Heckyl: You're vile! You would work for Arcanon?! He destroyed our planet!
Snide: I never cared for your stupid Sentai 6! I'm doing what's best for me!
Heckyl: You know what becomes of traitors!
Snide: You don't stand a chance against me!
Moral Event Horizon in Power Rangers.Snide: I never cared for your stupid Sentai 6! I'm doing what's best for me!
Heckyl: You know what becomes of traitors!
Snide: You don't stand a chance against me!
- Power Rangers in Space:
- If abducting Zordon and draining him of his powers isn't enough for Dark Specter to cross it, then this sure is: Threatening to wipe out all life on Earth with a giant asteroid if the Rangers don't turn Karone back over, and even after she's brainwashed, he lets the asteroid continue on its course, anyway.
- Aside from being responsible for the Barillian Bug infestation that made KO-35 abandoned, Darkonda kidnapped Karone as a child and when confronted by Andros, he refers to it as one of his greatest accomplishments.
- Power Rangers Lost Galaxy:
- Trakeena crossed it by framing Treacheron and deliberately sending him to his doom.
- Her father Scorpius also crossed it before the story began when he killed the original Magna Defender's son Zika and laid waste to his planet.
- Deviot went beyond the point of redemption when he lied to Scorpius about the Rangers kidnapping Trakeena, forcing Scorpius to attack the Rangers, who end up destroying him.
- Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue: You decide which of the following put Queen Bansheera over the line.
- When Olympius, her son, ends up stuck in the Shadow World, Bansheera opts to leave him there for being useless enough to get stuck there in the first place, and seems to take perverse pleasure in doing it, too.
- She forces Diabolico to attack the Rangers, knowing full well that Loki is in the line of fire, and not batting an eye to his death even though the Rangers survived.
- Power Rangers Wild Force:
- Before the story began, Dr. Adler crossed it when he ate the remnants of Master Org, and uses this new power to murder Cole's parents. The fact he was already makes him irredeemable.
- The actual Master Org, reborn from Adler's first death, does it when he sends Onikage to manipulate Toxica, one of his own followers, into cutting her horn off, both knowing full well of her vulnerability without it, thereby leading Mandilok to use her as a human shield. This one act causes all three parties to cross the Moral Event Horizon.
- Power Rangers S.P.D.
- Gruumm crossed it before the story began when he destroyed Cruger's home planet Sirius.
- Broodwing crosses it betraying Gruumm over his refusal to pay him for arsenal that the monsters he hires can't afford themselves.
- The A-Squad Rangers cross it when they defect to Gruumm's side, just to be on the superior side.
- Power Rangers Operation Overdrive:
- While Flurious is never a nice guy from the start, tricking his brother, who'd come on his hands and knees offering peace, into handing over the Corona Aurora with an offer of friendship, then killing him off in cold blood definitely pushes him over the line.
- Kamdor crosses it when he traps Miratrix in the same jewel she freed him from when he tells her she is no longer of use to him. Sure, Miratrix was a greedy ninja who used Dax's affections, but her fate crossed it for her master.
- Power Rangers RPM: Unlike Venjix, who is confirmed in the Opening Narration to have wiped out almost all of humanity (though luckily in a different universe than the primary Power Rangers one), Alphabet Soup is nowhere near Obviously Evil at the beginning, even when they keep super intelligent people like the then-child Dr. K imprisoned for their entire lives under the belief they're allergic to the sun. This is because Alphabet Soup appears to be misguided but well-intentioned in needing geniuses to improve the world. But ultimately, Alphabet Soup cemented a place in irredeemable territory when they not only ALLOWED VENJIX TO ESCAPE by not letting Dr. K install the firewall to stop the virus from spreading, but also tried to murder Dr. K to cover up Venjix's origins, showing that they didn't care squat about humanity being wiped out in the slightest. They not only kickstarted the events of RPM, but also its spiritual successor Power Rangers Beast Morphers, since Venjix eventually reincarnates as Evox and then infects the Morph-X to create evil versions of Blaze and Roxy, putting the original two in stasis, and (as the latter can testify, an And I Must Scream situation) for as long as the two are alive.
- Power Rangers Samurai:
- In the episode "Trading Places", the Monster of the Week Switchbeast goes around town and turns innocent people into various objects. The point of this plan is that unsuspecting humans will get rid of those objects, unaware that there are human souls in them. This would have resulted in a lot of people being killed (including the Rangers and Bulk and Spike) if Mike and Emily didn't defeat Switchbeast. That was the entire point of Switchbeast's plan: to have as many innocent people turned into objects and would have been disposed and destroyed by unsuspecting humans. Usually Nighloks want to make misery, but this one wanted to kill innocent people. And he was acting on the orders of someone just as horrible as Xandred, so that's where the accountability goes...
- If burning Dayu's harmonium (which was a gift by Deker, when they were married and it was her LAST remnant of her love for Deker, who was cursed and lost his memory of her) and attempting to have her memory erased wasn't much, Master Xandred really crosses it beyond the point of redemption by killing and absorbing her after she revived him.
- While Octoroo did say Xandred's cruelty is boundless, he goes beyond redemption when he poisons the Red Ranger and tries to blackmail him over the Sealing Symbol.
- Arachnitor crosses it at the same time, but with the ulterior motive of overthrowing Master Xandred as the Nighloks leader. He pays for it big time.
- Meanwhile, Serrator crossed it 200 years ago by making a Deal with the Devil with Dayu, turning Deker into a half Nighlok and taking his memories, not telling her that until she's already made the deal. The more the two of them suffer, until finally meeting their tragic ends, the more you'll consider Serrator the most heartless villain in the history of a show whose villains often pride themselves on how evil they are. If he didn't cross it then, he most certainly did with his endgame. He wanted to split open the earth, spilling the Netherworld onto Earth, likely causing untold death and destruction all for the sake of becoming powerful enough to rule both worlds. Even most of the other Nighlok considered it going too far (there was a risk that both worlds would be annihilated).
- Power Rangers Megaforce:
- Bigs and Bluefur crossed it by spewing Bigs' toxic slime around town.
- Metal Alice crosses the line by turning Rico the Robot back to R1C0. The Rangers call her out for her heartlessness.
- Vrak crosses it by kidnapping Orion and draining his life force to reprogram the kidnapped Robo Knight so he can attack the Rangers.
- Vekar and the Armada cross this two episodes in by attempting to bomb every single major city on Earth. Just imagine what the body count would've been for a second... It goes even further when we learn that they successfully wiped out Orion's home planet. When Orion confronts Prince Vekar about it, he asks him if he wants his autograph.
- While sending Vekar to destroy Andresia and nearly all of its people, and later all of his forces to destroy Earth, sounds a little generic, Emperor Mavro sure cemented it to the point of irredeemable territory by ignoring Levira's pleas to enlarge her when she's on the verge of destruction.
- Power Rangers Dino Charge:
- If what he did to Ivan and Tyler's dad wasn't enough, Fury crossed the line by turning Prince Philip's robot evil.
- In the first season finale "One More Energem", Wrench was perfectly willing to toss Kendall into the incinerator.
- In the same episode as Wrench, it actually becomes clear that Sledge was planning on executing both Kendall and Keeper immediately. No convoluted death traps, no taking the time to try to interrogate either of them for information that he knows they would never give, just the immediate decision to get them out of the equation, permanently.
- If that's not it, then he no doubt crossed it when he stole the Dark Energem and used it to kill Lord Arcanon. While Arcanon's own actions (i.e. Sentai 6's destruction) don't give him any sympathy points, Sledge's betrayal has nothing to do with them, just to collect the bounty and rule the universe himself.
- Meteor crossed it by blackmailing Dr. Runga over the Plesiozord's location.
- Iceage crossed it by freezing the Rangers and having Snide line them up for destruction.
- Stingrage crossed it when he poisoned the water supply with amnesia venom.
- Singe crosses it in his first battle with the Rangers in "A Date with Danger," in which he attacks buildings in a populated area and even shot at an old woman who was in the area at the time of their battle.
- Lord Arcanon crossed it by destroying Heckyl's planet Sentai 6 to obtain the Dark Energem, which he would later use to create Doomwing so that the Silver Energem would be in evil hands.
- Doomwing crossed the line with the revelation that he pretended to be the Silver Ranger by being part of his not-so-evil brother Zenowing, allowing him to abuse the Rangers' trust and hijack the Megazords for himself and his fellow Terrible Trio members Arcanon and Singe.
- Snide crosses it when, as the quote shows, he betrays Heckyl to Lord Arcanon and reveals that he doesn't give a crap about the destruction of Sentai 6 and is only out for himself.
- Long ago, Badussa crossed it by destroying the Kyoryuger Galaxy.
- Scumlaw crossed it by deceiving the Pumpkin Court into thinking the Rangers are villains who destroy "innocent monsters".
- Heximas crossed it by throwing Wrench out of the escape pod as the Sledge ship was heading towards the sun.
- Power Rangers Ninja Steel:
- Galvanax crossed it prior to the main story when he kidnapped Brody and took him in as a slave for 10 years.
- Madame Odius crossed it when she framed Ripcon for sending a robot with Aiden's memories to try and steal the Rangers' Power Stars, inciting Ripcon's death.
- Tynamon crossed it by stealing Levi's voice to create the Megamauler.
- Power Rangers Cosmic Fury: Bajilla Niere crosses it with her plan to create a War for Fun and Profit by sacrificing Zedd in a similar manner to how Zordon had Andros do it, but with the opposite effect of destroying all the good in the universe. Granted Zedd was no saint himself, but she would've made the universe far worse just to benefit herself.
Other Media
- If attacking the Command Center and almost killing Zordon wasn't enough for the movie's main villain Ivan Ooze, his brainwashing of every parent in Angel Grove to work for him, then commanding them to "leap to their doom" (in other words, a mass Psychic-Assisted Suicide) was definitely the moment where he went beyond the pale.
- The 2017 film version of Rita Repulsa crosses the line by drowning Billy after he confesses the location of the Zeo Crystal. She wasn't kidding when she said she had "killed Rangers before".
- Psycho Green/Trek of the Boom Studios comics crossed it when he betrayed and murdered his Ranger team to ally with Dark Specter.
- From the same comic, there's Lord Drakkon, whose favorite hobby is crossing the line. Not only does he delight in going after other versions of Tommy Oliver and killing them just because he believes that he's not the only Tommy who turned out wrong, he's brainwashed his universe's version of Kimberly into becoming his top killer and his ultimate goal is to destroy all of reality and rewrite it into a world where everyone adores him instead of the other, more heroic versions of Tommy. He's not even above killing people he's actually close to, as his two Parental Substitutes Rita and Finster 5 can attest to.
