body bags stop leaving in ambulances, so the GP security people must be assumed to have the free run of the building. I wish them much luck dealing with some of the more baroque and deadly non-Euclidean spaces such as Angleton's office, the eldritch singularity in Briefing Room 202, the hole where Andy's lab used to be, and so on. Babes in the wood, babes in the fucking wood — and I'm not shedding any tears over their screaming.

— The Delirium Brief

Curse the man! He's a perfect nuisance, dead or alive, and whoever killed him was a public benefactor. I wish I'd killed him myself.

— Lord Peter Wimsey, The Nine Tailors

Ah, quel animal! I cannot, cannot regret that he is dead!

— M. Bouc, Murder on the Orient Express

Often, at indoor homicide, evidences of a victim's unpleasant personal practices, and the victim's own victims — beaten spouses, abused children — crowd around to whisper that the dead one had it coming, and many times he did.

— The Silence of the Lambs

If ever a man deserved to die screaming, it was Gregor Clegane.

—Doran Martell, A Song of Ice and Fire

No-one wept for Billington-Smith. No-one mourned his passing. During the weekend he had given everyone in his family cause to wish him dead.

— Blurb for The Unfinished Clue by Georgette Heyer

Say what you like, it's not natural for five or six people to be on the spot when B is murdered and all to have a motive for killing B - unless, that is, B is absolutely madly unpleasant and in that case nobody will mind whether he's been killed or not, and doesn't care in the least who's done it.

—Ariadne Oliver (crime fiction writer and Author Avatar), The Pale Horse

Rose: [Tommy] was rather an odious little boy. He liked cutting up wasps and he teased dogs."
Luke: The kind of boy whose decease is hardly to be regretted.

—Murder is Easy

Remember this: the Terrorverse abhors an asshole, and sooner or later, it finds a way of wiping them from existence.

—How to Survive a Horror Movie

I heard from Auntie Mui about what Xu and the Yellow Necks did to unarmed men, women, and children. If half of that is true, then Jianzhu went too easy on them. They deserved worse.

—Kyoshi, The Rise of Kyoshi

You pat Sam's shoulder. She is crying now. She grabs you and you hold her, not the way you one held her father, but from the front, her face against your chest. "I didn't want to think I was right," she says. "I wanted to think he was the man Mum talks about, the good man. But he hurt me. When I was little."

You've never regretted killing Hackwill less than you do now.

—Life's Lottery

Live-Action TV

Robbie: I only kill asesinos who deserve it. It's vengeance, chica.
Daisy: For what? You killed a detective!
Robbie: He had blood on his hands.
Daisy: A teacher!
Robbie: A pedophile.

— Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., "The Ghost"

I, I know it's wrong, but I'm liking our killer better than our victim.

— Lance Sweets, Bones

Giles: Why would someone want to hurt Cordelia?
Willow: Maybe because they met her? ...Did I say that?

— Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Out of Mind, Out of Sight"

You know, I never got the chance to tell you how glad I was you were eaten by a snake.

— Xander to Principal Snyder (in a dream sequence), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Restless"

Warren was a cold-blooded killer of women just warming up. You ask me, that bastard had it coming to him.

— Xander after Dark Willow flays Warren alive, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Two to Go"

Daniel: I heard you beat up a bunch of teenagers in that parking lot out there.
Johnny: Oh, that... No, I didn't beat up any teenagers. I kicked the shit out of a bunch of assholes who deserved it.

— Cobra Kai

So I started asking myself who would want to take these guys out. And you know the first person that came to mind? Me.

— Debra Morgan, Dexter

Phil: At this time, I'd like to invite someone with an especially warm memory of Carl Robertson to come up here and share it with us.
(no one moves)
Phil: Anyone with a... somewhat fond memory of Robertson?
(still no response)
Phil: Anyone with any recollection of him at all?
(one hand goes up)
Phil: Ah, yes?
"Mourner": The jerk sentenced me to six months in jail for a crime I didn't commit. I'm just here to make sure he's dead.

— The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, "Here Comes The Judge"

I did not kill Joffrey, but I wish that I had! Watching your vicious bastard die gave me more relief than a thousand lying whores!

— Tyrion Lannister, Game of Thrones

Let's face it, Captain. Killing Jensen was a public service.

— Detective Stabler, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

I mean, here we are, busting a gut to find out who killed Martin Barrett, and everyone's glad he's dead!

— DC Jones, Midsomer Murders, "Down Among the Dead Men"

Goldenface: Sorry about your friend, Scarn.
Michael Scarn: The joke's on you, Goldenface. That man was a wanted animal rapist.

— The Office (US), "Threat Level Midnight"

Shaw: I gotta ask, though, is this guy even worth our time?
Finch: You know, that's not a question we entertained when we saved you, Ms. Shaw.

— Person of Interest, "Nothing to Hide"

Marion James: Looks like he got hit by a train.
Rafael Hernandez: I can't find it in my heart to have much sympathy.

— On the death of William Rawlins, The Punisher (2017)

Emerson: The fact that he was a very, very bad man makes you feel better about what you did?
Ned: Yes. Immensely. I would have felt horrible if it was... you, for example.

— Pushing Daisies

Music

What did her daddy do?
What did he put you through?
They say when Janie was arrested
They found him underneath a train
But man, he had it comin'
Now that Janie's got a gun
She ain't never gonna be the same

— Aerosmith, "Janie's Got A Gun"

Down by the docks, hot blood in the sun.
The body lay up against the reeds.
The locals said the man had it coming.
And it's time someone put him six feet in the ground.

— Better Than Ezra, "Summerhouse"

And it turns out he was a missing person that nobody missed at all.

— Dixie Chicks, "Goodbye, Earl"

Have you heard the news that you're dead?
No one ever had much nice to say
I think they never liked you anyway

— My Chemical Romance, "Dead"

Well, I can't take pity on men of his kind
Even though he now takes it in the behind

— Sublime, "Date Rape"

See, my sister got raped
So a man got killed
A local boy went to prison
The man was buried on the hill.

— The Tragically Hip, "38 Years Old"

Theatre

They had it coming!
They had it coming!
They had it coming all along!
I didn't do it,
But if I'd done it
How could you tell me that I was wrong?

— "The Cell Block Tango", Chicago

If you wanna be profound,
And you really gotta justify,
Take a breath and look around,
A lot of folks deserve to die!

— Audrey II, Little Shop of Horrors

As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,
I've got a little list — I've got a little list
Of society offenders who might well be underground,
And who never would be missed — who never would be missed!

— Ko-Ko, The Mikado

We all deserve to die
Even you, Mrs. Lovett, even I
Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief
For the rest of us, death would be a relief

— "Epiphany", Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Video Games

Roper 1 lost. Along with the mission. Not that it was a load worth protecting.

— AWACS Bandog, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, Transfer Orders, if the Eruseans or Trigger shoot down Colonel McKinsey's plane.

...You reek of our old kind. You've seen what has become of them, right? When our ancestors took the sapling away, the other Roaches tried to recreate it... I can only imagine it didn't end well, and I don't pity them. They had it coming.

—A Roach Villager talking about the Roach Scientists, Bug Fables

Prisoner: What Are You in For?
The Warden: I killed Arl Rendon Howe.
Prisoner: You call that a crime?!

— Dragon Age: Origins

Solas: We have fought living men, with loves and families, and all that they might have been is gone.
Iron Bull: Yeah, but they were assholes.

— Dragon Age: Inquisition

Forsyth: All the powerful houses have sworn allegiance to Desaix's camp. The damn cowards wouldn't even have noble titles without the king! And now they lick the boots of his murderer? Fie on them all!
Python: I know what you're trying to say, but Lima wasn't exactly the...best king. He spent his days stuffing his face and womanizing while his people starved. So raise your hand if you weren't at least SORT of thinking "good riddance." Hell, the nobles were just as happy to see him go as the starving commoners.

— Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

Gregoire von Varley: Thus ends a brilliant man... a glorious life... and far too much unspent gold...
Hubert von Vestra: (annoyed) Hmph. Now we have to install another bishop. As if we did not have enough to do...
Bernadetta von Varley: (almost relieved) My father's been killed? Oh.

— Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes

Dr. Marcus Green. Disliked by colleagues. Ambitious. Sociopathic. Irrational hatred of pigs caused by childhood trauma. His erratic behavior poses an imminent threat to Victoria. His death will be no great loss to humanity.

— Agent 47, Hitman: Absolution

Having died in the course of this story, Watney Little's life of crime came to an abrupt end. As he was not a nice man, nobody missed him.

— The Narrator, Laura Bow 2: The Dagger of Amon Ra

Thane Krios: ...Interesting solution.
Commander Shepard: He was a racist and a criminal. Isn't that enough?
Thane Krios: For some, I suppose.
Kolyat Krios: I read your files. Isn't that what you do? Kill people who do bad things?

— Mass Effect 2

Knight-Captain: Know anything about the murder of Lord Dalren?
Sand: Well, I am not one to speak badly of the dead, but Dalren most likely deserved whatever death he had coming, and deserves to be buried in the betrayer's graveyard. It was a wonder that he wasn't exiled during the war with Luskan for his questionable involvement with weapons shipments, but the matter was not brought to light, yet somehow, Nasher ended up getting a deed to his lands, a tithe against future levies, and a full company of additional soldiers.
Knight-Captain: You think Nasher secretly forgave him in exchange for more resources?
Sand: Times were difficult, and it was a necessary... oversight on Nasher's part, but Dalren never deserved to live past the war with Luskan.
Knight-Captain: So he may have been murdered justly?
Sand: I doubt any murder is truly just, but did he deserve to be tried and executed? Oh, yes.

— Neverwinter Nights 2

Lee: What do you think happened to Crawford?
Molly: Don't know, don't care. As far as i'm concerned these f-ckers got what was coming to them.
Lee: Not a lot of sympathy for all the people who died here, huh?
Molly: I have about as much for them as they did for the sick, and the old, and anyone else they didn't think was fit to belong in their little paradise. So yeah, F-ck 'em.

— The Walking Dead(Video Game)

Y'know, to be honest... somewhere deep inside, I thought maybe King Moron was the killer... The news says that he was the second victim from Yasogami High, but we all know that's not the case. And I've heard him say more than once that so-and-so deserves to die... But now, I feel bad that I doubted him. He was a capital-A asshole, but that doesn't justify killing him.

— Yosuke, Persona 4

Suspect: [SUSPECT] and I spent the entire evening together in the [ROOM]. So, as much as I wanted to see [VICTIM] dead, I just didn't have the opportunity. Now, why don't you just cross my name off your silly little suspect list and go pester someone else.
Suspect: [SUSPECT] and I spent the entire evening together in the [ROOM]. Of course it comes as no surprise that you would suspect me. I'm sure the others have told you how much I hated [VICTIM]. But just try to prove that I did it—just try!
Suspect: I spent the entire evening with [SUSPECT] in the [ROOM]. But let me tell you that I'm glad [VICTIM] was murdered. Life will be just a little more pleasant for all of us now.
Suspect: I spent the entire evening alone in the [ROOM]. But just because I was alone, and just because everyone knows I hated [VICTIM] is no reason to single me out. Is it, inspector?
Suspect: [SUSPECT] and I spent the entire evening together in the [ROOM]. Of course we both despised [VICTIM]—but then, so did everyone else in the house. Frankly, I think you should just leave well enough alone.

— Some of the possible responses to questioning, Sleuth (MS-DOS)

Do not shed a tear, for this darkest, most murderous of Druchii may now be with the Cytherai, deep within the Mirai, where he surely belongs!

— Total War: Warhammer II, Description of the "Malus in Underworld" trait gained when defeating Malus Darkblade in combat.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Remember what he did to all those people?

—Miriam Goodwin, about Clayton Knight being transformed, possessed, and consumed by his master Ailtur the Noxious, Weird and Unfortunate Things Are Happening

Diane: He's been defeated.
Raoul: He deserved it!

—Diane and Raoul on Guillaume's death by suicide, Vampire Night

Rare though it may be, some have shown me gratitude for slaying certain people. I sense I will be thanked for defeating you.

—Hibiki Takane (Evil Version)'s victory quote against Earthquake, Samurai Showdown (2019)

Stone Torch: Hold, adventurer. I would know more about your relationship with the victim, as well as the events leading up to his death.
(Heroic Mime conversation)
Stone Torch: This man was responsible for the recent riots? Mayhap we owe his murderer a debt of gratitude.

—Final Fantasy XIV

Visual Novels

Hifumi: Then the one who attacked first was...!
Makoto: S-Sayaka?!
Kyoko: Now do you understand? She wasn't a blameless victim in this.
Byakuya: No, far from it. It's almost as if... she had been planning to commit a murder of her own.

— Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, regarding Sayaka fighting with her killer.

Tsumugi: Then the reason Miu was so insistent we go to the Virtual World was... (flashback to Miu telling them about it)
Himiko: She was insistent we go there so she could kill us! What a shady person!
Tsumugi: I was sad that she was gone, but now I don't know what to think...

— Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony

Flynn: Karma's a bitch, huh?
Grant: Wow, Flynn. Even for you, that's incredibly callous.
Flynn: He was a vicious, self-centered drunk. I'm not shedding any tears for him.
Grant: I know you two had your struggles, Flynn, but he had a lot of personal issues.
Jesse: I think Flynn's right. Good riddance. I'm not saying that he deserved to die in a fiery blast, but...no, wait. That is what I'm saying. He was a vindictive asshole. No amount of "personal struggles" gives you a pass on that.
Grant: I guess he was pretty awful...

— Veil of Secrets, regarding the death of Bryce Sterling.

Yes, because of that, she had to kill him. And, even though she hadn't planned to in the beginning, I don't think it really bothered her that much due to the things he had done to her.

— Kamen Eiga on why the killer killed Kotoba Gaikoku, Shinrai: Broken Beyond Despair

Five years ago, Manabe's scheme sent both Kashima and Hirose to their graves. Five years later, after visiting Kashima’s grave, Manabe falls prey to Kashima’s vengeance. I guess this is an extreme case of “What goes around, comes around.” The lifeless figure on the bed is not a doll, but a human being who had lived over twenty years. She had a future ahead of her. She also had a family and friends that loved her. But despite this horrible, abrupt ending, this isn’t something you can simply label a “tragic situation.” This was also “karma.”

—Kazuo Yashiki, Spirit Hunter: Death Mark II

Web Comics

Toby: Hello, Haley. It's a shame things had to end up like this for you.
Haley: Oh! Hey, Toby. Quick question, do you still run the Guild's dog fighting ring?
Toby: Sure, but I don't see what that has to do with-
Haley: Initiative! Sneak Attack! (shoots Toby with two arrows, killing him)
Celia: I thought you said this would be hard for you.
Haley: Yeah, that was before I remembered that everyone I grew up with is an asshole. That's George at the top of the stairs, he beats his wife. Full attack!

— The Order of the Stick

My doctor recommends a diet high in questionable moral fiber! It aids digestion!

— Aylee, Sluggy Freelance

Elan: ...but... he didn't deserve this!
Haley: Elan, he... kinda did. He was a terrible human being.

— The Order of the Stick #914

Zero: Um well, you see Bass, when a dog dies, a human shows emotions towards their death. But when a robotic dog dies, no one really seems to give a crap. Treble was a good dog Bass. And he was a true friend. Then again, he was a lazy, sarcastic, good-for-nothing douche. And even though from your distance he was screaming in pain, he was really screaming "I'm going to sink my teeth into your throat!" Not to mention that he leaked oil, left screw bolts everywhere, and then I had to clean it up... Plus he made alot of insults, pulled too many pranks just to piss us off, and said to me "B*tch, get me a sandwich and throw it in the trash because I find it amusing!" So yeah, I hate to say it Bass, but no one really gives a sh** if Treble is dead.

Bass: GUH! EEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHH!

Proto Man: Wow.

— Bass Legends, Page 92

Yosuke: The good news is, we saved Rise!
Investigation Team: Yaaaaaaaaay!
Yosuke: The bad news is, somebody else got murdered. But the good news is it was King Moron, so nobody cares!
Investigation Team: Yaaaaaaaaay!

— Hiimdaisy, Persona 4 comic

Web Original

Oh, poor Roach! He didn't deserve to die — Oh wait, yes he did.

— Brandon in his Demon Knight review

I don't think the dude deserved it or anything. I don't wish harm on stupid people or rejoice in the harm that comes upon them. But I've searched all over for a way to feel bad for him, and I just can't find it.

— Robert Brockway, "5 Awful Stories You Shouldn't Laugh At, but Probably Will" on a dead drunken driver

Am I supposed to feel bad about this? At least Koba has a tragic backstory, Carver was just a dick.

— Decker Shado's thoughts on Carver's death in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Public service murder n.: the killing of a person who is perceived to be bad for a community or society.

— Double-Tongued Dictionary

I hope at least they were jerks.

— Gordon Freeman after accidentally killing two guys, Freeman's Mind

I didn't care too much about saving this guy's skin. He was a terrible, terrible person who blackmailed and preyed on others. Honestly, I don't even have the slightest idea of how you'd prevent him from dying anyway. [...] Though I'd say, Mizumi got what was coming to him and this is an acceptable outcome.

— Marsh about Soji Mizumi, The Peret em Heru Experience

If you're gonna spend all that time setting up some douchebag, he needs to die horribly.

— Mike Matei on Python

Although feces-fueled worms are themselves one of the most disgusting of all animals, the robin's cruelty remains indefensible.

Robins: Nature's Perfect Murder Machines, The Onion

Person One: He's dead.
Person Two: "Not the dickhead!" What do you want me to say?

—- When the racist member of your group gets killed off, Vine

In Jurassic Park, Dennis Nedry gets mauled because he puts children in danger, he steals stuff, he's amoral, he's a horrible human being and he only cares about himself. He's a selfish bastard and he dies.

— Mike Hill Jurassic World, Jurassic Values

"If I die tomorrow, which, as a Confederate soldier I richly deserve to do[...]"

— Ross Bryant as a Confederate soldier writing a letter home, Make Some Noise

Western Animation

Yeah, you're special! But don't be bossy! If you keep it up, you'll end up like that guy in that movie who bossed people around, and then zombies ate him. He deserved it!

— Lilo Pelekai, Lilo & Stitch: The Series, "627"

What a pity. But still, they weren't very nice.

— Disney's 1952 adaptation of Virginia Lee Burton's The Little House

Lois: But who'd want to destroy Luthor?
Clark: (stares)
Lois: Well, yeah. But who'd be crazy enough to try?

— Superman: The Animated Series, "Ghost in the Machine"

Bruce: The Golem went straight for that car.
Terry: Belongs to Nelson Nash. He goes to Hill High.
Bruce: Know anyone who might have a grudge against him?
Terry: The line starts with me and goes around the block. Twice.

— Batman Beyond, "Golem"

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