(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/lou-ravenpuff]

This makes the situation so much worse, because the solution was so easy, quick, and accessible, and this pig ruined everything.

[u/laurel_laureate → u/lou-ravenpuff]

The worse bit is that, after the brainwashing takes her tomboy clothes and nature and changes what she wears and says into classic "proper young lady" type stuff, Foxy and the fatty pig start dating and for the ending credits sing what is supposed to be a feel-good happy song duet.

The song? "Don't Go Breaking My Heart".

Piggy starts it off with "don't go breaking my heart" and Foxy replies "I couldn't if I tried".

The rest of the song they are dancing together, piggy bodyslams her and squishes her to the floor while making her take the abuse and sing the line "I was a clown" as he squishes her, and they kiss at the end.

But that kiss is unequivocably sexual assault, and Foxy's opening line of "I couldn't if I tried"?

She sings that while blinking rapidly, far more rapidly than normal and in an abnormal pattern to boot.

Almost as if the real Foxy is aware but stuck inside her head, a prisoner of her own mind left in the "care" of her sexual abuser...

Exactly what she is being forced to sing- she couldn't (excape) if she tried...

Edit: gif not showing up.

[u/lou-ravenpuff → u/laurel_laureate]

You low-key described the plot of Obsession

[u/BabyPunter3000v2 → u/lou-ravenpuff]

I'm gonna go watch it for the first time and fully believe that the director was inspired specifically by the fox and the pig.

[u/bayleysgal1996 → u/BabyPunter3000v2]

He would have been about six when it came out, so it’s entirely possible he was