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* MoralEventHorizon: While most would consider John Doe to have crossed this with his very first murder, torturing and killing someone for merely being gluttonous, in his view his victims were not innocent which makes one particular case stand out since [[spoiler: Tracy was completely innocent of everything]], so even his own twisted standards couldn't have excused his last killing.
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* MoralEventHorizon: While most would consider John Doe to have crossed this with his very first murder, torturing and killing someone for merely being gluttonous, in his view his victims were not innocent which makes one particular case his final murder stand out since [[spoiler: Tracy [[spoiler:Tracy was completely innocent of everything]], so everything]]. [[FridgeHorror This becomes especially horrific]] when you realize that [[spoiler:he did this to goad Mills into murdering him, meaning that he [[InvokedTrope deliberately made himself a suitable target]] by knowingly committing a crime even his own twisted standards couldn't have excused his last killing.''he'' considered to be unconscionable.]]
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* ValuesDissonance: In the end, the chief repeatedly promises to look after and "take care" of the cop they're arresting for murder. While modern audiences are likely just as sympathetic toward the murderer, this scene does play differently to modern eyes after many controversies over law-breaking police officers receiving preferential treatment.
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* ValuesDissonance: In the end, the chief repeatedly promises to look after and "take care" of the cop they're arresting for murder. While modern audiences are likely just as sympathetic toward the murderer, murderer (he just killed a serial killer that taunted him [[spoiler:about killing his wife]]), this scene does play differently to modern eyes after many controversies over law-breaking police officers receiving preferential treatment.
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* CompleteMonster: [[MisanthropeSupreme John Doe]] is a KnightTemplar who targeted people whom he deemed to embody one of the SevenDeadlySins, then [[CruelAndUnusualDeath horribly murdered]] them [[PoeticSerialKiller in a way that reflected their vice]]. [[spoiler:After 5 murders, John Doe, feeling envious of Detective David Mills's "normal" life, decapitated his wife--despite her being completely innocent--then arranged for her head to be delivered to Mills outside of the city. Goading Mills with his crime and revealing that she was pregnant, Doe succeeded in getting Mills to murder him in revenge, making Mills the embodiment of wrath and leading to Mills's arrest and the ruination of his life.]]
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* CompleteMonster: [[MisanthropeSupreme John Doe]] is a KnightTemplar who targeted people whom he deemed to embody one of the SevenDeadlySins, then [[CruelAndUnusualDeath horribly murdered]] them [[PoeticSerialKiller in a way that reflected their vice]]. [[spoiler:After 5 murders, John Doe, feeling envious of Detective David Mills's "normal" life, decapitated his wife--despite her being completely innocent--then arranged for her head to be delivered to Mills outside of the city. Goading Mills with his crime and revealing that she was pregnant, Doe succeeded in getting Mills to murder him in revenge, making Mills the embodiment of wrath and leading to Mills's arrest and the ruination of his life.]]
