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{{quote|''Delirium's driving warrants attention from a highway patrol officer, who scolds and angers her. She punishes him by inflicting hallucinations upon him: "I think you'll have invisible insects all over you now [[Disproportionate Retribution|for all your life and for ever and always]]."''
|''[[The Sandman|The Sandman: Brief Lives]]''}}
'''Victimized Bystander''' is an [[Super-Trope|Umbrella Trope]] that can be divided in 3 types:
'''Type II'''
▲* Broken Bystander (or Scarred Bystander), This is a bystander who suffers a traumatical experience because of the main plot, usually these characters are nameless and rarely mentioned. Example: [[The Matrix]] has a little girl whose mother morphs into Agent Smith with astonishment.
▲* Victimized Bystander, This bystander is usually used for comical or examplefied usage, their cars will explode, houses recketed or sometimes even assulted. Quintessential example of that is the Cabbage Man from [[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]. It's a [[Running Gag]] that the Gang will somehow cause his cabbage cart to get destroyed and he'll scream [[Catch Phrase|"MY CABBAGES!"]]. His life might not be ruined forever, but his livelihood is ruined for at least the rest of the day
▲* Disrespectoid'd Bystander (alt. Cursed Bystander or Bystander-Disrespectoid), this bystander will experience a (sometimes) life ruining event, for a scene (or two). [[Just Ignore It|When said character experiences this (s)he will often be met with ridicule or no reaction or acknowledgement at all]]. Example: The Capri Sun commercials (Disrespectoid Saga) are examples of this, since all of them contain this type. This trope largely overlaps with the [[Tethercat Principle]] and [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]. It always falls under a form of [[Fridge Horror]]
Victimized Bystanders are bystanders who mostly will be chosen at random to suffer for an action usually not punishable, or when their just doing their duty, these replaceable minor characters whose entire lives have been ruined. The latter can be described as a form of [[Disproportionate Retribution]] Type III is named after Capri Sun's commercials concerning the Disrespectoids where the victims are never mentioned again.
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This trope manifests when a (often a minor) character's life is ruined in a few seconds and never mentioned again, opposite this trope is of-course when a [[A Winner Is You|character wins the lottery and is also never mentioned again]] [[TV Tropes Made of Win Archive|(or anything in that direction.)]].
But in particular this trope is reflected in Capri Sun's Disrespectoids' commercials, since the children who turn into the ''disrespectoids'' are [[Just Ignore It|(instantly) faced with ridicule and laughter,]] [[What Happened to
The most fundamental differences between the types are:
* Type 1 only sees a traumatic experience.
* Type 2 suffers a comical accident.
* Type 3 is permanently damaged for the rest of his/her life.
Compare [[Tethercat Principle]] and [[What Happened to
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== Advertising ==
* Axe's chocostein used an Axe product and turned into a chocolate monster unable to express himself.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* in [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]] Atem (Yami-Yugi) punishes people who lose at his shadow games with life long delusions.
** Though since Kaiba was subjected to one of these early on and recovered, apparently they aren't permanent.
* In ''[[Parasyte]]'' one of the parasites turned a boy's right arm into a giant penis after he offered to show her an animal.
== Comic Books ==▼
* In [[The Sandman|the ''Sandman'' story ''Brief Lives'']], Delirium gives a highway patrolman the permanent delusion that he is covered in stinging insects as "punishment" for pulling her over for very reckless driving. It is outright stated that he'll be suffering this delusion for the rest of his life. Delirium's driving warrants attention from a highway patrol officer, who scolds and angers her. She punishes him by inflicting hallucinations upon him: "I think you'll have invisible insects all over you now for all your life and for ever and always."▼
== Film ==
* In ''[[Son of the Mask]]'', the neighbor's head was transformed into a giant nose. This was because the god Loki thought her to be nosy. She was later demonstrated to the protagonist's wife as an example to confirm his stories: Norse mythology being real and their son the product of a Mask.
* In [[Men in Black (
* In ''[[Iron Man 2]]'' when Tony Stark was in court he was claiming that foreign nations and business competitors are decades away from successfully recreating his achievements, and that the armo(u)r is in fact his own property. He did this by showing video clips of their (the competition's) failures one of these had Hammer testing his own suit with a man in the Iron suit spinning the torso 360° while the legs remained, Hammer noted later that the pilot survived. The pilot is never mentioned again.
* In ''[[The Man
* In X-men, we get a clue of just how badly Mikhail's mind has cracked when a teenager on a bike crashes into him in the street and gets thought into a tree (and judging by how the tree looks like, he might still be conscious). The boy receives no help as the other characters never find out about it, so as far as we know, he is still there.
* [[Nominal Importance|The "Very Unimportant Person"]] in Ocean's Thirteen has one of the worst nights of his life just because he was doing his
* [[Charlie and
== Live Action Television ==
* In ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'', the title character was confronted with a security guard while going to a rock-concert with a few of her friends, when the guard couldn't let them in, Sabrina casts a spell which causes his teeth to fall out, the guard notices it and runs off, he is never mentioned again.
* In ''[[
* On [[Warehouse 13]], there are many artifacts that control a person, usually causing them to try to murder people. After an artifact is neutralized, they are usually freed from it's control. It's rarely discussed whether they end up in jail for the rest of their lives because they happened to own an evil antique.
* On [[Angel]], there was a man who could turn any man he touched into a woman-beating and murdering psycho. At the beginning of the episode he causes some man to murder his wife. He's apparently arrested by the police, and never discussed again.
* The final episode of [[Seinfeld]] [[Playing With Tropes|played with this]] by having everyone whom the main characters had ever wronged <ref>Which was a ''lot'', since the show ran on [[Comedic Sociopath
* An episode of ''[[CSI New York]]'' played with this idea. It featured a fat woman at a basketball game who was chosen to try to shoot a basket from half court as part of a promotion. An obnoxious heckler [[You Are Fat|started mocking her for her weight]]. Because the incident was televised, she became an object of ridicule around the city, her boyfriend broke up with her, and complete strangers would come up to her on the street and tell her to eat a salad. Unlike in most cases, however, she wasn't forgotten; the episode was about the [[Disproportionate Retribution]] she brought on the heckler.
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* In [[Family Guy]] during the episode were Joe is introduced, a baseball player tastes joke hum that makes him addicted to Heroin, after he laughed at the joke, he realised that he was feeling a cold chill.
* [[Rocko's Modern Life]] plays allot with this trope, the most memorable of these being Rocko scavaging the bushes for berries while stumping on a berry that is in reality a testicle of a sleaping animal, who's chances for producing offspring have been halved, due to its now traumatized/crushed ball.
▲== Comic ==
▲* In [[The Sandman|the Sandman story Brief Lives]], Delirium gives a highway patrolman the permanent delusion that he is covered in stinging insects as "punishment" for pulling her over for very reckless driving. It is outright stated that he'll be suffering this delusion for the rest of his life. Delirium's driving warrants attention from a highway patrol officer, who scolds and angers her. She punishes him by inflicting hallucinations upon him: "I think you'll have invisible insects all over you now for all your life and for ever and always."
== Web Comics ==
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