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* While [[The Joker]] was (save for a stretch during [[The Fifties]] and [[The Sixties]]) always portrayed as a total psychopath, it is generally considered that he crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]] in 1988 when, within a few months, he crippled Batgirl for life and beat the second, still-teenaged Robin (Jason Todd) to death with a crowbar, changing his portrayal permanently
* The title character of the ''[[Lucifer (comics)|Lucifer]]'' comics [[Kick the Dog|punted dogs]] as a hobby (naturally), establishing him quite firmly as an epic [[Deadpan Snarker]] and [[Sociopathic Hero]] that was as amusing and [[Badass]] as those tropes suggest. This continued all the way until the Basanos arc, where in a rather impressive twist the Basanos actually mortally injured him... only for Lucifer to reveal that he had manipulated [[Token Mini-Moe]] Elaine from the start and trick her into dying in his place. He might have redeemed himself later on (bringing Elaine [[Back From the Dead]] helped) but the [[Word of God|writer]] mentioned that he considered Lucifer's destruction of The Mansions of The Silence Lucifer's point of no return, destroying ''billions'' of souls ''because he was impatient''.
** An argument somewhat undermined by the facts that 1) said writer made The Mansions of The Silence look pretty hellish, making the destruction of all those souls almost a [[Mercy Kill]]; and 2) Lucifer's "impatience" allowed him to arrive just in time to rescue his...friends?...from a murderous undead god.
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