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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* Over the past several years, [[heel]]s in [[WWE|World Wrestling Entertainment]] have been forced to tone down their behavior to the point that all but a few of them hardly seem worse than mere [[Jerkass]] status, and even appear unobjectionable compared to some of the ''faces'' of the [[Attitude Era]]. Often this will be taken to ridiculous extremes, with the heels portrayed as full-blown [[Dirty Coward]]s who are too afraid to attack anyone openly. Making insulting remarks regarding race or ethnicity has been generally forbidden since the mid-2000s. References to Satanism or the occult are a no-no (unless you're [[The Undertaker]] or [[Kane (wrestling)|Kane]], since the former is a [[face]] and both benefit from the [[Grandfather Clause]]). It is still permissible to bully, threaten, or lecherously leer at a woman, but actually ''hitting'' a woman is blatantly crossing the [[Moral Event Horizon]] and isn't attempted except in the most serious of stories. (Sexist comments are generally okay, but only if the victim kicks the man's ass afterwards.) And while firearms are popular in almost every other entertainment medium, it's surprisingly very, very rare to see even the most violent villain in pro wrestling brandishing a gun. If you think about it, relying on this trope is quite counterproductive for wrestling, since trying to diminish a heel's level of evil will make it much more difficult for him to draw [[Cheap Heat]].
== [[Theater]] ==
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