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* Warden Norton in ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'' is cold and corrupt, but not generally unreasonable. He even becomes somewhat chummy with hero Andy Dufresne after he begins doing financial work for the prison. But when he orders the death of Tommy to ensure that Andy will never have his name cleared, he crosses the point of no return. Then, just to be extra nasty, he throws Andy in the solitary confinement cell for two months just to break his spirit, which just makes it supremely awesome when Andy proves that his spirit is unbreakable.

* In ''[[The Proposition]]'', it's bad enough that Arthur murdered the Hopkins family (although deleted scenes show that Patrick survived), but when we learn that he raped a pregnant woman to death, we accept that yes, he's got to die, [[Affably Evil]] or not:

** Similarly, [[Complete Monster]] Eden Fletcher decides to flog young Mikey to death. For the record, Mikey is a retarded 14-year old who is barely aware of his crime.

* [[Alexander Nevsky]]: When the Teutonic Knights throw ''babies'' into a huge bonfire.

** The sequel ramps it up with Colonel Stuart, {{spoiler|1=who guides a plane full of innocent passengers into crashing into the runway. All because McClane had the ''audacity'' to kill the men they had stationed at the annex skywalk.}}

** And then subverted in the third film. {{spoiler|The bomb planted in an elementary school turns out to be a dud.}}

* Initially, we can sympathize with [[Law Abiding Citizen|Clyde Shelton's]] desire to kill [[Asshole Victim|Darby]] as vengence for killing his wife and kids. But then there's how he goes about it: paralyzing his body, taking him to his lab and chopping of his limbs with a chainsaw, making a video of this, and sending the video to Nick Rice.

* It's hard to tell when [[Avatar (film)|Quaritch]] crosses this, but going from just being portrayed as a mentor earlier on to being portrayed as an irredeemable psychopath later on suggested that he must have crossed it during the movie. Here are some possible moments: