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** In-Universe, the [[Lemony Narrator|narrator]] implies that Count Olaf crossed the MEH when he slapped Klaus in the first book.
* Achilles from the ''[[Ender's Game|Ender's Shadow]]'' series is decidedly a [[Complete Monster]] who kills out of the most psychopathic need to prove his own superiority to his victims. He enters the Moral Event Horizon as soon as he kills Poke. But before he kills Poke, and to any character who doesn't know about his killings, he seems normal enough that the people worried about him killing someone appear to be the paranoid ones.
* In ''[[Rainbow Six]]'', one member of a group of Basque separatists seeking to spring prisoners from jail coldly murders a [[Littlest Cancer Patient]] on live TV. No one really objects, though Ding does give a perfunctory dressing-down, when one of the team's snipers puts a round through the killer's liver so that he bleeds painfully to death rather than taking a [[Instant Death Bullet]] [[Boom! Headshot!]].
** The main villains also definitely count for {{spoiler|trying to kill almost everyone on the planet by means of a modified Ebola virus in order to preserve the environment. Makes it eminently satisfying when Clark organizes a [[Karmic Death]] for them.}}
* ''[[Comrade Death (Literature)|Comrade Death]]'': Hector Sarek starts as merely an [[Punch Clock Villain|unscrupulous businessman]] in an [[Arms Dealer|immoral industry]]. {{spoiler|Until he [[Murder the Hypotenuse|Murders the Hypotenuse]] and lies about his role to the widow. He then attempts to convince her to marry him, if not for love then for his money. After she rejects him, Sarek tells her the truth of her husband’s death and fully embraces the concept of "death merchant".}}
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