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16Examples of MoralEventHorizon in ComicBooks.
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18!!Comics/franchises with their own pages:
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20[[index]]
21* ''MoralEventHorizon/AvatarTheLastAirbender''
22* ''MoralEventHorizon/{{Crossed}}''
23* ''MoralEventHorizon/TheDCU''
24* ''MoralEventHorizon/JurassicPark''
25* ''MoralEventHorizon/MarvelUniverse''
26* ''MoralEventHorizon/PowerRangers''
27* ''MoralEventHorizon/RatchetAndClank''
28* ''MoralEventHorizon/SonicTheHedgehog''
29* ''MoralEventHorizon/StarWars''
30* ''MoralEventHorizon/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles''
31* ''MoralEventHorizon/{{Transformers}}''
32* ''MoralEventHorizon/{{Whoniverse}}''
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36!!Individual examples:
37* ''ComicBook/OneHundredBullets'':
38** Augustus Medici is a ruthless [[TheDon Mafia boss]] and AncientConspiracy member, but for the majority of the series seemed to have some lines he wouldn't cross. In the last three issues, however, facing a possible [[OutGambitted out-gambitting]] by some of the conspiracy's younger blood, he [[spoiler: abruptly resigns his seat in favor of his son Benito... then [[OffingTheOffspring has Benito killed the next day]]. The resulting power vacuum liquidates every single member of the cast but three, [[TheChessmaster exactly as Augustus intended]], but in hindsight he probably shouldn't have bothered: in killing his own son he manages to horrify his [[TheDragon pet hitman]] Phillip Graves, and Graves's sudden attack of [[EvenEvilHasStandards standards]] proves just the SpannerInTheWorks necessary to shut Augustus down for good]].
39** [[TheSociopath Lono]]'s rape of Sophie the waitress. While Sophie and her boyfriend Carlos hitting Lono with their car and stealing his money was definitely wrong, [[DisproportionateRetribution Lono's response]] is to tie her to a bed and assault her non-stop for hours on end. When Carlos discovers this, he [[ForcedToWatch makes Sophie watch]] as he [[NeckSnap breaks Carlos's neck]].
40* ''ComicBook/AcePowers'': Heat Devron ImpersonatingAnOfficer and ordering the police to kill all his henchmen.
41* ''ComicBook/TheEyeSees'': Ganza plotting to bomb a United States embassy to get America involved in a civil war.
42* Eric in ''ComicBook/AGodSomewhere'' crosses the MoralEventHorizon for most when he rapes his sister-in-law and cripples his brother. But the narrator, his former best friend Sam, notes that throughout the series of ensuing mass murders, he was still ambivalent about Eric. He finally crosses the MoralEventHorizon in Sam's eyes when the military unit with whom Sam had been embedded as a reporter sneak up on the cave where the two of them are talking, and Eric slaughters them right in front of him.
43* ''Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted'': [[Characters/MonsterVerseHumans Raymond Martin]] has a [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds tragic backstory]] behind his hatred of the {{Kaiju}} which drives him to be a HunterOfMonsters wannabe and is still haunted by the deaths of his family, but any and all sympathy it affords him completely dries up over the course of the story . If he isn't over the line when he goes out of his way to attack and murder [[VanHelsingHateCrimes one of the completely-benign and gentle Sker Buffalo]] (which is a crime that [[EvenEvilHasStandards even his henchmen are appalled by]]), then he's certainly over the line when he stumbles across a pair of defenceless Spineprowler cubs by accident while he's hunting their mother... and he proceeds to go completely above and beyond in chasing them to try and murder them. When he has his ExitPursuedByABear, there's nothing but catharsis to be had in his presumed KarmicDeath.
44* ''ComicBook/{{Gunsmoke}}'': Carr murders his own father-in-law so a range war he's masterminding gets bloody quicker.
45* In ''ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}}'' the very first thing we see [[FaceHeelTurn former hero]] the Plutonian do is incinerate a little girl's mother, baby brother and father in front of her eyes before, it's implied, murdering her off panel. That's not even the first atrocity he's committed; we learn that he's just destroyed a city and murdered a large portion of the population with in it.
46* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': Judge Death decides that, as all crime is committed by the living, everyone must be sentenced to death, and uses a mixture of psychic and nuclear weaponry to wipe out all life on his planet.
47* ''ComicBook/KickAss'':
48** [[spoiler: Red Mist and his father manage to cross it at the same time, after setting up Kick-Ass and the others. First, they beat the shit out of them. When Hit Girl tries to fight back, Johnny G orders his men to shoot her in the back, which they gladly do, sending her flying out a window. Red Mist then raves about how awesome that was, demonstrating that he's either a total sociopath or at least isn't very good at separating comic books from reality. In either case, that's the moment when both of them stop being mere villains and cross the line. Interestingly, the film turned this into a humanising EvenEvilHasStandards moment for Red Mist by having him instead be suitably horrified.]]
49** Also [[spoiler:the revelation that Big Daddy isn't an ex-cop and dragged his daughter into the lifestyle after running away from her and lying to her about the fate of her mother]].
50* ''ComicBook/KismetManOfFate'': Herr Schering crosses it by having 700 people killed ''in one day'' [[DisproportionateRetribution in retaliation for the assassination of one man]].
51* ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'''s Griffen was implausibly popular with fans in the first volume, never mind he was introduced raping teenage girls and shown casually murdering an innocent policeman. To make sure we realise he's a very bad man in Vol 2, he sells Earth to the Martians in Vol 2 -- and assaults Mina. It's the latter rather than anything else that results in his KarmicDeath -- by which point a reader can't feel any sympathy for him at all.
52* ''ComicBook/TheLoneWarrior'': The Dictator's Shadow causing a fleet of airplanes to crash just to test a super-weapon.
53* In ''ComicBook/{{Negation}}'', Komptin captures Kaine on Komptin's homeworld. He goes to his mother's place and stashes Kaine there until Komptin's superiors arrive. [[spoiler: His brother, however, is secretly part of an anti-Negation resistance force, and he helps free Kaine. When Komptin's superior finds out he demands that Komptin discipline his brother or it's his job. Komptin thinks for a moment, and then viciously murders both his brother and mother.]] Prior to this point in the story, Komptin, while clearly a bad guy, was portrayed with a small degree of sympathy: a hard-working but misfortunate underdog who wants nothing more than to be a successful leader within the Negation. With this act, that characterization changed, and Komptin was afterwards depicted as colder and crueler, living only for his job - and for revenge on Kaine especially.
54* In ''ComicBook/NoHero'', two members of the "superhero" team Front Line [[spoiler: bring down a passenger jet full of people to give the newest member of the team Josh a chance to earn some good PR after his horribly mutated face was accidentally revealed to the public]]. Front Line has apparently been pulling stunts like this for decades [[spoiler: in order to maintain their control over the world.]] No wonder [[spoiler: the governments of the world finally got fed up with their bullshit and sent their pet killer Josh to bring them down from the inside.]]
55* ''ComicBook/PatPatriotAmericasJoanOfArc'': Haubner crosses this when he orders a bombing he's plotting to go through despite the unexpected presence of [[WouldHurtAChild twenty children]].
56* While the man who would eventually become the Saint of Killers from ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'' had already a staggering kill record to his name (among other heinous actions), he was nonetheless a decent human being (at least [[EvenEvilHasStandards compared to most of his murderous peers)]], and for a time lived a life devoid of killing people. However, he finally crossed over when, in the course of [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge brutally avenging]] the peaceful life that he lost, he cold-bloodedly [[ShootTheHostage killed an innocent]] for the first time in his life, damning himself to Hell in the process. What came afterwards (including the Ratwater genocide) was merely a formality, as it's arguable that he was too far gone by then. Even this is arguable since the series BigBad, [[RageAgainstTheHeavens God]], is still considered worse. In fact, the Saint of Killers gets a happy ending by ''killing'' God and taking his throne, finally able to rest.
57** Also, partially subverted for Cassidy, who slowly approaches the horizon through many of the later books, then seems to cross over forever when he [[spoiler: shacks up with a devastated and drugged-out Tulip after Jesse's apparent death scene, lying to her and keeping her stoned to keep her dependent on him]]. Seemingly subverted when [[spoiler: Jesse takes his hand in a redemptive gesture after their big fight scene]], the seemingly played straight when [[spoiler: Cassidy uses this hand-shake as an opening to sucker-punch Jesse and cripple him]], then subverted one more time when we learn that [[spoiler: Cassidy made a deal with God to betray Jesse this way, in exchange for a promise that Jesse would make it out alive and ok in the end]].
58** Jody crosses when he [[BoomHeadshot blows Tulip O'Hare's brains out]] (she gets better) for the "crime" of being a positive influence in Jesse Custer's life, as does [[EvilMatriarch Marie L'Angelle]], who ordered the deed. A subsequent flashback shows that Marie and her men spent Jesse's childhood merrily murdering their way through anyone and anything that gave Jesse one iota of happiness.
59* ''ComicBook/RickAndMortyOni'': Summer of Dimension C-132 crossed this by planning on killing a popular version of herself and taking over her life. Upon suspecting that that Summer’s girlfriend had figured it out she immediately started planning on killing her as well. While both Summer C-1239 and her girlfriend Christina manage to live, Summer C-132 gets off as a KarmaHoudini.
60* ''Franchise/SpongeBobSquarePants'': The comics give us the BigBad of the Untidaled arc, an unnamed kraken, who is arguably the ''darkest villain in the comics.'' Why? Well, not only is he responsible for the draining of the water that kickstarted the arc in the first place, we later learn '''''[[spoiler:[[ImAHumanitarian HE EATS FISH!]]]]''''' That's right, the darkest villain ''ever'' in the comic series [[spoiler:eats Bikini Bottomites]], and he tries to force Mr. Krabs to [[spoiler:make him a giant Krabby Patty that will attract MANY unfortunate citizens into his jaws.]]
61* ''ComicBook/SuperAmerican'': Tyrannus ordering a small town flooded to cover up him escaping justice.
62* The Governor from ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'' explicitly steps across a new one of these (or is revealed/implied to have done so) in any scene where he appears for more than a page. By the time he [[spoiler: is eventually killed by his own people assaulting the prison after making them execute about 90% of the cast including Rick's wife Lori and their infant daughter Judy]], his MEH crossings look like the line of doors from the opening sequence of Get Smart.
63** Negan crosses his during the first thing he does on screen, [[spoiler:which is to murder Glenn in front of the rest of the cast.]]
64* Curious example from ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', in that many readers think BigBad [[spoiler:Ozymandias]]'s crossing of the Horizon and the greatest crime he commits are two distinct things. Sure he [[spoiler:depopulated New York]], but he had a damn good reason for doing that ([[spoiler:preventing the UsefulNotes/ColdWar from going hot and depopulating the entire planet]]). But when he [[spoiler:gives a dozen innocent people cancer to discredit Dr. Manhattan, cold-bloodedly murders his absolutely loyal refugee servants to prevent them being a loose end, and pulls a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness on his loving pet Bubastis in an attempt to kill [[PhysicalGod Dr. Manhattan]], which turns out not to work]], it becomes a whole lot harder to sympathize with him.
65** If [[SociopathicSoldier The Comedian]] didn't cross when he tried to rape the first Silk Spectre, he definitely did when he murdered his [[DisproportionateRetribution pregnant lover because she gave him a scar]]. Dr. Manhattan's sheer apathy at witnessing said murder without so much as lifting a finger to try to stop it is arguably a MoralEventHorizon crossing for him, as well; The Comedian himself certainly thinks so.
66*** The ''ComicBook/BeforeWatchmen: Minutemen'' mini-series adds another potential crossing point for the Comedian - [[spoiler:He framed Hooded Justices for the crimes committed by Rolf Muller by kidnapping some poor kid from Nite Owl's neighborhood, which led to Nite Owl accidentally killing Justice. The worst part? It's implied that Hooded Justice was actually one of Muller's victims]].
67* ''ComicBook/WonderManFox'': General Attila bombing a Red Cross hospital.
68* ''ComicBook/TheWraith'': Joe Carrol scaring his own father to death and laughing about it.

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