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* In the ''[[Star Wars]]'' prequels, Anakin kills dozens of Sand People out of anger, and is consumed by guilt afterward. A few years later, he's hesitant to kill {{spoiler|Count Dooku}}, and eventually does so with reluctance at Palpatine's insistence. Later in the film, he kills {{spoiler|Mace Windu}} in a situation of extreme duress, but shrugs it off rather quickly. From there he moves on to watching Palpatine {{spoiler|order the deaths of Jedi all over the Galaxy as he himself marches to the Jedi temple to kill everyone inside, including the children.}} About seventeen years later, Anakin, now badass Sith Lord Darth Vader, has no problem with Grand Moff Tarkin blowing up a planet containing billions of innocent people and is murdering his own subordinates via Force Choke with alarming frequency. A literal case of [[The Dark Side Will Make You Forget]].

** Implicity, thanks to his job as top enforcer and commander-in-chief of a galaxy-spanning totalitarian empire, Vader has tons of [[Offstage Villainy]] amounting to innumerable atrocities, ''especially'' because of this trope and the ease at which he is commiting evil in the movies. The [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] confirmed this, for example having a lethal and highly-contagious biological weapon developed on the Falleen homeworld; and when it escaped and started infecting people in the capital city, the entire area was sealed-off and "sterilsed", ie. annihilated via ion cannon lasers from Star Destroyers from above, killing millions of people.

* Incorporated to disturbing effect in the [[Steven Spielberg]] film ''[[Munich]]''. It takes its toll on the characters, however.

* In the film adaptation of ''[[The Crucible]]'', the first hanging has the girls who had falsely accused them flinching and wincing while the rest of the villagers are cheering. But after the second and third and fourth hangings, they are cheering just as happily as the villagers.