History MoralEventHorizon / LiveActionFilms

* ''Film/ThePatriot'': If Col. Tavington didn't cross it already by killing Benjamin's son in front of him and his other children, he certainly did with three words: [[spoiler:"Burn the church."]]

*** Clarence Boddicker has crossed it multiple times, what with his record of being a notorious and sadistic CopKiller. But we are verified of how far he's crossed it when he and his top goons [[CruelAndUnusualDeath brutally pepper Murphy to a pulp with gunfire]], before Clarence himself puts a bullet in Murphy's head.

* In ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'', Ivan Ooze crosses it by sending the parents to commit suicide.

* One trailer for ''Film/PowerRangers2017'' has [[BigBad Rita Repulsa]] boasting about how [[HeroKiller she killed Rangers before]]. In the movie itself, she proves that point when [[spoiler: she drowns Billy [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness after he confesses the location of the Zeo Crystal]].]]

** Ogilvy starts out as an unstable jerk who drags Ray and Rachel into his fight with the aliens, and repeatedly endangers their lives due to his obsession. He crosses this in Ray's eyes when he hits Ray with a shovel for begging him to stop making noise that will attract the aliens, then explicitly wishes death on him and Rachel [[WouldHurtAChild (a 10-year old girl)]]. While he's out of his mind, Ray loses all sympathy for him at this point [[spoiler: and he kills him to protect Rachel]].

* ''Film/{{Bumblebee}}'': [[BigBadDuumvirate Shatter and Dropkick]] cross the line early in the film [[ColdBloodedTorture with their vicious murder]] of [[spoiler:Cliffjumper]].

* [[spoiler:Sentinel Prime]] brutally killing [[spoiler:Ironhide]] in ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon''. Also, [[spoiler:the Decepticons' genocidal attack on Chicago]] in the same movie might have finally driven home the point that yes, the Decepticons really ARE evil.
** In at least the novel, [[spoiler:Megatron [[HeelFaceTurn redeems himself]] in the end when [[TheDogBitesBack he helps Optimus do Sentinel in]] and then announces his intention to sue for peace. Unlike in the film, [[SparedByTheAdaptation he actually lives to see the end of the novel]] as a direct result.]]
** Laserbeak: [[spoiler:"Is your daddy home?", said right before ''killing the poor girl's parents right in front of her'']].
** When Soundwave brutally executed [[spoiler:Wheeljack]] after the Autobot had surrendered and was begging for mercy, you knew he deserved everything that happened next.
** Any sympathy for [[spoiler:Dylan]] leaves when one sees the lengths he's willing to go to ensure that [[spoiler:he isn't harmed by the coming AlienInvasion. Like when he reassures himself that he's safe... while watching ''hundreds of innocent civilians be slaughtered by the Decepticons.'']]
* ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'': Lockdown crosses it in his first scene by coldly murdering [[spoiler:Ratchet]].
** If he didn't cross it already (allowing Tessa to be threatened or refuse to allow paramedics during Galvatron's out of control rampage), Attinger crossed it big time when he allowed Savoy to kill witnesses and gave Lockdown the okay to level Hong Kong to hide his plans.
** Any sympathy Savoy would want people to show him die out when he threatens Tessa to make Cade give Optimus Prime's location.

* MoralEventHorizon/JurassicPark
* MoralEventHorizon/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles (includes the live-action films)

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** Well, by the time he shows up in ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', we know Khan Noonien Singh is a bastard, if a magnificent one, especially if you've seen ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. But when he starts putting worms in people's ears, you realize that perhaps he's kicked it up a notch on the Evulz scale; but you say to yourself that he's intelligent and charming and surely he can be reasoned with. But...when he listens to a minion kill himself and doesn't so much as ''blink'', merely ordering the surviving minion to hurry up and carry out his orders, you realize this guy ain't coming back from the horizon. Khan also certainly reminded the audience that he was evil when he activated the Genesis device instead of surrendering to the Enterprise. He knew that he would take down at least one of the Enterprise's own, if not the entire freaking ship. He would have wiped out many people just to satisfy a longtime desire for revenge. It wound up that [[spoiler:Spock, Kirk's closest friend, sacrificed himself to save the Enterprise.]]
** ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'': Shinzon went from "Attempt to make a TNG version of [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Khan]]" to "complete and utter [[JerkAss dickwad]]" when he mind raped Troi as she was having sex with Riker. He does this just to get rid of his sexual frustration and to scare Troi, and the writers use this to try and prove that he still is capable of evil. This just went too freaking far.
** The destruction of the planet [[spoiler:Vulcan]] and most of its 6 billion inhabitants at the hands of the Romulan villain Nero and his crew avenging the death of their own planet in Creator/JJAbrams' ''Film/StarTrek2009''. The death of [[spoiler:Spock's mother Amanda]] as he helplessly reaches out for her just heightens the tragedy. What makes it worse is that he's getting revenge for something that 1) hasn't actually happened in this timeline and 2) wasn't Spock's fault in the first place: future-Spock did nothing to harm Romulus and simply arrived too late to save it, and worse yet, past-Spock has done ''nothing'' pertaining to the incident at all. Nero's pretty clearly off the deep end.
** ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'':
*** [[spoiler:If his plot to start a war with the Klingons didn't do it, Admiral Marcus definitely crosses the line with the revelation that he ''never'' intended to spare the ''Enterprise'' or her crew, no matter what Kirk said or did.]]
*** John Harrison[[spoiler:/Khan]] has several possible MEH's:
*** [[spoiler:Manipulating Thomas Harewood into blowing up a Starfleet institution by curing his daughter's condition.]]
*** [[spoiler:Attacking a gathering of Starfleet officers, killing Admiral Pike in the process.]]
*** [[spoiler:Betraying Kirk, then attempting to murder the ''Enterprise'' crew after his people were returned to him ([[OutGambitted or so he thought]]), at a point where none of the crew posed any threat to him.]]
*** [[spoiler:Setting the fatally damaged ''Vengeance'' on a collision course with San Francisco after believing that his crew had been killed.]]
** In ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'', Krall crosses it during his attack on Yorktown Station; not only intent on killing everyone inside, [[spoiler: but to effectively cripple the diplomatic element of the Federation in [[UngratefulBastard for being assigned given command of the Franklin]] [[DisproportionateRetribution and having his faction of Frontier absorbed into Starfleet]]]].

* ''Franchise/JurassicPark'':
** ''Film/JurassicPark1993'':
*** [[AmoralAttorney Donald Gennaro]] crossed it the moment when he [[DirtyCoward leaves Lex and Tim]] in danger of being killed by the ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' to save his own hide. Fittingly, he ends up receiving a KarmicDeath by the jaws of said ''Tyrannosaurus rex''.
*** Dennis Nedry lost all sympathy once he knowingly endangered the park's guests by shutting down the security in order to [[{{Greed}} steal the dinosaur embryos for financial gain]]. His death by the claws of the ''Dilophosaurus'' was well-deserved.
** ''Film/JurassicWorld'': The ''Indominus rex'' crosses this when she slaughters an entire herd of ''[[GentleGiant Apatosaurus]]''. As Owen notes, the bodies are mutilated but largely intact -- she didn't eat them, ''[[ForTheEvulz she killed them for sport]]''. After this scene, to many audience members, the ''Indominus rex'' turned from a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds into an awful thing that ''really'' needed to be stopped.
*** Notably, before this moment, Owen had referred to ''Indominus'' and the other dinosaurs by the correct gender pronoun of "she," in contrast to Claire who (also until this moment) only saw them as assets rather than animals. Once he saw what ''Indominus'' did to those poor apatosaurs, [[ItIsDehumanizing he stopped referring to her as "she."]]
---> '''Owen:''' It didn't eat them. It's killing for sport.
** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Mills]] from ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' stages [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals the torture of innocent dinosaurs]] to [[{{Greed}} sell to bidders]] and creates the mindlessly bloodthirsty ''Indoraptor'', but he truly crosses it when he [[spoiler:murders Benjamin Lockwood via VorpalPillow after the latter [[HeKnowsTooMuch threatened to report him for his crimes]].]] His brutal KarmicDeath from the dinosaurs he abused was definitely rewarding.
** ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'': After 29 years, Lewis Dodgson from the original film crosses this when he [[spoiler:authorizes the spreading of genetically-modified locusts across the world to have humanity rely on him and his [=GMOs=] for survival, all just to make more money from his company Biosyn's products. Fittingly, he ends up devoured by three ''Dilophosaurus'', the same species that killed his spy Nedry]].

* In ''Film/{{Paddington}}'', Millicent crosses it right off the bat with her desire to kill and stuff an obviously sentient animal. She takes it even further right at the end when she is completely willing [[spoiler: to kill the entire Brown family in order to get to Paddington, commenting that she "never stuffed a human before."]]

* ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'': After 29 years, Lewis Dodgson from the original film crosses this when he [[spoiler:authorizes the spreading of genetically-modified locusts across the world to have humanity rely on him and his [=GMOs=] for survival, all just to make more money from his company Biosyn's products. Fittingly, he ends up devoured by three ''Dilophosaurus'', the same species that killed his spy Nedry]].

*** [[AmoralAttorney Donald Gennaro]] crossed it the moment when he [[DirtyCoward leaves Lex and Tim]] in danger of being killed by the ''Tyrannosaurus Rex'' to save his own hide. Fittingly, he ends up receiving a KarmicDeath by the jaws of said ''Tyrannosaurus Rex''.

** ''Film/JurassicWorld'': The ''Indominus Rex'' crosses this when she slaughters an entire herd of ''[[GentleGiant Apatosaurus]]''. As Owen notes, the bodies are mutilated but largely intact -- she didn't eat them, ''[[ForTheEvulz she killed them for sport]]''. After this scene, to many audience members, the ''Indominus Rex'' turned from a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds into an awful thing that ''really'' needed to be stopped.

* Lyla's father from ''Film/AugustRush.'' Taking the StageMom and MeddlingParents tropes to the max, he tries to keep his daughter on a path that she doesn't want to pursue. After she gets pregnant from her boyfriend, she gets into an argument with her father regarding the baby and her career as a cellist. As she's about to rush out the door, she gets hit by a car and goes into a coma. So what does her father do? [[spoiler: He sent the baby to an orphanage after it was born ('''while his daughter was in a coma''') and said that the baby died.]] Granted, he does eventually confess his sins to his daughter, but he better know that there is '''no coming back from that one.'''

* ''Film/BioDome'':
** [[DesignatedHero Bud and Doyle]] cross it with their AttemptedRape of two female scientists.
** Because of the extreme degrees of annoyance that Bud and Doyle had demonstrated up to that point one can still find some sympathy for Faulkner when he abandons Bud and Doyle in the desert part of the dome to die, but when he decides to blow the dome sky-high with everybody inside, that's the moment he completely loses it.

* The villainess, Ruolan, ''Film/TheMermaid'' crosses it at the end of the film when she orders her private army to massacre the mermaid population for getting into the way of her developmental project.

** To say nothing of Kruger. It's not a question of if he crosses this, but ''when.'' Here are a few highlights:
*** He makes it crystal clear to Max that he's not a nice person [[spoiler:by killing Max's best friend Julio in front of his eyes. Though Julio had just been shooting at him.]]
*** Him [[spoiler:sexually harassing Frey, stating how [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty she would be the perfect excuse for him to "settle down."]] It's no wonder why Max blew his stack upon the shuttle's arrival in Elysium.]]
*** In any case, he's undoubtedly over the line when he decides not to have Matilda cured anyway after he loses what little is left of his sanity.

* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
** ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'': Cutler Beckett’s earlier conflicts with the protagonists might have been reasonable enough for a government official against known pirates and pirate sympathizers, but once he acquires the heart of Davy Jones, he starts a full-scale war on pirates and everyone even remotely associated with them. That said, the moment when Beckett '''officially''' crosses the MEH is in the opening scene of ''At World’s End'' when, in addition to Beckett [[KangarooCourt knowingly risking the execution of innocent people by stripping the accused of their rights to due process]] (specifically the rights to assembly, habeas corpus, legal counsel, and trial by jury), at least one of the condemned prisoners is revealed to be [[WouldHurtAChild a young boy, who is promptly hanged just like all the others]].
*** Made even worse by the fact that he ''doesn't care'' if they're innocent, because all he's trying to do is provoke them into singing "Hoist the Colors" and summon the Pirate Lords into a trap. All of those executions of innocent and guilty, even children, are nothing but ''bait''.
** ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides'': For all the cruel, despicable, and downright evil acts that Blackbeard does (or is implied to have done) over the course of the film [[LackOfEmpathy without even a shred of mercy for his victims]], he '''is''' still given a chance in the climax to do at least one good deed in his life and avoid definitively crossing the MEH, and it’s his ultimate refusal to do so that finally sends him over the line. When Blackbeard and his beloved daughter Angelica are both mortally wounded, Jack Sparrow arrives with the two chalices for the Fountain of Youth, having already filled both chalices and put the mermaid’s tear in one of them. Whoever drinks from the chalice with the tear will survive, but whoever drinks from the chalice without the tear will die in the process, and so Jack tries to encourage Blackbeard to sacrifice himself to save Angelica. Without hesitation, [[RedemptionRejection Blackbeard drinks from the chalice Jack had identified as having the tear]], and subsequently [[OffingTheOffspring asks Angelica to sacrifice her life to save his]]. [[spoiler:Angelica agrees to do so, but [[BatmanGambit Jack had already planned for Blackbeard’s decision]] and lied about which chalice had the tear. As a result, Blackbeard inadvertently drinks from the wrong chalice and dies, while Angelica drinks from the chalice with the tear and survives.]]

** If Ms. Norman [[spoiler: aka Ditto]] didn't cross it by helping [[spoiler: Howard Clifford]] get close to Tim, [[spoiler: then assuming Roger Clifford's identity and trying to kill Tim Goodman in the finale should do it]].

** Ogilvy starts out as an unstable jerk who drags Ray and Rachel into his fight with the aliens, and repeatedly endangers their lives due to his obsession. When Ray begs him to stop making noise that will attract the aliens and get them killed, Ogilvy assaults Ray and explicitly wishes death on him and Rachel [[WouldHurtAChild (a 10-year old girl)]]. [[spoiler: This convinces Ray that he's a threat to Rachel's safety and has to be killed]].

* Jon in ''Film/{{Ulvesommer}}'' reaches this after being a PoisonousFriend to two other farmers through out most of the movie in his RevengeBeforeReason hunt of wolves, he starts tracks [[LittleMissBadass Kim]] whith a GPS chip in her shoe to hunt the wolves she befriended. He reaches this when he [[spoiler: throws a grenade down into the wolf lair Kim and the wolves are hiding in, [[BuriedAlive burying them alive]], she survives but he takes her hostage when the border police arrives and tries to kill her. And, no, this is not an teen or older movie with a KidHero, it is a [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids family movie]], even though he gets really terrifying]].

* Destoroyah crosses the MEH in ''Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah'' when he [[WouldHurtAChild kills Godzilla Junior.]] [[PapaWolf Godzilla did not take this too lightly]].

* ''Film/{{Diggstown}}:'' Boss Gillon is a CorruptHick, but his intelligence, cordial demeanor, good relationship with his son, and treating Honey Roy as a WorthyOpponent initially make him seem AffablyEvil at worst. Then it turns out that [[spoiler:he drugged his own fighter, hometown hero Charles Macon Diggs, and bet against him, robbing his neighbors who bet on Diggs of their land and causing Diggs permanent brain damage.]] This ''might'' be executable by the fact that Caine implies that [[spoiler:no one expected the drugged Diggs to last so long and take so much punishment]]. But any remaining sympathy Gillon has is thrown out the window when [[spoiler:he threatens to murder Slim Busby unless his brother defeats Honey Roy after catching the two ThrowingTheFight. He remorselessly carries out that promise when Hambone loses, even though Hambone tried his hardest to win.]]

* ''Film/RoadHouse1989'': [[CorruptHick Brad Wesley]] crosses the line by killing [[spoiler:Wade Garrett]].

* In ''Film/{{Contagion}}'' Allan Krumwiede crosses it when he starts exploiting people’s fear of the virus by lying that forsynthia is a cure for the virus so that he can make money, and he then starts actively getting people to mistrust the authorities, who are desperately trying to stop the virus, and sabotage the doctors working on a cure so he can continue to make a quick buck.

* He Ying, the villainess of the military-action film ''Film/MercenariesFromHongKong'' crosses the line when she kidnapped one of the deceased mercenaries' little IllGirl daughter as a hostage, before having the child shot when things doesn't go her way.

* ''Film/ALittlePrincess1995'': Miss Minchin comes ''very'' close to this line with her abusive treatment of Sara and calling the police to get her arrested for theft, but the moment when she finally crosses it is when, despite clearly recognizing the amnesiac Captain Crewe, she promptly lies and continues to falsely claim that Sara has no father, allowing the tearful girl to be dragged away by the police on false charges. Up until this point, as horrible and abusive as Miss Minchin was, she had genuinely believed the Captain to be dead.[[note]]Interestingly, shortly before her horizon crossing, she has an EvenEvilHasStandards moment of being visibly horrified when Sara nearly falls to her death and relieved when she makes it over to the other building... before sending the police to apprehend her.[[/note]]