Kick the Dog/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

*** 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.

** Homer has a few of these too.

'''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.

** Control Freak steals [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]'s gadgets, then pushes him off the Eiffel Tower.

* 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:

[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:

* In the ''[[Gargoyles]]'' four-parter City of Stone, Gruach is forced into an arranged marriage with Gillecomgain, the murderous Hunter. At one point, Gillecomgain takes a flower and looks at her somewhat wistfully, but then crushes it. Greg Weisman said they were worried we might start to feel sympathy for Gillecomgain being stuck in a loveless marriage, so the flower-crushing was a somewhat manipulative signal that it was okay to hate him. Later, he holds a knife to Gruoch- taking his own wife hostage- to threaten Macbeth. All this made it easy to cheer when he fell to his death shortly thereafter (also a case of [[Karmic Death]], as he'd earlier killed Macbeth's father by throwing him off the same castle wall).

* In ''[[Winx Club]]'', the Trix do this on a daily basis. Some of their moments are: trying to murder Bloom's parents, crippling Galatea by destroying her wings (Icy), turning Mirta into a pumpkin (Icy again), threatening to kill Musa's father (Stormy)...basically, most of their heinous acts either border or are attempted murder. Counting all their acts of needless cruelty would make one ''hell'' of a drinking game.