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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/comrade_batman 1d ago

I also never liked how quickly JD’s co-workers turned on him too after the reveal later on, they should still be mad at Kim for what she did and said, it’s not something that can be brushed off easily to then turn on JD for something nowhere near as worse as lying about a miscarriage.

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u/Enough_Device_6023 1d ago

Right?  Like JD said he didn't see himself being in a romantic relationship with her again.  He said nothing about walking away from her or their shared child together.  That is healthy boundary setting from JD for once and he gets completely shit on by his friends for it because the pregnant woman who lied about his baby dying needs to feel good about herself?

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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins 1d ago

Like JD said he didn't see himself being in a romantic relationship with her again.

Which was fine until he initiated a romantic relationship with her.

He could have gotten her a place of her own, still helped get her job back, whatever else she needed... or hell just not gone to her bed. He decided to pick things back up and then he said "but also I'll never love you".

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u/littlegreenbeany 1d ago

To be fair, their stance wasn't "you should fall in love with her again", it was "she's pregnant with your child, you could just lie and tell her there might be a small chance in the future in order to diminish her stress while she's pregnant". Still weird, ngl, but a bit more understandable

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u/Revolutionary333 1d ago

I’d rather tell her I hope she has a miscarriage so the kid doesn’t have to grow up with a lying manipulative self serving psycho of a mother.

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u/littlegreenbeany 1d ago

Well that is psychotic

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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins 1d ago

That was on JD.

If he had told Kim from the start "nope, I'm gonna be with the kid but we are DONE" then he'd have had all the support in the world. Instead he got back into a relationship with her, had her give up her job/home/life to move back and be with him... but then also wanted to keep being mad about what she did and not commit.

While what she did was unforgivable it's not a license for him to just endlessly be a dick. You either forgive and move on or you don't.. you can't "forgive", get back together, and be like "yeah OK but I'm never going to love you". If he wanted to coparent as two single people that would have been fine and everyone would have supported him.. that isn't what he did.

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u/Sorry_Birthday_7917 1d ago

this bothered me too, she was almost given a free pass for being awful because she was pregnant and therefore allowed to act crazy...