A genuinely good hero gets crushed by responsibility and slowly goes insane

[u/Outrageous_Gene_7652]

Hal Jordan (Green Lantern): Civilian life in shambles, overworked superhero life, spiralling mental health for years and unable to cope with the fact that he was'nt able to save his city because he was on another mission, Hal loses his mind, literally trying to bring back the dead, killing the entire corp and later literally erasing space and time to rewrite the universe

Zero (To Be Hero X): Being the first hero of the world and being worshipped for being so since he was 10, Zero achieved Godhood as a 15 year old but ultimately the pressure got to him and he went mad at 17 and nearly caused the end of humanity.

[u/Remote-Monk-8542]

Hiromi Higuruma was a lawyer who dedicated himself towards taking nearly unwinnable cases to defend 'the weak,' ie people who nobody was willing to defend.

It tanked his public reputation because nobody is willing to believe his clients are innocent, so the public hates him and assumes foul play/corruption when he succeeds and gets an innocent verdict. The same clients also hated him and crashed out on him when they were found guilty, despite him doing everything he can to help and constantly fighting uphill battles. The court system was blatantly unjust, and gave a client he knew was innocent a guilty verdict based on bogus trials. The client in question immediately looked at him with resentment and betrayal.

This made him finally hit his breaking point. He slimed out the judge and prosecutor of that case then and there, and went on a killing spree right after, convinced that all people are 'ugly' no matter how badly he wanted to fight for the small chance that they might be good deep down.

[u/Alternative_Goat300 → u/Remote-Monk-8542]

Did he actually go on a killing spree? In the anime I swear he said he only killed the judge and the prosecutor? He did kill plenty of jujutsu sorcerers during the culling games I guess

[u/Remote-Monk-8542 → u/Alternative_Goat300]

Judge and prosecutor are the only kills he had before CG.

I was referring to CG when I said he went on a killing spree. In the CG you only needed to kill once every 19 days to avoid death. Higuruma had amassed a whole 100 points. Think it's fair to call it a killing spree personally. The Tokyo Colony was almost cleared out by the time Yuji and Megumi entered it.

[u/Ok-Rock-2566 → u/Remote-Monk-8542]

If I remember correctly it was stated that the sorcerer's he killed all attacked him first. So you can argue that those kills were in self defence 

It is still a killing spree by definition though and you can argue how much of this was in self defence

[u/moneyman259 → u/Remote-Monk-8542]

How did takaba survive then?

[u/Remote-Monk-8542 → u/moneyman259]

Well Yuji fought Higuruma around day 12 or so iirc. After that fight the rule that you can transfer points was added. So basically after that point nobody needs to kill anyone and can just pass points around every 19 days. Probably what Takaba did. That rule was added before anyone would've died from not killing.