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** Some of the casual comments used by people outside the main cast abound with harshness. When Lucy is sobbing over Kouta's apparent betrayal, people in the carnival crowd dismiss her as being on drugs. When Mayu offers to take care of the puppy she found to the dog's owner, she is dismissed as being too filthy - something her actual appearance in the episodes introducing her didn't reflect.
* Dr. Heinemann from ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'', as well of many of Johan's other victims.
* Dallas Genoard from ''[[Baccano!]]!'' is pretty much a [[Jerkass]] to end all [[Jerkass|Jerkasses]], which is why not many people are angry at seeing [[Noble Demon|Luck Gandor]] give him the [[Cement Shoes]] treatment.
** On the contrary. Many would find it amusing.
* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', Shou Tucker ''really'' had it coming when Scar killed him. The gold-toothed doctor also counts when Pride impales him because he's of no more use to the homunculi.
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* In ''[[Lonely Werewolf Girl]]'' part of Kalix's [[Backstory]] is she killed her father, when readers briefly meet him in a trip to the afterlife it's pretty clear he got off easy with just death.
* ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'' has an entire train's worth of people brutally killed in an accident based on poor management choices, but not before the author makes sure to tell us all about what terrible people they all were.
* [[The Black Fleet Crisis]] of the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] presents us with not one but ''two'' [[Asshole Victim|Asshole Victims]] who take turns victimizing each other. The Empire violently oppressed the Yevetha, a (literally) bloodthirsty [[
* In the ''[[Mrs. Murphy Mysteries]]'' at least one of the victims in each book will not be missed.
* You are meant to cheer for Tonya's father in ''[[A Time to Kill]]'' when he kills her rapists. By the end of the trial almost everyone in the town is happy that he gets acquitted. Well, everyone but the Ku Klux Klan.
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* Jeremy Baines in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode ''Human Nature'' is a [[Jerkass]], and the first to be [[Grand Theft Me|killed and his body used]] by the Family of Blood.
** Davros' assistant, Nyder. It's hard to feel sorry for him when the Daleks kill him carrying out an order of Davros against their will.
** Zimmerman, the first victim of the [[Time Police|Tesselecta]] in [[Doctor Who/Recap/S32
* Mark Goodson from the ''[[Torchwood]]'' episode "Small Worlds". We don't particularly mind that he's stalked and murdered, because the first time we see him he's trying to kidnap and rape a little girl.
* Most of the episodes of the TV series ''[[Ellery Queen]]'' would qualify.
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* Carla Boone in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'', who made no secret of hating the town of Novac; even a character who's sympathetic towards her (and doesn't think she just left town) admits she had a habit of complaining about everything. The culprit (who sold her into slavery, which led to her death) is Novac's resident [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]], who is deeply invested in her "little oasis."
** In what may be a subversion, it is commented both in-game and in the fandom that while Carla may have been an unpleasant person, neither she nor her unborn baby deserved getting sold to slavery.
** The town of [[Wretched Hive|Nipton]] also qualifies. The town was destroyed by [[
** Then there's Benny the guy who shot the courier and buried him/her. He dies either in two ways. One you hunt him down for Mr. House. Or he is captured by Caesar and you get to choose how to kill him.
** The Great Khans tribe qualifies as well. On the one hand, a rather severe foul-up on the NCR's part led to a massacre that saw the Khans getting absolutely devastated; years later they still haven't recovered. On the other hand, the Khans were openly hostile to the NCR long before the event in question, and not terribly nice even amongst each other. Their leader outright brags about how they laid ruin to defenseless NCR settlements, and a former Khan that later defected to the NCR will angrily comment that the group got exactly what was coming to them.
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** And then the initiation ritual has you kill a barbarian with a hidden [[Blood Knight]] streak, a feisty and crass woman who has murdered people with her foul words and temper and a [[Complete Monster]] Khajit (Thief, murderer and rapist) who expects this to be his death. {{spoiler|With a broader definition of "asshole", you can also [[Take a Third Option|kill the Dark Brotherhood assassin who brought you there]].}}
** Nearly all of the people the Thieves Guild sends you after are this. Examples including an oppressive, penny pinching beekeeper, a slave driving meadery owner, an Argonian con artist, and {{spoiler|the man who betrayed and murdered the original guildmaster}}. Though in the case of the Con Artist, he just agrees to work with Guild and becomes a fence for you.
* ''[[Strange Journey]]'' gives us [[Evil Counterpart|Jack's Squad]]. [[
* 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.
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