Deceased

Hate Sinks who have died and/or have thankfully remained dead. Death is a common fate for Hate Sinks in general given that they are unsympathetic by nature.

Various means how a Hate Sink can die/remained dead include:

• Violent Death: A Hate Sink winds up killed in a violent or disturbing way, such as fatally incinerated by an explosion, mutilated alive, gunshot to the head, eaten/mauled alive, impaled, crushed by a heavy object, completely dissolved, hanged, decapitated, strangled, having their bodily fluids slowly sucked out of their body, etc. (e.g. Devin Weston, Amon Goeth, Alan Yates, The Bishop, Lionel Starkweather, Arnold Ernst Toht, Magnus McGilded, Black Noir, & Hector Salamanca).
• Died in Honor: The Hate Sink has accepted the fact that their demise is inevitable and had enough dignity to face it. Thus, circumstances were includes:
  • Accepted Their Death as Their Fate and Faced it with Dignity: A Hate Sink chooses to die with honor and thus accept their fate. Though this doesn't make them "heroes" or "honorable" since they'll be disowned by the other characters anyway.
  • Chooses to Die Rather Than to Be Saved: Honorable villains defeated by the heroes choose to take their own life, preferring to die with honor rather than to live in shame like cowards. When they killed themselves, they can either give the heroes sometime to escape from disaster that they already started but cannot undone it (an example being the battle between the hero and the villain took place in the damaged ship/building that about to explode as result of the villains' own mistake or heroes' effort to foil their evil plan) or have the hero whom defeated the villain gave them a mercy killing).
• Died in Disgrace: In most cases, the Hate Sink commits something dishonorable or had no dignity to face their downfall. Related circumstances include:
  • Hate Sinks who try to kill the heroes after being offered mercy or spared to live, only to end up dying in the process.
  • Hate Sinks who are killed by their own allies who come to realize just how evil the villain really is. (e.g. Toranosuke Sengoku)
  • Hate Sinks who die in an ill-conceived, foolish, and/or desperate attempt on the heroes' life, such as a failed “I’m taking you out with me!” attack.
  • Hate Sinks who end up begging their killer to spare them or otherwise try to trick them into offering mercy, only for their pleads/tricks to fall on deaf ears. (e.g. Kintoru, Dimitri Rascalov in the Revenge ending, & Henry Evans).
  • Arrogant Hate Sinks or Egotists who spend their last moments questioning on how they could possibly be beaten (e.g. Gyokko)
  • Hate Sinks who spent their last moments trying to "trash talk" or berate their killer before dying (e.g. Iosef Tarasov).
  • Cowards who try to run away from their problems and kill themselves to avoid punishment. (e.g. Samuel Norton, Frank & Katsumi Sugai).
  • Hate Sinks who were killed by the powers/weapons/beings that they sought, worshipped, used, or even created. (e.g. Francis).
  • Former immortals who lose their sources of immortality and face their downfall either immediately or later on in the story.
• Died Offscreen: In many cases, certain Hate Sinks have met their fate onscreen. But, in this case, the villain's death was not shown but was mentioned by a character that they met their fate when no one else was there to see it. (e.g. Azulon , James Elliott, & Dario Brando).
• Death by Illness: In rare cases, a Hate Sink may perish, not by someone else's hands or their own actions, but by a disease or physical ailment their bodies couldn't handle any longer. (e.g. Jschlatt).
• Deactivation: This is applied for robots or machines that were destroyed/deactivated permanently.
• Cessation/Erasure of existence: This means that the Hate Sink's soul is destroyed permanently, therefore having no afterlife waiting for them.
• Dragged off to the afterlife: This includes mortal beings who were literally dragged alive to a hell-like dimension, end up becoming Damned Souls, or have entered the afterlife themselves and remained there. (e.g. Cheap Trick). Ghosts or spirits, if sent to the spirit world or to an afterlife, count only if they were former mortals beings who passed away. Immortals spirits or others supernatural beings, who are sent back, do not count and should go under imprisoned instead.
• Different types of damnation: This includes Hate Sinks who became Damned Souls in ways different to being dragged to the afterlife, two examples include dying in a symbolic way of them being damned and being forced into an infinite cycle of deaths. (e.g. Sports Maxx)
• Death of Personality: It refers to when the body is still alive, but the person's mind erased is equivalent to death.

By extension, none of these characters can qualify as Karma Houdinis unless they died from natural causes or if their Karma Houdini is status dependent on version where they escape punishment in one ending but are defeated in another.