Monthly Obscure Trope Series Double Feature — He Who Fights Monsters & The Moral Event Horizon

Today’s tropes are brought to you by the heroes that are so brutal and questionable that they’re almost villains. 

Let’s preface this with a quick distinction between heroes and villains, and protagonists and antagonists. 

Every story has a protagonist and an antagonist, but not every story has a hero and a villain. 

What does that even mean?

In short, a protagonist is the main character of a story. The antagonist is the person in their way. For now, let’s ignore that the antagonist ...