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== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Villain on villain case: in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'', the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] whose unfair treatment first turned Edward Nygma into The Riddler succeeds in continuing to make money off Nygma's intellectual creations, but lives his life in constant paranoid fear of Nygma coming to get him again.

* Villain on villain case in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'': the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] whose unfair treatment first turned Edward Nygma into The Riddler succeeds in continuing to make money off Nygma's intellectual creations, but lives his life in constant paranoid fear of Nygma coming to get him again.

** ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' does a similar thing with Inque's daughter {{spoiler|who screwed her over and tried to kill her. She now lives in fear of the vengeance of the assassin who can be anywhere, as anyone or anything, seeing her in every shadow.}}

** ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' does a similar thing with Inque's daughter {{spoiler|who screwed her over and tried to kill her. She now lives in fear of the vengeance of the assassin who can be anywhere, as anyone or anything, seeing her in every shadow}}.

* Speaking of Batman, ''[[Batman: The Brave and the Bold]]'' ends with Bat-Mite screwing over the show to get it cancelled so that a darker, more serious Batman series will be made in its place. The new series focuses primarily on Bat''girl'', and as [[Ambush Bug]] points out, a serious Batman series has no room for [[Silver Age]] silliness... like Bat-Mite himself. Bat-Mite realizes his mistake seconds before he is erased from existence.

* Frequent theme in ''[[Venture Brothers]]'', ~~but~~ in one specific example the Monarch has kidnapped Hank and Dean and is holding them for a ten million dollar ransom, threatening Doc Venture that if he doesn't pay, some giant mechanical caterpillars will "destroy the only proof he's ever had sex."

* Frequent theme in ''[[Venture Brothers]]'' - in one specific example the Monarch has kidnapped Hank and Dean and is holding them for a ten million dollar ransom, threatening Doc Venture that if he doesn't pay, some giant mechanical caterpillars will "destroy the only proof he's ever had sex".

{{quote|'''Doctor Girlfriend:''' How much did the caterpillars cost?

'''Monarch:''' A couple of mils. }}

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** Actually it seems more Monarch was ransoming the boys since he was well aware of Venture's money woes and since his psychological torment seems to fall flat most the time he'd try torturing his wallet, though according to later episodes the Cocoon funds are running low, atleast not enough to afford a small army's worth of body armor.

* In ''[[Wakfu]]'', Nox has spent 200 years of research, plotting, and ''genocide'' in order to gather the energy needed to travel back in time and stop his family from being destroyed partially due to his own negligence. In the end, {{spoiler|he manages to defeat the heroes, drain the Tree of Life (killing the Sadidas in the process), and uses the all the energy gained over this time period to travel back in time... a whole ''twenty minutes''}}.

* ''[[Total Drama World Tour]]'' Courtney finds out Gwen and her boyfriend Duncan kissed and vows revenge. She gets support from most of her team and eventually Gwen is voted off. However Gwen and Duncan remain a couple, while Courtney loses support from her team, fails in getting Duncan voted off, and gets voted off herself instead. And most of all, [[Love Martyr|blindly falls for Alejandro who is just using her]] and he loses anyway. So in the end, Courtney ends up with nothing and no one.

* ''[[Total Drama World Tour]]'': Courtney finds out Gwen and her boyfriend Duncan kissed and vows revenge. She gets support from most of her team and eventually Gwen is voted off. However Gwen and Duncan remain a couple, while Courtney loses support from her team, fails in getting Duncan voted off, and gets voted off herself instead. And most of all, [[Love Martyr|blindly falls for Alejandro, who is just using her]], and he loses anyway. So in the end, Courtney ends up with nothing and no one.

* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]''. Lucius manages to push [[Wicked Weasel|the weavils]] off their land, but the mountain he was going to carve his face into ends up carved into a weevil head instead.

* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E15 The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000|"The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000"]], the Flim Flam Brothers win the contest with Applejack by producing far more barrels of cider than she and the rest of the Mane 6. {{spoiler|In the process, they not only manage to alienate the town with their [[Jerkass]] behavior, but also had to shut off the quality assurance of their machine to win. The resulting cider is so unappetizing that nopony is willing to buy or take for free. Faced with an angry mob, they have no choice but to pack up and leave.}}

* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E15 The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000|The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000]]", the Flim Flam Brothers win the contest with Applejack by producing far more barrels of cider than she and the rest of the Mane 6. {{spoiler|In the process, they not only manage to alienate the town with their [[Jerkass]] behavior, but also had to shut off the quality assurance of their machine to win. The resulting cider is so unappetizing that nopony is willing to buy or take for free. Faced with an angry mob, they have no choice but to pack up and leave}}.

* In one episode of ''[[The Life and Times of Juniper Lee]]'', the villain is a demoness trying to perform a ritual that will rescue her father, the dreaded Kordoth the Conqueror, a legendary warlord who was banished to the spirit world centuries ago for unspecified crimes. June fails to halt the ritual and Kordoth is freed, but he's hardly a threat anymore; he's ''really'' let himself go during the interim, having grown obese and sluggish from eating donuts.

* ''[[Spider-Man: The Animated Series]]''; ~~the~~ "Tablet of Time" two-parter was this for the Kingpin. In his goal to obtain the Tablet, his wife was kidnapped, and though she is rescued unharmed, she decides to leave him at the end, despite his pleas. The Kingpin winds up with the Tablet, which he had wanted in the first place, but he orders Hammerhead to get rid of it. "The sight of it sickens me," he growls.

* ''[[Spider-Man: The Animated Series]]'': The "Tablet of Time" two-parter was this for the Kingpin. In his goal to obtain the Tablet, his wife was kidnapped, and though she is rescued unharmed, she decides to leave him at the end, despite his pleas. The Kingpin winds up with the Tablet, which he had wanted in the first place, but he orders Hammerhead to get rid of it. "The sight of it sickens me", he growls.

* In an episode of ''[[Kidd Video]]'', the [[Big Bad]] Master Blaster is trying to become elected mayor of a town - where the incumbent i ''his own brother'' no less - where the citizens have a thing for showers, baths, pools, and other water-related and plumbing-related things. What the villain ''truly'' wants is the treasure in the town's vault, which he can gain if he becomes mayor. Eventually, Master Blaster wins when their mother casts the deciding vote (a [[Kick the Dog]] towards his brother) but only discovers that this town's idea of a "treasure" is a huge pile of old shower-heads.

* There are two episodes of ''[[Laff-A-Lympics]]'' where the Really Rottens win the competition, ~~but in~~ one ~~of them~~, they really aren't happy about it, ~~because~~ as [[Card-Carrying Villain]]s, they ''want'' to win by cheating, ~~and~~ in this ~~case, they won~~ honestly.

* There are two episodes of ''[[Laff-A-Lympics]]'' where the Really Rottens actually win the competition. In one case, they really aren't happy about it - as [[Card-Carrying Villain]]s, they ''want'' to win by cheating, but had won this round honestly.

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