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* In the first ''[[Alex Rider (Literature)|Alex Rider]]'' book, Herod Sayle planned to kill millions of innocent schoolchildren as revenge for the Prime Minister bullying him at school. Then we have Damian Cray in the fourth book, who arranged the death of a journalist who objected to the violence in his video games, and later told Alex he planned to kill him before he found out he was a spy, on the basis that Alex had done too well at what was supposed to be an extremely difficult game. And then in ''Scorpia Rising'' we have Razim, who, as a child, stabbed his nanny in the leg when she told him off for teasing his sister. Yeah, [[Anthony Horowitz]] is fond of this trope. |
* In the first ''[[Alex Rider (Literature)|Alex Rider]]'' book, Herod Sayle planned to kill millions of innocent schoolchildren as revenge for the Prime Minister bullying him at school. Then we have Damian Cray in the fourth book, who arranged the death of a journalist who objected to the violence in his video games, and later told Alex he planned to kill him before he found out he was a spy, on the basis that Alex had done too well at what was supposed to be an extremely difficult game. And then in ''Scorpia Rising'' we have Razim, who, as a child, stabbed his nanny in the leg when she told him off for teasing his sister. Yeah, [[Anthony Horowitz]] is fond of this trope. |
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* In [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s ''The Cask of Amontillado'', the narrator, Montressor, is insulted by Fortunato prior to the beginning of the story. While it isn't said what the insult is, apparently it wasn't so severe that Fortunato thought their friendship was dissolved. In any case, it's difficult to imagine that he could have done anything that would make {{spoiler|walling him up in a wine cellar and leaving him to die of dehydration}} anything but disproportionate. |
* In [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s ''The Cask of Amontillado'', the narrator, Montressor, is insulted by Fortunato prior to the beginning of the story. While it isn't said what the insult is, apparently it wasn't so severe that Fortunato thought their friendship was dissolved. In any case, it's difficult to imagine that he could have done anything that would make {{spoiler|walling him up in a wine cellar and leaving him to die of dehydration}} anything but disproportionate. |
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* The punishments in ''[[Candide]]'' are wildly disproportionate, and are [[Played for Laughs]]. To name a few, one character is given |
* The punishments in ''[[Candide]]'' are wildly disproportionate, and are [[Played for Laughs]]. To name a few, one character is given [[A Taste of the Lash|several thousand lashes]] for taking a walk, another character is hanged for expressing his beliefs (and for fun), the latter's companion is lashed for simply being his companion, etc. The book is filled to the brim with this sort of thing. |
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* In ''[[Children Of The River]]'', Sundara's [[Love Interest]] back in Cambodia, Chamroeun, is revealed to have been {{spoiler|[[Off With His Head|beheaded with a hoe]] for (horror of horrors) stealing a potato because he was hungry}}. |
* In ''[[Children Of The River]]'', Sundara's [[Love Interest]] back in Cambodia, Chamroeun, is revealed to have been {{spoiler|[[Off With His Head|beheaded with a hoe]] for (horror of horrors) stealing a potato because he was hungry}}. |
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* In ''[[Daemon|Freedom]]'', [[Heroic Sociopath|Loki/Gragg]] ruins the credit rating of someone fool enough to cut his queue. |
* In ''[[Daemon|Freedom]]'', [[Heroic Sociopath|Loki/Gragg]] ruins the credit rating of someone fool enough to cut his queue. |
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