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Always Save the Girl

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Always Save the Girl	comment	The hero makes it plain that they value the life of their Love Interest over those of everyone else: friends, family, True Companions, strangers, even all other life in the universe. It can come about as the result of a Sadistic Choice, only having enough time to rescue one person out of several, a case of The Dulcinea Effect, or whatever other requirements the plot puts in their way and plainly making a decision. As long as the hero shows a decent amount of angst over the decision, the audience might sympathize. This is less likely if the couple in question were Strangled by the Red String or if they've only known each other for a short time. Given sufficient set up, the audience might also feel that the hometown/nation/world deserved it for relentlessly abusing the hero and/or the love interest in general. Sometimes the hero will find a way to save both the love interest and everyone else. If done right, the hero can come out looking even more clever and badass. Other times, the "The Needs of the Many" argument will fall on deaf ears. Not to be confused with Men Are the Expendable Gender, which covers the Double Standard where women in general are more likely to be rescued than men. See Damsel in Distress for cases when the hero simply saves the girl, without the moral dilemma of having to skip saving someone else for doing so. See also Hostage for MacGuffin and Save the Princess. Contrast Bros Before Hoes and Loved I Not Honor More.
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Always Save the Girl / int_109b4a22	comment	Predators: Royce is a Combat Pragmatist who doesn't hesitate to abandon any one of the team that gets injured or falls behind, unless it's lone female Isabelle. The fact that he shrugs and moves on any time she deliberately stays behind to help the others makes it seem more like a spinal reflex on his part than adherence to an honor code.
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Always Save the Girl / int_109f7814	comment	Sherlock: Something like this also happens in "The Blind Banker" — Sherlock pulls a Big Damn Heroes to save John and his girlfriend Sarah when they get captured by the Black Lotus. When General Shen manages to get away, Sherlock is torn between chasing after her or freeing Sarah and, even though John notes that it bothers him he let General Shen get away, he still chooses to stay behind and help Sarah, even though she was out of immediate danger by that point.
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Always Save the Girl / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time: In the episode "Hot to the Touch", Finn is stuck between harming his new crush Flame Princess or allowing her to destroy the Goblin Kingdom. He breaks down over this moral choice and cries. Resolved when Flame Princess sees him crying and comes to the conclusion that he is a "water elemental" and this is why he keeps accidentally hurting her. A gender-inverted subversion in "Burning Low" where Princess Bubblegum forces Jake to plug up Finn and Flame Princess's oxygen supply so that Flame Princess wouldn't burn out the world unintentionally after Finn kissed her. Princess Bubblegum was aware that this would suffocate and potentially kill both teenagers, but even though Finn is one of her closest friends, she prioritized the safety of the planet without hesitation.
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Always Save the Girl / int_11fd6993	comment	inFAMOUS outright averts this when offered a sadistic choice by the villain to save Trish or a building full of doctors. Saving the girl is the evil choice to make and sacrificing her for the good of the many is the good one. Not only that, there's literally NO WAY to save her — you go to save her, she's a decoy and the real Trish is among the doctors. You save the doctors, she's the real Trish.
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Always Save the Girl / int_1331990c	comment	Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Akemi Homura is revealed to have this mindset. Happily, saving the girl in question also coincides with saving the world by ensuring she'll never turn into a super-powerful, world-destroying Witch. Sadly, it's not as easy as it sounds, even with multiple attempts. She's even had to Shoot/Mercy Kill The Girl once, and Kyubey eventually revealed that it was her very actions that ironically led to both the Girl and the World getting screwed at the same time, but the sacrifice was necessary to avoid the universe itself getting screwed by entropy instead. This is deconstructed in one of the series' manga spinoffs, Puella Magi Oriko Magica. At the end of the manga, Homura, Mami, and Kyoko are all alive, and neither Madoka or Sayaka had to sign Kyubey's contract. But Oriko killed Madoka with the last of her strength to try to prevent Kreimhild Gretchen from appearing (since it will go unchecked and destroy the world), and Homura decides to press the Reset Button again, despite the fact that this ending works out well for everyone else. She just doesn't care about a Golden Ending that doesn't include Madoka's wellbeing. In the main series, this is eventually reconstructed when Homura's perseverance finally pays off and Madoka uses her wish to rewrite reality. In the same spinoff, Madoka herself calls out Homura, saying that if she's going to sacrifice innocent people to save her, then she doesn't want to be saved. Homura asks her not to ask her not to save her and says that it's impossible to save everyone in the school so she might as well save her, before putting a barrier around her to keep her safe while she goes off. In Homura's defense, even the much more idealistic Mami notes that it's impossible to save everyone in the school. This happens again in the show's sequel Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion where Homura's desire to save and protect Madoka leads her to hijack Madoka's power, redo her Cosmic Retcon and trap Madoka and the entire universe in what is essentially a Lotus-Eater Machine. Sayaka, a part of the Law of Cycles who knows Madoka better than anyone, gives her a royal chewing out for this... then, after Homura leaves and her friends show up, starts crying Tears of Joy because she's so happy to see them again.
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Always Save the Girl / int_13906bf7	comment	Sly Cooper: If Sly's love interest Carmelita is in danger, he will risk life and limb to save her even if he knows full well that he's headed into a trap; several of his enemies have used this to their advantage. Same with Bentley towards his love interest Penelope. At least until he found out she was evil, which caused him to turn his back on her.
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Always Save the Girl / int_140068f2	comment	Discussed in Courage Under Fire, reflecting a shift in the U.S. military's attitudes toward women in combat. Female soldiers themselves weren't a problem, but prior experience suggested that male colleagues would endanger themselves or the mission to protect the woman.
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Always Save the Girl / int_1510822e	comment	GoldenEye: There is a double subversion. Bond tells Janus to go ahead and kill Natalya, but this is a Batman Gambit. Of course, he ends up saving her.
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Always Save the Girl / int_1543f8a	comment	Deconstructed in Zero Time Dilemma. Junpei willing to go to any lengths to protect her is the main cause of friction between them as most of the time Akane doesn't want to sacrifice other people to save herself. Most of the What the Hell, Hero? speeches he gets from her (and one Bitch Slap) involves sacrificing someone to protect them or suggesting it. In one particular ending he performs Heroic Sacrifice to save her... and sends her over Despair Event Horizon as she watches him die.
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Always Save the Girl / int_181a526e	comment	In the 1972 Devilman anime, the titular Devilman (who in this continuity killed Akira and then took his identity) is supposed to start kicking off the demon army's plans to take over Earth. However, he falls in love with Akira's girlfriend Miki and decides that no matter what, he will protect her. Not only he fulfill this vow, but this is one of the few continuities where Miki makes it to the very end instead of having some horrible fate befall her.
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Always Save the Girl / int_192c0bd6	comment	In the beginning of The Dreamer, Alan infiltrates Gen. Howe's ship and rescues Beatrice.
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Always Save the Girl / int_1beda93b	comment	In Sluggy Freelance, Amospia, later known as "Mosp" commits treason against the forces of good out of the belief that fighting in the war with the demons will get her lover killed. He's not at all pleased, and ultimately gets killed by an arrow that was meant for her.
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Always Save the Girl / int_1c4cbfe6	comment	Surprisingly played straight in the 2011 run of Journey into Mystery (Gillen). When Loki is confronted by the Leah who he created for the Serpent's story he decides to risk everything to give her a chance at having a better future
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Always Save the Girl / int_1c649ab3	comment	The Rising of the Shield Hero puts this mentality through a much more cynical lens with Motoyasu, as he insists on coming to the rescue of every cute girl he meets. Problem is, not only is this mentality born from a selfish desire for a harem that he's nursed from the very start of the series, said cute girls are either perfectly capable of fighting for themselves, never need his help in the first place and ultimately end up resenting him for his forced assistance (Raphtalia and Filo), or are all too keen on taking advantage of it for their own selfish gain (Malty and the rest of his party), and to the point of using him as a glorified attack dog. What's more, this winds up putting said girls in danger by repeatedly antagonizing the person he blindly assumes is "brainwashing" them (Naofumi), and to the point where he outright tries to either maim or kill them without sparing even a second to consider his actions.
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Always Save the Girl / int_1d1591e8	comment	A non-romantic, familial example occurs in Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The turtles are captured by Baron Draxum and the Foot Clan. After a rescue attempt goes sideways, Splinter ultimately hands over the last piece of the Dark Armor in exchange for their lives, not realizing that they've already freed themselves by that point.
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Always Save the Girl / int_1da5c84d	comment	Fear Street has Deena Johnson spend the entire trilogy trying to save her girlfriend, Sam Fraser, from the horrors of Shadyside that is inflicted on the latter. She ultimately succeeds, but at the cost of so many of their friends' lives.
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Always Save the Girl / int_1e7ca85f	comment	Disney's Hercules pulls this with Hercules giving away his powers to make Megara safe. It leads to Fridge Horror when you consider what would have happened if an unlucky accident hadn't killed Meg and returned his powers. Though Herc himself falls straight into Good Is Dumb.
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Always Save the Girl / int_1f76648	comment	A Certain Magical Index: Accelerator doesn't care if you're an angel, an esper, or the entire world's military forces combined; he won't let anything happen to Last Order. There's also Touma, who will help anyone in need. Usually this help involves punching someone in the face. While everything around him is exploding. During one arc, several factions are trying to capture, rescue, or kill Orsola Aquinas due to her supposed knowledge of The Book Of Law. When Touma rescues her, she is surprised and charmed to find that he didn't care about the knowledge at all. He was the only person who cared about her.
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Always Save the Girl / int_1fd2699e	comment	Sibling version in The Girl with the X-Ray Mind. Supergirl needs to help to defeat the Phantom Zoners, and with nobody else to turn to, she resorts to Lex Luthor. As far as Luthor is concerned, the Zoners can wipe humanity out with his compliments; nevertheless, he agrees to team up with Supergirl because the Zoners' scheme has endangered his little sister Lena, and he will not put up with that.
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Always Save the Girl / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem: In Fire Emblem: Awakening, the Avatar is given the choice of whether to give up their existence to end the Big Bad once and for all, or to let Chrom deal the final blow and put it to sleep for 1,000 years. Chrom instantly objects to the former, and if the player chooses the latter option during the final battle, Chrom will insist it was the right thing to do because the Avatar's life is precious to him and the others. If the Avatar is female and married to Chrom, this ending feels a lot like this trope. In Radiant Dawn, Soren's death quote implies this regarding Ike:
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Always Save the Girl / int_21c08fc5	comment	Friendship is Dragons: In the Discord arc, Rainbow Dash is given a choice between her friends and saving Cloudsdale. Unlike in the show, she never turns on her friends. However, Applejack's player steps out of character in order to tear into Dash for making this choice way too quickly.
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Always Save the Girl / int_21e4ee5c	comment	Buck Rogers in the 25th Century has a subversion. The Evil Alien Computer put Buck through having to choose between Wilma Deering and Hawk (an alien from a Proud Warrior Race of birdmen). He chose Hawk because he guessed that Wilma was really a double, put in by the Evil Alien Computer, because the real Wilma Derring wouldn't have been such a wuss.
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Always Save the Girl / int_2212773a	comment	Angel: in "A Hole in the World", Angel nearly makes this choice when he learns that the only way to save Fred is to let hundreds of thousands of people die in her place. He initially spits out an angry "to hell with the world" and storms off to perform the ritual as the scene cuts away. When it returns, though, he's still standing at the threshold, unable to actually go through with it, and he finally, sadly turns away.
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Always Save the Girl / int_2247a14a	comment	The Chronicles of Prydain series has a defiance in the last book. Eilonwy and Gurgi being separated from Taran's group of soldiers after a fight in the woods. While Taran is worried about their safety, he knows it's smarter to follow the advice of his men, who remind him that it's vital that they reach their destination in time and hope for the best for anyone missing. That Eilonwy and Gurgi have managed to pull themselves through scrapes before helped.
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Always Save the Girl / int_225c51e0	comment	Parodied in The Naked Gun 33 1/3. Rocco tells Frank to give him the bomb or he'll shoot Jane. A long discussion about the possible consequences of each action, and which is preferable, ensues. It doesn't help that the terms keep changing.
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Always Save the Girl / int_226f6b3f	comment	On Haven, this is Nathan's fatal character flaw, and almost always crosses over into Love Makes You Dumb territory. It should be noted he does this even when Audrey asks him not to, setting of the Nice Job Breaking It, Hero events of seasons 4 and 5.
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Always Save the Girl / int_2275c659	comment	On House, Foreman secretly switches Hadley from the placebo to the real drug in the drug trial he is working on, something that can end his career if it becomes known. Hadley is a bit weirded out by this, as they had only been dating for a couple of weeks. When the drug gives Hadley a brain tumor and turns her blind he is all set to openly tell his supervisors about it. They gets better.
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Always Save the Girl / int_27b84429	comment	The Last of Us: Joel has spent an entire year escorting Ellie, a girl who is immune to the Cordyceps infection that has destroyed most of humanity, to a militia group known as the Fireflies, who need her to create a cure. However, once the Fireflies find them after they nearly drown, Joel learns that the process of producing the vaccine will kill Ellie. Joel has grown too attached to Ellie to let her go, essentially seeing her as a replacement for his deceased daughter Sarah. He takes Ellie from the Fireflies before the operation and kills their leader Marlene, who was Ellie's previous caretaker, effectively dooming what's left of humanity. Once Ellie wakes up, Joel lies and tells her that the Fireflies had stopped looking for a cure, and it's implied that Ellie knew Joel was lying and that she wanted to die.
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Always Save the Girl / int_28fe1376	comment	In the Fringe episode "And Those We've Left Behind," a man uses his wife's research to create a time bubble to go back to a time before she succumbed to Alzheimer's Disease even though said bubble is causing anomalies that wind up killing people. Peter surmises that this is all only possible because he recently willed himself back into existence.
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Always Save the Girl / int_2a4c791e	comment	Belldandy in Ah! My Goddess makes it clear she puts Keiichi's life ahead of all others, once allowing the cutting of the Universal superstring rather than killing him when he is possessed by the Lord of Terror, ends up taking the third option to save the day.
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Always Save the Girl / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	Charlie of Heroes. In the first season, Sylar kills her and when Hiro saves her, she is kidnapped by Samuel and left in the 1944.
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Always Save the Girl / int_2d644371	comment	Tales Series: Tales of Destiny: Leon chose this rather than the party members and the general state of the world. It gets him branded as a traitor, killed, and Marian to attempt (but failing) suicide. He doesn't even succeed — The party finally rescues her in the end. In Tales of Destiny 2, Kyle is leaning towards this decision when he learns that Reala will be erased from existence if he kills Fortuna, but Reala slaps him out of it and gives him a What the Hell, Hero? speech setting him straight. Judas also knows he will be a victim of this, but doesn't tell the party until he's fading away to make their decision easier. Tales of Symphonia: In one of the more poignant scenes, it is established that Colette will have to sacrifice her life and become an angel to save their world. Lloyd doesn't like this, and is just barely convinced by everyone, including her, that this is for the best. After several plot twists and a Boss Rush, Lloyd and party run off with Colette after all. And if that wasn't enough of a double subversion, Lloyd argues in a skit that because he was willing to sacrifice Colette for the sake of the entire world, he's a horrible person. The incident in which Governor-General Dorr cooperated with the Desians to get a cure for his mutated wife, resulting in many people being taken to the human ranches and used to harvest Exspheres. Lloyd gets angry at this, telling him that he's endangering many other people to save his own loved one, and ultimately saying that if he actually cared, he would have given up his position to get help for his wife, but Colette calms him down by telling him that not everyone is strong enough to resist the Desians. It's implied that Lloyd has, in the course of the above incident, realized what it's like to make a decision like this, especially when the choice that's ostensibly for the world's benefit won't necessarily be the best thing in practice. Tales of Xillia 2 protagonist Ludger is frequently characterised as being willing to put the life of someone he loves, either Elle or Julius, over the safety of the world, even if it puts him at odds with others he cares about, a trait which extends to his Alternate Self, Victor. In the Bad Ending, Ludger's unwillingness to see Julius die for the sake of saving the world results in him turning against his friends and killing them all, forsaking saving Elle and the world. This is despite Julius being a completely willing sacrifice who doesn't have much longer to live anyway. One of the ways to achieve the Ludger Ending is if Ludger wishes for Elle's safety over the fate of the universe. When pressured on what they'll do about saving the world, Ludger says he can use his own powers to resolve the situation, but Elle ultimately refuses to let him do that because the power will kill him, and instead sacrifices herself to save both him and the world. In Elle's backstory, her father, Victor, is a Fractured version of Ludger who failed to complete Origin's Trial after travelling with another Fractured version of Elle with violet-eyes. When it was discovered that Ludger's daughter would be the Key of Kresnik with the powers needed to save their world, Bisley and Ludger's friends and family try to convince him to give her up for the sake of their world. Ludger refuses and ultimately kills Bisley, Julius, and his friends, when Bisley tries to kidnap the newborn Elle. In Arc 6 of Tales of Asteria, Victor's backstory involves the violet-eyed Elle he travelled with being set to be sacrificed by her father, with the justification that it's for the sake of the world. Fractured Ludger refuses and declares he'll protect her even if it makes the entire world his enemy, and kills violet-eyed Elle's father.
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Always Save the Girl / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	In Justice League, Morgaine le Fey attempts to manipulate the Martian Manhunter into betraying his new world and his allies for the promise of restoring his dead world — and with it, his wife and children. Defied in that only when his psychic assault on Etrigan causes him to see how Jason Blood had fallen for a similar offer, and been betrayed, did he realize that the offer was false and foil Morgaine's plan.
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Always Save the Girl / int_2e645086	comment	In The Sorcerer's Apprentice, despite knowing the consequences of doing so, Dave gives up the Grimhold and Merlin's ring to save Becky. Despite the consequences, Balthazar admits that he would have done the same.
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Always Save the Girl / int_2f9517bf	comment	D.Gray-Man: Cross Marian claims to have this mentality. The team of Exorcists sent to find him end up battling Tyki on the Ark. Cross is sneaking around behind the scenes, and is aware of the younger Exorcists fighting down below. He goes to save everyone. He claims he saved Allen because he needed him. Later, while the ark crumbles, Cross holds Lenalee close while trying to halt the download process of the Akuma Egg. Then later, while flirting with Lenalee, he goes on to say he'd have come to help everyone sooner if he'd known she was with them.
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Always Save the Girl / int_2fee008d	comment	Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, just like everything else, takes this trope and cranks it past absurdity. It's also a Defied Trope. Simon does everything in his power to save Nia from the Anti-Spirals, and in the end is unable to save her. However his own spiral power has grown so much he could theoretically use it to revive her. It's heavily implied doing so would cause so much damage to the universe it'd cause the calamity that the Anti-Spirals were trying to prevent. So Simon refuses. He could literally just will Nia back to life if he so chose but does not so as not to destroy the universe.
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Always Save the Girl / int_3055fc61	comment	Golden Sun gives us Felix's big Establishing Character Moment at Venus Lighthouse: standing up to the endbosses over Sheba (at Level 5!), then jumping off the top of the Lighthouse to save her when she falls off, endangering himself and the mission to restore Alchemy to the world twice for the sake of some girl he implicitly just met.
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Always Save the Girl / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: Obito over his crush Rin. When Rin kills herself by jumping in front of Kakashi's attack, Obito decides to destroy the world in order to create a new one where Rin is alive.
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Always Save the Girl / int_30b255fb	comment	In the Supergirl story arc Bizarrogirl Bizarro #1 needs help to fight Godship so he creates Bizarrogirl. Then he decides he can't risk her life and decides to take her to Earth, abandoning Bizarro World.
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Always Save the Girl / int_30f89b1e	comment	Exploited in Plunkett & Macleane when despite Plunkett's warnings he'll be captured, Macleane attempts to to go back and save Lady Rebbecca despite the risks. It is a trap and General Chance is waiting to arrest him.
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Always Save the Girl / int_312ba4d0	comment	Kyo of Black Bird (2006), on top of his Single-Target Sexuality for Misao, will pay any and all costs, including the destruction of his clan to save Misao, because he really doesn't care about much other than her.
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Always Save the Girl / int_3188db6e	comment	In The Wolfman (2010), Gwen's actions in protecting Lawrence from Aberline are understandable, but she is also putting the chance that he can be cured above the likelihood that he will kill again (and in fact Lawrence does end up infecting someone directly because of her.)
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Always Save the Girl / int_32c541e6	comment	Fullmetal Alchemist: It's subverted in one scenario. Ed's Love Interest is used as a hostage by one of the more Ax-Crazy villains in the story, who tells him to obey some murderous orders from the military higher ups. Ed seems to comply pretty quickly, but in reality he is already planning to Take a Third Option. It's also averted when a villain attempts to force Roy Mustang to attempt human transmutation by having a mook cut Riza Hawkeye's throat; recognizing an eye signal from the wounded Hawkeye, Mustang realizes that if he saves her, not only will he lose limbs or organs and become the last tool the Big Bad needs to bring about the end of the world, Hawkeye will kill him. He refuses. Unfortunately, even after a Big Damn Heroes moment, the villain's bosses manage to somehow force him to do human transmutation against his will, albeit with a method that severely weakens Pride as a result. When Roy is giving in to Revenge Before Reason, Riza stops him from going too far by threatening to shoot him — as they agreed if he ever strayed from the path he had chosen. He asks her what she plans to do after she kills him, and she admits she's going to kill herself, since there will be nothing left for her. That is what finally convinces him to step back.
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Always Save the Girl / int_32d026ec	comment	Rave Master: The villain Sieg Hart wants to kill Elie to prevent the destructive power of Aetherion from awakening and tearing the world apart. He tries to make Haru see his point that one life is a small sacrifice for saving the world, to which Haru replies, "If peace can only come through killing someone, then I don't want it." When the power awakens anyway, Hart is unable to do anything, and it's up to Haru to make the decision... And he decides to Take a Third Option and seals the power without killing her. Later, Haru fights a youth-restored Shiba and is getting his ass handed to him. Haru tries to motivate himself by thinking about how the world will be doomed if he loses, but it doesn't work. Then he thinks about how if he loses, Elie will cry, then defeats his opponent in a single blow.
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Always Save the Girl / int_332cb317	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog (2006): The ending has Elise debating whether or not to destroy the time-destroying evil sun god Solaris if it means she'll never meet Sonic, who thankfully assures her that the world's more important. There's also a gender-inverted example earlier in the game with Amy, following Silver's attempt at killing Sonic:
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Always Save the Girl / int_34a70b48	comment	Batman Forever: Batman knows he wouldn't be able to save either the girl or Robin, then he goes and saves both anyway because he's just that good.
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Always Save the Girl / int_35af2104	comment	Used in The Fifth Elephant: though there isn't a crisis in Ankh-Morpork that needs dealing with, he immediately resigns his commission and goes after her when she leaves the city. He informs the proper authorities first. He's not rash, even when he is doing the romantic thing.
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Always Save the Girl / int_36065097	comment	The Hunger Games: Or rather, "Always Save the Boy with the Bread". Katniss Everdeen continuously prioritizes Peeta's survival over what's best for her own survival, the rebellion and her squad.
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Always Save the Girl / int_370a322b	comment	Gender switch variation in the Season 1 finale of Loonatics Unleashed. When Lexi fails to save Ace and Rev, she gives a surprisingly emotional speech, more or less solely directed at Ace, leading to a slightly awkward moment when he and Rev turn out fine.
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Always Save the Girl / int_3a22d7e2	comment	In Yo-Jin-Bo, the guys often mention how they are More Expendable Than You and are willing to sacrifice as many of their own lives as are necessary to save yours. Sayori, of course, is less than pleased with this.
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Always Save the Girl / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: This trope basically sums up how Snape responded to Lily being in danger. He was happy being a Death Eater until Voldemort targeted Lily (and her husband and child, but he wasn't concerned about them). In this case, the trope worked for good, motivating Snape's Heelâ€“Face Turn as Voldemort could not have been expected to spare Lily since Evil Cannot Comprehend Good. Defied in Deathly Hallows. Harry worries about Ginny's safety while she's at a Hogwarts run by Death Eaters, but resists the urge to go find her because finding the last Horcruxes were more important — though not enough to send her the Marauder's Map, preferring to stare at her dot on the map rather than give her a tool to track said Death Eaters' movements so she could better resist them: Always Remotely Stalk The Girl?
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Always Save the Girl / int_3b91d912	comment	Evangelion 303: In chapter 10 Gendo chided his son for neglecting his duties and to be so fully focused on a pretty girl that he does not care what happens to the rest of the world.
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Always Save the Girl / int_3d776ce3	comment	Alpha Protocol allows you to player to use this trope or defy it. You even get tailored responses to it, either calling you out or congratulating you about it. One particular option (Rome) is to either save the day, or save the girl. If you save the day, everyone tells you that you did the right thing, but Mike is still racked with guilt about it. If you save the girl, everyone tells you that you did the wrong thing, including the girl that you saved. And Mike is racked with guilt about it. And The Bad Guy Wins either way.
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Always Save the Girl / int_3defe34c	comment	Discussed in the sequel, Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. The protagonists break into Belinsk Castle to rescue the pirate Eoleo and the princess Hou Ju. If you try to rescue Eoleo first, a random NPC will interrupt you and ask whether it's customary to rescue the princess first in your culture. If you still continue on, Ryu Kou will interrupt you a little more forcefully.
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Always Save the Girl / int_3e374b30	comment	Bane in The Dark Knight Rises plans on this when he captures Miranda Tate, knowing that Batman will come to her rescue. However, it's quickly revealed that Miranda is a Decoy Damsel.
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Always Save the Girl / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Gender-inverted in Attack on Titan. Mikasa is like this in regards to Eren, who saved her from her parents' killers, killed them and then gave her a place to call home. She was willing to take on the entire military to protect him, and when Ymir supposedly joins the Titans trying to kidnap Eren, and Krista tries to protect her, Mikasa was willing to cut through Ymir and Krista if it would save Eren. She gets called out on this sometimes, most notably by Jean. It is noted by others, such as Reiner, that Ymir cares a lot more about Krista's safety than that of humanity's and Reiner tries to use this fact to in his attempt to recruit Ymir for their Kill All Humans plan.
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Always Save the Girl / int_405243c7	comment	The 100: Season 2 has Finn utterly obsessed with rescuing Clarke, willing to leave allies to die or attack innocent people if it will help him get to her. This is shown to be a very bad attitude to have, since it leads to him slaughtering a village, and ultimately results in his death. Especially since the people he was trying to rescue Clarke from hadn't actually taken her. And when Finn faces consequences for these actions, Raven is ready to do whatever it takes to protect him, even trying to get someone else punished for his crimes, or starting a war with their allies in a (probably futile) attempt to save him. Clarke also inspires this in Bellamy, which becomes a major plot point in seasons 5 and 6. In season 5, it actually comes up multiple times, leading to a breakdown of his relationships with his friends, his sister, and Clarke because of the methods he chooses to accomplish this. In an interesting twist on the trope, Clarke isnâ€™t his Love Interest. Or at least, sheâ€™s not supposed to be. It doesnâ€™t stop other characters from lampshading the hell out of it: In season 6, Clarke is subject to Grand Theft Me by Josephine Lightbourne, a Prime, part of the ruling class of the new planet theyâ€™ve landed on. They survive forever by taking over the body of someone new, and Clarkeâ€™s nightblood makes her a target. Murphy, ever the one to look out for his own interest, aligns with Josephine, but warns her that if Bellamy knows Clarke is dead, then everything sheâ€™s doing is for nothing. Sure enough, Bellamyâ€™s in captivity, planning a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. When itâ€™s revealed that Clarke is alive within Josephine, it switches to a Roaring Rampage of Rescue. Josephine laments that her father's choice to use Clarke as her host is going to be the downfall of Sanctum, because she has all of Clarke's memories about her relationship with Bellamy and knows what he's capable of, even if she does find their friendship odd and confusing.
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Always Save the Girl / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: When a Red Court Vampiress is referring to Harry Dresden's Love Interest, Susan, who was already half-turned into a vampire herself: Earlier, when Bianca smugly thinks she's got Dresden cornered and is going to force him to sacrifice an innocent life, asks him logically if one woman is worth the price of war. He just responds quietly "I love her." note Harry is smart enough to see that a policy of appeasement to the Always Chaotic Evil Red Court would only postpone the inevitable and result in the deaths of even more innocents. Warden Luccio is one of the most battle-hardened Wardens. She fought against the archmage necromancer Heinrich Kemmlernote It took seven times to finally end his life permanently, using every ally the White Council has and modern technology like flamethrowers and knows the danger he and his disciples can bring. In Dead Beat she is leading a contingent of Wardens to stop the Heirs of Kemmler from performing a dark and dangerous ritual on Halloween. In streets now filling with undead minions of the Heirs, they come across some kids trick-or-treating and they stop their crucial mission to move the kids to safety. Luccio is disappointed at Harry when he expresses shock they would do this. Changes. Susan has crossed the line and become fully vampire. Harry uses her as a human(ish) sacrifice to wipe out the Red Court entirely, winning the war and saving countless lives the Reds would have ended in the future. Not that there was much in the way of better options at the moment. Also from Changes, not a Love Interest, but instead a daughter Harry makes it very clear he'd let the world AND HIMSELF burn if it means he can keep Maggie safe. In fact, the entire plot of Changes (as well as most of the preceding books' Red Court-related events) only happens because of people taking advantage of this trait of Harry's. His being the handiest Unwitting Pawn around is a major reason people he cares about get in danger. In Ghost Story Uriel calls attention to the consequences his actions in Changes have had for just one other person he cares about to point out that, basically, this trope is a really stupid approach, while Harry considers some of the global effects of his actions that he might have avoided if he'd been less reckless.
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Always Save the Girl / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural is a twisted-straight version. Heroes are more concerned with their Heterosexual Life Partner than with any Love Interests. Especially the moment in "All Hell Breaks Loose" where the hellgate opens: Sam, Ellen and Bobby try and shut it; Dean gets pinned to a grave by the Yellow-Eyed Demon, and Sam immediately goes to save his brother, leaving Ellen (who is a woman, but not a Love Interest) to try and shut one door by herself. Also of particular note is the end of Season 10: Sam is going to extreme lengths to cure Dean of the Mark of Cain, leading to not only Charlie's death but the release of the Darkness; meanwhile, Dean is talking to Death to try to make things safe on Earth by making sure he and the Mark are contained, but when Death commands him to kill Sam to make sure it will stick, he kills Death instead. Between the two, they choose each other, and the Darkness still gets released. Castiel is willing to go against Heaven and Hell in order to save Dean, rebelling against his own kind in order to protect him, every time he's told to choose between his fellow angels and Dean, he chooses Dean. And he gets called out on it, repeatedly, by various characters.
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Always Save the Girl / int_44fe781e	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion: Gendo Ikari has this mindset. He is obsessed with his dead wife Yui, he doesn't care if the world is destroyed by his meddling with Gods who can cause the Apocalypse, as long as he can see Yui again. Shinji Ikari takes after his father. In "End of Evangelion", when he sees that Asuka is dead he stops fighting, not caring what happens to the rest of the humanity. In Rebuild of Evangelion, when Asuka's Eva is taken over by an Angel, Shinji refuses fighting because he doesn't want to hurt her, and when his father forces his robot to destroy the Angel, seemingly killing Asuka, Shinji attempts bringing Nerv down and killing everyone inside the base, not caring that it is humanity's last line of defense. And when later it is Rei's turn to be absorbed for an Angel, he activates his robot's full power, even though Ritsuko warned him that it would set off the Third Impact. Basically, Asuka and Rei are two of the few people Shinji cares about. Hurt them and expect pain.
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Always Save the Girl / int_457b671e	comment	24 loves playing with this trope; both Jack Bauer and Tony Almeida are put into Sadistic Choice scenarios at different points during the series run, and their differing reactions are part of what make Tony such an effective Foil for Jack. Jack does absolutely everything in his power to Take a Third Option on Day 1, but his wife ends up being killed anyway, having had the misfortune to find out the identity of The Mole. When Tony's turn comes two seasons later, he breaks down completely at the prospect of losing his wife and proceeds to play this trope 100% straight, despite it being presented in-universe as morally and legally indefensible. Agonizingly, it's Jack who has to force Tony almost literally kicking and screaming into taking a third option, despite knowing firsthand what kind of grief is in store for Tony if it doesn't work, and Tony once reminds Jack about he supposedly "let (his) wife die".
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Always Save the Girl / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: Defied with Captain Carrot, who says "Personal isn't the same thing as important." While he wants to get Angua back, he joins Vimes's group to stop the war in Jingo instead of going off by himself after her. Of course, Angua is a werewolf, and Carrot knows it, so he rarely thinks she's in any real danger. Used in The Fifth Elephant: though there isn't a crisis in Ankh-Morpork that needs dealing with, he immediately resigns his commission and goes after her when she leaves the city. He informs the proper authorities first. He's not rash, even when he is doing the romantic thing. With Lobsang in Thief of Time. He stops for his old mentor who is feeling the strain of the Dangerous Forbidden Technique; time and reality itself stops because of it.
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Always Save the Girl / int_475972f0	comment	Gender-inverted (along with everything else) in Y: The Last Man the three astronauts (two male, one female) who avoided the effects of the male-killing plague crashland on earth, their pod in flames from a missile attack. One of them is able to escape the pod before it explodes. It's the woman, who reveals that the other two basically threw her out against her protests. Another character remarks on the apparent stupidity of the chivalry in a world where males are desperately needed, but the woman reveals that it's most likely because she was pregnant with one of the two's sons.)
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Always Save the Girl / int_49a87cb3	comment	Final Fantasy VII: Main hero Cloud Strife will often act indifferent but if there's a young woman in danger, he will rush to her rescue and the game will make the Cloud (the player) choose between Childhood Sweetheart Tifa Lockhart and Innocent Flower Girl Aerith as they both get in danger at certain points in the game and Cloud must come to the rescue and both of them have more than platonic feeling towards Cloud. Unfortunately for players who were interested in Aerith, the Big Bad Sephiroth comes in and ruins any hopes of romance with Aerith as she is Impaled with Extreme Prejudice by him, those players who chose Tifa get a romantic scene between her and Cloud before the final battle. In a Flash Back, Tifa made Cloud promise if she was in any danger, he'd come back and save her. Cloud keeps his promise, when Tifa is knocked out by Sephiroth Cloud takes her to safety and then goes to fight Sephiroth.
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Always Save the Girl / int_4b38bdfb	comment	In Beast Tamer, the reason protagonist Rein Shroud has a powerful Battle Harem is that push comes to shove, he will put everything aside to rescue the nearby Damsel in Distress, and she joins his party in gratitude.
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Always Save the Girl / int_4b887bd7	comment	In Scar Tissue, a character summarizes Shinji's actions in End of Evangelion:
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Always Save the Girl / int_4be1bdd0	comment	Golden Sun: Golden Sun gives us Felix's big Establishing Character Moment at Venus Lighthouse: standing up to the endbosses over Sheba (at Level 5!), then jumping off the top of the Lighthouse to save her when she falls off, endangering himself and the mission to restore Alchemy to the world twice for the sake of some girl he implicitly just met. Discussed in the sequel, Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. The protagonists break into Belinsk Castle to rescue the pirate Eoleo and the princess Hou Ju. If you try to rescue Eoleo first, a random NPC will interrupt you and ask whether it's customary to rescue the princess first in your culture. If you still continue on, Ryu Kou will interrupt you a little more forcefully.
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Always Save the Girl / int_4c4eb80	comment	In Within Ruin, Virgil epitomizes this trope to the point that the true reason behind the group's journey is to collect enough souls to prolong Descarta's life. Even Descarta herself was originally a vessel for the soul of Virgil's first love Ankaa. Virgil went as far as to learn untold dark magics, create a fake religion, and start a war to ensure there would be enough dead to provide all the souls he needed to this end. Virgil does more than just save the girl he creates her.
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Always Save the Girl / int_4c746380	comment	In Inuyasha, Sango's inability to live without Miroku shows how damaged she really is after losing everything she loved, and she'll do anything, anything, to save him. When she fails, she finally gives up and asks to die with him.
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Always Save the Girl / int_4d6ad22f	comment	Tenmyouji from Virtue's Last Reward is a familial example. He will protect his adoptive grandson Quark no matter who he has to screw over in the process, even if it's himself. Junpei hasn't changed at all in 45 years, he's just switched targets.
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Always Save the Girl / int_4df48f8c	comment	Overly Sarcastic Productions discusses this in the trope talk on Save the World. As Red points out, putting the life of a single loved one over the lives of thousands (or billions) of innocents is objectively stupid and unjustifiable, but from an audience perspective, saving a single character we know is more reasonable than saving an anonymous mass of nobodies.
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Always Save the Girl / int_4f6186f6	comment	In Arc 6 of Tales of Asteria, Victor's backstory involves the violet-eyed Elle he travelled with being set to be sacrificed by her father, with the justification that it's for the sake of the world. Fractured Ludger refuses and declares he'll protect her even if it makes the entire world his enemy, and kills violet-eyed Elle's father.
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Always Save the Girl / int_500bac67	comment	This happens again in the show's sequel Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion where Homura's desire to save and protect Madoka leads her to hijack Madoka's power, redo her Cosmic Retcon and trap Madoka and the entire universe in what is essentially a Lotus-Eater Machine. Sayaka, a part of the Law of Cycles who knows Madoka better than anyone, gives her a royal chewing out for this... then, after Homura leaves and her friends show up, starts crying Tears of Joy because she's so happy to see them again.
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Always Save the Girl / int_503d5009	comment	Matsuri of Ayakashi Triangle is generally altruistic and self-sacrificing in his duties as an exorcist ninja, but protecting his childhood friend Suzu is his absolute highest priority, and why he took the job in the first place. He's initially determined to exorcise Shirogane, even though that would make the undesired magic sex change Shirogane inflicted upon him permanent, to eliminate a potential threat to humanity. When Suzu objects to Matsuri sacrificing himself, he reluctantly complies and lets Shirogane live.
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Always Save the Girl / int_51b3091a	comment	Knight Hunters: Subverted at the last second. This is Youji's default mindset, but he ends up killing the woman he loves in order to save his teammates. Aya also makes it pretty clear that he doesn't give a single fat damn about Weiss's mission to make the world a better place if it interferes in any way with his ability to protect his little sister.
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Always Save the Girl / int_5578c87d	comment	In King of Thorn, this becomes a plot point, when it is revealed every character, who have been saving Kasumi every time she gets in trouble, even at possible cost of their life, has been in fact implanted forcibly with the undeniable urge to protect Kasumi at all costs.
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Always Save the Girl / int_563d9c1a	comment	In the Killer Instinct reboot, it's revealed that Ultratech was founded by a man named Ryat Adams. Most of his research, including the creation of ARIA, was dedicated to trying to save his wife from disease. Tragically this failed, and ARIA took over the company after his own demise.
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Always Save the Girl / int_5774c77a	comment	This isn't even a thought for Mulder in terms of Scully; he seems to do it on pure instinct. Mulder is so predictable when his partner is taken, that the villains of the story exploit it. In the 1998 movie Fight the Future, one of Syndicate suggests that instead of killing Mulder, they must "Take away what he holds most valuable. That with which he can't live without." with the next scene showing Scully staring off into the horizon. True to form, Mulder doesn't hesitate to save her, even when it includes going to Antartica and breaking into a top-secret space craft.
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Always Save the Girl / int_57ad0c07	comment	Resident Evil: This has become standard procedure for Leon after he believed Ada to have died in Resident Evil 2. His current VA, Matthew Mercer, actually commented on it in an interview:
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Always Save the Girl / int_58657644	comment	In Below, the instant Gareth reveals he's bringing Cirawyn on the quest to keep Brenish in line, Brenish tells him point blank that her safety comes before his own. This bites Gareth hard later on, and the rest of the quest with himâ€”friend and foe alike.
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Always Save the Girl / int_595dfd20	comment	This Ugly Yet Beautiful World: Hikari is the anthropomorphic personification of extinction. Takeru is a mutation born to stop her. And he still does everything in his power to protect her, consequences be damned. Granted he doesn't know either of those facts for most of the series, but even after he learns the truth it doesn't change anything.
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Always Save the Girl / int_5a1506e6	comment	Allegretto in Eternal Sonata, more so in the Play Station 3 Updated Re-release.
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Always Save the Girl / int_5ada53ed	comment	James Bond: The Spy Who Loved Me: 007 chooses to defy his superiors to save Anya Amasova from the villain's lair, which is about to be torpedoed by the navy. Considering that she said she would kill him as soon as the mission was over, this proves that he really did care about her. GoldenEye: There is a double subversion. Bond tells Janus to go ahead and kill Natalya, but this is a Batman Gambit. Of course, he ends up saving her.
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Always Save the Girl / int_5afbc0cb	comment	The Undertale Continuation Fic Betrayed heavily deconstructs this trope. Before the story proper, Frisk had RESET following a successful Pacifist Run because he had been unable to give Chara her own body, and came to the conclusion that killing all the monsters would strengthen her enough to do so, and that he could just RESET afterwards so he wouldnâ€™t â€œreallyâ€� be killing anyone. Of course, this just taught Chara, who was soulless and therefore did not understand morality, that violence is the best way to achieve oneâ€™s desires, so she wrested control from him and destroyed the world, as in the Genocide Route. Frisk was horrified but had to relinquish his SOUL for her to restore the world, and immediately did another Pacifist Run. The fic starts at that point, with Chara killing Toriel and Friskâ€™s friends and starting another war, and Frisk lost his RESET ability upon leaving the Underground, so he has to live with the consequences of what he had done. Even after Chara has a Heel Realization and is given a SOUL, their friends are still dead and both of them are wracked by guilt to the point of being suicidal, only choosing not to kill themselves because they need to find a way to bring everyone back. Even then, Frisk hasnâ€™t come to terms with the fact that he values Charaâ€™s life more than everyone elseâ€™s despite pretty much everyone calling him out on it, and when the heroes are all arrested and Chara is sentenced to death, with Frisk being forced to carry out the execution, he admits to himself that the rational and logical thing to do is to kill her, since all his other loved ones will be pardoned if and only if he goes through with it, and Chara wants to die as atonement for her actions, but he still canâ€™t bring himself to do so, and the court refuses to negotiate a way out of this. The only reason there isnâ€™t a Downer Ending right there is thanks to Mettaton showing up with a monster SOUL, proving that those Chara killed can be brought back to life. Even after they earn their happy ending, they donâ€™t think they deserve it, and in the Alternative Ending, everyone else agrees that Frisk and Charaâ€™s actions can never be forgiven, so the two of them travel to a secluded location and commit mutual suicide, inverting both this trope and Only the Leads Get a Happy Ending.
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Always Save the Girl / int_5b075d7c	comment	In Fable III, at the beginning of the story you can choose between saving your childhood friend and/or lover, or saving a group of protesters who are dissatisfied with your older brother's regime. To make things worse if you're considering choosing the former, your childhood friend will practically beg you to choose him/her, while the protesters will grovel for their lives as you make your decision.
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Always Save the Girl / int_5b344855	comment	Wolverine: In the final issue of Wolverines, it turns out that this was the secret plan of Mystique. When she learns that her girlfriend Destiny had actually manipulated her, and that she was supposed to revive Wolverine instead, she is livid and destroys the MacGuffin needed to draw Logan's soul back from the void, declaring that she would rather watch the universe die than bring Logan back, if that means she can't have her girlfriend back.
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Always Save the Girl / int_5b408b1f	comment	In The Walking Dead video game, most players choose to save Carley over Doug, not that it matters much since the person you save ends up dying Episode 3 regardless of who it is. It's also averted in Episode 3, where most players choose to save the injured Omid over his Action Girlfriend Christa. In a subversion, however, the person you don't save will manage to catch up. The person you do save will berate you for saving them over the other, however, and both have very good reasons: Christa will berate you for saving her over her injured boyfriend. Omid will berate for reasons that are implied, but not explicitly revealed until Episode 5: While Christa is uninjured, she's also pregnant.
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Always Save the Girl / int_5ba0fc51	comment	Love of Magic: MC makes it clear that if he has to burn down the whole world to save Emily, he will burn down the whole world. When facing certain death, given the knowledge that he can shield Emily, Dylan, and Bella, or he can shield himself, he doesn't hesitate before shielding Emily and his companions. The Horned Lord agrees.
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Always Save the Girl / int_5c07d6ab	comment	Saints Row: The Third: You have to make this choice at the end of the last mission. You can either let Killbane escape and save Shaundi (and Viola and Burt Reynolds), or go after Killbane and condemn Shaundi (and the others) to die. The sequel makes the former choice canon, making it this trope. The game actually starts playing Bonnie Tyler's "I Need A Hero" when the choice comes up. It seems like the devs really wanted you to save her.
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Always Save the Girl / int_5d4da196	comment	There's the choice given in Spider-Man where Peter is forced to choose between Mary Jane's life and the lives of some children in a cable car. It appears for a moment as if he's chosen M.J., but actually he's Taken a Third Option.
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Always Save the Girl / int_5edc0d6e	comment	TF2 Analysis: In "Seven Nation Army", this is invoked by Dr. Wolf to get Firebrand out on the battlefield against Dustykatt despite what's already happened to Firebrand today: because Ink Rose is out there.
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Always Save the Girl / int_5f3bd79a	comment	In Perfection Is Overrated, Toki is willing to alter events so that Mai, Natsuki and Nao's tragic pasts are changed and they never end up at Fuuka Academy, thereby risking a temporal paradox, so that she can be together with Hayate — all details about Hayate are intentionally left vague, and the Usurper even questions her superficial attraction to him compared to how far she will go to have him by her side.
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Always Save the Girl / int_6117815f	comment	The One I Love Is...: In the side-story "Let the World Burn / One Dream at a Time" Gendo explains he had tried to wipe humankind out, destroyed lives — including the ones of his son and the girls he loved- - and got his hands stained with blood... because he had to free Yui. He loved her, he missed her, he blamed himself for her getting trapped inside Unit 01, and he had to set her free, not matter what.
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Always Save the Girl / int_61a39969	comment	Avengers: Infinity War: Sadistically subverted and deconstructed several times: The Vision, whose existence partially relies on the Mind Stone which is what Thanos and the Black Order is after, is told point blank by his Love Interest the Scarlet Witch and his teammates that they will not allow him to sacrifice himself by destroying the stone and attempt to Take a Third Option by safely removing the Mind Stone and then destroying it before Thanos can get his hands on it. In the end, it's All for Nothing. The Black Order's army prevents the safe removal of the Mind Stone and Thanos arrives, forcing the Scarlet Witch to destroy the Mind Stone and the Vision with it. And then Thanos reverses her sacrifice using the Time Stone, kills Vision in front of her, and completes the Infinity Gauntlet, thus ending half of all life in the universe. Earlier, Star Lord's Love Interest Gamora makes him promise to kill her should Thanos capture her. Peter is naturally reluctant, but when the moment comes he manages to bring himself to shoot her, only for Thanos to use the Reality Stone to render his gun useless and takes Gamora with him. Gamora's survival is also temporary as Thanos later sacrifices her to obtain the Soul Stone.
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Always Save the Girl / int_61b1bd67	comment	Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-. At the beginning, it was touching and powerful when Syaoran was willing to give up everything he knew, and even Sakura's love for him, in exchange for saving her life. In later chapters, when we find out that, for Sakura's sake, he has purposely damned an entire town, watching them melt before his eyes, chosen staying with her over his own world and family at the age of seven, and then made a Deal with the Devil to radically alter — and not for better — the life of her entire family, herself, and his own parents, along with, potentially, all of space and time it's starting to become... a tad aggravating. The town and its people were fake, things ended up okay (sort of), and he really didn't have a choice in the matter anyway.
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Always Save the Girl / int_629cd094	comment	Dragon Age: Origins: If a female Warden romanced Alistair, he chooses to deliver the final blow to the Archdemon, killing himself in the process because he won't let the woman he loves die. And no, he can't be persuaded out of his decision. It can be avoided in multiple ways, like accepting the deal that Morrigan offers near the end of the game, or simply leaving him behind when you go to confront the Archdemon. The sequel lets your Player Character do this, if you romance Anders. You can let him live after he blows up the Chantry... despite all the fallout that comes with the decision, such as Sebastian swearing vengeance.
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Always Save the Girl / int_62f94c6	comment	The Dark Knight Trilogy: The Joker is counting on this in The Dark Knight, as he reverses the two hostages' locations when he tells them to Batman to ensure that Batman will save Dent even though he wanted to save the girl. Bane in The Dark Knight Rises plans on this when he captures Miranda Tate, knowing that Batman will come to her rescue. However, it's quickly revealed that Miranda is a Decoy Damsel.
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Always Save the Girl / int_638624c8	comment	The end of Slayers NEXT, when Lina chooses to cast a spell that can potentially wipe out the entire universe just to save Gourry. However that season's Big Bad was pressing her very hard to force her to cast that particular spell; Lina would have been killed if she didn't cast it, and that she had been severely psychologically abused by this point. Moreover, she had made very clear that she did not want to do it and she tried all alternatives she could come up with until she ran out of options. At the end she had to choose between casting the Giga Slav and maybe destroy the universe or getting killed by the Big Bad together with Gourry and all of her allies. Neither of these outcomes happen, but solely because the Lord of Nightmares possesses Lina's body to finish the Big Bad herself.
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Always Save the Girl / int_6418fc5	comment	.hack//G.U. has this as a central theme in the story. Anti-Hero Haseo makes it clear right from the beginning that he intends to revive his comatose crush Shino and doesn't care what he has to destroy in the process. This causes a LOT of problems, though Haseo mostly doesn't care... at first. Haseo's own character arc is, briefly put, his learning that although saving Shino is still important his friends and the other players matter too. Ironically, not only did Shino see him as Just Friends, Haseo can move on from his one sided crush and end up with someone else.
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Always Save the Girl / int_65af8e08	comment	Thousand Shinji: His girlfriend Asuka, Rei and Misato were the three persons more precious to Shinji. When Asuka and Misato got killed and Rei showed up to grant him his deepest wish he asked her bringing them back, not matter the cost. The cost was Third Impact.
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Always Save the Girl / int_6744d821	comment	Invoked in The Owl House episode "Clouds on the Horizon". Not wanting to put Luz and King in unnecessary danger when the time comes to stop the Day of Unity, Eda instead sends them (along with Willow, Gus, and Hunter) on the significantly safer mission of busting Luz's girlfriend Amity out of her house when she was grounded by her Evil Matriarch of a mother. All the kids end up getting involved with the Day of Unity anyways, but points for effort.
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Always Save the Girl / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files: This isn't even a thought for Mulder in terms of Scully; he seems to do it on pure instinct. Mulder is so predictable when his partner is taken, that the villains of the story exploit it. In the 1998 movie Fight the Future, one of Syndicate suggests that instead of killing Mulder, they must "Take away what he holds most valuable. That with which he can't live without." with the next scene showing Scully staring off into the horizon. True to form, Mulder doesn't hesitate to save her, even when it includes going to Antartica and breaking into a top-secret space craft. It works the other way around, too, in which Scully will risk everything to save Mulder. She doesn't even let being pregnant get in the way of heading her own private investigation into his abduction, which involves driving cross-country and confronting alien replacements. In fact, it is Skinner who tries to convince her that Mulder wouldn't want her to do this if he had known her condition.
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Always Save the Girl / int_694ab80	comment	Batman Beyond: Terry often prioritizes Max's safety over everything else. Bruce sometimes calls him out on his choice of priorities by telling him he should be dealing with bigger problems. Oddly enough, Terry rarely plays the trope straight with his actual Love Interest Dana, as she is almost never in danger at the same time as some bigger problem.
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Always Save the Girl / int_696b75c2	comment	A Brother's Price has a gender-reversed example, when Jerin gets abducted, his multiple wives all want to go after the kidnappers. The eldest sister manages to change their minds, pointing out that this is just what the kidnappers want, making this a subversion. She, of course, does go after the kidnappers.
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Always Save the Girl / int_6a8d182d	comment	In Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels, the title character frequently works as a bodyguard, and he's told clients to their face that if he has to choose between protecting them and protecting his long-time lover Susan Silverman, he'll choose Susan without blinking. Spenser's blood brother Hawk feels the same way — about the same woman. God help you if you're foolish enough to try to influence either of them by threatening Susan; it's a quick trip to the morgue. For that matter, Hawk will kill you for being a potential threat to Susan.
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Always Save the Girl / int_6abf16c2	comment	The Big Finish Doctor Who play Neverland has an example where the Doctor refuses to shoot his friend Charley, even though she's a temporal anomaly that poses a threat to the whole Universe by her very existence.
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Always Save the Girl / int_6afd0d3d	comment	In Memento Vivere, a Final Fantasy X fanfiction, Auron chooses to protect Rikku instead of Braska during Sin's attack on Djose. He later regrets this decision, lamenting that it was a mistake he wouldn't make again.
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Always Save the Girl / int_6c69797f	comment	Railhead: Nova being in danger seems to bring out the best in the usually selfish Zen, who has rescued her in every book. In Railhead he rejects his new life of wealth and comfort and risks capture by Railforce to recover her from Spindlebridge, in Black Light Express he leads a mission to recover her from the Kraitt, and in Station Zero he, while mortally wounded, carries her body to reunite with the Railmaker.
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Always Save the Girl / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Farscape: The series makes this brutally clear at around the middle of the fourth and final season. Scorpius is on the ship and John is convinced he's only there because he craves the wormhole knowledge in John's head. So far over past seasons, Scorpius threatening John, his family, even the entirety of Earth hasn't made John give in. Meanwhile Aeryn, angry that she has done everything she can think of to tell him that she wants a relationship with him, confronts him on his emotional deadness... and John performs a neat trick that shuts down the comms long enough for him to explain that, yes, he'd let anything else be destroyed, but Aeryn and her child? Not in this universe. But if Scorpius knew that, he'd come after her immediately and he won't let that happen. Next episode, she gets kidnapped by Scarrans with similar designs on wormhole knowledge, forcing Crichton into a deal with Scorpius — trading the wormhole knowledge for his help in rescuing her. Whoopsidaisy. Incidentally, Crichton (and some fans) seem to believe that Scorpius wasn't fooled by the comm trick, and engineered the whole thing from beginning to end. Certainly he got all the information his big brain needed to puzzle out the truth during that same episode.
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Always Save the Girl / int_6f22f406	comment	Seraph of the End: In the finale of season one, Mika begs Yu to escape from the battlefield, but he refuses because Shinoa is held by Crowley. As she begs him to save her, Crowley covers her mouth and tells her cattle don't speak before sipping her blood. Yu stares in horror, and when Shinoa begins crying he hits the Rage Breaking Point and turns into a demonic monster, scaring Crowley and everyone around him. Thankfully a Cooldown Hug from Shinoa returns him to his normal state. As manga goes on, it becomes clear that Yu will always prioritize Mika's survival, even when everything else objects to it or his survival itself is part of the plans of higher beings. When presented with the choice to either revive all of his and his teammates' families or bring back Mika, Yu at first pretends to go with his friends but ultimately decides he's not giving up on Mika (at least noting that he's going to try and find some way to get everyone their happy ending along the way).
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Always Save the Girl / int_6f734712	comment	Smallville: Clark does this where Lana is concerned on more than one occasion. He generally does find a way to Take a Third Option. However, it comes to a head in "Requiem", where Lex Luthor posed a sadistic choice to Clark and the now-superpowered Lana: allow Lana to absorb the kryptonite radiation from a bomb and save the city but sacrifice their ability to be together, or let the city die in order to preserve their romance. Clark and Lana agonize over what to do, but ultimately they decide to do the heroic thing. The Sadistic Choice involved — and the evilly elegant way he Out-Gambitted Clark and Lana into putting themselves in this position in the first place — marked this as perhaps the episode where Lex Luthor officially became the diabolical Manipulative Bastard and The Chessmaster we all know and love-to-hate in the comics. "Bride" and "Legion": When Brainiac possesses Chloe's body, he/she/it proceeds to drain the world of its knowledge and readies Doomsday to destroy what is left. With great difficulty, Clark manages to save both Chloe and the world.
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Always Save the Girl / int_701f0ece	comment	Berserk: Guts only cares about one thing aside from slicing monsters apart and that is former love of his life and former Hawks Captain Casca. While their first meeting was hostile, after Casca grudgingly keeps his body warm with her own, Guts forms strong feelings for her. He was more than ready to fall off a cliff with her and had no qualms blocking arrows shot at her with his body, it's these acts that ultimately cause Casca to fall for him, as she claimed no man had ever shed blood for her in battle before. Guts goes above and beyond protecting her, brutally defending her from violating monsters and when he couldn't save her from Griffith in the Eclipse, Guts becomes borderline insane. In the Conviction Arc. Guts saves the now insane Casca from being burned at the stake as a witch by Bishop Mozgus and his henchmen, who are being backed by all of the citizens who blindly follow whatever he says just to save themselves from damnation. They want to burn her because they think she is responsible for the influx of monsters and evil spirits around St. Albion (and technically they're correct, since the Brand of Sacrifice on Casca's breast attracts evil spirits that are nearby that want to eat her). Guts doesn't really give a damn about what will happen to the innocents caught up in the attack so long as he and Casca survive at the end of it all, and indeed is disgusted that all that these people are even doing is praying and clinging to Mozgus's every word instead of trying to get the hell out of Dodge. He tells Mozgus and the refugees to suck it up and deal with it. After this, Guts has begun amassing new teammates and friends along on his journey, and although he cares for them all, Casca still remains on a completely different level. He clearly puts her well-being ahead of his other comrades (as this was a big reason why he tried to convince one of his teammates to stay with the group since she served as Casca's caretaker) and Guts is fully prepared to drop everything at a pin drop if there is even the slightest chance that Casca will be cured of her insanity.
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Always Save the Girl / int_72f8201c	comment	Chaos;Head: Takumi could have let Norose use Noah II to greatly improve the world but he saved Rimi instead. Of course, that's assuming the psychopathic Norose would use the Noah II as he claimed he would. Much of the story of the sequel, Steins;Gate revolves around saving Mayuri from her fated death. The True Ending changes the girl that needs to be saved to Kurisu. Saving the world from SERN's Dystopia/World War III just happens to be a bonus.
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Always Save the Girl / int_7318210e	comment	Dragalia Lost: Prince Euden cares deeply for his people and his kingdom, but he's shown on occasion that, if pushed, he'll prioritize his sister Zethia over them in a heartbeat. Emphasized in Chapter 15, where his obsession with saving Zethia almost gets everyone slaughtered by the Agito.
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Always Save the Girl / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Kira finds out about Odo's feelings for her when she encounters an alternate future where she had died when the Defiant crashed on a planet and the crew formed a town. The cast were subject to The Time Traveller's Dilemma as going back to change things would result in those being born in the town never existing. Odo pretty much committed chronocide, not just on himself but on the crew of the Defiant and their descendants without even thinking about it. Unlike many instances of this trope, however, Kira's knowledge of this would create a rift between them that would take months to heal. Worf fails to save a Cardassian dissident because he goes back to save an injured Jadzia Dax (who dies anyway a few episodes later). Sisko gives a speech berating him for it, then tells him he'd do the exact same thing.
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Always Save the Girl / int_760e3662	comment	In Wonder Woman (2009), Steve Trevor saves Diana (a.k.a. Wonder Woman!) from certain death at the hands of Ares, the God of War. She then slaps him, tells him she would rather have died and he saved the world, and sulks.
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Always Save the Girl / int_77be988d	comment	With Lobsang in Thief of Time. He stops for his old mentor who is feeling the strain of the Dangerous Forbidden Technique; time and reality itself stops because of it.
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Always Save the Girl / int_7849f0c1	comment	Getter Robo Armageddon brings us the "father/daughter" version: during a discussion, Hayato tells Benkei they can't think now about Kei, and remembers him the world's fate hangs in balance. Benkei's reply is compared with his adoptive daughter Kei, he does not care for the world.
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Always Save the Girl / int_792239e5	comment	Tales of Symphonia: In one of the more poignant scenes, it is established that Colette will have to sacrifice her life and become an angel to save their world. Lloyd doesn't like this, and is just barely convinced by everyone, including her, that this is for the best. After several plot twists and a Boss Rush, Lloyd and party run off with Colette after all. And if that wasn't enough of a double subversion, Lloyd argues in a skit that because he was willing to sacrifice Colette for the sake of the entire world, he's a horrible person. The incident in which Governor-General Dorr cooperated with the Desians to get a cure for his mutated wife, resulting in many people being taken to the human ranches and used to harvest Exspheres. Lloyd gets angry at this, telling him that he's endangering many other people to save his own loved one, and ultimately saying that if he actually cared, he would have given up his position to get help for his wife, but Colette calms him down by telling him that not everyone is strong enough to resist the Desians. It's implied that Lloyd has, in the course of the above incident, realized what it's like to make a decision like this, especially when the choice that's ostensibly for the world's benefit won't necessarily be the best thing in practice.
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Always Save the Girl / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect: After making the Sadistic Choice on Virmire, if the person you saved was your Love Interest, they will call you out on this, blaming their relationship with you for the other's death. This becomes Harsher in Hindsight with Ashley, as one of her letters to her sister explicitly warns her not to get into that situation, although she assumes that she'll be the one making the decision. If you start a new game in Mass Effect 2 without importing a save, the default is always the crewmember of the opposite sex being saved. Paragon!Shepard is a lot nicer about it than most examples of this trope, possibly giving Ashley a bit of a speech on how she shouldn't blame herself for Kaidan's death, but should blame Saren instead for forcing you to choose. Zigzagged in the case of a Male Shepard sacrificing Ashley for Kaidan's sake. At first it seems like an aversion because Kaidan wasn't a love interest at the time. Their Relationship Upgrade in the third game carries the heavy implication that Virmire was the point where Kaidan started to seriously think that Shepard was capable of reciprocating his interest. In a non-romantic sense, if Tali gets exiled on her loyalty mission, Shala'Raan, a friend of Tali's parents and the only admiral who cares what happens to her, will become furious with her and Shepard for not showing the evidence that would have exonerated her, although she calms down after a moment.
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Always Save the Girl / int_7bc04973	comment	In Ghost Story Uriel calls attention to the consequences his actions in Changes have had for just one other person he cares about to point out that, basically, this trope is a really stupid approach, while Harry considers some of the global effects of his actions that he might have avoided if he'd been less reckless.
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Always Save the Girl / int_7d06826a	comment	By the end of the third day in Sweet Fuse: At Your Side, Urabe makes up his mind to do whatever it takes to keep Saki safe... even if it means bargaining with Count Hogstein, keeping Saki locked up for the final three days of games, forcing the rest of their companions to unwittingly kill him and putting everyone else's live in danger, including the lives of their friends and Saki's uncle.
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Always Save the Girl / int_7d8c61a2	comment	Playing a male Sith Warrior or a female Bounty Hunter in Star Wars: The Old Republic? Yeah. The game springs this on you in Knights of the Eternal Throne. You can save Vette or Torian — not both. Vaylin will kill the one you don't save. Yes, you can save the love interest, but you can also sacrifice them. The game accounts for both with special dialogue options.
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Always Save the Girl / int_7dc73376	comment	The Force Unleashed: Starkiller disobeys a direct order from his master, Darth Vader, and rescues Juno Eclipse from The Empirical. In The Force Unleashed II, Starkiller is called out several times by Rahm Kota about how he doesn't care about the war between the Empire and the Rebel Alliance and just wants to rescue Juno.
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Always Save the Girl / int_8022008b	comment	Red River (1995) gives an interesting justification for this trope. Kail goes to all sorts of trouble to keep Yuri safe and while he does care about her well-being, he has a more personal reason to be invested in her staying alive — his Wicked Stepmother Nakia magically summoned Yuri to Anatolia for the purpose of ritualistically killing her to curse Kail and his brothers to die, so her own son could take the throne. If Nakia succeeds in killing Yuri, Kail's a goner. The trope is played with more further into the manga, as Yuri is in danger of threats besides Nakia. Kail occasionally has to remember that he has a duty to the entire empire and must keep that in mind even if Yuri's in danger (for her part, Yuri's usually fine with Kail acting for the greater good of the people). He nearly plays the trope straight in one instance, where Yuri is framed for the murder of his older brother, who had been king, and Nakia tries to use this as a justification to have her executed. Kail nearly goes against all sense and begins to head off to the city-state she's hiding in, only to be stopped when Ilbani threatens to commit suicide, on the grounds that he dedicated his entire life to helping Kail become king and care for the empire. Kail going to help Yuri and thus committing treason would throw away all hope for that dream being realized and thus give Ilbani no reason to live. This shocks Kail enough to stop.
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Always Save the Girl / int_80c9fe9a	comment	In Aoi Shiro, this is treated as the right way to go, always. The few times Syouko can take the decision to not save Yasumi or Nami and she does (which she notes how it's out-of-character for her), things always end badly.
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Always Save the Girl / int_819853fe	comment	Final Fantasy XIII-2: Caius would and did destroy time and space and wander the darkness for all eternity if it would save Yeul. His theme says: "Even if there is a heart in Chaos, Or if Fortune may bring wars, I will resist and go to fight against it... I will protect her"
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Always Save the Girl / int_84f3f987	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V: Yuya and Yuzu have a downplayed version of this for each other, if the other is hurt, they will drop whatever they were doing to help them. But usually it just means they aren't going to duel or pass on a message to the public.
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Always Save the Girl / int_8573ffe6	comment	The Acts of Caine. Caine says it straight in Heroes Die: "I'd burn the world to save her."
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Always Save the Girl / int_86814cd0	comment	In Final Fantasy IV, Cecil decides to hand over the last remaining crystal that Golbez needs for world domination in order to save Rosa's life. Turns out there are four more crystals after that, but he didn't know that at the time. And he didn't even do the exchange right.
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Always Save the Girl / int_86814ea1	comment	Final Fantasy XV: Male version in Episode Ignis, where Ignis declares that he would rather allow the Big Bad to bring the world to ruin than allow Noctis to follow through with performing a Heroic Sacrifice necessary to save Eos from the Starscourge that is slowly destroying it.
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Always Save the Girl / int_885e1bec	comment	Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: Subverted. In the final confrontation with Voldemort, he offers to spare the life of a single person Harry cares about for every secret Harry gives him. However, Hermione is not on this list, as Voldemort has given his followers orders that she should not be harmed under any circumstances, explicitly including should she somehow escape. Plus, since she's now a troll unicorn with a Horcrux, there's very little that anyone could do to permanently harm her anyway. As Harry explains to Hermione, he was fighting to save everyone he cared about except her.
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Always Save the Girl / int_89465e75	comment	Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Played with in the series, where Athena accuses this of Percy: "You would give up the world to save your friends". Played straight, when Percy realizes this is his heroic flaw, and subverted when "It would seem you have managed to save both." It's come up again in the sequel series, The Heroes of Olympus, where Percy's fatal flaw will prevent him from making a hard choice, and Frank will have to force him for the sake of the world.
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Always Save the Girl / int_8c9862c7	comment	Taken to a literal extreme in the ending of Prince of Persia (2008), where the Prince releases the very same god of darkness he just sealed in order to revive his female sidekick Elika — who was the person he was helping to seal that god in the first place. Not only that, but the whole reason they were doing anything to begin with is that he was not the first person to do that. Nearly every line the Prince says in the Epilogue is him trying to justify what he did. As well as the above, he says that Elika's powers have grown, and if Ahriman didn't think she was a threat why is he pursuing them? The Ahura had been beaten before they rallied and sealed him away; if they could just repeat that somehow... For most of the epilogue, Elika doesn't listen, but at the end she leaves the Prince, saying she can't do it alone — she has to find her people.
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Always Save the Girl / int_8d6c924b	comment	In Looper, the future Joe will just about anything to save his wife. However, when given an option to stop his past self from meeting her, he refuses. He cannot sacrifice their relationship.
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Always Save the Girl / int_8dc4b654	comment	Averted in Ultimate Fantastic Four during the Ultimatum storyline. Reed Richards chooses to confront Doctor Doom and save the world at large, abandoning his dying girlfriend, Sue. Eventually, she calls him out for it and breaks up with him. He explains that he made the "logical" choice, as saving the world would ultimately mean saving her as well. Sue remarks that she always felt that their love defied logic, and leaves him.
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Always Save the Girl / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: In the Supergirl story arc Bizarrogirl Bizarro #1 needs help to fight Godship so he creates Bizarrogirl. Then he decides he can't risk her life and decides to take her to Earth, abandoning Bizarro World. War World played with this. Alien tyrant Mongul threatens to kill several friends of Superman — Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and Steve Lombard — if the Man of Steel does not bring him a key which would allow him to acquire Warworld, an immensely powerful weapon. Superman plays along, waiting for a chance to save his friends and thwart Mongul, even though Martian Manhunter warns him that he is putting countless lives on the line for three people. Unfortunately Superman cannot trick Mongul and has to choose between giving the Key to the galactic despot and letting his friends die. He decides he cannot bring himself to hand over the key. Sibling version in The Girl with the X-Ray Mind. Supergirl needs to help to defeat the Phantom Zoners, and with nobody else to turn to, she resorts to Lex Luthor. As far as Luthor is concerned, the Zoners can wipe humanity out with his compliments; nevertheless, he agrees to team up with Supergirl because the Zoners' scheme has endangered his little sister Lena, and he will not put up with that.
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Always Save the Girl / int_903a5f9f	comment	At the climax of Weathering With You, Hodaka saves his friend and crush Hina from sacrificing herself, knowing that this might mean the extreme weather the city has been going through will continue. The audience is immediately informed that it indeed did, and the city has been flooded with non-stop rain for three years since then, which logically must have killed people. Hodaka seems concerned about all of this, but as soon as he sees Hina again, he decides that it was all worth it for her.
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Always Save the Girl / int_90b916ba	comment	Batman: The Animated Series: A villainous example in "Deep Freeze"; Mr. Freeze encounters a crazed mogul, Grant Walker, who wants to use his technology to freeze the entire planet, killing everyone except those on his island. In exchange for his cooperation, Walker offers to revive Freeze's wife. Freeze is willing to go along with the plan until Batman points out that Nora would be waking up to a cold, dead world (and would blame Freeze for it), whereupon Freeze releases Batman and Robin and helps them defeat Walker. Another episode has Harley Quinn try to invoke this as a Sadistic Choice, telling Batman he can either catch her, or save Catwoman from a Conveyor Belt of Doom. Batman pulls the factory's power switch.
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Always Save the Girl / int_90f42a9b	comment	The Wheel of Time gives us Perrin, who diverts his mission to bring The Prophet back to Rand when Faile is kidnapped. When called out on this, he makes it quite clear that the rest of the world can burn if it gets his love back — even when it looks like an actual, imminent possibility.
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Always Save the Girl / int_919c4f7d	comment	An interesting variation in Radiant Historia: the rescue-ee isn't a love interest, but a family member, and the rescuer is the Big Bad. He figures that if either he or his nephew has to die to postpone the end of the world, then the world is so screwed up that it doesn't deserve to be saved. He resorted to borderline Mind Rape to avoid his nephew calling him on it.
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Always Save the Girl / int_924bb56e	comment	Dollhouse: In the first season finale Omega!Echo allows Alpha to escape in order to retrieve Caroline's original wedge. This could be seen as a particularly selfish example, since Echo is Caroline (sort of). Also a fundamental part of Paul Ballard's personality; first he saves Mellie, then he gets to work protecting Echo from everything.
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Always Save the Girl / int_95d534e1	comment	The Dragon Prince: Throughout the series, Prince Callum proves he is willing to do just about anything to protect his love interest, Rayla, including performing Dark Magic (something he despises) and hurling himself off a cliff after her before mastering the mage wing spell—something he achieves through focusing on his love for her. In season 5, Callum once again performs Dark Magic to escape his restraints and rescue Rayla before she is thrown to sea monsters by the sadistic pirate captain Finnegrin, despite his evident shame at going back on his previous rejection of the practice.
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Always Save the Girl / int_9614fa1e	comment	In Raiders of the Lost Ark Indy subverts the trope twice: Just after he discovers the location of the Ark in the map room Indy dodges some Germans by ducking into a tent in their camp, only to be surprised to find that Marion is tied up and gagged in the tent. He had thought she was killed in the earlier street fight. He starts to release her, but then changes his mind and gags her again, telling her that he'll come back for her later, since if he frees her now the Germans will start searching the area for him and he'll loose his chance to recover the Ark. Indy offers to let the Nazis keep the Ark in exchange for Marion, threatening to destroy the Ark if they don't comply. Belloq calls his bluff. He knows Indy won't be able to bring himself to destroy the Ark, even to keep it out of the Nazis' hands. Indy gets captured.
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Always Save the Girl / int_976efc02	comment	In the MST3Ked film The Magic Sword, a young prince leads a band of knights on a quest to rescue his lady love. All the knights are killed along the way. At no point does anyone even mention that fact that several good men have died to save a single life and several more are likely to before the thing is done.
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Always Save the Girl / int_986e857e	comment	Ben 10: In Ben 10: Secret of the Omnitrix, Ben willfully activates the Omnitrix to save Gwen, and when he is warned that doing so will speed up the destruction of the universe he answers, "I don't care!" Granted, Gwen is his cousin and not his Love Interest, but considering the Kissing Cousins subtext... Justified, on the other hand, in the sequel Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, when villain Captain Nemesis attempts to pull out a Sadistic Choice using Ben's girlfriend Julie and another girl everyone thinks he is dating. Ben does save Julie without hesitation... but it turns out he was smart enough to have his friends come with him and save the other girl.
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Always Save the Girl / int_998cbda3	comment	Daredevil (2015): In Season 2 Episode 13, Matt finds that the Hand have kidnapped Karen and a bunch of other Daredevil survivors as a trap for him and Elektra. While they go to rescue the hostages, it's clear that Karen is his top priority and he can't help but stop to see that she's okay when he finds her. In Season 3 Episode 10, Matt has broken into Fisk's hotel room to wait for Fisk to come back from a meeting with some crime lords so he can kill him, but then finds out that Fisk has sent Dex to kill Karen, and has located her hiding at Matt's church. He has to choose between sticking to his plan and attempting to kill Fisk but likely losing Karen in the process, or leave to go rescue her and give up what will likely be his only chance to kill Fisk, since security will be increased after he leaves that will ensure he won't get another shot like this. He chooses to leave and go to rescue Karen.
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Always Save the Girl / int_9a539f56	comment	The postgame of PokÃ©mon Super Mystery Dungeon has this where the player finds Mew asleep at the end of Purifying Cave. However, when Mew is approached, who should stop the player but Nuzleaf and the Beheeyem. They tell the player to stay back, as Mew is said to have some parts of Dark Matter left. As Mew glows, the player questions if they accept this... And that is when the player outright refuses to accept Mew's fate; the player does not want to say goodbye for the second time, and the player just does not care a bit if they bring back Dark Matter by bringing the partner back because the player can just fight it again. Then, the scarves the player and partner have are sacrificed to bring the partner back, and Mew tells the player that it is because of the player's wish that the partner came back. It turns out to be a setup masterminded by Ampharos to lure the player into the Purifying Cave to bring the partner back, and Nuzleaf and the Beheeyem got the chance to redeem themselves and succeeded.
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Always Save the Girl / int_9b4ab849	comment	Lupin III The Castle of Cagliostro: Lupin drops everything to rescue Clarisse, and even lampshades it at the start of the film:
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Always Save the Girl / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Sanji is the living embodiment of this trope. A good example is seen in the Foxy filler; Sanji nearly gives up a game of a Red Light-Green Light by jumping after an enemy girl to rescue her. Sanji is still in the game by kicking his legs really fast so he floats perfectly still, but the game master can't see. He loses when the girl kisses him. This was not be the last time Sanji would save a female from the villain team, during the chaos of the Tea Party in Whole Cake Island Arc, Sanji saved Pudding from the collapsing wedding cake despite her plot to shoot him dead at the altar. Sanji is especially protective over the ship's navigator and fellow pirate Nami. Her safety is a frequent cause of his own injuries, such as on Drum Island when Nami was gravely ill, and Sanji joined Luffy in taking her to the doctor's and got his spine cracked as a result of the avalanche caused by the Lapahns. In Skypeia when Sanji went aboard the Ark Maxim with Usopp to save her from Eneru only to be blasted by the God for his heroics, and on Thiller Bark when Nami was kidnapped by the invisible Absalom to become his bride, Sanji went alone to rescue her and defend her honor and got knifed though his shoulder while protecting her. Luffy also strongly prioritizes helping his friends over the rest of the world. The most obvious example is when he released half the inmates of Impel Down in his quest to save his brother. The prisoners served as a cannon fodder and most of them were shot, bludgeoned or poisoned to the death before they subjected themselves under Buggy. Luffy has yet to show any sort of guilt for the dozens of dangerous criminals that managed to escape alive. In fact, the first three rises of his bounty involved crises with the women of the crew. He first gained his bounty after defeating Arlong and liberating Nami from his control. Then, his defeat of Crocodile, an act that ultimately saved Vivi's country, would have his first rise. The next rise happened after he saved Robin from Enies Lobby, an event where he would also defeat several thousand mooks, and include the destruction of the entire island itself thanks to the inept chief of CP9 accidentally ordering a Buster Call, and the entire crew declaring war on the World Government (which basically amounts to the entire world). This would result in a staggering two hundred million beri increase. His latest rise, while not involving a woman this time, still involves saving someone. While the rescue wasn't successful, his actions over the course that one week (which included punching out a world noble, one of the rulers of the world, and causing the first mass breakout of Impel Down, where only one person had ever escaped on their own before) caused a hundred million beri increase. Robin says she cares more about the other Straw Hats than the entire rest of the world. This is more logical than many cases, given that the Straw Hats are the first people she's met since the destruction of Ohara who haven't tried to use her, kill her or turn her over to the Marines. Master Swordsmen Zoro has rescued female crewmates on multiple occasions but doesn't make a huge and song dance out of it because he has absolutely no interest in romance, only in being "the best swordsmen" Heroes Prefer Swords. But the big exception to this mindset is Marine Captain and beautiful Swordswoman Tashigi who just so happens to be identical to Zoro's dead childhood friend Kuina, small world huh? Zoro was unable to fight her without a Freak Out and opted (like Sanji for most evil ladies) to avoid her all together. This was made difficult as Tashigi assumed Zoro had gone easy on because she was a woman, humiliated Tashigi vowed to beat Zoro chasing him across Grand Line with her Superior Smoker. When they met again after two years, Zoro had got over her appearance and "seemed" indifferent towards Tashigi who still called him out on being sexist, saying that he was holding back when they were fighting the evil harpy Monet. Zoro tired her accusations sat out of the fight and watched while Tashigi struggled against the powerful foe, when she was about to die Zoro stepped in and saved her as he couldn't stand watching her suffer, slicing the harpy in half and letting Tashigi finish her off. Zoro even carried her out of the room on his shoulder (which is rare for him). This is the main reason why the second half of the Whole Cake Island arc played out the way it did. The only reason the Straw Hats were present in time for the Tea Party is because Sanji was the unwilling groom the Big Mom Pirates kidnapped for it, and they were there to take him back, albeit discreetly. Sanji wanted to go with them the moment they finally had an opening, but as it turned out, the entire wedding was a sham to assassinate him and his biological family; despite justifiably hating said family, he was ultimately too compassionate to leave them to their fates and asked for the rest of the crew's help in saving them. Luffy and co. agreed, which led to them getting involved with Capone Bege's own assassination attempt on Big Mom — and when that failed, the entire situation escalated into a full-scale conflict that engulfed all of Totto Land. End result? Big Mom mindlessly rampaging all across the archipelago for over half a day, causing untold amounts of casualties and property damage, the destruction of dozens of her crew's ships, and the defeats of several thousands of her subordinates, up to and including her over all strongest underling in her second son, Charlotte Katakuri. And to top it off, the entire situation was witnessed by a high-ranking World Government agent and an In-Universe media baron. All of these events were so outrageous that the Straw Hats were declared an Emperor-class crew over them, even though ninety percent of what happened was completely unintentional on their end.
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Always Save the Girl / int_9ecd1e02	comment	In A Hard Day's Knight, renegade knight Stark plans to hand Excalibur over to an evil incarnation of Merlin — one who's already decimated his own world, and will invade Stark's if he gets the sword — in exchange for the resurrection of his dead wife. He eventually subverts this trope, but only because his wife's ghost calls him out on it, insisting that she'll kill herself again if he buys her life at such a price.
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Always Save the Girl / int_a0309a8a	comment	Wolves: When he loses his first fight against Connor and his pack, Cayden is urged to leave town, but won't leave Angel to be used by Connor.
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Always Save the Girl / int_a072b84a	comment	Vigilante Tendency: The events of the fic stem from Tsuna's decision to protect his crush Kyoko from some bullies who want to get revenge on Ryohei. It all goes downhill from there.
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Always Save the Girl / int_a4643670	comment	El Eternauta: Subverted at the end (the second volume). After blowing up the enemy headquarters, the hero flies to help La RÃ©sistance. When he arrives to the war scene, he must choose to help either his wife and daughter at one side of the battlefield, or the bulk of the women and children of the small population of last remaining humans. He goes for the later and saves them, but by the time he can go to help his wife and daughter, they have died.
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Always Save the Girl / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass: At the end of Season 1, Lelouch drops everything in the middle of the key battle and goes off to save his sister Nunnaly, and again in Season 2 when Lelouch does the same thing when Kallen is captured, and this time someone even lampshades how it reeks of preferential treatment, and how absurd it is to choose one life over an entire country. Doesn't stop him from doing it anyway. However, Code Geass shows that this doesn't pan out, since while Lelouch does choose the girl over everything else, in both cases it backfires, causing him to suffer defeat, and lose the girl anyway. In a non-hostage example, Ohgi secretly goes AWOL from the Black Knights to see Villetta, who he knows is going to kill him. In contrast to the above examples, Ohgi not only makes it out of the ordeal with his life and no repercussions whatsoever, but also manages to get Villetta into the Black Knights with him in spite of what she's done.
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Always Save the Girl / int_a606596a	comment	In Chrono Cross, the flirtatious but practical harlequin, Harle, can ask the player character which he would choose: the world or her. If he chooses her, she is visibly affected and thanks him for saying so, even if it's only a kind lie.
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Always Save the Girl / int_a61bda23	comment	Life Is Strange has Max potentially be of this mindset with the series finale. You have to choose between saving Chloe or saving Arcadia Bay: rewind to the day you watched her die and let Nathan kill her, or destroy the photo and watch Arcadia Bay be destroyed.
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Always Save the Girl / int_a68aab11	comment	Kazuya of Daimos always puts Erika's survival first, refusing to kill her even when she admits she killed his fathernote Erika misremembered the event because she was trying to stop Richter from shooting him, but was unable to. Kyoshiro even lampshades this by taunting him for being obsessed with her, often inciting Kazuya to fight him.
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Always Save the Girl / int_aaa65d7e	comment	In Rebuild of Evangelion, when Asuka's Eva is taken over by an Angel, Shinji refuses fighting because he doesn't want to hurt her, and when his father forces his robot to destroy the Angel, seemingly killing Asuka, Shinji attempts bringing Nerv down and killing everyone inside the base, not caring that it is humanity's last line of defense. And when later it is Rei's turn to be absorbed for an Angel, he activates his robot's full power, even though Ritsuko warned him that it would set off the Third Impact. Basically, Asuka and Rei are two of the few people Shinji cares about. Hurt them and expect pain.
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Always Save the Girl / int_ad6a095e	comment	This is the core philosophy of the Court of Tears from Princess: The Hopeful. Tears is all about protecting those you have chosen to value (usually the city of Alhambra and the Court of Tears, but those who follows the Queen of Tearsâ€™ philosophy without actually giving her their allegiance might choose a different group to protect), even if this requires actively screwing everyone else over.
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Always Save the Girl / int_ae09831c	comment	Used repeatedly in Dopamine. In Act I, the girl in need of saving is Tina. In Act II, it's Julie Yen. In Act III, it's Sergey's daughter, Rosie.
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Always Save the Girl / int_ae259c31	comment	The Spy Who Loved Me: 007 chooses to defy his superiors to save Anya Amasova from the villain's lair, which is about to be torpedoed by the navy. Considering that she said she would kill him as soon as the mission was over, this proves that he really did care about her.
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Always Save the Girl / int_af583f46	comment	Invoked in the final case of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Justice For All, when Phoenix's longtime assistant Maya is kidnapped by an assassin who blackmails him (you) into getting your new client off the hook no matter what and only giving you one day in court to get it done, whereas you would normally get three. High-stakes and very difficult, but by this point, being the third game with Maya having been by your side, she's very dear to both Phoenix and the player, so you're willing to go all out to get her back, but the situation changes when you found out that your client, for the first time ever, actually is guilty, and in order to get him off, you would have to accuse an innocent woman and get her thrown in jail for the rest of her life. Even though Maya's life is on the line, she very much wants Phoenix to disregard this trope completely and convict your client, even though it means that she would die, but depending on how low you're willing to go to help her, that might not deter you very much. Everything turns out okay in the end, regardless of whether or not you want to throw an innocent person under the bus to save Maya, but it all serves to make you reflect on your morality toward the situation.
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Always Save the Girl / int_afeeacf6	comment	The Force Awakens: Finn lies about knowing how to stop the Starkiller Base in order to convince the Resistance to let him join the rescue of Rey.
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Always Save the Girl / int_b0e228be	comment	Generator Rex: When Rex is stuck in the Bug Jar, a city containing the most dangerous EVO monsters. Circe has just made sure that they stay in the city, and he's given the choice to protect her with Bobo, or restart the generator to project a barrier to keep all these dangerous creatures in. Rex lampshades it in his "hero-monologue." Biowulf then shows up in a Villainous Rescue, subduing the immediate wave, and ordering him to fix the generator. With the creatures further at bay, he's able to use the extra time to fix it, and run.
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Always Save the Girl / int_b185ec6b	comment	Averted in Jack the Giant Slayer. Brahmwell decides to cut down the beanstalk to save the kingdom, even if it means his daughter will be left trapped with the Giants.
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Always Save the Girl / int_b2431955	comment	Just like its base series before it, Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA calls this into question with Miyu. Her brother, Shirou Emiya, ends up wishing on the Holy Grail to spare her and take her to another universe instead of using her as the grail vessel she is...but this results in his world being destroyed. He doesn't mind, as long as Miyu can go on to live a happy life. In the middle of 3rei, protagonist Illya is put into a similar situation; she is forced to sacrifice her friend Miyu for the sake of stopping Pandora, or keeping her alive but risking even greater danger. Her resolve is to save Miyu and the world, but it only results in Miyu getting absorbed and the world getting demolished instead. Illya then makes good on her promise and does genuinely save both Miyu and the world, but at the cost of her own existence. And the world is still ruined afterwards.
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Always Save the Girl / int_b2edd00b	comment	In Zombieland, this trope causes Columbus to change one of his Rules of Zombieland (Never Be A Hero) and face his greatest fear (a Monster Clown) in order to save Wichita.
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Always Save the Girl / int_b3698b0c	comment	Parodied in D.E.B.S., where the girl doesn't want to be saved as she's in a Girls' Love relationship with the villainess.
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Always Save the Girl / int_b37304ba	comment	It's come up again in the sequel series, The Heroes of Olympus, where Percy's fatal flaw will prevent him from making a hard choice, and Frank will have to force him for the sake of the world.
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Always Save the Girl / int_b3b15bc1	comment	In one X-Men: The Animated Series arc, time travelers kill the young Professor X, resulting in a Bad Present where all mutants are constantly at war with the Sentinels... and the Future Even-More-Badass Storm and Wolverine are married. When Bishop comes from the future to Set Right What Once Went Wrong, Wolverine initially refuses to help, somehow knowing that fixing the past would prevent him and Storm from getting together. When Bishop straight up asks if Wolverine is really willing to allow the devastating war to happen so he can be with Storm, Wolverine says yes without hesitation. After things are set right, there are hints that they both realize something happened, but nothing comes of it.
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Always Save the Girl / int_b4fac0bb	comment	The Hero is Overpowered but Overly Cautious: Seiya was summoned to Gaeabrande to save it from demons. While he's very dedicated to preparing and training as much as possible to ensure his success, he'll still prioritize saving his friends over the world, as shown when he refuses to sacrifice Elulu to gain the only weapon that can kill the Demon Lord.
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Always Save the Girl / int_b7296d31	comment	My-HiME: While Mai is gradually becoming closer to Yuuichi and he's about to become her Most Important Person, her ailing brother Takumi is trying to become independent from Mai, which upsets her and makes her question their closeness. Natsuki suggests that Takumi was Mai's Most Important person at first, but Yuuichi replaced him before Takumi died and later Yuuichi himself kicked it. Besides, as said below, Takumi ultimately becomes someone else's MIP. While not weighing her loved one's life against many others, Akira allows her' most important person Takumi to live after he finds out her true gender, when she should've executed him. Yukino is also once on the verge of killing her friend Mai in order to protect her best friend Haruka, implying that she is her Most Important Person. Confirmed when Yukino's CHILD is destroyed by Shizuru, which kills Haruka.
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Always Save the Girl / int_b8e28f2e	comment	Good Omens (2019): Crowley always rescues his angel Aziraphale. Angels and demons don't have a gender, though. Lampshaded in season 2 when it is revealed that Aziraphale consciously plays it up to make Crowley happy:
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Always Save the Girl / int_b9b796cf	comment	Fate/stay night: In the Heaven's Feel route, things take a different turn than normal as superhero-wannabe Shirou basically says "Screw all that other stuff, I'm saving Sakura even if she might start devouring the town or go berserk." When asked directly whether he wishes to save the girl or protect the town and by extension his ideal itself, he picks the girl despite the destruction this will probably entail. If you don't do it, you get a bad end. To make things worse, she knows and realises this, and is desperately torn between wanting Shirou for herself and wanting Shirou to be happy. Inevitably she can only sit and watch as he throws away his ideals in order to save her. Subverted in the Fate route. Shirou briefly considers throwing aside his ideals and using the Grail to wish Saber gets her happy ending and be with him, be damned to the consequences anyone else suffers, but ultimately refuses to go through with it since not only would he be betraying his ideal, he would also be betraying Saber, who would never want her salvation brought in such a way. They do get their happy ending...a long time later. Also subverted in Archer's backstory. The exact details aren't made clear, but he apparently lived a version of the Fate route, where Sakura became the Shadow and he had to kill her. This, along with having to watch his sister die (because Illya is a homunculus who was never designed to live past the Grail War), put him on the path to being an Anti-Hero.
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Always Save the Girl / int_ba30aab4	comment	Pretty much the same thing happens in Krull. At least the prince manages to kill a horrible beast that would likely murder countless people if not stopped in the process (and a few of his allies survive), but it's clear that he's only in it to save the princess.
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Always Save the Girl / int_bba9da2d	comment	This is Junpei's general mindset in Zero Escape Trilogy. Whenever something happens, protecting Akane always takes priority. In Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, the entire plot is centered around Junpei saving Akane from dying as a child, to the point where she set it up that way. Though to be fair, if Junpei succeeds in this, it leads to the ending where every single person who possibly can be saved is saved. However, there's also an ending where Ace kills everyone else, including Junpei and Akane, and the earliest way to get yourself stuck into that route is to force your way through Door 3, betraying Lotus and Clover for the sake of not having to separate from Akane. Deconstructed in Zero Time Dilemma. Junpei willing to go to any lengths to protect her is the main cause of friction between them as most of the time Akane doesn't want to sacrifice other people to save herself. Most of the What the Hell, Hero? speeches he gets from her (and one Bitch Slap) involves sacrificing someone to protect them or suggesting it. In one particular ending he performs Heroic Sacrifice to save her... and sends her over Despair Event Horizon as she watches him die. Tenmyouji from Virtue's Last Reward is a familial example. He will protect his adoptive grandson Quark no matter who he has to screw over in the process, even if it's himself. Junpei hasn't changed at all in 45 years, he's just switched targets.
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Always Save the Girl / int_bc3e398b	comment	John Connor in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles finds Cameron — his Terminator love-interest — with her chip missing. Ignoring Judgment Day's impending arrival and his mission to stop it, he leaves his mother, and joins forces with a rogue T-1000 (liquid metal Terminator), jumping to the future in order to rescue her. In jumping after Cameron, John seems to have erased himself from the timeline, veritably sacrificing himself and his position of mankind's savior to save the "woman" he loves.
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Always Save the Girl / int_bd793e36	comment	LostMagic has one of the most obnoxious examples of this. The Big Bad asks the character to hand over the MacGuffins or else she'll kill the girl. If the player refuses, the girl disappears and the hero goes mad over her loss, gets brainwashed by the Big Bad, starts working for her, and hands over all the MacGuffins he had, all by the end of the next cutscene. The player then has to go around killing people and doing the Big Bad's bidding.
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Always Save the Girl / int_bf63db6f	comment	Wolf Guy - Wolfen Crest has Inugami the hero who's biggest Berserk Button is if someone messes with Aoshika. Haguro did in a huge way and now he's gonna pay.
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Always Save the Girl / int_c1c642f7	comment	In the first film, the villain Rasputin offers Hellboy the choice of bringing about the Apocalypse to gain enough power to save his desouled girl, Liz, or to save the world and lose her forever. Hellboy initially sees this as no choice at all, and begins the procedure of summoning the Ogdru Jahad and ending the world, before Myers throws Hellboy his father's cross. The cross burns into his flesh, reminding him that this is his choice. Save the world, or save Liz, and his father always did say that a man is made by his choices. He then chooses the world, tears off his newly regrown horns, and stabs Rasputin to death with one of them. There is then a Double Subversion when he saves the girl anyway by intimidating the thing in charge. A newly awoken and somewhat confused Liz asks him how he saved her. His answer?
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Always Save the Girl / int_c4282b71	comment	In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Twilight's Kingdom Part 2", Twilight is willing to give her and the other Princesses' powers to Tirek to save her friends. She even saves Discord, despite his betrayal.
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Always Save the Girl / int_c433d063	comment	Final Fantasy: In Final Fantasy IV, Cecil decides to hand over the last remaining crystal that Golbez needs for world domination in order to save Rosa's life. Turns out there are four more crystals after that, but he didn't know that at the time. And he didn't even do the exchange right. Final Fantasy VII: Main hero Cloud Strife will often act indifferent but if there's a young woman in danger, he will rush to her rescue and the game will make the Cloud (the player) choose between Childhood Sweetheart Tifa Lockhart and Innocent Flower Girl Aerith as they both get in danger at certain points in the game and Cloud must come to the rescue and both of them have more than platonic feeling towards Cloud. Unfortunately for players who were interested in Aerith, the Big Bad Sephiroth comes in and ruins any hopes of romance with Aerith as she is Impaled with Extreme Prejudice by him, those players who chose Tifa get a romantic scene between her and Cloud before the final battle. In a Flash Back, Tifa made Cloud promise if she was in any danger, he'd come back and save her. Cloud keeps his promise, when Tifa is knocked out by Sephiroth Cloud takes her to safety and then goes to fight Sephiroth. Final Fantasy VIII: Squall clarifies his priorities after being confronted with the possibility that, as a sorceress, Rinoa could end up going insane or being possessed by the Big Bad: "Rinoa... Even if you end up as the world's enemy, I'll... I'll be your knight." Unlike the FFIV example, in FFVIII the issue is mostly hypothetical (aside from certain Epileptic Trees), but Squall does choose to free Rinoa after she voluntarily surrenders herself to be imprisoned in order to keep the Big Bad from using her to attack others. It's implied that this is why Seifer is helping the Sorceress Edea, at least at first; he sees himself as the heroic knight protecting the princess, and says as much to Squall. Final Fantasy XIII: Les Yay example: Fang would do anything up to and including causing the apocalypse — twice — if it meant keeping Vanille safe. Snow holds this philosophy in regards to his fiancee Serah, as shown in the first chapter of the game, and several of the flashbacks. It's reconstructed after that, as he believes saving the world is the only way to save the girl. He's right, too. Final Fantasy XIII-2: Caius would and did destroy time and space and wander the darkness for all eternity if it would save Yeul. His theme says: "Even if there is a heart in Chaos, Or if Fortune may bring wars, I will resist and go to fight against it... I will protect her" Final Fantasy XV: Male version in Episode Ignis, where Ignis declares that he would rather allow the Big Bad to bring the world to ruin than allow Noctis to follow through with performing a Heroic Sacrifice necessary to save Eos from the Starscourge that is slowly destroying it. In Final Fantasy Tactics Ramza has a little sister named Alma and loves her (and she loves him too). To the point when Alma gets kidnapped, Ramza immediately tries to saves her for the entire second half of the game.
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Always Save the Girl / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The Doctor, particularly Ten, tends to put their companions (who are usually, if not always, young and female) before anyone else. Also, Ten's era suggests that the Doctor's companions represent their humanity in a universe full of mass death; as seen in "The Fires of Pompeii" when Donna convinces Ten to go back for one family among all those destroyed in Pompeii. It's mentioned some times that the Doctor feels responsible for the danger their companions get into, since they brought them to wherever it is they are. As of Eleven, the Doctor has sacrificed three of their lives for a companion, two of them female. The Fifth Doctor died to save Peri Brown; the Ninth Doctor died to save Rose Tyler; the Tenth Doctor died to save Wilfred Mott. Then you have Rory Williams: Amy gets in on it too. To hell with time and space, Amy Pond wants to be with her husband. River Song takes this trope to extremes, disintegrating Time itself to keep from killing the Doctor. She really takes after her parents here. Perhaps learning from the above examples, the Twelfth Doctor loves Clara Oswald so much that, similarly to River, he is willing to take extreme risks to keep her safe. She's willing to do the same for him (and others) as well. This culminates in his efforts to save her from her death — after it happens — at the end of Series 9, and the outcome is that he loses his memories of her and they are parted forever, both having realized that the extremes they go to for each other are just causing more problems for everyone. There is also an example of this earlier in the season in "Before the Flood" when, after being challenged about his actions, the Doctor outright says, "I'm a dead man walking. I'm changing history to save Clara." For a series that spent a half century repeatedly reminding the audience — and the Doctor! — that changing history is dangerous, reckless and must not be done, this is a huge deal (and also an example of O.O.C. Is Serious Business). The return of River Song in the 2015 Christmas special sparked a major retcon as it was previously thought that River's story arc had been concluded. As a result, it was now established that the Doctor was prepared to go to his final death in the 2013 Christmas special without having resolved the Timey-Wimey Ball related to her death. In "The Husbands of River Song", River and the Doctor are fighting over who will pull the Heroic Sacrifice to save a crashing spaceship. The Doctor declares "No one on this ship is worth your life!" They both then belatedly realize that for once, that's actually true; the ship only caters to the worst murderers, cannibals, and genocidal maniacs in the galaxy. Even getting on the crew requires proof of multiple murders. With their consciences clear, River and the Doctor just leave and let the ship crash.
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Always Save the Girl / int_c4c7b714	comment	Played with in Save the Date, where saving your date is literally the name of the game.
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Always Save the Girl / int_c5eaa1a9	comment	Arguably Beetlejuice's most redeeming feature is this, as he will stop at nothing to save or protect his precious Morality Chain if she's in danger (or, sometimes, even just mildly inconvenienced). This includes surrendering to the debt collectors who are hounding him, breaking his own hypnosis, and returning to the place he hates most in the Neitherworld.
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Always Save the Girl / int_c62995ba	comment	Child of the Storm plays with this trope — while Harry has chivalrous instincts bred in the bone, he uses his head more and more as time goes by, and is less prone to doing something "very noble, and very, very stupid." However, it's made clear in the sequel that the one circumstance under which he'll willing cross his personal Godzilla Threshold is to resurrect Carol, with whom he has a relationship that blends snarky but undying friendship and Courtly Love, if she ever died — though with the caveats that he'd first use the threat of it as Blackmail material, then if that failed, do it somewhere where there would be no collateral damage. Since this personal Godzilla Threshold means becoming the Dark Phoenix, even with the caveats, this revelation is quite reasonably greeted with horror.
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Always Save the Girl / int_c6715f2a	comment	In Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, Spider-Man is given the choice of either turning Black Cat over to S.H.I.E.L.D. after she's badly injured following her second boss fight, or bonding her with a symbiote to heal her.
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Always Save the Girl / int_c7cca04f	comment	Pushing Daisies: Ned keeps Chuck alive fully knowing someone else will die instead.
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Always Save the Girl / int_ca2870fb	comment	This is deconstructed in one of the series' manga spinoffs, Puella Magi Oriko Magica. At the end of the manga, Homura, Mami, and Kyoko are all alive, and neither Madoka or Sayaka had to sign Kyubey's contract. But Oriko killed Madoka with the last of her strength to try to prevent Kreimhild Gretchen from appearing (since it will go unchecked and destroy the world), and Homura decides to press the Reset Button again, despite the fact that this ending works out well for everyone else. She just doesn't care about a Golden Ending that doesn't include Madoka's wellbeing. In the main series, this is eventually reconstructed when Homura's perseverance finally pays off and Madoka uses her wish to rewrite reality.
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Always Save the Girl / int_cfe32855	comment	Parodied in Boy Meets Boy. Cy, while having a Tuxedo and Martini-flavored dream, is given the choice to either save his "obligatory Love Interest" from a Death Trap or stop the villain's doomsday device. Since he knows that it's All Just a Dream, he decides to go with the Love Interest, figuring that he can at least get some action before the world ends. Unfortunately for him, he soon learns that his dream has cast Skids as the Love Interest.
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Always Save the Girl / int_d28045f2	comment	Torchwood: Children of Earth: A mild version which might even count as a somewhat Out-of-Character Moment for Captain Jack Harkness. Jack is facing the alien menace 456 and is prepared to lead humanity in a war against them to protect the children of the Earth. Then the 456 releases a virus in the building, while Jack's love interest Ianto is in it. When it's apparent Ianto can't escape and will be killed by the virus, Jack recants and begs the 456 to spare Ianto in return for his surrender. By then it was too late and Ianto died in Jack's arms. It's unknown whether Jack really would have given up protecting humanity's children in exchange for Ianto's safety, or whether he was just bluffing in an attempt to save Ianto's life. makes it doubly ironic then that Jack later gives up his grandson's life for the sake of humanity's children. Ianto had at least signed up for the danger. Jack's grandson hadn't.
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Always Save the Girl / int_d294048	comment	Red Panda Adventures: The Red Panda is a true, dyed-in-the-wool superhero. He adheres to Thou Shalt Not Kill and works tirelessly for the betterment of those under his protection. However, it is consistently shown that he will discard all of that the moment any threat to the Flying Squirrel's safety presents itself. In "The Devil's Due", the Red Panda seriously considers killing villain of the week Nick Diablos when he repeatedly hypnotizes the Flying Squirrel to either attack him or torture her. By battle's end, he possibly does even worse than kill Diablos, as the Red Panda delivers unto Nick Diablos the fate he reserved for his own victims: a catatonic state in which he'll experience his greatest fears forever. In "The World Next Door", Alternate Time Traveler Baboon McSmoothie needs to steal the prototype of a device its Nazi scientist creator will eventually use to wreak havoc during World War II, and tries to recruit the Red Panda's aid in doing so. Even after the Red Panda is convinced of McSmoothie's story, he refuses to assist the commission of a crime against someone who, at that moment, is innocent of any wrongdoing and may never be guilty of such. It's then that McSmoothie reveals that his Red Panda expected this and prepared accordingly. That Red Panda had a sidekick called the Flying Squirrel, too. That Flying Squirrel was killed in a deathtrap meant for the other Red Panda, and McSmoothie offers the full case file on the Villain Team-Up that will launch the attack so that it might be prevented from happening to this universe's Flying Squirrel. The Red Panda accepts, even knowing that due to the vast differences between his timeline and McSmoothie's the case file may well be worthless. In "The Field Trip", that once innocent of any wrongdoing Nazi scientist Professor Friedrich von Schlitz has become a proper member of the Red Panda's Rogues Gallery, and shoots the Flying Squirrel in the process of getting away. The Flying Squirrel is fine, due to having protection against the type of weapon von Schlitz used, but the Red Panda doesn't let the matter go so easily, later noting that von Schlitz didn't know that and had every intention of killing one of them. The very next episode opens with an assassination attempt on von Schlitz orchestrated the Red Panda.
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Always Save the Girl / int_d31cdea	comment	The Hunger Games: Peeta Mellark is sort of a micro-cosmos version of this. The only thing he cares about in the arena is that Katniss makes it out alive even though that means his own death. In Catching Fire he more or less says outright that his own family's pain if he dies doesn't matter so long as Katniss gets to live. Gender-flipped with Katniss as the story progresses. All she cares about during the quarter quell is saving Peeta at the cost of her own life, effectively ending the love triangle as she'd rather die for Peeta than live for Gale. When Peeta is taken by Snow she initially loses all will to fight and doesn't want to contribute to the rebellion. She gets better, but once she realizes that anything she does to help the rebellion will directly result in torture for Peeta she becomes useless to their cause. Later on in the third book she refuses to let her squad mates kill Peeta even though he's mentally unstable and has already accidentally killed one of their team (while trying to kill Katniss), needing him to live because of her own feelings for him.
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Always Save the Girl / int_d3b17858	comment	In Final Fantasy Tactics Ramza has a little sister named Alma and loves her (and she loves him too). To the point when Alma gets kidnapped, Ramza immediately tries to saves her for the entire second half of the game.
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Always Save the Girl / int_d3bc03fe	comment	In One Tree Hill there is such an amazing frequency of Lucas saving Peyton that it is even acknowledged by her saying "You're always saving me" repeatedly.
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Always Save the Girl / int_d461f757	comment	Bill Adama does this twice in Battlestar Galactica, first to save his surrogate daughter Kara Thrace in "You Can't Go Home Again", then to save the woman he loves, President Laura Roslin, in "Sine Qua Non". Both times he's called on it by his colleagues and (eventually) realises they're right; fortunately fate rewards Adama's determination and returns both women to him.
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Always Save the Girl / int_d54b59cc	comment	In Demolition Man, an old newsreel shows the result of John Spartan's rescue mission:
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Always Save the Girl / int_d628f901	comment	Tales of Destiny: Leon chose this rather than the party members and the general state of the world. It gets him branded as a traitor, killed, and Marian to attempt (but failing) suicide. He doesn't even succeed — The party finally rescues her in the end.
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Always Save the Girl / int_d6423831	comment	John Carter of Mars: This rule is so powerful on Barsoom that even the women accept it and submit to being rescued no matter how distressed they may be at leaving their male companions and love interests in deadly peril.
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Always Save the Girl / int_d7aab7c1	comment	Played very straight in one of the Sailor Moon Super S specials. A puppet is stealing Haruka's life energy. The ventriloquist tells Michiru that she cannot harm the puppet, because if the blue bottle the puppet is holding it destroyed, all the shadows of the world would attack their owners. Michiru Deep Submerges the puppet anyway. The ventriloquist asks Michiru how she knew he was lying, and she says, "Oh, it wasn't true?" Shocked, he replies, "You did it just to save her? What kind of heroine are you?" to which she says, "Oh, maybe you misunderstood. A world without Haruka is hardly worth saving." note Michiru's posture and expression implies that she was calling the puppet's bluff the whole time, and just saying something witty to top it all off.
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Always Save the Girl / int_d7c9f170	comment	The Matrix Reloaded, in which Neo, faced with a choice between restarting the free human race with 7 other males and 16 females to rebuild Zion and returning to the Matrix (which the Architect says will result in the end of the free human population, and will crash the Matrix killing the non-free humans there) decides to return to the Matrix to save Trinity. At least, until The Matrix Revolutions...
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Always Save the Girl / int_dbec62fe	comment	The Place Promised in Our Early Days has the heroes risk the entire planet Earth to wake Sayuri from a coma induced by the world-ending machine.
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Always Save the Girl / int_de9a7807	comment	In Flashpoint the rules against team members dating are there for this specific reason. During a dangerous situation the team and civilians could be put in danger if one of them breaks protocol to try and save their Love Interest. In one episode an undercover cop falls in love with a gangster's girlfriend. He then tips her off about the upcoming city-wide bust so she is not arrested. As a result another cop gets shot, the gangster escapes, the undercover cop's career is ruined and the girl gets killed.
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Always Save the Girl / int_e0a941d2	comment	In Ben 10: Secret of the Omnitrix, Ben willfully activates the Omnitrix to save Gwen, and when he is warned that doing so will speed up the destruction of the universe he answers, "I don't care!" Granted, Gwen is his cousin and not his Love Interest, but considering the Kissing Cousins subtext...
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Always Save the Girl / int_e2083a6	comment	War World played with this. Alien tyrant Mongul threatens to kill several friends of Superman — Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and Steve Lombard — if the Man of Steel does not bring him a key which would allow him to acquire Warworld, an immensely powerful weapon. Superman plays along, waiting for a chance to save his friends and thwart Mongul, even though Martian Manhunter warns him that he is putting countless lives on the line for three people. Unfortunately Superman cannot trick Mongul and has to choose between giving the Key to the galactic despot and letting his friends die. He decides he cannot bring himself to hand over the key.
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Always Save the Girl / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In "The Gift", Buffy is willing to let the entire world die in torment to save Dawn. Notably, Dawn thinks this is crazy, and insists that Buffy let her die. Buffy takes a third option. It doesn't fit on the surface, but Word of God says that Dawn was intended to fill the dramatic role of Love Interest from Season 5 on out.
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Always Save the Girl / int_e3f0daf4	comment	A Growing Affection: Naruto's actions during the Dojutsu Tournament arc. He puts Hinata above everyone else (including himself) multiple times in the four chapters.
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Always Save the Girl / int_e4a1416	comment	Changes. Susan has crossed the line and become fully vampire. Harry uses her as a human(ish) sacrifice to wipe out the Red Court entirely, winning the war and saving countless lives the Reds would have ended in the future. Not that there was much in the way of better options at the moment.
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Always Save the Girl / int_e60954ea	comment	In Armored Core 4, this is Gender-swapped, Fiona Jarnefeldt is hinted at being in love with the Player Character — but this is made clear if you're doing poorly on a particular mission on Hard Mode — the enemy has sent forces to destroy the city that you're trying to protect, and you can't use your radioactive Primal Armor, or you'll risk harming the innocent civilians of the city... if your AP falls below 25%, she'll choose to save you instead, and activate your Primal Armor anyways.
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Always Save the Girl / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends: Luke Skywalker is very protective of Mara Jade. Much to her annoyance. So much so that when she dies, Luke actually considers suicide and Ben has to talk him out of it. Apparently, Luke's overprotectiveness rubbed off on his student, Jacen Solo. It doesn't annoy his girl, Tenal Ka, as much.
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Always Save the Girl / int_e67a7d6c	comment	In a flashback/movie from Negima! Magister Negi Magi it's revealed that Nagi saved Arika from her execution, despite the fact that, as a scapegoat, her death would help mitigate the aftereffects of the great war.
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Always Save the Girl / int_e758728c	comment	Hellboy: In the first film, the villain Rasputin offers Hellboy the choice of bringing about the Apocalypse to gain enough power to save his desouled girl, Liz, or to save the world and lose her forever. Hellboy initially sees this as no choice at all, and begins the procedure of summoning the Ogdru Jahad and ending the world, before Myers throws Hellboy his father's cross. The cross burns into his flesh, reminding him that this is his choice. Save the world, or save Liz, and his father always did say that a man is made by his choices. He then chooses the world, tears off his newly regrown horns, and stabs Rasputin to death with one of them. There is then a Double Subversion when he saves the girl anyway by intimidating the thing in charge. A newly awoken and somewhat confused Liz asks him how he saved her. His answer? In Hellboy II: The Golden Army this is played straight by both Abe and Liz. Abe tries to save his porcelain princess by giving her brother the MacGuffin that controls the Golden Army (which nearly drove humanity extinct last time it was used) while Liz, after being told by an Angel of Death that Hellboy would bring about the Apocalypse, tells Hellboy's Angel of Death to sod off and save him anyway. It shows just how much Liz trusts Hellboy (and, as the director's commentary points out, is the humane decision to make), but she still screwed the world to save her man.
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Always Save the Girl / int_e7e37776	comment	In the Firefly episode "War Stories", one of the villains presents Zoe with a Sadistic Choice between a captive Mal and Wash. She surprises the villain by immediately choosing her husband over her captain/war-buddy before he can even finish. note Her husband is the Ace Pilot who is necessary to mount a Roaring Rampage of Rescue and get the Captain as well.
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Always Save the Girl / int_e885c808	comment	The King in Spaceballs sacrifices himself and the entire population of his home planet, just so the princess doesn't get her old nose back.
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Always Save the Girl / int_e9e265b6	comment	In Fire Emblem: Awakening, the Avatar is given the choice of whether to give up their existence to end the Big Bad once and for all, or to let Chrom deal the final blow and put it to sleep for 1,000 years. Chrom instantly objects to the former, and if the player chooses the latter option during the final battle, Chrom will insist it was the right thing to do because the Avatar's life is precious to him and the others. If the Avatar is female and married to Chrom, this ending feels a lot like this trope.
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Always Save the Girl / int_ea4f62db	comment	In one Family Guy episode, Peter's reckless time-traveling lands him in an alternate reality in which Peter married Molly Ringwald instead of Lois. Al Gore is president; Dick Cheney, Osama bin Laden and Karl Rove are dead; people are healthier and living longer, the environment and economy are both in great shape, and America's generally a much happier place to be. And of course, Peter doesn't give two craps about the state of the world ("I don't know who any of those people are"); all he cares about is that he gets Lois in the end. (This is not even taking into account that Lois and Peter are both Happily Married in this alternate universe.)
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Always Save the Girl / int_eaeeea9b	comment	It's very easy to see this in StarCraft II, as Jim Raynor's internal conflict about what to do about the controlled/infested Kerrigan is obvious, and thus even though the Queen of Blades "murdered 8 billion people" as Raynor says himself, he is still haunted by the prospect of getting her old self back. That is, until Raynor's Raiders and the Moebius Foundation manage to use a Xel'nagan artifact to cure Kerrigan, and infestation is normally 100% incurable because it "mutates too fast".
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Always Save the Girl / int_eb6719f6	comment	Final Fantasy VIII: Squall clarifies his priorities after being confronted with the possibility that, as a sorceress, Rinoa could end up going insane or being possessed by the Big Bad: "Rinoa... Even if you end up as the world's enemy, I'll... I'll be your knight." Unlike the FFIV example, in FFVIII the issue is mostly hypothetical (aside from certain Epileptic Trees), but Squall does choose to free Rinoa after she voluntarily surrenders herself to be imprisoned in order to keep the Big Bad from using her to attack others. It's implied that this is why Seifer is helping the Sorceress Edea, at least at first; he sees himself as the heroic knight protecting the princess, and says as much to Squall.
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Always Save the Girl / int_eb6802b4	comment	Final Fantasy XIII: Les Yay example: Fang would do anything up to and including causing the apocalypse — twice — if it meant keeping Vanille safe. Snow holds this philosophy in regards to his fiancee Serah, as shown in the first chapter of the game, and several of the flashbacks. It's reconstructed after that, as he believes saving the world is the only way to save the girl. He's right, too.
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Always Save the Girl / int_ecc5cbce	comment	The Burnable Garbage Day: Deconstructed. At the end of the game, CR-999 is given a choice to destroy Pandora and save the world, or allow her reconstruction/rebooting to go through and save her. If you choose the latter, her faulty programming will cause her to destroy CR-999 and the world. However, if you have the Pandora Part Î¦ to override her faulty programming, she will recognize CR-999 as her friend and help him rebuild the Earth.
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Always Save the Girl / int_eef62751	comment	In Tales of Destiny 2, Kyle is leaning towards this decision when he learns that Reala will be erased from existence if he kills Fortuna, but Reala slaps him out of it and gives him a What the Hell, Hero? speech setting him straight. Judas also knows he will be a victim of this, but doesn't tell the party until he's fading away to make their decision easier.
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Always Save the Girl / int_ef06b063	comment	A Crown of Stars: This is something Shinji and his father have in common. Both of them would destroy the world for the woman they love. Several characters call Shinji out on it: Gender Flipped and played for drama with Rei. She does not want Shinji leaving her sight because she cares for him and wants to protect him... so she shut down the dimensional portal, cutting Shinji and Asukaâ€™s platoon off and blocking them from contacting with the Empire. She was endangering not only their lives but also endangering everyone on the whole planet only because she was afraid of Shinji leaving and jealous of Asuka.
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Always Save the Girl / int_ef0d4de3	comment	In Necessary to Win, Maho defies this trope. While her primary motivation for being heiress of the Nishizumi school, which requires upholding her mother's winning at all costs ideology and meeting her difficult expectations, is Miho's happiness, Maho doesn't give Miho's happiness disproportionate weight, and is unwilling to use methods to further her goals that would cause many people to suffer.
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Always Save the Girl / int_f31ebb02	comment	In Hellboy II: The Golden Army this is played straight by both Abe and Liz. Abe tries to save his porcelain princess by giving her brother the MacGuffin that controls the Golden Army (which nearly drove humanity extinct last time it was used) while Liz, after being told by an Angel of Death that Hellboy would bring about the Apocalypse, tells Hellboy's Angel of Death to sod off and save him anyway. It shows just how much Liz trusts Hellboy (and, as the director's commentary points out, is the humane decision to make), but she still screwed the world to save her man.
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Always Save the Girl / int_f3e1f424	comment	From Merlin we have Guinevere on the one hand, and Camelot on the other. For Arthur, Merlin and all the Knights of the Round Table, Guinevere always comes first.
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Always Save the Girl / int_f6a1016f	comment	The Matrix: The Matrix Reloaded, in which Neo, faced with a choice between restarting the free human race with 7 other males and 16 females to rebuild Zion and returning to the Matrix (which the Architect says will result in the end of the free human population, and will crash the Matrix killing the non-free humans there) decides to return to the Matrix to save Trinity. At least, until The Matrix Revolutions... The Architect also points out that the previous "One's" loved humanity in a general sense, leading them to sacrifice most of the population for the sake of the species as a whole. Due to the Oracle's influence, Neo loved Trinity more than humanity, directly leading to humanity's freedom.
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Always Save the Girl / int_f6a54e75	comment	Kingdom Hearts: Sora commits a Heroic Sacrifice in order to save Kairi. However, "saving her" is equal to "recreating the Big Bads' opportunities to end the world, which he just foiled a few minutes ago." Especially stupid, because Sora's also the only one who could stop The End of the World as We Know It, since he's the one with the Keyblade. In the manga adaptation, he at least throws Donald the Keyblade before committing suicide, so his friends can take over the task. Turns out to be pointless, because it disappears as soon as he's gone anyway. This persists in Chain of Memories, where Sora tells Namine to shatter his heart and memories if it will mean saving her from harm at the hands of Marluxia, and that he'll still protect her even without his memories. Marluxia is amused at the naivete of this strategy, saying that Sora will be comatose if he loses his memories and unable to do anything. Of course, then something happens that challenges this claimnote (Namely, Replica Riku, who everyone had thought was rendered comatose in exactly this fashion, shows up and attacks Marluxia in Sora's place.), so it's unknown exactly what would have happened had Sora followed through with his initial plan.
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Always Save the Girl / int_f6b79960	comment	In Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, the entire plot is centered around Junpei saving Akane from dying as a child, to the point where she set it up that way. Though to be fair, if Junpei succeeds in this, it leads to the ending where every single person who possibly can be saved is saved. However, there's also an ending where Ace kills everyone else, including Junpei and Akane, and the earliest way to get yourself stuck into that route is to force your way through Door 3, betraying Lotus and Clover for the sake of not having to separate from Akane.
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Always Save the Girl / int_f724b70d	comment	Code Lyoko: A justified example where it's in the interest of everyone for team leader JÃ©rÃ©mie to always save his Love Interest Aelita first, since she is the key to prevent XANA from attacking the real world. Even if others are left in dangerous situations in the process, Aelita can save them as long as she doesn't arrive too late; as such, saving her over the others is the logical move. The premise of the show, on the other hand, plays this trope straight, as JÃ©rÃ©mie is willing to risk the life of thousands of people by playing heroes with his friends rather than just sacrificing Aelita to save millions. Still, from some perspective, leaving a 14-year-old girl to her death to save many isn't moral either.
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Always Save the Girl / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: Given a few twists in "Comes the Inquisitor". The Vorlons send the Inquisitor to see if Delenn has the right stuff to be one of the Chosen Ones in the fight against the Shadows. At the end of the episode the Inquisitor puts the life of her love interest on the line, saying that she can only save Captain Sheridan by giving up her fight against the Shadows. She chooses to save Sheridan... and it turns out this is exactly what the Vorlons were looking for: "How do you know the chosen ones? No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions. Not for glory, not for fame... For one person." Played with again in "Ceremonies of Light and Dark" — when Delenn is stabbed in the back, Sheridan is visibly torn between staying by her side and chasing down the person responsible until his best friend and second-in-command, Susan Ivanova, shouts out "I've got her! Go!" Now confident that the love of his life is safely in the hands of the one other person in the universe he trusts unconditionally, he has no hesitation in going after and pummelling the crap out of the perpetrator.
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Always Save the Girl / int_f792f1ad	comment	Averted in Eliezer Yudkowsky's The Sword of Good, when Selena is testing Hirou's resolve.
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Always Save the Girl / int_f9b9dfe4	comment	In Radiant Dawn, Soren's death quote implies this regarding Ike:
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Always Save the Girl / int_f9cb2c07	comment	The Second Try: In the original timeline Gendo was willing to turn the whole humankind into primordial soup only to see his wife again, and Shinji lost his will to fight when he saw Asuka was dead, letting the world die. In the altered timeline Shinji almost caused the Third Impact again when he thought Asuka had been killed because he could not stand losing her. He later realized that he really would have lost everything if he would have done so.
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Always Save the Girl / int_fb0c0a3b	comment	Voltes V: Prince Heinel refuses to let any harm touch Katherine, even if he's willing to send everyone else to their deaths. Even when Boazania is burning, she is the only one who he refuses to send into battle. But he doesn't like her or anything, he's just doing it for his honour.
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Always Save the Girl / int_fcf34eec	comment	Sousuke winds up facing this dilemma in Full Metal Panic! when Kurama gives him five minutes to surrender both Kaname and the Arbalest before he blows up Jindai High. In this case, while Sousuke rejects leaving everyone to die out of hand decides he's going to Take a Third Option and save them all, Kaname and Al argue that probability of such a plan working is 1%. Sousuke recognizes that they're right, but also can't deny that love has made him irrational enough to bet on that 1%. And he pulls it off... only for Leonard to show up with the Belial to critically (though not mortally) injure Kyoko, Curb Stomp the Arbalest and give Kaname the Sadistic Choice to either surrender or watch Sousuke and Kyoko die. She surrenders without a second thought.
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Always Save the Girl / int_fe92b338	comment	Tales of Xillia 2 protagonist Ludger is frequently characterised as being willing to put the life of someone he loves, either Elle or Julius, over the safety of the world, even if it puts him at odds with others he cares about, a trait which extends to his Alternate Self, Victor. In the Bad Ending, Ludger's unwillingness to see Julius die for the sake of saving the world results in him turning against his friends and killing them all, forsaking saving Elle and the world. This is despite Julius being a completely willing sacrifice who doesn't have much longer to live anyway. One of the ways to achieve the Ludger Ending is if Ludger wishes for Elle's safety over the fate of the universe. When pressured on what they'll do about saving the world, Ludger says he can use his own powers to resolve the situation, but Elle ultimately refuses to let him do that because the power will kill him, and instead sacrifices herself to save both him and the world. In Elle's backstory, her father, Victor, is a Fractured version of Ludger who failed to complete Origin's Trial after travelling with another Fractured version of Elle with violet-eyes. When it was discovered that Ludger's daughter would be the Key of Kresnik with the powers needed to save their world, Bisley and Ludger's friends and family try to convince him to give her up for the sake of their world. Ludger refuses and ultimately kills Bisley, Julius, and his friends, when Bisley tries to kidnap the newborn Elle. In Arc 6 of Tales of Asteria, Victor's backstory involves the violet-eyed Elle he travelled with being set to be sacrificed by her father, with the justification that it's for the sake of the world. Fractured Ludger refuses and declares he'll protect her even if it makes the entire world his enemy, and kills violet-eyed Elle's father.
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Devilman / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Dororo (2019) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Flip Flappers / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Gravestone of Daisuke Jigen / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Highlander: The Search for Vengeance / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Juuni Senshi Bakuretsu Eto Ranger / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Mass Effect: Paragon Lost / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
My-HiME / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Rebuild of Evangelion / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Resident Evil: Death Island / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Castle of Cagliostro / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Place Promised in Our Early Days / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Weathering With You / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Wicked City / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Deus Ex Universe: Children's Crusade (Comic Book) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
First X-Men (Comic Book) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Journey into Mystery (Gillen) (Comic Book) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Once & Future (Comic Book) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Scud the Disposable Assassin (Comic Book) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Sin City (Comic Book) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Superman: Up in the Sky (Comic Book) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Tales to Astonish (Comic Book) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Girl with the X-Ray Mind (Comic Book) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Green Lantern (Comic Book) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars (Comic Book) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Stranded (Comic Book) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Tomboy (2015) (Comic Book) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Ultimate Fantastic Four (Comic Book) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Ultimatum (Comic Book) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Uncanny X-Men (2015) (Comic Book) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Uncanny X-Men (2016) (Comic Book) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Wacky Raceland (Comic Book) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
War World (Comic Book) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Wolverines (Comic Book) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Hercules / Disney / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Ancienverse / Fan Fic / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Cardcaptor Rad / Fan Fic / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Cinderjuice / Fan Fic / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality / Fan Fic / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Jedi Padme Trilogy / Fan Fic / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Project Ignition / Fan Fic / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Seinen Kakumei Utena / Fan Fic / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Tangled Adventures In Arendelle / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Always Save the Girl
The One I Love Is (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Second Try / Fan Fic / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Thousand Shinji / Fan Fic / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
A Storm of Chaos: A Doctor Whooves Adventure (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
After That Fateful Night (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
An Unsung Song (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Atonement (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Atonement (Worm) (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Between Three Rogues (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Black Cat: New Bounty (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Blackbird (Arrow) (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Diamond Adventure! The Dark Mystery (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Drakonophobia (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
For Love of Magic (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Isle Of She Beasts (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Justice Across Space and Time (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Landscape with a Blur of Conquerors (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Le Papillon Rising (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Memento Vivere (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Miraculous Two Weeks (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Muse Hysteria (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Mutants And Heroines (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
My Love Has Two Lives / Fan Fic / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Quell (Fanfic) / int_1b521bc	type	Always Save the Girl
Reality (Shay Sheridan) (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Sanza Salazar Saga (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Scar Tissue (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Shattered Dimensions (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Teri × Gumball: In Between Worlds (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Alternity Paradox (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Daleks Master Plan An AU (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Dragon's Notebook (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Gray Jedi Series (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Lion King Adventures (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Starvation Sequence (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
To Weather the Dark Collection (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Traveler (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Twelve Moons and a Fortnight (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
With Strength of Steel Wings (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Young Justice: Darkness Falls (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
All The Old Knives / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Bad Times at the El Royale / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Batman Forever / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Cloud Atlas / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Cloverfield / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Death Note Series / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Déjà Vu / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Déjà Vu (2006) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Diary of the Dead / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Die Another Day / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Doomsday / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Edge of Tomorrow / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Escape Room / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
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Fast X / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
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Free Fire / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
GoldenEye / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Heaven Can Wait (1978) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Hellboy II: The Golden Army / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Here Comes Mr. Jordan / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
I Care a Lot / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Jack the Giant Slayer / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Joe Versus the Volcano / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
King Arthur (2004) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
King Kong (1933) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Knight and Day / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Mara and the Firebringer / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Miss Bala / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Mission: Impossible â€“ Dead Reckoning / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
National Treasure / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Ninja Assassin / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
No Retreat, No Surrender 2 / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Noroi: The Curse / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Paranoia (2011) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Plunkett & Macleane / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Point Break (1991) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Predators / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Quantum of Solace / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Raiders of the Lost Ark / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Rainbow War / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Revenge of the Sith / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Robin and Marian / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Robowar / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Savages / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
SHAZAM! Fury of the Gods / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Silver Streak / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
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Solomon Kane / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Source Code / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
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Tenet / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Castle of Fu Manchu / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Dark Knight / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Dark Knight Rises / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Hidden Blade / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Serpent and the Rainbow / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Shaolin Temple / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Sorcerer's Apprentice / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Spy Who Loved Me / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Three Musketeers (2011) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Twilight Samurai / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The World Is Not Enough / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Tomorrow Never Dies / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Transformers: Dark of the Moon / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Turkey Shoot / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
2 Days in the Valley / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Ultraman Mebius and the Ultra Brothers / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
VHS / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Wolves / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Burning Dog Face (Lets Play) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Aria the Scarlet Ammo / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Full Metal Panic! / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Slayers / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
A Brother's Price / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Alien: Out of the Shadows / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
BalladOfTheWorld	seeAlso	Always Save the Girl
Brave New World Universe / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Carrera's Legions / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Chaos Walking / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Cloud Atlas / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Cold Vengeance / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Dark Heart High / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Demon King Daimao / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Dopamine / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Edison's Conquest of Mars / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Fatal: A Novel of Corrupted Innocence / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Full Metal Panic! / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Genkai Level 1 Kara No Nariagari / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Graceling / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
House Cerberus / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Imminent Danger And How To Fly Straight Into It / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Isekai Cheat Magician / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
John Carter of Mars / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Junior High of the Dead / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Known Space / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Live and Let Die / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Market of Monsters / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Moving Pictures (Discworld) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
My Feelings Can Wait / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Nagabumi / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Of Cinder and Bone / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Omega Guardians / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Oracle of Tao / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Percy Jackson and the Olympians / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Peter and the Starcatchers / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Phenomena / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Railhead / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Re:Zero / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Rune Soldier Louie / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Samaria / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Shadowmarch / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Slayers / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Star Trek: Picard - Rogue Elements / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Surface Detail / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Tarzan / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Ables / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Acts of Caine / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Beginning After the End / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Children of HÃºrin / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Cold Equations / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Darkglass Mountain Trilogy / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Demon Princes / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Giver / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Hardy Boys / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Heroic Legend of Arslan / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Orphan's Tales / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The People of the Black Circle / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The River Between / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Stoneheart Trilogy / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Sword of Good / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Ties That Bind (Hayes) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Time Patrol / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Trylle Trilogy / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
AccordingToGreta	seeAlso	Always Save the Girl
AlwaysSavetheGirl	sameAs	Always Save the Girl
Intersections	seeAlso	Always Save the Girl
Lina	seeAlso	Always Save the Girl
PandoraInactiveCanons	seeAlso	Always Save the Girl
TheRiverBetween	seeAlso	Always Save the Girl
TwelveHouses	seeAlso	Always Save the Girl
Aku no Hana (Manga) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
As the Gods Will (Manga) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Black Bird (2006) (Manga) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Blade of the Immortal (Manga) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Codename: Sailor V (Manga) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Deadline Summoner (Manga) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Deadline Summonner (Manga) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Death Note (Manga) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
ERASED (Manga) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Evangelion 303 (Manga) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Eyeshield 21 (Manga) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Inu Ã— Boku SS (Manga) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Jackals (Manga) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Kamisama Kiss (Manga) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Kami-sama no Iu Toori (Manga) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Kiss of the Rose Princess (Manga) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Knights of Sidonia (Manga) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Land of the Blindfolded (Manga) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Mekakushi no Kuni (Manga) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Meru Puri (Manga) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Mizutama Honey Boy (Manga) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Saint Seiya: Saintia Sho (Manga) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Flowers of Evil (Manga) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Legendary Hero Is Dead! (Manga) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Yakuza Girl (Manga) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Bride of the Water God (Manhwa) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Our Fair City (Podcast) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Henshin Heroes (Roleplay) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Insane Quest of Unfathomable Randomness (Roleplay) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Sky Tides (Roleplay) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Trustfell 4 Trust Fall Or Die Hard (Roleplay) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
deathhunters (Roleplay) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Bionic Woman / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Continuum / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Dracula (2020) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Firefly / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Highlander / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Jane by Design / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Lost Girl / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Murphy's Law / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Passions / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Primeval / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Pushing Daisies / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Sasmos / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Scandal / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Scandal (2012) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Star Trek: Voyager / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Sunset Beach / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Tale of the Nine Tailed / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
TheCiscoKid	seeAlso	Always Save the Girl
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Mentalist / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Night Manager / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Sarah Jane Adventures / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The X-Files / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Timeless / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
12 Monkeys / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
24 / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Warehouse 13 / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Princess: The Hopeful (Tabletop Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Savage Tide (Tabletop Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist (Tabletop Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Starmites (Theatre) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Prince (Theatre) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Alpha Protocol (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Army of Two (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Batman: Arkham City (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Chains of Satinav (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Chrono Cross (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
DmC: Devil May Cry (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Doctor Who Legacy (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Dragon Force (Sega) (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Feel the Magic (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Final Fantasy XIII (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Ghoul School (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Grim Fandango (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Guild Wars 2 (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
_iCEY._ (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Life Is Strange (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Lilitales (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Lost Horizon (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
LostMagic (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Love of Magic (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Myosotis (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Natamin's Big Adventure (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Nights of Azure (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
no-one has to die. (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
OneShot (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Onmyōji (2016) (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Operation Winback (Video Game)	seeAlso	Always Save the Girl
Oracle of Tao (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Persona 2 (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
RAID World War II (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Radiant Historia (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Robinson's Requiem (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Sol Cresta (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Stories Untold (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Tales of Asteria (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Tales of Legendia (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Tales of Xillia 2 (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
To the Moon (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Unicorn Overlord (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
White Day: A Labyrinth Named School (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
WinBack (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Adastra (2018) (Visual Novel) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
ef - a fairy tale of the two. (Visual Novel) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Fate/stay night (Visual Novel) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Lucky Dog 1 (Visual Novel) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Rewrite (Visual Novel) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Rose in the Embers (Visual Novel) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Sweet Fuse: At Your Side (Visual Novel) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Arcana (Visual Novel) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Umineko: When They Cry (Visual Novel) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
YU-NO (Visual Novel) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Scream of the Shalka (Web Animation) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Super Mario Bros. Z (Web Animation) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
TF2 Analysis (Web Animation) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Dreamer (Webcomic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Anarchy Dreamers (Webcomic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Archipelago (Webcomic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Domain Tnemrot (Webcomic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Kukuburi (Webcomic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Stranded (Webcomic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
YU+ME: dream (Webcomic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Zap! (Webcomic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
SporeWiki Fantasy Universe (Website) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Batman Beyond / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Beetlejuice / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Code Lyoko / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Donald's Dilemma / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Exchange Student Zero / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Hot Wheels: World Race / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Robotomy / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Tangled: The Series / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Voltron: Legendary Defender / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Young Justice - Original Series / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
El Cazador de la Bruja / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Fractale / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
A Crown of Stars (Fanfic) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
A Growing Affection / Fan Fic / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Storms Overhead / Fan Fic / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Super 8 / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Scarlet Pimpernel / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Black Bird (Manga) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Wizards of Waverly Place / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Eternal Sonata (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Prince of Persia (2008) (Video Game) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Star-Crossed Myth (Visual Novel) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Yo-Jin-Bo (Visual Novel) / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl

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