Random Humiliating Anime Villain Defeats (15 items)

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  (#1) Speed-o'-Sound Sonic Gets Punched Between The Legs In 'One Punch Man'

  Speed-o'-Sound Sonic wholeheartedly believes he's Saitama's rival. If this were a conventional anime, the two would have a no-holds-barred battle to decide the most powerful warrior.

  However, this is One Punch Man, so pretty much all shonen tropes go out the window. Saitama easily defeats his so-called rival – who he has no particular interest in – by punching him in the crotch. Way to bring a villain back down to Earth. 
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  (#2) Light Yagami

  • Death Note, Death Note: Re-light: L's Successors, Death Note, Death Note: The Last Name

  For a time, Light Yagami believed he was a god, but when he's revealed to be the serial killer Kira, his divine composure evaporates. He implicates his co-conspirators, tries (and fails) to talk his way out of the situation, and ends up screaming, sobbing, and begging for mercy until Ryuk finally kills him, as he'd promised to do from the start.

  Watching Death Note's evil protagonist unravel is equal parts satisfying and distressing. When Aizawa and Matsuda – two adults who knew Light as a child – react to his humiliating death, it's hard not to feel choked up, as they truly believed he wasn't a murderer.
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  (#3) Nobuyuki Sugou Cries Like A Baby In 'Sword Art Online'

  Nobuyuki Sugou is one of most hated anime characters of all time, so watching him go down in a blaze of shame is deeply satisfying.

  Sugou, AKA Oberon in the virtual world of ALfheim Online, traps Asuna's consciousness in a cage while her body lies comatose in the real world. He then persuades Asuna's father to accept a marriage proposal on her behalf, while in the game he repeatedly molests her. 

  Kirito defeats Sugou's digital persona, and also manages to foil his plans in real life. In-game, an act of deus ex machina gives Kirito total control of the world's settings. He turns the game's Pain Absorber program all the way down to zero, so when Sugou's character gets hurt, he feels it in real life.

  When faced with actual pain, the haughty Sugou is reduced to a sniveling wreck, and he's easily defeated. Back in reality, Sugou tries to get revenge by attacking Kirito in a parking lot, but the hero overpowers him, then turns him over to the police. It's easily one of the most satisfying moments in Sword Art Online. 
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  (#4) Frieza

  • Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn, Plan to Destroy the Saiya-jin, Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge, Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock, Dragon Ball Z: Bardock – The Father of Goku, Dragon Ball

  Frieza is a ruthless galactic warlord. He commands a group of deadly alien killers, and doesn't hesitate to destroy entire planets. After his crew is dismantled by a mysterious young boy, Frieza is furious, but he never stops to consider whether his new adversary is a genuine threat. 

  The boy turns out to be Future Trunks, AKA the son of Vegeta, one of Dragon Ball Z's most powerful fighters. When the two finally square off, Trunks slices Frieza cleanly in half, chops him into little pieces, then vaporizes his remains. Frieza doesn't really have time to feel humiliated, but had he survived for more than 10 seconds, his final moments would have been tainted by shame. 
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  (#5) Envy

  • Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

  When Envy is defeated, it's a deeply distressing moment for everyone involved. The homunculus is one of the main villains in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, and its menace is great enough to inspire a truce between Scar, Edward Elric, Roy Mustang, and Riza Hawkeye.

  Envy tries desperately to convince the rag-tag team to destroy each other. However, Edward soon realizes Envy's pleas are motivated by jealously, as it covets humanity's ability to forgive past wounds and form genuine bonds.

  Ed calls Envy out for being emotionally stunted, causing the villain to burst into tears. Utterly humiliated, Envy kills itself by removing the Philosopher's Stone that keeps its body running. 
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  (#6) Alucard Obliterates Luke Valentine In 'Hellsing Ultimate'

  Despite the show's generally barbarous tone, some of the villains in Hellsing Ultimate go down in ridiculously embarrassing ways. Luke Valentine is a vampire who thinks he can murder Alucard without breaking a sweat. After Alucard severs his legs and mocks him for not being able to regenerate quickly enough, it's pretty obvious he made a mistake.
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  (#7) Jessie

  • Pokémon The Series: XY, Pokémon: The First Movie, Pokémon Heroes, Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl The Movie, Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys, Pokémon 4Ever, Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life, Pokémon The Movie 2000, Pokémon: Spell Of The Unknown, Pokémon Ranger and the Prince of the Sea: Manaphy, Pokémon: Jirachi Wish Maker, Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior

  For Team Rocket, humiliating defeats are an unavoidable fact of life. Pretty much every time these hapless Pokémon villains try to steal Pikachu or another desirable creature, they're sent flying into the air by an explosion or devastating Poké attack. This happens so often that they invented a catchphrase to go along with their departure: "Team Rocket's blasting off again!"

  Despite their endless string of losses, Jessie, James, and Meowth refuse to give up. They tend to their wounds, then return in the next episode, ready to be humiliated all over again. 
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  (#8) Gon And Killua Show Three Heaven's Arena Fighters No Mercy In 'Hunter x Hunter'

  Riehlvelt, Gido, and Sadaso are fighters on the 200th floor of Heaven's Arena. Instead of relying on their combined strength, the three play dirty, kidnapping and blackmailing their way to victory. When they get caught, Riehlvelt decides to try and battle on his own merit, which doesn't work out so well. 

  In one of Hunter X Hunter's most brutal takedowns, Gon and Killua show Riehlvelt no mercy, breaking his wrists and electrocuting him until he loses consciousness from a combination of pain and fear. When he awakens, he's forced to leave Heaven's Arena with his tail between his legs.
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  (#9) Kakuzu

  • Naruto Shippūden

  Kakuzu is a 91-year-old ninja who expertly controls four different elements. By virtue of having multiple hearts, he has to be killed five times before he actually dies. He's perhaps the most powerful member of the Akatsuki, and one of the scariest villains in Naruto. 

  As can be expected, Kakuzu thinks pretty highly of himself, so when he's utterly trounced by a group of teenage ninjas, the loss leaves him angry and embarrassed.

  After he's brought back from the dead in a later arc, he's defeated once again, this time by Izumo and Kotetsu. This is the same Kotetsu who almost got murdered by an ostrich after he'd been away from Izumo for like an hour. Power creep in anime is real. 
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  (#10) Slade Princeton Loses A Duel He Rigged In 'Yu-Gi-Oh! GX'

  Slade Princeton isn't the main villain of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX , but he's a lousy older brother who serves as the antagonist for a couple of episodes. Both he and his brother Jagger think their younger sibling Chazz is worthless and untalented, and they aren't afraid to tell him so.

  Slade challenges Chazz to a game of Duel Monsters, with the fate of Duel Academy hanging in the balance. To skew the odds in his favor, Slade only allows Chaz to use weak cards. Despite this limitation, Chazz manages to trounce his older brother, forcing Slade to admit his sibling is a competent duelist. 
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  (#11) Ishiguro's Psychic Powers Aren't Good Enough In 'Mob Psycho 100'

  Ishiguro is a powerful psychic who believes his special gift gives him the right to do whatever he wants, as others should be happy to serve him. However, he's defeated by a bunch of psychic kids and a non-psychic adult who gains temporary abilities, all of whom tell him to stop being a whiny, childish, entitled baby. The ultimate villain in Mob Psycho 100 is defeated after he shows everyone his inner wretchedness. 
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  (#12) Stain Is Defeated By Three Amateur Heroes In 'My Hero Academia'

  Stain is a villain with convictions. He's strongly against the current state of professional heroism, as he believes saving people for profit isn't true valor. According to Stain, the whole hero system should be scrapped, and he's willing to kill any pro hero he deems unworthy to prove his point. 

  Stain gets taken down by three amateur heroes – Izuku Midoriya, Tenya Iida, and Shoto Todoroki – in an inelegant alley fight. Just before he loses consciousness, he says no one but the incredible All Might could possibly defeat him, then he's swiftly taken to the hospital.

  To make matters worse, the kids say Endeavor – a pro hero who is the antithesis of everything Stain stands for – took the villain down, as the governing powers of My Hero Academia strictly forbid amateur heroes from using their abilities outside of class.
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  (#13) Akira Midousuji Nearly Quits Biking After Losing In 'Yowamushi Pedal'

  Most sports anime don't feature legitimately threatening villains. There's probably a rival team or prodigy to contend with, but usually, everyone's in it for the love of the sport. 

  Yowamushi Pedal breaks away from this model with Akira Midousuji, who turns his high school bike team into a joyless dictatorship and intimidates others into mechanical obedience.

  For Midousuji, winning bike races is the only way to temporarily escape the trauma brought on by his mother's death and a childhood bully. To feel happy, Midousuji has to come in first, so when a minor injury causes him to lose focus and finish third in a race, he's devastated.

  Driven by a feeling of humiliation, he takes off in the middle of the night, and claims he planned to quit the team all along. A little later, he decides to come back, but his initial reaction was to cut and run. 

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