Lethal

The following are heroes that, while still generally fighting on the good side, are more than willing to kill another being. In order for this to be considered different from cold-blooded murder, the individual the hero kills is almost always corrupt or criminal in some fashion, or they might be killing in self-defense.

Lethal Heroes are still 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 purely 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, often hating the act but doing so out of duty or survival.

However, Pure of Heart heroes are never lethal, no matter how heinous whoever they kill 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 wartime situations with regret and remorse. Because of this, these types of Pure of Hearts are instead Righteous Killers with understandable motives to do so. Near Pure Goods, however, can be lethal in small doses or are lethal towards someone for genuinely good reasons.

Lethal Heroes may not be necessarily killing another person, some of them may be merely attacking another person in violent ways.