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{{quote|"Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Pregnant woman. Gunned her down. Bang. And y'know what? You watched me. You coulda changed the gun into steam or the bullets into mercury or the bottle into snowflakes! You coulda teleported either of us to Goddamn Australia... but you didn't lift a finger! You're drifting out of touch, Doc. God help us all."}}

* Recently in his self-titled comic book, ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' has defeated {{spoiler|Dr. Robotnik. Suddenly, Robotnik flipped out, tearing off most of his mustache-Sonic winced in pain seeing that-and collapsed, babbling incoherently.}} When Sally showed up and asked what happened, Sonic didn't know, saying he beat him like normal. Snively then walks up to them and says that Sonic didn't just beat {{spoiler|Robotnik, he broke him. Snivley gives a [[Hannibal Lecture|speech]] where he acknowledges, "eccentrics aside", Robotnik is a genius and master planner, having conquered the planet in a few years. He says that Robotnik was losing his mind as a result of Sonic being the one thing he couldn't figure during his decade long reign, and Sonic winning again just now finally pushed Robotnik over the edge. Snively then asked to be left alone to take care of his uncle. As a result, ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Snively denied Sonic the thrill of victory, and instead made him feel bad about what he did.]]'' }}

*** This ended up turning into a [[My God, What Have I Done?]] for Mina when she realizes her doing that allowed the wizard Ixis Naugus to take over Mobotropolis.

* [[Spider-Man]] ends up being so disturbed by [[Iron Man]]'s morally dubious actions (such as imprisoning non-registered superhumans indefinitely without trial) during Marvel's [[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]] crossover that he defects from the pro-Registration side to the anti-Registration side.

** Cyclops, despite being very harsh on Professor X, has done a lot of morally dubious things himself for the sake of maintaining the ever-dwindling mutant population. He's been called out on it by Wolverine of all people; Beast quit the team in protest over his actions and Nightcrawler was prepared to chew him out thoroughly {{spoiler|before he died}}.

*** Though in at least one case, Wolverine's issue wasn't ''what'' Cyclops did, so much as the fact that he did it and still acted like he was morally superior. Logan just didn't like the hypocrisy, although recruiting the emotionally damaged 16 year old for the wetwork squad probably did not help.

* Parodied in ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table]]''. While [[Game Master]] BA usually lets the [[Designated Hero]] [[Villain Protagonist]] [[Player Character|PCs]] run roughshod over the [[NPC|NPCs]], occasionally when they go too far he'll break character to deliver an in-universe [[Author Filibuster]] [[You Bastard|about what bastards his players are being]]. The players just [[Comedic Sociopathy|ignore him and continue being bastards]].

* At the tail end of the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures]]'' story "Dreamland", Future Raphael (the story is set in the year 2094, a hundred years after the series' present) and antagonist Verminator X are in the middle of a [[Mexican Standoff]]. Verminator taunts Raph, saying that the turtles are too heroic to pull the trigger (this is one of the continuities where the turtles don't kill). Raph shoots him. Mikey and Leo try to call him on it, but he refuses to feel guilty about it, saying that Splinter's teachings about not killing don't apply in the now harsher world, and that Verminator would have probably killed them all in the future if he hadn't shot him.

*** While the [[Fair Folk]] have pretty ambiguous morals, Courtney still chews out one for not caring that her "son" (a human changeling she raised as her own) is trapped in the human world and possibly going to be killed.

*** When Courtney discovers that {{spoiler|Hermia had it within her power to find a loophole in the spell and clear said changeling's name (which would have saved the changeling from its death sentence), yet chose to remain silent because "I just wanted to be left alone", she calls her out on it.}}

* [[The Punisher]] gets called out by almost every hero (and even a few villains) he comes across.

* Hercules did this to [[Wonder Woman]] during ''One Year Later'' after he found out that she had run away from being a superhero.

'''Wonder Woman:''' What, hand them a smile and a box of flags? Their families, their mates... their ''children'' were murdered before their eyes. This is ''civil war''. I've given them freedom and a chance for justice. The ''American Way.'' Take a good look around. There are no rules here. Just suffering and madness. I want you to go tell your undersecretary that. ''There's the door, spaceman.'' }}

* Parodied in X-Men, when mutants has to team up with [[Fantastic Four|Future Foundation]] and this exchange occures:

'''Wolverine:''' [[Hypocritical Humor|Okay, well, if you want to get technical...]]

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