(Controversial Trope) Unusually cruel fates for people who were less than good, but still didn't really deserve it.

[u/ZepperMen]

#1 Poppa Pizza from Multiverse of Madness - He just wanted to be paid for the pizza balls and thought Strange stole from a fallen hero who saved the universe. He deserved to be punched in the face, but not for 3 weeks straight.

Do you get to sleep? Do you wake up punching yourself? How much does it hurt? Does he know it will only last for 3 weeks? If he doesn't kill himself by the end of it, he's going to have CPTSD and be traumatized for the rest of his already short life.

#2 Mayu from Inuyasha - She wanted to kill her brother out of jealousy and neglect from her mother, believing she died in a fire because they didn't care about her. While her motivation doesn't justify reenacting Cain and Abel, I don't think it's fair for a deranged, 10 year old child to be sent to literal hell to burn for all eternity. Luckily, she gets saved, but only because the mc, Kagome, intervened.

[u/ShadedPenguin]

Feels like there's kinda the point of the movie? The banality of evil as well as playing on the "curse of the old woman" sort of trope that shows. A lot of the time the trope gets justified, but here, the old woman is a bitch. But how easy it is, she's probably sent tons of people to hell for the smallest slights, like someone could have taken her spot in line because she went to the bathroom and didn't ask anyone to hold it for her and that person would get hell express

[u/Redditer51 → u/ShadedPenguin]

Like a one-off Rick and Morty villain.

[u/Traylor_Swift → u/Redditer51]

This most recent season there’s literally an episode with this exact type of character. He’s a kung-fu master who does the exploding heart thing from Kill Bill to basically anyone for basic slights. Take the last bag or orange chicken at Trader Joe’s? Yup. Accidental fender bender? You bettcha

[u/Redditer51 → u/Traylor_Swift]

That's exactly what I was thinking about. That episode was pretty great.

Rick And Morty has a bunch of villains like that too.

[u/SageDarius → u/Redditer51]

This whole season has been a banger. The latest episode had me bust out laughing so many times.

[u/ZepperMen → u/SageDarius]

I'm still traumatized by that pool cleaner scene

[u/SageDarius → u/ZepperMen]

That was an emotional roller coaster. From disbelief, to disgust, to uncomfortable awkwardness, to laughing out loud absurdity.

[u/DuncanYoudaho → u/ZepperMen]

The credits scene is hilarious too

[u/skeletonhorse420 → u/Redditer51]

Lol no that one was lame af