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** [[Knight of Cerebus|Tao Pai Pai]] is the earliest example in the series, being a [[Psycho for Hire]] [[Serial Killer]] with no empathy or regard for life, only interested in profit and thrills.
** Dr. Gero could be called one for being responsible for ''everything'' that goes down in the Cell Saga purely out of hatred. Cell also implies that he may have intended for Cell to destroy existence.
** Broly. In his first movie, we see that he blew up planets as a kid, cackling
*** [[Freudian Excuse|On the other hand,]] it's heavily implied that the reason for his actions is because he was emotionally and mentally broken from various threatening elements from his birth (being stuck in a room having to endure baby Goku's crying, which becomes a trigger for him, being nearly executed by being stabbed in the chest just because King Vegeta was paranoid that a baby of his power level would overthrow the royal family, Freeza blowing up Planet Vegeta [and his narrow escape from it with his father]), not to mention being placed under mind control by his father (a process that's shown to be unwilling on Broly's part.) So, [[Complete Monster]] or not, he can also be viewed as a [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|tragic.]]
**** In some ways, Broly is like Michael Myers: pure evil in his first movie, but less so in subsequent appearances.
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* [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Moment of Awesome]]: [[Dragon Ball/Awesome|Has its own page.]]
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: An often-forgotten fact (possibly because it was anime-only filler) is that early on in DBZ, Vegeta and Nappa stop on the planet Arlia, home to a race of insectoid aliens. After overthrowing an evil tyrant and freeing his grateful subjects from his oppressive reign, Vegeta ''destroys the entire planet on a whim out of sheer sadism!'' Yes, he was still an unrepentant villain at that point and this was basically a [[Kick the Dog]] moment to show the power and cruelty of the Saiyans before they arrived on Earth, but it's still quite a lot to swallow in light of his future characterization.
** In terms of non-filler, Vegeta's most repugnant act would be his slaughter of a Namekian village in order to take their Dragon Ball. He doesn't go any further over the Horizon afterwards.
** Frieza's destruction of Planet Vegeta (home of the Saiyans, who had done nothing but ''serve him faithfully'') certainly qualifies, to the extent that [[Dragon Ball Kai]], an anime series designed to be strictly a filler-free adaptation of Dragon Ball Z, even used this as the beginning of the saga.▼
** His partner Nappa crossed it when he decided the first thing he wanted to do on Earth was blow up a populated city [[For The Evulz]], reducing it to rubble. Not even Vegeta approved of this, since he's a firm believer in [[Pragmatic Villainy]] and believed Nappa's reckless action might risk them their claim of the Dragon Balls.
*** Of course, that's all in backstory. He's already ''far'' over the Moral Event Horizon when we see his and his men's attack on a Namekian village.▼
▲** Frieza's destruction of Planet Vegeta (home of the Saiyans, who had done nothing but ''serve him faithfully'') certainly qualifies, to the extent that [[Dragon Ball Kai]], an anime series designed to be strictly a filler-free adaptation of Dragon Ball Z, even used this as the beginning of the
▲*** Of course, that's all in backstory. He's already ''far'' over the
** Cell crosses the line the moment we meet him, when he consumes an injured man who is begging for his life, draining the life right out of him. He later goes on to terrorize more innocent people and do the same to them. When he and Piccolo meet again, Cell shows him the power he's gained from all this life energy and then claims that he did those worthless people a service by making them part of something better!
** Babidi crosses it when he terrorizes Earth by having Buu turn the population of cities into candy to eat, sometimes ''even after they'd given him the information he demanded!''
** In the original DB, Tao crossed it when he murdered Upa's father.
** Broly's moment is when he blows up the alien slaves' home planet for absolutely NO REASON AT ALL.
* [[My Real Daddy]]: [[Akira Toriyama]], to many, as this renders GT [[Canon Discontinuity|non-canocial]].
* [[Nausea Fuel]]: Perfect Cell literally vomiting out 18 after how much of a beating [[SSJ 2]] Gohan gave him, made worse in the uncut where she's actually seen sliding out his mouth.
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