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* Rimelda of ''[[Madlax]]'' kills off or is responsible for the deaths of the most likable members of the cast, including {{spoiler|Madlax's apparent romantic interest, Vanessa}}. Not only does she survive in the end, but {{spoiler|she gets together with Madlax}}. Presumably Bee Train was trying to replicate their success with ''[[Noir (anime)|Noir]]''.

* Despite ostensibly being one of the "good guys" throughout 2/3 of the series ''[[Mai-Otome]]'', [[Spell My Name with an "S"|Nina Wang]], who is the poster child for [[Love Makes You Evil]] and fits into about several dozen other tropes, pulls a selfish, spoiled, bratty [[Face Heel Turn]]. She willingly and freely betrays everything she's ever stood for, tosses her morals and decency aside, murders her best friend, attempts to murder several of her other good friends, aids [[The Empire]] in conquering the world, and almost single-handedly completes 90% of a plan to bring about [[The End of the World as We Know It]]. Her excuse? She's a little cranky that her father (yes, they're not related by blood, but he's still her FATHER) refuses to see her as a woman and fell in love with her friend instead of her. She continues down this path even after her father, the only thing she cares about, basically DIES (he later lived, but she didn't know...) trying to stop it. Her outcome at the end of the series? Happily ever after, never answering for anything she caused or even having to face anyone or anything from her old life to remind or accuse her, taking advantage of her father's amnesia to make him fall in love with her for real this time.

** On the other hand, she becomes [[The Atoner]] in [[Mai-Otome Zwei]], working with Nao to investigate the ruins and helping Arika defeat the [[Big Bad]].

** On the other hand, she becomes [[The Atoner]] in ''[[Mai-Otome Zwei]]'', working with Nao to investigate the ruins and helping Arika defeat the [[Big Bad]].

** Which is not to forget that throughout the course of the ''[[Mai-Otome]]'' anime, [[Psycho Lesbian]] / [[Smug Snake]] Tomoe has amassed for herself a pretty long rap sheet: assault, vandalism, attempted murder, kidnapping, blackmail, {{spoiler|attempted rape... of a ''high-ranking school official''}}, aiding and abetting terrorists, and at one point openly declared that she intended to kill anyone who stood in her way (read: ''everyone''), and has shown no remorse for any of it. She never receives any sort of formal punishment, and the only retribution she gets for this is a few broken bones after falling out of the sky... which ''barely'' counts as a slap on the wrist compared to the lives she tried to ruin. She comes back in ''[[~~Anime/Mai-Otome Zwei|~~Mai-Otome Zwei]]'' clean as a whistle, presumably to do the same things all over again.

** Which is not to forget that throughout the course of the ''[[Mai-Otome]]'' anime, [[Psycho Lesbian]] / [[Smug Snake]] Tomoe has amassed for herself a pretty long rap sheet: assault, vandalism, attempted murder, kidnapping, blackmail, {{spoiler|attempted rape... of a ''high-ranking school official''}}, aiding and abetting terrorists, and at one point openly declared that she intended to kill anyone who stood in her way (read: ''everyone''), and has shown no remorse for any of it. She never receives any sort of formal punishment, and the only retribution she gets for this is a few broken bones after falling out of the sky... which ''barely'' counts as a slap on the wrist compared to the lives she tried to ruin. She comes back in ''[[Mai-Otome Zwei]]'' clean as a whistle, presumably to do the same things all over again.

** John Smith from [[Mai-Otome 0~S.ifr~]]. He kidnaps Sifr to take control of the ancient technology, and while he loses the Schwarz Space Station, M9 and quite a few of his men, he escapes in the end, albeit because the heroes' mission was about protecting Sifr rather than defeating Schwarz.

* Nagi is not only arguably the main villain of ''[[Mai-HiME]]'' (even though [[The Man Behind the Man]] was technically more powerful than him), but is directly responsible for everything the characters go through. He survives unscathed and mostly unconfronted for this, admits to the entire thing being a riotously entertaining good time, and happily ''takes Mashiro'' (one of the supporting characters) ''with him'' to his home... wherever.