ComicBook.Kerry Kross: James Laurel kills Nancy's boyfriend and rapes her, scaring her for life. Nancy is ultimately the one who puts a bullet through his skull.
WebAnimation.Theres A Man In The Woods: Downer Ending: It seems likely the Teacher will get his revenge on Sid and kill him. While this will satisfy the Teacher (and the viewers), in the long run, it won't make things better. Killing someone like Sid is still killing. What would the teacher's other students think, their beloved mentor, turned criminal? What's more, killing won't fix the damage Sid's lie has already done. It won't get back the Teacher's job, it won't restore the school's credibility, and it certainly won't make the other students' fears go away. It won't make things go back to the way they were. What's more, assuming anyone will care, Sid's death would only serve to make him a martyr. Not to mention, it's suggested that Sid is the way he is because his mother is inattentive. Brat that he is, he's still a child, and he'll never have a chance to grow out of that behavior. The only consolation is the irony that Sid will die among the honeysuckles he so lied for.
VideoGame.Command And Conquer Red Alert: Delivered nicely in the Allied ending onto Joseph Stalin by none other than Stavros, whose country Stalin destroyed in the war. Stalin gets to die alone and in darkness thanks to Stavros ordering away the troopers who found Stalin, putting a cloth in his mouth to keep him from screaming for help, and putting rubble over his face to hide him from discovery.
CardCarryingVillain.Webcomics: Elan's long-lost father, Tarquin, turned up and explained why he chose to become an evil tyrant: every story calls for one, so he will be the villain and "live like a god for three decades" until some heroes come along to vanquish him. He'll still be immortalized in bardic lore and he'll get to be emperor for a while, so, in his opinion, eventual Karmic Death is worth the payoff. He does, however, reject the alignment system as "outdated and meaningless" so it's possible that he's a subversion. He also prefers to act as the Man Behind the Man, coming into conflict with Elan because the latter doesn't understand Pragmatic Villainy.
Characters.Dinosaur A Prehistoric Park Adventure: Her extreme aggression and Social Darwinist attitudes end up biting her in the ass when she tries to attack Flia, Hazel and Al after she's impaled on an Alcovasaurus skeleton. Al's retaliation causes her to impale her neck against one of the stegosaur's spines, killing her.
Characters.Mowgli: Killed by the creature that he spent his entire life hating — man.
Film.Gamera Vs Barugon: Onodera. Unfortunately, he also took the heroes' best means of killing Barugon with him.
Characters.Skyrim Civil War: Twice.The civil war began when Ulfric used the Thu'um in his duel with Torygg. The player can use the Thu'um to finish Ulfric off if they side with the Empire, even using the same one (Unrelenting Force). If the Dragonborn is a Dunmer then it's poetic how a dark elf is the one to finish him off. In Windhelm, Dark Elves are second-class citizens due to being refugees and Ulfric is purposefully indifferent to their suffering. The same is true for an Argonian, as they're not even allowed in the city, and are stuck in a slum on the docks.
Characters.Boardwalk Empire New York Gangsters: As befits a guy who terrifies the people he works with, treats his men horribly, and displays no honor or bravery, he's stabbed in the back by one of his henchmen. To add insult to injury, Tonino apologizes while doing so and tells Gyp it's nothing personal, the kind of remark that sent Gyp into a rage all season.
YMMV.Neverland: Fridge Horror: That baby has been a baby for eighty one years. And unless he leaves Neverland, he will never grow any older. And what about his mother? Is she going to be permanently nursing him forever, too? What if someone arrived in Neverland while pregnant? The watch the crocodile swallows? It was Peter's father's, and Hook took it from him after killing him. So now, the crocodile's ticking doesn't just represent death coming for Hook, it represents Karmic Death coming for him.
Characters.Grand Theft Auto V Trevor Philips: In the "Kill Trevor" ending, he crashes his truck into a gasoline tanker, which is ignited by Franklin's pistol. Mike bitterly comments on this being a fitting end.
Series.Hunter 1984: Dress Hits Floor: "Hot Prowl" has a rich woman (played by Cindy Morgan) who was robbed by some criminal, and later finds him and bargains for return of some jewelry piece. When the robber suggests she is "wired", she drops her clothes to the floor to prove she is not. This leads to Karmic Death of said robber, at the hands of the woman's jealous husband who wrongly assumes she's having an affair — she is, but not with the burglar.
Roleplay.Survival Of The Fittest: Meta Guy: Quincy Archer is the resident Meta Guy, writing a blog about the fake SOTF and the tropes it shows, and then commenting through out the stories on the actions of the various villains and heroes. He commits suicide, but if he hadn't, one of his personal favorite villains, JR Rizzolo, would have left him to burn.
Pantheon.Acts Of Treason: One of the most despicable acts Mannfred has committed was not one of violence or even betrayal, if anything it was his honesty. He was genuinely prideful and happy to see that his actions doomed his own world and he has no regrets about it whatsoever. Because of this, everyone in his world has him very high on their shit-list and they have no compunctions about Mannfred getting skewered anytime soon. At this point, most deities, even good-aligned ones, would rather see Vlad execute him and deliver an appropriate death. Knowing how powerful his father is, Mannfred is starting to make preparations.
Anime.Kaiketsu Zorro: A few one-shot villains get their comeuppance at the end of their feature episode.
Awesome.Detroit Become Human: If you freed the androids in the basement below, you're treated to a second helping of Laser-Guided Karma, Villainous Breakdown, and Karmic Death all in one serving.
Characters.Gray Still Plays: At the end of the above mentioned episode, Australian Man died just as all his former lovers did, after WooHooing in the hot tub.
Characters.Grim Fandango: After years of browbeating everyone for presumed failures and screwing over his employees for his own benefit, he gets sprouted for his own assumed failure.
Literature.Pirate Latitudes: Hacklett is shot in the groin by his wife, after she gets fed up with his abuse.
Fanfic.Children Of The Force: The Headmaster dies at the hands of Ezra, one of the children he abducted and tortured. What's more is that he dies utterly helpless, pleading and crying to no avail, like many of his victims.
Characters.Dishonored Corvos Targets: Has one of these if you switch his poisoned wine glass. Also a Karmic Fate Worse than Death if you decide to brand him. The once rich and corrupt leader of the Overseers reduced to less than nothing by his own brand.
Characters.No Mans Sky: If the player chooses to reset the universe, -null- dies the same death he condemned his own universe to. -null- is aware of this and doesn't take it well.
Fanfic.Chains Of Reality: Combined Energy Attack: Maggie creates one of these, titled "The Edgy Sphere of Despair," which, as the name implies, is primarily fueled by despair. Mostly her own, but the rest of the team join up soon after to make it big enough to defeat the corrupted Haiku and her familiar. While it destroys the familiar, Haiku is only momentarily knocked out unconscious. Lucyfer later uses this attack Lincoln, hoping Karmic Death the despair of everyone he's ever screwed over thanks to his actions will take him down. No-Sell Lincoln simply grabs it and dilutes it, replacing it with hope.
Characters.Undertale The Human Child: On the No Mercy path, Papyrus offers to spare you in hopes that you'll turn good, but you kill him anyway in one hit while his guard is down. Much later during the Final Boss, if you accept their offer to spare you, the Child will be hit with an unavoidable One-Hit Kill.
Characters.Black Lagoon Other Criminals And Outlaws: Yes, go on and kill someone who Balalaika considers irreplaceable and see what happens. It becomes even more karmic for Hansel as Balalaika remarks that the trap she set up was so obvious that the only way it would work would be for the target to be so blinded by bloodlust that they would walk into it.
BewareTheNiceOnes.Fan Works: Later (or earlier, as it may be), during the Gaiden: Seven Dreams/Nightmares side story, Patch Took a Level in Badass, but still remains the goodhearted clown she's always been. However, her search for the fragments of the Rainbow Of Light leads her to the Pegasus Despot using the Blue Shard of Laughter to brainwash ponies and powering a city to become an Evil Overlord. He brainwashes her with it and makes her part of his brainwashed harem of mares, raping her repeatedly along with them. When she finally breaks free, she steals his fragment, shoots him in the leg, and leaves him to his Karmic Death at the hooves of his now equally pissed off and unbrainwashed harem. She goes back to being herself afterwards, but it shows she's not someone to push too far.
Characters.The Order: Hemmings tortures Randall with his experiments and in response Randall murders him.
Film.Bloodshot 2020: Dirty Coward: Harting tries to run away when Ray was freed from his control and is coming after him. But the only time he fight was when he sees that Ray's Nanites is losing power and will eventually shut down then as it happens, he has Ray in chokehold, but Ray anticipate it and had a surprise for Harting as soon as he did that.
Characters.Somewhere Boy: Judging by how much of an Abusive Parent Steve was to his son it is hard to feel bad for his suicide. It is even more justified when he kills himself after he fails to kill Danny. His suicide is caused more by getting caught by his own son than any of the problems he had dealing with his wife's loss.
Characters.Roulette Rampage Reloaded: Assuming she was the one in control of Monobear when Kyo died, seeing his shade take part in her pummeling is deliciously ironic.
Fridge.Remina: It might even be considered Karmic Death, due to how most of humanity treated Remina upon the Hellstar's presence.
Film.Deadpool 2: Hate Sink: The headmaster of the Mutant "Institute" that Russell/Firefist and Domino come from. He's a cruel racist and sadist who aims to "fix" mutations in children by torturing them every day while playing the role of a saint who is trying to fix their "mistakes". He's also a Dirty Coward who runs at the first sight of danger. No wonder Russell goes nuts and wants to kill him. This makes it all the more satisfying when Dopinder runs him over in the finale just when he seems to be a Karma Houdini after Deadpool prevents Russell from crossing the invokedMoral Event Horizon by killing him, since killing him would have been the catalyst of Russell becoming the all-destructive mutant that ushers in the Bad Future Cable hails from.
Literature.Wereworld: High Lord Oba the Werepanther, who saw humans as nothing more than slaves, is killed by the humans Bo Carver, Reuben Fry and Pick Lucas is stabbed in the chest by Gretchen using Milo's antler. Considering what he did to both, it's a fitting end.
Characters.Magical Girl Raising Project First Arc: She murders both a distracted Top Speed and a destransformed Hardgore Alice with her halberd, impaling both of them in the back. Ripple manages to force Swim Swim to detransform and impales Swim Swim's helpless human form with that same halberd.
ComicBook.Criminal 2006: Happens here and there. Notably to All the bad guys of 'Coward' courtesy of Leo. Sebastian Hyde and Father Mike receive theirs thanks to Tracy's plans.
Characters.Final Fantasy XIII: She holds the belief that people only live to serve a use to more important people. Cue the last seconds of her life where she realizes that she has that exact same role placed on her by her boss.
HoistByHisOwnPetard.Video Games: Dead Space: In all Dead Space games, enemies that launch explosive projectiles at you (legless Brutes, Pods, Guardians) can have them caught with stasis and reflected back at them. Dead Space 3 even has Unitologist troopers with missile launchers and allows you to do the same with their rockets. Similarly, the Waster Necromorphs that fight with axes in that game can also have them pulled from their hands and sent right back. Stross of Dead Space 2 pulls a Face–Heel Turn to start the third act of the game. He does so by poking Action Girl Ellie's eye out with a screwdriver. When he goes to do the same thing to Isaac, Stross promptly gets the same screwdriver pierced into his brain.
Fanfic.Kingdom Hearts The Third Epic: General Ameba. He links his soul to Riku’s using Kai’s control over darkness, meaning that if Ameba is attacked, Riku will feel it too, and vice-versa. Riku, realising that Death Is the Only Option, sacrifices himself just as Sora is about to be killed by Ameba, causing Ameba to be killed. Ironically, Ameba dies almost instantly, whereas Riku manages to hold out for a few minutes to say sorry to Sora for deserting him.
SortingAlgorithmOfMortality.Webcomics: Character D: Miko Miyazaki Row 1: Age: Single Adult. 3 Row 2: Sexual Orientation: Celibate and oblivious to Roy's (initial) advances. 1 Row 3: Role: The Scrappy. 1 Row 4: Race: Asian. 3 Row 5: Aesthetics: Attractive enough for Roy to be attracted when they first meet, but not be commented on by the other characters afterwards. 2 Row 6: Personality: Lawful Stupid. 5 Row 7: Virtues: Holier Than Thou. 5 Row 8: Flaws: Again, Lawful Stupid. 4 Row 9: Species: Human. 3 Row 10: Occupation: Paladin, and a very high-ranking one at that. 4Total divided by rows: 31/10 = 3.1. Her Karmic Death was all but inevitable.
Characters.Case Closed People From Notable Cases: Machiko wanted to kill her brother-in-law to get more of her husband's inheritance. Too bad she tried to stab said brother-in-law while in the bath... and he (or better said, his stand-in) killed her in self-defense.
WebVideo.Fallout Nuka Break: Leon meets his end at the hands of Scar, who he had spent the entire series tormenting.
VideoGame.Last Week: In both games' True Endings, the school principal is killed by the very same monster that killed all previous sacrifices. This is also assumed to happen in Another Incident's Happy Ending.
Characters.Clock Tower 3: His death by falling into a vat of sulfuric acid, which he used to dispose of his victims. The news report about it lampshades this.
Fanfic.A Blight On Bonesborough: After 400 years of trying to kill all witchkind with their own magic, Belos dies because he attempted to use magic in the Human Realm, with the glyphs carved into his body shriveling up and disintegrating before Amity, Luz, Hunter, Willow and Gus drop the statue of him onto his body.
NightmareFuel.Awesome Plush Productions FNAF Plush: Asshole Victim: While his death was certainly well-deserved, being blown up isn’t exactly the most pleasant way to die. Karmic Death indeed.However, as shown in season 5 flashbacks, not only did he kill Thanos, steal his infinity gauntlet, and crush Satan’s skull to pieces, he managed to escape Hell. More on him in the season 5 section.
Recap.SAYER: OCEAN takes care of FUTURE for SAYER.
Characters.The Poppy War: Altan literally melts Shiro's face off. Appropriate, for a guy that desperately wanted to discover the powers of a shaman.
Music.Weird Al Yankovic: "I Remember Larry" which has Larry being murdered by the target of many of his malicious gags, with the target making it sound like it was only another malicious gag. In the video for "I'll Sue Ya", while Al and his band are driving with all of the money they won in their lawsuits, they're distracted by a billboard and crash into a large truck. The billboard and truck are for two brands that Al had earlier sued. The protagonist of the "Party in the CIA" video gets kidnapped, beaten, and (maybe) murdered by The Generalissimo after spending the whole song talking about how awesome kidnapping, beating, and assassinating people is. He also killed the general's friend by accident while trying to kill the general himself making it a case of Laser-Guided Karma.
Film.Smiley: Right after the group celebrates their successive trolling, the real Smiley kills one of them via the urban legend, then looks at another member with a look that clearly indicates that he, and perhaps the group in general are next.
Characters.Daikaiju Yuki: Dies at the beak of Alkonoth, the very same monster he forced Ivan to control. The Scythian relishes in having his revenge for being manipulated into doing what he did.
VideoGame.Emperor Battle For Dune: The Un-Favourite: Baron Harkonnen frequently flip-flops between favoring his two sons in public. It's fairly obvious he's playing the two against each other; privately (according to All There in the Manual) he seems to consider Gunseng the most threatening of the pair and ends up sending him to Arrakis to oversee the spice production. He is then poisoned to death by Copec.
Literature.Pale: Alexander is so focused on trying to destroy his human enemies and inconvenience his former allies at Blue Heron that he fails to notice a non-human one sneaking up behind him. Bonus points for him only moments before viewing a scene 20 years ago where he told a story about almost being killed by an Other because of his tunnel vision. The Witch Hunters storm Kennet wanting revenge for Raphael's death and target every practitioner and Other they can find, without stopping to find out whether any of them were A, responsible for his death, or B, evil/a threat. Most of the group then decide to go interfere with the fight for the Carmine Throne despite not understanding what it is or the consequences, while maintaining an attitude of "we're not Others or practitioners so fuck you, we can do what we want and you can't stop us", including trying to shoot the Roles. Almost all of the group who try to interfere wind up dead or very badly hurt.
Characters.Elena Of Avalor Villains: After all those years causing pain and suffering to Elena, her family and friends, Shuriki is finally killed by Elena using the Scepter of Light in "Song of the Sirenas".
Awesome.Happy Tree Friends: The Woobie: Flaky gathering all her courage and stabbing Flippy in the eye, trying to kill him on purpose, in "Without a Hitch". Though, since she did it to the innocent and helpful version of Flippy, this earns her a Karmic Death via airbag.
HeroicSacrifice.Webcomics: This is one of the only two ways that a player who has ascended to the god tiers can die a permanent death, the other being a Karmic Death.
Characters.Fire Emblem Fates Other Characters: Leo offs him in Birthright and Conquest, and he is defeated in battle by Hoshido and Nohr's combined forces in Revelation. Then again, it's not like he doesn't deserve to die...
VideoGame.Tomb Raider Anniversary: Pierre gets himself killed by two Atlantean centaurs he accidentally awakened when he exited the tomb of Tihocan with the Scion piece. Although he attempts to divert their attention by throwing the artifact to Lara, the centaurs have none of it and stomp him into the ground, breaking his neck. Kold dies from being shot in the back by The Kid, who he had stabbed seconds before for getting too close to killing Lara (he wanted to kill her himself).
Fanfic.Fragments Of Chaldea: It's revealed in Serenity's fragment that Damien, the former head of the robotics division who constantly harassed Anton, made several very unsavory comments about Medusa and Frankenstein, generally abused his authority, and was sent to the brig due to it, tried to hack the security robots so he could escape, only to screw up majorly causing them to shoot him on sight.
Characters.Hunger Games Simulation Nominators And Co: In the 5th Reboot Nominator Games (Season 250), he made an insincere eulogy for Android Ichi after the latter's death to Evilface. The following day, Scipion was buried in a rockslide.
Characters.The Witcher Northern Kingdoms: If found guilty of participating in Saskia's poisoning, Stennis will be beaten to death by a lynch mob of peasants who he had dismissed as being worth nothing and who would not dare stand before a divinely selected king.
Characters.Fate Stay Night Gilgamesh: In Unlimited Blade Works. After having gone through the whole route Sword Spamming people to death, he's killed when a Not Quite Dead Archer nails him right between the eyes with a duplicate of one of his own swords.Heaven's Feel has him devoured by the Shadow, which is what he planned to do to humanity in the Unlimited Blade Works route. He's then used by Dark Sakura as a power source the same way he fed on all those orphans in the Fate route.
Characters.Prometheus: Wanted to meet the Engineers to see if they could help prolong his life. He ends up getting killed by them instead.
Recap.Monk S 1 E 1 Mr Monk And The Candidate: Lloyd is shot by Sykes just like Ronstadt, who he ordered murdered. Subverted in that we see Lloyd looking at his wound but it is not clear whether he dies or not.
Characters.Throne Of Glass: The members of the cadre she assembled and threw away for sheer spite end up swearing a Blood Oath to Aelin instead and give her the advantage she needs to kill Maeve in the climax.
TearJerker.Game Of Thrones: Ygritte's death, while arguably karmic considering she was shot by the boy whose father she killed, is still an absolutely crushing downer. It's mostly driven home by Jon holding her in his arms, their final exchange, and their love for each other. Ygritte: Jon Snow... Jon: Hush - don't talk. Ygritte: D'you remember that cave?... We should've stayed in that cave... Jon: We'll go back there. Ygritte: (smiles, barely perceptibly) You know nothing... Jon... Snow... (Exhaling softly, she goes still in Jon's arms as a devastated Jon holds her amidst the fighting.) Although Ygritte had a Karmic Death, it's kind of sad to see that the little boy Jon took a liking to kill his lover in front of him, all the while blissfully unaware Jon loved Ygritte. After she dies, they have Tormund Giantsbane cornered. Jon orders him thrown into the cells for interrogation. Tormund: I should have thrown you from the top of the Wall, boy! Jon: (quietly) Aye. You should have.
Film.Tales From The Crypt: Most of the characters, especially Joanne (strangled to death by a serial killer after murdering her husband) and Major Rogers (mauled to death by his own starving dog after he freezes and starves the blind people under his care).
Film.Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom: Once again, a character becomes a play toy for two dinosaurs before finally being eaten. In this case, it's Eli Mills, making it a Karmic Death of sorts.
Characters.Continuum: Red Alec kills Green Alec with the same time travel device that Red Alec used to create the Green timeline.
Characters.The Strain: He's killed by the very person who endured his torments at Treblinka.
Literature.Halo Evolutions: Soren's paranoid father wouldn't take his sick wife to a hospital, which led to her death. Later he too got sick and Soren refused to take him to the hospital.
Characters.MCU Thanos: In Avengers: Endgame, he has two. His prime timeline self loses his arm, and subsequently, his head, after he previously taunted Thor about not instantly killing him then and there. Then his self from the 2014 timeline has to watch as Tony turns his entire army to dust before disintegrating himself, just like he did to half the universe five years earlier.
Series.Delocated: Laser-Guided Karma: In the finale, Sergei brainwashes Jon into becoming a highly-trained killer, and forces him to murder David and TB. In return, Jon uses his newfound skills to kick Sergei's ass and kill him. He even lampshades it. Jon: You're about to be killed by the killing machine you created, asshole!
WesternAnimation.Squidbillies: "Hetero-cephalo Agenda", where he is slowly and painfully mauled and torn asunder by a bear in an absolutely dumb attempt to protest against gay marriage. The excursion was so traumatizing that Early (for once in the series) actually rescinded his point and admitted that he was wrong — too bad he gets mauled to death in the end.
Characters.Twin Peaks Supernatural Entities: Laser-Guided Karma: After screwing around with the rules of the Black Lodge and its other inhabitants in order to stay in the mortal plane, it is very karmic that said inhabitants in turn successfully plot to put an end to him, courtesy of using Freddie Sykes as a proxy, and to make it even more karmic, he dies the same way Maddy was killed at his hand: by being beaten to death.
SandBox.Super WIKI 1 Reworks: Portfolio: Dresses In Needlessly Flamboyant and Feathery Outfits, Betrays Everyone, Doesn't Play By The Rules, Villainous Version of Captain Marvelous, Uses His Trumpet to Summon Evil Doppelgängers of Former Sentai, Killed By Betrayal, Has An Extremely Powerful Monster Form, Works For Zangyack To Avoid a Bounty, Has No Qualms About Murdering Children To get What He Wants
TakeThat.Comic Books: In the Twelfth Doctor story "The Hyperion Empire", a repellent self-serving politician who tries to become The Quisling to alien invaders (and suffers a Karmic Death because they want to destroy the Earth rather than rule it) tells Clara to "Calm down, dear"... a put-down notoriously given by David Cameron to a female shadow minister during a Commons debate.
TooDumbToLive.Video Games: Warden Kuril, who was supposed to give Shepard a prisoner from his jail, but instead decides to capture Shepard and hold them for ransom or to sell as a slave. Yes, he tries to take the galaxy's biggest badass, who is well-known for preventing an apocalypse two years ago, prisoner. Without even taking away their guns. Needless to say, it does not end well for him. And Shepard still gets the prisoner they want. The icing on the cake is Kuril boasting that the facility can easily handle three armed guests... he was wrong, of course, and things get worse when Shepard lets Jack out. The only time he isn't this is when you see the precautions for keeping Jack imprisoned; she's shackled in cryogenic storage and guarded by a trio of powerful Mecha-Mooks. But that still wasn't enough!
