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** Later on, Nena gets one of these when {{spoiler|she opens fire on Wang Liu Mei's ship with the Throne Drei}}.
* In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S]]'', [[The Mole|Due]]'s first scene has her killing {{spoiler|the TSAB High Council}}. [[Finger-Lickin' Evil|The manner in which she does this]] would firmly establish her as unsympathetic, except that [[Karmic Death|they were the ones responsible]] for the season's conflict.
* [[Yandere (disambiguation)|Loly and Menoly]] from ''[[Bleach]]'' are horribly beaten ''[[Death Is Cheap|twice]]'', once by {{spoiler|Grimmjow}} and again by {{spoiler|Yammy}}. Thing is, they were trying to torture and murder a helpless girl both times ({{spoiler|[[The Ingenue]] Orihime Inoue}}, who {{spoiler|[[Healing Hands|brought them BACK to life]] after Grimmjow's mauling}}).
** {{spoiler|Actually subverted with the Yammy beating, as he is ALSO there to torture and murder Orihime and just doesn't want anyone else in the way. More pronounced in the anime, when Loly actually ends up defending Orihime from him.}}
** Arguably, {{spoiler|Mayuri}} does this too when he fights, humiliates, defeats and deals a [[Fate Worse Than Death]] to {{spoiler|Szayel Aporro Ganz}}. Sure, {{spoiler|Mayuri}} is a [[Jerkass]] who borders on [[Complete Monster]], but {{spoiler|Szayel}} was ''even worse'' than him, considering what he did to {{spoiler|Renji, Uryu and Nemu}}... And being ''worse than {{spoiler|Mayuri}}'' is quite an accomplishment, given his level of routine depravity.
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* How many times does this happen in ''[[Detective Conan]]''? Pretty often, considering how many [[Asshole Victim|Asshole Victims]] are in that show.
* From ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', there's [[Complete Monster|Rubeus]]. He was a very irritating [[Smug Snake]] who treated his [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]], the Ayakashi Sisters, like shit -- specially the one who loved him, Cooan. When he was left to die by his fellow villain Green Esmeraude, he had kicked the dog so many times that seeing him die felt like a [[Karmic Death]].
* In ''[[Muhyo and Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation]]'', this is applied retroactively to two of Enchu's victims, as when their deaths are first mentioned, we don't know that they did anything to deserve it. However, it's later revealed that they treated Rio terribly; one forced her to wear revealing clothes to class so that she could sell her tools, another mocked her for doing so, and both refused to save her mother from a haunt, {{spoiler|causing her [[Face Heel Turn]]}}.
* In ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', after [[The Brute|Nappa]] fails to defeat Goku and suffers a humiliating defeat, [[Warrior Prince|Vegeta]] [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|throws him up the air and obliterates him.]] Although the action itself is pretty surprising (Nappa was his partner), Nappa had spent most of his screentime slaughtering thousands of innocents and most of the Z-Fighters and nearly killed Gohan while laughing about it.
** Vegeta ''IS'' this trope in the Planet Namek arc, with his fight against {{spoiler|Zarbon}} being among the best moments. Until about an arc and a half later when he makes a more genuine [[Heel Face Turn]], Vegeta is basically an evil guy killing even eviler guys.
** However, contrast this with [[Curb Stomp Battle|Frieza's final-form fight against Vegeta]]-- whilst Vegeta's actions up until now have hardly been worthy of any sympathy, the fight plays out to evoke as much sympathy for Vegeta as possible. The fact that he is finally facing up to the cruel tyrant who has held him in bondage his entire life, and getting smacked around and humiliated because of it, resulting in Vegeta breaking down and crying, is fairly emotional despite his villainy.
* The first really wicked thing Reina does in ''[[Rave Master]]'' is quite literally stab Sieg Hart in the back. It's a little satisfying though, since Sieg had just mind raped Haru.
* November 11 killing Maki in ''[[Darker Than Black]]'' is definitely an example of this. Normally, [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice|impaling]] a [[Would Hurt a Child|young boy]] with an ice spear would put you well over the [[Moral Event Horizon]]. Not in this case though, as the boy in question is a psychotic [[Yandere (disambiguation)]] who was causing needless destruction because of his obsessive love for his leader and would probably have gone on to kill his own allies if he hadn't been stopped. The way the murder plays out is like an odd fusion of [[Kick the Dog]] and [[Pet the Dog]]. Maki had badly injured April, one of November 11's teammates, and when he tracks Maki down, he is aided by his other teammate, July, and it's shown how despite [[Tin Man|seeming emotionlessness]], they are a very close group. The episode ends with them all bonding (while Maki is bleeding to death in the same room).
* In the ''[[Soul Eater]]'' anime {{spoiler|Asura}} kills {{spoiler|Arachne}}.
** Masterfully subverted in the manga, when {{spoiler|Chrona brutally kills [[Ambiguous Gender|their]] abusive mother Medusa.}} Because what's supposed to be the kicker's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], {{spoiler|actually was the last part of Medusa's [[Thanatos Gambit]].}}
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== Comics ==
* The premise of a lot of [[The Punisher|Punisher]] stories is built around this trope; while a lot of his victims did arguably do something to deserve it, he doesn't really go to much effort to see whether they've actually committed any capital offenses. He also often knocks off drug dealers and other petty thugs just so he can appropriate their ill-gotten cash and weaponry for his own arsenal, and is not adverse to standing back and letting criminals kill each other in a gang war and then finishing off the survivors.
* Magog's execution of the Joker in ''[[Kingdom Come]]''. He'd just finished murdering 92 people in the Daily Planet building when Magog caught up to him. It certainly is a defining moment drawing the line between [[The Cape (trope)|capes]] and [[Anti-Hero|antiheroes]] and Magog was doing what he did not so much for justice's sake as to build up his own reputation, but considering how many victims the Joker's atrocities regularly claimed, it's hard to disagree with the jury that acquitted Magog.
** Heck, anytime someone tried to [[Shoot the Dog|off the]] [[Joker Immunity|Joker]] is viewed as this (unless the offing ends up hurting a ton of innocent bystanders).
** The entire idea of killing the Joker is always treated as this, particularly the part about a [[Start of Darkness]].
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