Category:Scapegoat

A scapegoat is the opposite of a Karma Houdini: a villain that is punished much more than he would actually deserve.

Just being a "bad guy" and having bad intentions isn't enough to suffer a punishment, which must be given according to acts. Some villains, however, are submitted to a retribution that can be very harsh, even unfair. They can be Incompetent villains (whose defeats are humiliating), comic villains (who are punished in a slapstick manner) or a tragic villain who, in the end, suffered more than he made suffer.