Movie And TV Characters Who Got Their Karma

F*cked Around: Few sagas show sadism like this.Game of Thrones(Much of this got cleaned up for HBO from the books), and Lord Ramsay Bolton is one of the worst sadists. He hunts humans for sport, torturing them psychologically until their minds break. He achieves what Joffrey only threatened by raping Sansa on their wedding night—plus, there is the whole 'burning down Winterfell' thing.

Found Out:Karma hits old-school as Jon Snow. After defeating Ramsay's army, Jon punches him until Ramsay's face looks like raspberry jam. Sansa soaks up his screams like music while Ramsay stays alive to be eaten by his dogs.

F*cked Around:Long before he became a thumbs-down meme, Commodus took the throne from Emperor Marcus Aurelius after patricide. Commodus disliked his father's choice of General Maximus Meridius as his successor.

The jealous Commodus ordered Maximus's family executed. That was not enough for the 'please love me' Emperor, who demanded a fight with Maximus in the Colosseum. He only did this after locking Maximus up and secretly stabbing him in the ribs.

Found Out:Shanks aside, Maximus, a champion for the people against the scorned Commodus, wins the fight. Maximus disarms Commodus, and the Emperor's men refuse to give him a new sword. You get what you sow; Commodus gets stabbed in the neck while his crowd cheers Maximus.

F*cked Around: Among smug characters, the 18th king, Joffrey (Joffrey Baratheon), takes the Iron Throne. In his petty, amoral reign, his crimes start with executing Ned Stark, then sticking Sansa Stark's nose on a pike in Ned's head.

Joffrey's worst acts target Sansa, whom he orders beaten to keep his hands clean and threatens rape on their wedding night. He also built his kingdom on mass murder.

Found Out:While some Game of ThronesFans argue Sansa should have killed Joffrey. Karma struck the little snot with poison from Olenna Tyrell and Petyr “Littlefinger” Baelish. Joffrey's enemies were happy he got what he earned, no matter who got the licks.

F*cked Around:Kathy Bates solidifies her spot as the 'comeuppance queen,' the only actor with two spots on this list. In American Horror Story, Madame Delphine LaLaurie (Bates) gets triple karma: she is a racist, a mass murderer, and a filthy capitalist (plus, she is just snooty).

Delphine LaLaurie owned enslaved people in 19th-century New Orleans. She also tortured them. After they died, she sold their pancreases in a beauty balm.

Found Out:Delphine makes a mistake: she never tortures the lover of a voodoo queen, Marie Laveau.will take revenge. She gives Delphine a fake love potion and makes her watch her family hanged from the balcony. This potion actually made Delphine immortal, but Marie buries her in an unmarked grave forever.She takes some gnarly revenge. She gives Delphine a fake love potion. This forces Delphine to watch her family hanged from the balcony. The potion actually makes Delphine immortal. Marie buries her in an unmarked grave forever.

In the TV seriesThe BoysStormfront commits a terrible 'got what they deserved' act, on-screen or off: she is a Nazi. Stormfront, who is secretly a 100-year-old Reich member named Klara Risinger, uses her Seven team role to push white supremacy. She enjoys this—she joyfully destroys an entire apartment building of Black tenants while chasing a minor villain., Stormfront commits a terrible sin. She is a Nazi. Stormfront, who is secretly Klara Risinger, a 100-year-old Reich member, uses her role on the Seven team to push white supremacy. She enjoys this. She showed it by happily destroying an entire apartment building of Black tenants while hunting a small villain.

Found Out:Much of Stormfront's white supremacist goals radicalizes the evil Homelander. This adds extra power when his son, Ryan, eye-lasers her into oblivion after a butt-whooping from Starlight, Kimiko, and Maeve.

F*cked Around:Long before people slid into texts or sent Twitch streamers thousands for being 'nice,' there were old-school obsessive fans. And...MiseryAnnie Wilkes (ironically, a nurse!) was among the worst.

In the 1990 film version of Stephen King's book, stalker Annie kidnaps her idol, King stand-in and author Paul Sheldon, after he has a car accident. She goes mad learning he plans to write her favorite character into the grave. She smashes his ankles with a sledgehammer, keeps him drugged and bedridden, and forces him to rewrite his book.herway.

Found Out:Annie's karma, as expected from King, is literary poetic justice. In the movie, severe head trauma kills Annie during a final fight with Paul, but not before he burns the forced manuscript and shoves it down her 'No. 1 fan' throat.

F*cked Around:Mrs. Carmody mixes a smug character combo with her cruel mix of religious fanaticism, power hunger, and plain cruelty. She uses the events of The Mist to convince traumatized supermarket survivors that it is all a divine plan, and that she is divinely chosen. The cult peaks when she orders her followers to sacrifice nonbelievers, including the film's main characters.

Found Out:Ollie Weeks, the meek but sane assistant store manager, takes Mrs. Carmody down the old-fashioned way. This action hits her hard and her head before she makes any human sacrifices. Viewers find this super-cathartic. When Carmody takes a bullet like any other human, without divine protection, it snaps her followers out of their cultish spell.

F*cked Around: Whatdidn'tPetyr Baelish, the ultimate weasel Littlefinger, murdered Lysa Arryn. He plotted to kill her husband. Then, Petyr blamed the Lannisters to start a war with House Stark. Littlefinger then betrayed Ned Stark, separating him from his head. Littlefinger used his dirty hands in most of the shadowy plots.Game of ThronesThis continued until his death in Season 7.

Found Out:Karma caught Littlefinger. He thought Arya Stark faced a trial, but the trial belonged to him. Sansa Stark then brought the action by slicing a weeping Littlefinger's throat with the knife he used against her brother, Bran.

F*cked Around:Todd Alquist cooks meth. That is not the worst karma in Breaking Bad.Breaking BadTodd is a psychopathic white supremacist who kills instantly. His front as an exterminator symbolizes this. To him, killing someone is just squishing a bug. Todd kills about a dozen people during his time on the show, including innocent children.

Found Out:Todd's remorse-free murder included Andrea Cantillo, Jesse Pinkman's ex-girlfriend. Jesse, chained in Todd's lab and forced to cook, strangles Todd with his own chains. This is a classic move with personal stakes.

F*cked Around:On a list full of white supremacists who got their payback, Dean Armitage cranks the creepiness in Get Out to eleven. He lures unsuspecting Black people—like his daughter Rose's boyfriend, Chris Washington—to his estate. There, he uses hypnosis and neurosurgery to move aging, rich white brains into young Black bodies.

Found Out:Just asGet OutThe plot literally shows how Black bodies are treated as commodities. Dean's karmic fall has a sharp symbolic impact. Chris avoids hypnosis by stuffing his ears with cotton. He impales Dean with one of his own hunting trophies.

F*cked Around:Gemma's situation is more complex than other characters who got what they deserved. Like Queen Gertrude, Gemma is the partner of powerful men. She has a twisted bond with her son. She will use any means to build family power.HamletThe character who inspired Gemma is Hamlet. Gemma partners with powerful men. She has a twisted relationship with her son. She uses any means to nurture family power.

Gemma Teller Morrow faced rough marriages to two SAMCRO presidents, abuse from Clay Morrow, sexual assault, and the death of a child. Despite this history, she murdered her own daughter-in-law, Tara Knowles.

Gemma Teller Morrow appears in the list 'Movie And TV Characters Who Got Their Karma'.Comeuppance here is layered, not just a bloody celebration. Gemma's son Jax shoots her dead after learning she killed his wife, Tara, fueled by a long-held grudge. The mother and son show quiet acceptance, not a wild revenge spree.

Hans Landa appears in the list 'Movie And TV Characters Who Got Their Karma'.Being a Nazi sends someone to the bottom of the karma barrel again. The number of people S.S. is unclear.Colonel Hans Landa is from 'Inglourious Basterds'.Hans Landa directly murdered people in the world ofHans Landa is from 'Inglourious Basterds'., but the number earns him the nickname “The Jew Hunter.”

The audience's personal vendetta targets Hans Landa. He ordered the murder of Shosanna Dreyfus's parents, and his late move to help the Basterds kill Hitler does not erase his bad karma.

Gemma Teller Morrow appears in the list 'Movie And TV Characters Who Got Their Karma'.Hans Landa assists the Basterds (a black ops commando unit) as promised. They pay him by carving a bloody swastika into his forehead. His punishment is not death, but lifetime shame and ridicule. A nicer guy could not face this!

Dr. René Belloq appears in the list 'Movie And TV Characters Who Got Their Karma'.Smug characters exist, and then there is René Belloq. His crimes do not match others on this list whoDr. René Belloq are actual Nazis. He works with them to take the Ark of the Covenant from Indiana Jones. Indiana Jones prefers the Ark in a museum, not as a weapon. René acts very smarmy about this.Dr. René Belloq are actual Nazis. He works with them to take the Ark of the Covenant from Indiana Jones. Indiana Jones prefers the Ark in a museum, not as a weapon. René acts very smarmy about this.

Gemma Teller Morrow appears in the list 'Movie And TV Characters Who Got Their Karma'.René deserved his outcome because he asked for it. He gets the Ark, but opening it instantly engulfs him in holy fire. This fire blasts Nazi onlookers to another world and face-melts others.

Norman Stansfield appears in the list 'Movie And TV Characters Who Got Their Karma'.Gary Oldman's charm cannot save the world's most sadistic narcissist from karma. As a DEA agent, Norman Stansfield likes three things: Beethoven, stealing drugs from dealers he partners with, and killing their families. This is fun and cocaine until he orphans a young girl who becomes friends with New York City's best hitman.

Norman Stansfield appears in the list 'Movie And TV Characters Who Got Their Karma'.That girl, Mathilda Lando, seeks training from hitman Léon for revenge, and she tries hard! But when Norman outclasses her (fair play for a 12-year-old), Léon saves the day by giving him a pin and showing him he wears a grenade vest. When you say only “sh*t,” karma might strike.

Adrian Griffen in 'The Invisible Man' (2020) appears in the list 'Movie And TV Characters Who Got Their Karma'.The unseen 2020 version ofAdrian Griffen in 'The Invisible Man' appears in the list 'Movie And TV Characters Who Got Their Karma'.Adrian Griffin, the invisible guy in 'The Invisible Man' (2020), turns a creepy story into something truly awful. He constantly mistreated his partner, Cecilia Kass, and faced no penalty because he was a rich, golden boy inventor.

Adrian pushed further. He faked his own death. He put on the invisibility suit he built. He used this to torment and gaslight Cecilia, a tactic no one had ever used before.

Adrian Griffen in 'The Invisible Man' (2020) got his karma.After invisible Adrian destroyed Cecilia's life, career, reputation, and mental health, he framed her for her sister's murder. He also revealed he messed with her birth control (she is recently pregnant). Cecilia fought back. She tricked the arrogant invisible man into relaxing. She got an on-record admission from him. Then, Cecilia wore an invisibility suit herself, making it look like he cut his own throat.

Lewis Strauss in 'Oppenheimer' got his karma.Lewis Strauss's history has many twists. His role in Oppenheimer's story shows his position in Oppenheimer.Lewis Strauss in 'Oppenheimer' got his karma.Oppenheimer's movie version of history shows the military-industrial complex. J. Robert Oppenheimer told President Harry S. Truman to stop building nuclear weapons after the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Strauss pushed for stronger nuclear weapons, like the hydrogen bomb. He also publicly shamed Oppenheimer as a communist.

Lewis Strauss in 'Oppenheimer' got his karma.Like many smug characters, Strauss became overconfident. Truman disliked Strauss taking credit for the H-bomb's continued development. Truman leaked a letter criticizing Strauss. This public shaming ruined Strauss's political career. Director Christopher Nolan framed this as the press flashing lights nuking him into obscurity.