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** A darker and more dramatic example comes when Marmalade reveals that he's set up turning the Bad Guys to good and then framed them for stealing the heart-shaped meteorite. None of the Bad Guys are happy with him for this, but they're shocked when Wolf lunges at Marmalade with a feral snarl, [IllKillYou ready to kill him]] (since Marmalade had tricked him earlier with his "such a good boy" comment). Even Snake -- Wolf's closest friend and the guy who wants to eat Marmalade due to [[TrademarkFavoriteFood his love for guinea pigs]] -- is left agape.

** When Snake is urged to share a push pop with Shark, he refuses and eats it, getting Shark to swallow him whole in retaliation. The other Bad Guys and Professor Marmalade are understandably aghast at this.
** A darker example comes when Marmalade reveals that he's set up turning the Bad Guys to good and then framed them for stealing the heart-shaped meteorite. None of the Bad Guys are happy with him for this, but they're shocked when Wolf lunges at Marmalade with a feral snarl, ready to kill him (since Marmalade had tricked him earlier with his "such a good boy" comment. Even Snake -- Wolf's closest friend and the guy who wants to eat Marmalade due to [[TrademarkFavoriteFood his love for guinea pigs]] -- is left agape.

* ''WesternAnimation/KronksNewGroove'': Kuzco is openly disgusted by Yzma scamming the old people. He interrupts the movie to loudly denounce her for what she's doing.

Compare ConscienceMakesYouGoBack, SuddenPrincipledStand. See WhatTheHellHero when someone calls out a person's actions for violating their own standards. If someone judges other people's actions but assumes their own must be good by definition, they have MoralMyopia. If someone's standards are applied inconsistently, it's a DoubleStandard. Conversely, someone's standards may be consistent but at odds with genuine morality, leading to CuriousQualmsOfConscience. See also ShadesOfConflict for the many variations that may occur when people with different levels of standards collide.

* ''WesterAnimation/KronksNewGroove'': Kuzco is openly disgusted by Yzma scamming the old people. He interrupts the movie to loudly denounce her for what she's doing.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys'': When Snake is urged to share a push pop with Shark, he refuses and eats it, getting Shark to swallow him whole in retaliation. The other Bad Guys and Professor Marmalade are understandably aghast at this.
** A darker example comes when Marmalade reveals that he's set up turning the Bad Guys to good and then framed them for stealing the heart-shaped meteorite. None of the Bad Guys are happy with him for this, but they're shocked when Wolf lunges at Marmalade with a feral snarl, ready to kill him (since Marmalade had tricked him earlier with his "such a good boy" comment. Even Snake - Wolf's closest friend and the guy who wants to eat Marmalade due to [[TrademarkFavoriteFood his love for guinea pigs]] - is left agape.

* PlayedForLaughs in Creator/JonathanCoulton's song "[[VillainSong Re: Your Brains]]," about a [[FullyEmbracedFiend sentient zombie]] trying to convince some human survivors to give themselves up:

* In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', bringing objects from the human world into the monster world, even by accident, is a serious crime. [[spoiler:Kidnapping children and planning on doing them harm? A bigger crime that the Child Detection Agency's willing to overlook the other one over.]]

Whether someone is a [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} weirdo]], [[EvenEvilHasStandards villain]], pervert, {{jerkass}}, geek, or [[NiceGuy just]] ''[[NiceGuy way]]'' [[ExtremeDoormat too nice]], deviant from the customs of "normal" society -- one often finds that those things can only go so far. These characters find that when they're in a situation where they would cross a certain line, they don't do it. Or they get disgusted at those who ''do'' cross that line.

Whether someone is a [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} weirdo]], [[EvenEvilHasStandards villain]], pervert, {{jerkass}}, geek, or [[NiceGuy just]] ''[[NiceGuy way]]'' [[NiceGuy too nice]], deviant from the customs of "normal" society -- one often finds that those things can only go so far. These characters find that when they're in a situation where they would cross a certain line, they don't do it. Or they get disgusted at those who ''do'' cross that line.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'': The Bros.'s uncles make fun of the [[StylisticSuck poorly-made commercial]] they made for their recently-established plumbing business during the family dinner, as well as using coordinated outfits and white work gloves as a trademark. Then the Bros.'s father [[InnocentlyInsensitive tells Mario]] he's nuts for leaving a “steady job” (despite the job in question having been toxic due to a BadBoss) for his “crazy dream” and is dragging Luigi down with him, making Mario insulted enough to storm off from the table. The uncles proceed to give the father {{Disapproving Look}}s along with the rest of the family, showing that even ''they'' knew he went too far with his insensitive comments.

** Earlier, when Frollo's philosophy begins to extend to anyone who even ''might'' have the suspicion of harboring gypsies, the citizens begin to become fearful. When the judge burns down a poor miller's home while his children inside just because the family has offered lodging to gypsies before, they outright turn on him and say "Frollo's gone ''mad''!"

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: A strict ethical framework, but one that happens to be based on [[BizarreAlienPsychology strange or alien moral principles]].

* ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneBalance'': Taako is generally the [[KleptomaniacHero party klepto]], as well as the undisputed king of RefugeInAudacity. However, he balks when Magnus tries to steal money from a bank. Not for any moral reasons, but because of the myriad of reasons [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome they'd almost certainly get caught]]. For one thing, the bank has loads of security measures. For another, they're literally there to ''stop a bank robbery''. For ''another'', they're working with the chief of police, who not only knows they're there, but is the one who let them in and is currently ''right outside''.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Anathema}}'': Players are required to murder as many people as possible, but even the most blood thirsty shrouds have a group of people that they're strongly adverse to killing. The penalty if you do kill a member of that group? You lose some of your will to live.

* VillainousMedicalCare: An injured hero gets medical treatment provided my a villain.

This is TruthInTelevision, of course; just about all people do try to follow some sort of standard, and even [[MoralSociopathy outright sociopaths]] can tell (intellectually) the difference between right and wrong. Though standards may [[ValuesDissonance differ from time and place and individual]], and people may [[{{Hypocrite}} fail to live up to their own standards]], for someone to not care about ''any'' ethical or moral standards is generally a sign of [[Analysis/TheSociopath a severe mental pathology]]. That said, Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease

* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': Calvin may be quite self-centered, but even he thinks [[http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1986/11/27#.UuBFK2Qo5dg starving people are nothing to joke about.]] He's also periodically disgusted by people who litter.

* Vivien Reid in ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' is an ecoterrorist who thinks civilisation is a blight on the multiverse, and during her visit to Ikoria, she has nothing positive to say about the city of Drannith, which has a strongly authoritarian philosophy and kills monsters by the dozen. However, when Lucca -- who had been her protege earlier in the story -- formed an army of monsters by controlling them with the Ozolith and attempted to conquer Drannith with them, Vivien concludes this is an unnatural and cruel corruption of the ''eludha''[[note]]the magical bond that links some Ikorian humans to monsters as partners[[/note]] and leads the army of bonders she's gathered ''against'' Lucca in order to ''save'' Drannith.

** Imelda may be unwilling to [[spoiler:forgive Héctor for supposedly walking out on his family even after the truth is known but she gets shocked upon seeing her husband about to fade away showing that even she thinks that Héctor doesn't deserve [[DeaderThanDead such a fate]]. Indeed, it is the threat of him being erased, not the revelation that he wanted to return before being killed that convince her to help him live by retrieving the photo that Ernesto has confiscated]].

** Violet gets offended when Helen assumes that she and Dash left Jack-Jack all alone in the house to stow away in the plane. As she puts it sarcastically, only a complete idiot would do such a thing. No, she got the best babysitter she could find at a late notice who had a good reputation for handling infants. Well, Violet ended up being right on that count of Kari stimulating a baby's mind.
** After Syndrome vows to get his family (and having already proved he ''means'' to meet that claim earlier), a furious Bob has enough and throws a nearby car right at his getaway aircraft. Even he makes a SympatheticWince however when it results in Syndrome getting {{Cape Snag}}ged into one of its propellers (as a nod to the aforementioned BrickJoke) and detonating the craft. Even for a monster like him, that's a brutal way to go.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'': The Bros.’s uncles make fun of the [[StylisticSuck poorly-made commercial]] they made for their recently-established plumbing business during the family dinner, as well as using coordinated outfits and white work gloves as a trademark. Then the Bros.’s father [[InnocentlyInsensitive tells Mario]] he's nuts for leaving a “steady job” (despite the job in question having been toxic due to a BadBoss) for his “crazy dream” and is dragging Luigi down with him, making Mario insulted enough to storm off from the table. The uncles proceed to give the father {{Disapproving Look}}s along with the rest of the family, showing that even ''they'' knew he went too far with his insensitive comments.