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* Demetrius Harris from ''Playmakers'' fits the bill. He implicates a person for murder that his friend committed, is a drug addict, dumps a girl at a hospital who is overdosing, and even steals pain medication from a cancer patient he is visiting. Yet he never sees the consequences of his actions and his transgressions are overlooked by the team owner, who wants him to be the face of the franchise.

* ''[[Yes Minister]]'':

* Mandy the assassin on ''[[24]]''. In her very first appearance, she ''blows up an airliner full of civilians'', then follows it up by attempting to kill President Palmer (and almost succeeding) at the end of the second season. Then there's the video game, where Tony Almeida watches as she slashes the Governor of California's throat and walks off. She then goes on to execute a CTU field agent (and blow up an innocent couple in their car) in the fourth season before being subdued by Jack Bauer. Better yet, the government knows about all of her past crimes...so, what do they do? Give her full immunity for revealing Marwan's location. She gets to walk away scot-free. By the end of the series, she is the only recurring antagonist to remain at large.

** There's also Jonathan, the assassin from season one. He's last seen fleeing the scene after Jack wrecks the initial attempt to kill Senator Palmer, and never mentioned again.

** However, she does mention getting rid of Chyna would be blamed on her, but getting rid of Jared would be blamed on Fletcher, even if she does it. But no blame is placed on Fletcher either. So they both are in this case.

* Mayor Worth from [[Black Scorpion]] is [[Sleazy Politician|political example]]. Despite being the cause of most of the city's problems and the [[Create Your Own Villain|reason]] for most of its super villains, he remains free ''and'' the mayor. It's even lampshaded.

* Averted on ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' 99% of the time; the main unsub of the episode has gotten away with it a grand total of ''once''. Occasionally played straight with minor characters only tangentially related to the crime, however, a good example being the [[General Ripper]] responsible for the unsub's [[Start of Darkness]] in "Dorado Falls."

* The Argentine [[Los Exitosos Pells]] had a magnanimous writer: [[Happy Ending]] for all. For all the good guys, of course, but also for all the bad guys. The evil assistant who wanted to rule the TV channel got a TV channel for her own, the journalist who wanted to replace the news presenter of the channel is in charge of the new channel news program... and even the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] that was jailed. Last episode, the bad guy has been revealed as such, captured and held behind bars... [[The End - or Is It?|the end?]] No! He was freed some months afterwards because of a legal technicism, and began a [[President Evil|political career]].