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Differs from [[The Dog Bites Back]] in that that is a form of [[Karmic Death]], while with this one, the hero deliberately sets it up. A subtrope of [[Throw Em to The Wolves]].
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== Comic Books ==
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* ''[[Comic Book/Magicka|Magicka]]'': The heroine at one point encounters Hitler (the most evil men Earth produced were assembled in one point in time and space) but is prevented from killing him. Later on, she teleports him, in full uniform, into the middle of a crowd of prisoners in Auschwitz, circa 1942. The view then pans out [[Gory Discretion Shot|to the silent crowd holding boards with nails in them]]...
* In an issue of ''[[Green Lantern]]: Emerald Warriors'', Guy Gardner disarms some sadistic alien slave drivers and leaves them to the picks and shovels of their charges. However, this is taken as a bad sign that the trace of Red Light inside him may be growing.
* A non-lethal variant in an issue of ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'' has Jesse drive the local KKK leader (in full uniform) into the black part of town and dump him out in front of a bar.
* In one of the grimmer Batman story arcs, the Dark Knight is captured by a cult and brainwashed into helping them kill their way through Gotham. He manages to break free and later returns to bring down the leader, [[Complete Monster|Deacon Blackfire]]. Knowing that giving Blackfire a well-deserved death would only serve to make him a martyr, Batman focuses on causing as much pain with every blow as possible. Eventually Blackfire breaks and begs for mercy, in front of the throngs of cultists. The fatal element of this is that part of Blackfire's creed that he hammered into the heads of his kidnapped followers was that their substantial suffering was insignificant in the greater scheme of things. To show himself to be weak and submissive enraged the people that had suffered greatly for him, and the disillusioned cultists tore him apart so ferociously that nothing identifiable remained.
* ''[[Nextwave]]'': The squad does this by accident. Upon de-transforming a police officer who had been changed into a giant mecha, they leave him in the care of a crowd that claims to be his friends. In his weakened state, they don't notice his panicked eyes and whispered protests, and don't know that the cop is extremely corrupt and they just handed him over to the people he's been terrorizing and extorting for the last twenty years.
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== Professional Wrestling ==
* On the May 16th, 2011 episode of ''[[WWE Raw]]'', [[Michael Cole]] is signing a contract for his match at ''Over The Limt'' with [[Jerry Lawler]]. In the middle of Cole's [[Hannibal Lecture]], Jerry replies with a [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]...then praises Cole's [[Dragon
== Video Games ==
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== Web Original ==
* In ''[[The Gamers Alliance (Roleplay)|The Gamers Alliance]]'', a villainous variant happens to [[Smug Snake|Awar]] in the aftermath of the siege of Vanna. [[Amnesiac Dissonance|Ronove]], who has [[Face Heel Turn|betrayed]] his [[True Companions|former companions]] in the [[The Alliance|Grand Alliance]] and [[Klingon Promotion|has become]] the new [[Dragon With an Agenda|Dreadlord]] of the [[The Legions of Hell|Northern Horde]], uses his authority to free Awar from demon captivity... only to end up ''[[Laser
== Western Animation ==
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