Karmic Death: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Drifting Classroom]]'': Sekiya.

* In ''[[Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water]]'', [[Big Bad]] Gargoyle suffers one of these in a big way when he enters a space intended solely for Atlanteans and is promptly turned into salt, revealing that he, who has been fighting for years to subjugate the human race under Atlantean rule, is himself a human adopted by the Atlanteans.

** Subverted in the manga, where the Senshi themselves killed the minor villains (Sailor Moon herself got a few too.)

* In ''[[Black Lagoon]]'', Chaka is rude, obnoxious, and such a [[Jerkass]] that even his [[Yakuza]] family dislike him. After he attempts to take over the family and sell Yukio, the rightful heir, into sexual slavery after raping her, he is beaten, decapitated, and drowned - and his tormenters say he got off ''lightly''.

 

== Comic Books ==

* The Governor from ''[[The Walking Dead]]'' suffers one of these at the conclusion of the [[Wham! Episode|"Made to Suffer"]] arc. After the remainder of his troops have finally broken into the good guys' sanctuary, scattering them to the wind and killing over half of them, one of his soldiers, at his urging, shoots a fleeing survivor... the main characters' [[Anyone Can Die|wife and infant daughter.]] Upon discovering the Governor made her kill a baby, she empties her shotgun into the back of his head. The entire squad of soldiers get Karmic Deaths as well, as they're implied to be overwhelmed by zombies a moment later.

* Long-running newspaper comic ''[[Dick Tracy]]'' makes karmic deaths of villains one of its defining features. But as of late, the strip has become a surreal series of storylines that are basically long, Rube Goldberg-like marches to see what gruesome end awaits the villain of the story. To the point where Dick and crew will abandon police procedure and common sense (and occasionally, the laws of physics) to facilitate said karmic fate. As in the current storyline, where the [[Big Bad Evil Guy]] gets [[Hoist by His Own Petard|torn apart by his own attack dogs]] after losing his protective whistle; all the while, it never occurs to Dick or his crew to ''shoot the damn dogs'' until LONG after the villain is a literal dog's dinner.

** There's also shades of this in [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Nihilus']] defeat: her goal was to corrupt the Elements of Harmony and use them to take over Equestria. Instead, it's the Elements that are used to destroy her and remove her from Twilight's body.

* In ''[[Time Lords and Terror]]'', [[Wicked Witch|Hydia]] spends the entire story trying to release [[Eldritch Abomination|the S'muz]] because she believes she can use it to destroy her enemies. Naturally, she's the first one it renders [[Deader Than Dead]] upon its release.

 

 

* ''[[The Book of Eli]]''. Gary Oldman's character escapes with the book and a leg injury, only to learn that it's a Braille Bible and thus useless to him. He tries to get his blind concubine to translate, but she refuses also noting that he is feeling feverish and likely is suffering from a gangrene infection. With most of his men dead he witnesses the anarchy below and it is heavily implied his end comes from either the riots or his infection.

* Almost the whole point of the British World War I horror movie ''[[Deathwatch (2002 film)|Deathwatch]]''. Every character who aids in torturing the lone German prisoner dies in a suitably horrible fashion (suffice to say, one can become very creative when it comes to barbed wire). The only character to survive the movie (and even then it's fairly ambiguous) is Charlie (because he tried to help the prisoner). Other characters get killed in a more traditional sense of karmic death, for instance, the Upper Class Twit officer being murdered by a particularly disgruntled (possibly deranged) trooper.

* Though not technically the main villain, Dr. Worley from ''Return to Oz'' uses an electro therapy machine to damage his patients' minds, and he will then lock them in the cellar. He nearly does this to Dorothy, but the power goes out at the last second. Later, Ozma helps Dorothy escape, resulting in Dorothy getting back to the Land of Oz. While she is away, Dr. Worley's clinic is hit by lightning and burns to the ground. Everyone is rescued, but Dr. Worley runs back into the fire to rescue his machines...

* This trope is pandemic in the Indiana Jones films. Three of the four movies end with the primary villain being undone by their own ambition when the artifact they've been searching for destroys them. Although not the best example of the trope in action, since in every movie Indy has few compunctions about killing bad guys left and right.

* ''[[Metalocalypse]]'' features a slimy PR lady-slash-cult leader get squished by the very comet she tried to kill everyone with.

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': [[Thou Shalt Not Kill|Aang]] actually sits down and discusses this trope with Avatar Kyoshi, no doubt hoping his upcoming battle with Fire Lord Ozai could end the same way as her battle with Chin the Conqueror.

'''Kyoshi''': Personally, I don't really see the difference. But I assure you, I would have done whatever it took to stop Chin. }}

** Also, Zhao's death was a combination of this and [[Hoist by His Own Petard]].

[[Category:Villain Ball]]

[[Category:Karma]]

[[Category:Ironic Tropes]]