Kick the Dog/Anime and Manga

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  • Haruhi Suzumiya, in one scene, grabs the computer club president by the arm, pulls his hand onto the chest of her "friend" Mikuru, takes pictures to falsely incriminate said computer club president of sexual harassment, and then uses this to Blackmail said computer club president into giving her a computer for free. When the computer club president points out that everyone in the room is a witness, Haruhi threatens to claim that everyone in the room was ganging up on Mikuru to rape her. Note that Mikuru herself evidently wanted no part in this and was simply forced into it, essentially making this entirely Haruhi's idea. This is the kind of thing a character should at least go to jail for, but Haruhi gets away with it entirely.
    • (Not to mention she also forces the club to set up the computer, hook up internet, and help Kyon get started on the website, using the falsely claimed information from before.)
    • The other protagonists also continue to associate with Haruhi after that, although given what she is capable of, this is justified in-story.
    • We all know how the titular character from Suzumiya Haruhi loves to mistreat, molest and abuse the closest thing to a female friend she has, Mikuru. Naturally, this is Played for Laughs, but in the 2nd novel, there is a definite scene that crosses the line: During the filming of the Brigade's movie "The Adventures Of Mikuru Asahina", Haruhi (with the help of Genki Girl Tsuruya) first puts tequila into Mikuru's drink, so she would act more realistic for the kissing scene. The next thing she does is to punch Mikuru on the head simply because she still wore her colored contact lens. She then continues to punch her several times because the "contact lens is supposed to fly out when your head gets smacked." After Kyon understandably yells at her that Mikuru is not her toy, she seriously replies "Well I've decided, Mikuru-chan is my toy!". This actually makes Kyon explode, trying to punch her, but he is stopped by Koizumi. After Haruhi realizes what Kyon was about to do, she still doesn't get it, confronting him even more. This also shows just what a sociopathic Jerkass Haruhi can be...though soon she starts to get better.
    • This is softened in the anime adaptation, where Haruhi does declare the same thing...but when Kyon is about to hit her for making Mikuru cry and Itsuki stops him, her resulting Heel Face Turn comes a bit sooner-- she does understand that she was wrong, almost immediately stops arguing with Kyon and then stares away from him (with tears in her eyes). And not to mention Kyon, thanks to Itsuki, realizes that it's not in him to be physically violent.
    • In 'Disappearance, Kyon threatens the IDSE with complete destruction should they kill Yuki by provoking Haruhi. Wisely, they step down. So what could be worse than killing Yuki? That's right! A Fate Worse Than Death! They elect her in Book 10 to be the ambassador to the Sky Canopy Domain; exposing her existence and sanity to something which is as alien to her as the Data Overmind is to humans. A lesser being would Go Mad from the Revelation. Kyon isn't going to be happy if Yuki doesn't wake up from her naps.
  • Mazinger Z: Big Bad Dr. Hell does not kick dogs. He catches their tails and flings them around, smashing them against a wall until they are a bloody pulp. Yes, it really happened in one of the manga versions. And it happened when Hell was a child. And it happened because he thought the dog was glaring to him (his Abusive Parents, shitty teachers and bullying schoolmates were already wearing down his sanity back then).
    • On the other hand, The Dragon Baron Ashura is not above of petty acts of cruelty, but usually they have a purpose. Yet those acts include: hitting a children on his head to knock him out and steal him, blowing up the wheelchair of a disabled little girl to prevent her from escaping, ordering one of his Iron Masks to kill a little cub whose mother had just got killed...
  • Naruto: Hyuuga Neji's No-Holds-Barred Beatdown of Hinata in the Chunin exams shows just how much of an asshole he really is. Also an example of Revenge by Proxy since she didn't do anything to deserve it. Unlike others, however, he gets better.
    • Tobi tried to kill a baby For the Evulz. And to make it worse, that baby was Naruto himself, meaning the very first minute of his life had gone to shit.
    • People have been said to kick dogs. Kisame just kicked his sword. Which is now oddly more life like.
    • More realistically, at the very start of the series, Sakura opines that Naruto (who she can't stand at this point of the series) is a Bratty Half-Pint because his parents were dead, and that she wished she didn't have any parents either so they couldn't tell her what to do. She gets better after a lot of Character Development, set off mainly during an Important Haircut.
  • Flame of Recca: In his first appearance, Kurei reveals himself to be a complete douche after he threatened to kill Ganko, a little girl for betraying him. He then proceeds to taunt her by bringing up her dead mother and how she will be seeing her soon. Add this in with him beating a women who loves him more than life itself, and you see where this is going.
  • It's practically a hobby of Kogoro Mouri's. One major example occurs when Kogoro ogles a fashion model. However, it turns out she was the killer. Kogoro, however, thinking with his dick, automatically assumes she's innocent. Even though Conan had reasonable evidence, he not only refused to listen to Conan, but even struck him.
  • Just about every villain in Fist of the North Star engages in kicking the dog in some form. Bad guys who go too far with such in Kenshiro's presence usually wind up dead by head or full body explosion courtesy of the Hokuto Shinken.
    • In one of the early episodes of the anime, one of Diamond's men forces a villager to shoot a can off the head of his little boy with a bow a la William Tell. When the father can't go through with it, the scumbag takes it upon himself to "help" him, taking hold of the bow and arrow in a Hands-On Approach fashion, but deliberately shaking up the poor guy's aim just to be a sadistic asshole. When the arrow finally does get launched, Kenshiro intervenes before the arrow can go into the boy's head, then dispatches the mook for his cruelty before confronting Diamond, who gets the response of "I don't give my name to monsters," when he demands Kenshiro's name.
      • And as Kick the Dog-tastic as that scene was, the scene it replaced in the manga was even worse. In the part of the manga where the scene takes place, the bad guys are murdering villagers to try to draw out Kenshiro so they can kill him. Diamond, one of the bad guys in question, pulls a move right out of Once Upon a Time in the West and forces a village girl to support her father in "keep your lovin' brother happy" fashion (for those who haven't seen that movie, the bastard uses her as a human hanging stool, such that when the girl's strength gives out, her father will die by hanging). Fortunately, Kenshiro is there to save them both.
    • Souther pretty much is this trope. He kidnaps children, forcing them to work on his massive pyramid, and poisons a supply of bread knowing that it will be stolen from him, just to serve as a warning. On top of this he kills the nicest guy in the series in an unimaginably cruel way, an act that infuriates Kenshiro to the point of telling him that "when I'm done with you, there will be nothing left!"
    • Kaioh, on the other hand, takes this trope rather literally. In a flashback we see him decide to start being evil and then, as his first evil act...you guessed it. Oddly enough this is meant to be a serious scene. Of course he also plays this trope very straight in a variety of other ways...
    • In another literal example, a soldier of God's Army kicks Lin's puppy.
    • Young Jagi attempts to stomp a puppy in Yuria's den.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! spent 4 episodes by having Marik do this by brainwashing Jonouchi and Anzu, forcing Yugi to duel Jyonouchi on a 1-hour time limit where the loser will sink to the bottom of the ocean (or they both will if no one wins), and threatening to drop an explosive dumpster on Anzu if Kaiba interferes. And a while later, there's his Mind Rape of Mai...
    • Kaiba himself has done this on at least a few occasions.
      • In one of his establishing moments, he beats up Yugi after getting called out on stealing his grandpa's Blue Eyes White Dragon. In his next appearance, he kidnaps Yugi's grandpa and forces him to duel with the Blue Eyes White Dragon as an ante. After beating the latter, he takes the Blue Eyes and tears it up, sending the poor old man into shock and into the hospital. As if that weren't enough, he gets Yugi and his friends involved by putting them in the Death-T Amusement Park, with the former dueling in a life or death match.
      • Later on in Duelist Kingdom, he insults Jou, who has challenged and lost against him.
      • When Anzu/Tea consoles Yugi following the latter's loss against Kaiba at Duelist Kingdom, by berating Yugi himself for forfeiting the duel after the latter had just been traumatized by the really cruel Batman Gambit involved, where Kaiba would step off the edge of the castle if Yugi made the winning attack, and Yami was planning to make that attack before Yugi jumped in and stopped him. Revoltingly, after Anzu gave him a well-deserved Shut UP, Hannibal followed by an additional insult from Jou, Kaiba's fanbase wanted him to tell them off, if not beat them up. Really, even if Kaiba was trying to save Mokuba (which Yugi's friends didn't know about, and it'd take them a while to do so), he did not need to do this.
      • And not even MOKUBA is free of Kaiba-kicking. Much later, Kaiba loses to Yami/Yugi AGAIN, and starts whining and ranting about it. When Mokuba tries to help him, Kaiba resorts to insulting Mokuba himself and calling him worthless, which enrages Jounouchi to the point of challenging him to a duel despite knowing he'd lose. And the Kaiba fangirls rejoiced at that and bended over to excuse Kaiba abusing Mokuba!
  • Kaiser Ryo in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, following his Freak-Out, originally just came off as an unfeeling, disrespectful jerk who liked dressing in black; if anything, his new bad-boy persona only increased his popularity in the eyes of the fangirls...until Episode 95. His brother Sho challenged him to a duel, so Ryo made them both wear shock bands on their wrists that would electrocute them when they took damage. He then spent the duel taking pleasure in watching Sho writhe in pain from the shocks, and almost kills him in the end. Let's repeat that - he did this to his own little brother! Even if Sho was the one who issued the challenge, it was still uncalled for.
    • There's also Howard X Miller who steps on a flower for no reason other than to prove to the audience that he's a villain, however this may be more of a Poke the Poodle moment.
    • Edo Phoenix also does this to Judai in their second duel by nonchalantly walking away after he sends him into a Heroic BSOD by beating him.
  • To drive the point home, Jack Atlas of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's kidnapped a mutual friend, tied him up and put him in a rowboat placed in the sea during a violent storm in order to force Yuusei to choose between his SDD card or their friend's life.
  • In the manga version of Neon Genesis Evangelion, Kaworu Nagisa kills a kitten, going along with the Japanese switch of Petting The Dog with a cat. He justifies this by saying that, since neither he nor Shinji would care for the kitten, which was orphaned, it would die a slow, painful death through starvation if he didn't intervene. Still, seeing someone squeeze the life out of a poor, innocent kitten is...disturbing, to say the least. Tokyo-3 may not have a Humane Society, and all the people there are probably preoccupied with more important things, but he still gained the Fan Nickname "Evil Manga Kaworu" for this.
  • In the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion, nearly every single character is a victim of this. Significant props go to: Gendo for emotionally and psychologically destroying his own son until he has the self-esteem of a small, frequently-abused dog; for using and throwing away Ritsuko over and over again until she's an emotional wreck; for using Rei like a non-sentient puppet and continually bringing her back to life and...you know what, Gendo Ikari does a lot of dog kicking.
  • In Revolutionary Girl Utena, Nanami Kiryuu is established early on as a deceptive and manipulative bully. She's insanely jealous of her brother Touga's time, and that she idolizes him to an almost sexual degree. But she only really becomes freaky when shown in a flashback: She's six or so, and her brother gets a cute little kitten and pays more attention to it than he does to her, even while he's talking to her. Nanami puts the thing in a box and pushes it over a waterfall (into a water treatment center?). She does run away crying, so you could say she's not as cold as some. But then she says something like, "I'm sorry, I had to do it!" Brrrr.
    • Interestingly enough, it was Nanami who gave Touga the kitten in the first place. To her credit, the imagery heavily implies that young Nanami simply didn't understand the impact of her deed until the last moment and her final words were a futile attempt to justify the whole episode to herself. Then again, back in these flashbacks she was a little girl, no older than ten years old.
  • Envy from Fullmetal Alchemist has a couple of Kick the Dog moments, the biggest of which is in the manga when he not only gleefully gloats to Mustang about how he killed Hughes, but even outright mocks Hughes in front of his best friend. It does not end well for Envy.
  • Elfen Lied: Lucy lived in an orphanage when she was younger, where the other children often harassed her because of her horns and emotionless nature. Soon after she started caring for a puppy, the others forced her to watch as they quite literally kicked the dog and beat it to death with a vase, just to try and get her to show something. They got more than they bargained for: Lucy snapped and left no witnesses.
    • Played with near the very beginning of the series, when Mayu is first introduced. After leaving the house, Lucy stares for a while at Mayu's dog, which tied to a post near the front gate. It seems like she actually killed the dog for real...but the only thing she did was cut its rope. Which, given that it was quite obviously terrified of her, might actually count as a Pet the Dog instead.
      • The scenes manage to be even more shocking when you take into account the fact that both of these dogs are drawn as little more than small puppies.
  • The anime series Nightwalker includes a villain who feeds on dogs.
  • Lina Inverse of Slayers does this to varying degrees, either to the people she's fighting or to her allies, namely Amelia. Regularly she becomes outright genocidal whenever there's food at stake (such as blowing up an entire restaurant over a fallen sardine in Slayers Premium), or if someone takes note of her small bust size, irregardless if it's an insult or not. She regularly abuses her swordsman companion Gourry, and abuses Amelia's (a princess of an influential kingdom, mind) vast fortune for meals and other luxuries. It's taken even further in the radio dramas: in one, she shoves Amelia in a pickle barrel and forgets she's there during a trip in the sewers, and in another, she offers some Fish People Amelia as a bride in order to get off of an abandoned island.
  • From JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
    • Long before he became a vampire, Dio Brando, Big Bad of Parts 1 and 3, introduced himself to Jonathan Joestar by kicking his dog Danny in the head. Then later, he sets the dog in the incinerator and tricks the butler into to burning the dog to death. What an asshole.
    • And then in Part 3, Vanilla Ice literally kicks the dog (Iggy) to reinforce his utter admiration of and loyalty to Dio. Iggy had used his stand to create a sand-based image of Dio, and Vanilla Ice was enraged at being forced to destroy the image when it attacked him.
  • In an episode of GoLion, One of Prince Sincline's slave women accidently spills some wine on his lap, he responds by taking out his Laser Blade and killing her on the spot. Obviously this scene could not be portrayed in a kids cartoon in America so it was cut of Voltron.
  • Happens with cats in the manga of Sailor Moon, when Luna, Artemis and Diana are wounded by Tin Nyanko and turn into ordinary, non-talking cats. To make matters worse, one of Galaxia's minions, Lethe, kills them in the next chapter...by tearing their bodies apart, no less.
    • In the anime, Rubeus' abuse of his Love Martyr Koan feels like a repeated puppy kicking. Calaveras and Petz abandoning Berthier after she loses to Ami is also a quite dickish move. Unlike Rubeus, who crosses the Moral Event Horizon gleefully, Calaveras and Petz get better.
  • Paul tops the list as being the biggest Jerkass in the Pokémon anime by releasing Pokemon that lose battles. In his first appearance, he captured three Starly and kept the one that knew Aerial Ace...and later, despite the fact that it won against Ash's Starly, released that one as well (in the same episode, no less)! Other moments include releasing his Chimchar after Nurse Joy told him to not overwork his Pokemon on the day before battle not only because he deemed Chimchar too weak after he had his other Pokemon to gang up on it, but because Chimchar wouldn't attack the enemy team because the other team had a Zangoose. He also defeated gym leader Maylene easily and calls her the weakest gym leader he has ever battled (mind you this might be the gym leader that his older brother might have crush on). The last one being refusing to take Brandon's advise with treating your opponent with respect and curb stomps Ash causing him to have a Heroic BSOD in the next episode because Paul literally convinced him in battle that it was his fault that his Pokemon were weak.
    • Team Rocket is prone to doing this as well, when they're at their worst.
      • In the episode "Pallet Party Panic", it isn't enough for Team Rocket to simply make off with Pikachu after distracting the heroes by serving them infernally spicy food; as they make off in their hot air balloon, they proceed to bombard the party, causing chaos and destroying all the food present. Not to mention that Ash's Pidgeotto is poisoned by Arbok in its attempt to stop them. It takes Charizard getting ticked off by them destroying a table with fruit that he had his eyes set on that they finally get their just desserts.
      • In an episode where Ash's Chikorita evolves into Bayleef in Johto, they having Weezing and Arbok beat him up because Chikorita was the only Pokemon he had with him at the time, and she'd gotten captured. Another instance where they did this was in Odd Pokemon Out!, where Ash's Grovyle evolves into Sceptile to rescue a Meganium he had a crush on...then found out that he couldn't use moves due to being heartbroken because the she actually was the significant other of a Tropius Grovyle had been fighting that episode. Team Rocket seizes this opportunity, beating up Sceptile with Cacnea and Seviper, while calling Sceptile a wimp. Sceptile broke out of this Heroic BSOD two episodes later, but it was still a really big dick move.
      • And how did he break out of said BSOD? Because when Ash tried to yet again prevent Pikachu from being kidnapped by the Rockets and was hanging on from their trademark balloon...they sent out their Pokemon to attack him. You heard it right: they sent said Pokemons to openly attack a human child who's completely helpless by that moment, and who could've been killed by falling off such heights. If not for Grovyle going Papa Wolf, Ash would've not survived said deal.
      • Meowth is at his lowest so far in Best Wishes when we find out that he lied about being fired from Team Rocket and he joined Ash and his friends just so he, Jessie and James could steal their Pokemon. While Meowth pretended to be Ash's friend in order to steal his and his friends Pokemon a few times, this time he almost suceeded and looked gleefully sadistic while doing this. Also he earned the trust of Ash and his friends and broke it. Pikachu was so hurt by this, that he didn't forgive Meowth after this. It is also presented as more vile than anything he did, although he is capable of much worse than just mere deception, as seen in the Japanese version of episode 12 when he translates the Squirtle Squad's command that Ash make it back with the Super Potion before noon as a death threat to Misty--and seeing that the Squirtle Squad didn't join up with him to be hired killers, Misty was lucky he's too much of a Noble Demon to actually follow through with his death threat.
  • Whenever Wakamatsu Madoka, the heroine's bitchy rival in Full Moon o Sagashite, looks like she might be getting too sympathetic, she is shown being cruel to her adorable pet pig, thereby cementing her reputation of bitchiness.
  • We are first introduced to Teresa of the Faint Smile in Claymore when she casually splatters bystanders flicking the blood from her sword after killing a Yoma, then hints that failure to give the payment for her services to the correct traveller will result in more attacks and no help. In the next town she literally kicks a young girl the local Yoma kept for 'entertainment' halfway across a street in an unsuccessful attempt to dissuade her from following. It was only after the kid's persistence and an encounter with bandits pushes her into Morality Pet status that we learn her name (Clare) and realize this is the Backstory of the previous chapters' protagonist.
  • The climax of the Rurouni Kenshin movie has the Japanese army surrounding a small force of rebels, stopped while Kenshin goes in to try talking them (and their leader) down. Kenshin succeeds, only for the real villain, an officer in the army, to have soldiers open fire on the surrendering rebels anyway, killing several, including the leader (who had acknowledged that he'd been wrong). True to the spirit of the trope, Kenshin (a Technical Pacifist) snaps, goes Battousai, and very nearly kills the officer.
    • The original series has Raijuta punting the same puppy twice. First he gravely injures Yutaro's arm in a way that effectively cripples him and almost surely destroys his dream to be a swordsman, and immediately after that he openly admits that he was using the bratty yet naive kid only for his own gain. Yeah, the victim was a Spoiled Brat, but he definitely did not deserve what Raijuta did to him.
    • Let's not forget Usui trying to stab Misao In the Back for no reason at all. Fortunately, Anji stops him.
  • Prior to her Heel Face Turn, Gatomon in Digimon Adventure does a minor case of this. A growling dog approaches her, and she smacks the animal with her tail. The dog goes off whimpering as the catmon smirks.
  • Amusingly, Digimon Adventure 02 uses this trope very literally: with Ken, while still the Kaiser. He also kicks his Digimon, Wormmon, on numerous occasions.
    • Done again near the end, where one of the Dark Seed kids, a girl named Noriko, kicks a kitten. Likely a direct parallel of Ken's dog kicking. Both occasions of punting are cut from the dub.
  • Digimon Tamers has an example of this when Beelzemon does this to Kyuubimon; a 9-tailed fox digimon. Made even worse by the fact that Kyuubimon was already wounded and couldn't defend herself.
  • Fate Testarossa introduces herself to Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha by roughing up an enormous kitten for a Jewel Seed. She (Fate) gets better.
    • Fate's mother, Precia, introduces herself by whipping Fate repeatedly for not getting enough of said Jewel Seeds, establishing herself as the cruelest villain of the series.
    • Pick any moments in Force. Any moment.
  • Mai-Otome viewers get an early glimpse of Tomoe's not-so-niceness when she slaps around her so-called friend Miya and almost makes her cry when they botch a prank involving the sale and eventual damage of Arika's Garderobe uniform in Episode 5, and then tries to save face by coercing Miya into Taking the Heat for the whole thing. She then took it a step further and tried to kill Arika with Miya's GEM. And that's just for starters...
    • In the manga, after Arika has an accident with the Artai ambassador, Nagi appears to have his bodyguards ready to kill her, but Nina intervenes, willing to accept punishment in Arika's place. Nagi then has her bend over and repeatedly hits her backside with a riding crop, doing so even more when seeing bandages on her fingers from her attempts to complete her sewing project.
  • Hiten, a Monster of the Week from Inuyasha, comes home with a woman, and when his brother Manten tells him that he failed to collect some jewel shards he discovered, flies into a rage and kills her for no apparent reason. Very gruesomely, too: in the manga he punches a hole through her head, and in the anime, he uses a blast of lightning to fry her to a charred husk.
    • Manten himself was no slouch. He and Hiten had killed and skinned a powerful fox youkai, and when the youkai's son Shippou confronted them, he noticed...that Manten was wearing his dad's fur around his belt. And Manten openly laughed about it in front of little Shippou. Think whatever you want of Shippou as a character, but that was a seriously dickish move.
    • Tsubaki the Dark Priestess gets one when she contaminates the Shikon no Tama with her own miasma, which causes Kagome incredible physical strain and pain. Then, she takes control of Kagome's body and forces her to try shooting Inuyasha, despite an horrified Kagome's protests.
    • While Naraku has had dozens of moments like this, his treatment of Sango at the beginning is specially noteworthy. He pretends to be the handsome Ill Boy White Prince Hitomi to gain her trust and puts a Shikon shard on her back to ease the pain of her injuries. What did he truly want, though? To have her fight to the death due to the Shikon shard nullifying said pain and making her believe she was getting better. When the shard is removed by Inuyasha and his friends, Sango passes out and she's so weakened that it takes her days to even wake up. And what he does to her AND Kohaku goes even further...
      • His verbal beatdown of Kagura as well as squeezing her heart on his hand to make her collapse in pain isn't much better.
  • Smug Snake Jonathan Glenn does this in Brain Powerd when he destroys Nelly's house with his brand-new Baronz. He had no reason to do that, he just wanted to show off his power and make Yuu suffer.
    • And let's not forget a scene a few episodes before, where Jonathan basically tells Yuu (paraphrased): "I have slept with your sister, and after that with your dear mom as well. They care about me more than they care about you! Hahahaaa!". Yeah, Johnny Boy is a jerk.
  • Despite being a hero (well, Anti-Hero), Lelouch from Code Geass gets a definite Kick the Dog moment when he orders the slaughter of anyone connected with the Geass as part of a Roaring Rampage of Revenge for his close friend Shirley's murder. Since a Geass user killed her, his anger is somewhat justified, but taking it out on civilians and children is the point where it crosses into this or the other trope. Yes, it IS true that the scientists were hardly innocent, but the kids were both Child Soldiers and victims of said scientists's experiments (which made them into Child Soldiers in the first place).
    • It's meant to show that Lelouch was definitely losing it. On the other hand, considering that one of the Geass Users, given the chance, quickly steals one soldier's body and uses him to kill his team-mate, and shows no reaction for doing so it clearly drives home the point Cornelia gave in the previous episode: you never, ever, give Geass Users an opportunity. Just take a step back and think about it - Lelouch kills three or four dozen heavily armed soldiers over the course of the series using the same method simply because they give him the few seconds needed to make eye contact, and can create a small army with a half-hours work. Lelouch knows just how stupid it would be to take chances. They're not even victims: they're fully trained child assassins, armed with the most powerful of personal weapons - mind control - possess absolute loyalty to the master that's fed and trained them for as long as they remember, and have no morals or compassion for human life. They're dangerous as hell. So, this is more of a "Shoot the Cerberus" moment, because he can't win with any other method, and he can't run, because they'll attack him, and he can't defeat them if they have the advantage of surprise, and he's only avoided them because they don't realise he knows about them.
    • Charles did this to Lelouch as well on a couple of crucial occasions as well (like saying "old news, what about it?" when young Leluch called him out on his indifference towards Marianne's murder).
    • And let's not forget Schneizel, either, via manipulating an already unstable Teen Genius into creating a Sphere of Destruction for him -- and telling her repeteadly that, by joining him and doing his bidding, she'd be fulfilling the wish of the person she was in love with. Said person? His own Dead Little Sister Euphemia. He also sabotages the reconciliation between Lelouch and Suzaku by arresting the former, and sets up the betrayal from the Black Knights with a Quote Mine from said meeting. The bastard doesn't stop there, though. After Lelouch has decided on his Zero-Approval Gambit Thanatos Gambit after also believing Nunnally to be lost as well thanks to the FLEIJA destruction Schneizel caused, Schneizel sets up Nunnally, who has been hidden away by him, as his enemy.
  • The Pretty Cure villains are pros at this.
    • In Episode 11 of Futari wa Pretty Cure, after assuming his monstrous form to fight Nagisa/Cure Black and Honoka/Cure White, Gekidrago becomes so frustrated that he willingly attacks Ryota, Nagisa's little brother, just for having wandered near the scene of the battle. Terrible mistake. An enraged Cure Black declares This Is Unforgivable! and attacks Gekidrago with a vengeance...and, as one might imagine, the dumb oaf does not live to see the end of the episode.
    • Femme Fatale Poisonny's tactics almost always involve some dog kicking, mainly using mind control over a group of bystanders and using them as meat shields. The brainwashing of two of Nagisa and Honoka's schoolmates in Episode 14 comes to mind.
    • In Splash Star, the very first thing Karehan (the first member of Dark Fall's Quirky Miniboss Squad) does is beat up Flappy and Choppy to force them to give up information about the Source of the Sun.
    • It seems that villains, in that series, are at their worst when they're about to be killed by the heroines. In Episode 13 of Splash Star, Moerumba destroys a glass sculptor's work in front of Saki and Mai just to prove his point that might makes right. And that was his last episode, barring his resurrection later in the series.
    • Shitataare, while a somewhat humorous villainess, seemed to try her best to get under Saki and Mai's skin by repeatedly reminding them of how Michiru and Kaoru were trapped in the darkness and forever lost. Pretty much the only villain who refrained from punting the pup in that season, other than Michiru and Kaoru themselves, was Kintolesky, because of his obsession with fighting fair.
  • Jerkass road racer Shingo from Initial D. We first witness him tapping the bumper of Iketani's car (which had just come back from being repaired after a horrible crash), and later when confronted, says that it's Iketani's own fault for being too slow. He continues his Kick The Dog moments by challenging Takumi to a match in which both drivers' non-shifting hands are taped to the steering wheel, breaks up a date between Itsuki and his blind date by crashing Itsuki's car, and during the race that he challenged Takumi to, attempts to crash Takumi's car in an attempt to end the match in a draw (since Shingo couldn't catch up anymore), and this is where his rampage ends: He misses Takumi and crashes into the guardrail instead. But this turns into a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming when Iketani and Itsuki come across Shingo and offer to take him to the hospital instead of getting mad at him, and since then Shingo is more of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
  • In Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, little Marie's entire family (including her dog) are gunned down by the Neo Atlantian soldiers just because they're that mean.
  • Shizuru's attack on a near-defenseless Yukino (which resulted in Haruka's death) in My-HiME punctuated her Face Heel Turn.
    • Also, Nao, did you really need to kidnap both Takumi and later Natsuki? The worst part is that Mai, whom Nao tried to kidnap Takumi to hurt attempted to stop the fight in which Nao lost her eye. And then Karma, in the form of Shizuru, bloodily caught up with her...
    • It initially appears as though a brainwashed Mikoto was responsible for destroying Akira's Child and thus killing Takumi, but it later turns out that it was actually Shiho. Her reason?

Mai: You got Akira-kun and Takumi?
Shiho: Because Onii-chan pays attention only to you.

      • Really not helped by how, before that puppy punting happened, Shiho was both very ill and desperate since Yuuchi had broken a promise to her when she was in the hospital. Then, Nagi proceeded to groom the puppy to be kicked via going towards Shiho when she was at her lowest point and then getting to her head, which is soon followed by her Face Heel Turn...
  • In Saint Seiya, Aquarius Camus is quite a Knight Templar, and we get to see that clearly when he uses his power to singlehandedly sink a frozen ship...which was the sort-of tomb of Natasha, the mother of Camus's disciple Hyoga. To be fair, Hyoga did need to outgrow his Oedipus Complex, but daaaaaamn.
    • Creepy Twins Thanatos and Hypnos are much worse, as they repeteadly try to kill Seiya's amnesiac Waif Prophet sister Serika just because she's there. Thank Athena that Jabu is there and helps the girl out.
    • Cancer Deathmask actually introduces himself by kicking puppies, as in the anime he throws a blind Shiryu down the Rozan cascade because he tried to defend his Old Master Dohko.
    • One of the moments when we're 100% aware that Hilda has become a Dark Messiah is when she kills a little singing bird. And later, we see her verbally abusing Mizar Bud to deliberately encourage his rivalry with his estranged brother Mizar Cid, fully aware of how much the first hates the latter. In a subversion, she's not doing this willingly, but because she's Brainwashed and Crazy.
    • Isaac also does this via not only mocking Hyoga and taking up his "offer" of blinding him in one eye as "payback" for Isaac's own Eye Scream in the past, but by savagely beating up a completely indefense Kiki.
    • In the fillers, the trope is discussed when Agora and Shiva throw Helen, a girl no older than 12, inside an active volcano. For them, this is a Shoot the Dog scenario and they believe that the girl's soul will become a saintly spirit; for Ikki, their POV is bullshit and they did it For the Evulz. And when we learn that Helen actually managed to hold on the volcano walls and survived, Ikki turns the tables on Agora and Shiva's Curb Stomp Battle and ultimately defeats them.
  • In Yakitate!! Japan, we see just how rotten Tsukino's stepsister Yukino is in a flashback, where Yukino throws the ashes of Tsukino's late mother onto a tree while laughing like a maniac. A very jarring moment for a comedy about bread-making, especially since it's all but forgotten after that scene.
  • One Piece has a literal version of this. Before we even get a look at her face, the very first thing "Pirate Empress" Boa Hancock does is kick a kitten that simply happened to be in her path.
    • Hancock is absolutely smitten with this trope. In the very next chapter she destroys a clay statue of her that the tribe's children worked on, claiming that it ruined the aesthetics, before proceeding to toss the tribe's elder through a window (though to be fair, she did know said elder was Made of Iron), and if that wasn't enough, in the next chapter she petrifies three of Luffy's newfound allies when they try to reason with her. Luckily for the side of good, that just happens to be one of Luffy's Berserk Buttons...
    • She's at it again, a few chapters later she comes across a puppy and a baby seal...guess what happens. What makes this particularly notable is this is after her Heel Face Turn, although technically, almost none of the Kuja even suspect she went through a Heel Face Turn and oddly, almost none of them were aware she was cruel to them in the first place.
    • Earlier in One Piece, there was an even more literal version of this when minor villain Mohji the Lion Tamer kicked an Angry Guard Dog in his path. He then proceeded to cross the Moral Event Horizon by taking the only thing the dog cared about (a pet shop once owned by his deceased master) and burning it to the ground right in front of him. Cue the asskicking for Luffy.
    • During the Buster Call in Enies Lobby, we are briefly shown a Marine captain so ruthless his immediate response to a subordinate hesitating to fire on a base full of their own men, is to shoot this officer in the face.
    • Also subverted quite cleverly at the start of the Loguetown arc. When we first meet new villain Smoker, he is walking down the street looking generally sinister. A little girl running around with an ice cream cone accidentally bumps into him and ruins his marine uniform by getting chocolate all over his pants. Smoker gives the girl an intense, hard look...and then sweetly apologizes for bumping into her. He even gives her money to buy even more than she lost. Especially effective since up to this point, all the villains in One Piece had been irredeemable bastards; Smoker is the first antagonist with real moral complexity to him.
    • Crocodile stabbed Robin just because he had no more use for her and doesn't trust anyone.
    • Akainu attacked his own fellow man for refusing to participate in battle against the White Beard pirates, and even nearly killed Coby for the same reason.
  • In Mobile Suit Gundam 00 the Federation military unit A-Laws is established as pretty mean when they arrest an innocent Saji Crossroad for hanging out with a suspected rebel, who they both shoot and beat up for trying to run away. Saji gets sent to what appears a penal colony created solely to make the inmates' lives a living hell, and then the A-Laws test their brand spanking-new killbots by letting them run amok in the colony. And then they get a Kill Sat...the first time it is used, a refugee camp gets destroyed. It gets worse from there...
    • The oft-cited "Nena attacks a wedding out of frustration/boredom" incident also counts, since her character was established one episode earlier as a playful yet mentally unstable child soldier (her older brothers are much less on the "playful" side...especially Michael).
      • And then Liu Mei scoffs at Hong Long's death and doesn't seem to appreciate that he did it to save her, which is a Kick the Dog moment in itself.
  • In one episode of Fushigi Yuugi, while talking with underlings, Nakago takes a canary out of its cage and crushes it in his hands, just for the heck of it.
    • And there's also his role in Suboshi's Moral Event Horizon crossing, in which he clearly knows how disturbed the guy is upon thinking his beloved brother is dead, and he encourages him to "take revenge"...
  • Now and Then, Here and There plays this literally. Except it's a cat. And it's not kicked, it has its neck snapped when Hamdo has a tantrum.
  • In the end credits for "[[Phantom of Inferno|Phantom Requiem for the Phantom]]", main character (and assassin) Zwei is depicted repeatedly shooting a target's sad-eyed dog after he's killed her. One assumes we're meant to take this to mean that he's edgy and dangerous in his brainwashed and confused assassin persona.
  • In Eyeshield 21, pretty much anything that Agon does. Highlights include: taking Kurita's spot at Shinryuuji just to spite Hiruma; perving on, accosting and nearly assaulting Mamori; nearly taking Sena's eye out at the tournament drawing; beating up the sympathetic Zokugaku Chameleons; intentionally dislocating the rather puppy-like Mizumachi's shoulder in a scrimmage, pretty much all the nasty things he says to his less talented but much nicer twin brother, and attempting to break the knees of a child in a wheelchair.
  • Romeo X Juliet's Lord Laertes Van di Montague does this regularly, but the worst (aside of the terrible massacre of the Backstory) is him forcing his ally Titus into a duel and killing him in front of his son Mercutio. For no other reason than proving a point to Mercutio.
  • In Blade of the Immortal, Shira not only kicks the dog, but kills the dog Rin had befriended the previous night and tricks her into eating it. Of course, we already know Shira is beyond Moral Event Horizon and accelerating.
  • The World Is Mine introduces its Villain Protagonists by showing Wild Child Mon casually toss the girl he was having sex with out of their moving car onto the freeway. Mon's partner Toshiya's slide into complete monstrosity happens when he tortures and kills an elderly couple.
  • In his early appearances, Mayuri Kurotsuchi from Bleach was clearly designed to be loathed by the audience due to the near constant abuse he levelled towards his daughter and lieutenant, Nemu.
    • There's also the part where he tries to kill Ikkaku when he refuses to answer his questions, before Kenpachi stops him.
    • Gin Ichimaru is introduced by slicing off Jidanbo's arm (only making a gash in it in the anime) and suggesting that he should have died defending the gate. And then there's his falsely offering to help save Rukia and all his friends before her execution just to raise and dash her hopes. Not to mention how he cuts Hiyori in two (or stabs her almost fatally in the anime).
    • Byakuya does some pretty assholish things in the Soul Society arc before his Heel Face Turn, such as refusing to allow Renji to be treated when he's defeated (which earns him a harsh scold from Renji's friend Momo in the anime), attempting to overkill Ganju simply for being a Shiba, and openly insulting the more merciful captains such as Ukitake. In fact, some believe that if it wasn't for his Freudian Excuse and becoming a Sugar and Ice Personality over Rukia once he has his HFT, he would've crossed the Moral Event Horizon.
    • Tousen, who, after his Resurrection, was able to see for the first time in his life, started laughing like a maniac, commenting on all the things he could see, before turning towards a silent Komamura and remarked that he looked far uglier than he thought. Subverted later, as after being defeated, Tousen actually apologizes to Komamura for having told him such things. Right before he dies.
    • Sosuke Aizen has kicked many puppies, but two of these have pretty much been mutilated under the force of his kicks: his ex-lieutenant, Momo Hinamori, and her best friend, Toshiro Hitsugaya. How does he do such things? He stabs the girl to almost death as he reveals himself as Not Quite Dead (and as the end of all the More Than Mind Control he's subjected her to for decades), then admits it when questioned by a very pissed off Hitsugaya, and seriously injures him when he tries to attack him. And much later? Upon being under attack, he uses his Master of Illusion powers to make Hitsugaya believe he's attacking him...while in fact, he's attacking Hinamori. Who took a while to return from the brink of death.
      • It Got Worse; when Hitsugaya finds Hinamori, he apologizes...and says he should've cut her body up instead.
      • Don't forget killing Halibel, who had barely survived fighting Hitsugaya just because he was pissed off that the higher Espada lost.
      • And then chasing Ichigo's friends around Karakura with the intention of killing them and provoke Ichigo.
      • Practically everyone who suffered in the story is HIS fault.
    • While Yamamoto isn't a villain, his method of telling Nanao it was futile for her to follow Kyoraku was cruel: he knocks her unconscious merely with his Battle Aura, causing Kyoraku to quickly get his lieutenant out of range. The old man was right, as Nanao realises whilst still paralysed/in shock that there's no way Kyoraku and Ukitake can defeat their commander and teacher, but was it really needed?
    • Tsukishima has now done this. He used his power to convince all of Ichigo's friends that he's a close friend of theirs. Then, when Orihime and Chad begin to doubt their memories, he brutally reminds them how important he is to them, causing them to collapse under his Mind Rape.
    • Ginjo taunts Ichigo after taking his powers.
    • The Vandereich's murder of Chojiro Sasakibe can be seen as this too. Okay, so finishing someone off when they try to stop you from reaching to his boss is something. Shooting said person into a wall with a giant crossbow out of spite to him and his boss and mocking him as he bleeds to death is...something else.
      • The Vandereich leader isn't much better, what with him murdering two subordinates for borderline whims.
  • Miss Minchin in Shokojo Sera literally does this, except that it's Kick The Cat, and the cat gets its revenge fairly soon. Ironically, she soon undergoes a probable Heel Face Turn, and is seen holding the same cat in her arms an episode later.
  • Deathsaurus in Transformers Victory leaves the Dinoforce to die on Atlantis after he gets enough energy to reactivate his evil fortress of doom. Tragically, they keep on stealing energy while under the impression that he's going to return.
  • Grewcica in the Gunnm OVA kills the dog that Gally picked up. Gally then uses the pup's blood to paint her face, giving herself the marks we know so well.
  • In Kinnikuman, Mixer Taitei does an almost literal example (but ratchets up the brutality) by needlessly killing a helpless puppy with his blender blades, thoroughly establishing him as one of the most monstrous heels Kinnikuman would ever face. In Nisei, you also have Dialbolik/Tel Tel Boy killing famous wrestlers just to get an audience's attention.
  • In the fourth arc's witches' tea party in Umineko no Naku Koro ni, Lambdadelta and Bernkastel cracking up at poor Ange's terrible fate was one of the big shots across the bow to keep an eye on those two.
    • How the hell did Erika smashing Maria's dreams in front of her not make this list?
      • Don't forget Rosa going crazy and tearing up Sakutaro.
    • And then we have Ange's classmates humiliating her in the beginning of the fourth arc, by forcing her to write and read out loud a letter in which she blames herself for her bad grades and being The Load on the class.
    • Pretty much every interaction Kinzo has ever had with his sons and daughters is a Kick the Dog moment. A great example would be what he did to Eva, purely because she's female , or even "better", sexually abusing his Heroic Bastard Beatrice Ushiromiya.
  • Sakyo of Yu Yu Hakusho does this almost literally as it is revealed in his backstory that he tortured animals in his job at a pet shop in his boredom.
    • And then we have Tarukane's horrible treatment of Yukina, in which he tortured her painfully to make her cry her tears of pearls, and took to having Younger Toguro kill her pet birds when she became desensitized to pain.
    • Don't forget Sadist Teachers Iwai and Akashi messing up with Kuwabara's grades deliberately to ruin his promise to get good ones so his friend would be allowed to keep his part-time job. Thankfully, the director catches them on it and fixes the problem.
  • From Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two.: while nobody ended up dead and she's not exactly a villain, Kei deleting a very nervous Miyako's very anguished text messages to their common love interest Hiro, when he stands up to her in their date to stay with Kei after she has an accident, and doing so before he can check them up-- so he won't know Miyako's been waiting for hours and ended up having a huge Heroic BSOD feels very much like this. So much that, for some, the scene where Kei finds a naked Miyako in Hiro's home, thus becoming aware that they've reconciled (and have had sex as well) and running away in tears until her injured leg gives in comes off as the girl's karmic punishment rather than the Tear Jerker it may have been supposed to be.
    • OTOH, when Miyako herself verbally rips Kei apart quite brutally at the end of her chapter, in order to preserve her relationship with Hiro, that also felt like punting a pup. To her credit, she does feel bad afterwards.
  • Black Butler: In the first episode of the second season, Alois Trancy stabs his maid Hannah Anasfeloz in the eye with his fingers. For daring to look her master in the eye while serving him. The nerve of her.
  • In the Liar Game, Yokoya does this to his two pet mice.
  • The Christmas present episode in Jazz was a massive Kick the Dog moment on Naoki's part.
  • About every villain in the Dragon Ball series performs at least one Kick the Dog moment, from Nappa incinerating a city to nothing to Majin Buu transforming whole crowds of civilians into food and eating them and just minutes before he attempts to kill them all.
  • Izaya does this in Durarara!! when he spends all of episode 17 making Kida's life literally HELL, even using his Honey Trap Saki for such purposes.
    • Don't forget his treatment of the distraught Rio Kamichika, whom he almost drives to suicide purely for the lulz.
  • Fairy Tail had its fair share of Kick the Dog moments from Gajeel attacking Shadow Gear and Lucy.
    • Ultear possessing Jellal and in turns making Erza's life even more miserable.
      • The Scientist who told Ur that said daughter died
    • Fried attacking Elfman and Insulting Juvia causing her to perform a Heroic Sacrifice
    • Faust using Magnolia as a missile against The Exceed so he could have infinite magic among other things.
  • Sakura Gari has too many Kick the Dog moments to mention. Here's a short list: Souma does it to Masataka by repeatedly raping him and then further hurts him by revealing (after his own suicide attempt) that the reason he does this is because he loves him. And Souma has been kicked continuously his whole life by every single responsible adult in his life to the point where the only way he ever received affection was through him being raped and molested...(which puts his behaviour towards Masataka in a whole other horrifying light). However, one of the two who has repeatedly Kicked The Dog throughout the entire series with absolutely no remorse or conscience is Dr. Katsuragi, who started raping and torturing Souma when he was in charge of him as a little boy (Katsuragi was 17/18 and Souma was 11/12 as much), and then went on to do the same thing to Masataka after drugging him. This is not a happy series.
    • Don't forget that Souma kicked the pup even harder by telling Masataka that his brother Takafumi died in a confusing incident...quite a while after Takafumi got Stuffed Into the Fridge thanks to the Yakuza. And not before he got Masataka to work off Taka's debt with sexual favors some more after the fact. No wonder Masataka blows up like HELL at him.
    • And then we meet Katsuragi's other victim: Katsuragi's beautiful wife Asayo, whom he physically and sexually abuses. Though in this case, The Dog Bites Back...
    • Souma's younger sister Sakurako also gets her pup kicking turn, when she feeds Masataka glass shards hidden in the meal she cooked for him. And then we learn that she tortures all of Souma's lovers from the household...
    • And you may wonder who is the second unrepentant puppykicker, huh? Well, the reply's here: Souma's stepmother/Sakurako's mother, who slaps and berated young Souma when baby!Sakurako is accidentally injured when they're playing. One could take it as Lady Saiki being a My Beloved Smother who acted irrationally due to panic, but this is dispelled since we already know that after this incident, she crossed the Moral Event Horizon via sexually and physically abusing Souma as revenge for Sakurako losing her heir position to him.
  • Aya Misaki from Oniisama e... does this quite a bit, but an especially good example is when she mocks both Nanako's middle-class background and Mariko's dysfunctional relationship with her father.
    • Fukiko Ichinomiya's abuse of Rei Asaka is like kicking a puppy repeatedly - one incident that particularly stands out is when Fukiko tells Rei to wait for her under a tree on a cold rainy day. Rei stays there for several hours as Fukiko "classily" conducts study sessions for the Sorority, knowing full well that Rei's out there waiting for her. No wonder Kaoru hates her so much.
  • Choji Suitengu does this constantly throughout Speed Grapher (just as often Kick the Son of a Bitch, actually). He has people who can't pay their debts killed and cashes in their life insurance policies, and the things he puts the teenage Kagura through would make him a Complete Monster, were it not for his Freudian Excuse and Pet the Dog moments.
  • In the anime Steins;Gate, Kiryuu "Shining Finger" Moeka killing the lovable Cloudcuckoolander Mayushii multiple times in cold blood. While the act is relevant to the plot, it has no meaning whatsoever, since it is really difficult to believe that the victim, even if witnessing a kidnapping attempt, would ever be a threat to whoever ordered that.
  • Takatsuki from Wandering Son is typically a Nice Guy, though he has a temper. He went through a period in middle school where one of his close friendships broke apart. Around the middle of this period he told Saori, who is very much in love with Nitori, that she was dating Anna.
  • In the "anime" of Deltora Quest we have the filler villain Oacus, wizard of fire. A young girl with a doll is cleared on of her home, and he proceeds to burn it down. She asks him if he can save her (why is already silly, since he's the very person who burned her place down and unlikely to lift a finger). To which he says, "I certainly could, but I don't want to," and points his magic at the girl's doll.
  • In Berserk, Femto/Griffith has a horrific Kick the Dog moment within his larger scale Moral Event Horizon during the Eclipse. Sacrificing everyone who had stood by him to a horde of demons was an act of irredeemable evil, but it had the understandable purpose of giving him the power to rise from his physically and mentally broken condition as a member of the Godhand. However, brutally raping Casca while making her lover Guts watch served no purpose whatsoever; he had already gained power by dooming them to Hell (which you'd think would more than avenge any wrongs he felt they did him), and so the only possible reason for this particular atrocity was cruelty for cruelty's sake.
    • On a less disturbing but still rather heinous note, Gambino's general treatment of Guts in general. This is the guy who manages to Kick the Dog by petting one on his lap during the nightmare sequence in the second episode. And that's not even mentioning what he does to him in the manga.
  • No matter what you think of May Wong from Kaleido Star, not even she deserves to have Leon Oswald actually deliberately dropping her on-stage and causing her to get seriously injured. just to test her worth as performer.
  • Mawaru Penguindrum: Kanba beating down his brother Shoma is very much treated in this manner. Even more-so by Kanba telling Shouma they are no longer brothers. It really kicked off the Face Heel Turn.
    • Another example is Masako and Mario's grandfather Sanbei, who treated his grandchildren really harshly. First he kicked their father and the eldest son Kanba out of the clan merely because Dad wasn't as strong as he wanted. Then he burned all of the remaining kids's toys and memorabilia - including a letter that Masako got from her dad, despite little Masako's pleas. And later, his spirit possessed Mario to force Masako into a Sadistic Choice.
    • Sanetoshi isn't above this, either. He could have perfectly healed Himari right after she had a very serious seizure in episode 12, but waits until she pretty much dies to appear, while subtly mocking Kanba's grief as he presents himself. And even worse case is when he forces Kanba to helplessly watch the death of his twin sister Masako (and mind you, this happens after Kanba did his already mentioned share of puppukicking), then revives her with a Survival Strategy to fully re-inforce Kanba's Face Heel Turn, since he promises to revive Himari in this same way.
    • And then we have Tabuki kicking some pups as well, when he kidnaps Himari and Ringo (who is his long-time friend), locks Ringo away, and puts Himari inside a Death Trap, all to punish the Takakuras for the death of Ringo's sister Momoka (which their parents caused).
  • Tiger and Bunny: villain Jake Martinez holds the city of Sternbild hostage and decides to toy with them by challenging the Heroes one-by-one to duel with him, only to brutally defeat and mock them.
    • Jake doesn't hold a candle to the real Big Bad Maverick. Not only does he Mind Rape his protege Barnaby into submission through Laser-Guided Amnesia, but also has Samantha, his housekeeper and mother figure, brutally killed and blames it on Kotetsu by giving everyone Laser-Guided Amnesia. Had he succeeded, not only would Barnaby have lost his Parental Substitute, but might also have unknowingly murdered, if not imprisoned for life, his best friend!
  • While Togenishia and Yabooki from Hana no Ko Lunlun were mostly a Goldfish Poop Gang, sometimes they did shockingly terrible acts. An example happens in the Netherlands arc when they kidnap the talking dog Nubo and almost kill him by drowning, to force a depressed Lunlun who's tempted to come back home for a while go back in track. Another takes place in the Italy arc, where Yabooki almost blows up an Orphanage of Love that Lunlun is trying to help via attempting to activate a World War II bomb in its yard that the kids are trying to use to force people help their Ill Girl companion. The worst one happens in the Grand Finale: destroying the flower field that Lunlun's grandparents planted with their own hands in the nearby grassy hill, which was actually planted thanks to the seeds sent by the friends Lunlun made during her travels. For no other reason than being butthurt because Lunlun was taking some days off. And then it blows in their very faces, since the only flower that survived... was the MacGuffin aka the Seven Color Flower, which grew there specifically because the field was made with tokens of love.
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