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Author: TheHandle

Oct 16th 2012 at 6:17:10 AM

*[[LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit Elliot Stabler]]: while not outright killing bad guys (if not accidentally... or is it?), ostensibly loves beating the shit out of rapists, pedophiles etc. (and the other detectives are the others are that close too). 
*In MetalGearSolid, Snake angsts over the fact that he genuinely enjoys killing enemy soldiers.
*It's a common trait of the PlayerCharacter, or at least of the player themself. [[CatharsisFactor Some videogames are designed with this effect in mind specifically; to give people the joy of killing without any actual killing involved!]]
*One would suspect Kenshiro, HeroProtagonist of ''FistOfTheNorthStar'', of having traces of this. While he's TheStoic and will never smile at a villain, he goes out of his way to murder them in [[YourHeadASplode gruesome]] [[LudicrousGibs ways]], and [[YouAreAlreadyDead delays the effect for maximum despair on their part]], or to allow them to [[TooDumbToLive showcase their arrogance and foolishness to the last extremity]]. All this, when he could easily instakill them in one touch. They are, however, [[AssholeVictim as deserving as that treatment as a human can be]]; the entire principle behind the manga seems to be "show people be gruesome, sadistic monsters unfit to be alive, then have kenshiro execute them for the catharsis of the audience, who have their cruelty thus satisfied in a guilt-free manner.