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* Creator/MollieHunter's novel ''A Stranger Came Ashore'' pits Robbie Henderson against Finn Learson, a TallDarkAndHandsome young man who is in reality the Great Selkie, lord of all the other selkies, who intends to take Robbie's sister Elspeth under the sea to be his "bride". To save Elspeth, Robbie turns to Yarl Corbie, his schoolmaster who has been rumoured to possess dark magic. In the final confrontation, Yarl Corbie [[spoiler:turns into a raven and tears out one of Finn's eyes, reasoning that this will ensure that Finn can still hunt in his natural state but will be unable to charm women in human form again]]. While he swears Robbie to secrecy about his magic, when Robbie expresses discomfort with the idea that Yarl Corbie had [[spoiler:permanently blinded the Great Selkie completely]], Yarl Corbie observes that the concern does Robbie credit, basically affirming that while he is dark he wouldn't be cruel.

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* Creator/MollieHunter's novel ''A Stranger Came Ashore'' pits Robbie Henderson against Finn Learson, a TallDarkAndHandsome young man who is in reality the Great Selkie, lord of all the other selkies, who intends to take Robbie's sister Elspeth under the sea to be his "bride". To save Elspeth, Robbie turns to Yarl Corbie, his schoolmaster who has been rumoured to possess dark magic. In the final confrontation, Yarl Corbie [[spoiler:turns into a raven and tears out one of to attack Finn, specifically [[EyeScream going for Finn's eyes, reasoning that this will ensure that Finn can still hunt in his natural state but will be unable to charm women in human form again]]. eyes]].]] While he Yarl Corbie swears Robbie to secrecy about his magic, when Robbie expresses discomfort with the idea that Yarl Corbie had [[spoiler:permanently blinded the Great Selkie completely]], Yarl Corbie observes that the concern does Robbie credit, credit and explains that [[spoiler:he only took out ''one'' eye, reasoning that this will ensure that Finn can still hunt in his natural state but will be unable to charm women in human form again]], basically affirming that while he is dark he wouldn't be cruel.
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* ''Literature/{{It}}'': The police officers who process the youths who assaulted Adrian Mellon and apparently murdered him (although he was actually killed by It) are homophobic, but they're also appalled by what happened to Mellon and are determined to see his 'murderers' sent to prison.
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* ''Literature/DoloresClaiborne'': Vera may be a bitch, but she is absolutely disgusted when she finds out about what Joe has been doing, and helps Dolores carry out the planning for his death.
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* In ''The Hero Took Everything from Me, So I Partied with the Hero’s Mother!'' Zect had no problem throwing out Ceres to turn the party in his personal harem, but, differently from other similar stories, doesn't steal his stuff, and when the party realizes [[RemovingTheCrucialTeammate just how much they depended on him for a lot of basic necessities]] (including the paperwork for their ''expense report'', necessary to get their funding from the Church) Zect's main problem about asking him to rejoin is that he understands how much he screwed him over and he has nothing to compensate him properly.
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* ''Literature/{{Darkover}}: In ''Rediscovery'', [[spoiler: the Terrans free two of their number from capture by bandits by committing two [[ThisIsUnforgivable unforgivable sins]] due to CultureClash: using guns, and deliberately starting a forest fire. Afterwards, the ''bandits'' give up in utter disgust.]]

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* ''Literature/{{Darkover}}: ''Literature/{{Darkover}}'': In ''Rediscovery'', [[spoiler: the Terrans free two of their number from capture by bandits by committing two [[ThisIsUnforgivable unforgivable sins]] due to CultureClash: using guns, and deliberately starting a forest fire. Afterwards, the ''bandits'' give up in utter disgust.]]
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* ''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray'': Dorian's grandfather, Lord Kelso, hired an adventurer to challenge his commoner son-in-law to a duel so he could be killed. While the gentry couldn't understand why Dorian's mother chose somebody below her station, even they were appalled by Kelso's cruelty. According to Harry's uncle, "He ate his chop alone in the club for some time".
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** In ''No Brainer'', Principal Bottoms is a DirtyCoward who engages in some pretty ludicrous promotions to raise money (like renting sticker space on the science textbooks to a flat-Earth-believing magazine called ''Science Scoffers''). Still, when he puts the name of the school up for bidding, even he refuses to accept a bid from a school in a rival town who submit the name "Slacksville Rules! Middle School."

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