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** 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.
** A notorious example not regarding Xavier: in one storyline, Dr. Moira MacTaggert (an unofficial member of the team and a close ally) altered Magneto’s genetic code via biochemistry to [[Brainwashing for the Greater Good|prevent him from using his powers for evil]]. Of course, he was ''furious'' when he found this out, going so far as to compare her actions to those of [[w:Josef Mengele|Josef Mengele]]; keep in mind that Magneto is a Holocaust survivor who witnessed Mengele's atrocities ''first hand''.
* 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.
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*** 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.}}
*** When Courtney rescues one of her classmates from the fairy realm, he instantly starts complaining about how dangerous it is and how the warlocks in the human world should go in and destroy it. Courtney points out to him that ''they'' are the intruders and that if he had listened to her instead of barging in and assuming that it was "Disney land meets [[The Lord of the Rings]]", they wouldn't be in the mess they're in.
* [[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.
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