Thread:Mediawatcher/@comment-3581997-20150607031351/@comment-3581997-20150624070927

With Daffy Duck a MEH seems implausible since he and all the Loney Tunes exist in their own separate scenarios, some times he is in the past, some times the future, Some times he even dies, so the lack of any solid scenario or continuity makes assigning a MEH moot.

With Vegeta on the other hand we have a more interesting scenario. One of the first things we see him do is blow up a planet, not for combat purposes, not even because it is his job, but rather because he doesn't want them telling anyone he and Nappa stopped to help them thus spoiling their reputations. Yet the character feels shame and love and compassion later when his family and even friends are at stake. If Vegeta reached a MEH he would cease to attempt to try to justify any actions or form morals.

Now how does that work?

Well Vegeta was always willing to do things like kill extra-terrestrial life forms, doing so violated no moral code he had thus despite the millions of lives lost it did not affect him, however he never did anything to endanger his own family and has been shown even at his worst to value both family and pride, whether you or I agree with that value is entirely beside the point, which is that matters to Vegeta, thus Vegeta never reached a MEH because he never broke his own moral standards, they were very low standards but ones which he never crossed. A Moral Event Horizon is no a measuring stick for when some one is considered evil by the audience it is when a character values are crippled, So depending on what they value the Horizon point does not need to be consistent across media or even characters. Ned Flanders starts to think he might hate Homer Simpson and nearly has a mental break-down because he never thought he could hate anyone, but Vegeta can go around waiting planets but will never get near his MEH because he has no loved ones on those planets, so his core values are never challanged or endanged,

Or to put it simply, the moral horizon crossed isn't ours the audience, since we all have our own opinions and standards, it is the character's moral horizon crossed. The point where they no longer have any standards for themselves.