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* [[Green Lantern|Hal Jordan]], who got so pissed off that the Guardians forbid him to use his ring to temporary recreate Coast City that he flew to Oa, maiming numerous other Green Lanterns in the way and stealing their rings (how did they survive the vacuum of space is unknown), killed Kilowog, killed Sinestro, absorbed the whole power of the main battery (destroying it in the process), became the villain Parallax and then <s>tried to destroy the universe in order to recreate it "the right way"</s> actually, successfully destroyed the universe, but then the heroes hijacked his attempt to recreate it to make an acceptably similar replacement. Of course, it was later retconned as he being [[Demonic Possession|possessed by the fear entity Parallax]], but still...

* Notably averted by Alan Grant's DC Universe character of Anarky: where originally the character was scripted to be willing to murder in pursuance of his anarchic philosophy, as written he upholds the same moral standards as Batman, which makes for some nice [[Not So Different]] interactions.

* Played with when Scans Daily showed a panel with [[Batman/Characters|Robin and the Spoiler]] foiling a convenience store robbery and Stephanie taking a soda. Tim assumes she's going to pay for it, while she explains that she's earned it as they saved the whole store. She grudgingly puts down some money when Tim explains that once you start like that, you soon bend all the rules.

{{quote|'''SD''': "It just starts with stealing a soda after saving the store...next thing you know, you're hacking up people and putting them in your freezer!" }}

** To be fair to Robin, what he is saying is real-world law enforcement practice; Internal Affairs goes after cops even for accepting the most minor bribes or freebies precisely because taking them psychologically desensitizes police officers towards the idea that they 'deserve' extra-legal recompense for their sacrifices, which is for obvious reasons a train of thought they don't want people to even go near starting.

* Dealt with in a two-issue arc of ''New [[X-Men]]'' involving Prodigy, a student at the Xavier Institute with the ability to absorb the knowledge of anyone in the immediate vicinity, but ''only'' as long as they're in the immediate vicinity. When Emma Frost discovers that he's subconsciously put a block in his mind that prevents him from retaining the knowledge permanently, David asks Emma to remove the block, figuring he'll be able to do so much good for the world that way. The story then fast-forwards a few months, and David is already head of his own [[Mega Corp]] that has developed cures for cancer and AIDS. How did he achieve this breakthrough? {{spoiler|He killed his friend, the healer Elixir, and harvested his organs}}. Okay, that's certainly bad, but we're still at the point where it can be argued to be worth it. The next issue fast-forwards again, to twenty years later, and David is now the President, and has united most of the world's countries into a utopian [[One World Government]]. And he's also {{spoiler|planning the genocide of the Chinese because they refused to join}}. Okay, ''now'' he has to die. Fortunately {{spoiler|the whole thing turns out to be an illusion, courtesy of Dani Moonstar, in an effort to convince him to leave the block in}}.

 

* Ho-oh from ''[[Poke Wars]]'' wants Pokémon-kind to live in a utopia and he limits his targets to humans only and tries limit the damage he causes. {{spoiler|He soon starts engaging in things like ordering wanton killing of Pokémon contrary to his ideals, utterly ruining the environment and not giving a damn about it, and generally being a filthy hypocrite.}}

 

* Loki arguably did this in between ''[[Thor (film)|Thor]]'' and ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]''.

** It may even be ''definite'' that Loki did this, seeing as his actions went from more [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulative]] in ''[[Thor (film)|Thor]]'' to straight-up [[Big Bad|evil]] in ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]''.

 

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