Moral Event Horizon in The Owl House.
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Belos: Caleb, you would stab me in the back?!
Luz: You did it to him first.
Luz: You did it to him first.
— "Thanks to Them"
- Emperor Belos/Philip Wittebane has many candidates throughout the course of the series.
- He sentences Eda to the irreversible fate of petrification despite promising Lilith that he would heal her sister's curse.
- As Philip, he led several witches and demons on expeditions resulting in them dying for his self-interests. He even tries to do the same to Luz and Lilith.
- However, "Hollow Mind" indicates he crossed this line a very long time ago, either when he blew up entire towns in False Flag Operations, killed all the predecessor Golden Guards for disobeying him, or, as implied by the paintings visible in background shots, murdered his own brother.
- The Day Of Unity is really a front for a Draining Spell which he intends to use to free the Collector so he could kill every witch and demon on the Boiling Isles. And as it turns out, he lied to the Collector about that "freeing him" part and was really just going to go back home while the Boiling Isles dies behind him. He then tries to petrify Luz until her quick thinking makes him change his mind, proving that for all his claims of "protecting humanity", he ultimately only cares about himself.
- He possesses Hunter's body and mortally wounds his "nephew" and Flapjack forcing the latter to perform a Heroic Sacrifice to revive his owner. To expand, he grips Flapjack in Hunter's hand and loudly taunts the Hexsquad about it before growing claws to impale the bird and trying to consume Flapjack while still in Hunter's body.
- In the Grand Finale he takes control of the Titan by assimilating the Titan's heart, and promptly starts attempting to consume the entirety of the Boiling Isles with his necrotic sludge. When the recently redeemed Collector attempts to offer him compassion, he promptly tries to shoot them In the Back, forcing Luz to block the attack to save The Collector at the cost of her own life.
- Adegast crosses it by taking Luz hostage and later attempting a Mind Rape by trapping her in a hallucination of her Chosen One helpers rallying her to stay captive, as he's strangling her, King, and Eda. Unsurprisingly, Eda eats him as soon as he's reduced to a cephalopod.
- Odalia Blight tries to kill Luz with the Abomaton 2.0 during a trial run, something even Alador states is going too far. She gets away with it as well.
- In "Clouds on the Horizon", when Alador expresses concerns about the Day of Unity needing so much security, Odalia shuts him up by threatening to conscript their children into Blight Industries while holding her glowing amulet in a threatening manner. Later, Alador vents to a disguised King that she's a Bad Boss as well and fired half their employees when they all, including Alador, came down with the Fire Flu. She fully crosses it when it's revealed she's known for sometime what the Day of Unity and the Draining Spell would really do... and doesn't care, still supplying Belos and the Emperor's Coven with her company's products. Her rationale is that Belos will make them royalty in the new world he's creating, completely blind to the fact that everyone including Odalia and her family will be affected by the spell. After her entire family disowns her, Odalia dismissively leaves while telling her husband that she's been wanting a "better business partner" for some time and leaves indicating she saw their marriage as business relationship, not romantic.
- Jacob Hopkins crosses it when he imprisons Vee in a small cage and tries to dissect her alive.
- Tibbles crossed it not in his first appearance but his second; even though Luz, Gus, and Willow apologized for smashing his stand by accident, he still manipulates King to shrink everyone and televises unicorns and manticores mauling them for an entertained audience.
- The Greater Basilisk crosses it in "The First Day" by her habit of draining entire schools filled with students to feed, and making sure Principal Bump is conscious enough to watch.
- In "Edge of the World", Bill the Elder attempts to free the Grand Huntsman by sacrificing King, a ''child'', since it required the power of a Titan.
