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So you have a character who is the butt of every joke. They are regularly put through hell, at times purely for the audience's amusement, but just as often to the audience's disgust. They might be innocent victims or they might be pitiable villains. One thing is for certain. They have had enough.
What did the heroes do wrong? Maybe the harmless mook wasn't so harmless after all. Maybe that last jibe went too far. Whatever the reason, this character is through with being the comedy sidekick and determined to show the heroes precisely why you should Beware the Silly Ones, Beware the Nice Ones, and Beware the Quiet Ones.
What did the villains do wrong? Ahem, everything. But they are going to pay for at least one of their Kick the Dog moments, and what better way to go about it than to become a villain?
Who's laughing now, hero? Who's laughing NOW?!
This can occur with victims of a world full of Jerk Jocks, where the Kids Are Cruel and Teens Are Monsters. You can bet it will lead to this aesop: the victim doesn't realize the irony, that by taking revenge they have become as bad as those who victimized them. If they do realize it, expect an Ignored Epiphany. This could also result in the Butt-Monkey being pushed back down into the former position, or the character could become relatively harmless but still extremely annoying. May result in the character becoming Arch Enemies with the most abusive.
A specific variant of Face–Heel Turn and/or He Who Fights Monsters, and a form of Freudian Excuse. Compare Start of Darkness, Beware the Nice Ones, Break the Cutie, Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds, Kick the Dog, Not-So-Harmless Villain, They Called Me Mad!, Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal, and Then Let Me Be Evil. Also compare The Dog Bites Back which is when this is a villain's reason for changing his ways.
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In Narbonic, Helen notes that one of the things which causes the actual 'breakout' stage of Walton's Disorder is "the laughter of fools". Usually, those fools at the institute. Madblood laughs at Dave right before the story's climax, and in the filename story, Mr. Winter laughs at Helen before her breakdown.
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In Worm, this is subverted by Taylor, whose descent into villainy the local heroes are largely responsible for, due to a combination of neglect, arrogance, and covering for the crimes of Shadow Stalker in her civilian identity. In spite of this, Taylor considers her career as a villain to be mostly her own doing:
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Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog uses this to awesome effect in "Brand New Day."
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Obnoxious, Scrappy lab rat Stuckey has been catching hell all season by Stabler and his senior lab partner,note Yelling "We've got a dead body here!", in public, where a child is buried, in Stabler's presence is edging into Too Dumb to Live territory. but it comes to a head after a small error allows a serial killer to go free and he gets mocked and yelled at by a bunch of people, including the killer himself. Stuckey then kills an innocent to plant evidence and get a second chance at the killer, then kills the lawyer, almost kills the judge, kills his lab partner, and tortures Stabler for a bit. Were it not for the arrival of Olivia and Stuckey's feelings for her....
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In Winter Shard, the game opens with a lonely, desperate Frederic being continually denied food and shelter by the people he tries to seek help from and then having his right arm ripped off by Temonz, for the sole crime of being the son of a man accused of treason. Naturally, when he's resurrected and granted dark powers by Krotus, he exults in getting his sweet revenge on these people.
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Bound (1996): Caesar both plays the trope straight and says the tagline almost verbatim. He also gets... rather animated while doing so.
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The commercial for Sonic & Knuckles that came out around Christmas 1994. Supposed to be innovative, Santa didn't like the idea, so the elves who supposedly thought it up went and sold the game and its "Lock-on Technology" to Sega. They quote this trope at the end.
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Suits: When Hardman makes Louis a Senior Partner, Jessica and Harvey try to woo him to their side. Instead, he lashes out at both of them for the past five years when he received only the most limited recognition of his accomplishments while the favored Harvey rose to Senior Partner first. When Hardman takes control of the firm, Louis becomes his attack dog and nearly gets Harvey fired.
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Eric Young's Face–Heel Turn in TNA in 2009 is a textbook Who's Laughing Now. Young had a comedy gimmick for much of his run in TNA and eventually began to perceive himself as the Butt-Monkey of the company, especially when he joined the Front Line and dumped many of the comedy aspects of his gimmick. Eric's inability to get title shots and opportunities for whatever reason resulted in him forming the World Elite faction, a group of Anti-American Foreign Wrestling Heels who believe their perceived lack of success and popularity is because they were not born in the United States.
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In The Savage Dragon, there was a boy routinely bullied and abused by his parents until he woke up one day with superpowers that actually made him the most powerful being on Earth. One Roaring Rampage of Revenge later, and after sweeping aside most of the other heroes, The Dragon manages to talk him down and convince him not to make himself a thing to be feared by the world
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Hero Class Civil Warfare: A small part of Izuku's motivations for accepting being putting in charge of the "Villain Team" for the titular exercise is that it allows him to finally get some revenge upon Katsuki for the last decade's worth of Barbaric Bullying, using all of the knowledge he's accumulated about his former friend against him. Heck, the more detailed and thorough he was in curb-stomping Bakugou, the better his grade was!
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Matsuda in Death Note: The Abridged Series (kpts4tv): "WHO'S STUPID NOW, STUPID!"
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Heroic example: Ash in Evil Dead 2 makes good use of this trope during a chainsaw rampage, which includes cutting off his own possessed hand.
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In 8-Bit Theater, White Mage (after having her worldview invalidated) tries to be evil for a couple panels. She turns back because, it turns out, she doesn't like hurting people. She's also really bad at it unless the inflicting of pain is directed upon Black Mage, usually in response to one of his questionable come-on lines. On the other hand, Onion Kid manages to pull a Who's Laughing Now with a bit more success.
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The Witcher (2019): A national example with Nilfgaard. In the early chronological segments of the Netflix adaptation, Nilfgaard is laughed at and the butt of nearly every political joke for having a boorish king and just being all-around weak and incompetent. In the future timeline segments, Nilfgaard has gained a new and powerful emperor who modernizes them, turns them into a major and feared continental power, and proceeds to launch an absolutely brutal, relentless invasion of the Northern Kingdoms. It's safe to say no one is making jokes about Nilfgaard anymore.
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Speaking of the Guard, in Dawn of War one of the Baneblade unit's quotes is "Who's dying now?"
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The Franny K. Stein book The Fran That Time Forgot had Franny time-travel back to the day she was born in order to change her Embarrassing Middle Name. Before returning to her proper time, she also decides to visit the future, where she finds to her horror that changing her middle name from Kissypie to Kaboom still got her laughed at, plus her lecture to her infant self that there is nothing worse than being laughed at has worsened Franny's anger at her peers laughing at her middle name, resulting in her teenage self planning to get back at everyone who laughed at her by creating an army of elephant monsters.
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Several examples in Harry Potter:
Professor Snape is an infamous example of this. Having an abusive father and neglectful mother, he sought to escape his shoddy upbringing by becoming a powerful and clever wizard. As such, he's motivated to one-up anyone who has ever wronged him or hurt his pride, most notably James Potter, with who he possessed a bitter resentment. James was his intellectual equal but had a loving family, came from a wealthy background, and was talented at sports, being the Big Man on Campus. James, from the little we do know about him, hated Snape for his association with the Dark Arts and for being friends with Lily despite being, well Snape. In the present day, Snape cannot help but savor an opportunity to get back at the Marauders, including wrongfully getting someone falsely accused to a Fate Worse than Death and getting rewarded for it. When said opportunity is ruined, he outs his co-worker (who was also a Marauder) out of spite. However, the death of Lily pretty much cracked him since it was his own fault and serves as his other motivation, representing his nuance.
Peter Pettigrew is another example, with Word of God confirming that his triumph over Sirius, where by Faking the Dead he got Sirius locked up in Azkaban for years and framed him for betraying the Potters, was this trope.
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Lee Phillips from KateModern is constantly bullied by Gavin and Tariq, which is played for laughs. However, Gavin goes too far in "Subservient Lee", and Lee runs off with the software Gavin and Tariq were developing in the following video, "The Leak". Lee only becomes an enemy of Gavin and Tariq, on whom he wants revenge; he remains amiable enough towards the other characters and is portrayed largely sympathetically from then on.
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In Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the Spot wants to be Miles' nemesis but because of his dorkish personality and lack of control over his powers, he ends up feeling ridiculed and called a villian of the week by him and many other Spider-People. Enraged by the lack of respect despite being partially responsible for Miles becoming Spider-Man and in turn indirectly making him who he is now, The Spot proceed to improve his powers to the point he becomes a destructive threat to the multiverse in order to make Miles reconsider his opinion of him.
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In the Married... with Children episode where Peggy and Al attend their high school reunion, Al and the other former Jerk Jocks are stunned to see that the nerdy boys they bullied are now filthy rich and have numerous gorgeous women fawning all over them.
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In Conversations with a Cryptid All for One was originally a vigilante who was trying to protect his family and working alongside his brother, the First One for All wielder. But then unauthorized Quirk use was deemed illegal and out of hundreds of vigilantes, only seven were permitted to become the first pro-heroes. While All for One didn't make the cut, his brother did. In protest, All for One gathered his fellow vigilantes and formed the League of Villains. From then on, All for One terrorized Japan, for two hundred years and become the most feared supervillain.
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Eridan Ampora in Homestuck, although this is not the only reason for his Face–Heel Turn. (Heel Even Bigger Heel Turn?)
Also Jack Noir to the Black Queen. Also crosses with Knight of Cerebus and The Starscream.
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In Italian stories, Donald Duck has a secret identity as Paperinik il Diabolico Vendicatore (Diabolico Vendicatore being Italian for Devilish Avenger). While he's sometimes portrayed as a more lighthearted superhero, earlier stories make clear it's actually about showing up everyone who laughs at Donald (he even conned Gladstone into thinking that Donald cursed him into being unlucky, and showed as Donald to get paid for taking the curse away), with the criminals fitting it due them taking the easy way in life (the very first story has Paperinik stealing Scrooge's mattress while he's sleeping on it because stealing the sacks of money in the same room would have been too easy. Just to make clear that if he ever decided to become a thief nothing and no one could stop him since the beginning).
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The Order of the Stick:
A goblin calls Durkon short. He casts Thor's Might, going up two size categories and towering over the goblin.
Also, Xykon to a degree. In Start of Darkness, every time he encounters a wizard, they take a moment to state that as a sorcerer, he is inferior to them. (To compare, a sorcerer develops magic naturally while a wizard has to study for it; as far as wizards are concerned, the way sorcerers use magic is like comparing a rubber mallet to a finely tuned watch.) Xykon's response each time is to kill the wizard.
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Has happened pretty often in WWE in an attempt to give a wrestler used for comedy a bigger push by making them "more serious" with Rikishi (went from dancing with Too Cool to running over Stone Cold), Gregory Helms (originally a superhero parody) and with R-Truth (originally rapped his way to the ring). Nine times out of ten, it doesn't work.
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Heir has Harry Potter combine this with Then Let Me Be Evil. After putting up with the Dursleys' abuse (which is NOT Played for Laughs), and with a little goading from the voice of the Tom Riddle Horcrux in his mind, Harry decides to really give them all a legitimate reason to fear his powers.
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Exalted: The Primordial War is Autochthon's one huge Who's Laughing Now? moment. After aeons of being the Butt-Monkey amongst "fellow" titans, he eventually had enough and made the Exaltation to massacre the gigantic dicks. Moral of the story: don't piss off the shy genius.
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Invoked in Spaced Invaders when much-abused nerd Vern, upgraded to a cyborg and under mind control by the Martians, uses their technology to create the giant irrigation machine he's always dreamed of, and with it destroy "butthead" Klembecker's car in revenge for years of bullying. When the Martians set him free he retains his newfound confidence and steals Klembecker's date for good measure.
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In Ultimate Spider-Man, Peter often mocks the even-more-pathetic-than-he-is-in-main-continuity Ultimate Shocker before beating him up with almost no effort. When Shocker gets lucky and knocks Peter out, he ties him up in a warehouse and tortures him slowly, as payback for all the times he was mocked. Interestingly, even though the guy is trying to kill him, Peter genuinely apologizes for being such a jerk after hearing Shocker's surprisingly sad Breaking Lecture.
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Daria Cohens' The Vampair Series starts with Missi sneaking into the mansion of Duke, a powerful vampire, and being subjected to a game of cat and mouse. By the third video Missi has learned how to effectively use Duke's cane, and uses it to assume control of his mansion, even resurrecting the guy just to deny him the joys of living in the underworld.
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In The Dark Side of the Mirror Verse, the Mirror Mane Six are largely Harmless Villains and losers, but Mirror Twilight in particular feels like she's been disrespected and wronged her entire life and her family became a laughing stock and disgraced when her older brother eloped with Empress Cadenza. She also feels the School for Gifted Unicorns wronged her by kicking her out instead of teaching her the focus to handle her power after her mana surge, which even Mirror Trixie admits is true. Ultimately, she accidentally overloads her Mana Collector, and the resulting explosion combined with her bitterness and envy over this fact turns her into Nightmare Spotlight, who goes full on this trope. She plans to publicly humiliate and take revenge on everypony who she believes did her wrong, and nearly destroys Canterlot in the process. She outright admits after she's defeated and purified, that everything she did as Spotlight was basically her power fantasies brought to life. She even ended up giving a version of the Syndrome page quote.
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Smallville: A number of Meteor Freaks, especially in the first season, are kids who were abused or hurt by others and use their newly obtained powers to get revenge on their tormentors.
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Kung Fu Hustle plays with this using the main character Sing. When he was a child, he tried to save a girl from bullies, only to be badly beaten up. As an adult, he intentionally becomes a thief and "tough guy" in an attempt to invoke this trope. Problem is, he's a horrible thief and everyone around him are Kung-Fu Masters, so he ends up as the Butt-Monkey. When Sing manifests super-mega-Kung-Fu might, however, the film subverts this. Rather than take revenge on everyone who laughed at him, as he claimed he was going to do throughout the film, he decides to be the good person he wanted to be as a child and becomes a gentle and forgiving man.
This is, in itself, the best revenge of all by dint of rising above the trope to live well.
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The Goosebumps novel Calling All Creeps! features protagonist Ricky Beamer who is picked on by everyone in school just For the Evulz and is even kicked out of the newspaper twice for something that wasn't even his fault. He decides to get even with the editor of the paper, Tasha, by sending her message to the editor, only to discover that it's backfired on him, and now Ricky receives calls from the four Creeps that venerate him as their commander. In the end, however, Ricky decides not to warn the class about the seeds in the cookies and gets the opportunity to enslave everyone who picked on him in the beginning.
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Molly Holly in 2003. After spending 2002 as a Butt-Monkey (thanks to WWE's insane idea that the best way to get her over as a villain was to have everyone call her "fat-ass"), she regained the Women's Championship, drafted Gail Kim to be her mook and unleashed hell on Trish Stratus, who initiated the verbal abuse in the storyline. Sadly, it didn't last. In 2004, she reverted back to her Butt-Monkey status after getting her head shaved at WrestleMania 20.
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Bernard in Death of a Salesman is too classy to say it, but it's clear he's thinking it.
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Seinfeld: The Grand Finale has every single minor character showing up and testifying about the protagonists' long history of selfish deeds throughout the show, thereby dooming them to serve time in prison.
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In The Flash (2014), upon discovering that Barry is responsible for the messed-up Flashpoint timeline they're living in, his Arch-Enemy Eobard Thawne gleefully declares: "Who's the villain now, Flash? Who's the villain now!" (Answer: Still Thawne).
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The Running Man: This trope is invoked when the electricity-themed 'stalker' Dynamo, having been humiliated by Ben Richards and Amber in the game zone, has decided to get even by raping Amber when he comes upon her later. It's rather beautifully thrown back in his face:
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In Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, this is the primary motivation of Puss's most dangerous and frightening adversary... Death himself. Sick and tired of Puss throwing away his lives on reckless stunts and his constant mockery of him by claiming to "laugh in the face of death", Death deems the "arrogant little legend" unworthy to live his ninth and final life, and manifests into the mortal plane in the form of a fearsome wolf to personally claim Puss's last life. Death even throws Puss' claim of laughing in the face of death back in his face when he confronts him in the Cave of Lost Souls to clue him in on his true identity. Naturally, Puss is terrified when he realizes that he is now literally face to face with the very thing he once laughed at, and even more scared that said thing is NOT happy about being laughed at.
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The Office (US): Referenced when Dwight pepper-sprays Roy who is about to attack Jim. Unfortunately, Dwight ends up spraying not just Roy, but also Jim, Pam, and himself. With tears rolling down his face, he states that he was mocked for bringing pepper spray to work, but "who's laughing now?"
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"Self Inflicted" by Filter, written from the point of view of a serial killer who thinks "society made me do this."
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The Iron Warriors legion turned traitor because of this. They became amongst the most bitter and hateful entities in the franchise after being used during the most hellish sieges of the Great Crusade, or relegated to garrison duty - in some cases, ten-man squads of Iron Warriors were expected to maintain order on entire worlds. During the Horus Heresy they sided with the other traitors, and took particular, vicious glee in dismantling the defenses of the Imperial Palace.
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The early 1990s Marvel series Sleepwalker featured a nerdy psychology student who was regularly made fun of by his Jerk Jock enemy, who teased him about being a "dateless bookworm." When he gains superhuman powers after an accident involving Sleepwalker, he immediately gets revenge on the Jerk Jock by conjuring a gang of murderous warriors from his book on Classical Mythology to kill him. Ticking time bomb, anyone?
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Journey to Chaos: Caffour spent his life kowtowing to the mortal powers that be and hated it. Once he is granted necrocraft, he announces his plan to overthrow them and finally gain respect.
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NCIS: Heroic example. In the episode "Deception," McGee chats with a teenaged Jerk Jock suspect about how much fun it is to taunt the geeks and nerds, giving them wedgies, shoving them into lockers, and making their lives a living hell. As the jock loosens up and starts laughing and agreeing, McGee reveals that he had been one of those geeks all through high school, and had always been tormented by the jocks, but guess what? McGee has the upper hand now.
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Monk: "Mr. Monk Is On The Air" deals with an obnoxious radio host named Max Hudson. Hudson is the prime suspect in the death of his wife Jeannette and has humiliated Monk twice on his show, even going as far as mocking the death of Monk's late wife the second time. When Hudson is arrested after Monk proves he did indeed kill his Jeannette, we get this exchange:
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On Game Grumps, both Dan Avidan and Ross O'Donovan have such stories about being taunted in school, by teachers no less, about wanting to follow their dreams. With Dan it was a music teacher who used to treat him badly for wanting to be a professional musician, earning the man a savage "Fuck you I did it!" on an episode of the show, while Ross tells of a story during work experience where they were condescending toward him for saying he wanted to be an animator and told him it would never happen, eliciting a hearty laugh from him and Arin on an episode of Steam Train.
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One Joker's Asylum comic highlights this as the Penguin's MO. At one point, it shows how the Penguin subtly uses his influence to drive a man to suicide, simply because the man was laughing, and happened to look in the Penguin's direction.
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"Superhero" by the band Trocadero (best known for the Red vs. Blue CD) includes the line "Your days calling me freak are numbered / Don't bother with surrender."
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In BattleTech, the Urbanmech has long been considered to be one of, if not the worst canon Battlemech ever made. In one book, it was given a variant that mounted an Arrow IV Missile Artillery variant that, it was immediately pointed out, was capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads.
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In Far Out, the amnesiac robot is taunted with his not laughing now.
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The Pony POV Series has several examples:
Film Critique from Patch's Gaiden Story chose some of his victims because they had laughed at him before he had found the Shard of Laughter and went From Nobody to Nightmare. Of course, a lot of them were just innocent ponies he decided to bend to his will.
Nightmare Eclipse/Paradox, the true Big Bad of Dark World and Twilight's potential future Nightmare self, did this to Discord. He spent a thousand years using her as his personal plaything until she finally broke free and invoked the Nightmare transformation to become Nightmare Purgatory so she could Pay Evil unto Evil. She then became She Who Fights Monsters, trapped him in a "Groundhog Day" Loop Ironic Hell, and reduced him to little more than her tortured puppet, just like he'd done to her.
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Scooby-Doo! Team-Up: In the Shazam! issue, after Sabbac mocks Ibac for being tricked into saying his transforming word, he's tricked as well and Ibac asks "Who's the dolt now?".
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, Walder Frey claims this is his motivation for the Red Wedding, which results in the deaths of King Robb Stark, his mother Catelyn, and most of their bannermen because everyone was always looking down on him, such as Hoster Tully calling him "The Late Lord Frey" after he showed up late to the Battle of the Trident and various people mocking him for his succession of wives, but the most recent slight was Robb marrying someone else when he had promised to wed one of Walder's daughters in exchange for their alliance. The TV series makes this especially obvious.
Arguably this could be Littlefinger's entire motivation for starting the devastating War of the Five Kings as a form of revenge for certain humiliating and traumatic events that took place during his childhood at Riverrun.
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The horror film The Final is all about this: The bullying victims rounded up everyone who had bullied them and put them through varying degrees of torture. Note that how poorly they were mistreated is open to interpretation. Emily, for example, hated the popular girls because they rebuffed her attempts at being friends. (And made some admittedly cruel jokes.)
I'm pretty sure Emily hated the popular kids more for how they outright abused her friends than how they treated her (with her hatred of the popular girls being a 'you could help so much more than you hurt if you only gave a damn'
Watching the end of the movie gives the impression that at least Emily and the guy in the Scarecrow costume were in it to commit suicide more than anything.
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The very first chapter of The Mask is even titled this trope. It shows Stanley Ipkiss killing people who wronged him such as the mechanics who ripped him off and a school teacher who picked on him when he was a kid. This guy can really hold a grudge.
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Fire & Blood: Androw Farman spent years on Dragonstone being mocked or ignored by his wife and her companions, thanks to his general uselessness. Eventually he snaps and poisons all of Rhaena's friends and companions out of spite.
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Jim Cornette was initially just a photographer selling his work at Jarrett family Continental Wrestling Association shows. One day he asked his mother, who also sold merchandise in the area, for more money so he could become a manager, an aspiration that earned him endless mocking from the likes of Bill Dundee and Jerry Lawler, derision from what wrestlers would give him a chance and lots of jeering from the fans. Laughed out of CWA, Cornette went to Mid-South, found Dennis Condrey and Bobby Eaton, then put together one of the greatest tag teams of all time, The Midnight Express, who helped him get back at the fans by antagonizing popular acts like MagnumTA, The Street People, The Road Warriors and, of course, The Rock 'n' Roll Express. He'd also manage the likes of The Grappler, Vader, The Heavenly Bodies, and The Head Hunters against former managerial clients who spurned him, lead his own promotion in an invasion of WCW and the NWA itself against the WWF, which resulted in the oft-overlooked skirt-wearing Head Bangers being thrust into stardom.
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Ephialtes from 300—who, as far as Who's Laughing Now? people go, was treated rather reasonably by Leonidas, particularly in the comic (as what happened later in the movie seemed to put the lie to the idea of the Spartans' strength being the phalanx formation). It's worse in the comic. He tries to commit suicide after his rejection by jumping off a cliff but survives, in agony. He blames the gods for forcing him to live his torturous existence. That's what makes him renounce his Spartan heritage and the Greek gods in favor of one who actually appears to give a shit about him.
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This is the main reason why the Gruul Clans from Magic: The Gathering are so violent. The guild was originally created to protect the environment of Ravnica, but after it was destroyed save for a few pockets of wild for the sake of city expansion, the members of the guild were no longer treated like citizens and instead are treated as slaves. This made the Gruul Clans vengeful towards anything that has to do with Ravnican civilization and more than willing to raid and destroy the city to reclaim land for the wild and themselves.
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"The Kinslayer" by Nightwish invokes the trope.
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In Origin Story, this trope was basically Alex Harris's reaction to Tony Stark wanting to be nice and conciliatory after Alex put most of the Avengers and about a hundred SHIELD agents in the hospital.
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Apotheosis (MHA): Izuku spent years abused and put down by society for being quirkless. After his dreams of being a hero are crushed by All Might, he finally snaps and goes down the road of villainy, eventually culminating in him building an Infinity Gauntlet and becoming Japan's worst supervillain, arguably surpassing even All for One himself. After that, many people, including the aforementioned All Might, are suddenly wishing they had treated him much better pre-Face–Heel Turn.
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Saturday Night Live:
When Adam Sandler returned to host for the first time since leaving the show 24 years prior, he opened up by singing a song about how NBC fired him that ended with this:
Similarly, when Eddie Murphy hosted SNL in December 2019, his first proper appearance since the 1980s, he had this to say about his decades-long feud with Bill Cosby:
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Spider-Man, in the crossover novel series Time's Arrow, muses on the phenomenon of Cut Lex Luthor a Check (and, indeed, the tendency of good people with powers to become vigilantes rather than making millions), and realizes it's not about the money—it's about showing up everyone who ever laughed at them.
In another issue, Peter Parker is at his old high school, trying to secure a teaching job when suddenly, someone comes in and starts shooting up the place. Peter changes into Spider-Man and takes the shooter out only to realize that he's just a kid who was sick and tired of being bullied by the other kids at the school. As he's hauled off to jail, Peter grimly reflects that he could have easily turned out the same way.
In the Skin Deep story arc, Peter's former classmate, who was mercilessly bullied at school, gets superpowers and after he sees two of his former tormentors mocking him on TV, he goes and kills them. In the end, Spider-Man got him frozen, probably for the rest of his life. And he is conscious.
In Ultimate Spider-Man, Peter often mocks the even-more-pathetic-than-he-is-in-main-continuity Ultimate Shocker before beating him up with almost no effort. When Shocker gets lucky and knocks Peter out, he ties him up in a warehouse and tortures him slowly, as payback for all the times he was mocked. Interestingly, even though the guy is trying to kill him, Peter genuinely apologizes for being such a jerk after hearing Shocker's surprisingly sad Breaking Lecture.
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As mentioned in the Web Original's section, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog's Brand New Day song.
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Syndrome from The Incredibles is a glaring example. Being a total screwup of an unwanted sidekick leads him to be rejected by his idol, which leads him to try and kill off all the world's superheroes and rub it in his idol's face. In a twist, his actions as a Big Bad result in him becoming the Butt-Monkey again and again, because while he is a legitimate threat, he has no idea how to work under pressure. Once things don't go the way he planned, he ends up scrambling to rerail the scenario until it blows up in his face. Even more ironically, the first thing Mr. Incredible does upon meeting him again is actually apologise for his earlier treatment, but Syndrome blows him off, assuming it's only because Mr. Incredible finally sees him as a threat.
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In a meta example, in Warhammer 40,000, Imperial Guard players had this reaction after years of being a Butt-Monkey in both the fluff and the game rules and getting some really good codices.
Speaking of the Guard, in Dawn of War one of the Baneblade unit's quotes is "Who's dying now?"
The Iron Warriors legion turned traitor because of this. They became amongst the most bitter and hateful entities in the franchise after being used during the most hellish sieges of the Great Crusade, or relegated to garrison duty - in some cases, ten-man squads of Iron Warriors were expected to maintain order on entire worlds. During the Horus Heresy they sided with the other traitors, and took particular, vicious glee in dismantling the defenses of the Imperial Palace.
This is the primary motivation for Gretchin to volunteer for implantation within a Killa Kan - that, and not having actually witnessed the process. New Killa Kans tend to go on a rampage and take revenge on the Orks who formerly mistreated them. The rest of the greenskins find this hilarious, and the activation of a new batch of Kans tends to have a festival atmosphere.
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Set up to be the case in the ongoing Lost Girl story Change of State. After being abused and mistreated by the Light Fae for at least 7 years, Lauren is taken in by the Morrigan. She treats Lauren politely and has another Fae slightly alter Lauren's memories/mind. This Fae (without ever outright lying) reminds Lauren of every time humans were needlessly cruel or ungrateful, how the Light Fae mistreated her (while reminding Lauren the Dark Fae haven't mistreated her), Dyson and Kenzi endlessly mocked and insulted her, and Bo constantly failed her. As a result, Lauren is just as brilliant but is now a Torture Technician Social Darwinist. At one point, she quite cheerfully comments to the Morrigan that she is capable of committing genocide.
This other Fae actually warns the Morrigan about this, saying Lauren won't take any abuse lying down. Which isn't to say Lauren is above having fun with it. After the Morrigan refers to Lauren as a dog once too often, she awakens the next morning restrained with a golden retriever (named Lauren Jr.) in her room, and peanut butter on her nether regions.
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Emiri, who had spent the whole of You Got HaruhiRolled! as the Butt-Monkey, suddenly joins the Anti-SOS Brigade and kills every other character except for Kyon and his family at the end of her character arc. Things go back to normal in the next one.
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The Digimon Adventure 02 fandom has written several stories in which Daisuke/Davis (who, in canon, is a known Butt-Monkey) overhears his fellow Digidestined insulting him, decides that that's the last straw, and either quits the team or turns evil, often getting his revenge on the ones who insulted him.
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Parodied in Red Snow by Psychostick: " Rudolph's gonna make you suffer."
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Comic Cavalcade: Prof. Plasm from the Wonder Woman feature started using his moron hormone to force government officials to act like little kids and humiliate themselves because he was tired of everyone thinking he was "child-minded."
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After The Cabinet were knocked out of the Ring of Honor World Six Man Tag Team Tournament, they attacked The Motor City Machine Guns and 2015 Top Prospect Donovan Dijak, seemingly at random. Kenny King alleged that "The Cabinet" was something the ROH Executives had saddled them with, and furthermore that they had been presented as clowns to the audience but would no longer tolerate being laughed at. They'd instead come to be known as The Rebellion, and it pretty accurately sums up their activities.
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In the second series of Horatio Hornblower, Lieutenant (and later Acting-Captain) Buckland is mocked and derided relentlessly over the course of the two episodes—by his captain, by the unruly crew of the Renown, and even by an enemy colonel who insults his lack of leadership ability while tying him up in his own bed during the prisoner uprising. It comes to a head in court when Captain Collins gets a laugh out of the whole room by calling him "the captain who was caught napping". Buckland loses it and screams that the late Captain Sawyer was pushed down the hatchway by Lieutenant Hornblower—which is the Driving Question of the whole trial and puts all of Hornblower's friends in serious fear that he'll be hanged. Ultimately this, too, backfires on Buckland when the man he expected to corroborate the accusation refuses to do so.
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Yuuri Katsuki of the Rivals Series started as a ridiculed fan and then was ridiculed for his desire to defeat Viktor. Then, not only does he beat Viktor at the Olympics but takes the gold medal several separate times. The effect is mitigated, however, by the fact that Viktor does not mind as nearly as much as Yuuri thinks he does, a fact that Yuuri does not subconsciously realize until later.
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Criminal Minds: The unsub in the episode "Elephant's Memory" is a badly bullied kid who snaps and goes on a killing spree of everyone who's ever wronged him.
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Teen Wolf: Zig-Zagging Trope with Isaac and Erica. They don't seem to channel their anger at those who tormented them once they turn to werewolves. Then they reveal they DO have grievance they want to rectify but only act on them opportunistically.
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Twenty Gyarados Bill from the universe of Pokémon Reset Bloodlines was motivated to go on his infamous rampage by the constant mockery he suffered.
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Flashpoint: In one episode, Billy, a high school boy, is bullied viciously by his best friend's Jerkass boyfriend. Guess who shows up the next day with a loaded gun? However, Billy reveals that he doesn't want to hurt them, and simply wants to scare the shit out of them until they apologize. The aforementioned best friend manages to talk him out of continuing his rampage, right before the boyfriend stumbles into things, and an overenthusiastic cop comes in and mucks everything up. It ends well, though.
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Strong Sad from Homestar Runner is constantly abused by his brother Strong Bad. He has gotten back at him, however, by doing things such as throwing snowballs at him and showing the audience a video of Strong Bad embarrassing himself at the talent show.
Parodied (like so many other things) in Cheat Commandos, where recurring Butt-Monkey Reynold ends up sharing a cell with the freshly-imprisoned Blue Laser Commander, who convinces him to take his frustrations out on a picture of Duke Expy Gunhaver. By the end, he's working for Blue Laser as their latest member, "Scrawnjob" (though considering how unnaturally friendly the Cheat Commandos are with Blue Laser, it's debatable whether this really counts as a Face–Heel Turn on any level).
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
In one season 1 episode, a girl who was ignored by everyone in the school becomes invisible as a result, and decides to take revenge on Cordelia. Then she gets taken away by government agents and apparently becomes a government assassin.
Even early Spike counts in this category. In flashbacks to his life when he was human it is revealed that he was a total Woobie when he was alive. He was a kind, romantic poet, and he was looking after his ill mother. He was also taunted by his peers and rejected by everyone else. After he becomes a vampire and Angelus and Drucilla influence him, he becomes one of the most feared vampires out there. He even uses one of his peer's old taunts like "We call him William the Bloody after his bloody awful poems." "I would rather have a railway spike through my head than listen to that." In Spike's first episode in season 2 of Buffy, it is revealed that he got his name Spike from torturing his victims with railway spikes, and "William the Bloody" came to refer to the carnage he left in his wake. This is obviously a reaction to old humiliations.
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One story in The Authority story involved a monster that turned out to be an abused kid that woke up with unlimited shape-shifting powers.
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Subverted with Santino Marella, who was a comedy face but was turned heel and still kept his comedy status. He got so popular they turned him back face and he Took a Level in Badass, even winning the Tag Team Titles.
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Because of such bad bullying over his similarities to Doug, The Nostalgia Critic has snapped and killed people, only realizing what occurred when he sees the blood on his hands.
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The reaction of John Cena when Triple H thought it was funny to tease Cena about his failure at a rematch Randy Orton at the 2014 despite the “no interferences� cause, which only applied to The Authority not the group who did. However, is this so? Triple H forgot about the DQ rule still applied in the 6-man tag match against The Shield when it happened again. The two men on Cena’s team.
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In the climax of the IDW crossover Street Fighter X G.I. Joe, the Joes and World Warriors defeat the super-powered dictator M. Bison and win his crooked fighting tournament. After they publicly reveal that the tournament was fixed, an incensed Rufus challenges Guile for bragging rights. He is soundly defeated and everyone laughs. Angry and humiliated, note who can blame him? his girlfriend has been shamelessly flirting with Joe member Roadblock as Rufus gets pummeled Rufus unwittingly absorbs Bison's residual evil energy note Bison's Psycho Power is fueled by negative emotions becomes the monstrous Psycho Rufus, and unleashes hell on all the good guys.
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In Vexxarr, after the titular character manages to convince the vegetable-based AI that's been trying to kill him that he's their supreme leader, he gets some incredibly creative revenge.
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A heroic example in Rocky Balboa, used by the title character's son to motivate him before the third round:
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Raistlin Majere from Dragonlance has this as part of his initial motivation to gain power, having been born sickly and not expected to survive and always feeling that he stood in the shadow of his twin brother Caramon. Early on in the first book, he launches into a rant against his friend Tanis about this that Tanis' narration notes he's done so many times that he's just used to it. This also foreshadows his eventual Face–Heel Turn where he takes the black robes of an evil wizard. He then outgrows these feelings and moves on to far greater plans and far bigger targets.
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Captain Underpants: Professor Poopypants became a supervillain because he was sick of people making fun of his name.
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Cyrano de Bergerac: Deconstructed by Cyrano: he has been The Grotesque all his life, now he is the most badass swashbuckler in all of Paris. Notice that this, instead of diminishing the bullying he suffers, makes him even more bullied and contributes to Cyrano’s downfall.
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Frasier: Upon hearing that the boy who bullied him as a child — "He used to call me 'Shorts In The Shower Boy!'" — is now in prison, Niles sips his coffee and smugly queries:
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Invoked by The Economist on the subject of NATO intervention in Libya's civil war:
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Revolution: In "Nobody's Fault But Mine", Tom Neville launches into this sort of speech with Aaron Pittman. He practically accuses Aaron of being a rich boy who bullied workers huddled in their cubicles. It's not clear if Aaron really was that type of person or if Neville simply equates every rich CEO with the Jerkass boss who fired Neville shortly before the blackout.
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 Irredeemable (Comic Book) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Paperinik New Adventures (Comic Book) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Red Skull (Comic Book) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Scooby-Doo! Team-Up (Comic Book) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Sleepwalker (Comic Book) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 The Darkness (Comic Book) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Venom: Lethal Protector (2022) (Comic Book) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Wanted (Comic Book) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 FoxTrot (Comic Strip) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 The Princess and the Frog / Disney / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Wreck-It Ralph / Disney / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality / Fan Fic / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 L.O.V.E vs. H.A.T.E / Fan Fic / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Pre Cure Like Fan Fics / Fan Fic
seeAlso
Who's Laughing Now?
 Showa & Vampire / Fan Fic / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 A Second Chance (to do it better) (Fanfic) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 A Spartan in Westeros (Fanfic) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 All For Luz (Fanfic) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Apotheosis (MHA) (Fanfic) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Big Human on Campus (Fanfic) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Conversations with a Cryptid (Fanfic) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Crimson and Emerald (Fanfic) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Cross Ange: Futatsu Sekai no Border (Fanfic) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Five Nights At Freddys World Update 0 (Fanfic) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Hero Class Civil Warfare (Fanfic) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 In the Grim Darkness of the 41st Millennium, Nobody Beats G.I. Joe! (Fanfic) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Limitless Potential (Fanfic) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Mass Effect: Human Revolution (Fanfic) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 OSMU: Fanfiction Friction (Fanfic) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Oh, Mama, Mama (Fanfic) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Summer Days and Evening Flames (Fanfic) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Ultimate Spider-Woman (Fanfic) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Blade Runner / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Bound (1996) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Braveheart / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Captain America: The First Avenger / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Carlito's Way / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Casino Royale (1967) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Clergy / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Confessions (2010) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Dinner for Schmucks / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Doctor Strange (2016) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Estômago / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Evil Dead 2 / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Koi... Mil Gaya / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Kung Fu Hustle / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Peggy Sue Got Married / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Rhymes for Young Ghouls / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Saw V / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Scooby-Doo (2002) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Sky High (2005) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Slaughter High / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 The Force Awakens / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 The Gamers: Dorkness Rising / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 The Last Slumber Party / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 The Running Man / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 The She-Creature / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 The Whole Nine Yards / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 When Worlds Collide / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Zombie Bloodbath / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Moogle FTW (Lets Play) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Agent Lavender / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Calling All Creeps! / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Franny K. Stein / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Graveyard School / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Hop-Frog / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Is This A Zombie? / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Lord of the Clans / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Misery / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Odd Squad Agent's Handbook / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Of Mice and Men / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Ruination / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Sano Ichiro / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 The Caine Mutiny / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 The Cassandra Project / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 The Day of the Triffids / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 The Eagle Down Under / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 BobbyG
seeAlso
Who's Laughing Now?
 Scottish Premier League
seeAlso
Who's Laughing Now?
 WhosLaughingNOW
sameAs
Who's Laughing Now?
 City Hunter (Manga) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Death Note (Manga) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Joshiraku (Manga) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Laughing Under the Clouds (Manga) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Wild Adapter (Manga) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Aina (Music)
seeAlso
Who's Laughing Now?
 Psychostick (Music) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 RecD (Music) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 The Chalkeaters (Music) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Muggle Cast (Podcast) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 The Ricky Gervais Show (Radio) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Comic Fury Werewolf (Roleplay) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Jellyneo Altador Cup Vi (Roleplay)
seeAlso
Who's Laughing Now?
 Caméra Café / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Corazón indomable / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Dinosaur Revolution / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Kamen Rider 555 / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Mad Men / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Revolution / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Sparrow / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Succession / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Suits / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 The Electric Company (1971) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 The Office (US) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 The Talk / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 The Tribe / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 The Untamed / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 13 Reasons Why / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Walking with Beasts / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Wings / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Wire in the Blood / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Death of a Salesman (Theatre) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Universal's Horror Make-Up Show (Theatre) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Armored Core V (Video Game)
seeAlso
Who's Laughing Now?
 Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy (Video Game) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Dawn of War (Video Game) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Dead Rising (Video Game) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Digimon World (Video Game) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Disco Elysium (Video Game) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Dragon Quest VIII (Video Game) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 (Video Game) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Exit Fate (Video Game) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Gothic (Video Game) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Hidden City (Video Game) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (Video Game) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Portal 2 (Video Game) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Sega Superstars (Video Game) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Sonic Unleashed (Video Game) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia (Video Game) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Choice of Games / Videogame / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Stardew Valley / Videogame / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Class of '09 (Visual Novel) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Machi (Visual Novel) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Our Wonderland (Visual Novel) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Cheat Commandos (Web Animation) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Pokémon Red (Fanmade) (Web Animation) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Red vs. Blue: The Chorus Trilogy (Web Animation) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Sonic for Hire (Web Animation) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 The Vampair (Web Animation) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Where Was My Hero...? (Web Animation) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (Web Video) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Masako X - Dragon Ball What-If (Web Video) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Some More News (Web Video) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 The Angry Grandpa (Web Video) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Two Saiyans Play (Web Video) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Wedding Peach Abridged (Web Video) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Far Out (Webcomic) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 It Hurts!! (Webcomic) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Magick Chicks (Webcomic) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Skadi (Webcomic) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 The Super Fogeys (Webcomic) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Aladdin: The Return of Jafar / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Cars 2 / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Codename: Kids Next Door / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Dofus: Kerub's Bazaar / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Fillmore! / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Foot 2 Rue / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Frisky Dingo / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Godzilla: The Series / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Klaus (2019) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 MGM Oneshot Cartoons / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Martin Mystery / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Puss in Boots / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Puss in Boots (2011) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Rock-A-Doodle / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Sabrina: The Animated Series / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 64,000,000 Years Ago / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Space Ghost Coast to Coast / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 TaleSpin / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 TheKarateKidTheAnimatedSeries
seeAlso
Who's Laughing Now?
 The Princess and the Frog / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Wreck-It Ralph / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Bret Hart (Wrestling) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Eric Young (Wrestling) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Ring of Honor (Wrestling) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Attack of the 100 foot Meg Griffin / Fan Fic / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Red vs. Blue: The Chorus Trilogy (Machinima) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 Five Nights at Freddy's 3 (Video Game) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?
 [PROTOTYPE 2] (Video Game) / int_f438b11b
type
Who's Laughing Now?