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* One of the oddest crimefighters in [[The Golden Age of Comic Books]] (and one of the oddest examples of this Trope) was #711, created by George Brenner, the creator of the Clock, the first hero in comics to adopt the [[Coat, Hat, Mask]] style. #711 was originally an attorney named Daniel Dyce who decided to do an extraordinary favor for his friend Jacob Horn after the latter is arrested for murder. Dyce confesses to Horn's alleged crimes (it is never truly revealed whether Horn is guilty or not) so Horn can visit his wife, who is about to give birth to her son. Horn promises to turn himself in later and recant Dyce's confession, and he intends to keep this promise, but in a bizarre twist, he's killed in a car accident while going to do so. With nobody to clear him, Dyce is convicted and sentenced to life in prison, but in another bizarre twist, he accidentally discovers a forgotten tunnel underneath the prison, allowing easy access to the outside and easily escape. But he also realizes he has nowhere to go if he does escape. With the ability to go to and from prison as he pleases, he decides to make his own Coat, Hat, Mask identity and fight crime using his prison ID as his nom de plume. This eventually pays off in his favor, as prison gossip often clues him in on criminal schemes, and a lot of crooks he brings down end up in the same prison.

* In ''[[Spider-Gwen]]'', Ghost Spider spends a full arc corrupted by the venom symbiote, committing many evil acts under its influence. When finally freed from it, she takes the [[With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility]] axiom to the logical conclusion, turning herself in, refusing a plea bargain, ''and'' rejecting [[Captain America (comics)|Captain America]]'s offer of [[Boxed Crook]] activities. She even goes so far as to keep quiet about assaults from the other inmates. Ironically, this all works for her benefit in the end, because upon release, the public and the press - even J. Jonah Jameson, whose attitude towards Ghost Spider was pretty much the same as his Earth-616 counterpart is to Spider-Man - has a much higher opinion of her from that point on.

* [[Silver Sable]] was in a situation similar to Gwen in issue #30 of her own series. Sable had never denied that her methods skirted the line of what is legal and ethical, using the justification of being a [[Nazi Hunter]] that her victims were deserving of such treatment, and she was usually correct. Such was then that her mark was Ivan Trefkov, a war criminal who had killed her mother, crippled her father, regarded by her uncle as someone who was “more evil than Hitler”, who “did not deserve to breathe life, did not deserve to die with mercy”... You get the idea, he was a monster. And Sable did not show him mercy; she murdered him in cold blood, and in the aftermath, [[What Have I Become?| felt she had gone farther over the line]] [[Those Who Fight Monsters| than she had ever dared to before]]. Thus when she was arrested and jailed on charges of murder (it seems Ivan had some powerful friends) she refused to try to escape from Riker’s Island or even fight the charges. Even when charges were dropped (by the “request” of her [[Manipulative Bastard]] of an ex-husband, The Foreigner) she spent several issues trying to come to terms with what she had done and whether she had become as much a criminal as those she had fought.

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