Star Trek novels:
- Good Troi Episode: Dark Mirror give Deanna about a dozen levels in badass.
- Jerkass Woobie: Mirror Universe Ensign Stewart is a confirmed Jerkass, but his hopeless situation and powerlessness makes him more pitiable than anything else.
Other novels:
- Harsher in Hindsight (a plot to blow up the WTC in the 1995 Spider-Man: The Octopus Agenda)