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** Though that only happens in the myth. In the play her [[Moral Event Horizon]] is stabbing her two children ''purely'' because it will hurt Jason. This is after she kills his wife by lighting her on fire with magic poison. Oh, and then she [[Karma Houdini|sails off to Athens under the aegis of the king]].
** It should probably be noted, though, that most of these (aside from murdering her brother) weren't included in the story until Euripides introduced the idea that she murdered her children. Up until that point, she was more of a deeply flawed [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]], since Jason ''was'' kind of a bastard to her.
* In ''[[Bat Boy: The Musical]]'', Dr. Parker is a pretty sympathetic character until he murders a kid in order to frame the title character. After that, he's more of a monster than Bat Boy ever was.
* Regina in ''[[The Little Foxes]]'' is greedy and morally bankrupt as it is, but she crosses the event horizon when she lets her husband Horace die of a heart attack because he won't go along with her scheme.
* Similarly, [[Richard III]] probably hit it when he had the princes drowned.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Caldwell B. Cladwell]] crosses this when he orders Bobby Strong to be sent to [[Urinetown]], {{spoiler|which is actually being thrown off Cladwell Column,}} knowing full well that his daughter will probably be killed by the rebels. [[Necessarily Evil]] or not, that was just unpardonable
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** To put it in perspective: yeah, people might have been shopping faulty parts to the military in [[World War II]] for the contract money, but
* The eponymous man in ''[[Phantom of the Opera]]'' crosses the
* Greek tragedy has a term for this event: Harmatia. It's the act the Tragic Hero performs, usually motivated by his "hubris" (Tragic Flaw), that starts the tragedy down the path of no return. Normally this is some kind of offense against the gods or against the natural order: a murder, an act of blasphemy, a rashly-taken oath, etc. But once committed, it can't be undone. The Tragic Hero and every character around him is doomed, no matter how hard they try to escape their fate.
* Seneca's play ''Thyestes'' is about King Atreus' [[Moral Event Horizon]]. Mad at his brother, the title character, for stealing his wife and attempting to steal the throne, he pretends to call Thyestes and sons back from exile and serves Thyestes his own sons for dinner and takes great pleasure in telling him "you ate your children".
* Stanley's crossing of this in ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' came when he {{spoiler|raped Blanche to insanity and then lied that he never once touched her afterwards}}.
* In ''[[Wicked (theatre)|Wicked]]'', at least as far as Elphaba was concerned, the Wizard crossed the horizon when he broke Professor Dillamond's will, turning him from a respected professor into a mindless animal. For Mrs. Morrible, the horizon mark came when she created the cyclone that brought Dorothy to Oz (and killed Elphaba's sister Nessarosa). Interestingly enough, once Glinda takes the reins of government, she is willing to simply exile the Wizard from Oz, but has Morrible sent to prison.
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