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** When being interviewed on ''The Tonight Show'', Paul Reiser (who played Burke) revealed that he took his parents to see the film - and when the scene came where his character was killed... his parents ''simply nodded their silent approval.'' Damn - if your ''parents'' want the character you're playing dead, you know he's passed the [[Moral Event Horizon]].

* While Captain Barbossa of the first ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' was still a bad guy, he was [[Affably Evil]] and he and his crew had enough interesting personality quirks to be likable- even the brutal opening attack on the town doesn't keep him from being allowed to come back in later movies as a good guy. By contrast, the new [[Big Bad]] Cutler Beckett of the next two films, however, was an outright bastard and crossed the MEH around the time that he had a ten-year-old boy hanged for piracy or even just associating with pirates..

* The destruction of the planet {{spoiler|Vulcan}} and most of its 6 billion inhabitants at the hands of the Romulan villain Nero and his crew avenging the death of their own planet in J.J. Abrams' ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]''. The death of {{spoiler|Spock's mother Amanda}} as he helplessly reaches out for her just heightens the tragedy. What makes it worse is that he's getting revenge for something that 1) hasn't actually happened in this timeline and 2) wasn't Spock's fault in the first place, since he didn't do anything that harmed Romulus, simply arrived too late to save it. Nero's pretty clearly off the deep end.

* The [[Villain Protagonist]] from [[Woody Allen]]'s ''[[Match Point]]'', {{spoiler|who has an affair with his friend's (soon-to-be-ex) lover while being engaged to the friend's sister and continues the affair well into the marriage. After he gets his mistress pregnant and she confronts him about it, he murders her ''and'' her unborn child in cold blood and in an elaborate scheme that makes it seem like a robbery gone wrong.}}