Pagliacci/YMMV

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  • Complete Monster: Tonio; in some stagings of the opera, he hands Canio the knife at the climax, just to make sure everyone who's wronged him is destroyed.
  • Crowning Music of Awesome
  • Values Dissonance: To go with the above Trope, it's a little harder for a modern audience to sympathize with Canio and his need to avenge his honor against being cuckolded.