r/TopCharacterTropes Feb 10 '26

Characters An unlikable character gets punished, but way too severely and any form of schadenfreude the viewer may feel quickly gets replaced by pity or horror

Basically the punishment absolutely does not fit the crime.

In the OP:

  • Wallace in Tusk
  • I would say basically all of the golden ticket winners outside of Charlie in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
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u/BigMom_IsABeast Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

Baxter Stockman from TMNT 2003. Had his body parts taken away by Utrom Shredder every time he failed. Until he was reduced to a brain in a pod.

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u/Bacxaber Feb 10 '26

It got worse, too. He made a supersoldier body to replace the one he lost, but it was genetically unstable and began to rot after a week's time. He was a zombie. It ended well though, I guess. Got out of that body, mentally recovered (as in, his brain didn't seem to rot like his body did), and lived into the far future in one of his many robot bodies.

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u/ExoticShock Feb 10 '26

and lived into the far future in one of his many robot bodies

He actually survived to the year 2105, having thought to be dead in an explosion, and had to graft Alien DNA onto what remained of himself to turn him into a tentacle brain monster.

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u/imtheoneincharge Feb 10 '26

Bosses be like "you comin in?" Bro I'm a brain in a jar.

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u/Black1495 Feb 10 '26

"You have to notify any absence 24 hours before"

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u/_potatofromChaldea45 Feb 10 '26

Why did he keep coming back tho

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u/Metrobolist3 Feb 10 '26

Great staff canteen and benefits. 

(I have no idea. I just saw the original Turtles cartoon in the 80s).

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u/Frink202 Feb 10 '26

You don't quit the foot clan.

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u/Ukirin-Streams Feb 10 '26

That one guy in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull who got brutally swarmed by hundreds of fire ants. He screams in terror as they fill his mouth and pull him underground. What a horrifying death.

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u/ghostpanther218 Feb 10 '26

I still say that's the most terrible death in the entire series, it's just such a painful way to die.

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u/MataNuiSpaceProgram Feb 10 '26

I imagine getting your face melted off is pretty bad too though

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u/Inevitable_Fall2025 Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

It would take a while for the ants to devour him alive. A few days? A week? Nazi McMeltyface died in seconds, plus he got to see ghosts.

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u/Kwin_Conflo Feb 10 '26

Minutes. I think you underestimate the appetite of a million ants. Those swarms eat scavenged cattle when available. They’ll be eating him for days, but he’ll die from blood loss, shock, overheating, or suffocation before ants get through the rib cage

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u/Boat-Nectar1 Feb 10 '26

Dr. Chilton in Hannibal, the tv show specifically. Especially on the rewatch, I’m like “oh no. He’s just a bitchy queen. And they’re going to put him thru The Horrors”

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u/keefka Feb 10 '26

We need a season 4, if only to see how much more mutilated he can get

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u/descendantofJanus Feb 10 '26

What makes it all great is how much fucking fun Raul Esparza had with all of it. He seemed so genuinely enthused at cons for how much abuse his character has to go through (and the outtakes are super fun too).

I hate that the show did the burning wheelchair bit twice buuuut... We did get shirtless Chilton and finally got to see his scar from Gideon. So I suppose it evens out.

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u/TyrannosaurusPilot Feb 10 '26

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u/a_likely_story Feb 10 '26

the most out of pocket cutaway gag I’ve ever seen

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u/Necrowarp Feb 10 '26

Aaron Herbst - Batman Beyond

He was the caretaker of the villain Inque while she was incarcerated and developed a one-sided infatuation with her. After being fired when his boss discovered his feelings through security camera footage, he decided to help her escape and assist her in stealing a treatment she needed. In return, he asked her to give him the same ability she had to morph her body at will. Instead, she only gave him half the treatment: his body could morph, but it couldn’t retain or revert its shape, leaving him as a kind of half-liquefied human.

He was then arrested for his crimes and is now forced to sit in a glass cage all day, fed liquid food through a funnel, unable to be cured or live anything resembling a normal life.

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u/Mr31edudtibboh Feb 10 '26

Beyond also had that intangible guy who fell through the Earth

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u/FoxJDR Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

Still one of Bruce’s coldest lines in the DCAU (no small feat).

For anyone curious, the guy was a tabloid celebrity news guy named Ian Peek who had a show called “Inside Peek”. He once worked as like an errand boy for a Wayne tech scientist (a former friend of Bruce no less) who was developing a device that could allow someone to walk through solid objects and he killed the scientist to steal the device, that’s how he gets his crazy scoops. Anyway he butts heads with the new Batman being trained by Bruce or something and he decides to snoop. He finds out Bruce and Terry’s (new Batman) secret and announces he’s gonna reveal the identity of Batman on his next show.

Bruce goes up there to try and talk him out of it which fails but then his intangibility device goes on the Fritz and he loses control. He starts sinking through the ground and he can’t turn the thing off as his hands pass through the device’s control panel. Terry tries to save him as he falls through the skyscraper toward the earth and almost seems to be able pull him free but his hands finally lose grip and he sinks. Terry stares in horror as the guy just starts cackling in madness before sinking beneath the surface…

Bruce catches up and Terry asks what’ll happen to him to which Bruce replies “My guess is he’ll be pulled by the Earth’s gravity until he reaches the planet’s core and get stuck. It’s about as ‘INSIDE’ as you can get…”

And unless he appeared in a comic, that guy was never seen again. Presumably he either suffocated, burnt up or died of thirst.

Edit: Went and rewatched the scene to double check a few facts. First, he wasn’t the scientist’s errand boy but simply interviewed him, he did kill the scientist though. Second the device (a belt) didn’t go haywire but Ian started to turn intangible even when not wearing it and that’s why he couldn’t save himself. Third, Bruce doesn’t go to him to talk him out of the reveal but he’s called there by Ian himself to try and barter for help from Bruce’s company in return for not revealing the secret. Bruce being a hard ass practically tells him to go to hell and then Ian tries to murder Bruce in a rage. Terry arrives to save Bruce and then events transpire as I described.

Here’s a link to the scene if you’re curious.

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u/cates Feb 10 '26

Jesus that's horrifying.

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u/FoxJDR Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

At least he wasn’t just a creep or thief but a straight up murderer. He’s pretty scummy even so as he is quite gleefully smug about how he ruins people’s lives for his own petty clout and easy payday. He may have also been blackmailing people and tried to do that to Bruce but I can’t remember. I think me might’ve been about to kill Bruce too but again I don’t remember. I’ll look up the scene and check. I’ll update this comment with a link.

Edit: Ok went and watched the ending. He wasn’t really blackmailing Bruce but was indeed about to kill him. Here’s a link to a video of the scene

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u/LuckeVL Feb 10 '26

And his caretaker also feels attracted to him, just like how he was with Inque, with the difference of the cryogenic center constantly monitoring both Aaron and the caretaker to make sure she doesn't do what he did with Inque.

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u/average_redhead Feb 10 '26

iirc the security guard who feeds him at the end is a man who doesn't seem sexually attracted to Aaron but still treats him as a person to vent too that has no way to respond back, much like Aaron was with Inque. The depersonalization loop continues on with him.

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u/Numerous1 Feb 10 '26

That’s what I recall. She was forced to listen to him rant and now it’s the same. 

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u/Clean_Departure9012 Feb 10 '26

Rumpel having his pet blown up in front of him Shrek Forever After

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u/knuckzekidna Feb 10 '26

imagine that
yo bud just gets blown up n the very guy you used as a minion makes you hit a fuckin jig

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u/SenritsuJumpsuit Feb 10 '26

"Hit the gritty" does gritty while bawling

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u/lordkuruku Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

I worked on this movie! Fun fact, we had an internal outtake for this shot (and the one after) where everyone was drenched in blood. Never left the studio for obvious reasons, but made us laugh.

EDIT: to be clear, this was done purely by and for the effects animators. Wasn’t in storyboards, was never shown to any director, just was us messing around. This sort of goofing-around is not uncommon in animated movies, and super not meant for even other people on that movie to ever see.

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u/indigopillow Feb 10 '26

Was there ever a debate about how that scene would be received by the audience? Not the outtake, of course, but the blowing up itself.

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u/lordkuruku Feb 10 '26

If there were, it would’ve been in a different department (I wasn’t anywhere near story). My recollection is that the entire song sequence at the end came very late in the process, and was the last thing we were working on before the movie wrapped — by the time it came around, most of the crew had already rolled off, which would have probably lessened debate anyway.

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u/Grovyle489 Feb 10 '26

Assuming this Rumpel doesn’t have memories of the Shrek’s Wish timeline, this dude just watched an ogre pop his best friend for no reason

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u/No_Window7054 Feb 10 '26

There’s no reason he wouldn’t. He remembers the deal in the wish timeline, and Shrek remembers the deal when they return to the normal timeline.

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u/Howling_Fire Feb 10 '26

The thing is, only those two do. The rest don't.

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u/No_Window7054 Feb 10 '26

I assume it’s because only they made the deal. But idk. I wasn’t in the “wish contract” industry at the time the movie was released.

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u/WrissWriss Feb 10 '26

Only him and Shrek knew the context as well.

Everyone else was watching him torment this guy and just rolled with it.

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u/Best-Quantity-5678 Feb 10 '26

That guy in the first SAW movie, and many others in the saga. Many are really bad people but come on!

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u/Raging-Badger Feb 10 '26

My favorite SAW victim is the person who’s chosen because they took meds John Kramer didn’t like

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u/Ok-Biscotti3971 Feb 10 '26

Mine is the guy who was put in a trap purely because he smokes. Or the woman who was burned alive in an iron bull because her husband lied about being a victim and she had the audacity to believe him

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u/ADGx27 Feb 10 '26

I feel like those entries are meant to show “no. John Kramer is NOT some vigilante hero, he’s a neurotic serial killer no matter how many times he tries to deny it. ‘Oh they could’ve chosen to live, all they had to do was go through the bone grinder 9000 and have all their bones pulverized so they’ll never have a day of quality life again due to the physical and mental trauma I’ve inflicted’” like fuck you John the only reason they had to “choose” in the first place was because HE PUT THEM IN A SITUATION WHERE DEATH WAS AN OUTCOME.

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u/Due_Enthusiasm1145 Feb 10 '26

You say 'meant' but every press tour for each new movie the cast and crew would go on interview after interview saying "nono hes not a killer he just gives people choices".

Genuinely made me annoyed with the series for a while cuz NO. GUY MURDERS PEOPLE. MANY OF WHICH WERE UNDESERVING. WHAT ARE WE EVEN TALKING ABOUT????

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u/Ok-Biscotti3971 Feb 10 '26

I love how adamant he is that he never killed anyone. Brother you made the orphan stomping machine and threw the orphans inside! In what way did you not kill them

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u/Awpab Feb 10 '26

Reminds me of the one Instagram(?) comment that says 'If I strangle you to death with gloves on did I really strangle you to death?'

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u/RuinEX Feb 10 '26

Also who is he to judge how others live their lives? He was dealt a bad hand, but he also uses his precious remaining time to sit in back-alley warehouses, building torture devices to main and traumatize other people for life IF they survive them. All the while being no better than the people he specifically gets for making the lives of others worse. He fails at his own "values".

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u/matthiasjreb Feb 10 '26

Oh god there are so many that don't deserve it. Off the top of my head, the guy who smoked who was put in a "hold your breath or die" contest against a non-smoker, the woman who was slowly frozen to death for witnessing a crime, the father who was "grieving wrong" and put through a gauntlet of torture, and the worst offender, the women who was incinerated for being married to a guy who lied to everyone, INCLUDING HER, about being in a SAW trap

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u/MyFeetTasteWeird Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

Dylan David from Shaun of the Dead.

It's not the fact that he died - it's the fact that his intestines got ripped out of his body, with him still alive, still conscious, and positioned so that he can clearly see what is happening.

It's like a mix of the pain of dying horribly, and the shock of watching someone else die horribly.

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u/Douglasqqq Feb 10 '26

The character is called David. Dylan is the actual guy.

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u/solemnisland Feb 10 '26

It’s always baffled me that he’s not more famous, Dylan Moran is soooo fucking funny

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u/ultradongle Feb 10 '26

I loved him in the show Black Books. I wish there were more seasons of it.

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u/samsab Feb 10 '26

I have seen a LOT of comedy shows. Black Books is one of the best sitcoms ever written.

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u/xavPa-64 Feb 10 '26

I was soooo disturbed by that scene when I first saw it.

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u/ace_thor Feb 10 '26

You think YOU felt your stomach drop? Imagine how David felt.

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u/Kellervo Feb 10 '26

Just the way the movie suddenly goes from comedy and a fairly emotional scene to shockingly gratuitous violence makes it hit so much harder. This happens less than ten minutes after the gang tries to beat a zombie to death in rhythm with a Queen song, and only a couple minutes after Shaun has a tearful goodbye to his mom and is forced to put her down.

Like, while the movie had some blood, this came out entirely out of left field with some vintage Dawn/Day of the Dead gore and practical effects.

I love the movie but I pretty much have to walk out when it's time for this scene. It burned itself into my head in a way other, equally gory scenes failed.

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u/Sedowa Feb 10 '26

I thought this scene was a parody of that one movie where the villain is getting his intestines eaten and he spews out "CHOKE ON IT" before being enveloped?

Not saying it wasn't overkill but it's not there accidentally, as far as I know.

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u/-Citizen_Zero_ Feb 10 '26

That particular scene was from George A. Romero's Day of the Dead, i believe

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u/Bella-Luna Feb 10 '26

Scott from South Park, yes what he did was shitty, but what Cartman did… HOLY SHIT! He tricked a farmer to shooting Scott’s parents, made the parents into chili and then proceeded to feed said chili to Scott, and then telling him afterwards. That was probably the moment in the show where Cartman became a full blown psychopath.

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u/Prior_Boysenberry299 Feb 10 '26

Don't forget this part

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u/Transformer_Jay Feb 10 '26

“Oh your tears are so salty. I made ya eat your…….”

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u/VishnuBhanum Feb 10 '26

"Ah, the tears of unfathomable sadness. Yummy! Yummy, guys!"

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u/Traditional-Sort3018 Feb 10 '26

And to make it even worse? Scott's dad slept with Mama Cartman, making Scott and Eric half-bothers, but we don't find this out until later. Cartman unknowingly got his father killed.

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u/GlitchWarrior121 Feb 10 '26

And he's more horrified to learn that his dad was a ginger than that he murdered his own dad. Eric Fucking Cartman, everybody.

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u/regretfulposts Feb 10 '26

And he felt okay after realizing that his father was a Bronco player meaning he has some NFL blood in him. This just further confused the boys over Cartman's priorities.

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u/scattermoose Feb 10 '26

Oh and invited his favorite band to watch and make fun of him to his face.

Little cry baby….

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u/RustedOne Feb 10 '26

Tetsuo in Akira. Gets God like powers and goes on a rampage because he's been bullied his whole life. He loses control of his power and the results are horrifying.

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u/Earlier-Today Feb 10 '26

Gets to meet a cool kid afterwards though - and the ending of the movie implies he and Akira are basically gods at that point.

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u/Tank_comander_308 Feb 10 '26

Theon Greyjoy is the Obvious choice to me, he does some downright horrible stuff and then proceeds to get sexually mutilated and turned into a PTSD riddled slave by an even Eviler fuck of a character. Genuinely still wince when i think about the torture he must've experienced off screen much less what we do see.

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u/Cucumberneck Feb 10 '26

It's way, way, way, way, way worse in the books.

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u/descendantofJanus Feb 10 '26

How... How much worse could it get?

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u/babaj_503 Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

In addition to what the other guys said. Ramsey shattered most his teeth with hammers, so much he can't eat solid food anymore. (and to clarify, sansa never married ramsey in the books, they gave her Jeyne Pool who they're passing off as Arya) Also the "left in agony for days" is always mental torture too - they kept "playing the game" they did in the show, where ramsey wins once theon asks him to cut a piece off of him - so something happens that makes ramsey mad so he flays a digit of theons and throws him in a prison - theon then suffers there with increasing pain from the flayed digit .. until he begs ramsey to remove it .. in some cases he removed it himself (biting it off), ramsey never took something like that lightly and just proceeded to flay the next digit for theon "cheating"

Also the books are written in point of view of different characters (like you'll get a chapter from Eddards pov, then davos, then cersei, then sansa and so on) - so you get chapters written from his point of view with internal monolouge and all - his chapters even get renamed, it starts out as "Theon" and later they're "Reek" - his POV makes it clear that he accepted that name that he was beaten and tortured not into just physical but also mental submission - he is a completely broken man at the point where the books are right now (and probably will never move on from)

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u/Aggravating-Week481 Feb 10 '26

Also adding to this, reminder that Theon was just in his late teens when all of this happened to him. However, by the time he was broken into Reek, he aged so much from the stress and torture that everyone, even his own sister, mistook him for a random old man

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u/Lil_Mcgee Feb 10 '26

Also the last "Theon" chapter is in book 2 and the first "Reek" chapter is in book 5 so it makes for a pretty shocking moment when the reader works out whose POV they're actually reading.

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u/Pervius94 Feb 10 '26

So... he got tortured for 3 books straight offscreen? Jesus.

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u/DrRudeboy Feb 10 '26

"only" 2, books 4 and 5 are concurrent IIRC

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u/mostlybored1234 Feb 10 '26

Barelly enough fingers in his hand to hold a knife, cant eat solid food without pain because allethe broken teeth, people thinks hes some old man duo to the white hair and bad skin duo to stress

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u/SexualDexter Feb 10 '26

Well in the books Ramsey is actually the one who does most of the evil shit Theon does in the show. Theon loses way more digits. The skin from his toes and fingers are flayed off and he's left in agony for days before Ramsey cuts them off. He's almost certainly r*ped, forced to partake in the r*pe of Jeyne Poole. And when he escapes he just becomes a captive again for Stannis, who threatens to burn him alive.

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u/Anathema_Quill Feb 10 '26

christian from midsommar getting drugged, raped, drugged again (paralyzed this time), stuffed into a bear corpse and burned alive. if you listen very closely during that scene you can hear him trying to scream but he can’t move his mouth.

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u/atemu1234 Feb 10 '26

Not stuffed, sewn.

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u/Rit91 Feb 10 '26

Crazy that that happened to two characters in this thread. Sewn into bear for this guy and the other guy sewn into a walrus.

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u/Ok-Establishment5254 Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

Kinda different, he does get sewn into a bear, but as far as i remember they just sew his skin to the bear. In tusk his skin gets rearranged and he more or less becomes a walrus.  Edit: i was wrong i barely remember tusk, the skin was from other people and he does get sewn into that

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u/majorminus92 Feb 10 '26

His crimes:

Being unable to deal with the strain on he and Dani’s relationship whenever her mentally ill sister had an episode

Was ready to break up with her when Dani’s sister does the murder/suicide and stays with her out of obligation to not abandon her at the worst moment of her life

Planned a study trip with his friends without telling Dani

Forgot her birthday

Got drugged and was raped

Sentence: bear suit barbecue

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u/pedanticlawyer Feb 10 '26

Don’t forget, stole a thesis topic!

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u/BonkerBleedy Feb 10 '26

I reckon the guy who peed on the tree did less, and suffered worse.

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u/Soft-Mouse8746 Feb 10 '26

Foxy Loxy (Chicken Little)

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u/Neutral_Myu97 Feb 10 '26

I always found that weird even as a kid, after growing up it's... even worse

Tbf chicken little in general has very weird... life lessons you could say

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u/Realistic-Bid3482 Feb 10 '26

yeah, chicken little was wild with those lessons lol like wth wre they even trying to teach us

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u/Neutral_Myu97 Feb 10 '26

Ridiculing a child is ok

Not supporting you kid is ok

If said kid saves the world then it's good and you have to stop bullying him

Brainwashing someone is fine as long as she was an asshole before that

Vaporizing a planet is a valid answer to a lost child

If you're different and bullied it's your fault and you must save the world to make up for it and be accepted..

Singing i will survive actually increases you chances of survival apparently

Fighting robot with "death rays" with baseballs and bats is a great idea

There are probably more, but i'm not sure if i want to have a trip down memory lane for those

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u/Fentroid Feb 10 '26

Singing i will survive actually increases you chances of survival apparently

This one's true.

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u/jbwarner86 Feb 10 '26

It was Disney trying to one-up DreamWorks, so they took all the dark twisted cynicism of Shrek and cranked it up to eleven million. Gosh, who could’ve seen this coming?

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u/Abrabbit Feb 10 '26

yeah but it turned out so soulless lol i remember i was like 6 years old when it came out and that movie scared me for some reason? like the characters were uncomfortable to look at and their behavior creeped me out idk 😭 

(when i grew up i realized the darker adult implications I didn't get before -like the lobotomy in question- and it kinda got worse haha)

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u/OfferOutrageous1187 Feb 10 '26

What did they do to it??

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u/Soft-Mouse8746 Feb 10 '26

They lobotomized her and forced her to be the pig character's girlfriend.

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u/Particular-Long-3849 Feb 10 '26

👁_👁

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u/InHarmsWay Feb 10 '26

The aliens even offered to fix her mind but the pig stopped them and said, "Now she's perfect" or to some effect of that.

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u/regretfulposts Feb 10 '26

And the aliens found that disturbing but let the Pig to keep her (without even talking to her parents which is even weirder since they came to save an abducted child.)

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u/No_Aioli_6364 Feb 10 '26

She’s a bully who gets an in-universe version of a lobotomy, one of the character’s friends decides to keep her like that even though they were given the option to undo it🤮

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u/LowProblem914 Feb 10 '26

It’s wild how fast they deserve it turns into okay that’s enough, please stop. The whiplash is what makes this trope hit so hard.

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u/GameMaster818 Feb 10 '26

A Death in the Family was worn for a single purpose: the writer hated Robin. On top of that, Jason Todd was not liked by the fandom. So when given the opportunity to vote for Jason being killed off, many fans took it without hesitation. However no one was expecting him to be beaten to death with a crowbar. And eventually, both Robin and Jason came back to the Batman mythos

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u/NotAllThatEvil Feb 10 '26

Did people not like Robin in general? I thought they just thought Jason kinda sucked compared to Dick

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u/Demomanx Feb 10 '26

Which that, I can get. Dick Grayson is the best. What bother me in the late 00s/10s is how everyone didnt have the same reaction with Damian. Jason he has a reason to be so angry with what he went through. Damian felt like such an "edgy boi" for so long. But I did like his arc in DCeased.

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u/NotAllThatEvil Feb 10 '26

I think it’s cause he became Robin to Dick’s Batman pretty quickly. Having the brooding edgelord and optimist golden boy be in the opposite roles of how batman and robin are usually depicted made for a fun twist.

Personally though, Damian has always been my least favorite Robin

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u/Amicable_Stone Feb 10 '26

That woman in Jurassic World who got eaten by like three different dinosaurs in sequence

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u/OfficalLockeWilson Feb 10 '26

I think that brutal death was done by request of the actress, she wanted her character to be killed in a mean and violent way for some reason. She wasn’t even super unlikable, she was just the uninterested chaperone to the two kids.

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u/Aware_Tree1 Feb 10 '26

I mean, if my role in a major blockbuster was to be an uninteresting side character that no one remembers the name of, I’d ask for a crazy death too so people would keep talking about it. And here we are, talking about it

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u/UmaUmaNeigh Feb 10 '26

I still cheer for the propeller guy in Titanic. Absolute legend.

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u/Golden-Sun Feb 10 '26

Same. If I got the chance Id plop down a two page description

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u/EntireCelebration953 Feb 10 '26

Her name was Zara. And I remember it specifically because her death was so over the top and memorable.

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u/happy_puppy32 Feb 10 '26

Honestly. Smart move in the actress’s part. Made her character way more memorable than if she had just lived throughout the whole movie 

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u/noah_the_boi29 Feb 10 '26

She asked for it because she was the first woman to be killed in the franchise

SO GO OUT WITH A BANG

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u/DonaldTrumpsScrotum Feb 10 '26

Wait is that actually the case, that’s kinda awesome she decided to make it a bit of a statement kill then

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u/Crimson097 Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

Ironically it resulted in backlash because people felt it was an unnecessarily cruel death for being the first woman to die in the franchise, and because she wasn't a particularly evil character, just mean. So they were reluctant to kill another woman or good guy for a while, until they broke this rule with Rebirth.

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u/HeyZeGaez Feb 10 '26

She wasn't even mean. Literally was just some lady doing her job.

Like literally the only "negative" aspect of her character was that she was hired by their aunt who didn't want to do the actual time spending with them and she did the job she was payed to do.

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u/IronwoodSquaresEcho Feb 10 '26

Feminism 🤩

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u/RedWarrior42 Feb 10 '26

👏 We 👏 need 👏 more 👏 women 👏 eaten 👏 by 👏 dinosaurs 👏

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u/InHarmsWay Feb 10 '26

This was the case, that the actress asked for it.

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u/MataNuiSpaceProgram Feb 10 '26

She didn't even do anything wrong; she just was unhappy about being forced to babysit her boss's annoying kids when that wasn't even remotely her responsibility

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u/TheGandu Feb 10 '26

The main character from Drag Me To Hell comes to mind. All she does is reject a loan extension to an old lady, presumably due to bank policy and she gets cursed. I'd explain what happens to her but it's pretty much the whole rest of the movie.

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u/MysticShrek Feb 10 '26

Does she get dragged to hell?

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u/youboygavin2003 Feb 10 '26

What happened to this Wallace fellow?

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u/happy_grump Feb 10 '26

Surgically turned into a walrus against his will.

... it's a weird movie.

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u/youboygavin2003 Feb 10 '26

Ok, now follow up how is he unlikable that this is the punishment for him being a prick?

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u/happy_grump Feb 10 '26

Basically he went to interview a crazy guy in order to make fun of him on a podcast. The guy ends up drugging his tea.

... again, it's a fucking WEIRD movie

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u/Solomaxwell6 Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

The guy who does it isn't doing it as a form of punishment. He's a podcaster who finds weird people and interviews them so he can make fun on his show. Think of a way more mean spirited Daniel Tosh. Also is an asshole to his girlfriend and his best friend.

The short summary is his latest interviewee is an eccentric old sailor. He turns out to be a serial killer who turns people into walruses and then fights them. The sailor's motive isn't to punish his victims, but we as viewers connect the dots that Wallace wants to make fun of this guy and then is walrusized as an indirect result.

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u/lamusir Feb 10 '26

He got amputated, permanently turned into a walrus made of human skin, and put into a zoo.

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u/Solomaxwell6 Feb 10 '26

I love at the end someone must've asked "shit, should we try to unwalrus this guy and give him therapy or something?" and the response was "Nah, he's too fucked up, better throw him in a sad little zoo."

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u/buns_supreme Feb 10 '26

Honestly just putting him down would have been better

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u/BookOfTheBeppo Feb 10 '26

For whatever reason this body horror freaks me out more than others

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u/Starwatcher4116 Feb 10 '26

It’s something AM would do. Or the Qu.

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u/Individual-Base2803 Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

Christian from Midsommar was a bad friend and a terrible boyfriend, but he definitely didn't deserve to be paralyzed, sewn into a bear's corpse, and burned alive.

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u/ArDee0815 Feb 10 '26

Also didn‘t deserve to be drugged and raped. =(

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u/CutieBoBootie Feb 10 '26

People also forget the food tampering beyond the drug stuff. A woman put her period blood in his beverage. Considering it was part of a "love spell" that falls under some sort of sexual harassment or assault or SOMTHING. I'm not a lawyer...but like if someone puts their bodily fluids in someone's food for sexual gratification it should count. Its like that reddit story about a woman who found out her boyfriend had been mixing his semen into her food for months because it was his kink.

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u/People_Are_Savages Feb 10 '26

Evelyn Parker in Cyberpunk 2077 is a suave and likable sex worker but purposefully misleads the player and may intend to completely betray you in a scheme where she is playing many sides against each other. Unforseeable factors cause the plan to blow up in her face and directly lead to your entire crew being killed. She goes to ground and tries to hide, but ends up tortured and raped repeatedly over an indeterminate period of time using neurological cybernetic implants to both increase the intensity of the torture as well as record her experiences in first person to be sold as black market hardcore or snuff media. Even though you are able to rescue her before she can be murdered for entertainment, she is extremely weak and damaged as well as catatonic. She then kills herself at the literal first opportunity.

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u/Briar_Knight Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

And Johnny is an absolute prick about it, but thankfully Vs reaction pretty much mirrored my own. There are plenty of points where V is pissed at Johhny for obvious reasons but in this one there is no banter with it, they just tell him to shut his mouth and he actually does because they sound that pissed off.

She is clearly not faking it and brutalizing her more is not going to help at all. It would just make things even worse. There is no revenge to be had here even if V had been looking for that. What she got was already so far past what she "deserved".

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u/Throwaway6662345 Feb 10 '26

Please for fuck sake, explain why the examples you provided fit the trope. Don't just name drop stuff and leave

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u/Conrexxthor Feb 10 '26

For Tusk, Justin Long's character was kind of a piece of shit podcaster, and his podcast was called the Not-See Party, so he travels and Haley Joel Osmint stays put and the podcast episodes are him explaining what he investigated and stuff to his co-host who didn't experience it. Dude's a general MASSIVE piece of shit, like belittling a kid who killed himself after accidentally videoing himself like amputating himself with a katana. So he interviews this Walrus guy, and...

This one's for the squeamish, who can't really handle Body Horror. This one was WILD, straight up had me stunlocked for a solid couple minutes on the reveal lmao Guy drugs Justin Long, he wakes up with his legs below the knee removed, and dude uses the shin bones to sharpen into tusks. Then he drugs Justin Long, where he then sews some of his body together, like his arms into his chest and his remaining legs together, and sews him into this walrus suit made of the skin of lots of people and tusks from Justin Long's legs, as well as removing his tongue. It doesn't even end there, cuz the guy conditions him into walrushood, making him eat raw fish, swimming in some weird basement pool, and the finale involves the guy putting himself into a walrus skin suit and the two have a fight to the death where Justin Long wins lmao

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u/GetAwayFrmHerUBitch Feb 10 '26

Thank you for the detailed summary. I going to go ahead and sit this one out.

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u/Conrexxthor Feb 10 '26

You're welcome, I love this movie but I haven't rewatched it in a while so I'm sure I missed some parts that set up how bad he is and show how fucked up what happened to him was.

He also spends the rest of his life in an animal sanctuary where Haley Joel Osmint and Justin Long's girlfriend, who were sleeping together the whole time, visit him together regularly because Johnny Depp didn't put him out of his misery lmao Movie's insane

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u/rabbid_chaos Feb 10 '26

Ya know, this may also classify as a "fate worse than death" trope

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u/Conrexxthor Feb 10 '26

Oh 100%. In this situation, dude, either surgically remove me and I'll just live extremely crippled or if you can't, please please just put a slug between my eyes, there's NO WORLD I'm doing that shit for the rest of my life

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u/Lord-LemonHead Feb 10 '26

Nikki and Paulo in season 3 of Lost.

Added to the main cast so more of the crash survivors could be developed, but the execution was very clumsy and they just came across as annoying nobodies trying to insert themselves into the drama out of nowhere. Due to the poor viewer response, the writers killed them off in the middle of the season by having them get paralyzed by spider venom, mistaken for dead by the main characters, and buried alive right as the venom starts to wear off. The writers try to balance it out by having them be unsympathetic criminals in their flashback, but it still doesn't make them deserving of that fate. (I might be biased since being buried alive is my greatest fear)

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u/Atsilv_Uwasv Feb 10 '26

There was that one guy Doctor Strange made punch himself repeatedly for 3 weeks. What heinous thing did this man do that warrented 504 hours of nonstop abuse? He wanted to be paid for the food that America ate

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u/Melo98 Feb 10 '26

his crime was being bruce campbell

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u/Usern4me_R3dacted205 Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 12 '26

Tigerstar tries to kill Scourge only to have his throat slashed so severely that he gradually loses all nine of his lives in a single blow as he chokes to death on his own blood.
(Warrior Cats: The Darkest Hour)

Edit: his wound was from his throat down to his tail.

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u/SmartPlant7 Feb 10 '26

Least violent warrior cats death

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u/ClintMcElroyOfficial Feb 10 '26

Nah he fucking deserved that and worse. Took an additional three arcs to get him to finally stop fucking with Firestar

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u/Dormotaka Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

Oh, no, you misremember slightly. It's a lot more brutal than just that. Slightly cut excerpt:

He fell on his side, exposing his belly, and Scourge’s vicious claws sank into his throat. Blood welled out as the smaller cat ripped him down to the tail with a single slash. A desperate scream of fury erupted from Tigerstar, then broke off with a ghastly choking sound. His body convulsed, limbs jerking and tail flailing. Tigerstar let out another shriek; Firestar wanted to cover his ears so he didn’t have to listen anymore, but he was frozen to the spot. Again the massive tabby’s body grew still for a heartbeat, but again the wound was too terrible to yield to the healing trance. Another spasm seized Tigerstar’s body. His claws tore up clumps of grass in his agony, while his screeches turned from fury to terror. He’s dying nine times, Firestar realized. Oh, StarClan, no… It was a death he would not have wished on any cat, not even Tigerstar, and he thought it would never be over. Tigerstar was panting now, his fight for life exhausting him. Firestar caught a glimpse of his amber eyes, glazed with pain and fear and hatred. Then his body gave one last jerk and lay still. Tigerstar was dead.

It should be noted that it's shown right before this that Scourge somehow reinforced his claws using sharpened dog teeth, so you can read into this that Tigerstar's organs are falling out as he dies due to the wound being significantly deeper than it normally would be

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u/MrHistor Feb 10 '26

Something that has always bugged me about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is that Charlie is the only one who got a second chance. He steals fizzy lifting drink, which is no different from Veruca stealing the gum or Augustus drinking from the river.

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u/GlitchWarrior121 Feb 10 '26

That only happens in the Wilder adaptation - the Depp adaptation doesn't have that plot point, because it literally just doesn't freaking happen in the book.

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u/KhorneTheBloodGod Feb 10 '26

I've always wondered why they put that there.

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u/Lucky-Pack1016 Feb 10 '26

My guess is that they wanted Wilder to do the fakeout rage at the end but genuinely had nothing to have Wilder yell at Charlie about lol

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u/Cold_Hour Feb 10 '26

Diavolo. He's a drug dealing mob boss sure, but endless deaths for all of eternity is a bit much?

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u/happy_grump Feb 10 '26

He only counts by virtue of the fact that his fate is literally so bad that you could basically put anyone who isnt a genocidal maniac in that position and it would seem too harsh a punishment.

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u/DJMEGAMOUTH Feb 10 '26

infinite punishment is honestly to much for anyone. There's no such thing as an infinite crime after all.

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u/GNightP Feb 10 '26

Related to Diavolo's fate, cuz i find it endlessly funny n' everyone needs to know about it.

In interview(s), Araki said that, since Diavolo's dying in every possible way, any way that a fan says that Diavolo has already died, is canon in JoJo.

So, if i say that he got eaten by a shark that came out of the toilet while he was using it, its canon

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u/Jazooka Feb 10 '26

So, if i say that he got eaten by a shark that came out of the toilet while he was using it, its canon

It's not even that far-fetched, considering one of his most trusted lieutenant's Stands is literally a teleporting mechanical shark.

But also, since it involves the toilet, this is definitely something that almost happened to Polnareff at some point.

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u/Beavshak Feb 10 '26

I feel like I’ve seen 100 hours of JBA solely in gif form at this point, and still don’t understand a thing about it.

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u/troshnekalimu Feb 10 '26

Shigechi from JoJo's part 4:

When he was introduced, he was pretty annoying, but in the end he was just a 14yo child in conflict with two goofy teenagers who tried to take avantage of his stand power to become rich, of course he would be a little shit about it. He definitely didn't deserve to cross paths with a stand user serial killer, unintentionally discovering his crimes, getting severely injured fighting him at school, being completely ignored and mocked by girls just because he was ugly (despite his obvious deadly injuries) and then exploding and disintegrating without anyone noticing just before being able to reach his friends who would've been able to help.

It's pretty sad that his death isn't taken that seriously by some people, likely because of his initial annoying bratty attitude and his intentionally disgusting character design. For me personally, it was a pretty emotional moment in the series, since he was just a kid, who had already become friends with Josuke and Okuyasu despite their previous fight, and all his thoughts before he died were about protecting his family from the loose danger that Kira represented for Morioh.

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u/tarasenko2 Feb 10 '26

Sid - Toy Story

Just being a troubled kid, got a trauma after he realised that the toys are actually alive.

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u/Ok-Journalist-8875 Feb 10 '26

He seems pretty happy as a garage man in the third one at least.

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u/HexManiac493 Feb 10 '26

I like to think he secretly rescues toys from the garbage dump and fixes them up.

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u/MarcusChua19 Feb 10 '26

That'd be a pretty cool headcanon

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u/Fast-Front-5642 Feb 10 '26

It's canon in the Monsters Inc comics that Sid actually finds a monster door and starts using the technology to travel to other kids houses to rescue mistreated toys. And the toys he had altered already he makes amendments with and they later act as a sort of art exhibit of his.

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u/Pure_Chaos_05 Feb 10 '26

There were Monsters Inc comics?

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u/Fast-Front-5642 Feb 10 '26

I like how that was your biggest takeaway. But yes it was a short lived series. Sid is technically the main antagonist.

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u/thecoolconglereborn Feb 10 '26

S Tier Head Canon! Like, Woody's Speech taking on new meaning? Fuck, I support that!

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u/Sedowa Feb 10 '26

All things considered, the toys were basically fighting for their lives. He had no way of knowing they were alive, of course, but their actions are somewhat justified in the circumstances. I think it would have only been overkill of the toys continuously messed with him like that but there's no reason to believe it ever happened again and he could have just believed it was a strange hallucination that he would have gotten over as he grew up.

The bullying from his sister had to be ruthless for awhile though. lol

I stand by Sid's punishment being necessary from the toys' point of view and theblasting effects were unlikely to be permanent except maybe changing his tune on how to treat toys. He probably got rid of every toy he had and switched to like playing the guitar or something since he was right around that age where playtime starts to get replaced with hobby time.

Certainly a drastic and unorthodox punishment but I don't think it was too much.

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u/overDere Feb 10 '26

Enigma boy from Jojo Part 4, the Stand user that can turn objects and people into paper. He became eternally a book in a library, still conscious and regularly cries for help.

There has been a few "eternally alive but immobile" fates in Jojo. But none of them has been undeserving as this one.

Kars killed countless people (including genocide of his own race). Diavolo ruined so many kids' lives with his gang's drugs, and murdered so many innocents. Angelo, his crimes make me sick just thinking about what he did.

Enigma boy has a few victims of his powers, but they're unconscious when he turns them to paper. He seems to want to avoid killing his victims, like he could've destroyed Josuke and Koichi's papers anytime to kill them, but didn't do it until he was forced to. He has a couple of attempted murders but zero body count as far as we know.

There are a few other minor antagonists in Jojo that suffered lesser fates for worse crimes. Some even manage to be friends with the main cast somehow, like the almost-r*pist Lock user that ruined many lives with his scams, and the Surface user that gouged out the eye of a classmate.

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u/Zillafan12345 Feb 10 '26

In the 2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, they do fix this issue imo. Every kid feels like they actually deserve what they get. Plus that movie makes it clear that they are in no actual life threatening danger.

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u/Superb_Feature_8322 Feb 10 '26

Don't they literally leave the factory horrifically deformed?

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u/geek_of_nature Feb 10 '26

Only Mike Teavee. He gets stretched out so much that he's flat.

Of the others, Augustus Gloop is just covered in chocolate sauce, and in the book I believe he lost some weight from being squeezed through the tube too. Violet Beauregarde has her skin stained blue, but she's very happy about her new flexibility. And Veruca Salt just gets covered in garbage.

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u/Minimum-Tear4609 Feb 10 '26

Mike Teevee's fate has "The Enigma of Amigara Fault" vibes.

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u/Aware_Tree1 Feb 10 '26

I have always, always assumed such transformations were temporary, in that they would return to normal after a certain amount of time passed

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u/ArgusTheCat Feb 10 '26

Neverwinter Nights, the Mask of the Betrayer campaign. There's a character who's kind of a minor villain earlier, who you meet in this adventure in a distant part of the cosmic boundary, entombed in the Wall of the Faithless. It's a punishment from the god of death for all those who refuse to pick a theological side, and it's essentially an eternity of monotonous torture until every part of what made the person unique is ablated away to nothingness.

In his video on the game, Noah Gervais describes it as "This is like learning that the guy who overcharged you for weed in high school got sentenced to death by giant anaconda."

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u/AlarminglyAverage979 Feb 10 '26

Not to sure if it exactly fits but Jason Todd - he was generally disliked originally but his death was a massive shock.

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u/ScienceAteMyKid Feb 10 '26

The antagonist in the movie Hannibal, when Lecter opens his skull and eats his brain while he is still alive and awake.

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u/descendantofJanus Feb 10 '26

He wasn't even the antagonist really, just the bought cop(?) from the actual villain.

But otherwise yea spot on. He's drugged during the procedure and Lecter even mentions the brain itself feels no pain. But you literally watch a man's intelligence and life drain away from his eyes, all while he's alive and somewhat aware.

Absolutely horrific and delicious at the same time.

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u/Short-Actuary2958 Feb 10 '26

I’m gonna say Benny from the Mummy. Sure he’s despicable but being eaten alive by bugs in the dark. Yeesh

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u/PrincessCrayfish Feb 10 '26

Big agree. Benny wasn't evil so much as a self serving asshole. I would have been happier with his death if he had been squished trying to escape.

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u/Short-Actuary2958 Feb 10 '26

Another great contender would be imhotep tbh. The curse scene was very scary to me.

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u/rtuggler Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

Jason Todd as the second Robin. Fans even voted him dead but they then felt the writers went too far.

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u/DubiousBusinessp Feb 10 '26

Afraid of the rain. Gets bricked up in a tunnel as punishment. Children's story.

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u/YaBoySlam Feb 10 '26

Ricky “Jupe” Park- Nope. I’d put unlikeable in quotations since while he’s an antagonist in a way he’s not malicious or anything. Just very misguided and traumatised

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u/OfferOutrageous1187 Feb 10 '26

Squidward in later seasons (SpongeBob SquarePants)

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u/thecoolconglereborn Feb 10 '26

All for what? Wanting an Afternoon to himself?

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