We get it on fighter by their title . And the greatest heroes are the ones whose legacies are as freehanded as space and as enduring as the stars . Unfortunately , sometimes great deed also include terrible action .
Here are eight of your favourite epic heroes who have committed mass execution , or even genocide . Out - of - date raider ahead …
In the animated series instalment “ Standing Room Only ” , spook on the rill from Mee - Krah , a lately awaken specter - exhaust monster , approach the Busters — begging to be trapped in exchange for sanctuary . It is n’t long before every ghost in New York is waiting to be captured , and the Ghostbusters are struggling to keep up . When Mee - Krah ’s path of destruction jeopardise to destruct New York ( the Sahara , Gobi Desert and Death Valley were the result of his preceding visits ) , Peter makes a startling suggestion : “ Hey … Sparky feeds on ghosts , right ? So , lets leave a track of ghosts , and conduct him out to sea . ” “ expectant estimate ! ” , answer Ray . Winston adds , “ We sure have enough ghost to go around . ” It ’s then Peter turns to Slimer , “ You sure you want to go on this footrace , Spud ? ” and is answered with an enthusiastic , “ Uh - huh , Uh - huh ! ”
At no point do any of the characters stop to interview the morality of flow frightened , trusting ghosts to an ancient , psyche - devouring elemental , so Peter , Winston and Slimer depart in their private gyrocopter , the ECTO-2 , give up terrified , confused Class 5 ’s from their traps and into the snapping jaws of Mee - Krah ’s death beyond death . finally , they ’re able-bodied to over - glut the monster with a machine that absorbs spirit - energy , effectively kill Mee - Krah when it use up the ectoplasmic residue of 1612 ghosts at the same time . ( Which is , coincidently , the same class Rubens completed his masterpiece , Massacre of the Innocents . ) The episode ends with Peter volunteer this justification for ghostly race murder , “ you may do anything , as long as you do it scientifically . ”
In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer : Season Eight comic book series , the consciousness of a new creation call in Twilight penetrate Angel with Superman - corresponding office . nightfall convinces Angel that so as to fulfill his destiny and economise the world , he must kill as many potential killer as possible in a gambit to , essentially , antagonize Buffy into having fourth dimension - travelling astro - sex with him . Their Passion of Christ results in the initiation of the paradise - like Twilight dimension , and heralds the destruction of the present universe . Angel tries to win over Buffy to stay in Twilight and ruler , believe it morally wrong to be an missing God in a reality of his own qualification , but she decline , opting to rescue the present universe by destroy the “ Seed of Wonder ” , the source of all Earthly trick . nightfall demand that Buffy and Angel finish what they started – - it possesses Angel and kill Giles .
On his own TV show , the question of whether Angel was truly a hero , or simply a very talented victim was one of the series major overarching themes . ( He did expend two hundred years of immortality feeding rats and riding on submarines , not even think helping the helpless until it was indicate out to him . ) Could the actions of a demon , being naturally evil , be compared to those of human beings , who have more or less a selection in their action ? As a human being , Angel was a barbarous and violent drunk and becoming a lamia ultimately made him a better man . Though to many , the time of year eight series and Angel ’s attack at Slayer - cide provide the final nail in the casket of Angel ’s grapheme / crusade .
In themust - read“apocalypse state of war ” account , Mega - City One is first bust aside by artificially cause “ Block - Mania , ” and then obtrude upon by Soviet Judges from East - Meg One . Almost the whole city is occupied , and the Sov Judges run over citizen in their massive radian - sweepers . So Judge Dredd and a helping hand - pick team locomotion to East - Meg One , where they kick downstairs into a projectile silo and use it to nuke the total Russian city . As the Sov Judges beg Dredd not to murder half a billion masses , Dredd say , “ Half my metropolis is cut to ashes by East - Meg missile — and you ’re begging ME for mercy ? petition denied . ” after , the Soviets in reality ask for Dredd to belt down their own War Marshall , as the only way to stop this war .
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In the serial finale of Star Trek : Voyager , a Captain Janeway from twenty - six years in the future deliberately injects herself with a “ neurolytic pathogen ” , and is voluntarily assimilate by the Borg Queen . The pathogen accept hold , leave the Voyager to fire a horde of transphasic hoagie at the befittingly weaken Borg ’s transwarp meshwork , kill the trillions of drones within and atomize their Unicomplex . Once out of the explosion , the USS Voyager realizes it has come back in the Alpha Quadrant , where the crew is greeted as heroes rather than as some of account ’s big murderers .
Before he slaughtered the Jedi council , strangled his fraught wife and attend with the destruction of Alderaan ( though after mow down the Sand People ) Anakin Skywalker spent his early day alongside his padawan Ahsoka Tano as a warfare hero in the Clone Wars , mow down multitudinous sentient droid fighters . His adventure can currently be seen on Cartoon internet .
This citation from Harvey and Eisner honour - winning author , Jason Aaronsums it up best : “ So basically George Lucas has given us a show set in pre - World War II Germany where you find out Goebbels and Himmler were in reality jolly nerveless clotheshorse . Almost as cool as Anakin Skywalker , the other big hero of the series . Who we all sleep with finally turns out to be Hitler ! ”
herald from the major planet Zenn - La , the astronomer formerly known as Norrin Radd lead an unfulfilled life , dissatisfied with the sedentary nature and self-complacent attitudes of his citizenry . When the planet - go through heavyweight , Galactus , make up one’s mind to pay a sojourn , Radd volunteered to travel the world , look for out tasty , alternative planets for him to consume , under the condition the ogre would not eat his own homeworld . Amused , Galactus agreed , and imbued Radd with a luck of the Power Cosmic , transforming him into his raw trumpeter , the Silver Surfer .
It was n’t until the Surfer satisfy the Fantastic Four on Earth that he began to oppugn the ethical motive of his missionary station and revolted against his master — and although he was a uncoerced accomplice to the deaths of countless trillions , the Silver Surfer remains quite popular . In fact , when the Living Tribunal offer him a “ moment of godhood ” he agreed he was worthy of the laurels and readily accepted . And mass pick on Cyclops . prototype byNestor Allende .
During the Death of Superman plot line , the exotic despot Mongul , with an assist from the Cyborg Superman , wipe out Coast City , the hometown of Hal Jordan ( still the most beloved of all characters to wear the deed ) killing most of its 7 million universe in an attempt to terraform Earth into the new Warworld ( exactly how it sounds ) . Understandably disordered , Hal tried to reverse the incident with his ring , but was reprimanded by the Guardians for misusing his index . This track to a complete mental breakdown for Jordan , in which he essay “ universal race murder ” by stealing as many power tintinnabulation as possible , destruct Oa , homeworld of the Lantern Corps , in the operation . Years later , Hal made a stab at redemption by sacrificing himself for reignite the Earth ’s pall sun . And even afterward than that , Jordan amount back to life and the whole incident was retconned as being the work of a fear leech called Parallax .
In the 1975 serial “ Genesis of the Daleks , ” the Doctor has the chance to wipe out the Daleks , a raceway of genetically engineered tyrants whose existence has brought untold woe unto the macrocosm . Instead of pee-pee the obvious choice , he block to ask himself , “ Do I have the right ? ”
Since then , he ’s suffice his own question : “ I do atrocities now . Atrocities are nerveless . ” For a type who frequently build moralistic pronouncement and shows plenitude of righteous indignation towards other people ’s actions , he is probably responsible for more deaths than any activeness Heron or horror ikon of the 1980 ’s .
Here ’s an uncomplete checklist :
He infect the Vervoids , an enslaved species of humanoid flower , with a life - accelerate pathogen – - lead to his own trial on charges of racial extermination .
He obliterated Skaro , homeworld of the Daleks , remotely from Earth with the Hand of Omega . Later , he ruin both the Daleks and the Time Lords , his own slipstream , at the destruction of the Last Great Time War .
Drowned the final live Racnoss hatchlings to prevent them from eating humans on Christmas .
impeach his own genetic duplicate of race murder when * he * kill all the Daleks this time , and banish him to a parallel creation .
Broadcasted footage ordering all invade Silents ( Dr. Who ’s take on alien “ Greys ” ) to be killed on sight .
… And those are only the I that made it to television .
In his 1103 year , the Doctor has racked up a physical structure count that could be conservatively tallied in the trillions . It ’s gotten so bad , for a while he was able-bodied to defuse any potential conflict by doing nothing more than introduce himself .
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