Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 152 - A**hole Victim

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Trope List:
Shrinking Violet
Launcher of a Thousand Ships
Even the Girls Want Her
Even the Guys Want Him
Pop-Cultured Badass
Your Soul is Mine
One True Love
Disc-One Nuke
Beef Gate
Crutch Character
A Taste of Power
Magikarp Power
Joke Character
Lethal Joke Character
Difficult, but Awesome
Tier-Induced Scrappy
Stone Wall
Glass Cannon
Lightning Bruiser
Breather Boss
That One Level
Breather Level
Giant Space Flea from Nowhere
Game-Breaker
Broken Base
Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Cliffhanger
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
Evil Cripple
Grand Finale

The winner of yesterday's trope, Despair Event Horizon, was Somebody kills John Wick's dog, which got 6 votes.

Previous winners: Day 126 onwards
Shipper on Deck - Genie ships Aladdin and Jasmine (Aladdin)
Shoo Out the Clowns - Mimir gives Kratos and Atreus privacy to scatter the ashes (God of War) / Half the trolls die (Homestuck)
Disc One Final Dungeon - Zanarkand (Final Fantasy X) / Hyrule Castle (Zelda: A Link to the Past)
Back for the Finale - Miles Edgeworth (Most Ace Attorney games)
The Very Definitely Final Dungeon - Cannon's Core (Sonic Adventure 2)
Redemption Equals Death - Darth Vader (Star Wars) / Theon Greyjoy (Game of Thrones) / Doctor Octopus (Spider-Man 2)
Godzilla Threshold - Operation Zero Dawn (Horizon Zero Dawn) / Crossing the streams (Ghostbusters)
One Winged Angel - Safer Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII)
11th-Hour Ranger - Sonic the Hedgehog (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
Informed Poverty - The Simpsons
Post-Climax Confrontation - The Scouring of the Shire (The Lord of the Rings)
Death by Childbirth - Padme (Star Wars)
Defeat Means Friendship - Dragon Ball in general / Scotsman (Samurai Jack)
Elegant Gothic Lolita - Celeste Ludenberg (Danganronpa)
The Turret Master - Engineer (Team Fortress 2)
Shear Menace - Scissorsman (Clock Tower)
Infinity +1 Sword - Ultima Weapon (Kingdom Hearts)
Infinity -1 Sword - Fully Evolved Starters (Pokemon)
Poisonous Person - Poison Ivy (DC Comics)
Too Good for this Sinful Earth - Chiaki Nanami (Danganronpa 2)
That One Boss - Ultra Necrozma (Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon)
B***h in Sheep's Clothing - Matt Engarde and Dahlia Hawthorne (Ace Attorney)
Blue-Collar Warlock - John Constantine (Constantine)

Today's trope is A**hole Victim. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AssholeVictim

Normally when something bad happens to an individual you feel some degree of pity for them. But then when that person is a Jerkass, when horrible things happen to them it's less sympathy and more satisfaction. They may not be directly responsible for THIS particular misfortune, as that would be Laser-Guided Karma, but their behavior means something like this was going to happen eventually. This can range from the victim merely being a dick to being a far worse criminal than the person he or she is a victim to.

In other words, when a corpse-shaped or victim-shaped hole in the plot is filled with a character who is in some way sufficiently repugnant, the audience feeling bad about their death.

This trope can show up for a variety of reasons, but a common one is to make the criminal (or Non-Malicious Monster) into a Sympathetic Murderer. This is especially likely if the Asshole Victim's dickery is what motivated the criminal to commit the crime in the first place. This often occurs in works that feature an Anti-Hero or Villain Protagonist; their victims are such horrible people that the protagonist looks heroic by comparison, and/or Start of Darkness stories will have the protagonist's first victims be terrible people so they don't lose audience sympathy at the beginning of the tale.

TL,DR: You don't feel bad when this character is victimised, because they're a jerk who had it coming.

Nominations:
Donald Gennaro (Jurassic Park)
The businessman who kills the dog (Snakes on a Plane)
Senator Davis (Resident Evil: Degeneration)

Joffrey Baratheon - Game of Thrones
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Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
Viserys Targaryen (Game of Thrones)
Lysa Arryn (Game of Thrones)

HM:
most people that died on Game of Thrones, there's a good reason both the show and books have the own subpages
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Benny (The Mummy, 1999)
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Everyone (Kill Bill)
Commodus (Gladiator)
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Satipo (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
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Anthony Cooper (Lost)
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scarletspeed7 posted...

Satipo (Raiders of the Lost Ark)

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Mr. Blonde (Reservoir Dogs)
Robert Daly (Black Mirror)
William Afton (Five Nights at Freddy's)
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Tales from the Crypt in general
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Joffrey Baratheon
Ramsey Bolton
Viserys Targaryen

William Afton (Five Nights at Freddy's)
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Snake5555555555 posted...

Mr. Blonde (Reservoir Dogs)

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Rankings so far:
Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones) - 3 votes
Satipo (Raiders of the Lost Ark) - 2 votes
Viserys Targaryen (Game of Thrones) - 2 votes
William Afton (Five Nights at Freddy's) - 2 votes
Mr. Blonde (Reservoir Dogs) - 2 votes
Donald Gennaro (Jurassic Park)
The businessman who kills the dog (Snakes on a Plane)
Senator Davis (Resident Evil: Degeneration)
Lysa Arryn (Game of Thrones)
Benny (The Mummy, 1999)
Everyone (Kill Bill)
Commodus (Gladiator)
Anthony Cooper (Lost)
Robert Daly (Black Mirror)
Tales from the Crypt in general
Ramsey Bolton (Game of Thrones)

Ben Paul (The Walking Dead)
Joffrey (Game of Thrones)
Rafael Nadal (Australian Open 2017 Final)

It's gotta be

Joffrey Baratheon
Larry (Telltale's The Walking Dead)
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Lemme add the trope for today

Acquitted Too Late
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