“ | If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you ... and I will kill you. | „ |
~ Bryan Mills' warning to his daughter's kidnappers. |
“ | Someone tries to hurt my family—someone I love—if there’s another villain out there putting lives in danger—who’s just keep coming at me until they finally succeed…I won’t hesitate to kill them. | „ |
~ Invincible. |
“ | If I see you wasting food like that again, I will kill you. | „ |
~ Kyoko Sakura. |
“ | You betray me, and I will kill you. | „ |
~ Thor to Loki |
“ | WE ARE, THE LETHAL PROTECTOR!!! | „ |
~ Venom/Eddie Brock |
The following are heroes that, while still generally fighting on the good side, are more than willing to kill villains. In order for this to be considered different from cold-blooded murder, the individual said hero kills is almost always corrupt or criminal in some fashion or they kill in self-defense.
These heroes are usually very strict in terms of not killing innocent people and can be considered in some ways like soldiers or Evil exterminators. They will not hesitate to end the life of a wicked or crazed opponent if they feel it will save the lives of themselves or innocent people.
They're the opposite of Merciful and Pacifists, and also the good counterpart of Homicidal villains.
Reasons of a character of being a lethal hero:
- The hero eventually killed the villain who they originally decided to spare after a fight, only for the villain attempted to backstab the hero as they turned their back on the villain that prompt the hero to do so. The way the hero killed the villain may be done out of reluctance.
- The hero reluctantly killed the villain due to non-lethal solutions had been exhausted and that the villain in question proved to be a Pure Evil person that must be destroyed with one way or another.
NOTE: Characters that kill in cold-blood, with no concern about "innocence" are murderers and serial killers, even if misguided. Lethal Heroes always have strict codes concerning who/why they kill and VERY few Lethal Heroes enjoy killing (e.g. Venom, Akeno Himejima), indeed they often hate the act but do so out of duty or survival. However, Pure Good heroes are never lethal, no matter how heinous the villain is. Even if they take at least one life, then that "murder" is either out of self-defense, in equitable fight, as a last resort and/or in wartime situations with regret and remorse, and/or protecting someone and/or even can be an accident. There's also been times where some Pure Goods came off as genuinely lethal or desired to kill in revenge, but eventually lost those traits. If they were to become lethal, they can no longer be. If those are the cases, they should go under Dreaded, Vengeful, Wrathful, Military, Fighters, and/or Chaotic Good instead of this category. (e.g. General Hubert Galeforce, Tommy Oliver, Goku, Athena, Kasumi, Geki, Mario, Kirby, Pit, Corinne D'Artagnan, Liu Kang, Captain America, Black Panther, Spider-Man from Marvel Cinematic Universe, Samurai Jack, She-Ra/Adora, Madoka Kaname, Preston Garvey, Fox McCloud, Mipha, Yoda, Link, Marth, Fa Mulan, Jonathan Joestar, Captain Rex, Princess Zelda, Ronald "Red" Daniels, Jack Cooper, Qui-Gon Jinn, Aragorn, Nepgear, Po, Superman, Anne Boonchuy, and Gizmo).
- However, lethal heroes can still be sympathetic if their lethalness is limited and usually kind and benevolent toward everyone else (e.g. Sidney Prescott, SpongeBob SquarePants, Patrick Star, Mr. Wolf, Claude von Riegan, Urbosa, Wyldstyle, Korra, Sailor Moon, Ajay Ghale, Invincible, Banjo, Clementine, Rey, Rango and Alan Grant).
Heroes do not necessarily have to kill someone to qualify, some of them just have the potential to do so and can be seen violently attacking someone else (e.g. Hiroki Sugimura and Mr. Wolf).
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- Billy Greene
- Birdie (Street Fighter)
- Birds of Prey (DC)
- Bismarck
- Bismarck Team
- Bismuth
- Bitter-Root
- Bitterman
- Bizuki
- Black Adam (DC Extended Universe)
- Black Bolt (Earth-838)
- Black Bolt (Marvel)
- Black Canary (Injustice)
- Black Cat (Spider-Man: Web of Shadows)
- Black Cube of Darkness
- Black Dynamite
- Black Knights
- Black Krrsantan
- Black Lightning
- Black Spy
- Black Widow (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
- Black Widow (Natalia Romanova)
- Black Widow (Spider-Man: Web of Shadows)
- Black Widow (Yost Universe)
- Black Woz
- Blackstar
- BlackWarGreymon
- Black★Rock Shooter (BRS 2012 Anime)
- Blade (Honkai: Star Rail)
- Blade (Live-Action Marvel Universe)
- Blade (Marvel)
- Blade (Puppet Master)
- Blade of Marmora
- Blaird
- Blaize Skysong
- Blake Belladonna (RWBY)
- Blake Bradley
- Blanc (Neptunia)
- Blanka
- Blaze (Mortal Kombat)
- Blaze Fielding
- Blaze the Cat (Archie Comics)
- Blex Forer
- Blinky Galadrigal
- Blitzcrank
- Blobs (Hopeless)
- Blondie (Sucker Punch)
- Blood Ravens
- Bloodshot
- Bloodshot (2020 Film)
- Bloodsport (DC Extended Universe)
- Blue (Dick Figures)
- Blue (Jurassic World)
- Blue Diamond
- Bluestar
- Bo Dennis
- Bo' Rai Cho
- Bo-Katan Kryze
- Boa Hancock
- Boa Marigold
- Boa Sandersonia
- Bob (Messiah)
- Bob Lee Swagger
- Bob Stone
- Bob Stookey
- Bob the Bulldog
- Boba Fett
- Boba Fett's Criminal Empire
- Boba Fett's Rancor
- Bobby Green
- Bobby Singer
- BoBoiBoy
- Boggy B
- BoJack Horseman
- Bolo (Final Space)
- Boltie
- James Bond (novels)
- Bonnie Bennett
- Bonny (Mini Fighter)
- Booker DeWitt
- Boozer
- Borra
- Boss (Isle of Dogs)
- Bowser
- Brad Vickers
- Branch
- Braun Strowman
- Brenda (Savage Streets)
- Brenda Leigh Johnson
- Brian Godluck
- Brian Griffin
- Brick (Borderlands)
- Brick Tamland
- Brienne of Tarth
- Bright Noa
- Brigitte "Rosie" Stark
- Bristlefrost
- Brock Samson
- Broly (Dragon Ball Super)
- Bronya Zaychik
- Bruce Harris
- Bruce, Anchor, and Chum
- Bruno Bucciarati
- Bryan Mills
- Bryce Fowler
- Brynden Rivers
- Brynden Tully
- Bubbles (SpongeBob SquarePants)
- Bubbles (Trailer Park Boys)
- Buck (Courage the Cowardly Dog)
- Buck Crosshaw
- Bucky Barnes (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
- Bud White
- Buddhist Monkey
- Bugs Bunny (Looney Tunes)
- Bulkhead (Transformers: Prime)
- Bulletproof Jackson
- Bullfrog
- Bunga (The Lion Guard)
- Bunny (Piggy)
- Burai (Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger)
- Burt Gummer
- Butch (The Good Dinosaur)
- Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid
- Butch Coolidge
- Buttercup (2016 Reboot)
- Buttercup (Powerpuff Girls Z)
- Buttercup (The Powerpuff Girls)
- Byakuya Kuchiki
- Byakuya Togami
- Byleth
- C. Berman
- C. Miller
- C.C.
- C.H.E.R.U.B
- Cable (Marvel)
- Cable (X-Men Movies)
- Cactus (Plants vs. Zombies)
- Cactus McCoy
- Cade Skywalker
- Cade Yeager
- Caesar (Planet of the Apes Reboot)
- Caesar's Ape Army
- Caiera
- Caim
- Cain (Fire Emblem - Archanea)
- Caine (John Wick)
- Cait (Fallout 4)
- Cakhmaim
- Cal (Runt)
- Cal-141
- Caleb (Blood)
- Call Guy (Contamination)
- Callisto (Marvel)
- Callum
- Calvin Lucien
- Cameron (Total Drama)
- Camilla
- Camille (Power Rangers)
- Camille (Sky Dancers)
- Camille Montes
- Cammy White
- Campion
- Candelilla
- Candy (Fighting Vipers)
- Cao Pi
- Cao Ren
- Cao Wei
- Cao Xiu
- Cao Zhang
- Cao Zhi
- Captain (Tankmen)
- Captain America (1990 film)
- Captain America (Ultimate Marvel)
- Captain Britain
- Captain Chaku
- Captain Combustible
- Captain Harlock
- Captain Hero
- Captain Jack Harkness
- Captain Jack Sparrow
- Captain Kaizo
- Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers)
- Captain Marvel (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
- Captain Nemo
- Captain Panaka (Star Wars)
- Captain Pikachu
- Captain Piper Faraday
- Cara Dune
- Carl Brutananadilewski
- Carl Grimes (Comic Series)
- Carl Grimes (TV Series)
- Carl Johnson
- Carley (The Walking Dead)
- Carlito Brigante
- Carmen Ibanez
- Carmilla Carmine
- Caroline Cordovin
- Carrie Boyd
- Carrie White