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* [[Spider-Man]] examples:
** [[Norman Osborn|Green Goblin]] very famously crossed it when he killed Spidey's girlfriend Gwen Stacy.
** It's rather hard to pin down just what event did this for Dr. Octopus; the murders of Bennett Bran Brant and Captain George Stacy are the likely contenders.
** Obviously, Kraven the Hunter crossed it by [[Buried Alive| burying the hero alive]] during the "Kraven's Kast Hunt" storyline.
* [[The Sandman|Doctor Destiny's Diner of Death]]. JLA Villain John Dee may have [[Kick the Dog|kicked the dog]] when he shot a woman who had been nice to him, but the real proof that he had turned irrevocably evil came next issue. Sure, he would routinely plot to drive the whole world insane back in the silver age, but what he does to those six people over a 24-hour period will keep you awake for days. And the fact that he let the rest of the world tumble into madness at the same time shows that he went for both the macroscopic and microscopic level of sadism. Arguably the cruelest thing he did to those six people was to briefly give them back their minds in the middle of his sick game. When one of his victims demanded to know why he was torturing them, this was his response:
{{quote|'''John Dee:''' ''Because I can.''}}
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