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* [[Bugs Bunny]] and similar [[Looney Tunes]] characters usually wait until someone does this to start tormenting them.
** ''[[
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PujUHjFb2_k Thankfully, Slappy Squirrel has no problem with kicking puppies. Or blowing them up. A rare example of Kick The Dog being applauded].
* In ''[[
** ''[[The Rugrats Movie]]'': Angelica Pickles, of course.
*** ''[[Rugrats in Paris]]'': Coco Labouche plays this trope too.
* Spoofed in one of the episodes of ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'', when the heroes pretend to be villains, up to a point where they are confronted and asked to literally [[If You're So Evil Eat This Kitten|eat some kittens to prove they are evil.]] They refuse, blowing the cover.
* In ''[[
** Stewie however does do this to Brian when Brian fails to repay a debt to him.
** As does Quagmire after finding out his [[
** And let's not forget Carter's "orphan" joke from "No Chris Left Behind".
* The first act of the ''[[
** In the ''[[Great Expectations]]'' parody episode, Pip shows Estella a baby bunny and tells her that a heartless person would break its neck. Estella proceeds to break said bunny's neck... and the necks of 26 others.
* ''[[
** Princess Azula's very first scene and her memorable exchange of dialogue with her Captain served to support what the writers had announced about her before, that unlike her brother, Azula is no sympathetic [[Anti-Villain]] but a [[Psycho Electro|cold-blooded sociopath]].
*** She actually first appeared (only, no dialog) during the story of how her brother got his scar. During the crowd reaction shot as daddy burns his son's face, a young girl can be smiling, unlike practically everyone else present aside from Zhao, Zuko's established [[The Rival|rival.]]
** A more classic dog-kicking (more properly, turtle-duck kicking) scene with Azula is a flashback to her as a young girl, throwing rocks at cute innocent little turtle-ducks floating in the palace pond. Given that even as late as the season 3 premiere, the turtle-ducks were shown ''still'' fleeing in panic whenever the older Azula walked near the pond, she seems to have done this a ''lot''.
** She also destroyed a sandcastle in The [[Beach Episode]].
** Jet was also subject to a [https://web.archive.org/web/20080423160610/http://www.iroh.org/screencaps/ep10/ep10-188.png visual] kicking the dog (feeble old man) moment in his initial appearance.
** When Mai was introduced, she agreed with Azula to back out of a hostage change ''for her own baby brother'', making herself look like a cruelly [[Emotionless Girl]] who doesn't care about anything except obeying Azula because {{spoiler|[[Hidden Depths|that's what she wants her to think]].}}
*** Before Mai made her decision she looked at Sokka holding Tom Tom (who was perfectly happy with this). Perhaps she just realised that they weren't going to hurt him?
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** Eric Raymond kicks the dog on a regular basis, from actually slapping Jerrica in the face to destroying the only known recordings of Jacqui Benton's (Jerrica and Kimber's mother) singing career.
* In ''How the Grinch Stole Christmas'', the Grinch's dog Max suffers many indignities at the Grinch's hand.
* In ''[[The Simpsons (
** In the Tree-House of Horror episode where the giant ads all come to life, Marge convinces Homer to return the giant donut to the Lard Lad in order to end the destruction. Lard Lad gets back his donut, smiles at it contently, and then KICKS THEIR DOG IN THE NEXT STATE and walks away down the street smashing the roofs of every house with his giant donut along the way.
** Springfield's own resident evil, Monty Burns, literally punts the dog in "Last Exit to Springfield".
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*** Curse of the Flying Hellfish reveals him and Abe to be the last surviving members of their [[WW 2]] unit, and that a deal was made such that the last surviving member would get to keep a case of art stolen from civilians; Burns hires an assassin to kill Abe, but said assassin is not successful at it. Bart convinces Abe to go get the case anyway, and when Abe and Bart retrieve it, Burns shows up and takes the art at gunpoint. Bart calls Burns a coward, then Burns points the gun at his face; Abe says Burns can take the art as long as he does not hurt the boy. Burns remarks that he would rather do both, then [[Moral Event Horizon|kicks Bart into the empty case and kicks the case into the water]]. Note that he could have taken the art without drowning the child, he just tried to drown the child anyway, for no apparent reason other than [[Disproportionate Retribution|that said child insulted him]].
*** He once developed a project to block sunlight from reaching Springfield, to deprive them of one more alternative source of heat and light. His [[Extreme Doormat|usually-unquestioning assistant]] Smithers [[Even Evil Has Standards|STRONGLY objected to this]], and was fired as a result. A town hall meeting was held about this, and Burns showed up JUST when the whole town was being shown what Burns' oil drilling operation did to Bart's pet dog, who was seen using wheels just to walk down the hallway.
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** Homer has a few of these too.
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'''Homer:''' Yeah, but he's cool with it... (''looks at Bart shaking his fist'') Right?
'''Bart:''' (''wheezing'') It hurts when I swallow...
'''Homer:''' Why you little.. (''resumes strangling Bart'') }}
** Also, in the first clip show, Homer lands in a coma after Bart pulls a prank on him due to Homer playing pranks on him all that day (Bart hadn't expected him to wind up in a coma). Thinking Homer may die, Bart sadly confesses to the prank. Homer then procedures to wake up....and begin strangling Bart in revenge for the prank.
*** Not to mention that before that, Homer's pranks on Bart were pretty mean-spirited. He put duct tape on Bart's eyes (duct tape is the strongest tape available, and the eyelids are the thinnest layer of skin on the body), and he tricked Bart into drinking milk that was sitting next to the furnace for six weeks (so it was so curdled, it might as well have been poisoned). It's a good thing [[MST3K Mantra|it only happened in a TV show]]; there's a difference between an April Fool's Day joke and attempted murder.
** In the infamous "The Boys Of Bummer", Bart costs Springfield the Little League Championship and is being booed at. He runs out of the stadium and asks Chief Wiggum for safety. So what does do. He drive Bart '''''back''''' ''into the stadium'' where the angry spectators throw food and beer cans at him. ''[[It Gets Worse|And that's just the tip of the iceberg.]]''
* Porter C. Powell of ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' at the start of season two. Sari's father is missing in action. What does he do? Steals his company, kicks Sari out of her home with nothing but the clothes on her back and informs the poor girl that there's no papers to prove she even ''exists''. Particularly jarring since Sari was the first human sidekick [[Rescued
* Ursula in the wedding scene of ''[[
** Not to mention when we're first introduced to Ursula, where she's munching on adorable, terrified little shrimp that squeal in her grasp.
* Syndrome in ''[[The Incredibles]]''. First, he mocks Mr. Incredible for the apparent death of his family. Then, he encourages Mr. Incredible to kill his henchwoman Mirage. Mirage survives, but her respect for her boss doesn't.
** Mr. Huph, Bob's boss at the insurance company, sees a man being beaten and mugged and thinks nothing of it besides "Let's hope we don't cover him!"
* ''[[Beauty and
* In Disney's version of ''[[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Peter Pan]]'', Captain Hook shoots one of his own men for singing off key. Later, when another mentions that Wendy made no splash after walking the plank (she got rescued by Peter), Hook tosses him overboard just to hear a splash.
* The Sheriff of Nottingham in the Disney version of ''[[Robin Hood (Disney film)|Robin Hood]]'' (who, ironically enough for a Dog Kicker, is a wolf...) goes as far as to steal money from a disabled beggar (who is hiding the money in his cast and he beats his leg to get to it), children, and even from Friar Tuck's church. He does all this with an almost jovial countenance, as if he was just playing an innocent joke... and to top it off, he calls it "his job"!
** Prince John also seems to cross this when he orders Friar Tuck to be hanged {{spoiler|as bait to trap Robin Hood}}. Now, hanging anybody is pretty bad, but Friar Tuck is a man of the church. Even his advisor Sir Hiss seems horrified by this.
* In ''[[The Rescuers (Disney film)|The Rescuers]]'', Madame Medusa asks Penny, the adorable orphan she's kidnapped, "What makes you think anyone would want a homely little girl like you?" In a [[Stepford Smiler|sickeningly sweet voice]]. After trying to get Penny to ''like'' her. The cruel manipulation in this scene is [[Your Mileage May Vary|arguably]] more memorably evil than kidnapping Penny in the first place.
* ''Mina and the Count'', a cult favorite from the [[What a Cartoon]] show on Cartoon Network had the count carelessly smacking a screeching cat away within the first minute of his introduction. Fortunately, he gets his comeuppance in the most hilarious way.
* Cruella de Vil, villain of Disney's ''[[
* Professor Ratigan of ''[[
* An episode of ''[[Batman: The Animated Series
** In ''[[Batman: Mask of the Phantasm]]'', [[The Joker]] literally kicks an adorable (robotic) dog.
* ''[[
** He [[Crosses the Line Twice]] in "The Marines", where Shake ''decapitates a kitten with a jig saw''.
* In ''[[Teen Titans (
** Slade injects the Titans with nanobots to blackmail Robin into being his apprentice.
*** Also, he [[Kick Them While They Are Down|literally kicks Robin while he's lying in pain on the ground]] in "Haunted".
** Control Freak steals [[James Bond (
* In ''[[Mulan]]'', [[Big Bad|Shan-Yu]] captures a pair of Chinese scouts (and mockingly congratulates them on finding his army), then lets them go to tell their Emperor he is coming. As they flee, he turns to one of his henchmen, an archer:
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[nocks arrow] "One." }}
** Later, after having his pet falcon steal a small item from a nearby village to confirm the presence of the Chinese army there, he orders the attack:
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* In the ''[[
* In ''[[
* In the ''[[
** Don't forget the much more literal [[Mechanical Lifeforms|Robo-Puppy Mistreatment Alert!]]
** And in a similar vein, the cold open of an episode has the Professor announce that he's taught the toaster to feel love. Said toaster runs up to Bender and starts licking him like a dog, for which it gets backhanded across the room.
* In ''[[Clone High]]'', Principal Scudworth frequently kicks the dog. He frequently conducts terrible experiments on (and kills) students. In the final episode, he rigs the prom so he can be prom king (to console himself from having lost the title in his own prom to John Stamos). John Stamos shows up and is awarded the title, but then sympathetically offers the crown to Scudworth. Scudworth then takes the crown, stabs Stamos in the eye with it, and then proceeds to wear it and take the title.
** His villainy is overshadowed by his rival principal in "A Shot in D'Arc". They discuss how after last year's basketball game, the rival principal won Scudworth's first-born son, Brian. After discussing the terms of this year's wager (all the while the rival principal's eating a meal), Scudworth asks, "By the way, how is Brian?", to which the rival replies (slurping up some food), "Dee-licious."
* Used [[In
* Heloise and Lucius on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' do this pretty much on a full-time basis. [[Enfant Terrible|Heloise]] has built prisions that offer the prisoners chances to escape, only to cruelly dash their hopes. [[The Caligula|Lucius]], meanwhile, often forces [[Butt Monkey|Samy]] to do humiliating things for his amusement.
* In ''[[
** Krabs also kicked the worm when he sold Squidward to repomen in Le Big Switch.
* In ''[[Total Drama World Tour]]'', most of [[Big Bad|Alejandro]]'s actions against other competitors are purely to get ahead in the game. {{spoiler|Except for how he eliminated DJ, throughout the episode of his elimination he helped DJ get over his curse just to reveal that [[Yank the Dog's Chain|he faked the curse removal and DJ is still cursed by animals which causes him to lose the challenge]].}} Considering that said competitor was a [[Death Seeker]] of sorts and likely would have eliminated himself soon, this seems to serve no purpose.
* In the [[Jonah Hex]] portion of DC showcase, Red (Jonah's curent [[Foregone Conclusion|bounty-waiting-to-be-collected]]) rides into town drunk and shoots a dog who bothers him. In the literal sense, not the [[Shoot the Dog|figurative]].
* In ''[[Around the World
* In Season 3 of ''[[The Boondocks]]'', eight year old sociopath Lamilton Taeshawn shoots a dog, hammering in how little he cares for anything or anyone.
* Instead of listing the occasions when Judge Claude Frollo from ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' kicks the dog, try listing the scenes he doesn't do this even once... we'll wait.
* In the season 1 finale of ''[[
* The ''[[Popeye]]'' cartoon "Protek The Weakerist" and its color remake "Barking Dogs Don't Fite" have the central action of Popeye having to walk Olive's cute little dog, only to run into Bluto and his massive bulldog who promptly chases him all around with every intention of mauling him with Bluto's approval. The plight of that little dog being victimized by that beast is so hard to see (while Popeye's not doing much better against Bluto) that is ''soooooo'' satisfying to see Popeye and his dog share a can of spinach and give the bullies what for.
* [[Gorillaz]] bassist and [[It's All About Me|self-proclaimed mastermind]] Murdoc kidnapped their singer 2D to record the Plastic Beach album. That was cruel, [[Fridge Horror|vaguely disturbing]] and allover thoroughly unpleasant, but at least purposeful. However, in addition to assaulting and incarcerating him on the desert island, Murdoc also put 2D in an submarine basement complete with a huge porthole overlooking the open sea. [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Thing is, 2D has a pathological fear of whales, and now a gets wonderful view of them twenty-four seven.]] There was no real ''reason'' for doing this, other than to [[Break the Cutie|psychologically torture the poor guy,]] so the whole ordeal falls straight into [[Kick the Dog]] territory.
** The reason for the whale was so that 2D didn't escape (Murdoc was somehow paying it to watch him, apparently); the real [[Kick the Dog]] comes from his [[Curb Stomp Battle|fights]] with Murdoc, and he's even shown looking suitably bruised up [http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/19700000/2D-Plastic-Beach-gorillaz-19757813-500-536.jpg here]. Phase 3 has made many fans want to give him a massive hug.
* [[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]]'s stepsisters do this when they tore Cinderella's dress to prevent her from going to the ball, even after she kept her end of the bargain of doing all the house chores. What made this moment even worse was that all the materials used on Cinderella's dress were things that they considered "trash" and they still made a big fuss over it, just so Cinderella wouldn't be able to go to the ball.
** They learned well from their mother [[Wicked Stepmother|Lady Tremaine]]. She locked Cinderella up when she realized she was the one the Prince was looking for. And when Cinderella was able to escape with the help of her animal friends, she purposely tripped the footman carrying the glass slipper, causing him to trip and the slipper to break.
*** Bonus points for flashing an evil grin ''right after the duke implies that the king will have his head for this.'' Because, you know, she wasn't enough of a monster already apparently.
* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'s'' parody of ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' advertises one of its features as "kick a puppy."
* Discord from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** In an earlier episode, Fluttershy bumps into Gilda the griffon while leading a family of ducks across the marketplace. Gilda flips out, mocking Fluttershy's apology and ''making her cry''. That is just not on, you bitch. "This calls for extreme measures... PINKIE PIE STYLE!"
*** Though what's sad is that if the episode ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* Remington Smisse from ''[[
* Benson does it in the [[Regular Show]] episode ''Replaced.'' He plans on firing Mordechai and Rigby and replacing them. However, when he did it, he took their pictures just to look at their faces.
** If that weren't bad enough, the episode prior, ''Best Burger Ever,'' instead of punishing the two with his usual way (making them clean the mess up and threatens to fire them if they don't), he steals their burgers and eats them.
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