Tropescilloscope: Kick the Dog
A gratuitously cruel action serves to darken a character. (read more at tvtropes.org)
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Anyone Can Die
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My Greatest Failure
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
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Hero of Another Story
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Playing Gertrude
It's Personal
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Kick the Dog
Kill It with Fire
It Can Think
Man on Fire
Together in Death
Cain and Abel
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Loads and Loads of Characters
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Once More, with Clarity!
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Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
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