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* Tony Montana from ''[[Scarface]]'' may have crossed either this or the [[Despair Event Horizon]] when he unleashed his little friend on {{spoiler|Manny}} for getting too friendly with Gina, though he does subliminally regret the action toward the end of the film. Sosa's hitman, however, ''does'' cross the line by insisting on blowing up Gutierrez's wife and kids with him when they get into the same car he's driving. [[Even Evil Has Standards|Tony takes offense and]] [[Pet the Dog|Pets The Dog]] [[Asshole Victim|in a spectacularly gory fashion]] ''at literally the last second.''
* Warden Drumgoole in ''[[Lock Up]]'' crosses it by keeping Frank Leone locked up beyond his sentence for the sole purpose of getting back at him for humiliating him all those years ago. And if simple revenge doesn't push him past the line, then wait until you see all the hell he has in store for Leone, and that ''Goddam electric chair''!
* Similar to Drumgoole is the Warden from ''[[Escape from Alcatraz]]'' who is hell-bent on systematically forcing his prisoners to walk the plank ''very slowly''--and then jump into the [[Despair Event Horizon]]. He actually succeeds in doing so to Doc by inflicting [[Disproportionate Retribution]] ''over a simple painting of him''. The poor guy then deliberately severs his own fingers afterward. That may have been cruel even by the Warden's standards, but he doesn't cross the MEH until he crushes one of Doc's chrysanthemums ''in front of the rest of the inmates'', thus directly resulting in Litmus dying when he overexerts himself trying to retaliate on the spot. And ''then'' he adds insult to injury by reminding Frank Morris after Litmus's death that ''Alcatraz will very likely be his final resting place''. Yep, we're talking [[Harry Potter|Umbridge]] evil. And what makes it all the worse is that unlike Umbridge, [[Karma Houdini|he only gets away with three unaccounted-for prisoners]] (including Morris), who he quickly decides had drowned in their escape attempt, never knowing what may have really happened
* Sylvia Ganush in ''[[Drag Me to Hell]]'' establishes how evil she is when she condemns someone for stealing a necklace that was quickly returned to her, a reaction that would be understandable from someone like her ''if the thief wasn't 10 years old''.
* In ''[[Missing in Action]] 2: The Beginning'', Colonel Yin loses all respect when he reveals with a headshot to one prisoner that he only used empty guns in previous "executions" to bluff the others into thinking he's bluffing when he tells a prisoner he'll kill him for crimes against Vietnam. The worst part about it is, by the time that poor guy's head gets blown off, ''all'' the prisoners were completely fooled. He loses what little respect he has left some time later when he betrays Braddock's trust by convincing him to confess his guilt against Vietnam so he can administer some medicine to Franklin only to poison him, and when Frankiln's all ''but'' dead Yin burns him alive on a funeral pyre as Braddock watches and yells for him to stop it.
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