Times where The Dog Bites Back in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- Avenger of Steel: Nobu tries to unleash Black Sky upon Superman, Daredevil, and Jessica Jones, only for the teenage girl he regularly bled before locking her into a shipping container to smite him on sight.
- In The Beast That I Am, poor Shinobu is helpless to do anything to help Keitaro whenever the Hinata Harpies decide to beat him up for some reason. Then she gains the power of Jade, and all of her repressed anger at the Terrible Trio can finally be given an outlet.
- The Butcher Bird: Don Krieg, as in canon, belittles and abuses his crew, seeing them as little more than pawns. This comes back to bite him twice in a row when he appears in disguise as a Marine during the Exclusion Arc, first because his former second-in-command whom he literally left to die hates him and has gotten a lot stronger than he was, and second because once the first example finishes with him, another crew member takes the opportunity to knife him in the throat while he's helpless and defect to the Nightmares with the rest of the crew.
- Child of the Storm:
- It subverts this in the Forever Red arc of the sequel with Maddie, regarding Sinister - who stole her as a newborn from her cradle, and told her that he'd created her to be a Living Weapon and hunting hound and ensuring she believed that was all she was, developing a hold on her that takes a while to break (with more traditional Mind Control triggers thrown in). However, this might only be because Doctor Strange got there first.
- Harry, on the other hand, gets kidnapped by the Red Room, tortured physically and psychically for days, with countless attempts at brainwashing, before finally having his and Maddie's escape plan go horribly wrong, leading to his body being reprogrammed as the Red Son and spending six relative months (two weeks of real time) with his body and powers being horribly abused, including sexual molestation by Yelena Belova. And eventually, he snaps, unleashing the Dark Phoenix. Melting the Red Room Commander's mouth shut was just the start of what followed.
- In The Dragon and the Butterfly, Hiccup suffered from Stoick's neglect and mistreatment from his village all his childhood. Finally, after freeing Toothless, the two leave the archipelago, intending to never return. However, after Astrid learns about the Red Death, she, Stoick, and several other Vikings go to find him, thinking that he and Toothless will help them...only for the Madrigals and Hiccup himself to call them out for their abuse and tell them to hit the road.
- Earth's Alien History: After the Klingons and Romulans disrupt the Collector's control of Knowhere by killing a good chunk of his mercenary forces, his oppressed workers take the opportunity to rise up against him, helping to rout the remaining mercs.
- Fate Genesis:
- After suffering a few humiliations from Sonic, Lancer begins to passive-aggressively rebel against Kotomine, such as not telling him about the listening device The Men in Black plant at the church.
- After losing control of Rider, Shinji teams up with Dr. Eggman in hopes of using the Mad Scientist's robots and weapons to win the War. When his grandfather Zouken tries to berate Shinji with "The Reason You Suck" Speech, Shinji gleefully turns it back on the Matou patriarch, and physically shoves the old man to boot.
- The first Halloween Unspectacular answers a simple question in its main arc: what happens when you give a Cosmic Plaything (Dib) the powers of a god? The answer: he destroys the world as revenge for all the torment he's been through.
- Shadows over Meridian:
- After all the abuse she took from the heroes since arriving on Meridian, Jade is determined to go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge, achieved by aiding Phobos in one of his own.
- She also takes great glee in overpowering Vathek and having him tossed into an Infinite City prison cell after he was one of her most aggressive antagonists on Meridian.
- In Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Supergirl crossover The Vampire of Steel, vampire mob boss Vladislav abuses every one of his subordinates. When Supergirl and Buffy bust his operation, one of his underlings takes advantage of the chaos to stake him.
- Wonderful (Mazinja): Gang boss Squidmark began a gang war because he was fed up with being mocked by the remaining gangs, and it drove him mad that Nazis got more respect than him.
- In Day One of the ROTG Halloween contest
, Joanna the goanna is more than eager to abandon her master when Bunnymund gives her an opportunity, leaving him to die at the claws of a pissed-off Yowie.
- Dirty Sympathy is about a "Strangers on a Train"-Plot Murder where Klavier and Apollo help each other get rid of their abusers. Exemplified when Daryan expects Klavier, who he physically and sexually abused for years, to get the murder charge droppednote , not realizing that Klavier fully intends to throw him under the bus and let him go to jail.
- All Assorted Animorphs AUs: Tom kills his Yeerk at the spur-of-the-moment in both "What if they saved Jake's family?" and "What if Tom's yeerk got the morphing cube from David first?"
- Eleutherophobia begins with Tom taking great pleasure in biting Essa 412 to death while in cobra morph, in retaliation for years of abuse.
- Towards the end of What Tomorrow Brings, Tom beats Ferris 512 (in his host) to a bloody pulp in retaliation for the years of abuse Feriss inflicted upon him in the original timeline.
- In Code Geass: The Prepared Rebellion, C.C. spends more than a year being experimented on by Clovis and his cronies. Once she gets free, she takes her revenge by shooting him dead after Lelouch finishes interrogating him.
- In Fate/Hollow Fake, it's mentioned in Ruler's Servant Sheet that Jamshid, the man who struck Aingra Mainyu from the Avesta — thus turning them into the scapegoat that was blamed for all of Humanity's crimes so that they could live without guilt at Aingra's expense — "died cowering in a hovel, held down and cut into thirteen pieces that were fed to hungry snakes." Given Ruler's snake motif and the rest of their backstory, it's not too hard to guess who was responsible.
- Like in the source material, Gangrel turns against his captors in Here Be Dragons: Memento Mori.
- In A Recipe For Disaster, Drago meets his end courtesy of the Bewilderbeast he'd abused.
- Karma Circle: Judgement: In the real world, nobody can fight back against Gaz because she's too physically powerful... but Daan Yel bypasses that in the dream world by tapping into their subconsciouses and giving them the power in their dreams to retaliate against her, with fists and words alike.
- In The New Adventures of Invader Zim, learning that their mission is fake and they've been made a laughingstock is enough to make Zim and Skoodge rebel against the Tallest.
- Witching Hour: All of the evidence that pointed to Gaz being a witch was actually set up by Zim, her favorite jester and punching bag, who is really an alien with access to highly advanced technology that let him easily fool the villagers and nobles while framing Gaz as vengeance for her treatment of him. The story ends with him gleefully watching her being burned at the stake and thinking about how the kingdom will fall apart and be left ripe for conquest by the Irken Empire.
- Queen of Shadows: In Chapter 19, Jade escapes from her captivity in Tobe and takes revenge on her chief tormentor, the Weaver, by beating it to death with a rock.
- A small version occurs with Ryuuko in Cellar Secrets, as Satsuki mentioned her mother having a bite mark on her hand, implying that an abused child acted in self-defense against her mother's treatment.
- From Kiryuuin Chronicles, we have a mentally ill Ragyou doing this, after putting up with her husband's abuse for so long and she burns the house down with him in it (whether or not she killed him in the fire or before she started to torch the house is never said).
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time: Link draws the line at Mido's tormenting when he blames Link for the Great Deku Tree's death. Link slaps him and tosses him into a pond. No one reacts to this, not even Noi (Mido's fairy) as they all know he deserved it.
- Ain't No Grave: Hydra spent seventy years turning Bucky into their brainwashed, cybernetic assassin, taking full advantage of the Winter Soldier's inability to resist orders or fight back. Then he's freed from said brainwashing and turns against his former masters.
- In Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race, after having suffered years of abuse at the hands of his alcoholic father, a young Albert Wily returned the beatings several times over. When he learned that his father was killed in a drunk driving accident, Wily made sure to spit on his grave soon after he was buried.
- Dad Villain AU:
- Gabriel shamelessly abused the powers of the Butterfly Brooch, then Wished to rewrite reality in such a way as to ensure he and his wife still obtained the Butterfly and Peacock Miraculouses, fully intending to continue misusing their powers. Since he saw Nooroo as nothing more than his helpless victim, Nooroo was able to take advantage of his underestimation to escape the Agreste Manor, arming Tom Dupain-Cheng with the ability to become Viceroy and start hunting down the man responsible for his family's suffering.
- While Duusu wasn't able to escape, she takes advantage of how Emelie holds her Miraculous instead of Gabriel and calls him out on his Skewed Priorities and blatant Hypocrisies.
- Viceroy deliberately Invokes this by recruiting the disgruntled, overworked, and overlooked employees of Paris' "upper crust" into his network of blackmailers.
- Fashion Upgrade: The Akuma Class, comprised of Hawk Moth's favorite victims, indirectly get their revenge by writing a play portraying him as an incompetent, bumbling Psychopathic Manchild who's Prone to Tears at the slightest of insults. Not only is openly mocking Hawk Moth a cathartic experience for them, but it also encourages the rest of Paris to follow suit, which makes it very difficult for Hawk Moth to akumatize people for the next few months because they're too busy laughing at him.
- Feralnette AU has a Downplayed example during the Birds of a Feather arc. After being constantly manipulated by Lila, Alya abruptly demonstrates that she still has standards when Lila threatens to Blackmail Felix with their own gender identity, declaring that she'll complain to the school board that their existence makes her uncomfortable unless they give in to her demands. Lila is deeply shaken to learn that Alya isn't a completely cowed Beta Bitch yet, as Alya viciously rebukes her for the harassment... though she's ironically misinterpreted the situation, assuming Lila is a Stalker with a Crush rather than a callous Manipulative Bitch.
- In the Black Fox Series, Izuku is not afraid of Bakugou anymore, much to his long-time bully's ire.Izuku: In middle school, you kept knocking me down, telling me my dreams were impossible, that I should "jump off the roof and pray for a Quirk in the next life". Ever since we were little, you've done nothing but hit me and tell me I'm nothing. So what is it? Are you mad that I won't take any more of your bullshit?
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Loved and Lost:
- Combined with A Taste of Their Own Medicine. When Princess Cadance is injured by Jewelius, Twilight — who's being manipulated — believes that her disgraced loved ones are to blame, so she imprisons them in a magic bubble and delivers an angry and bitter "The Reason You Suck" Speech, letting them know how hurt she was by them abandoning her at the wedding rehearsal before she ultimately leaves them to be arrested.
- Prince Jewelius betrays the Changelings and belittles them afterwards. After his defeat, they devour him.
- In Blackkat's Reverse, Han and Roushi are eager to join Kurama, seeing him both as a chance to obtain their freedom and to turn around and get back at those who have wronged them.
- Lunar Lamentations: While Hiruzen would claim he's hardly villainous, he signed off on Naruto, Sakura, and Shikamaru enduring Training from Hell and being effectively locked away inside Konoha's T&I department for months, allowing them to suffer horrific abuses at the hands of the agents there. Including members of ROOT. Orochimaru thusly plays with and Exploits this trope by offering the trio the chance to turn on the Sandaime. They accept, and Hiruzen dies at Shikamaru's hands.
- your move, instigator (draw your weapon and hold your tongue): Sai serves as the backbone of Danzo and Konoha's Propaganda Machine, producing posters and promotional art lionizing their strongest shinobi as heroes and commercializing their images, demonizing the other hidden villages, and encouraging the citizens to support their government unflinchingly and unquestioningly. Then Danzo forces Sai to kill his brother Shin. Sai then escapes from ROOT and starts his own artistic campaign, building upon the framework he'd laid out before; if they have so many heroes, wouldn't it make sense for one of them to step up and become the new Hokage?
- The Child of Love: After using, manipulating, and treating his subordinates like crap, Gendo’s plans to use Asuka as a test tube to create a genetically-enhanced super-soldier with little regard for the mother’s survival or the baby’s welfare were the straw broke the camel’s back. Everyone turned on him, including Rei and he got ousted and locked.
- A Crown of Stars: Jinnai, do you remember Shinji and Asuka? That pair of teenagers that you and your former boss tortured physically and emotionally and used like disposable weapons and tools? One of which you virtually raped for two years? They are under the protection of a whole family of gods and leading an army. And they are out for your blood.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion: Genocide: Subverted. The endgame of the story sees Ritsuko allying with Kluge (who unbeknownst to her is working for SEELE) in a bid to destroy Gendo for all the crap he has put her through, which, besides everything happened in the series, now also included making her his accomplice in an engineered accident that ended up costing the lives of half a million people. However, Gendo expected to be betrayed, he couldn't care less about her betrayal or her motives and points out to her that all she had accomplished was allowing herself to be used again by a different puppeteer.
- In Ships Ahoy!, Oscar decides to bite back at Odd Todd for Olive's sake when she is turned into an adult and Odd Todd steals the Flip-Flop-inator. He makes sure that all the tomatoes he throws at the ex-agent, as well as the pull of the ninety-nine magnets on his vest as the Flip-Flop-inator is brought back to him, is filled with vengeance, anger, and hatred for how he hurt him and Olive during the pienado attack.
- This Bites!: Since all the Marines are tied up dealing with the aftermath of Enies Lobby, there is no one left to save Saint Jamolomew from his victims, bystanders, and his own entourage when they've all had enough of his blustering crap.One of Jamolomew's entourage: What this is... is Justice.
- Ash's Just Reward: Lusamine treats Guzma and Team Skull as nothing more than a means towards her own ends, despite their work playing a key role in her advancement. Guzma eventually turns against her, ordering Plumeria to let him know first when they capture the last Tapu.
- Charmeleon from Total Pokemon Island finally gets fed up with Weavile and works with Cacturne, Banette, and Houndoom to defeat her in a challenge. Unfortunately, the dog-kicker also bites back, and Weavile rigs the vote for Charmeleon to get eliminated.
- In the Hitherby Dragons story Rainbow Noir, under orders from the other sprites, Twink/Terrence repeatedly manipulates Wisp, first telling her that she is an Artificial Human to give her a Heroic BSoD and prevent her from trying to stop World War II, then using her as a tool to save Shadow City from Nihilism Bear by telling her a lie: that she can only temporarily become a real person, one with a heart, when she uses star sprinkles. Wisp becomes Rainbow Brite one more time and destroys Nihilism Bear, but asserts her own power and becomes a goddess when she realizes that she has been a real person all along, with or without star sprinkles. When Terrence demands that she give him the death he's been waiting for the past ten years, Wisp uses her powers to give him a Death of Personality and rewire him into her "Glorious Servant".
- AQUA: The First Step: After enduring Commander Vasilyevich's cruelty for over a year, Alexander ultimately rallies the remaining kids in the Jaeger Program to fight back against him; he proves to be the only survivor, and personally kills Vasilyevich before broadcasting the outside world for help.
- SAPR: Cinder's Start of Darkness involved her killing her stepmother and stepsister after years of abuse.
- Soul Eater: Troubled Souls: The entirety of the final battle between Crona and Medusa consists of the former venting all of his/her frustration towards the latter’s malice. Crona is no longer scared or weak-willed and wants to let Medusa know how horrible she is.
- In Dynamite for the Quarry, Percy gets back at 'Arry and Bert for terrifying him into thinking that the dynamite he was pulling would explode at the slightest bump by getting the quarry workers to delay the rock blasting procedures until the two diesels are in the quarry. The resulting explosions cause the diesel twins to have a panic attack and reverse down the line in fear.
- Total Drama Legacy: In "Virtual Royale-ity", the three remaining campers take part in a virtual-reality Battle Royale Game, and all the eliminated campers get a chance to send a weapon to a camper of their choosing. When it's Serena's turn, she decides to use her chance as a way to get back at Drew, the camper that had repeatedly tormented her just so he could get "revenge" on her dad. So she sends Drew a bomb that's about to go off, which deals massive damage to Drew, depletes his HP, and solidifies him as the contestant that's getting eliminated that night.
- Total Drama What If Series Sammy stands up to Amy during her elimination in Island, and she goes as far as to drop the F-Bomb on her out of anger.
- From the Gensokyo 20XX series, we have Yume Ni kicking Reimu in the face, to which she responds by stabbing her with a pair of scissors. Be this noted, the former was a bully and the latter had been putting up with her antics up until that point.
- In Loaded Bones, the final chapter has Ryou getting back at Yami Bakura in the midst of trying to help him. It's very cathartic.
Other/Miscellaneous
- Hans Von Hozel: "The animals had had enough of being used by Panda, and gave humans location."
