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* In ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep]]'', {{spoiler|Master Xehanort's plan to restart the Great Keyblade War, which would devastate and reshape the universe at large, hinges around Ven, one of Master Eraqus's students, and Vanitas. When Master Eraqus realises just how close Xehanort is to achieving his goal, he's willing to kill Ventus - except Xehanort sees this coming and arranges for Terra to catch him in the act.}}

* In ''[[Lusternia]]'', the [[Physical God|Vernal Gods]] use a child marked as food for [[Cosmic Horror|Muud]] as bait to capture him, and as a living seal to keep him [[Sealed Evil in a Can|permanently trapped]]. To ensure she never commits suicide, thus freeing him, they trap her in a [[Lotus Eater Machine]].

Summoning their magics, the shining ones circle around the [[Tyke Bomb|child]] and Muud. The child screams as Muud begins sinking into the swamp, pulling the child with him. Steam rises up around them, thick and putrid, billowing in the air like cancerous clouds. Slowly, they sink deeper and deeper into the ground and away from the world above - [[And I Must Scream|where it will be forever silent and dark]]. }}

* Poor Devlin McCormack in ''[[The Orion Conspiracy]]''. He had to shoot a number of dogs. First he had to destroy a ship with Rowland in it. He had to explain to Meyer that {{spoiler|the ship contained cocoons that would have hatched into xenomorphs disguised as humans. He could not afford to let such deadly creatures end up on Earth or spreading anywhere else. Also, he points out that the xenomorphs on the ship would have killed Rowland anyway}}. Devlin did what he had to do. However, that is nothing compared to what happens later. {{spoiler|Ward ends up going berserk, and Devlin finds him in a corridor with Ramen and Brooks. He tried to negotiate with Ward, but Brooks jumps Ward, resulting in the deaths of Ward and Brooks, as well as heavy machinery falling on Ramen, pinning her to the floor. Not only that, but the corridor gets damaged to the point of being in danger of depressurizing shortly. Chandra appears and decides that he loves Ramen enough to stay and die with her. Devlin ends up having to seal off the doors to the corridor on both sides. Yep, four people end up dead...and Devlin feels horrible about it}}.

** In "Starcrossed", she helps the Thanagarian invasion force defeat the League and conquer the Earth, because she believed the occupation of Earth was necessary to defeat the Gordanians, which was in the best interests of both her home planet Thanagar and Earth. (Though she draws the line at ''destroying'' Earth to save Thanagar, and she turns on her brethren upon discovering that they intend to do exactly that.)

** In "Wake the Dead" Solomon Grundy gets reanimated through Chaos Magic as a raging, mindless zombie, and the only merciful option is to kill him (again):

'''Shayera:''' Your favorite movie is ''[[Old Yeller]]'', you know '''exactly''' what he's saying. }}

** [[The Question]] gets in on the act in "Question Authority". He struggles for months about how to prevent the events that led, in an [[Alternate Universe]], to the Justice League becoming [[Knight Templar|fascist rulers]] of the world—events that centered around [[Superman]] murdering [[Lex Luthor]]. Question's solution: go kill Lex himself (using his tie). After all, Supes is the ultimate good guy, and Question's a confirmed loony conspiracy nut. (Unfortunately, the real conspiracy Question uncovered in the process of confronting Lex was a bit more than he could handle.)