Thread:Mesektet/@comment-27729149-20150425082942/@comment-3581997-20150425105603

Okay, well first of all with shorts-based cartoons like Daffy Duck, keep in mind there is no real cannon, each short is basically it's own contained scenario. As for the rest The MEH is meant to show the point when a villain becomes a Complete Monster, when there is no chance for them to be redeemed. If they are On & off villains before that the MEH is the point when they can't go Off anymore, they are firmly on the evil side of the line.

Deadpool for example has no MEH because he is a psychopath, he has no line to cross. But say Mother Mayhem who up until the end game is justifying that all the people she is psychically lobotomizing need to been "reprogrammed for the sake of keeping the peace"- she crosses a MEH when she decides to mass possess her entire nation, not with peace on the line, but rather her own rule. She violates the very standards she set for herself.

It's not simply about committing acts like rape and murder, Zeus date rapes a couple of woman and smites people on a regular basis but doing so never violates the standards he set for himself, he was always prepared to do those sorts of things. But when say alternate reality Superman does that, he accepts there is no coming back because those are things he even considered doing and he crosses his MEH the second he fries Lex Luthar's brain with heat vision.

It's not only when someone violates a standard they and you the audiance thought they would never violate, it is also the point when they stop trying cause they have no standards for themselves anymore.