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{{quote|'''Frollo''': Until [the home] smolders, these people are traitors and must be [[Make an Example of Them|made examples of]].
'''Phoebus''': With all due respect, sir, I was not trained to murder the innocent.
'''Frollo''': But you ''were'' trained to follow orders.|From [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|the Disney version of Hunchback of Notre Dame]] when Frollo is burning down houses with people still in them.}}
|From [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|the Disney version of Hunchback of Notre Dame]] when Frollo is burning down houses with people still in them.}}
 
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** And, once he was defeated, he ''deliberately'' tried to ensure that Balto and the whole team of dogs got lost and died, while he could return home and pretend to be a heroic survivor. Good lord, he [[Karma Houdini|got off WAY too easy in the end.]]
** Well not quite. While to us he might have gotten off easy, to Steele, who ''thrived'' off of reputation and respect, that was the worst possible fate: losing all his fame and being left an outcast while the dog he thought was worthless is now the town hero.
* ''[[Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole]]'': Kludd moonblinks his baby sister, which is essentially zombifying her. Seriously, dude, NOT [[PunA Worldwide Punomenon|Ka HOOLE!]]
** In the book, he crosses much, much sooner, although Soren/ the reader doesn't know it at first. He {{spoiler|shoves Soren out of the nest, hoping it will kill him (his own brother) then does the same to said little sister, and has a hand in his own parents' deaths.}}
* Pharaoh Seti in ''[[The Prince of Egypt]]'' led a campaign to curb the Hebrew population by rounding up and killing all of their infants. He's not too sorry about it, either, with murals depicting the event adorning the walls of his palace. When Moses, his adopted son, tries to call him out on it, Seti just blows off his concerns, saying "Oh, my son... ''they were only slaves...''" He ''thought this would make his adopted son feel better.'' He was trying to ''comfort'' him with those words. Oops...
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* Archibald Snatcher in ''The Boxtrolls'' doesn't seem that nasty of a villain and rather a goofy one at best, until later on in a flashback that reveals he kept Eggs' biological father captive for many years, driving him to insanity even though the flashback had him intending to murder him with a wrench. Even worse, he knows the whole time that the Boxtrolls are harmless but lied to the whole town simply so he can be a part of the White Hats. His actions are bad enough to make him be on the list, but near the end He forced Eggs to watch his adopted family get murdered (they escaped in time, but still), and dressed Eggs up as the last Boxtroll and tried to kill him in a furnace. Archibald then rampages through the square and endangers everyone before abducting Winnie.
* Chester V from ''[[Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs]]'' ''2'' crosses this by kicking Flint down a cliff to try and kill him, revealing his [[Evil Plan]] to have all the sentient food animals turned into food bars, and trying to drop Flint's friends into a machine to shred them to bits.
* [[Deconstructed Trope|Deconstructed]] in ''[[ParaNorman]]''.
* [[Deconstructed Trope|Deconstructed]] in ''[[ParaNorman]]''. *{{spoiler|[[Our Zombies Are Different|Judge Hopkins and the Puritans]] crossed the line when they [[Would Hurt a Child|executed]] [[Dark Magical Girl|Agatha Prenderghast]], which directly led to [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|the Witch's curse of Blithe Hollow]]. Note that Norman and the modern townsfolk knew Agatha was a witch; Norman finds out, courtesy of a vision from Agatha's ghost, was ''twelve years old'' at the time of her death, and she was hung. What was her crime? Talking to the dead. Norman himself becomes even more scared of the zombies and tells them off for murdering a child.}} However, the MEH was not done out of [[For the Evulz|senseless cruelty]], but out of [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|good intentions]] and [[Deliberate Values Dissonance|fear induced by the values of the time period they lived in]]. The MEH crossers are shown to be [[My God, What Have I Done?|wrecked with guilt]] upon [[Heel Realization|realizing]] they committed an [[This Is Unforgivable!|unforgivable act]]. {{spoiler|Thus, they help [[The Hero|Norman]] [[The Atoner|out of a desire of making things right]], even though they know [[I'm Going to Hell For This|Hell awaits them when they'll pass away]].}}
**The [[Big Bad]] is revealed to have a good reason for her actions; she's the ghost of {{spoiler|a girl accused of witchcraft, whose crime was talking to the dead. You can't blame her for cursing her executioners to die on the spot but remain conscious in their graves for four hundred years, coming back as decaying zombies; as she puts it, "Now everyone can see how ugly they are." Norman, however, tells her that while the zombies may have deserved it, the modern townsfolk had no idea of the truth while using Agatha's legend for tourist income and she's bullying (relatively) innocent people the way she was. Rather than finding peace in death, she's continuing the cycle of violence that killed her. This was the filmmakers' intent; viewers were quick to point out, however, that those townsfolk were willing to burn Norman alive in the zombie panic, only stopping because his friends, big sister, and bully formed a barricade and told them off for wanting to murder an innocent kid. They may be more innocent, but only because they didn't cross the same line}}.
 
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