Poetic justice is a literary device in which virtue is ultimately rewarded or vice punished, often in modern literature by an ironic twist of fate intimately related to the character's own conduct.
Poetic justice is referred to in "The Simpsons" episode "Boy Scoutz N the Hood." When Bart returns home from a Junior Campers meeting Homer asks "How was jerk practice boy? Did they teach you how to sing to trees and build crappy furniture out of useless wooden logs?" The chair that Homer is sitting on then breaks and he declares "D'oh! Stupid poetic justice."
by pullomeri September 04, 2007
Lucky by Jason Mraz is such poetic justice
What you just said is poetic justice! You're living my life!
What you just said is poetic justice! You're living my life!
by raineeday October 21, 2012
A magistrate who issues poetic licenses to citizens, and also decides issues/disputes related to said poetic practices.
Poetic justice will likely view your text-composing "liberties" a lot more favorably if you always thoroughly document your literary sources and clearly explain the logic/reasoning behind your unorthodox text-composing practices.
by QuacksO January 06, 2018
When life hands someone their Karma in an elegant way, with witnesses and without any encouragement from victims or victors. It's the balancing of the scales of Justice in a way that would make a good story for others to learn from.
by Flowerbaby April 17, 2019
Poetic Justice is when a bunch of Hedge Fund Managers who frequently manipulate the market, get short squeezed out of a lot of money by a bunch of Robin Hood traders from r/wallstreetbets
by Scrooge McDuck🚀 January 29, 2021
by PhillyJawns June 28, 2021
After months of knowingly downplaying COVID-19 and misleading the public as well as engaging in conspiracy theories in relation to the virus and continually mocking individuals, corporations and institutions that were trying to take the situation seriously, Donald Trump contracted said virus.
I always said that one of the greatest cases of poetic justice would be if Donald Trump ended up catching COVID after intentionally creating problems and making wildly inaccurate statements in regards to the virus.
by ricktickle October 03, 2020