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* Mr. Dietrichson in ''[[Double Indemnity]]'', for the sake of making Neff a [[Sympathetic Murderer]].
* In ''[[Scanners]] 2'', the main character kills a pair of store-robbing thugs who already killed two clerks and were either about to do the same to his girlfriend, or kidnap her/hold her hostage.
* While the Joker killed many innocent civilians in ''[[Batman (film)|Batman]]'', most named characters he killed deserved it, including cruel crimelord [[The Don| Carl Grissom]], his lieutenants Antoine Rotelli and Vinnie Ricorso, and [[Dirty Cop]] Lieutenant Max Eckhardt.
** And in ''[[Batman Returns]], [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] Max Shrek was possibly a bigger scum than the Penguin, making [[Murder by Cremation| his horrid death at the end]] pretty satisfying.
* The black comedy ''Drowning Mona''. Bette Milder played Mona, a woman so universally despised that when she was killed, no one cared about her death (beyond wondering who had finally done the deed) and only her son and husband showed up at her funeral (and even they weren't too broken up about it). This made the jobs of the investigators much more difficult, because practically '''''EVERYONE''''' in town had a reason for wanting to kill Mona, making everyone a suspect.
* The mission director in ''[[Gattaca]]'' was ... not universally liked, making the movie an example of reason number three.
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* {{spoiler|[[Villain Protagonist|The main character, Tony Montana]]}} from [[Scarface]] might as well be the ultimate kind of this trope. Although he gets a [[Redemption Equals Death]] moment when he {{spoiler|[[Even Evil Has Standards|refuses to blow up the journalist's car, along with said person's wife and children by killing Sosa's hitman.]]}} {{spoiler|Tony}} also paid the price for said incident, however, when {{spoiler|Sosa sent his men to attack him.}} His death wasn't played out in a [[Alas, Poor Villain]] moment either. By the end, we still retain some sympathy for him, but he is still an asshole from start to finish, including when {{spoiler|he killed Gina's future husband, Manny Ribera, because of his over-protectiveness for said sister.}}
** In general, most of the characters could qualify. It's hard to feel sorry for any of these people, since they are all assholes from start to finish, as evidenced by the [[Cluster F-Bomb|constant swearing]] throughout the whole movie.
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