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* In ''[[Star Wars Legacy]]'', [[Big Bad|Darth Krayt]], in a fit of temper after losing an important shipyard, orders ten percent of the Mon Calamari species executed on the spot and the rest imprisoned in camps to be worked to death. Even the other Sith thought it was a bit much. As for the reader...

* In ''[[Infinite Crisis]]'', Superboy-Prime was presented as a confused teenager with powers he couldn't control lashing out at people who didn't understand him... until he lost it and killed some [[C-List Fodder]], whereupon he turned into a near-demonic [[Card-Carrying Villain]], excusing his actions by claiming to be "better than those losers".

** For [[Atop the Fourth Wall|'90s Kid,]] it was the moment in ''Countdown'' when he killed the pregnant Lana Lang on an alternate Earth. The end of ''Legion of Three Worlds'' and especially Prime's ''Adventure Comics'' crossover with ''Blackest Night'' gave him [[Character Development]] (regret for many of his actions and realizing that he was just a tool for DC writers ~~to use~~).

** For [[Atop the Fourth Wall|'90s Kid,]] it was the moment in ''Countdown'' when he killed the pregnant Lana Lang on an alternate Earth. The end of ''Legion of Three Worlds'' and especially Prime's ''Adventure Comics'' crossover with ''Blackest Night'' gave him [[Character Development]] (regret for many of his actions and realizing that he was just a tool for DC writers).

** In one of the ''Infinite Crisis'' lead-ups, ''Villains United'', Alexander Luthor (under the guise of the regular Lex) orders part of his Secret Society of Villains to retrieve a number of people for unknown reasons, chief amongst them the heroes Lady Quark and Pariah (who fought along side him during the [[Crisis on Infinite Earths|original Crisis]]). Alex mocks and '''kills''' Pariah and later uses Lady Quark to power his dimensional tuning fork. Again, they were '''all''' heroes who tried to save the Multiverse together. And in the actual ''Infinite Crisis'', he just kept on going with his despicable manipulations of everyone, including Golden Age Superman.

*** Speaking of ''Villains United'', Deathstroke gets his moment when he guns down a pregnant Cheshire for selling the Secret Six out to The Society. Keep in mind that the Society was Deathstroke's ''own'' team; he was simply [[Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves|rewarding her as a traitor deserves]]. To be fair to Deathstroke, he didn't know she was pregnant at the time.