Sympathetic Murderer: Difference between revisions

** Another one involves a girl who fell into the wrong crowd and was indirectly involved in a big theft that resulted in the suicide of the person who was burglarized. This caused her to hit the [[Moral Event Horizon]] and she decided the crowd was terrible, so she went back to school. {{spoiler|However, the leader of the gang came back into her life and blackmailed her. All she wanted was to get him out of her life and put that part behind her, so she decided to end it by threatening him away with a knife instead of paying him off. The blackmailer then attacked her and she stabbed him in the struggle.}} Granted, this wasn't exactly ''pre-meditated'' and she ''did'' do it in self defense, but after the [[Jerkass Victim]], very few people would have not felt sorry for her. {{spoiler|Even though she ''did'' have an [[Idiot Ball]] and ''threatened'' to kill him - still won't get her off the legal hook.}}

* [[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni]] has this in spades. Most of the main characters end up as this in [[Groundhog Day Loop|some version of the world.]] Keiichi {{spoiler|killed Satoko's abusive uncle to protect her}}, Rena {{spoiler|killed Satako's uncle and his girlfriend to protect her father from their blackmail (and stop the girlfriend from throttling her)}}. {{spoiler|Shion}} is a subversion because, while starting off tragic, it's ruined by her {{spoiler|going [[Ax Crazy]] on Keiichi, Mion, Rika, and Satoko even after realizing that she's wrong}}. It turns out much later that there were ways to avoid these and still solve the problems...but dang if it didn't feel good watching some of those jerks get it.

* ''Gokuaku no Hana'' ("Flower of Carnage") does this with none other than Jagi of ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' infamy...sort of. Mildly subverted by itself, as that sympathy will be for who he ''was''.

* {{spoiler|Alma Karma}} from [[D Gray Man]], who may have had a worse childhood then even Allen!