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Compare [[Neutral No Longer]], [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]], [[Rage Breaking Point]] (where anger is handled this way).
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Luffy - the protagonist of ''[[One Piece]]'' - isn't a villain (even if he isn't exactly a hero) but his actions at the auction house during the Sabaody Archipelago Arc clearly qualify. The World Nobles are an untouchable privileged class, given anything and everything they want by the World Government. Harming them is a ''war crime''. But when one of them - Charloss - assaults Hatchan - not the first atrocity Luffy had witnessed - the Straw Hats captain just didn't ''give'' a damn anymore, and gave Charloss the thrashing he deserved.
** AND, after he did so, Zorro comments that had ''Luffy'' not taught the guy a lesson, ''he'' would have. The rest of the crew follows suit, especially when Charloss' equally-jerkass father Roswald [[Bullying a Dragon| doesn't know when to quit:]]
{{quote|'''Roswald:''' I'll teach you what happens when you assault us, the descendants of the world's creators!
'''Sanji:''' Hell if we care, bastard.}}
:* An even more poignant example happens during the Levely Arc. Charloss (who obviously didn't learn his lesson the first time) ordered two of his henchmen (a thug and the nefarious assassin Rob Lucci) tried to abduct Princess Shirahoshi simply [[For the Evulz]], having the audacity to do so in front of the royal family and a crowd of citizens. King Neptune eventually decided he ''did not care'' about the law or his own safety, and was about to intervene, when to the surprise of everyone, Charloss' fellow World Noble Donquixote Mjosgard invoked the Trope himself, grabbing a club and clobbering Carloss with it, ''hard''. Afterwards he made a public apology for his kinsman's atrocious behavior, and would be Shirahoshi's bodyguard for the rest of the arc. Note, by the way, that the ''reason'' Mjosgard had gone there in the first place was to reclaim his own escaped slaves, making this a [[Heel Realization]] for him as well. This act put him on the path of a [[Heel Face Turn]] that, a ten-year [[Time Skip]] later, he is still doing his best to maintain.
== Comic Books ==
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* The [[Vorkosigan Saga]] by [[Lois McMaster Bujold]] has several examples:
** In ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Falling Free]]'', Bannerji doesn't refuse to fire at and destroy the ship that the Quaddies escape on per se, but he demands a [[Bothering by the Book|proper work order]], signed by the Hazardous Waste Management Officer, and with an Environmental Impact Assessment attached. This gives the ship time to escape.
** In ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Shards of Honor]]'', when Sergeant Bothari refuses to
{{quote|"She's Commodore Vorkosigan's prisoner. Sir." }}
* ''[[Deryni]] Checkmate'': The day after the Curia excommunicated Morgan and Duncan, its leaders, Archbishops Loris and Corrigan, tried to push through an Interdict on Morgan's duchy as well. The previously neutral Bishop Cardiel spoke against the measure, precipitating a schism within the Church. Cardiel argued that it was unjust to punish the people of Corwyn for the actions of its duke and left open the possibility that Morgan and Duncan were morally innocent. The conflict escalated as other bishops, including Arilan and Tolliver (Corwyn's bishop) joined in, accusing Loris of supporting a rebellion against the king and promoting genocide against the Deryni.
* The entire plot of ''[[Trail of Glory|1812: The Arkansas War]]'' hinges on this trope, in that the [[The United States|United States]] is forced to address slavery in the 1820s instead of the 1850s, and in a far more direct way. It's not too sudden, but then it involves an entire ''nation''.
* In ''[[Saga of the Forgotten Warrior|Son of the Black Sword]]'' the protagonist Ashok Vadal spend most of the first book as an [[Lawful Stupid|unflinching enforcer]] of Lok's harsh, merciless, quasi-religious Law and its [[Fantastic Caste System]] that reduces a fourth of the population to non-human stats as Casteless. Even after {{spoiler|he learns he himself is one of the non-human casteless that was brainwashed into thinking he was more and sent to die in order to remove [[Only the Chosen May Wield|his bond]] to one of the few remaining Ancestor Blades, then framed for mass murder and treason}} despite being {{spoiler|legally non-human and the land's most wanted criminal}} he's ''still'' a true believer in the Law, only able to survive {{spoiler|due to a contradiction of being ''ordered'' to break the Law}}. What ''finally'' prompts Ashok to stand for anything other than the Law is {{spoiler|when, reminded of his young self from re-emerging memories, he shows charity to casteless children and an overseer, thinking it's theft, tries to kill them as thieves. When the overseer points out this is within the Law, Ashok admits this is correct, but ceases to care as he crushes the man's body with his bare hands. Naturally [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]] as this blows his cover and provides an excuse to attempt culling the local castless to prepare for a harsh winter}}.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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* Lion-O from ''[[Thundercats 2011|ThunderCats (2011)]]'' takes one against a blood thirsty mob and his own father.
* Gillecomgain from ''[[Gargoyles]]'' is a rare villainous example: He had no compunctions about killing Macbeth's father or marrying Macbeth's girlfriend (both on Prince Duncan's orders), but when Duncan ordered him to assassinate Macbeth himself as well, he refused for pragmatic rather than moral reasons: "Nay, milord. Macbeth is an heir to the crown, and much beloved by the people; besides, it might lead to some uncomfortable questions about his father's demise... and who demanded it."
* In ''[[Amphibia (TV series)|Amphibia]]'', the point during the [[Final Battle]] that cements [[Dragon-in-Chief|King Andrias's]] long-overdue [[Heel Face Turn]]. [[Big Bad|Aldrich]] (his rotten father) whispers to him to save [[Mind Hive|the Core]] from the heroines, promising forgiveness and the privilege of joining the Core if he does. (One episode previous, Aldrich had [[I Have No Son|disowned him for his initial failure]], stating he’d never be allowed to join it.) At first, Andrias seems to comply, activating his backup regiment of [[Mecha Mook]]s - but then it becomes clear he’s doing so to give the heroines backup:
{{quote|'''Aldrich:''' What are you doing?
'''Andrias:''' What I should have done ''years'' ago, '''standing up to you!'''}}
== Real Life ==
* Many pundits have stated that one of the biggest reasons the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bay_Sweep Green Bay Sweep] (part of a larger plan orchestrated by supporters of [[Donald Trump]] to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempts_to_overturn_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election overturn the Election of 2020]) failed was a result of then Vice President Mike Pence (a key factor in the plan) wanting no part of it and refusing to cooperate with the plot and refusing to acknowledge fake electors and false documents as legitimate. Although, Pence also has quite a lot of his detractors who claim it was less a matter of principles and more a matter of him "chickening out".
** Many also apply this Trope to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Raffensperger_phone_call#January_2_taped_conversation_with_Raffensperger whom was also allegedly pressured] into falsifying data to change the results, but refused to do so.
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