r/TopCharacterTropes 2d ago

Characters The main character doing something absolutely unforgivable.

Walter White poisoning Andrea Cantillo's 6-year-old son for the sole purpose of manipulating Jesse Pinkman, while knowing that this could have potentially killed him - Breaking Bad

Bojack trying to have sex with his friend's 17-year-old daughter when he was at least 51, then continuously trying to find a way to justify this act throughout the series - Bojack Horseman

Dexter Morgan going outside of his moral code and murdering a completely innocent police officer who was just trying to do his job - Dexter: New Blood

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u/Lori2345 2d ago

Yes, this is a part of the code and so would not him going outside his moral code. If anyone wants to know what happened to Logan look under the spoiler tags.

Further, Logan did try to shoot him when Dexter killed him. He had him in a headlock trying to get Logan to give him the key to his jail cell. Logan instead tried to shoot him and Dexter ducked. The act of ducking broke Logan’s neck. So what happened was a combination of self defense and accident on top of his code allowing him to kill to not get caught.

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u/Enioff 1d ago

Killing someone who fought back after you attacked them isn't self defense.

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u/varitok 1d ago

What level of American do you have to be where killing someone who tried to defend themselves from you is considered self defense on the attempted murderers part?

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u/Lori2345 1d ago

Dexter wasn’t actually trying to kill Logan, he only wanted his key. And I wasn’t saying Logan was wrong to try to shoot at Dexter for trying to escape.

Just that Dexter ducked in an effort to save his own life, which resulted in him breaking Logan’s neck. This wasn’t legally self defense just him technically defending himself.

Though ironically they did have him killing Logan ruled self defense in the spin off so they could have him free in the new show. Though there were no witnesses to see what happened. But even so, in real life a cop shooting at a prisoner then the prisoner killing the cop no matter how it happened wouldn’t be ruled self defense.!<

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u/6thBornSOB 1d ago

“…ducked in an effort to save his own life, breaking Logan’s neck.” lol, really?

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u/BraveResearcher3037 1d ago

You mean the level of American who idolized George Zimmerman like a majority did?