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** She crossed it even before they got back to Argos when she ''chopped up her younger brother and tossed the pieces into the ocean'' so that her father would have to delay his pursuit to gather the pieces for a proper burial. This was so awful that Jason's intervention was the only thing keeping the rest of the Argonauts from tossing her overboard too.
** Though that only happens in the myth. In the play her [[Moral Event Horizon]] is stabbing her two children ''purely'' because it will hurt Jason. This is after she kills his wife by lighting her on fire with magic poison. Oh, and then she [[Karma Houdini|sails off to Athens under the aegis of the king]].
** It should probably be noted, though, that most of these (aside from murdering her brother) weren't included in the story until Euripides introduced the idea that she murdered her children. Up until that point, she was more of a deeply flawed [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]], since Jason ''was'' kind of a bastard to her.
* In ''Bat Boy: The Musical'', Dr. Parker is a pretty sympathetic character until he murders a kid in order to frame the title character. After that, he's more of a monster than Bat Boy ever was.
* Regina in ''The Little Foxes'' is greedy and morally bankrupt as it is, but she crosses the event horizon when she lets her husband Horace die of a heart attack because he won't go along with her scheme.
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