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{{quote|'''{{spoiler|Kathryn}}''': ''[[Body Horror|Uuggh!]]'' Hmph. Well, the good news is that I can now start killing and not feel in the least bit guilty. The bad news is I'm not going to feel the least bit guilty about the killing I'm about to do.}}
* Debatably, {{spoiler|Zola}} in [[Girl Genius]] had already crossed this by double-dealing and out-Eviling the Other, but after [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20101015 this] it's not really a question of is she going to die, but whether death's enough.
* Kyle in ''[[Something*Positive]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20140109062921/http://somethingpositive.net/sp05242004.shtml here.] Bad enough that he's a misandrist jerk, worse that he's cheating on a member of the cast, but what completely pushes him over the line is that he's bragging to a reforming [[Jerkass]] who would move heaven and earth to have the woman Kyle's discarding. His [https://web.archive.org/web/20140109072851/http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp10292004.shtml comeuppance] delighted the bulk of the comic's notoriously [[Unpleasable Fanbase]].
* While the protagonists of [[Suicide for Hire]] spend a lot of time on the far side of the [[Moral Event Horizon]], many (if not most) of their clientele also cross that line...
** Autumn, the [[Stalker with a Crush]] who {{spoiler|tries to kill the girl her crush is taking to the dance}}, for example.
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** No one really confuses [[Loan Shark|Nishimura]] for a nice guy, but he really crosses the line by forcing [[No Social Skills|Genji]] into a [[Sadistic Choice]] and [[Implied Death Threat|threatening to murder him if he doesn't comply]].
** {{spoiler|[[Bastard Boyfriend|Arata Tasaki]] was already an horrible [[Domestic Abuser]] towards the Sakana brothers' coworker [[Grumpy Bear|Yuudai Tanaka]], but he crossed the line when he slammed a bottle in his own face, leading to his X-shaped scar. [[In-Universe]], this was the reason Yuudai [[Reality Ensues|broke up with him]].}} His current appearances only cement his status as [[0% Approval Rating|the most despised character in the series]], both [[In-Universe]] and [[Hate Sink|out]].
* One of the remarkable things about the writing in [[Errant Story]] is that many readers were still undecided about whether Ian's actions were evil when he started trying to genocide the [[Pay Evil Unto Evil|entire Elven race]], due to what they'd done to the Half-Elves. Others thought the genocide was definitely evil, but were sympathetic to his motives and wondered if he could be brought back to his senses. Ultimately it wasn't so much any one specific bad thing Ian did that showed he was beyond recovery, but [https://web.archive.org/web/20150509003413/http://www.errantstory.com/2011-11-03/5322 this rant] as his plans unraveled.
** In story, many of the people who know Ian consider his attempted [[Suicide by Cop]] that destroyed an entire city his Moral Event Horizon.
* {{spoiler|Jamie's mother}} from ''[[Khaos Komix]]'' crosses it when {{spoiler|she forces Jamie (Who was at the time probably around 5/6) to wash himself in scalding hot water to cleanse himself for the crime of simple curiosity.}}
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