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'''Antman''': I can't believe this! Maelstrom-- going paternal on us!? }}

* Parodied in ''[[Runaways]]'' with Chase's mom, who reacts with horror at the suggestion that she get an abortion, saying it would make her a monster... while standing in front of the human sacrifice she is about to make in order to bring about the end of the world.

* In ''[[Garfield His 9 Lives]]'' the Incredibly Huge Galactic War Fleet claims to have no hearts. However, they do "appreciate a tidy ship," and so give Garfield two extra minutes to get his spaceship cleaned up before they atomize him.

* Dr. Doom once hired Typhoid Mary to steal the [[Power Pack|Power Pack's]] alien technology, but called it off when she decided the best way to do it was by assassinating their father. After the way he tragically lost his parents, he couldn't stand the thought of the Pack being orphaned the way he was. [[Fridge Logic|Which makes it odd that he's willing to do it to Franklin and Valeria.]] But then, ''that's'' [[Berserk Button|RICHAAAARRRRRDSSSSS]]!

* [[Deadpool]] has standards, despite being a [[Comedic Sociopath]], and certifiably insane (he has TWO voices in his head, and has regular hallucinations). He's a mercenary, not a monster, and there are more than a few people who sicken even him.

** He is also not above giving [[What the Hell, Hero?]] moments when other people crosses the lines even he wouldn't, like in ''Uncanny [[X-Force]]'', where he {{spoiler|gives one of these to entire team about the fact they let Fantomex kill Kid Apocalypse.}}

* In ''[[Darkwing Duck (comics)|Darkwing Duck]]'', Steelbeak isn't pulling a [[Heel Face Turn]], but unleashing Duckthulu? Even he has his limits. {{spoiler|Only not really}}.

* In the ''[[Wolverine]]'' story ''The Adamantium Men'', Wolverine and his rival combatant ({{spoiler|part of a twelve-man mercenary team, employed by Blackguard and made to emulate Wolverine with laser claws and nanite healing factors}}) are busy fighting in the streets of San Francisco. The two have by this point fought all the way to street level and are about to deliver what might be the deathblow, when they see a schoolbus full of young children. To spare them from harm (and the trauma of their very violent combat) they retract their claws and let the bus pass, then choose to move in case another one passes. To clarify, the rival was dishonourably discharged for unknown reasons.

* In the first crossover between Spider-Man and Superman, Lex Luthor and Doctor Octopus join forces to create a worldwide hurricane, to blackmail the planet for ten billion dollars. Eventually, however, Luthor reveals that no matter whether they get paid or not, he's going to let the storm run rampant and wipe out humanity to pay them back for laughing at him. This is too much for Octopus, and he smashes the machine generating the hurricane.

* Using Wasp as a living bomb was apparently too much for even [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Norman Osborn]] and [[Psycho for Hire|Bullseye]]. When the whole force of Marvel's heroes charged the Skrulls in vengeful rage, they joined in, looking just as pissed for what just happened as the good guys.

* IDW's ''[[Transformers Ongoing|Transformers]]'' series, at least initially. The Autobots and Decepticons are out to destroy each other. But they both adhere to the Code of Interplanetary Conflict, which lists rules that the war must follow.

* In the Italian Disney stories about Paperinik the Devilish Avenger ([[Donald Duck]]'s vigilante secret identity), Paperinik has committed his fair share of crimes (his first story sees him ''stealing Scrooge's mattress while he's sleeping on it'', and he beated up and humiliated other characters and the police many times, even throwing Gladstone down of the wall of a castle before the whole population of Duckburg), but he always drew the line at gratuitous crimes and actually profiting from them (at worst he forces people who stole from him as Donald to pay him back more money than they stole from him), resulting in him capturing and handing to the police about half of Duckburg's criminal population.

* In [[Peter David]]'s "Countdown" story arc in ''[[The Incredible Hulk]],'' the villainous Leader, who once gamma-bombed a town of 5,000 people just to see how many would survive (answer: five), states that he can't bring himself to kill his own brother.

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