History MoralEventHorizon / LiveActionTV

* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'':
** ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'': In the episode "Trading Places" the MonsterOfTheWeek Switchbeast goes around city and turns innocent people into various objects. The point of this plan is that unsuspecting humans will get rid of those objects, unaware that there are human souls in them. This would have resulted in a lot of people being ''killed'' (including Rangers, Bulk and Spike) if Mike and Emily didn't defeat Switchbeast. That was the entire point of Switchbeast's plan: to have as many innocent people turned into objects and would have been disposed and destroyed by unsuspecting humans. Usually Nighloks want to make misery, but this time they wanted to ''kill'' innocent people.
*** In the eyes of Dayu, BigBad Master Xandred crosses this when he sets her harmonium ([[spoiler:which was a gift by Deker, when they were married and it was LAST remnant of her love for Deker, who was cursed and lost his memory of her]]) on fire and attempted to have her memory erased. She even says "I knew you were evil, but this!"
*** He ''really'' crosses it by [[spoiler:killing and [[DevourTheDragon absorbing her]] after she revived him.]]
** Serrator crossed it 200 years ago by [[spoiler:making a DealWithTheDevil with Dayu, turning Deker into a half Nighlok and taking his memories, not telling her that until she's already made the deal.]] The more the two of them suffer, until finally [[spoiler: meeting their tragic ends]], the more you'll consider Serrator the most heartless villain in the history of ''a show whose villains often pride themselves on how evil they are.'' If he didn't cross it then, he most certainly did with his endgame. [[spoiler:He wanted to split open the earth, spilling the Netherworld onto Earth, likely causing untold death and destruction all for the sake of becoming powerful enough to rule both worlds.]] Even ''the other Nighloks'' considered it going too far (there was a risk that both worlds would be annihilated.)
** ''[[Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue Lightspeed Rescue]]''[='=]s Queen Bansheera does truly horrible things. She crosses the line when Olympius, her son, ends up stuck in the local equivalent of Hell; she opts to ''leave him there'' for being useless enough to get stuck there in the first place, and seems to take perverse pleasure in doing it, too.
** Venjix from ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'' crosses this territory when he '''''DESTROYS 99% OF HUMANITY'''''. Also when [[spoiler:he gains control of all the hybrids he experimented and hid in Corinth]] there are ''children'' among them and they don't even look a year over ten. ''Everything'' Venjix does qualifies for this trope.
*** While they are not as bad as Venjix, [[spoiler:Alphabet Soup]] crosses the line at some point, either it is when [[spoiler:kept super intelligent people, including children, imprisoned for their entire lives under the belief they've got some horrible illness that'll kill them if they step foot outside]], or when [[spoiler:they ''allowed Venjix to escape'' by not letting Dr. K install the firewall to stop the virus from spreading]] or finally when they [[spoiler:tried to ''assassinate Dr. K'' to cover up Venjix's origins]].
** ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy''[='s=] Final BigBad Trakeena crossed it when she attempted to attack Terra Venture with Stingwinger '''suicide bombers'''. ''And'' she [[SinkTheLifeBoats targeted the escape pods]], too. (TheDragon, a NobleDemon even more so than Diabolico, and who trained her, tried to stop her because his MoralityPet child friend was on one. She killed him, with him refusing to resist out of loyalty.)

* ''Series/BigTimeRush'': Crossed in the episode ''Big Time Sneakers'', when Jett Stetson and Jo's publicist plan on faking a relationship between Jett and Jo, regardless of her relationship with Kendall. Jett and Jo's publicist flat out tell Jo and Kendall that since Jett and Jo are an InUniverse FanPreferedCouple, so them dating gives the InUniverse show ''New Town High'' good publicity, and Jo refusing to date Jett will be the end of her carrer. So yeah, they tried to strong arm two teenagers into breaking off their relationship over tv publicity.

** Just as bad (or possibly worse), Maria is a RichBitch who likes the fact that she has control over all her classmates. But when Seira comes into the picture, she takes every effort to make her life miserable for easily stealing away her popularity. When Seira loses her fortune, she delights in making Seira grovel on the ground, donating huge amounts of money to the school and thus gaining enough power to make Seira her own personal [[strike: slave]] maid. She would also purposely spill soup on Seira and throw tomatoes at her when Seira was already at the [[BreakTheCutie lowest point of her life]]. And in a heartwrenching HopeSpot for Seira, Maria makes her believe that there was a slimmest chance that Seira could be [[RomeoAndJuliet Juliet]], something Seira has dreamed of for the longest time. Maria gets to be Juliet and forces Seira to work extra hours in the kitchen, not allowing her a chance to even be in the play.

* ''Series/LifeOnMars2006'' and ''Series/AshesToAshes'': Gene Hunt has probably crossed this line somewhere in his assaulting of suspects, liberal use of the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique, and stitching up innocent people. Where and when, and indeed if he has is highly subjective depending on your view of criminals. Jim Keats, however, gets a pretty clear one in Season 3 when he [[spoiler: appears to [[{{Psychopomp}} forcibly harvest Viv James' soul]], obviously a horrific experience for the latter. It is later implied poor Viv [[{{Hell}} did not go to a good place]].]]

* Arrow: Almost every main villain crosses the line at least once at some point.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': [[spoiler:Zachariah]] used to be Jerkass-personified, even if they were ([[KnightTemplar arguably]])[[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned.]] And there ''could'' be some (flimsy) [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans rationale]] behind their motives as presented in the Season 4 finale. But they showed that {{light is NOT good}} in the season 5 premiere, when they [[spoiler: threatened to cripple Bobby for life, removed Sam's lungs, and gave Dean Stage 4 stomach cancer, all to give Dean incentive to work with him.]] For what it's worth, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Dean tells them to fuck off, each and every time.]]

** For many fans, Buffy stopped being a hero and became merely a "protagonist" in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E21GraduationDayPart1 Graduation Day Part 1]]" when she decided to feed another human being -- Faith -- to a vampire just because she wanted her dying boyfriend back. While many acknowledge that Faith had, at that point, done many reprehensible things and might have deserved to be killed, the fact that Buffy was going to do it by '''''feeding her to a vampire''''', thus betraying her calling as the protector of humanity against such monsters, was the part that they simply could not swallow.

** Buffy, if she didn't do it with her earlier actions in season 3, then it was because of her actions in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E15GetItDone Get It Done]]" caused some fans to be so disgusted that she was beyond redemption. Such a view is pretty universal in regards to [[TheScrappy Kennedy]] for the same reasons, who is utterly loathed by pretty much all of the fanbase, and considered completely irredeemable.

** Bo Crowder crosses it when, in revenge for his son, Boyd, destroying a shipment of drug supplies Bo was meant to receive, he massacres Boyd's loyal followers and strings up their bodies for the Boyd to find, solely to rub salt in the wound.

** In ''Wrath of Swan'', Frank crosses the line when he has Brody bring Kim to Swan Cotillion, and then fires gravy on to Jack and Kim
** Sensei Ty has crossed it in the past, continuously blaming Rudy for causing him to fall even though it was the Grandmaster who tooted. In ''Kickin It on Our Own'', he is brutal to the Wasabi Warriors, taking away Jack and Kim's black belts (he obviously had no right to do that), and forcing Eddie and Milton to drink heavy amounts of water to fight for their right to use the rest room. None of this grants Sensei Ty any points whatsoever.

* ''Series/OneTreeHill'': Dan Scott murdering his brother Keith in cold blood, and then pinning it on Jimmy Edwards, who had taken a gun into Tree Hill High & ultimately killed himself. Much like the Spike example in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', this is notable as Dan feels the guilt of what he did & tries to atone for his actions.

** WordOfGod says that Angelus's murder of [[spoiler: Jenny Calender]] in S2's "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E17Passion}} Passion]]" was important for the purpose of displaying how evil Angelus had become. Before that act, Angelus had murdered at least 4 people since being turned, but had not yet committed an offense so grievious to the audience (and the Scoobies) that it became a serious question as to whether or not it was even possible to redeem Angel, and if it was would anyone (besides Buffy) want to do it?

** Leonel and Marco Salamanca cross this when they slaughter every passengers in a truck.

** Damien Darhk doesn’t so much cross over the Line as much as he pole vaults over it and gets a gold from the judges. In a rare moement, he establishes himself as truly evil before he even appears, as Ra’s tells Oliver that he was behind several of the potentially city-destroying threats Oliver stopped in his second year, including a second earthquake machine created by Malcolm Merlyn. In his first appearance, he drains the life force of one of his soldiers for failing him using dark magic, horrifying Team Arrow as that is mostly their first encounter with true magic. Later on, [[spoiler:he attacks a community service project with a drone, nearly killing a little girl, kidnaps William and threatens him with death to get Oliver to drop out of the mayoral race, and murders Laurel Lance using Oliver’s own arrow out of revenge. This is all before he reveals his end game is to literally destroy the world using nuclear weapons.]] By the time Oliver kills him, he has established himself as one of the most, if not the most, evil villain to appear in the series. His subsequent actions on Legends of Tomorrow do not make him any better.

** Cayden James may have been manipulated by [[spoiler:Ricardo Diaz]] into wanting to destroy Star City, but hacking the city and killing random innocents he did of his own accord. Despite that, upon realizing he’d been manipulated and seeing William, being reminded of his own son in the process, he felt remorse for his actions and couldn’t go through with the city destruction.
** From the beginning, Ricardo Diaz was an evil force. In addition to being revealed to have [[spoiler:manipulated Cayden James into destroying the city]], he also had a large amount of cops on his payroll and [[spoiler:leaked the photo that originally created the investigation into Oliver and the Green Arrow]]. To establish his ruthlessness, he confronted his childhood bully, Jesse, after 30 years and burned him alive, an act so ruthless even Black Siren, a ruthless killer who once blew up a man’s head without remorse, couldn’t look at it directly.

** Slade Wilson/Deathstroke kidnapped [[spoiler:Roy Harper]], using his blood to create more Mirakuru soldiers. He sucked out enough blood that Roy was comatose for two weeks and when he awoke had more Mirakuru in his body than blood, driving him to a feral state that led to him [[spoiler:murdering a cop and attempting to kill his girlfriend Thea]]. Not long after, he [[spoiler: murders Moira Queen in front of her children]]. In the flashbacks, it’s revealed that he [[spoiler:tortured Oliver with electricity and tattooed Shado’s tattoo on his back to force him to remember her]].

** Despite his actions being defendable at first due to his sense of honor, everything he does after learning of Oliver’s survival from their duel is reprehensible, from [[spoiler:murdering innocents every day until Oliver agrees to become his heir, including his sister Thea, indoctrinating him forcibly into the League of Assassins through a ritual that included forcing Oliver to believe he was killing his friend John Diggle, marrying him to Nyssa against both of their wishes, and finally deciding to destroy Starling City with a virus]]. Despite all of that, Oliver later refers to him as honorable to Talia.

** Damien Darhk establishes himself as truly evil before he even appears as Ra’s tells Oliver that he was behind several of the potentially city-destroying threats Oliver stopped in his second year, including a second earthquake machine created by Malcolm Merlyn. In his first appearance, he drains the life force of one of his soldiers for failing him using dark magic, horrifying Team Arrow as that is mostly their first encounter with true magic. Later on, [[spoiler:he attacks a community service project with a drone, nearly killing a little girl, kidnaps William and threatens him with death to get Oliver to drop out of the mayoral race, and murders Laurel Lance using Oliver’s own arrow out of revenge. This is all before he reveals his end game is to literally destroy the world using nuclear weapons.]] By the time Oliver kills him, he has established himself as one of the most, if not the most, evil villain to appear in the series. His subsequent actions on Legends of Tomorrow do not make him any better.

** From the beginning, Ricardo Diaz was an evil force. In addition to being revealed to have [[spoiler:manipulated Cayden James into destroying the city]], he also had a large amount of cops on his payroll and [[spoiler:leaded the photo that originally created the investigation into Oliver and the Green Arrow]]. To establish his ruthlessness, he confronted his childhood bully, Jesse, after 30 years and burned him alive, an act so ruthless even Black Siren, a ruthless killer who once blew up a man’s head without remorse, couldn’t look at it directly.

** Slade Wilson/Deathstroke kidnapped [[spoiler:Roy Harper]], using his blood to create more Mirakuru soldiers. He sucked out enough blood that Roy was comatose for two weeks and when he awoke had more Mirakuru in his body than blood, driving him to a feral state that led to him [[spoiler:murdering a cop and attempting to kill his girlfriend Thea]]. Not long after, he [[spoiler: murders Moira Queen in front of her children]].

** Damien Darhk establishes himself as truly evil before he even appears as Ra’s tells Oliver that he was behind several of the potentially city-destroying threats Oliver stopped in his second year, including a second earthquake machine created by Malcolm Merlyn. In his first appearance, he drains the life force of one of his soldiers for failing him using dark magic, horrifying Team Arrow as that is mostly their first encounter with true magic. Later on, [[spoiler:he attacks a community service project with a drone, nearly killing a little girl, kidnaps William and threatens him with death to get Oliver to drop out of the mayoral race, and murders Laurel Lance using Oliver’s own arrow out of revenge. This is all before he reveals his end game is to literally destroy the world using nuclear weapons.]] By the time Oliver kills him, he has established himself as one of the most, if not the most, villain to appear in the series. His subsequent actions on Legends of Tomorrow do not make him any better.

** Cayden James may have been manipulated by [[spoiler:Ricardo Diaz] into wanting to destroy Star City, but hacking the city and killing random innocents he did of his own accord. Despite that, upon realizing he’d been manipulated and seeing William, being reminded of his own son in the process, he felt remorse for his actions and couldn’t go through with the city destruction.
** From the beginning, Ricardo Diaz was an evil force. In addition to being revealed to have [spoiler:manipulated Cayden James into destroying the city]], he also had a large amount of cops on his payroll and [spoiler:leaded the photo that originally created the investigation into Oliver and the Green Arrow]]. To establish his ruthlessness, he confronted his childhood bully, Jesse, after 30 years and burned him alive, an act so ruthless even Black Siren, a ruthless killer who once blew up a man’s head without remorse, couldn’t look at it directly.

** Sebastian Blood helped Slade Wilson through his entire campaign to make Oliver Queen suffer, but he crosses the line when he [[spoiler:kidnaps Thea, leaving her imprisoned with only Slade Wilson]]. In a rare moment for the Arrowverse, Sebastian managed to cross the line and actually redeem himself, [[spoiler:giving Oliver the Mirakuru cure and allowing him to take back the city]], with Oliver later referring to him as a good man.
** Warner Zytle proves to be a worthy successor to the title of The Count, modifying the formula to cause the victim to hallucinate their greatest fear. The formula is so strong it causes the person he injects with it in his first appearance to die on the spot.

* ''Series/KitchenNightmares'' featured at least 2 unforgettable moments of line-crossing:
** The owners of the ''Burger Kitchen'' stole their son's inheritence to fund their restaurant.
** Samy and Amy, the owners of ''Amy's Baking Company'' left the line behind long ago with the revelation that they were stealing the tips left for the servers and were keeping them for themselves.

** For many fans, Buffy stopped being a hero and became merely a "protagonist" in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E21GradationDayPart1 Graduation Day Part 1]]" when she decided to feed another human being -- Faith -- to a vampire just because she wanted her dying boyfriend back. While many acknowledge that Faith had, at that point, done many reprehensible things and might have deserved to be killed, the fact that Buffy was going to do it by '''''feeding her to a vampire''''', thus betraying her calling as the protector of humanity against such monsters, was the part that they simply could not swallow.

** For many fans, Buffy stopped being a hero and became merely a "protagonist" during season three when she decided to feed another human being -- Faith -- to a vampire just because she wanted her dying boyfriend back. While many acknowledge that Faith had, at that point, done many reprehensible things and might have deserved to be killed, the fact that Buffy was going to do it by '''''feeding her to a vampire''''', thus betraying her calling as the protector of humanity against such monsters, was the part that they simply could not swallow.

** For Vera, it's [[KickTheDog Kidnapping Trudy]].

*** When she tricks Patricia into thinking Eddie was cheating on her, causing Patricia to break down in tears for the first time on the show, and then turning her into a sinner- and according to Eddie's vision, it involved a lot of dragging and fighting to get her in the coffin.

** Victor, despite having been a sympathetic AntiVillain in the other seasons, crossed this when he set up a ''guillotine'' to stop the students from getting into the secret room. He tested it by having it ''cut a dictionary in half''. And he was very pleased with this. Of course, he was a [[TheSoulless sinner]] at this time, so it does make a bit of sense. But it's the first time he's ever shown willingness to murder the students, a jarring change from his former EvenEvilHasStandards trait.

* ''Series/TwoandaHalfMen'': Rose, in the eyes of the characters, is seen to have crossed when it's suggested she killed Charlie. Even though [[spoiler: it ends up not to be true, faking his death and imprisoning him in her basement for four years]], trying to prompt Walden's ex-wife Bridget to become a stalker like her and becoming obsessed and romantically involved with Walden (his home's new owner) while [[spoiler: Charlie is actually in fact still alive and she knows it]] does not make it any better. If anything, only worse.

** Buffy, if sshe didn't do it with her earlier actions in season 3, then it was because of her actions in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E15GetItDone Get It Done]]" caused some fans to be so disgusted that she was beyond redemption. Such a view is pretty universal in regards to [[TheScrappy Kennedy]] for the same reasons, who is utterly loathed by pretty much all of the fanbase, and considered completely irredeemable.

* ''Series/OnceUponATime'' now has [[MoralEventHorizon/OnceUponATime it's own page]].

* In ''Series/KickinIt'', The Black Dragons, the main antagonists of the series, have crossed the line multiple times
** Sensei Ty has crossed it in the past, continuously blaming Rudy for causing him to fall even though it was the Grandmaster who tooted.
** In ''Wrath of Swan'', Frank crosses it when he has Brody bring Kim to Swan Cotillion, and then fires gravy on to Jack and Kim
** Sensei Ty crosses the line again in ''Kickin It on Our Own'', by being brutal to the Wasabi Warriors, taking away Jack and Kim's black belts (he obviously had no right to do that), and forcing Eddie and Milton to drink heavy amounts of water to fight for their right to use the rest room. None of this grants Sensei Ty any points whatsoever.

** Whenever a villain tortured a member of the Scoobie Gang, they tended to be seen as having gone just plain too far. Such as [[spoiler: when Angelus tortured Giles to get information]], and when in ''Angel'', [[spoiler: Faith tortured Wesley for ''no reason at all''. Angelus was an actual villain, whereas Faith was just an AntiHero...]]

** If it wasn't the AttemptedRape and murder of Xander, Faith trying to kill Angel is a InUniverse example, motivating Buffy to feed her to him or kill her trying to do so. When she recovers Faith also essentially rapes both Buffy and Riley [[GrandTheftMe (she uses Buffy's body to try and get Riley to do harmful things to her body, and sleeps with him.)]] Buffy is so furious she is willing to go through Angel in her attempt to kill her, but Angel defied this trope by claiming that despite all this, Faith still wasn't too far gone. Of course, given the above, he ''would'' know a lot about being too far gone...
** Buffy herself because of her actions in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E15GetItDone Get It Done]]" caused some fans to be so disgusted that she was beyond redemption. Such a view is pretty universal in regards to [[TheScrappy Kennedy]] for the same reasons who is utterly loathed by pretty much all of the fanbase, and considered completely irredeemable.

* ''MoralEventHorizon/GameOfThrones''