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Villainy Discretion Shot

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Villainy Discretion Shot	comment	When a character is explicitly known (but not often actually shown) to have committed acts that are considered a Moral Event Horizon moment, but who are either discreetly downplayed or conveniently not discussed. This is both to avoid scaring the audience and, presumably, to allow people to continue to like these characters (in a genuine way, not the "so deranged it's interesting" way) without being seen as a monster. This is Offstage Villainy, but not a sympathetic type; rather, a variation of the Gory Discretion Shot on a grand scale. Happens a lot in comedy: nobody cares about or bothers to refer back to all the people Sam & Max have directly or indirectly killed, or have been implied to have killed. Compare and contrast with Bait the Dog; the only difference between this trope and that one is that we actually get to see the Kick the Dog moment, which causes us to reconsider our sympathy for the character. Also compare A Million Is a Statistic, which is more likely to let the character keep their audience sympathy. Examples
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_109b4a22	comment	Stans in Predators is a death row inmate who admits to having killed 38 people just because he could, and casually talks about committing rape, yet is portrayed as a loveable jerk who is concerned about others and sacrifices himself to save them
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_1331990c	comment	In Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Kyouko deliberately allows familiars to roam around free because killing them won't give Grief Seeds (which are necessary for her to use magic and avoid becoming a witch herself), and only kills them once they are full-fledged witches. While this practice outrages Sayaka, the implications of doing so are never completely explored, especially after Kyouko is portrayed in a more sympathetic light.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_183290f3	comment	Tactics Ogre tries to subvert this trope by continually mentioning that Denim/Leonard partook in a massacre where 5000 people were killed - an entire city wiped out. Of course, by Chapter 4 everyone has forgotten about it.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_19d740d8	comment	In The Great Mouse Detective, a lyric in the Villain Song goes "Worse than the widows and orphans you drowned!"
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_1f0fe64e	comment	Deconstructed in Monster. We've already seen Johann kill people in the flesh. What is so damn frightening about him is his ability to indirectly kill others via sheer charisma.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_21bf1f01	comment	Tuco of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly has a rap sheet that indicates he's a rapist and mass murderer. He doesn't do anything nearly that bad on camera and is presented as a humorous character- and the Long List of his crimes is itself somewhat Played for Laughs. It's possible some of the crimes were made up because he had reason to increase the price on his own head.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_24e41891	comment	Used to brilliant effect in the earlier seasons of Dexter, in which the eponymous character is a mass murderer with a body count of, at the very least, three dozen people. It's stated numerous times that he only kills murderers (or in one instance, a child molester who was stalking his girlfriend's daughter), his actions are sometimes shown to prevent further deaths, and it's made abundantly clear that most of his victims are vile, disgusting, irredeemable scumbags far worse than him. All of this assists greatly in portraying Dexter as a Sociopathic Hero and perpetuating the Black-and-Grey Morality of the series. Later seasons gradually avert the trope, as Dexter's grip on his "code" becomes more slippery. This came to a head at the end of Season 7 when he attempted to murder a police captain in order to keep himself out of prison.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_283b23c1	comment	Played very straight in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's. Signum, Vita, Shamal, and Zafira are constructs designed to protect the Book of Darkness. They've been around for centuries, and it's hinted that they may have killed hundreds of people prior to joining Nanoha's circle of (very forgiving) friends. Hayate happens to witness the Wolkenritter fighting in the past in a Pensieve Flashback, and while she objects to what they're doing, she mainly sees them as victims and sympathizes with them. In the next season, they accept several new friends into the fold. Although most of them have not been explicitly shown killing, Cinque did kill Zest, and it can be safely assumed that most, if not all, have some blood on their hands by season's end, considering that they attacked and disabled the Einherjar, and the only people they were not allowed to kill in the last battle were Subaru, Erio, and Fate.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_32c541e6	comment	The Fullmetal Alchemist manga, and Brotherhood anime, has this when it comes to Barry. He's only ever shown killing one person on screen, the officer who came to investigate his and Alphonse's fight.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_34d050c6	comment	In Disney's Darkwing Duck, of all places, the comedic villain Megavolt is mentioned as having been sent to the electric chair twice. Granted, this is basically a joke about the villain's electrokinetic properties, but it also brings up the Unfortunate Implications that the most Harmless Villain on the show is either a multiple murderer (the more likely scenario) or a child rapist. In his origin story, the villain Bushroot actually kills two people, and later their dead bodies are shown onscreen being examined by the cops (granted, he cocooned them in vines, but the resulting mass is still clearly man-shaped and clearly dead). He gets the same comedic treatment as the rest of the show's characters.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_3e5de40b	comment	It's outright stated that Doug from Scrubs has killed many of his patients due to his complete ineptitude as a doctor. The hospital staff have named a cause of death after him ("Upstairs, they call that a Doug."). Hell, while he was in the middle of reciting a (long) list of people he had killed, another patient of his flatlined. This is Played for Laughs. It gets particularly odd when you consider that a patient dying because of a mistake on the part of any other character is something entirely serious. The only episode that treated Doug as a serious character at all was the one where he discovered that his tendency to kill people made him an excellent pathologist... EXCEPT for having trouble taking care of the bodies after analyzing them.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_41b0198a	comment	In The Dresden Files, Marcone is regarded as a crime lord and general vile scum. The worst thing he definitely does is run a brothel. A clean, safe, honest brothel where the prostitutes are treated well. It's hinted that he does worse, but exactly what is never said. Combined with the frequency that he fights with the good guys, he can come off as something of a Designated Villain. Next to ancient vampire armies, fallen angels, and literal forces of nature, the mob boss of Chicago is relatively low on the Sorting Algorithm of Evil. Marcone is a bit of a subversion - part of his characterization is the dichotomy between the sort of bastardy typically associated with his unlawful enterprises and the fact that Marcone himself is not all that much of a bastard, and has rather high standards. The short story Even Hand shows more of how he earned his reputation. He's definitely an extremely ruthless and dangerous man who personally executes criminals who break his rules and nearly orders a civilian's death in order to keep a secret.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_455dd62c	comment	Hilariously parodied in The Carol Burnett Show in a sketch involving a doomed romance between a man on his way to death row and a woman with a terminal disease. The man's guard likes his prisoner and tells him so, adding that, "I'm sure all the people you killed had it coming... all 48 of them." The man replies, "I'm not so sure... Mom and Dad had their good points."
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_4ab17360	comment	Koga and his pack from Inuyasha massacred Rin's village with the intent of eating the villagers. Conversations he and his pack have in their first few appearances make it clear that this is a normal occurrence. After Kagura kills most of the pack to trick Koga into trying to kill Inuyasha, this is hardly ever mentioned again, and they stay on fairly good terms with the other heroes. (Yes, they stopped hunting humans for food after that, but it seems Koga only made that decision to impress Kagome.)
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_53a73ca0	comment	In Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Anakin begins to strangle a defiant Poggle the Lesser using the Force. The rest of the interrogation is never seen, but when Anakin comes back to the other Jedi with important information, they pointedly wonder just what Anakin did to get their uncooperative prisoner to talk. Keep in mind that so far, the series has distinctly avoided Anakin's dark side.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_550ab4bd	comment	After Veronica's defeat in Strangers in Paradise, we see her duct-taped to a chair while Tambi looms over her, knife in hand. Veronica is later found distributed across a large part of Long Island. Tambi is still portrayed as mostly sympathetic, and Katchoo still hugs her when they meet.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_5ce2f08b	comment	Played straight with (most of) the Noah's Arc Circus performers in Black Butler, but not in the Book of Circus anime, which adds a wonderfully creepy scene of them kidnapping a little girl - and killing the officers who come to rescue her - that wasn't in the manga.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_5ed710fb	comment	Kind Hearts and Coronets makes murder seem like a rather jolly gentleman's pursuit by never dwelling on its impact (except for a few scenes after the death of Henry showing Edith's grief) and by making the murders themselves seem rather funny. The audience can be forgiven for watching this film and either forgetting that Louis is a serial killer or rooting for him in his cull of detached family members.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_6c9193a1	comment	The Venture Brothers has Dr Venture's Joycan, Powered by a Forsaken Child (though it isn't stated whether Venture killed the orphan or merely acquired the heart after he/she died of something else).
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_6f734712	comment	The number of people that have been killed one way or another by Lana of Smallville, who has yet to be arrested. Looking back on it, it's pretty impressive. Unless it's relevant to the plot of the particular episode, very few people in Smallville seem to pay mind to the fact that just about every other villain of the week that wound up dead somehow by episode's end was last seen in a scuffle with Clark. Only once does Lana acknowledge the subject of her weekly stalkers winding up impaled on something thanks to him over the course of the entire series. The new sheriff does mention in passing all the crime scenes Clark has been associated with. But after she gives him the old "I got my eye on you, boy" riff for a few episodes to establish that she's a hard-ass, she becomes just as numb to the recurring coincidences as all the other Smallvillians.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_701f0ece	comment	Really all of the Apostles in Griffith's new Band of the Hawk in Berserk qualify, but especially Irvine and Locus, because both seem to be fairly decent, noble people. You can only become an Apostle by crossing the Moral Event Horizon, so all of them must have done something horrifically evil in the past; the audience just hasn't been shown whatever it was. Speaking of Apostles, Rosine gets a fairly straightforward one in a flashback at the end of the Lost Children arc. We see the very moments leading up to her sacrifice of her parents but it ends once the Beherit activates.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_708ae58b	comment	Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures does this all the time, with what sometimes seems like half the cast. (More like a third or a fourth - not counting all the unnamed 'cubi milling around on the edges, torturing/killing/eating the souls of random victims.)
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_725fd39f	comment	In the CATverse, Jonathan Crane is a multiple murderer who is prone to extremely Disproportionate Retribution and has experimented on innocent civilians. While the stories make a point not to sugar-coat his personality or his behavior, his more violent actions are generally not given much focus, and he has both a truly nasty childhood and sympathetic moments with his henchgirls. His henchgirls are more Affably Evil than anything else and are presented as likable characters, but are still party to kidnapping, torture, and murder. There is one major exception to this - in Small World, Crane commits a graphic murder and tortures a child multiple times, his mother and sister respectively, even disturbing his henchgirls.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_73d7930f	comment	From Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Garak used to be a member of the Obsidian Order, the Cardassians' version of secret police. Considering what perfectly normal citizens will cheerfully do in the name of Cardassia (one notable Cardassian torturer had his daughter at 'work', while still behaving like a kind and loving father), the exact details of what a member of the Order gets up to is best left unmentioned. If he wasn't such a Magnificent Bastard and on the side of the Federation (and he's only working with the Federation because he detests what the Dominion has done to his beloved Cardassia), he'd be a villain. Noteworthy is the time when Garak responds to a dream of Bashir's where he was the enemy. "Are you saying that after all these lunches we've had together, you still don't trust me? There may be hope for you yet." Notably averted in the episode "The Die is Cast" when the audience does get to see Garak interrogate and torture Odo. In this case, the resolution of the torture session involves Garak desperately pleading with the subject to give him something, anything, so he can justify stopping. The look of relief and horror on his face when it finally ends shows he's far less comfortable with cold-blooded torture than he used to be. Later episodes firmly establish that he's still the resident dog-kicker (and quite good at it), but only when it's absolutely necessary.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_77490ea8	comment	In Suicide Kings, the film will show you Lono repeatedly hitting an abusive drunk in the face with a toaster, Lono beating a money launderer senseless with a golf club, and Lono shooting a pair of Evil Debt Collectors, but when it comes time for Lono to kill the Star-Crossed Lovers Max and Elise, the camera cuts away just before the shots.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_7db5e90f	comment	Used with many of the desperadoes Lucky Luke encounters in order to explain their notoriety. If rumours and wanted posters are to be believed Phil de Fer, the original Dalton gang, Joss Jamon, and most specifically Pat Poker and Billy the Kid have quite a remarkable body count. In Billy's case, it is said that many of his victims were fellow criminals and Luke himself calls him worse than the Daltons (the new ones at least).
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_8843b0a7	comment	In King of New York, it's understood that, yes, the Villain Protagonist is a drug lord and, yes, he does sell nickel bags of coke and smack all over Harlem, but it's a purely intellectual understanding. We never see any of his men hand over any drugs to shaking addicts jonesing for a fix.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_99ca8dc9	comment	While Daranimaru Goryo of Muhyo and Roji does some fairly nasty acts when he's shown, such as charging an orphan $50,000 for an exorcism, and laughing about a single mother going insane after her daughter's death, many of the Goryo group's more ruthless business practices are never shown, and they attempt to open a law office in Muhyo's territory by challenging him to a ghost removal contest. Goryo wins, but returns Muhyo's office to him after Muhyo saves him from Ark.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_9e2f90f4	comment	Many characters in One Piece arguably get this treatment. The details of how Kuma came to be known as a "tyrant" are never shown, many Ineffectual Sympathetic Villains work for Big Bads, and it's implied that Buggy blew up inhabited areas with his cannon before the story began.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_a02270dc	comment	8-Bit Theater is perhaps the purest distillation of this trope, due to a combination of the Crapsack World setting and being a deconstruction of the typical sociopathic RPG party, with atrocities committed left, right, and centre by protagonists, antagonists, and others both onscreen and offscreen, with precisely one death that wasn't done comedically (and that was for about two pages).
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_a2c37f38	comment	In the backstory of Planescape: Torment, the original incarnation of The Nameless One did something so terrible that even a lifetime of atonement wouldn't be enough to make up for it, which led to him seeking immortality in hopes that several lifetimes of atonement might do the trick. It doesn't work The game never gives specifics as to the nature of his unforgivable act.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_a78cc92f	comment	Happens with some Chick Tracts that involve evil people finding redemption, presumably to avoid having them come off as Karma Houdinis. One tract, in which a prisoner has several other prisoners killed for refusing to smuggle contraband in, has the event happen offscreen.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_b4fe32c9	comment	It's entirely probable that the title character of Invader Zim has a body count in the millions, stretching across numerous solar systems, yet he's mostly treated as an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain. While most of his past acts weren't really evil, just incredibly incompetent, it's amazing he isn't treated more seriously.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_bca72091	comment	Tom Nook from Animal Crossing. He has a virtual stranglehold on the economy and property market of Animal Crossing, and practically enslaves you within the first ten minutes of the game; it doesn't help that he's a tanuki, who are right little bastards when you read up on them. Used as the basis for an infamous Let's Play, The Terrible Secret of Animal Crossing, in which Nook literally enslaves the narrator for unspeakable purposes. Most of the other portrayals of Nook either fall into his "merely" being an autocratic slum lord, mob kingpin, and black marketeer, or else paint him as the nicest landlord you will ever have.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_c01688c8	comment	In Batman (1989), only minimal attention is actually paid to the dozens of people Joker has killed.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_c19424b6	comment	Another comical example is Black Adder. Various incarnations of Edmund have definitely committed a fair amount of murders and other unscrupulous deeds on innocent and not-so-innocent people, but when shown at all, they're generally in a humorous style to downplay his sociopathic tendencies.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_c7912cea	comment	On Jimmy Two-Shoes, Heloise commits all kinds of Kick the Dog acts, and it's hinted that she tortures people for fun. Yet all this happens off-screen so she can continue being the Anti-Hero.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_d637e9aa	comment	In the My-Otome manga, Nagi is said to have started wars in the past over minor slights. He's quite the Jerkass in his panel time, but he seems to be portrayed as the least evil version of Nagi, particularly when he sacrifices himself to save Manshiro.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_e293455a	comment	For most of her time in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Anya was treated as an entirely comic character, her anecdotes about the various horrific punishments she inflicted during her centuries as a demon being more likely to cause a moment of bemused awkwardness in the conversation than any outrage or shock. Eventually somewhat rectified (long, long after her introduction) with the episode "Selfless". Harmony, once just an idiot classmate, is killed and turned into a vampire, which in the terms of the series means it's a demon wearing Harmony's body. The demon, who was literally biting Willow at one point (that doesn't cause a turning) is treated like a big ding dong and laughed at as if it was just Harmony forgetting what the capital of the United States is. This activity continues to many later episodes, including Xander (who has a serious hate-on for all vampires, much more than Buffy).
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_f31d7d98	comment	Nobody in Drawn Together ever seems to note that Captain Hero single-handedly caused the destruction of his home planet, killing everything on it, after the episode "Little Orphan Hero". Of course the same could be said for his other obliviously destructive actions, such as maiming or murdering all of the participants of a charity fundraiser to give himself a sense of pride, causing innumerable car crashes to please Clara, and generally wreaking havoc on everybody around him. Being a Black Comedy though, this may just be used to cement him as a Heroic Comedic Sociopath, and the Negative Continuity probably doesn't help.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_f38f5664	comment	In the The Lion Guard episode "Return Of The Roar," Kion's friends state that Janja and his hyena pack have killed enough of the gazelle they're attacking to feed them for months and they're still attacking. Despite this statement, there are no dead gazelle anywhere to be seen.
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_fe2020ef	comment	Justified in Layer Cake; the protagonist is a cocaine dealer responsible for getting an awful lot of product out onto the streets, but he himself finds the end result of his work to be distasteful and deliberately steers clear of cocaine users. A more sympathetic example than most, as it's implied that because of this he's making plans to leave the business behind him.
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