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* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|Charles]] [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Montgomery]] [[Card-Carrying Villain|Burns]], from ''[[The Simpsons (
** Ah yes, the episode where he exploits Homer's desperation for money by making the guy into a prank monkey to the point of having him dress up as a panda that gets raped by another panda. Remember, Burns is the guy who {{spoiler|took over Springfield's television stations to [[Sadistic Choice|try to make the residents take a teddy bear from a baby]]}} in "Rosebud", {{spoiler|made employees who quit and later retake their jobs crawl through a narrow tunnel so that they can come out with Burns literally looking down on them}} in "Maggie Makes Three", sent vicious attack dogs after hungry children who try to steal food that Burns would have otherwise disposed of in "Bart vs. Thanksgiving", {{spoiler|took advantage of legal loopholes that allowed him to steal from schools and wreck old folks' homes and then proceeded to block sunlight from Springfield until it took him getting SHOT for the device blocking said sunlight to be wrecked}} in "Who Shot Mr. Burns", and in "Curse of the Flying Hellfish" {{spoiler|[[Moral Event Horizon|attempted to drown Bart]] [[Disproportionate Retribution|for no apparent reason other than that Bart insulted him.]]}} And none of these evil deeds make any apparent dent in his prominence or power or wealth at all. [[Negative Continuity|Well, at least not permanent ones.]]
** Lampshaded in another episode where Homer writes terribly cruel reviews of every restaurant in town. After foiling an assassination attempt, Homer and Lisa walk off into the sunset with Homer saying, "The important thing is, I didn't get my comeuppance, and I never will." Subverted immediately afterwards when he is shown surrounded by a mob of angry people, and as the credits roll we hear Homer getting beaten up as he wails "I'm finally getting my comeuppance!".
* In one arc of ''[[Shadow Raiders]]'', [[Token Evil Teammate|Femur]] steals the good guys' Battle Moons and get a lot of people killed, but isn't punished. {{spoiler|In the series finale, they never do defeat [[Planet Eater|The Beast]], just send it far away, where it starts eating worlds again...}}
* In ''[[
** Carface is actually dissatisfied with Heaven, meaning karma may have actually caught up with him after all.
** Karma bites Carface ''hard'' in the sequel. It's revealed that he's {{spoiler|[[The Mole]] for ''Satan himself'' and is [[Rewarded
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* ''[[Hey Arnold
** Deconstructed in the episode “Helga and the Nannie”: Helga’s parents hire Inga, a nanny who actually cares for Helga and calls her out on her bad behavior, telling her that sewing is a sane way to canalize anger. Helga tries to make trouble for her, but Inga is [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] and always best Helga. Helga crosses the [[Moral Event Horizon]] by framing Inga for a theft. [[Evil Gloating|Helga gloats about it to other kids]]; [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good|to her surprise, they call her out]]. Inga is fired and has to return to her country. When Helga confesses to her the framing, Inga tells her she knew it all the time. When Helga asks Inga why she will let Helga become a [[Karma Houdini]], Inga tells her that she will not: [[Jerkass Woobie|Helga is an angry and sad kid, who damages]] [[Ungrateful Bastard|those who care about her]], [[Being Evil Sucks|and because of that she cannot be happy]]. [[Downer Ending|The show ends with Helga in her unhappy home]], [[Heel Realization|realizing that she is not a]] [[Karma Houdini]], [[Tear Jerker|and sewing something]].
* ''[[
** Even worse is that Bendy was seen in the crowd scenes in the last episode, meaning he was never kicked out off screen...GOD HAS FORSAKEN US!
*** At least the writers of the show have apologized for the whole Bendy episode.
** Half-averted in "Cheese A-Go-Go": Jackie Khones undeservedly wins a case against Madame Foster because Frankie arrived at the courthouse too late to testify, and is later responsible for everyone in the cast going to jail, though he himself is included. Hardly any less annoying nonetheless.
* Lady Tremaine, from ''[[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]]'', is one of the few Karma Houdinis in the [[Disney Animated Canon]], who as a result of the original story's [[Disneyfication]], pretty much gets away with making Cinderella's life a living Hell for twenty years...
** The closest to punishment she ever got was being humiliated (along with Drizella) in front of the King and the local noblemen after the Fairly Godmother's wand she stole turns them into frogs and then, when reversing that spell, makes them wear Cinderella-like clothing, complete with brooms and all. Keep in mind that this happens in ''Cinderella III'', which happens right after the end of the original Disney movie and has Lady Tremaine, aside of abusing the wand's magic, manipulating a remorseful Anastasia (who's been retconned into a [[Naive Everygirl]]) so she takes Cinderella's place with magic.
*** In the "original" Perrault version, the younger of the two stepsisters ''was'' {{spoiler|much less of an evil bitch than the other one}}.[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/perrault06.html\] Not to mention, there have been other interpretations of the stepsisters with one of them being either the lesser evil or not so bad.
**** In ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', however, she gets blown up by an Unversed, along with the stepsisters.
* In ''[[What's New, Scooby
** There was also the roller ghoster. This one sabotaged theme park rides, and very nearly killed Shaggy and Scooby if they didn't manage to their slingshot sphere rolling away from that cliffside and got Fred, Velma and Daphne minced by the fan from the wind tunnel. She got away scott free because nobody was hurt from it, despite the fact that a lot of villains besides her have been convicted and hauled off for much less.
* Speaking of [[Karma Houdini
** In the original book, the (unnamed) fox and cat end up as {{spoiler|miserable street beggars; the cat who used to fake blindness really became blind, and the fox had to sell his tail.}} They beg Pinocchio to help them, but he essentially tells them "good riddance".
** According to the book ''Mouse Under Glass'' that there was a planned idea that, while heading off to save Gepetto from Monstro, Pinocchio would run into Foulfellow and Gideon again. They try to convince Pinocchio that they can help him, but apparently [[Rule of Three|the third time's the charm]], because this time he doesn't listen to them, and when they attempt to chase him down, they get caught by the police.
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* [[Woody Woodpecker]] would more often than not get away with a lot of the trouble he causes, especially in ''The Screwdriver''. Occasionally averted in shorts like ''Ski For Two''.
** Toward the end of the series' run this trope became more and more averted. Hell, his last cartoon ever (''Bye Bye Blackboard'') ended with Woody being spanked for all the trouble he caused.
* [[Enfant Terrible|Mandy]] from ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* ''[[
** Lampshaded and subverted in "Three Hundred Big Boys", where Bender steals a cigar, and says "Ha! Le Grande Cigar is mine! And with absolutely no consequences!" while being watched on closed circuit camera. At the end of the episode, he remarks on how he hasn't learned a lesson; when the cops show up and start beating him, he shouts "Alright! Closure!"
** Bender does this '''twice''' in "Spanish Fry":
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*** Later, when Fry gets his nose back, Bender makes things worse by convincing the alien to chop off Fry's penis instead (they wanted the nose for an aphrodisiac, thinking it's the human reproductive organ; Bender told them the truth). Neither Fry nor Leela ever blame Bender for giving Lrrr the idea.
** Mom is also this. She's embezzled several billion from Fry, tried to conquer Earth, manufactures inefficient robots that contribute to global warming, has a dark matter monopoly, and keeps her billboards armed.
* ''[[
** [[Cool Old Guy|Uncle Iroh]] is another, subtler example. Despite his spiritual turnaround following the death of his son, Iroh spent the majority of his life as an army officer in an imperialist army and even once joked about burning down the city of millions that he was trying to conquer in a protracted siege. Despite being the face of the enemy for decades as the heir to the throne, Iroh's past is never brought up in a negative light by the show and Iroh himself never expresses any regret for his actions as a soldier. He even ends up {{spoiler|retiring to a teashop in the capital of Ba Sing Se}}. One wonders how that development affects the families of the Earth Kingdom soldiers who died in the siege he undertook.
*** One has to remember that his son died in said siege, he immediately abandoned it out of grief, and it thoroughly trashed his career. Karma bit him pretty bad, all things considered. He also fought against his former allies and helped take back the Earth Kingdom capital, making him [[The Atoner]].
* Fenkman from ''[[Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?]]''
* ''[[
** Of course, he does have that whole [[Heel Face Turn]] thing. I think even the TURTLES are a bit shocked when he suddenly reveals he's become a good guy, and is no longer racist...
** Wait, did you know the episode, "Bishop's Gambit" is the only episode where Bishop has lost?
* ''[[WITCH (
** At least she got what she deserved in the comic the series is based on. She was painfully obliterated by the very powers she wanted to take for herself.
** Ditto for Mongul in ''[[Justice League (
* The 1990s ''[[Batman: The Animated Series
** ''[[Superman: The Animated Series
** This said, [[The DCAU]] mainly averts this, as by the end of ''[[Justice League (
*** Actually, [[Word of God]] says that Darkseid and Luthor became part of the Source Wall, which is made up of the bodies of would-be conquerors and curiosity seekers from all across the universe. So while it's still kinda a Karma Houdini, they're stuck there for the rest of eternity.
** While Two-Face never showed up in ''[[
* Another one from Disney: the Siamese [[Cats Are Mean]] from ''[[Lady and
* ''[[
** There was also "April in Quahog" where it is reported on the news that the world was going to end. As a result, there was panic and chaos across the world. In the end, it all turned out to be an April Fool's Joke played by the newscast. The news cast mysteriously vanishes after that without getting punished for all the trouble they caused.
** {{spoiler|The closest they get to receiving comeuppance is Brian calling them "You dicks!" However, in the season 10 premiere "And Then There Were Fewer", it could be said that karma finally caught up with them with Tom seemingly going to jail after being framed for murder by Diane and then Diane being shot by [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You|Stewie when she tried to kill Lois]]. Tom is back in the episode after that, but Diane is [[Killed Off for Real|dead.]]}}
** In the midst of that prank, Peter stated as his last words that he didn't like the kids. The rest of the episode follows Peter trying to win back the love of the children. After failing in all his attempts, he decides to bribe them with an [[Xbox 360]] but doesn't even let them enjoy that as he hogs it for himself.
** This is the reason why so many people despise the gay marriage episode (among other things) as well as Brian: Brian took the mayor hostage (who, earlier in the episode, illegalized gay marriage) and forced him to re-legalize it. Not only did Brian succeed, but he never got any punishment for this.
*** While Brian's methods were wrong, Adam West [[Sleazy Politician|had started the gay ban]] [[Scandalgate|only to distract the public from the Dig 'Em scandal at the beginning of the episode]], and would have gotten away with it otherwise, incidentally enough. West even made clear to Brian that he only let Brian get away because Brian's actions made the gay ban no longer needed as a distraction.
** '''Glenn. Quagmire.''' Let's start with the fact that he once broke into another person's home and beat a resident for the [[Sarcasm Mode|horrid crime]] of unknowingly sleeping with his trans-gendered dad. Next up on the docket of sexual harassment is watching females changing or using the bathroom including videotaping. One-night stands birthing multiple children he has no intention of paying child-support for. Rape both of the 'regular' and statutory (Dear Diary: Jackpot) kind. He said that he has complied with Megan's Law, although that doesn't seem to have accomplished much. His punishment? Nothing, the main characters continue to associate with him and his multiple sexual diseases aren't harming his life in any significant way-oh, hey, he knowingly spreads STDS through omission of fact, and judging by his house, various gadgets-which assist/facilitate rape-and summer home he is not hard up for money. He even keeps his job as a pilot.
*** However in "Blind Ambition" when Quagmire was trying to spy on Lois using the toilet, he was caught and was actually arrested by the police (this could be the only time he was ever seen arrested for doing anything against the law involving sex) and it results in Lois, Loretta, and Bonnie joining forces to demand his eviction from the neighborhood, but Peter protests and tries to have him reformed. One of the methods involved putting a fan near his dong while looking at pictures of underwear models and the only way to prevent having an erection is to think of things that turn him off. I think this is punishment enough.
*** [[Captain Obvious|While murder is never right]], Brian and Stewie getting away cleanly with their actions in "Road to the North Pole" was deplorable. Trying to take over Santa's role, they kill a man, beat up the wife, and gag the daughter, leaving them all tied up. They leave as the cops come with Stewie acknowledging what they did for what it was, a home invasion. The fact that they receive the Christmas gifts they wanted only adds insult to injury.
** And the most recent example is Penelope, essentially Stewie's female counterpart.
* ''[[
** In the Homecoming episode, Bonnie cheats her way into being the Queen (who should've been Kim) and kisses Ron right in front of Kim's eyes, and then spends the entire episode just whining. Apparently, her punishment is a cute boyfriend in her own league. Bah... She does get hers in the [[Grand Finale|finale]], sort of: {{spoiler|She finds out that because she skipped too many classes during her senior year, she can't graduate until she makes it up in summer school.}}
** Played straight with Cyrus Bortle and Jack Hench. Bortle is a freaking mad scientist who invents the most hideous devices on the show. If used even semi-realistically instead of as [[Rule of Funny]], they would be [[Nightmare Fuel]] level - such as Mind Control where the person knows they are being controlled and understands their actions, but cannot override the control. He remains unpunished, even though he is shown selling his devices in [[Auction of Evil|random auctions]]. Jack Hench is basically the "supplier" of evil technology to the [[Big Bad
* Mertle from ''[[Lilo
* The Kangaroo in ''[[Horton Hears a Who!]]'' constantly calls for the destruction of the speck Horton insists an entire civilization exists on for only the vaguest of authoritarian reasons. She even continues calling for the speck's destruction after the Whos demonstrate undeniably that they exist. [[Easily Forgiven|Yet seconds later Horton's giving her a cookie and all is forgiven.]]
* Angelica from ''[[
** However, in all fairness, Kimi's petition to ban cellphones was already flawed from the beginning as it is. She never once considered how Chuckie felt when she forced him to work on the anniversary poem, forced him to put up flyers on everyone's lockers, and when she smeared her own campaign when she shifted from the issue just to bring up embarrassing facts about him. In fact, neither of the parents do anything about their conflict, other than say, "It's what we get for sending them to public school". Kimi also fails to consider how important cellphones actually are, especially during '''emergencies'''.
*** In addition to ''one'' example of her Karma Houdini, while she has given others flak about their own errors, she seems to have always gotten of scot-free when it came to hers. In "Memoirs of a Finster" not only does she leave Chuckie to fend for himself when they each had to a family tree project, but she went as far as to leave him and ''his'' father out of her family tree and say that she wasn't a real Finster. No comeuppance there. In "Trading Places", when she was upset the her biological father didn't send her anything for Children's Day, she takes her anger out on everyone else, including a random mailman. While you can sympathize for her in this situation, she still receives no comeuppance.
** Getting back to the issue with Angelica, this was actually a large part of her character concept: the idea that [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|sometimes life just isn't fair, and you just have to learn to deal with that.]] As the show became more popular and Angelica developed more, she began to see more consequences for her behavior, but as the primary antagonist of the show, part of what made her such an awful villain was the idea that she could get away with it.
*** On that note, when she gets comeuppance in the original series, it's usually because the scam she set up to mess with the babies' heads ends up messing with her own as well.
*** However, while Angelica became more sympathetic, one character who has ''yet'' any true comeuppance is Savannah Shane, a girl who is far more evil than Angelica has ever been, even since preschool.
* Captain Hero of ''[[Drawn Together]]'' has destroyed an entire planet, caused the deaths of thousands on innocent people on Earth, and has also raped a few people (including his own parents). Yet the only time has ever been punished was when he was caught with a photo of his naked teenaged self.
* Biff and Buzz of that ''[[
** Near the beginning, a scientist contestant is disintegrated when Biff and Buzz mess around with his engine. All of the contestants who aren't Tom and Jerry die because the producer decided to extend the race further and further due to ratings. Said producer starts to cultivate a conscience - unwillingly, but it doesn't matter; the second he does, his boss shows up, turns him into dust, and promotes the producer's assistant. In Tom and Jerry's world, you only survive for as long as you're a karma Houdini.
* Digeri Dingo from ''[[Taz
* Most action based animated series from the '80s-'90s [[Villain Exit Stage Left|has the main villain not have his comeuppance.]] The series gets canceled before there's a final episode, offing the villain would prevent a sequel or spinoff, and the villain can't be killed in a kid's show, leaving the villain to be last seen in a non-resolution episode, [[Cardboard Prison|imprisoned in a way where they'll probably escape]], or transformed into something relatively harmless. Examples:
** Skeletor from ''[[He
** Hordak from ''[[She
** Mumm-Ra from ''[[
** Ganon from the cartoon ''[[The Legend of Zelda (
** Cobra Commander from ''[[G.I. Joe]]''
** [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987
** Dr. Paradigm/Pyranoid from ''[[Street Sharks]]''
** Mon-Star from ''[[
** Galvatron from ''[[The Transformers (
** Venger from ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (
** Most villains from ''[[The Pirates of Dark Water]]''
** Most villains from ''[[Captain Planet and
* Cartman in ''[[
** His much-repressed conscience stopped him from killing his mother, Kyle breaks many of his prized possessions for the HIV incident, and some [[Laser-Guided Karma]] came out of the first two examples as of "201". A more straight example would be in the midget subplot of "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson", in which the midget Cartman laughs at and degrades is made to look like a fool and Cartman never gets any comeuppance for his behavior. The end of "Toilet Paper" is another prime example: genuinely penitent Stan and Kyle receive all of the blame and the brunt of the punishment for a scheme that was (an entirely unapologetic) Cartman's idea.
** Of course "Toilet Paper" plays with this, as Cartman [[Comically Missing the Point|genuinely thinks he has been punished and learnt his lesson]] and tries to give an awkward aesop, much to Kyle's annoyance.
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'''Kyle:''' Oh god.
'''Cartman:''' At first I didn't feel bad but now I feel terrible.
'''Kyle:''' You just feel bad for yourself because you got a week's detention.
'''Cartman:''' Right, so I guess what I learnt today is...
'''Kyle:''' Oh stop it, Cartman. You didn't learn anything. Not a Goddamn thing! }}
** It happens again in "Breast Cancer Show Ever". Fed up with Cartman's behaviour, Wendy challenges him to a fight and ultimately succeeds in beating him to a bloody pulp, leaving him in the playground surrounded by onlookers, crying about losing his standing amongst his friends and that no-one thinks he's cool anymore. This would normally be a very satisfying aversion of this trope, except that all the other guys in his class then make comments about how they ''never'' thought he was cool, that they've always hated him and basically nothing's changed, resulting in Cartman's own warped reasoning leading him to believe that the only reason they'd say such things would be to make him feel better, and therefore they must still think he's cool, effectively meaning he doesn't learn ''any'' lesson whatsoever from the whole experience. Oh, and it's pretty much implied that Wendy then gets punished by her parents for fighting at school and "bullying" Cartman, due to one of Cartman's earlier attempts at getting out of the fight. (Although it's clear she doesn't give a damn by this point whether she gets in trouble or not. But Cartman still learns nothing.)
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*** Further, Kenny's wish at the end restores everything to how it was before the war began, and she pats Terrance and Phillip on the shoulder during the reprise of the opening song ''Mountain Town'', indicating that she has (for the moment, anyway) seen the error of her ways.
** Best illustrated by the ending of "Ginger Kids":
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'''Cartman:''' ''(cheerily)'' Yes, but I'm not going to die! }}
** Butters' parents should also qualify. They could, at best, be described as [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]'s, but most of the time they seem to be downright abusive. Whenever Butters does, well uh anything, he gets grounded, berated, and even ''beaten'' on some occasions, and nobody seems to ever draw attention to their abusive tendencies. The only possible comeuppance they ever got was in "My Future Self n' Me" where after they hired an actor to portray future Butters, Cartman arranged it to have poop smeared all over their walls in a form of revenge (he ran a revenge business in that episode). Then they show up and one would assume they would strike at Butters for this but oddly enough, the poop smeared at their walls made them believe they REALLY are being punished for what they did to Butters involving the actor and they apologized for that.
** And don't forget Sergeant Harrison Yates, the police chief of South Park. He runs an entire station full of corrupt cops, and apparently has some grudge against any black man wealthier than he is. So he (and the rest of the South Park police) organize them to be framed for bogus crimes by planting evidence. Even worse, he doesn't seem to give a damn whenever there's any real crime in South Park. In "The Jeffersons" he even tried to have Michael Jefferson/Jackson arrested, and only decided not to when he found out Mr. Jackson was going to give away all his money. He has yet to receive any real comeuppance for his corruption.
* In ''[[The Little Drummer Boy]]'' the two thieves who kill Aaron's parents and burn down their stables are never caught.
* ''[[
** And [[Butt Monkey|SQUIDWARD]] ended up being the one paying for it.
** Spongebob can also be a big one as well. An example being in a short that involves Mrs. Puff attempting to cover "Boat Smarts". Being the reckless driver he is, Spongebob causes a crash, and a big accident on the road. Instead of apologizing or feeling bad, he chastises Squidward and Mrs. Puff, claims they forgot their boat smarts, and drives off laughing without punishment.
* The hijackers in the ''[[
** The three rebellious teenagers who blew up the car lot are also never caught.
*** Two of the teens show up at the end of the episode when Bobby goes shopping for a new game console; in order to keep Hank from recognizing them they give Bobby a giant discount, implying that this is their "punishment".
** No ''[[
*** Hank does recognize that Buck is far from perfect,<ref>In one episode he refers to Bobby putting out a "Mr. Strickland fire" and adds "A couple hundred more and you'll be tied with me"</ref>
* In the ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force
** And the sequel series has Will Harrangue, who builds a giant robot with his face on it and uses it to shoot missiles at the Capitol Building and the Washington Monument on live TV. He's never punished. The worst that can be said is that he spent a fuck-ton of money on it (way more than he should logically have), but this hasn't affected his career at all.
* The titular character in ''[[
** Making Dib often being blamed for whatever Zim did (as in the Zit episode or the Pilot).
* [[Squirrel Boy]] played with this. Rodney, [[Genre Savvy|after realizing that he is one of these]], he makes a job out of taking responsibility for other's people's misbehavior, since he wouldn't receive punishment anyway.
* In the [[Christmas Episode]] of ''[[Metalocalypse]]'', Dr. Rockso, who's been toeing the [[Moral Event Horizon]] on and off throughout the series, finally crosses the line when he hocks Toki's Christmas presents for cocaine money and ruined Murderface's [[Christmas Special]] by declaring that he does cocaine while getting a handjob from Skwisgaar's mom. The reason he falls here is while Toki ''was'' planning to give him what for, {{spoiler|[[Diabolus Ex Machina|Murderface's grandmother ran into a cross, making it crash on them both.]]}}
* Ken and the rest of Lotso’s gang in ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 3'' (arguably all of the toys in the butterfly room). Sure, they most likely did it out of fear, but the cold honest truth is that they still tricked new toys into going into the caterpillar room, knowing full well that they would {{spoiler|be trapped there and get broken}}. The only reason Ken makes a [[Heel Face Turn]] is because of Barbie. He probably would have continued to not care if it hadn’t been for her presence, yet he’s the one who becomes in charge when Lotso is gone. The only butterfly room toy who had a good excuse for getting away with what he did was {{spoiler|Big Baby}}. He was lied to by Lotso and honestly didn’t really realize how bad the things he was doing were (being a baby and all).
** However the expression on their faces after {{spoiler|Lotso}} shows his true self shows had actually believed what {{spoiler|Lotso had told them about owners}} and [[Mook Face Turn|they switch to the side of]] Buzz and Woody.
*** {{spoiler|To hammer this home, special teams of toys are set up to pacify the caterpillar room after Ken reforms the place. Most of Lotso's former gang are on these teams, and thanks to personnel rotation they're quite content with the job.}}
* Murdoc from ''[[
* ''[[The Garfield Show]]'', "King Nermal": Everyone's favorite orange cat has discovered that Nermal [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit|has been faking an injury to get him to treat him royally]]. He and Odie attempt to expose his fakery many times, but they end up coming across to Jon as being mean to Nermal for no reason, prompting him to throw the two out of the house while it was raining outside. When Garfield and Odie finally pulled off Nermal's fake bandages, [[Idiot Ball|Jon believed it to mean Nermal had fully healed]]. Angrily, Garfield yells, "This isn't over! You're gonna need more bandages when I'm done with you"... {{spoiler|''Garfield and Odie'' are the ones who end up needing more bandages after tripping down the stairs over Nermal's bandages that fell off while they were chasing him. To add insult to (literal) injury, Jon says Liz won't allow them to use their jaws for a month, thus precluding them from trying Jon's [[Trademark Favorite Food|lasagna]], and they also having Nermal nurse them, upon which Nermal promptly eats Jon's lasagna. [[Sarcasm Mode|Oh, joy.]]}}
** Given the number of times Garfield himself has gotten away with abusing Nermal in the past, this may be intended as [[Who's Laughing Now?]].
* [[Complete Monster|Miss Hattie]] in ''[[Despicable Me]]'' runs an [[Orphanage of Fear]], forcing her charges to sell cookies and putting them in the "Box of Shame" if they fail to meet their quota or rebel in any way. She receives no punishment whatsoever.
** {{spoiler|Not to mention Vector's father, the Bank President who was actually the true mastermind behind what Vector was doing. It comes off as sort of ironic that the truly evil villains are the ones that get off scotfree}}.
* Megabyte Beagle in the "Super [[
** Talking about ''[[
** Ma Beagle got away with everything except forging evidence of being Scrooge's wife.
*** Actually, she was arrested with her sons at the end of "New Gizmo Kids on the Block."
* Baron from the [[Flashback Episode]] of ''[[
** With the show's cancellation, [[Big Bad]] General Madula was left unbeaten and, thusly, unpunished for his countless crimes. WHY?!?
* Every single character from ''[[Tom Goes to
* [[Chuck Jones]]' 1945 ''[[
** Also, [[Bugs Bunny]] in "Elmer's Candid Camera".
* [[Alpha Bitch|Ashley A]], and her [[Girl Posse]], (hey, that rhymes!) from ''[[Recess]]''. They [[Manipulative Bastard|exploit]] Gus's [[Honor Before Reason]] approach by tricking him into a "jinx" such that he doesn't talk at all, [[For the Evulz|just to toy with him for their own amusement]]. When Gus holds back from talking at all, even to the point where the school staff is threatening to take him to the police station over it, '''[[Kick the Dog|they STILL enjoy causing him to get into this kind of trouble]].''' Eventually it's announced that Gus was jinxed, and the main characters retaliate against the [[Girl Posse]] by tricking them into a jinx. However, the episode ends there, and if you just think about the logic of the episode, you will realize there's no way in the world that [[Girl Posse]] has the "honour" within them to obey said "jinx."
** Well to be fair the Ashleys do get plenty of comeuppance in later episodes; Mikey moons them, Spinelli beats them in a beauty pageant, Ashley A gets temporarily kicked out of the clique, their flag gets torn up, and Spinelli drops mud on them.
* Mark Morgan and Gregory Swofford in ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]''. They unleashed the [[Hate Plague]] just to spite the Transformers. It spreads all over Cybertron, Earth, and the rest of the galaxy, threatening to destroy all life. And they apparently get off with just saying sorry.
* Zig-zagged in ''[[
** Fortunately Nanette isn't that lucky with Dr. Yamagata.
** And there are occasions even Mrs. Brinks wouldn't let Nanette go unpunished. One of them being when Angela and Nanette unknowingly became pen pals and Nanette wrote unflattering comments about Mrs. Brinks. Another was when Mrs. Brinks learned Nanette doesn't keep the good behavior stars she gives her. Not to mention when Nanette was tricked into confessing a wrongdoing in front of her classmates and their parents. Mrs. Brinks wouldn't let the parents become witnesses to her favoritism.
*** In one episode, Angela and Nanette were in charge of the school shop, Angela got punished when 33 cents were missing. When it was later revealed it was Nanette's fault, Mrs. Brinks wouldn't give Nanette the punishment she gave Angela, believing Nanette made an ''innocent'' mistake but was at least fair enough to offer Angela some sort of compensation for the unjust punishment. {{spoiler|Angela was made Nanette's boss in the running of the shop.}}
* Wizard Kelly of ''[[The Proud Family]]'' is very similar to Mr Burns in that he gets away with the most flagrant violations because he's famous and rich.
* ''[[
** Roger in particular manages to utilize this trope over and over in the series, facing near zero consequences for enslaving orphans, faking a marriage for the sake of blender, several implied cases of theft and murder, and abusing, manipulating and placing his adoptive family in horrific situations over and over (along with at least once trying to outright kill them). Stan and to an extent the rest of the Smiths sometimes lean into this trope as well, but are much more likely to see the error of his ways.
** Perhaps due to being a very minor character, Stelio Kontos, [[Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up|Stan's childhood bully]], ends up being called in by Steve to beat up Stan when the latter plays the bully to toughen up Steve. The thing is, Stelio was responsible for Stan's misguided lesson in the first place, and we never see Stelio having suffered any of his deserved comeuppance.
* [[Norman Osborn]] in ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]''. In the ''first episode'' he has stolen the design for Adrian Toomes' flying technology, denied him a deal and basically made it so that Toomes has no way to make money off his invention. [[Bad Boss|he verbally abuses Dr. Otto Octavious]] [[Abusive Parent|and his son]]; he also is responsible for creating most of the series super villains. What really takes the cake and makes him a [[Complete Monster]]? {{spoiler|[[Abusive Parent|he breaks his son's leg to frame said son for being the Green Goblin]], and turned out to be the one who blew up Dr. Octavious, making him become Dr. Octopus. He also started a gang war over the information on how to create an army of Rhinos, and made millions risk free. So at the end of the series when his identity is revealed and he apparently dies, does he get his comeuppings? Nope; turns out he faked his death and is now going on an airplane to lay low for a while, while his son (who believes Norman wasn't in control of himself as the Green Goblin) vows vengeance on Spider-Man and his identity was never revealed to the police.}} That is not even a full list of his evil deeds in the series, and he still gets away with little more than a minor inconvenience.
* In the ''[[Mega Man (
* [[Magneto]] from ''[[X-Men: Evolution
* To draw yet another one from the [[Disney Animated Canon]], ''[[The Fox and
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* [[Bounty Hunter|Lockdown]] from ''[[Transformers Animated]]'', who keeps '[[Organ Theft|trophies]]' of his prey, is the reason {{spoiler|Ratchet had to wipe Arcee's mind, killed his (and Prowl's mentor)}}, and in his final appearance in the series he escapes scott-free from the Autobots... and then the series was cancelled. Hmm.
* [[And Call Him George|Elmyra]] from ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]''. Annoying, [[Creator's Pet]], and never gets punishment for her torturing of animals (Including the main cast). Probably the most infamous example of her karma evasion is "Out of Odor", in which she still manages to capture [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Fifi LaFume]] despite Fifi regaining her stink after it being removed by tomato juice and washing the tomato juice off in a car wash.
* Razoul, the Captain of the Guard in ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', throws the hero off a cliff to certain death because Jafar paid him to eliminate the rival. This was when Aladdin was still disguised, so it wasn't even that Razoul was enacting vigilante justice on the thief he'd been trying to catch for years. Nevertheless, though Jafar gets his comeuppance at the end of the movie, Razoul not only escapes justice but retains his position throughout the two sequels.
* A ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' sketch involves an Atheist ending up in heaven. There he discovers several people who shouldn't be in heaven but got there anyway. The following lists were: His uncle (Because the [[Take That|Catholic Church]] is into [[
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** Later on, the atheist told the angel about the [[What the Hell, Hero?|hypocrisy]] and [[Lampshade Hanging|mentions how]] a serial killer got into heaven simply because he repents.
* The Diamond Authority from ''[[Steven Universe]]'' is a trio of oppressive, genocidal dictators who are responsible for a ''ton'' of appalling crimes. They wipe out all organic life from the planets they conquer before turning them into Gem colonies. They've created entire races of Gem to serve as slaves, with some forced to act as living furniture and tools. They enforce a rigid caste system where those who defy their wishes are brainwashed or shattered (killed). They have [[Killer Robot]]s hunt down and exterminate Gems with birth defects. {{spoiler|They create a planet-busting superweapon out of the tortured souls of rebel Gems!}} And yet karma turns a blind eye to them, because the series ends with {{spoiler|them turning over a new leaf without suffering ''any'' kind of punishment for the horrific things they did. While they'd at least work to make things right in ''[[Steven Universe Future]]'' their fate is still a sore spot with many fans to this day.}}
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