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* 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.

* 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.