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** One could even go so far as to call him Donald Dick.

** Even in his 'superhero' version of some Italian stories, Paperinik the [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Devilish Avenger]], he's quite mean. His first story as Paperinik in a nutshell: Scrooge offered him an underpaid job as a fanner and insulted him for literally kicking a ludicrously overpaid job as a dog-sitter that went to Gladstone, and Donald as Paperinik stole Scrooge's money-filled mattress ''while he slept on it'' and framed Gladstone for it. (The destruction of a manor that Gladstone won at a lottery wasn't part of it: Gladstone did it on his own by lighting a candle with explosive hidden in it that Paperinik left around.) While these almost murderous tendencies of Paperinik have been toned down and he now tends to reserve them for [[Jerkass Victim|people who actually deserve the treatment]], he still loves putting his quarry in one hell of [[Humiliation Conga]], like that time he convinced Gladstone he had ''lost his luck due a fake curse launched on him by Donald''.

* ''[[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]]''? Even being near the wrong person can result in one's horrible death.

** Excuse me, what was that? Did you say... ''[[Berserk Button|wacky?]]''

* [[Spider-Man]] is a frequent victim of this, as his opponents' goals shift from "get money/recognition/cured" to "revenge on Spider-Man" as he stops them. This apparent [[Motive Decay]] is somewhat justified by Spider-Man's [[You Fight Like a Cow|tendency of persistently insulting the people he fights]], and that fact that most of his opponents are unhinged to start with.

** Venom was a particularly bad example of this: Eddie Brock hated the Spider-Man because his journalist career had been ruined when he brought forward a man claiming to be the murderous Sin-Eater, but who turned out to be a compulsive confessor instead as Spider-Man caught the real Sin-Eater.

'''Shocker:''' ''The outcome??'' The outcome is I get what is coming to me.

'''Spidey:''' You ''got'' what was coming to you. That's ''my point.'' }}

* In ''[[The Sentry]]'' Bob finds out that some Yoga instructor is pulling some moves on his wife; sometime later his alter egos, presumably, act; The Sentry saves 150.000 people from a crashing boat while The Void hurls a jet airliner into a building killing 150.000 people, Ramón the Yoga instructor was in that building.

* Delilah Hack of ''[[Hack Slash]]'', who after witnessing her daughter being mistreated by a group of bullies, immediately proceeded to abduct, kill, and cook said bullies, before ultimately ''feeding'' them to their friends.

* In the Silver Age, [[Lex Luthor]]'s lifetime animosity to [[Superman]] was triggered by [[Superboy]] saving Lex from a laboratory fire. During the rescue Lex got some chemicals spilled on him that ''made him go bald!'' Later retellings of the origin have given Lex different reasons to hate Superman, usually having to do with Lex not being able to stand being inferior to him. Wanting a man dead just ''for being there'' might be one of the most disproportionate retributions on here.

** In ''[[Superman: Red Son]]'' he breaks off his engagement and relationship to [[Lois Lane]] in order to devote his entire life to beating Superman because....The deformed clone of Superman beat him in Chess! This is particularly hilarious because earlier he had explicitly stated "I have no doubts that [Superman] and I would get along if we had been born in the same country."

* [[The Mighty Thor|Enchantress]] tried to get the Asgardians to punish [[Dazzler]] for offending the gods by ''having a better singing voice than her''. Fortunately, Odin agreed that Dazzler ''does'' have a better singing voice, ordered Enchantress to drop the matter, then sent the girl home with the promise that the Asgardians would not hurt her.

* In one issue of ''Greyshirt: Indigo Sunset'', mobster Vinnie Assapunto goes on a rampage, murdering five people because they were connected to someone who had been ''telling jokes about him''.

* Worst things [[Max Und Moritz]] by [[Wilhelm Busch]] do: Putting gunpowder into the pipe of the teacher (OK, that's pretty harsh, but he survives.) Their punishment at the end (not by him): {{spoiler|They're killed and grinded to grit in the mill.}}

* [[Les Legendaires|The Legendaries]] suffers this from the population of their native world Alysia. After they accidentally caused a magic incident by breaking a magic stone from the [[Arch Enemy]] and accidentally turned everyone on their world into a child, the population of Alysia start hating and despising them : they are mocked, insulted, forced to hide their identities for ''five years'', considered as failures, and everyone who has connections to them (brothers, parents, former teams...) are considered as ashamed as well. While it's understandable on the first look, it become excessively ridiculous if you take account of the fact the Legendaries also saved those same people countless times from their said [[Arch Enemy]] (who was an homicidal, megalomaniac [[Sorcerous Overlord]] [[The Dreaded|feared in all Alysia]]), making the mere fact to have trapt everyone in child form not bad in comparison. Of course, [[Ungrateful Bastard|the inhabitants of Alysia seems to have quickly forgotten about those heroic actions.]]

 

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