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{{quote|''No good deed goes unpunished
''All helpful urges should be circumvented
''No good deed goes unpunished
''Sure, I meant well -- well, look at what well-meant did!''|'''Elphaba''', "No Good Deed" from ''[[Wicked (theatre)|Wicked]]''}}
We all know that [[Karma]] can be a bitch, but sometimes it's a total [[Jerkass]]. It's not enough that the bad guy is a [[Karma Houdini]]. It's not enough that the good guy [[Can't Get Away With Nuthin']]. It's not even enough that he's a [[Butt Monkey]] or [[Chew Toy]], put through the wringer for no reason, not to mention having to deal with [[The Call Knows Where You Live|The Call Knowing Where He Lives]], a [[Clingy MacGuffin]] and being constantly threatened with [[Death By Pragmatism]] if he dares respond to a problem in the way a normal person would and should. No, sometimes fate isn't satisfied until disaster befalls the good guy purely as a result of his ''doing the right thing''.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'' is all about this trope. Dr. Tenma saves the life of a young boy, who turns out to be the titular [[Complete Monster]], and spends the rest of the series paying for it. He also has a habit of risking capture to tend to others' wounds, even when he ''knows'' they're bad guys, and he eventually {{spoiler|gets caught by the police}} because he stopped to help a little kid who scraped his knee. [[The Woobie|Poor Tenma]].
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