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* Shou Tucker from [[Fullmetal Alchemist (
** Well actually he did get punished in a way. His goal was to make a body for Nina and try to bring her back to life using the Philosopher Stone. He manages to make the body but it's nothing more then a soulless doll. Whatever was left of his mind is completely gone after this. Still, he never really did get a proper punishment for tricking Al into using the stone like that.
*** It should probably also be pointed out that Tucker between the first anime and manga are somewhat different in character. In the anime, it's clear he's already rather out of his gourd when they meet him, although it doesn't show until what he did was revealed and he just kept slowly losing his mind as the series progressed. By the end, any physical punishment as a normal person would know might not even apply to somebody who had gone as insane as he had. In the manga, he wasn't as crazy and basically did it [[For the Evulz]].
** This isn't so much of a problem in [[Fullmetal Alchemist (
** On top of Tucker, another example from the 2003 anime series was [[Complete Monster|General Hakuro]]. A corrupt man whose men gang-raped Rose after she was sent under his custody, you just ''know'' from the scene where he captures her that he would be the type of creep who might do it himself. When the dictatorship is overthrown, we aren't shown if Hakuro even got his. We can assume he did, but we are not shown him get comeuppance.
* Dakki from ''[[Houshin Engi]]'' devoured human beings for seemingly no reason, stopped someone from being executed just to build a burning pillar to use on said person, invites people to parties and then sics tigers on them, turned a guy's son into hamburger and had said guy eat it (the guy later starved to death), and in general made things miserable for the inhabitants of Ancient China. But the worst she did was {{spoiler|plot with a godlike entity who's been manipulating the history of the Earth for centuries in order to serve her own interests.}} What happens to her? {{spoiler|she takes control of the body of said godlike entity and uses it to become the Great Mother and merge with the Earth}}. Talk about Karma.
* The [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|Necks of Orochi]] from ''[[Kannazuki no Miko]]'', after having their plot to destroy the world foiled (also, a couple of massacres early on), basically just get revived and live on as if nothing had happened.
* Aion from ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' falls into this trope depending on your interpretation of the ending in each version.
** Anime: Although he's apparently killed during a battle with Chrono and Rosette, in the epilogue he appears before Father Remington and seems to be behind the assassination attempt of the Pope in the 1980's. Debate rages within the fandom on if he's ''literally'' there, or if it's an allegorical representation that even though he was defeated, what he wanted to happen came true anyway.
** Manga: Chrono and Aion face each other in a final battle, charge toward each other, and then...the scene cuts away. We never find out whether he was killed in the battle as he's never seen again, although it's heavily implied Chrono ''probably'' defeated him. But we never truly know for sure one way or the other.
* Griffith from ''[[Berserk]]'' sacrificed his hand-picked military unit he had ever since he was a teenager, raped his best friend's love interest in front of him (this after said best friend went out of his way to rescue Griffith from a dungeon he was rotting in for over a year) and his reward at the end of it all was to {{spoiler|become a literal God.}} However, this was only due to the anime's [[Gecko Ending]]; the manga is still ongoing.
* Hell Kaiser Ryo in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'' has several [[Kick the Dog]] episodes where he abuses his former friends and even his own brother just to demonstrate how cruel and hateful he's become since his [[Face Heel Turn]]. He faces no retribution for how he treats them, save for "dying" at the hands of Yubel, which isn't really notable because everyone "dies" that season, and they all get better, including Zane. By the time Season 4 comes Zane's friends are treat him like nothing has happened and he and his brother - the same brother he electrocuted with a [[Slasher Smile]] - are closer than ever.
** '''''YUBEL''''' -- once Judai remembers the nature of their past lives, he completely forgives her for everything she put him, his allies, and 12 dimensions through because of her [[Stalker
** Kagemaru: who did God only knows what to the missing students and who attempted to destroy the world just to stay young. Juudai hugs him and wishes him well and nothing bad ever happens to him at all.
** Let's not forget the original ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' Kemo is one of Pegasus's biggest and meanest thugs in the first season, who just disappears after the battle with the Big Five in Season 1. Look at his bosses, Pegasus does a [[Heel Face Turn]] and the Big Five actually die in the anime (when the virtual world where they are imprisoned is destroyed), but Kemo is last seen running through a door with some of his goons. Although maybe Kaiba beat him up again.
** Nezumi of the original [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]] manga escapes after tricking Yugi and Jounouchi into confronting Hirutani, avoiding getting beaten up or put into a Shadow Game.
** Kaiba from the original manga. Sure, Yami punished him with a Shadow game and became somewhat more of a [[Jerk
* Rimelda of ''[[Madlax]]'' kills off or is responsible for the deaths of the most likable members of the cast, including {{spoiler|Madlax's apparent romantic interest, Vanessa}}. Not only does she survive in the end, but {{spoiler|she gets together with Madlax}}. Presumably Bee Train was trying to replicate their success with ''[[Noir (
* Despite ostensibly being one of the "good guys" throughout 2/3 of the series ''[[
** On the other hand, she becomes [[The Atoner]] in ''[[Mai
** Which is not to forget that throughout the course of the ''[[
** John Smith from [[Mai-Otome 0
* Nagi is not only arguably the main villain of ''[[
* Because it only covered about 60% of the manga, the ''[[
* Schwarz of ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]'' were most likely allowed to become Karma Houdinis, despite being the [[Evil Counterpart|Evil Counterparts]] of the protagonists and perpetrating quite a lot of carnage, by virtue of gaining enough of a fan following to become [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Ensemble Dark Horses]]. Sequel series ''Weiss Kreuz: Glühen'' sees two of them recast to some extent as [[Heroic Sociopath|Heroic Sociopaths]] and one more performing an arguable [[Heel Face Turn]], but none of them have been redeemed or seen any justice for their various acts of villainy. (Meanwhile, none of the ''protagonists'' escape anything like unscathed.)
** ''Farfarello.'' The [[Four Is Death|fourth]] member of Schwarz. He's arguably the worst of them all; aside of everything else, he accidentally killed {{spoiler|Ouka}}, purposefully killed {{spoiler|his mother}} and {{spoiler|Tot (although she got better)}}, and his ultimate fate? Apparently, he {{spoiler|quits being an assassin and lives happily ever after with his girlfriend}}. [[Professional Killer|Weiss]] is ''specifically ordered'' to assassinate Farfarello, and Schwarz [[Curb Stomp Battle|curb stomps]] them within an inch of their lives. What the ''hell''?
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** Not much is known about Kenpachi Zaraki's past, but it's implied that he has his own massive body count. His stated purpose in life is to fight and kill others, bringing carnage and bloodshed wherever he goes. And he doesn't have much of a reason forit either. Also. from what we know Zaraki just showed up one day and killed the previous Kenpachi because he could.
* Keel Lorenz, the [[Nietzsche Wannabe]] [[Big Bad]] from ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', {{spoiler|not only gets to see his delusions come to pass, but we get to see him reacting with sadistic glee as he is assimilated into the "perfect being" that he has created. Though his actions were implied to have been reversed by the end of the movie, we never do see him get his comeuppance.}}
* [[Stalker
** [[Alpha Bitch|Otome Katou]]'s [[Girl Posse|so-called "friends"]] (Natsumi, Minami and Kumi) who cruelly bully Kotonoha, {{spoiler|bring [[Bokukko|Sekai's friend Nanami]] to tears and ruin her reputation at school by showing a tape featuring her sex scene with her boyfriend/sempai}} ''and'' {{spoiler|have sex with Makoto just [[For the Lulz]], despite knowing their "friend" Otome is also sleeping with him}} get clean away too. Though with {{spoiler|Kotonoha's mind snapping like a twig, one can only imagine the [[
** It looks like Taisuke is, if anything, even ''worse'' in the PS2 game extension. {{spoiler|In the extended version of Sekai's Yandere ending (the one where she's pregnant and kills Makoto), Kotonoha strongly hints that Sekai's child (born few after the murder, taken care of by Sekai's mother [[Promotion to Parent|and Kotonoha herself]] since [[Missing Mom|the traumatised Sekai has disappeared]]) is not only Taisuke's child, but may have been conceived through rape as well.}}
* In the manga of ''[[
** The Higa team. The coach is a [[Jerkass]], and doesn't receive any more comeuppance than being hit with a tennis ball by the captain of the team when he tries to leave. Half the team itself is comprised of unsportsmanlike [[Jerkass|Jerkasses]] who attack other teams' coaches, and the other half is just ''slightly'' less unsportsmanlike than that. Once they're beaten by Seigaku, it's as if all grievances disappear. They even show up in a comedic [[Breather Episode]], and no mention is made of their earlier conduct.
* Akito of ''[[Fruits Basket]]'', in spite of spending most of the manga series being nigh-on [[Ax Crazy]] and making the lives of every member of the Zodiac as miserable as possible at every opportunity, {{spoiler|gets a last-minute redemption story via Tohru and ends up ''friends'' with her, Uotani and Hanajima, with Shigure as her lover}}.
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*** Those "points in his favor" don't make up for the extended physical, mental, and emotional abuse that ''nearly every single family member of his'' had to suffer because of him.
** Shigure also gets away with his various manipulations, and jerkassery, {{spoiler|getting Akito in the end to boot.}}
* The resident [[Psycho for Hire]] Yazan Gable in ''[[Zeta Gundam]]'', notorious for being the most cruel and immoral of the Titans, {{spoiler|gets away scott-free even after [[The Hero|Kamille]] completely dismantles his Mobile Suit}}. Although he ''does'' {{spoiler|seem to meet his doom in [[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ
** {{spoiler|Yazan makes a [http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/193/yazanep27ko0.png brief cameo] in episode 27, and while unnamed, his identity is later confirmed in Gundam Ace}}. "Immortal Cockroach", indeed.
*** {{spoiler|He might have brain damage as a result of his exploits in Shangri-La however, considering he seemed to get crazier and stupider as the series went on.}}
** Also subverted with [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|Louise]], who committed many atrocities with the A-Laws, but lives in the end and has an apparent happy ending. The show director, apparently unsatisfied with this, makes it more clear in the following movie that Louise's life is far from happy now and that dying would have been easier on her, but she must instead live as [[The Atoner]]. At least, however, she [[The Power of Love|has Saji]] [[Throw the Dog
* Despite being a [[Super Robot]] OVA series, ''[[Dangaioh]]'' is heavily on the cynical side of the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]... and ''loves'' Karma Houdinis! To drive the point home, the main villain of the show ([[Big Bad|Garimos]], leader of a population of parasitic beings who depopulate planets to fatten themselves) never gets punished for his crimes. Another villain, the psychotic cyborg [[Blood Knight|Gil Barg]], {{spoiler|dies in the first OVA, but is then resurrected as an even worse [[Ax Crazy]] murderer, thus making his comeuppance null and void}}.
* ''[[Glass Fleet]]'''s [[Manipulative Bastard]] Vetti Sforza uses his allies as tools and turns against them when they've served their purposes, is responsible for the deaths of Michel's father and brother, {{spoiler|seduced if not actually raped his foster mother in order to get her to kill his foster father and then murdered her once she'd done it,}} {{spoiler|drugs and apparently rapes Michel}}, and even {{spoiler|kills Cleo, his own twin brother, while Cleo is trying to save the world}}. He states up-front that all of his efforts are for the sole purpose of prolonging his own life. Not only does he never receive any particular comeuppance, he ends up {{spoiler|receiving instant and total redemption courtesy of some last-minute [[Epiphany Therapy]] with Cleo's spirit}}, and becomes {{spoiler|the rightful leader of the entire galaxy, with Michel's apparent ungrudging support}}.
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* ''[[Vandread]]'' has Rabat, more of an [[Honest John]], but later on he says that he deliberately leads Harvest Fleets to wipe out potential dangers in return for them sparing him. And before that, deceiving the Nirvana's crew, trying to steal Hibiki's mech, and then beating him senseless whilst lecturing him on 'using his own words' despite his own deceit and greed, before escaping. Despite helping out later on, it's a wonder he doesn't receive some sort of misfortune for his actions.
** To be fair, the Nirvana's crew did try to rob him blind after his first encounter with them, but he got away. By the second time they got him, they were busy with other matters, he returned on his own to return Hibiki, and he escaped mostly unnoticed, and the third time he helped them again.
* Akabane Kuroudo in the ''[[
* [[Boring Invincible Villain|Paul]] in the ''[[Pokémon (
* Cain from the ''[[Trinity Blood]]'' anime, was pulling the strings behind all those events and...he gets away at the end.
** This is mostly due to [[Author Existence Failure]]. Sunao Yoshida, the author of the novels that Trinity Blood was based on, died before he finished the series.
* Any of the abusers from ''[[
* At the end of ''[[Code Geass]]'', Most notably Ohgi, who not only receives no punishment for his actions but is rewarded for it {{spoiler|as he became Prime Minister of Japan}}. Villetta, too, to a lesser extent, and various surviving Britannian soldiers, including [[Lady of War|Princess Cornelia li Britannia]], who in the real world would no doubt be tried for their war crimes. Not to mention that Ohgi and Villetta, who were responsible for the betrayal for somewhat unfounded, and a few hypocritical reasons, got the happiest ending. (To add to this, Villetta herself was no stranger to screwing over Lelouch for her own ignoble reasons, to which effect she used a traumatized Shirley to capture him.) Compare and contrast to the {{spoiler|self-sacrifices of Lelouch and Suzaku, who alienated from and made themselves dead to the world, [[Thanatos Gambit|literally in the case of the former]] and [[Fate Worse Than Death|figuratively in the case of the latter, who also became the new Zero as per the Zero Requiem]], which made the new peace possible for everyone else.}} Consider also that {{spoiler|the two may not have went with such a plan, which also had a high degree of inferred destruction,}} if not for the aforementioned betrayal, and it only looks even worse.
* Ryuk from ''[[
** Not to mention Hitoshi Demegawa. While in the manga he's just a greedy, obnoxious character, the films take it up a notch, wherein he {{spoiler|[[Politically-Incorrect Villain|sexually harasses Takada]]}}. He is {{spoiler|killed by Teru Mikami}} in the manga and anime, but {{spoiler|does not die in the film}}.
** Also Misa Amane, in the films. At the end of the second film, she is {{spoiler|shown to have been let go of by the police after losing her memories of having used the Death Note, despite having previously killed Mogi (who dies here [[Death
* Momoko from ''[[
* The [[Psycho Lesbian]] Duo from ''[[Strawberry Panic
* {{spoiler|Tsukiko}} from ''[[
* ''[[The Twelve Kingdoms]]'' has {{spoiler|Yuka}} and {{spoiler|Kouya}}, both of whom are [[Easily Forgiven]].
* Asuham Boone from ''[[Overman King Gainer]]''. Towards the end of the series, his obsession with getting back at Gain for the whole mess with Asuham's sister Karin degenerates to the point where Asuham willingly manipulates Cynthia and a lot of his underlings (not to mention President Munt himself) in order to awaken the Overdevil, an [[Eldritch Abomination]] capable of destroying the world. He never seemed hesitant nor regretful about it... and all that happens to him is that he gets his Dominator shot down and gets a [[What Were You Thinking?]] speech from Karin herself (who had come to terms with the fact that Gain's relationship with her wouldn't have lasted). Not much of a punishment, huh? Understandable in that [[Yoshiyuki Tomino]] had come out of his problems with depression and was producing lighter and more idealistic shows... but still, some were dissatisfied letting Asuham go like that, after all the crap he pulled.
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* ''[[Franken Fran]]'' is better-known for its particularly vicious [[Laser-Guided Karma]]... {{spoiler|but the villain of Chapter 21 manages to pull this off. Not only does the greedy, self-serving, abusive child molester live, but he manages to get a job at an amusement park where he'll be surrounded by children. The sum total of his "punishment" is that he's trapped in a living mascot costume... which will only make it easier for him to find victims. Fran is too much of a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] to see anything more than slightly odd about just how happy he is with this outcome.}}
* In ''[[Heat Guy J]]'', Daisuke's older brother (and boss), Shun {{spoiler|stages a ''coup d'etat'' and tries to enforce martial law in Judoh, but gets granted amnesty because of the good things he'd done leading up to that as the police chief}}
* Ms. Nomura of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
* ''[[Doubt]]'' has a massive one in {{spoiler|Rei. Who orchestrated the entire event, is shown to have done it at least once before, and comes out from it all with everyone who knows the truth dead and the only survivor hypnotized, psychotic, and ripe to take all the blame while she dances of scott free to do it again gloating all the way.}}
* Sae from ''[[Peach Girl]]''. She does do some make-goods, and she encounters some serious setbacks and heartache, particularly in the manga sequel/spinoff, Sae's Story. But the pain she puts Momo through - at one point threatening to disgrace her on an international level, just so Toji will break up with her, and making Momo believe she's been raped - means that she should have had some kind of beatdown. Note that the classmates she tricks early in the series to hate Momo are ready to hold Momo down and maybe hit her, but no such brutality is even mentioned when Sae is majorly exposed. She doesn't do a complete Houdini, except when the level of her actions is taken into account. Her pain with Ryo was largely self-inflicted, so it really doesn't balance the scales.
* Nabiki Tendo from ''[[Ranma
* Almost all of the villains in ''[[Black Cat (
** This is also true in the manga. Letting Creed go may actually be excusable (as his mind is more or less broken) but [[Pyromaniac|Kyoko]]? [[The Dragon|Shiki]]? ''[[Complete Monster|The Doctor]]''?!
* Rome-Ro from ''[[Heroic Age]]'' pretty much gets away with quite a lot of things from mass genocide, to brutally abusing Yuti-Ra. The two princes cheat death three times and eventually become the rulers of the known universe, after blowing up Jupiter, leading their entire fleet into suicide and bombarding the Bronze tribe homeworld, killing billions of helpless larvae.
* Care to guess the ultimate fate of Goldie Musou, the main antagonist of ''[[Gunsmith Cats]]'', a brainwashing, drug-dealing [[Psycho Lesbian]] crimelord? {{spoiler|She ends up in a happy, consensual relationship with Misty Brown, a protagonist she once kidnapped and [[Rape As Love|presumably raped]]. And she doesn't even quit being a drug-dealing crimelord, albeit a less psychotic one.}}
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* Chaos Choir's leaders and main villains (and [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]) in ''[[Elemental Gelade]]'' were beaten in combat but were not punished for their villainy.
* In the ''[[Shangri-La]]'' anime, Nagiko and Tarsian instituted a system of {{spoiler|child sacrifice}} yet are never called to account for this and are seen flying off together scott free in the last episode.
* Nina Purpleton in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory]]'' is partially responsible for the success of the colony drop, stabs Kou in the back (after lots of tedious relationship development setting them up as a couple that culminated shortly before this) by running back to her old boyfriend (who happens to be Gato, one of the major villains) and then ''pointing a gun at him'' to ''protect'' the villain, and this on top of being a bitch to Kou for most of the series. And not only does she get off scott-free in the end, she has the audacity to ''smile'' at Kou in the epilogue!
** ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' actually fixes this somewhat, but those don't really count...
* Accelerator in ''[[
* Throughout ''[[Infinite Ryvius]]'', a shadowy conspiracy launched a [[False
* The protagonist Yamaguchi in [[Suehiro Maruo]]'s ''[http://samehat.blogspot.com/2005/10/poison-strawberry-chapter-one.html Poison Strawberry]''. Karma Houdini for its own sake.
* Needless to say, ''many'' characters in [[Hentai]]. Rare is the sex scene that's consensual throughout for both parties.
* Waiting for that treacherous [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]] Rosemary from [[Ashita no Nadja]] to finally get what's coming to her? Well, when the series ends, you'll ''still'' be waiting. {{spoiler|A slap in the face is literally the most she receives for her crimes.}}
* In ''[[Goshuushou-sama Ninomiya-kun]]'', the main villain is duly punished, essentially with death ( {{spoiler|Reika's dark side disappears or gets reabsorbed or something}}). But {{spoiler|Hosaka}} has happily assisted with every step of the evil plan, from simple kidnapping to ''chucking a woman out of a helicopter''... and his comeuppance consists entirely of losing to Shungo in a fight. The woman even forgives him! (So okay, she survived, but he wasn't sure she would.)
* In ''[[Pokémon Special]]'', Karen and Will were [[Elite Mook|Elite Mooks]] who gleefully attempted to [[Mind Rape]] Blue, made it ''very'' clear that they willingly followed the [[Big Bad]] [[For the Evulz]], and ditched the [[Big Bad]] not because they went through a [[Heel Face Turn]], but because they got scared and ran away. And yet, somehow, {{spoiler|they're now part of the Indigo League Elite Four as of the HGSS arc}}.
* In one episode of ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'', Chessmaster Hex gets away scott-free simply on the grounds that he's to old and senile to remember the plan he set into motion 50 years ago that just now activated.
* In the anime [[Jyu
* In the [[
* Dilandu in the ''[[Escaflowne]]'' movie gets away scot-free with his surviving Dragonslayers, without showing any remorse for his previous actions. He just shrugs, comments that there will always be new wars for him to fight, and rides off into the sunset. What's worse is that the scene has an extremely positive tone to it, like he somehow deserved to live and continue his life of violence and bloodshed without learning a thing, except maybe "don't try to fight Escaflowne".
* Surprisingly, [[
* ''[[Turn
** ''[[Super Robot Wars Alpha]] Gaiden'' and ''[[Super Robot Wars Z]]'' fix this by killing him off in battle.
* [[Troll|Izaya]] from ''[[Durarara!!]]'' ''does'' get punched for his actions. Once. In the anime only. For emotionally destroying a middle schooler and causing a huge gang war that puts an incredible strain on the relationship between three of the main characters. He also gets hit once by a trashcan Shizuo threw, but this is [[Played for Laughs]] and has no effect on him, and blatantly doesn't make up for having framed Shizuo for numerous crimes and sending wave after wave of thugs to attack him when they were in highschool. The novel however subverts this as karma is starting to come back and hit him particularly {{spoiler|getting stabbed by Jinnai, leaving him in the hospital for days when anyone who hates him can come and kill him.}} Karma seems to have hit him in volume 9 when he's tortured by Earthworm but this is later subverted too {{spoiler|as it turns out he had everything planned out from the beginning and was waiting for the best moment to humiliate her.}}
* If Johan got away in the end, so is [[MW|Michio Yuki]]? {{spoiler|He may failed to gas the whole world and loses Garai, but he manages to get away clean from it by posing as his younger lookalike brother}}.
* [[Character Development]] or no, there have been times where Karma seems to love giving [[
** She did almost earn a punch from Kyon for those last two offenses (the last straw being the "Mikuru is my toy" thing), which [[My God, What Have I Done?|prompted]] [[Heel Realization|her]] [[Took a Level In Kindness|immediate]] [[Heel Face Turn]] (even more immediate in the anime version), so this could be a subversion. Doesn't stop her from molesting Mikuru in "Someday in the Rain" just for old time's sake, but then again, that may just be the author confused about the timeline he had set up in [[Anachronic Order]].
* In ''[[Love Hina]]'', Kanako rapes Motoko while disguised as Naru to sow chaos among the residents. The incident is briefly mentioned when the residents attack Naru, and then when the real culprit is found, completely forgotten. Kanako suffers no punishment for this and other cruel acts.
** The same can be said for the brutality the other female inmates of Hinata House put Keitaro through. Naru's antics on Keitaro, which, many times, are ''extreme'' overreactions, dip into sociopathy that could warrant arrests.
* Both [[Red Headed Heroine|Lina]] and, to a lesser extent, [[Jerkass Woobie|Zelgadis]] from ''[[Slayers]]''; Lina's reaction to anything minor (I.E stepping on a sardine in one of the movies, or a dragon ''not stepping on her'' in the anime) often results in wanton destruction of entire cities and kingdoms. She also mistreats her comrades to the point that she could easily be identified as a sociopath - [[
** Rezo, Rezo, Rezo...a priest who healed people far and wide...and experimented on others, often to the point of death, and sacrificing ''an entire kingdom'' to open his eyes...sure, he apologized in the end, but ''still.''
* In a rare heroic example, it's a wonder {{spoiler|Ariel}} from ''[[Kore wa Zombie Desu
* ''[[
* President Kuroi on the anime version of ''[[The Idolmaster (
* Sakura Kyouko from ''[[
** Whether or not you think he's truly horrible or a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] who [[I Did What I Had to Do|just followed his orders]], many viewers would've liked to see {{spoiler|Kyubey}} get a bit more punishment at the end.
* A large portion of [[
* [[Yandere|Hatori]] from ''[[Sekaiichi Hatsukoi (Manga)|Sekaiichi Hatsukoi]]'' comes off as one. While most semes in yaoi anime tend to get away with raping their uke and said uke falling for them, this series is known for avoiding the [[Victim Falls For Rapist]] trope to make it more realistic. However, what has made people remember Hatori is in the novel {{spoiler|he ''brutally'' rapes his best friend Chiaki after thinking that he lost said best friend to his rival Yanase.}} What makes it stand out though is {{spoiler|during the rape scene, Chiaki is shown to be screaming and begging him his friend to stop and not enjoying it at all unlike other yaoi "rape" scenes.}} Hatori tries to atone by {{spoiler|quitting his job but given that Chiaki is [[Too Dumb to Live|idiot]], he begs him to stay}} and they hook up...thus starting their rather [[The Masochism Tango|unbalanced relationship]] in the series.
** It gets worse as the series progresses. By episode 16, it's like Hatori is trying to see how much he can get away with his [[Yandere]] tendencies. In the episode he gets to cancel his date with Chiaki and expect him to be fine about it, goes to meet his ex girlfriend (of course he was meeting her due to work but Chiaki thought he was cheating on him behind his back, and it's later revealed by Yanase that he went out with a lot of girls during his high school year and that it's not impossible to think that), and finally {{spoiler|barges into Yanase's house and proceeding to beat the crap out of him and then forcing himself into Chiaki's house. And what does he get? He gets yelled at by Chiaki for simply skipping out on the date and he gets Chiaki to calm down easily.}} The last concerning {{spoiler|Yanase}} is the cause of a huge backlash given that {{spoiler|Yanase was just rejected by Chiaki a second time and entered a [[Heroic BSOD]] and Hatori proceeding to beat him up counts as a huge [[Kick Them While They Are Down]] Moment that leaves a bitter taste in the viewers mouth.}}
* ''[[The Garden of Words]]'': Aizawa and her fellow bullies get away with spreading nasty rumors about {{spoiler|Yukari, leading to her resignation}}, with little lasting repercussion beyond a slap from Takao.
* In one early episode of ''[[Komi Can't Communicate]]'', Yamai shifts from [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] to borderline [[Yandere]] by kidnapping Tadano, tying him up, and stowing him in her closet, outright stating she never intends to let him leave. The story took this all way too seriously for her to have meant it as a joke (and if she did, it was not funny), but oddly, [[Insane Forgiveness| she is quickly forgiven by Tadano and Komi]], and has never faced ''any'' comeuppance for this at all. This is, by the way, a big reason why Yamai is regarded as a [[Hate Sink]] by fans.
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