Moral Event Horizon / Visual Novels

Moral Event Horizon in Visual Novels.

Visual novels with their own pages

• Nasuverse
• School Days

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• Ace Attorney:
  • Manfred von Karma killed Edgeworth's father because he tarnished his perfect record, adopted Edgeworth, trained him to be a prosecutor, then set him up to be convicted of murder. He was the prosecutor who was trying to prove him guilty.
  • Damon Gant crossed when he killed Neil Marshall, and made it look like Ema Skye did it to force Lana Skye into becoming Gant's puppet for the next two years, culminating in forcing her to take the fall for Gant's murder of Bruce Goodman.
  • Morgan Fey crosses it when she helps the culprit of Case 2-2 frame her niece for murder.
  • Matt Engarde crosses this long before he actually commits a murder, when he, after essentially throwing away Celeste, who loved him, causes her new fiancé, his rival Juan Corrida, to break up with her by revealing that she was once his girlfriend, leading her to be Driven to Suicide. Juan's role in said event could be considered his own Moral Event Horizon crossing as well.
  • While we all knew Dahlia was a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing from the moment she popped up, her status as a monster isn't fully confirmed until the flashback case where she convinces Terry Fawles (implied to be mentally disabled) to kill himself because he doubted that she loved him. This is after framing him for murdering her and later her step-sister, and this is just as he's about to give testimony that might exonerate himself and convict her.
  • If Kristoph Gavin getting Phoenix Wright wrongfully disbarred by tricking him into presenting forged evidence, manipulating his own younger brother Klavier into unwittingly going along with said false disbarment, and subsequently murdering Zak Gramarye, a.k.a. Shadi Smith, in cold blood all because Kristoph was mad that Zak chose Wright over Kristoph as his defense attorney wasn’t heinous enough, then Kristoph setting up then-12-year-old Vera Misham and her father Drew to be killed via atroquinine poisoning in order to cover up his crimes certainly qualifies.
  • The Walking Spoiler villain of Dual Destinies, the phantom, has done so many things that we don't know of that it's hard to say when exactly they crossed it. But during the events of the game, it's either killing a police officer and impersonating him for over a year so he could corrupt the justice system, sabotaging two rockets and killing two people, then trying to pin it on the daughter of one of the victims, or bombing a courtroom and trying to kill everyone in it just to get rid of one quite far-fetched piece of evidence. And they don't regret any of it.
  • Quercus Alba ordering the death of Cece Yew (which doubled as Manny Coachen's as well since he was the hitman and what allowed him to become an Asshole Victim) in Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth and Blaise Debeste, Patricia Roland, and Di-Jun Huang's body double having the real Di-Jun Huang assassinated on a secret trip to visit his orphaned son in the sequel.
  • In Spirit of Justice:
    • Dual Destinies introduced Warm-Up Boss Gaspen Payne, who is a bully and a jerk in that game but otherwise rather pathetic. He cements himself as irredeemable in Spirit of Justice when he calls for the execution of a nine-year-old child just so he can take advantage of a law in the nation he's in to get Phoenix killed in revenge for his defeat the previous year.
    • The Big Bad makes almost every other example in the series look like kiddie film villains. Ga'ran not only kills Apollo's biological father, but she is perfectly okay with letting baby Apollo burn alive in the fire. During that fire, she smears the noble Dhurke Sahdmadhi's name and makes the entire public think he killed Amara and causes them to have a severe hatred of defense attorneys. Not only that, but she passes a law that causes every defense attorney who tries to defend a client in the kingdom of Khura'in to get the same sentence that the suspect would have meaning she's sent hundreds of thousands of innocents to the gallows. And then she even murders her own husband and threatens to kill Amara (who it turns out wasn't dead) and Rayfa should Nahyuta not comply with what she's done.
• Danganronpa:
  • Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc: Monokuma takes a flying leap over the horizon and keeps right on going when he kidnaps 15 innocent students, forces them to murder each other in order to escape, and then brutally executes a student when she dares to defy him. The Reveal that said student was the mastermind's sister only makes it worse.
  • In the spinoff game, Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls, it would be far easier to count the times where Monaca isn't crossing it. To pinpoint the spot where she first crosses it, her complete disregard of Masaru's apparent death.
    • Haiji and the adults cross the line due to Haiji's pedophilic nature, and how they're willing to kill even children who aren't brainwashed. They attempted to kill Komaru and Toko when the latters refused to break the controller (which could've killed the brainwashed children)
  • Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony:

• Korekiyo crossed the MEH long before the killing game even started, murdering close to one hundred girls so his dead sister can have friends in the afterlife. And even if that wasn't enough, there is what he did in his Love Hotel scene.
• The true masterminds of the game basically crossed the MEH by having 53 previous killing games. If we assume that each killing games has about 15 or 16 characters, then about 800 lives were lost all for the sake of good television.

• ClockUp's Euphoria:
  • Kanae had taken a flying leap over the line during the Betty and Veronica Switch in the True Ending.
  • Keisuke crosses it in the end of the Special Bad Ending where he uses all the girls, except Kanae, who he killed, as depraved Sex Slaves: Rika is forced to act like a dog, Byakuya his "work of art" that he tattooed and he constantly whips, Natsuki is his "lewd cow" whose mind have been fried by a powerful drug, and her pleasure nerves were extended to such a point that she is in a constant state of delirious pleasure, and even a slap makes her feel good, and Nemu serves as a trophy in the wall that Takato occasionally uses. The first three are also pregnant, and is heavily implied that Takato is impregnating them constantly... yes, it's that kind of bad ending.
• Heart of the Woods Evelyn Fischer was probably past this by the start of the story, having stolen people's bodies for centuries (resulting in the death of the hosts' souls, save for Abigail), but in-story, she crosses it by using her illusion magic to deceive Madison into going after an illusionary Tara and cause her to freeze to death.
• Galaxy Angel: Prince Eonia Transbaal in the first game may have come across at first as a Well-Intentioned Extremist, even after he wiped out the entire royal family (his own father included) via Orbital Bombardment. However, he definitely crossed it when he sends the Black Moon to destroy the residential district in the Fargo space station (which was full of innocent civilians) as well as devastating Planet Rhome, and it's at this point that the heroes realize that there's no way to negotiate with him.
• A Little Lily Princess:
  • Miss Minchin selling Sara's belongings and forcing her to become a servant when her father dies deep in debt is a cruel act, but one that is arguably necessary due to the circumstances, not to mention kinder than simply throwing Sara out on the street. However, by the time Miss Minchin forces Sara(as well as Becky in Becky's route) to go without food for an entire day when they're already underfed and routinely missing meals, as punishment for offenses that they're not guilty of and/or are too minor to warrant such a punishment(the acts in question depend on the route), not to mention caning Sara on Lavinia's route, she's well past the hope of redemption. Partly as a result of this incident, Sara cuts ties with Miss Minchin the first opportunity she gets.
  • While Lavinia is often casually cruel, she only crosses the line on Jessie's route, when, after Jessie gives Sara a golden heart, Lavinia lies to Miss Minchin, claiming that the heart is hers and Sara stole it. She could have gotten Sara sent to prison if Miss Minchin hadn't been too busy.
• Shinrai: Broken Beyond Despair: Naturally, the killer crosses this by starting a plot that involves murdering some of their friends, as well as by manipulating Kamen, her best friend, into taking part in what Momoko claims is a prank so that Kamen can frame her for killing Momoko, Hiro and Kotoba.
• Umineko: When They Cry has The Witches' Tanabata for Bernkatsel. You initially assume that because of her own backstory, she'd be sympathetic to the protagonists. Then you learn in that story that she ruined Ange's life, just so Ange could die later on in front of Battler. Then she mocks you, the player, and says that's just what you wanted to see! At that point, many players wanted to see her get sent back to the "Groundhog Day" Loop... or worse.
  • Screw you, Erika!. The exact moment for most people differs, but if you haven't felt she crossed it before, there's a line she says in the 6th Episode that hurls her across this line:
    Erika: I dashed all over the mansion, visited all the 'crime' scenes, and...completely severed their heads... All five people I killed......were very much alive and faithfully playing dead until the moment I killed them.

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