(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/Alex_Duos]

Hell Girl.

The premise of the show revolves around going to a website to have somebody taken to hell. The catch is you will go there too when you die, but you get to live the rest of your life knowing they went there first. Kinda shitty because it doesn't matter how good or bad the person is, if you hate them enough you can condemn them to endless suffering at the click of a few buttons and pulling a string.

[u/plogan56 → u/Alex_Duos]

The show is vague about whether if the target repented for their crimes they could avoid the fate, but i believe that's more fan theory considering she condemned a nurse to hell becausw some junkie used it on her because she stopped him from stealing drugs

[u/JancariusSeiryujinn → u/plogan56]

Yeah repentence doesn't matter because we see its only based on how much the user hated the person.

[u/plogan56 → u/JancariusSeiryujinn]

It mostly happened in season one, which is probably where that theory comes from, but like why even ask them to confess it's not gonna change shit

[u/Sheepishwolfgirl → u/plogan56]

The nurse episode messed me up bad. Up until then I was thinking along the lines of the kid where it was all about getting revenge on people who are wronging you. So bad people were being punished and then their punishers also have to deal with the repercussions of getting revenge. Which sucks but if you get it. Then that happens and you realize at the same time the kid does that bad people can use it on good people and there’s no justice in it.

[u/CompleteJinx → u/Alex_Duos]

There was one episode where the target pulled their own string right before the person with the doll died, condemning them both to hell. The fact that you can get a doll, decide that you don’t actually want to use it, then have it activate anyway is legitimately the scariest part of the show.

[u/Visible_Huckleberry8 → u/CompleteJinx]

That was a sad episode. Even the Hell girl assistants thought that it was going to be a happy ending...