Moral Event Horizon

The Moral Event Horizon, or MEH for short, refers to an action by a villain that is so vile that it usually eliminates the audience's sympathy for the villain and makes it clear that they are unrepentantly evil and are almost, sometimes evem completely, irredeemable.
==Examples==
===Anime===
==== The Punkettes ====
* Pepper Satanica: She destroyed an entire planet, only because she was bored.
===Comics===
===Film===
==== Star Wars: The Revenge of the Evil Spirit film duology ====
* Emperor Satan sadistically tortures evil souls with dark lightning and flames from hands before mass murdering them. He creates Satanism, with the Demons and Evil Counterpart being first and followed by Satan's castle. After that, Satan takes up the Satanic Sith Lord name of Darth Devil.
* After time-traveling through Revenge of the Sith before Obi-Wan's duel with Darth Vader, Rednax Notlehs / Darth Rednax corrupts Palpatine's Darth Vader over to the dark side of the Satanic Sith Order and then attempted to murder Obi-Wan Kenobi for his refusal to turn to the dark side.
==== Action Jaxon ====
===== The First Half =====
* Emperor Satan, while in his inner form, kidnaps Blake with his creations. He then sadistically orders Rednax Notlehs to successfully corrupt Blake, the titular's brother, over to the dark side of Satanism with the Satanic Pill.
* Rednax Notlehs corrupted Blake over to the dark side of Satanism with the Satanic Pill, ordered by Emperor Satan.
===== The Second Half =====
* Golden Armor Demons:
** Lord Blademan attempted to corrupt Jaxon Borsellino / Action Jaxon and his allies over to the dark side of Satanism or murder them all.
===Video Games===
====Five Nights at Candy's====
*RAT attacks Mary Schmidt's younger brother out of sheer spite for Mary.
====POPGOES====
*Simon manipulates Strings into freeing Blackrabbit so she can kill her father Fritz Glade.
====Showtime====
*Ringmaster hijacks the Edgar The Elephant animatronic and crushes a child to death with it.
====Toadette Strikes====
*Kammy Koopa puts multiple Toads in a fate worse than death by turning them into stone blocks and plans to do the same with all the other Toads.
===Web Animation===
====Dream SMP====
*Jschlatt forces Technoblade to publicly execute Tubbo.
====Endventures====
*Endy, Slendy and Tendy kill Boom the Friendly Creeper and taunt his allies about it.
*Wrecker Kills the Rebel Leader's wife and son after promising he wouldn't before sparing the leader himself just to enjoy the sorrow.
====FNAF VHS====
*William Afton: Kills five children at Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria to vent his anger towards his son Michael.
====Schaffrillas Productions====
*Oscar:
**Killing every shark in the ocean.
**Executing Flintheart Glomgold and his adoptive shark son.
**Summoning the Martin Scorsese fish moon to destroy Earth's surface and kill everyone on it.
====SMG4====
*Ztar: Sadistically destroys most of the Mushroom Kingdom and kills many innocent civilians.
*Waluigi: Infects the majority of the Mushroom kingdom with the T-Pose virus.
*Francis: Orders False Sephiroth to kill Desti, laughing sadistically at her death.
*SMG3: Travelling back in time and prevent the majority of SMG4's Gang from meeting Mario, therefore banishing them from existence.
*Ernie: Crippled his brother and usurped him as king, during his time as king he did obstacle course contest, where everibody less the winner (always Ernie himself) were killed, this last well may do him the darkest villain in SMG4
*Killer Ink Leader: Pushed Meggy down a pit, which almost killed her. However, this is debatable as a MEH because we don’t know if Meggy would’ve respawned.
*SMG0:
**Destroying many previous dimensions prior to reaching the Mushroom Kingdom.
**Kidnapping almost every Mario recolor in the Mushroom Kingdom and zombifying them.
**Possessing and corrupting Axol.
**Corrupting Mario and forcing him to fight SMG4 and his allies.
*One-Shot Wren: Kidnapped the cast and trapped them in a western simulation where he mentally tortures Meggy by shooing for one whole month, causing her to go insane.
====Sunset Parardise====
*Sir Benedict Cumbersnatch:
**Using the town children as battering rams to breach the Phoenix Lighthouse's barrier.
**Killing Auri Bori.
====TheGamerLover's Mematic Universe====
*Selvaria : With some help from Perfecti, used the "Selvaria Serum", transforming living creatures and inanimate objects into Waifus.
*Murakumo: Lost his sanity and killed mostly innocent women intentionally mistaking them for THOTs. Even Killed Konoe's most important persons even in front of her.
=== Web Video (Live-Action) ===
==== Rezeendevil ====
* The Invader: He killed two of his helpers. Definitely crosses the MEH when he kill Cadet Rodrigues with a poisoned knife.
* Pedro Razende: He orders The Stalker to poison the pool with an unknowe sustance, this almost kill Ana.
* The Stalker: He follows all the orders of Pedro.
* Valron: He goes tought a forrest killing every wizard in his way.
===Western Animation===
==== The Traveller ====
* The Doctor: Brainwashed Rob, also is implied that he was killed people in his experiments.
==== Others ====
* Bro: Killed Reaper and his parents when Reaper faced him for lying him and his friends.
*DIO Vutuo: Condemmned Rob to a fate worse than the death.
*Ebon: Tortured Johnny Osgood for hours until he died and forced his twin brother, Jimmy to watch
=== Webcomics ===
====The Purple Crocodile====
*Professor Sinister: Sadistically kills his own parents.
*Infyrnox: Massacres environmental protesters for being a roadblock between him and the bank he planned to rob.
==== Dreamzone ====
* Korthan: Destroyed many civilizations. He later blew up the Xorthus Acadamy of Magic, wich caused the death of many childrens.
* Windsor: Unlawfuly do dangerous experiments with werewolves as test subjects.
==== The Bikini Bottom Horror ====
* The Tortured One: Planned to kill everybody in the ocean even if they haven't eaten Krabby Patties.
* SpongeBob SquarePants: Gave Patrick an undercooked Krabby Patty knowing that it would make feel all the pain and lust of revenge of his clone, making him indirectly responsible of all the deaths caused by Patrick as The Tortured One.
* Mr. Krabs: Mutilated a Patrick's clone during years to make Krabby Patties.
====Unnamed Kirby Fan Comic====
* Zero: Orders a Dark Matter kill everything in Pop Star, if well the Dark Matter failed, Zero however has the intention of do cataclysm.
=== Literature ===
==== Inkopolis Chaos Trilogy ====
*Scarlet Spiker: She and her gang beat an innocent inkling into a coma just to frame the protagonists. If she didn’t cross the MEH then, her torturing Natalie by burning and assaulting her definitely puts her beyond redemption. She also made a vulgar threat that she would cut Samuel and Natalies hearts out. In Inkopolis Chaos 3, she kills 11 innocent people for absolutely no reason, even further securing her as a monster.
*Cyalux Clover: He kidnaps dozens of octolings, including Natalie and Katelin, and then captures Samuel and Luke (his childhood friends) aswell, puts them on a train and then sets the train to fall off its track and kill everyone on it. While the train was stopped, this was still an absolutely scumbag move.
*Cyalux’s Brother: He stole a special weapon and framed Natalie for it, before going to try and mass murder octolings. He was luckily stopped by Ruby, who killed him. However, this one action of his caused pretty much all the events in both stories.
*Lieutenant Obsidian: She sets up concentration camps for octolings that tried to leave octo valley, and even had some inklings there, where she would force them to do hard work, and if they weren’t good enough, she would kill them. She crosses the line AGAIN by plotting to force Natalie to watch Samuel be executed, knowing how much it would upset her. Then, when concentration camps failed, she executed thousands of octolings that deserted, or ones that were merely associated with deserters. If that’s not enough, she throws Jade into a flooded ravine, which causes Ruby to sacrifice herself, making her responsible for a major characters death. Finally, she tried to wipe out all life on the surface.
*Sub Lieutenant Blakeson: He crossed the line way before the story began. He killed Sylvia’s parents for an unknown reason, which left a massive impact on her family, as Sylvia had to go without parents, living with Samuel, Melissa and their parents instead. This double murder also caused Melissa’s distrust in octolings. Years later, when Sylvia takes the blame for causing a prison riot, he grabs her and traumatised her. It’s unknown what he did, but it was most likely torture, as shown by Sylvias bruises and burns.
==== The Coldest Winter ====
*Charles Eborock: Murders 12 or more people while out in the wilderness, one of those victims being his own sister, who helped him a lot. He also set up a fake deal for Dominic, where he would get his resources, in exchange for Lucy’s freedom, but he was really gonna kill Lucy anyway.
*Samantha Eborock: While not as bad as her brother, she still assists in killing people; Her worst is that she kills Lucy’s mother by snapping her neck, causing Lucy to go out in the wilderness alone, and she would’ve froze to death if she didn’t find Dominic.
==== Rethilor: A War of Sins and Virtues ====
* Pride: As a human, he burns his entire families house down, killing everyone in it. Years later, he blows himself up, taking 19 people down with him. As Pride, he crosses even more lines. For starters, he kills the Virtue of Chastity. Not much later, he genocides the main town of Vicinus (and he genocided dozens of others). Finally, he tries to destroy heaven and cover the world in flames. 
==== Looperverse ====
* The Strangler: Killed his own family by burning them when he was younger.
* Ryan Rhodes: Beating several freshmen to death with hammers.
* Adrianna de la Santos: Killing sixty-eight people and keeping their skeletons as souvenirs.
* Morliss: Eat several children to get stronger.
==== Revival ====
* Maya Lootie: Killed Patrick Stark's family and taked the form of his daughter.
* Yog-Sothoth: Killed Cthullu's mother and subject him to dangeorous and tortourus trainings, later forced him to kill all the Deep Ones because one of them betrayed him.
* Dr. Moist: Being responsible of the extinction of his own species.
=== Others ===
====Age Of Wario====
*Bowser:
**Slaughtering and eating his own children.
**Killing the Mario Brothers and taking over the world.
**Ordering the genocide of the entire Toad species.
**Kidnapping Blossom with the intent of eating her.
**Betraying and killing Kamek even though he resurrected him.
**Attempting to destroy the world.
====Dream SMP====
*Dream:
**Slaughtering Wilbur Soot, TommyInnit, Tubbo and Fundy in the Final Control Room after bribing Eret to betray them.
**Burning down the original Community House and framing Tommy for it to further paint him in a bad light.
**Psychologically torturing, manipulating and gaslighting Tommy during his exile from L'Manberg just because he thought it was "fun".
**Permanently killing Mexican Dream, Tommy's "last true friend", after insulting his friends, and forcing Tommy to burn his belongings and turn his attention to himself.
**Blowing up Tommy's secret item stash in Logstedshire, which would drive Tommy to the breaking point and almost make him commit suicide.
**Bombing L'Manberg to the ground.
**Testing the Revive Book by repeatedly killing and reviving Vikkstar and Lazarbeam, before permanently killing them both to hide the book's existence.
**Attempting to kill Tubbo, just to provide Tommy with an "origin story".
**Orchestrating a plan to steal the most valuable possessions of the server's inhabitants, and hold them hostage in order to manipulate them into obeying his orders.
**Temporarily killing Tommy in his prison cell, only to revive him to prove he had such an ability.
**Killing Ghostbur with the Revive Book, resurrecting Wilbur in the process.
**Abandoning Ranboo in favor of escaping Pandora's Vault, resulting in Awesamdude permanently killing him.
*Jschlatt
**Exiling Tommy and Wilbur from L'Manberg after becoming its new president.
**Forcing Technoblade to execute Tubbo.
*The Egg:
**Absorbing the souls of it's victims to gain energy.
**Manipulating the masquerade's attendees into murdering each other.
**Corrupting BadBoyHalo and his allies.
**Commanding its followers to kill Tommy.
**Having Foolish executed in front of his adoptive mother Puffy.
*Awesamdude:
**Kidnapping Michael_Beloved and using him as leverage against Ranboo.
**Killing Ranboo after Dream refused to surrender.
====source filmmaker super smash bros saga====
*Cheryl:
**having a skin from pokemon masters.
*Cynthia:
**having a skin from pokemon masters.
**winning a pokemon battle against the loser.
**using a house as a wrong house.
**marrying the heavy weapons guy and nitro man.
*Candice:
**having a skin from pokemon masters.
*Marley:
**having a skin from pokemon masters.
*Hilda:
**having a skin from pokemon masters.
*Marina:
**having a skin from pokemon masters.
*Karen:
**having a skin from pokemon masters.
*Flannery:
**having a skin from pokemon masters.
**smashing cars.
*Gardenia:
**having a skin from pokemon masters.
**marrying gardenia
*Diantha:
**having a skin from pokemon masters.
**kidnapping princess daisy.
**marrying drill man.
*Lucy:
**having a skin from pokemon masters.
*Air Man:
**controlling the cybertronians.
**protecting dreads and zombies.
**destroying karen's heels.
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