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You're the [[Big Bad]] and all your [[Evil Plan|Evil Plans]] are thwarted. The hero can take anything you can dish out and then some, the [[Mooks]] cower in the corner whenever he so much as looks at them, and [[The Dragon]] is kindly recommending that you run for the hills. Can nobody stop this unstoppable juggernaut of justice? The answer is no.
Enter the [[Laser Guided Tykebomb]], a [[Evil Minions|henchman]] with one purpose in life and one purpose only: to take down the good guys. The LGT may be a specially constructed robot, a human raised from birth to carry out the deed or normal minion promoted from the ranks to fill the role. This nemesis will often have powers designed to counter or match its targets, or be equipped to exploit his [[Kryptonite Factor]].
Another scenario has a character feeling a [[Face Heel Turn]] coming on, so they need someone to kill ''them'' as a kind of [[Suicide by Cop]], except no "Cop" is strong enough so they have to make their own.
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* The Scorpion and the Spider-Slayer robots in the animated ''[[Spider-Man]]'' series as well as the comics.
* The [[Marvel Universe]] has the Sentinels, a series of robots built for the sole purpose of hunting mutants.
** An earlier version of the Sentinels (retconned into existence) is TESS-One, a robot constructed during [[World War II]] for taking down [[Captain America (comics)]] if he ever went rogue.
* Marvel also has Drax the Destroyer, created for the sole purpose of killing [[Omnicidal Maniac|Thanos]]. {{spoiler|He succeeds. Thanos doesn't seem to mind.}}
* ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'' had the hero being followed by a young kid with no head. The hero (and the future) is so off the wall nobody is too surprised by the lack of head. The hero throws the kid out a window, wherein he explodes. Turns out it was literally a laser guided tyke bomb, created by one of his many, many enemies.
* The [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage|original incarnation]] of the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] were originally the "good guys" version of this trope: Splinter had trained them from birth (or rather, from the moment they had been mutated) in order to kill the Shredder.
* A very unusual kind of LGT was used in ''Jabba the Hutt: The Art of the Deal''. The first issue had the Hutt travel to a meeting with another crime lord, Gaar Suppoon, to trade valuable resources. After a small ceremony in honor of Jabba, the negotiations started off with Suppoon insulting the Hutt for deigning to threaten him with a bomb. Just in case the threat had been real, he had the Empire send one of their best explosives experts, Kosh Kurp, to search the place, and he turned up nothing. The bartering then began in earnest, with each gangster double-crossing and cheating the other, until Suppoon, having been outmaneuvered by Jabba, lost his temper and attempted to have the Hutt killed. Jabba warned him that if he did not regain his temper, he would detonate his bomb. Suppoon, unimpressed, told Jabba to do so, at which point the Hutt called him "Sonopo Bomoor". After a [[Beat Panel|beat]], Kosh Kurp turned to Suppoon and asked if he really was ''the'' Sonopo Bomoor, the one who [[Doomed Hometown|razed the city of Bonaka Nueno on Intuci]], [[You Killed My Father|and encouraged his blood crazed minions to slaughter Kurp's family]] [[Forced to Watch|as he, a mere child, watched]]. [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|The whole situation does not end well for Suppoon.]]
== [[Film]] ==
* [[The Terminator]], time-travelling tykebomb.
* Leeloo from ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' is another example of LGT targetting the [[Big Bad]].
* [[Zoolander]] is [[Brainwashed]] so that he'd become a ruthless killing machine and assassinate the prime minister of Malaysia upon [[Musical Trigger|hearing the song]] "Relax".
* The title character of [[Hanna]] fits the trope to a tee.
* In [[The Lion King]] 2, Zira raised Kovu to be this. It didn't exactly work out for her.
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Arguably]], the [[Star Wars|Skywalker twins]] were set up as a pair of these to take down [[The Empire]] and the pair of Sith in charge, with Obi-Wan and Yoda using a combination of [[Jedi Truth]] and [[Batman Gambit|BatmanGambits]] to set Luke against his father, even dismissing the notion of trying to redeem Vader / Anakin.
** The novelization of ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]'' defies this trope. Obi-Wan and Yoda ultimately decide not to train the two to fight the Sith (seeing how their training failed against the Sith's conspiracy) and left the twins' fate to the will of the Force.
* Hit Girl of [[Kick-Ass]] has been trained by her (also badass) father to take down mob boss Frank D'Amico.
* In the 2009 [[X Men Origins: Wolverine|Wolverine]] feature film, {{spoiler|mutant Wade Wilson is [[Body Horror|transformed]] into Weapon XI (AKA The Deadpool) when [[Big Bad|Colonel Stryker]] grafts various stolen mutant powers onto him: turning him into the ultimate "mutant killer".}}
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