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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 into a [[Complete Monster]].
* 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''.
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** Bishop also lied to the X-Men and blamed Cable for his actions, and tried to murder Cable and the baby again and again on Muir Island. His last attack (just after Cable and Hope time-slid away) nearly killed Professor Xavier. And in the subsequent Cable and X-Force titles, He Got Worse.
* [[Vandal Savage]], being an immortal villain in DC Comics continuity, has had several millennia and hundreds, if not possibly thousands, of opportunities to establish himself as a [[Complete Monster]], with just a few of the examples we know about listed on his character page. Of those listed, however, perhaps his most disturbing MEH-crossing candidate is {{spoiler|setting up his daughter Scandal to be raped because [[I Want Grandkids|he wants an heir]]}}.
* The Governor from ''[[The Walking Dead]]'' pretty much explicitly steps across a new one of these (or is revealed/implied to have done so) in pretty much any scene where he appears for more than a page. By the time he {{spoiler|is eventually killed by his own people assaulting the prison after making them execute about 90% of the cast including Rick's wife Lori and their infant daughter Judy}}, his MEH crossings look like the line of doors from the opening sequence of Get Smart.
* The Guardians cross the line in the early issues of the DC Nu reboot of ''[[Green Lantern]]'' when they ''wipe out Ganthet's emotions'' to turn him into a cold emotionless Guardian like them. Kyle is understandably outraged by Ganthet's emotional lobotomy and vows to fight the Guardians.
* Curious example from ''[[Watchmen]]'', in that many readers think [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|Ozymandias}}'s crossing of the Horizon and the greatest crime he commits are two distinct things. Sure he {{spoiler|depopulated New York}}, but he had a damn good reason for doing that ({{spoiler|preventing the [[Cold War]] from going hot and depopulating the entire planet}}). But when he {{spoiler|gives a dozen innocent people cancer to discredit Dr. Manhattan, cold-bloodedly murders his absolutely loyal refugee servants to prevent them being a loose end, pulls a [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]] on his loving pet Bubastis in an attempt to kill [[Physical God|Dr. Manhattan]], which turns out not to work}}, it becomes a whole lot harder to sympathize with him.
* Prowl just stomped thhrough [[the Moral Event Horizan]] while singing in a recent issue of IDW's ''Transformers'' comics. Before he had been protrayed as a dodgey guy who was willing to do some bad things for the greater good. But in this issue we find that he's basically using known psychopath and murderer [[Ax Crazy|Arcee]] as his personal assassin of sorts to get rid of enemies. Not too amoral considering that we're talking about Decepticons here. A few pages later Prowl stops a plot by Bombshell involving his cerebro shells. After Prowl gets Bombshell in his custody he takes him to jail or something right? No, he blows Bombshell's brains out while the guy is totally defenseless and wounded then brutally murders all of the Constructicons after they refuse to surrender (the reason why should be pretty obvious). Oh and he also tries to murder Dirge (who's tried to mind his own business and stay out of these conflicts) too. ''For being a witness''.
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