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== Animated Film ==

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* In ''[[Con Air]]'', Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom may be the epitome of evil, but he draws the line at rape, and even warns serial rapist Johnny 23, "If your dick jumps out your pants, you jump off this plane."

* An early version of ''[[Freddy VS Jason]]'' had Jason defending a teenaged girl from Freddy because she was pregnant.

** Speaking of Jason, he doesn't kill children or animals. This was actually a decision enforced by his prime actor, [[Kane Hodder]]. The fourth ''[[Friday the ~~13 th~~ (Film)|Friday the 13 th]]'' movie shows him attacking the child protagonist.

** Speaking of Jason, he doesn't kill children or animals. This was actually a decision enforced by his prime actor, [[Kane Hodder]]. The fourth ''[[Friday the 13th (Film)|Friday the 13 th]]'' movie shows him attacking the child protagonist.

* In the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Film)|TMNT]]'' 2007 movie, near the end, when the five guardians tell the Foot Clan to work alongside them for power, Karai says that always keep their word, and that as such they work for Winters, not them.

* Averted in ''[[The Usual Suspects]]''. Keyser Soze comes home to find a rival gang raping his wife and holding her and his children hostage. What does he do? ( [[Unreliable Narrator|Allegedly]]) shoot his family himself, then kill the gang members, then kill their entire families and everyone they've ever known or done business with.

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** In the opening scene to the movie, the Joker has his own henchmen killed during a heist on a mob bank [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|as soon as their part of the heist is complete]]. The mobster who tries to fend them off is disgusted with their actions, and reminisces about the good old days when criminals still believed in honor and respect.

** The Chechen, who previously was the most eager to hire the Joker, turns against him upon hearing his next [[Hannibal Lecture]] about how "this city deserves a better class of criminal." Unfortunately, his former men don't have such standards.

** Joker himself invokes this trope when giving a [[What the Hell Hero]] speech to Batman, although given his [[Complete Monster]] status (which he is both fully aware and proud of), it's debatable how seriously he should be taken:

** Joker himself invokes this trope when giving a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] speech to Batman, although given his [[Complete Monster]] status (which he is both fully aware and proud of), it's debatable how seriously he should be taken:

{{quote| --'''Joker:''' You let five people die. Then you let Dent take your place. Even to a guy like me, that's cold.}}

* Brazilian horror film icon Zé do Caixão, AKA Coffin Joe in other countries, is a complete sadist whose hideous acts include murder, torture and rape. Surprisingly however, he is utterly disgusted with the idea of violence being used on children, as he believes they are only the gracious thing that mankind has to offer. This even guaranteed him a [[Villainous BSOD]] in one film when he learns that one of the girls he kidnapped and murdered earlier was pregnant.

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* In Mother, Jugs and Speed, Mother asks why a hamburger stand owner always give him his mayonnaise on the side. The owner responds that he's cheated on his wife and beaten his kids; but putting mayonnaise on a hamburger is a sin that Mother alone will have to answer to God for.

* In ''Prizzi's Honor'', Irene Walker, an assassin, plans out a hit that involves distracting a bodyguard by tossing a baby (actually a doll) and getting him to catch it while she pulls out her gun in the meantime. When the plan is carried out, the bodyguard ignores the "baby" and immediately pulls out his own gun. Afterward, Irene comments that this behavior was disgusting, since if it had been a real baby, it would have been crippled.

* In ''[[Avatar (Film)|Avatar]]'' the greedy prospectors who are perfectly willing to drive an indigenous tribe off their home and demolish it to get to the deposits of precious [[Unobtanium]] beneath it, and dismiss the possibly disastrous environmental ramifications of their actions, but still spend quite a lot of time and effort to persuade the tribe to leave peacefully, and even when they do resort to violence, they take measures to minimize the casualties among the civilians, and the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] has a [[My God What Have I Done]] moment when faced with the results of his [[General Ripper]]'s plan. This is the same executive, mind you, who earlier seemed irritated that PR concerns forced him to try and negotiate with the "monkeys". It's possible he didn't really see them as really sentient until that point.

* In ''[[Avatar (Film)|Avatar]]'' the greedy prospectors who are perfectly willing to drive an indigenous tribe off their home and demolish it to get to the deposits of precious [[Unobtanium]] beneath it, and dismiss the possibly disastrous environmental ramifications of their actions, but still spend quite a lot of time and effort to persuade the tribe to leave peacefully, and even when they do resort to violence, they take measures to minimize the casualties among the civilians, and the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] has a [[My God, What Have I Done?]] moment when faced with the results of his [[General Ripper]]'s plan. This is the same executive, mind you, who earlier seemed irritated that PR concerns forced him to try and negotiate with the "monkeys". It's possible he didn't really see them as really sentient until that point.

* In ''The Skulls'', the [[Big Bad]] who has been terrorizing the film's protagonist expresses disgust at a co-conspirator's choice of a lover, even while freely admitting to his own extramarital activities, "Good lord, man, she's only ''19''"!. He then uses the information to blackmail him when the other man also displays this trope and develops a conscience about the horrible things they've done.

* From ''The Petrified Forest.'' Duke Mantee, world famous killer and gangster, thinks Alan is a rat for telling Gabrielle's grandfather to "die and do the world some good." ''"Talkin' to an old man like that..."''

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'''Ebbing:''' You are a man of action. You take what you want, and so do we. You have no respect for democracy - neither do we. It's clear we should be allies.<br />

'''Gloves Donahue:''' It's clear you're screwy. I've been a registered Democrat ever since I could vote. I may not be Model Citizen Number One, but I pay my taxes, wait for traffic lights, and buy 24 tickets to the Policeman's Ball. Brother, don't get me mixed up in no league that rubs out innocent bakers. }}

* ''[[Inception]]'': While "evil" may be a strong word for what's really more along the lines of "[[Anti Hero|morally ambiguous]]," one telling moment of {{spoiler|Cobb's}} characterization is that {{spoiler|though he had just been shown spying on dreams, when offered a chance to shoot the guy who sold him out he said "that's not the way I deal with things."}}

* ''[[Inception]]'': While "evil" may be a strong word for what's really more along the lines of "[[Anti-Hero|morally ambiguous]]," one telling moment of {{spoiler|Cobb's}} characterization is that {{spoiler|though he had just been shown spying on dreams, when offered a chance to shoot the guy who sold him out he said "that's not the way I deal with things."}}

* In ''[[Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans (Film)|Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans]]'', the title character will lie, cheat, steal, do drugs, sexually abuse young women, plant evidence, and even commit acts of [[Police Brutality]] against the elderly, but he absolutely draws the line at murder.

* The following immortal exchange from ''[[Arsenic and Old Lace]]'':