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** Gaara's dad, the Fourth Kazekage, who basically had his wife die so he could try to harness Shukaku then shunned and tried to (unsuccessfully, of course) kill his son Gaara. You know Orochimaru doesn't have any kindness in his heart, but it's not like you lament that he killed the Kazekage.
* Michio Yuki from ''[[MW]]'' has killed off the people who were part of the cover-up of the titular chemical warfare including {{spoiler|his boss at the bank he worked at}}.
* ''[[Your Lie in April]]'': Wishing death on a parent might be a taboo in nearly every culture. By the time Kousei is shown having done so, though, Saki's abusiveness is well-established enough that when he hits [[Rage Breaking Point]] over her publicly hitting him on the head hard enough to cause bleeding, only the most saintly person would feel the need to stand up for her.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* In the backstory of ''[[Kingdom Come]]'', [[Nineties Anti-Hero|Magog]] kills the Joker while he's in police custody. Of course, this is '''[[Complete Monster|The]] [[Monster Clown|Joker]]''' we're talking about here, and he was arrested because he went on a rampage in the ''Daily Planet'' offices and killed 75 people—including Lois Lane. When Superman protests, the public sides with Magog for this very reason.
* [[Lobo]] claims the whole Czarnian race (his own people, whom he wiped out) were this; [[Take Our Word for It|we can only assume that's true]], but if they were anything like Lobo himself they probably were.
* Gorr the God-Butcher (a villain usually associated with [[The Mighty Thor| Thor]]) claims all the gods he has slain are this, as he views gods in general as neglectful, selfish, and cruel, and if his own word can be trusted, most are; he claims he has killed gods associated with fear, war, chaos, genocide, revenge, plagues, earthquakes, blood, wrath, jealousy, death, and degradation. Unfortunately, he also claims to have killed some gods of poetry and flowers.
* This is discussed in one ''[[Spider-Man]]'' story where the mobster Jimmy Six confronts his [[The Don|mob leader father Fortunado]]; Jimmy doesn't intend to kill him, but he rightfully believes this Trope would apply if he did:
{{quote|'''Fortunado:''' So, you are here to kill me?
'''Jimmy:''' Word on the street is I gotta get in line for that priviledge.}}
== [[Fan Works]] ==
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** In general, most of the characters could qualify. It's hard to feel sorry for any of these people, since they are all assholes from start to finish, as evidenced by the [[Cluster F-Bomb|constant swearing]] throughout the whole movie.
* Buddy Repperton and his gang from ''[[Christine]]''. This guy is a [[Jerk Jock]] with extra jerk, spending the majority of his screen time bullying poor Arnie Cunningham, referring to him by a… [[Country Matters| vulgar version of his last name]]. When Arnie gets a new car, Buddy and his goons decide to vandalize it… Not knowing that the car is a [[Sentient Vehicle]] with a nasty and vengeful streak. The car proceeds to hunt down Buddy’s gang, crushing one of them, then triggers a fire in a gas station, causing an explosion that kills the other two, and finally runs Buddy himself over. Note that this sort of thing ''is'' pretty common in [[Stephen King]] stories.
* The plot of ''[[Dick Tracy (film)|Dick Tracy]]'' starts when mobster Lips Manlis is murdered - gangland execution style - by his former protege and [[Big Bad]] Big Boy Caprice.
== [[Literature]] ==
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** In ''The Raven in the Foregate'', Father Ailnoth's death is mourned by nobody, after the residents and reader spend a few chapters being appalled by his cruelty. In the end it turns out that his death was not murder, but an accident which the sole witness considered to be divine judgment.
* In Kate Ross' second Julian Kestrel mystery, ''Whom the Gods Love'', the victim is gradually revealed to have been this.
* ''[[Harry Potter and
** Played with in the case of Barty Crouch. He's introduced as a stuffy man who sacked his House Elf while ignoring her sobbing pleas and tossed his neglected son into Azkaban. He becomes less of an asshole when we realize that he had good damned reason to have his son locked up and the last time we see Crouch alive, he's insane, terrified, and trying his hardest to warn Dumbledore about the planned return of Voldemort.
*** He was also more sympathetic in the movie adaptation where we see his son as a depraved, all-grown-up lunatic before he locked him up rather than a scared, innocent young boy.
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* Most of the murder victims we actually get any introduction to in ''Burning Water'', by [[Mercedes Lackey]].
** The gang of school bullies who make the fatal mistake of trying their usual shenanigans on Lavan, later known as "Lavan Firestorm" for very good reasons in ''Brightly Burning.''
* Usually not seen in [[Discworld]], where posthumous dialogue between victims and Death tends to paint all but [[Complete Monster|the worst]] villains in a sympathetic light. Used straight with Homicidal Lord Winder from ''[[
** Of course, knowing Vetinari, that may well have been the intended method of assassination.
* [[Robert Heinlein]]'s ''[[Friday (novel)|Friday]]''. Lieutenant Dickey is described as someone who had repeatedly tried to sleep with Janet despite being repeatedly told no, as "slimy", and as having "a size-twelve ego in a size-four soul". About a minute later, the title character kills him as he's trying to arrest one of her friends at gunpoint.
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* While he survived, let's not forget J.R. Ewing from ''[[Dallas]]''.
** Similarly, Lionel Luthor from ''[[Smallville]]''. Of course, when he ''did'' die, this trope was averted.
* Subversion in one ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]''. The victim is an asshole to his four co-workers, all of whom were the only ones to have access to the room he died in. The audience is led to believe that a combination of two or more of the four are the ones who offed the [[Jerkass]] (all of whom are pretty jerkassy themselves). Turns out it was the janitor cleaning the vents, who killed the man when his hammer fell out of the pocket and through the grate. He didn't know the guy and removed the hammer because he didn't want to go back to jail.
** It happens many, many times in the ''
*** A clingy ex-wife who insisted on making life hell for her ex-husband and children. She tried to ''put a hit on herself'' to frame her ex-husband and when she couldn't do it, she ''tricked her own son'' into killing her for the same reason.
*** An egomaniac Paris Hilton-esque reality show star.
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* The comment under [[Tabletop Games]] for "dungeons" applies to numerous video games as well. For example, in [[The Elder Scrolls]] series, if you see a small cavern complex, you can rest assured that at least nine times in ten it will be full of Necromancers of Conjurers or the undead or other perfectly acceptable targets you may ruthlessly cut down without a single ding to the [[Karma Meter]]. You can then with no guilt grab everything in the place and haul it back to the nearest marketplace. The remaining one time in ten you will speak with the inhabitants. Half the time, you will put them all to the sword because someone told you to, then take their stuff and sell it.
* When [[Big Bad|Regalla]] launches her attack on the Carja/Tenakth embassy in ''[[Horizon Forbidden West]]'', [[Smug Snake|whiny, pompous Sun Priest Vaudis]] and [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|beaurucratic hardass Nazar]] are among her rebels' victims. However, despite the trouble they caused Aloy their deaths are treated with the tragic horror that they deserve, and a friendly military officer sadly comments on how no one deserved to die the way they did, with a solemn Aloy silently agreeing.
* {{spoiler|Dr. Bumby}} in ''[[Alice: Madness Returns]]''. Yeah, what Alice does to him in the end is clearly murder, but it is doubtful many players would hold it against her.
=== [[Visual Novels]] ===
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* In ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force]]'', [[The Atoner|Kevin]] averts [[Save the Villain]] by leaving his nemesis Ragnarok fall in the Sun. Considering the guy was an [[Omnicidal Maniac]] who killed his father from cold blood and attempted to destroy Earth's sun for the sake of selling its energy, it's hard to blame Kevin for this act.
** And again in ''[[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien]]'', Kevin, after turning psychotic again, goes on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] against several people, including Prison Director Morgg. While he fails to kill him, he still scares the crap of him, and most fans wouldn't have minded if he had succeeded, seeing as Morgg was a corrupted [[Complete Monster]] who hated and killed on of the prisonners for acting like [[The Mentor]] to other prisoners, and later developped an alien drug traffic in the prison using the prisonners as labour slaves. Some fans even actually ''blamed'' Ben for saving this guy.
* In ''[[Helluva Boss]]'', the [[Villain Protagonist]]s are both demons and [[Murder, Inc.| hired killers]], but most marks are this; many of their clients are damned souls who want someone they hold responsible for their own deaths to burn in Hell with them.
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