Asshole Victim: Difference between revisions

* [[Detective Conan]] makes regular use of this trope. The ''vast'' majority of the victims end up being varying degrees of assholes (up to and including [[Driven to Suicide|driving people to suicide]] or even [[Karma Houdini|having themselves gotten away with murder]] in the past.)

** However it was ''memorably'' subverted once. The victim of the day was an [[Idol Singer]], poisoned by his beautiful manager because he subjected her to [[Jerkass|heaps of psychological abuse]] after she got plastic surgery. But the guy actually was a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]] who did everything out of ''guilt'': she got her face fixed thinking it'd ''please him'', but he actually was in love with the sweet [[Naive Everygirl]] she ''used'' to be before her operation. Therefore, the singer [[My God, What Have I Done?|hated himself greatly]] for being the cause of her change and reacted by mistreating his manager. [[Poor Communication Kills|A case where Poor Communication LITERALLY kills]].

** 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.

 

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