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** Peter's most notable MEH is when he admits that he [[AbusiveParents physically abused]] [[TheDitz Chris]] and [[ButtMonkey Meg]] all the time when they were infants when Meg eventually revealed that they had accidentally given Stewie a head injury. If he got caught, he'd blame it on Lois.

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** Courtney seemed to have crossed it much sooner, in the last episode of Season 1. In the hunt for the million-dollar case, she goes AxCrazy and threatens to kill four of the guys for it. In ''Action'', her CharacterDerailment continued when she [[FrivolousLawsuit sued her way back onto the show with unfair advantages,]] [[JerkSue pushed all of her competition around and won almost every challenge]] [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands with skills she never had before.]]



* Vilgax, after getting a valuable crystal, murders the entire planet for no reason, they weren't doing any harm to him, he fired on the planet for no reason other than to test ''how'' powerful the crystal is, and shows no regrets.

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* Vilgax, Vilgax in {{Ben 10}}, after getting a valuable crystal, murders the entire planet for no reason, they weren't doing any harm to him, he fired on the planet for no reason other than to test ''how'' powerful the crystal is, and shows no regrets.

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** That's nothing compared to allying with Cthulu, massacreing 1000s of Jews, all of San Francisco, a Burning Man event, a concert, destroying every last branch of Whole Foods and everyone who works there, and trapping his friends in an evil dimension for kicking him out. * ''DannyPhantom'' played it oddly straight with Danny's alternate future. The whole "Dark Danny creation" scene was horrific and it horrified even Vlad, which really says something. Also see Dark Danny's first appearance where he apparently kills multiple people ''on screen''. PsychoForHire, indeed.
** Vlad got his own crossing of the MoralEventHorizon when he treated [[OppositeSexClone Danielle]] as [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman less than human.]]

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** That's nothing compared to allying with Cthulu, massacreing 1000s of Jews, all of San Francisco, a Burning Man event, a concert, destroying every last branch of Whole Foods and everyone who works there, and trapping his friends in an evil dimension for kicking him out.
* ''DannyPhantom'' played it oddly straight with Danny's alternate future. The whole "Dark Danny creation" scene was horrific and it horrified even Vlad, which really says something. Also see Dark Danny's first appearance where he apparently kills multiple people ''on screen''. PsychoForHire, indeed.
** Vlad got his own crossing of the MoralEventHorizon when he treated [[OppositeSexClone Danielle]] as [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman less than human.]]]] Or maybe not; YourMileageMayVary depending on whether or not you consider Danielle TheScrappy.
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** That's nothing compared to allying with Cthullu, massacreing 1000s of Jews, all of San Francisco, a Burning Man event, a concert, destroying every last branch of Whole Foods and everyone who works there, and trapping his friends in an evil dimension for kicking him out. * ''DannyPhantom'' played it oddly straight with Danny's alternate future. The whole "Dark Danny creation" scene was horrific and it horrified even Vlad, which really says something. Also see Dark Danny's first appearance where he apparently kills multiple people ''on screen''. PsychoForHire, indeed.

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** That's nothing compared to allying with Cthullu, Cthulu, massacreing 1000s of Jews, all of San Francisco, a Burning Man event, a concert, destroying every last branch of Whole Foods and everyone who works there, and trapping his friends in an evil dimension for kicking him out. * ''DannyPhantom'' played it oddly straight with Danny's alternate future. The whole "Dark Danny creation" scene was horrific and it horrified even Vlad, which really says something. Also see Dark Danny's first appearance where he apparently kills multiple people ''on screen''. PsychoForHire, indeed.

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** That's nothing compared to allying with Cthullu, massacreing 1000s of Jews, all of San Francisco, a Burning Man event, a concert, destroying every last branch of Whole Foods and everyone who works there, and trapping his friends in an evil dimension for kicking him out. The worst part of this is that Cartman barely gets ANY form of punishment for all of this.
* ''DannyPhantom'' played it oddly straight with Danny's alternate future. The whole "Dark Danny creation" scene was horrific and it horrified even Vlad, which really says something. Also see Dark Danny's first appearance where he apparently kills multiple people ''on screen''. PsychoForHire, indeed.

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** That's nothing compared to allying with Cthullu, massacreing 1000s of Jews, all of San Francisco, a Burning Man event, a concert, destroying every last branch of Whole Foods and everyone who works there, and trapping his friends in an evil dimension for kicking him out. The worst part of this is that Cartman barely gets ANY form of punishment for all of this.
* ''DannyPhantom'' played it oddly straight with Danny's alternate future. The whole "Dark Danny creation" scene was horrific and it horrified even Vlad, which really says something. Also see Dark Danny's first appearance where he apparently kills multiple people ''on screen''. PsychoForHire, indeed.

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* In TotalDramaWorldTour, Blaineley already crossed the MoralEventHorizon when sending Bridgette agianst her will (and presumably while knocked out)to [[FateWorseThanDeath Siberia]] just to get out of doing a world tour and she ends up caught in a monstrous blizzard, a black bear who ends up nearly mauling her to death [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking and one really angry Blainley fan]]. To refrain Geoff from [[BerserkButton losing his mind]], he showed [[HumiliationConga embarrassing clips of Blaineley]] making her look bad.

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* In TotalDramaWorldTour, ''[[TotalDramaIsland Total Drama World Tour]]'', Blaineley already crossed the MoralEventHorizon when sending Bridgette agianst her will (and presumably while knocked out)to out) to [[FateWorseThanDeath Siberia]] just to get out of doing a world tour and she ends up caught in a monstrous blizzard, a black bear who ends up nearly mauling her to death [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking and one really angry Blainley fan]]. To refrain Geoff from [[BerserkButton losing his mind]], he showed [[HumiliationConga embarrassing clips of Blaineley]] making her look bad.bad.
** Courtney seemed to have crossed it much sooner, in the last episode of Season 1. In the hunt for the million-dollar case, she goes AxCrazy and threatens to kill four of the guys for it. In ''Action'', her CharacterDerailment continued when she [[FrivolousLawsuit sued her way back onto the show with unfair advantages,]] [[JerkSue pushed all of her competition around and won almost every challenge]] [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands with skills she never had before.]]
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** Although he's not nearly as bad as Cleveland or Peter, Stan from AmericanDad has had his own share of event horizon crossing. Although this is primarily early on, as Stan has upgraded to [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold]] after a while. This is somewhat ironic, as Stan was originally made to be a contemptible jerk, but eventually became a little more benign...albeit ignorant and lacking in foresight. Peter and Cleveland on the other hand, started out as well meaning buffoons but ended up becoming horrible people.

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** Although he's not nearly as bad as Cleveland or Peter, Stan from AmericanDad ''AmericanDad'' has had his own share of event horizon crossing. Although this is primarily early on, as Stan has upgraded to [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold jerk with a heart of gold]] after a while. This is somewhat ironic, as Stan was originally made to be a contemptible jerk, but eventually became a little more benign...albeit ignorant and lacking in foresight. Peter and Cleveland on the other hand, started out as well meaning buffoons but ended up becoming horrible people.
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** Although he's not nearly as bad as Cleveland or Peter, Stan from AmericanDad has had his own share of event horizon crossing. Although this is primarily early on, as Stan has upgraded to [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold]] after a while. This is somewhat ironic, as Stan was originally made to be a contemptible jerk, but eventually became a little more benign...albeit ignorant and lacking in foresight. Peter and Cleveland on the other hand, started out as well meaning buffoons but ended up becoming horrible people.
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**** Even for the Joker, the events of ''Return of the Joker'' was extreme. He was already dangerous and psychopathic, but the very nature of how he did it turned him into [[CompleteMonster someone]] [[JustEatGilligan that had to be destroyed]] as far as DCAU is concerned. Not even Harley Quinn gets a get out free card after even helping with that. [[spoiler: Although she survives somehow anyways.]]
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** One who's seen a lot of Simpsons over the years must admit, Homer himself has just about [[Jerkass almost crossed this line a few times,]] seemingly redeemed much of the time by the [[StatusQuo status quo]] more than anything. Homer going from well meaning occasional jerk to mindless monster has been a point of major criticism from fans and attentive watchers alike for many years now, to the point even ''The Simpsons Movie'' was changed around a bit when test screenings initially found Homer too irredeemably mean. Considering that before he redeems himself in the movie, he's already a terrible man as is that must have been quite an acomplishment.

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** One who's seen a lot of Simpsons over the years must admit, Homer himself has just about [[Jerkass [[JerkAss almost crossed this line a few times,]] seemingly redeemed much of the time by the [[StatusQuo status quo]] quo more than anything. Homer going from well meaning occasional jerk to mindless monster has been a point of major criticism from fans and attentive watchers alike for many years now, to the point even ''The Simpsons Movie'' was changed around a bit when test screenings initially found Homer too irredeemably mean. Considering that before he redeems himself in the movie, he's already a terrible man as is that must have been quite an acomplishment.
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** One who's seen a lot of Simpsons over the years must admit, Homer himself has just about [[Jerkass almost crossed this line a few times,]] seemingly redeemed much of the time by the [[StatusQuo status quo]] more than anything. Homer going from well meaning occasional jerk to mindless monster has been a point of major criticism from fans and attentive watchers alike for many years now, to the point even ''The Simpsons Movie'' was changed around a bit when test screenings initially found Homer too irredeemably mean. Considering that before he redeems himself in the movie, he's already a terrible man as is that must have been quite an acomplishment.

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* As of the second episode of the second season, {{Archer}} has [[spoiler: implanted a faulty Russian Mind Control chip into the head of Len Trexler, head of ODIN.]] Even Archer himself feels bad about it, if it has any permanent damaging side effects.

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* As of the second episode of the second season, {{Archer}} has [[spoiler: implanted a faulty Russian Mind Control chip into the head of Len Trexler, head of ODIN.]] Even Archer himself feels bad about it, if it has any permanent damaging side effects.effects.
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* As of the second episode of the second season, {{Archer}} has [[spoiler: implanted a faulty Russian Mind Control chip into the head of Len Trexler, head of ODIN.]]

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* As of the second episode of the second season, {{Archer}} has [[spoiler: implanted a faulty Russian Mind Control chip into the head of Len Trexler, head of ODIN.]]]] Even Archer himself feels bad about it, if it has any permanent damaging side effects.
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* As of the second episode of the second season, {{Archer}} has [[spoiler: implanted a faulty Russian Mind Control chip into the head of Len Trexler, head of ODIN.]]
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* In [[TotalDramaIsland Total Drama World Tour]], Blaineley already crossed the MoralEventHorizon when sending Bridgette agianst her will (and presumably while knocked out)to [[FateWorseThanDeath Siberia]] just to get out of doing a world tour and she ends up caught in a monstrous blizzard, a black bear who ends up nearly mauling her to death [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking and one really angry Blainley fan]]. To refrain Geoff from [[BerserkButton losing his mind]], he showed [[HumiliationConga embarrassing clips of Blaineley]] making her look bad.

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* In [[TotalDramaIsland Total Drama World Tour]], TotalDramaWorldTour, Blaineley already crossed the MoralEventHorizon when sending Bridgette agianst her will (and presumably while knocked out)to [[FateWorseThanDeath Siberia]] just to get out of doing a world tour and she ends up caught in a monstrous blizzard, a black bear who ends up nearly mauling her to death [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking and one really angry Blainley fan]]. To refrain Geoff from [[BerserkButton losing his mind]], he showed [[HumiliationConga embarrassing clips of Blaineley]] making her look bad.
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* Peter Griffin from ''FamilyGuy'', according to some people, went from lovable oafish jerk, to cruel sociopathic douche bag either when he [[spoiler: shot Meg in the face]] or when [[spoiler: he threw an unconscious Stewie with heavily infected head wounds underneath Lois' car so she would run him over, after weeks of no medical treatment]]

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* Peter Griffin from ''FamilyGuy'', according to some people, went from lovable oafish jerk, to cruel sociopathic douche bag either when he [[spoiler: shot Meg in the face]] or when [[spoiler: he threw an unconscious Stewie with heavily infected head wounds underneath Lois' car so she would run him over, after weeks of no medical treatment]]treatment, just so she wouldn't ask how Stewie got hurt]].
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* Vilgax, after getting a valuable crystal, murders the entire planet for no reason, they weren't doing any harm to him, he fired on the planet for no reason other than to test ''how'' powerful the crystal is, and shows no regrets.
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* In [[TotalDramaIsland Total Drama World Tour]], Blaineley already crossed the MoralEventHorizon when sending Bridgette agianst her will (and presumably while knocked out)to [[FateWorseThanDeath Siberia]] just to get out of doing a world tour and she ends up caught in a monstrous blizzard, a black bear who ends up nearly mauling her to death [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking and one really angry Blainley fan]]. To refrain Geoff from [[BerserkButton losing his mind]], he showed [[HumiliationConga embarrassing clips of Blaineley]] making her look worse than [[TheBigGuy O]][[PapaWolf w]][[GentleGiant e]][[TheMole n]].
* In The Cleveland Show, After Rallo almost drowns and blackmails Cleveland for it, Cleveland dunks Rallo's head in the pool twice just so Rallo would stop bossing him around. Cleveland's Character Derailment from Only Sane Man to Jerk Ass has been running rampant since the beginning of the series, but this is definitely where it's worst.

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* In [[TotalDramaIsland Total Drama World Tour]], Blaineley already crossed the MoralEventHorizon when sending Bridgette agianst her will (and presumably while knocked out)to [[FateWorseThanDeath Siberia]] just to get out of doing a world tour and she ends up caught in a monstrous blizzard, a black bear who ends up nearly mauling her to death [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking and one really angry Blainley fan]]. To refrain Geoff from [[BerserkButton losing his mind]], he showed [[HumiliationConga embarrassing clips of Blaineley]] making her look worse than [[TheBigGuy O]][[PapaWolf w]][[GentleGiant e]][[TheMole n]].
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* In The Cleveland Show, TheClevelandShow, After Rallo almost drowns and blackmails Cleveland for it, Cleveland dunks Rallo's head in the pool twice just so Rallo would stop bossing him around. Cleveland's Character Derailment CharacterDerailment from Only Sane Man OnlySaneMan to Jerk Ass JerkAss has been running rampant since the beginning of the series, but this is definitely where it's worst.

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* In [[TotalDramaIsland Total Drama World Tour]], Blaineley already crossed the MoralEventHorizon when sending Bridgette to the North Pole to be mauled to death by a [[EverythingsWorseWithBears black bear]]. To refrain Geoff from [[BerserkButton losing his mind]], he showed [[HumiliationConga embarrassing clips of Blaineley]] making her look worse than [[TheBigGuy O]][[PapaWolf w]][[GentleGiant e]][[TheMole n]].
** To be fair, she didn't know that Bridgette was going to encounter a bear, she didn't initially care either but still.

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* In [[TotalDramaIsland Total Drama World Tour]], Blaineley already crossed the MoralEventHorizon when sending Bridgette agianst her will (and presumably while knocked out)to [[FateWorseThanDeath Siberia]] just to the North Pole to be mauled get out of doing a world tour and she ends up caught in a monstrous blizzard, a black bear who ends up nearly mauling her to death by a [[EverythingsWorseWithBears black bear]]. [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking and one really angry Blainley fan]]. To refrain Geoff from [[BerserkButton losing his mind]], he showed [[HumiliationConga embarrassing clips of Blaineley]] making her look worse than [[TheBigGuy O]][[PapaWolf w]][[GentleGiant e]][[TheMole n]].
** To be fair, she didn't know that Bridgette was going to encounter a bear, she didn't initially care either but still.
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** To be fair, she didn't know that Bridgette was going to encounter a bear, she didn't initially care either but still.
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* In The Cleveland Show, After Rallo almost drowns and blackmails Cleveland for it, Cleveland dunks Rallo's head in the pool twice just so Rallo would stop bossing him around. Cleveland's Character Derailment from Only Sane Man to Jerk Ass has been running rampant since the beginning of the series, but this is definitely where it's worst.
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* In [[TotalDramaIsland Total Drama World Tour]], Blaineley already crossed the MoralEventHorizon when sending Bridgette to the North Pole to be mauled to death by a [[EverythingsWorseWithBears black bear]]. To refrain Geoff from [[BerserkButton losing his mind]], he showed [[HumiliationConga embarrassing clips of Blaineley]] making her look worse than [[TheBigGuy O]][[PapaWolf w]][[GentleGiant e]][[TheMole n]].
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If you\'re going to remove the page image, you may as well remove the mention of it.


** Also, in "Curse of the Flying Hellfish" it's revealed that Mr. Burns and Abe Simpson are the two surviving members of their unit from World War 2, and that the last surviving member would get a case of old paintings stolen from German homes during the war. When Burns tries to have Abe killed, Bart convinces Abe to get the case instead of letting Burns get it. When they actually arrive at the location of the case, Burns shows up too and takes the paintings at gunpoint. When Bart calls Burns a coward and an embarrassment to the name Hellfish, Burns points the gun at Bart's head. Abe says Burns can take the paintings so long as he does not hurt the boy. Burns says he would rather do both, [[DoubleSubversion and then kicks Bart into the empty case]] (as seen in the page image) hard enough to send the case falling into the water, and then boats away saying ''"so long, Sarge, see you at the reunion in November!"'' In other words, Burns attempts to drown a child, (even though he could have taken the art without doing so) [[DisproportionateRetribution for no apparent reason other than that the child insulted him]]. Furthermore, [[KarmaHoudini Burns gets away with said murder attempts too.]] And when Abe corners Burns...

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** Also, in "Curse of the Flying Hellfish" it's revealed that Mr. Burns and Abe Simpson are the two surviving members of their unit from World War 2, and that the last surviving member would get a case of old paintings stolen from German homes during the war. When Burns tries to have Abe killed, Bart convinces Abe to get the case instead of letting Burns get it. When they actually arrive at the location of the case, Burns shows up too and takes the paintings at gunpoint. When Bart calls Burns a coward and an embarrassment to the name Hellfish, Burns points the gun at Bart's head. Abe says Burns can take the paintings so long as he does not hurt the boy. Burns says he would rather do both, [[DoubleSubversion and then kicks Bart into the empty case]] (as seen in the page image) hard enough to send the case falling into the water, and then boats away saying ''"so long, Sarge, see you at the reunion in November!"'' In other words, Burns attempts to drown a child, (even though he could have taken the art without doing so) [[DisproportionateRetribution for no apparent reason other than that the child insulted him]]. Furthermore, [[KarmaHoudini Burns gets away with said murder attempts too.]] And when Abe corners Burns...
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Damn it, locuas, you can\'t cross the Moral Event Horizon more than once. I suppose I could leave it as an \"alternative candidate for MEH to those who regard it as more heinous than trying to drown a child\" but your wording shows that you really didn\'t understand the trope when you added that as an example of it, so I\'m scrapping it from this list.


** And don't forget all the evil things he does in the two-part ''Who shot Mr. Burns?'' crossing the line (''again'') when he [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin subjects Springfield to eternal night, blocking the sun's light with a gigantic and movable disk]]. No wonder pretty much every person in Springfield had a reason to shoot him by the end of Part I.
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** And don't forget all the evil things he do in ''Who shot Mr. Burns?'' crossing the line(''Again'') when he [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin subjects Springfield to eternal night, blocking the sun's light with a gigantic and movable disk]]. Of course, we all know how that turned out...

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** And don't forget all the evil things he do does in the two-part ''Who shot Mr. Burns?'' crossing the line(''Again'') line (''again'') when he [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin subjects Springfield to eternal night, blocking the sun's light with a gigantic and movable disk]]. Of course, we all know how that turned out...No wonder pretty much every person in Springfield had a reason to shoot him by the end of Part I.
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** And don't forget all the evil things he do in ''Who shot Mr. Burns?'' crossing the line(''Again'') when he [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin submit's Springfield to an eternal night, blockin the sun's light with a gigantic and movable disk]]. Of course, we all know how that turned out...

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** And don't forget all the evil things he do in ''Who shot Mr. Burns?'' crossing the line(''Again'') when he [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin submit's subjects Springfield to an eternal night, blockin blocking the sun's light with a gigantic and movable disk]]. Of course, we all know how that turned out...

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** And don't forgett all the evil things he do in ''Who shot Mr. Burns?'' cossing the line(''Again'') when he [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin submit's springfield to an eternal night, blockin the sun's light with a gigantic and movable disk]]
*** I suppose, everyone know what obtain for that...

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** And don't forgett forget all the evil things he do in ''Who shot Mr. Burns?'' cossing crossing the line(''Again'') when he [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin submit's springfield Springfield to an eternal night, blockin the sun's light with a gigantic and movable disk]]
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** And don't forgett all the evil things he do in ''Who shot Mr. Burns?'' cossing the line(''Again'') when he [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin submit's springfield to an eternal night, blockin the sun's light with a gigantic and movable disk]]
*** I suppose, everyone know what obtain for that...

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