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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work	comment	There's a problem, and the heroes can't solve it or make it go away. It boils down to a situation that requires a decidedly unheroic action to solve, whether it's hurting, killing, or something even less pleasant. The heroes can't very well do it and still be classic White Hats, but not doing anything would have grave consequences. Who can save the day now? Not the Big Damn Heroes, but the villains! Hey, they're evil already, doing an evil act to save the day is no problem. Essentially the author's version of Take a Third Option in a narrative lose/lose situation. Different from a Heelâ€“Face Turn because the villain isn't necessarily being heroic; the villain may be entirely motivated out of self-interest, such as fighting a common threat or because a competitor is challenging his place as nemesis. Another possibility is it makes them even for a previous Save the Villain behavior. If they're on friendly terms with the heroes, they may take it upon themselves to get their hands dirty specifically so that the good guys won't have to. It's possible for it to even be a complete coincidence. At any rate, in more philosophic works, the villain will be likely to subject the hero to some flavor of "The Reason You Suck" Speech, explaining that the hero can only afford to be so squeaky clean because of this trope. Sometimes, this role will fall to a Superpowered Evil Side of a protagonist if the protagonist has a Split-Personality Team situation going on. Sub-Trope of Non-Protagonist Resolver; in this case, the "resolver" is the villain. Contrast Villainous Rescue, where a villain pulls a Big Damn Heroes without committing any acts that were too reprehensible for the good guys in the process. If the villain saves the day by accident by doing something villainous, that's Nice Job Fixing It, Villain. Overlaps with The Dog Bites Back when the "dog" is a minion. See Disney Villain Death for when there is no other bad guy to do the work, so it is done by gravity. If the hero deliberately sets it up, this is a possible case of Do with Him as You Will. Compare Always a Bigger Fish, when a usually non-sapient monster saves the heroes from another monster. Contrast Won't Do Your Dirty Work, where someone (usually either a Token Good Teammate or someone on the villain's team who is a lesser evil), gets ordered to do a morally questionable task and refuses. No Place for Me There and Necessarily Evil are this trope applied to Utopia Justifies the Means. Also see Exit, Pursued by a Bear, Designated Evil, Psycho Supporter, Asshole Victim, Pay Evil unto Evil, Indispensable Scoundrel, Sparing Them the Dirty Work, Self-Disposing Villain (also spares the hero from killing them), and Token Evil Teammate (the 'hero' inclined to play dirty pool in a team of good guys), and Adaptational Self-Defense (keep the hero morally upright by making their unsavory actions into self-defense).
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_100d4e39	comment	In Aladdin: The Series, in the episode "The Citadel", Aladdin threatens to turn a magic-eating monster loose on Mozenrath, who taunts him by pointing out that he's not ruthless enough to do that. "You're right. I'm not." Then Aladdin points at Iago, who is already poised to remove Mozenrath's control collar from the beast. "But he is!" And Iago proves it.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_10bc0a19	comment	In Night Watch, Vimes frees prisoners from the Cable Street watch house. In the process, he has to subdue a torturer, who he leaves tied to a chair and forgets about until someone reminds him. Since he gets reminded after he started burning the place down, he has to run back in, all the while trying to decide whether to kill the mook, cut him free, or cut just enough rope that he can maybe escape before he burns to death. Luckily, Captain Swing shows up and kills the mook before Vimes has to make his choice.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_11aa0ba8	comment	Deku? I think he's some pro...: Shigaraki and the rest of the League end up killing All For One after Izuku kickstarts an Enemy Civil War by revealing to them that Shigaraki was born Quirkless, with All For One secretly giving him his Quirk and grooming him as a weapon.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_11bb0392	comment	Made in Abyss: Bondrewd dismembers his daughter Prushka and turns her into an anti-curse cartridge, which Reg, Riko, and Nanachi are horrified by. However, Prushka in her cartridge form is able to produce a Life-Reverberating Stone, which is necessary for a White Whistle to be made that can help Riko and her friends get to the sixth layer of the Abyss. The only way to make a Life-Reverberating Stone is by a cave raider's loved one sacrificing themselves for them, and even though they only knew each other a short time, Prushka and Riko grew to like each other very much.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_1219d59a	comment	Played with in How to Build a Dungeon: Book of the Demon King. The evil sorcerer Aur, the openly-evil Villain Protagonist, winds up catching a beautiful hero trying to slay him. As part of his attempt to corrupt her, he first displays the ways he helps villages that agree to serve him and then takes her to the village that had asked her to kill him. These villagers try to stone her out of rage over all the losses they suffered after Aur took away his aid. When hero Yunis breaks and tries to kill the villagers, Aur does the task for her claiming that it's a villain's job, not a hero's.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_1367cea0	comment	When the Azn Bad Boys begin a bombing spree in Worm, supervillains of the town team up to attack the ABB's bases in order to remove that chaotic element from the table — and end up doing a lot more visible damage to the organization than the local superhero teams. It's growing into a major theme, stretching from taking down the ABB, to going toe-to-toe with several major threats, to Skitter keeping the peace in her territory safer than it had been for years. People noticed, too. They noticed enough to shield her from an arresting band of "heroes". The one trope that best summarizes the theme of the story. The Biggest, Damnedest Villains of all, Cauldron, exist for the purpose of saving as much of humanity as possible from an inevitable catastrophe, and even the Endbringers pitch in to help when that catastrophe arrives.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_13a8a9fe	comment	In An Unwelcome Quest, the villain Todd wants to kill all the characters. After Jimmy (who was the Big Bad of book 1) is given his powers back, he leaves and then comes back to rescue everyone else. He then erases Todd from the reality file, effectively killing him (well, not really at first, but he does it for real later when Todd refuses the option of going back to prison for life). The others are in shock, but Jimmy points out that it had to happen to ensure their continued safety, and none of them would stoop to his level. Realizing they can never trust him again, he pretends to erase himself to prove that he can be trusted, but in actuality decides to start a new life in modern-day Reno.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_14aec085	comment	Enemy of the State: The film opens with Dean negotiating with mobster Pintero over a compromising videotape that Dean had obtained, and which he gives Pintero in exchange for leaving Dean's clients alone. Later, Dean unknowingly obtains a recording that shows the assassination of a Congressman, which places him in the NSA's crosshairs. When he and Brill are captured by NSA bigwig Reynolds, he tells Reynolds that he will take them to the tape, leading them to Pintero instead. Dean remains vague enough about what he means by "the tape" when introducing them that Pintero assumes Reynolds is the man who made the mob tape coming to blackmail him, while Reynolds thinks that Dean gave the assassination tape to The Mafia, leading to a violent shootout where both Mafia and NSA forces wipe each other out.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_17fa5f0a	comment	In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the Pensieve reveals to Harry that Snape felt he was subjected to this when he was told to kill Dumbledore so that Draco wouldn't have to cross the point of no return.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_1858fe06	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): In a later comic, Shadow confronts Eggman and outright states he's going to kill him. Eggman tries to play the Thou Shalt Not Kill rule. He turns out to be a Horrible Judge of Character, as Shadow points out: "Sonic holds such beliefs. But then, he's a hero... I'm not."
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_1b575f28	comment	In Digimon Ghost Game, Gammamon's Superpowered Evil Side GulusGammamon firmly believes in Pay Evil unto Evil unlike his All-Loving Hero Tamer Hiro, and showed up to finish off their more irredeemable opponents Sealsdramon & Arukenimon when they had no options left. Averted with Myotismon however, as Hiro managed to talk Gammamon down and he instead reached his Ultimate form Canoweissmon before allowing Myotismon to escape.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: In the graphic novel God Loves, Man Kills, the X-Men and their erstwhile ally Magneto have captured a few of the enemy "Purifiers." The heroes are desperate for information about the Big Bad's plans, but the Purifier they question refuses to talk. Magneto, who at this point has yet to enter the Heelâ€“Face Revolving Door, does...something...to the man to force him to answer. Something comparable happens in Uncanny X-Men #269. Here Rogue and the personality she absorbed from Ms. Marvel come out of the Siege Perilous as two separate persons; unfortunately, there is only life force for one of them to survive, and therefore the Ms. Marvel revenant (a separate being from Carol Danvers, who was then in outer space as Binary) tries to kill Rogue. Rogue manages to defeat her, but can't bring herself to kill her even to survive, and so "Ms. Marvel" turns the tables again. She is about to kill Rogue when Magneto intervenes and kills the Ms. Marvel revenant. This could possibly be interpreted as Magneto being a Combat Pragmatist, but the subsequent story (#274-275) shows him starting on the road to becoming a villain again.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach: The Central 46 are Obstructive Bureaucrats of the worst kind. Good thing Aizen kills them all. Although the person who killed them had been frequently acting in their names, manipulating, or outright impersonating them for a long time now (all the decisions relating to Rukia's sentence were carried out by Aizen and his accomplices impersonating them), so it's hard to tell just how obstructive they really were... After Giselle zombifies Hitsugaya, Rangiku, Kensei and Rose, Mayuri states that having to fight his zombified comrades is more than his (non-existent) heart can handle... so instead he sics zombified Arrancar on them while he deals with Hitsugaya.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_1de036cc	comment	In Kamen Rider Wizard, the main hero is all about being the Hope Bringer. Though the Big Bad's hope is to revive his daughter. Well, noble goal, right? Well, his means involve sacrificing tons of people and converting them into monsters so as to power up a spell to revive her. What's a Hope Bringer like Haruto to do in a situation like that, especially since he was going to do this all over again? Cue The Dragon to come and run the Big Bad through with his own sword. Although, because this action might cause people to think this Dragon is a hero, he kills the Big Bad's daughter next. It would be good to note that said Hope Bringer has Good is Not Nice tendencies and killed The Dragon, disregarding his wish to become human again. He was a monster even when he was still human so there was not much to pity.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_1e4d8e4e	comment	The Bonanza episode, "The Ape," ended with the Cartwrights joining a posse looking for a massive mentally disabled Manchild, Arnie, for murder. When Arnie tries to attack the posse, the Cartwrights are out of sight of the attack and the less sympathetic character are the ones who shoot him, to the Cartwrights' regret.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_2212773a	comment	An interesting use occurs in the Angel episode "Reunion" when the main character leaves most of the key employees of Wolfram and Hart in a cellar with Drusilla and Darla, whom the lawyers had been helping (mainly just to piss Angel off and get under his skin), knowing full well that the two will kill most or all of them. Unusually, this is played as Angel becoming evil, or at least turning into an Unscrupulous Hero even though it's technically villains doing the dirty work.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_22989f46	comment	In the L.A. Law episode "Beauty and Obese," Grace Van Owen has just joined a two-man law firm which is, unbeknownst to her, championed by a mobster named Frank Vincent. Vincent asks her to represent his nephew, who's charged with murder. Grace declines. Vincent takes her to lunch and makes it clear he's not politely asking anymore, and that people who go against his wishes sometimes get hurt. Grace still refuses and raises Vincent's ire; at that point a gunman disguised as a waiter walks up and puts a bullet in Vincent's head. Later on in the series, Grace tells Frank Kittredge about this incident, saying, "I was relieved. Got him out of my life. Once these people have you, they don't let go."
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_22a9d8c5	comment	This tends to apply frequently to the main characters of Fort of Apocalypse, although most of their actions could be written off as Villainous Rescues. One particular instance of this is Yoshioka stabbing another inmate through the hand and pinning him to a table to divert the zombies, giving them a chance to escape.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_22fa3992	comment	Slightly downplayed example in The Expanse: halfway through the third season Prax, a temporary new addition to the crew and the only one that is morally uncompromised, comes face to face with the doctor who kidnapped his young daughter Mei to use her in protomolecule experiments, a process which would have certainly either killed Mei or destroyed her mind. Prax tries to work himself up to kill the evil doctor, but never having had to kill before, let alone in cold blood, (Prax is a botanist, not a former soldier, revolutionary, or criminal like the rest of the crew) he's having a difficult time. As Prax is struggling to pull the trigger, Token Evil Teammate and quasi-sociopath Amos stops Prax and has him leave the room. He then turns and blows the doctor's brains out with absolutely no fanfare or hesitation whatsoever.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_23b84765	comment	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: In the extended cut of the film, what to do with Saruman is a bit of a problem for ThÃ©oden and the Fellowship. He resists coming quietly to be questioned until GrÃma backstabs him after being kicked around one too many times. The sudden presence of Gollum at Mount Doom means that Sam doesn't have to fight or even kill Frodo to complete the quest and destroy the Ring after Frodo succumbs to the Ring's temptation and refuses to destroy it himself, since someone is already handling the fight for him.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_24b673e7	comment	Earth's Alien History has a couple of examples: When the Reapers invade the Alpha Quadrant, they do several things that inadvertently help out the rest of the galaxy, such as killing the Mekon and breaking the power of the Orion Syndicate. When the Romulans help Blackfire take over Tamaran, they also take the time to destroy the Citadel Empire (not to be confused with the Citadel Council), which had been tormenting the Tamaraneans for years.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	Doomsday's first appearance in Justice League. In the comics, when Doomsday first appears, he kills Superman. (Superman soon got better). However, in "A Better World", he's not facing our Superman, but rather Supes' Knight Templar counterpart from an Alternate Universe, Justice Lord Superman, who is completely unburdened by moral constraints like Thou Shalt Not Kill. Not long after the fight has started and he's felt how strong and dangerous Doomsday is, Justice Lord Superman decides to skip out on a protracted battle with Doomsday and simply uses his eye lasers to lobotomize Doomsday, bringing the fight to a swift end in a way that Superman never would have done. (Doomsday eventually gets better and is mighty pissed, but that's another story/episode.)
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: This is why the Knights of the Cross sometimes fight alongside Harry Dresden. He's not evil, but he's willing to Shoot the Dog and do morally questionable things if it averts a greater evil â€” freedom the Knights, who are truly good, loving people â€” do not have.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_4c9e8c6	comment	In general in Culture novels, Special Circumstances plays this role for the rest of the Culture (and their non-Culture Citizen agents play this role to the rest of the organization). Use of Weapons contains a particularly clear example of this with the amoral/immoral protagonist and his anti-hero handlers taking on a morally ambiguous mission that will help promote freedom and tolerance in general for a particular region, but cost a lot of innocent and not-so-innocent lives in the meantime.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_4e7bc558	comment	Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail: Grace Monroe, leader of a denizen killing cult, discusses this trope with Chloe Cerise, stating that there are some things that only adults should do — one of them being killing Walter just as he's strangling Chloe. She's also the one to ultimately disband her cult when she realizes how much damaged it has caused. While UnSara had been assaulted by a million PokÃ©mon moves beforehand, Parker Cerise is ultimately the one to defeat the apparition for good, not only wishing for the Bad things she did to be followed by good things, but make sure those good things remain long after she's gone.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_4ef687a0	comment	The Butterfly Effect: Kaede is going out of her way to avoid killing anyone. Lucy has no such qualms, going after anyone who targets Kaede and her loved ones.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_506e266b	comment	Injustice 2: In the Arcade Ladder mode, almost all character endings for supervillains, anti-heroes, and Regime members have Brainiac killed often in brutal and cruel ways, while he survives in most superhero endings where he is jailed instead. The only heroes to explicitly kill him are Sub-Zero and Raiden, who by DC standards could qualify as anti-heroes but are actually two of the greatest champions of good in their setting. In the story mode, this trope becomes a plot point when at the end, the Regime elects to kill him since he is considered Too Powerful to Live, but Batman and his allies disagree and a fight breaks out between the two factions, with the player deciding who is right.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck: During and after "Game Over", there is a MÃªlÃ©e Ã Trois between the good guys, the Condesce, and Aranea, who is unkillable due to having the Ring of Life. After Aranea kills three heroes and grievously injures a fourth, the Condesce is the one to kill her, first by removing the Ring of Life (and thus, her immortality), then by snapping her neck and throwing her into a fire.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_5178149f	comment	The story was later adapted for Batman: The Brave and the Bold, but tweaks it by having Chill die in a freak accident before Batman's enemies could get him — which was heavily hinted to have been arranged by The Spectre. It still qualifies as this trope, as the Spectre is considered a hero but one that's far, far less scrupulous than Batman.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_5268a4ed	comment	This gets exaggerated with Kamen Rider Build, as the show slowly reveals that Blood Stalk, later revealed to be Evolt was responsible for every single bad thing that happened to the protagonists, even removing Gentoku from the responsibility of plunging Japan into war and killing Ryuga's girlfriend via members of Evolt's race reveal that they talked him into doing that. Another thing to note is that Evolt is the one that removes the major powers from conflict: using Faust as a stepping stone and ditching it when it no longer served a purpose, putting Hokuto in a military coup, killing Seito's Prime Minister, and decimating Namba's forces.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_52837809	comment	Kamen Rider Drive pulls this off a bit differently. Throughout the series, the Roidmudes are presented as cruel and vicious towards the human race, to which the heroes must stop them. However, over time, Roidmudes who are actually good towards humans get slowly revealed. One such example is a Roidmude who befriends the cast and another is a Roidmude commander who considers every other Roidmude to be his friend. To spare the dilemma of killing off the former Roidmude, one of the other commanders is revealed to be a genocidal yandere who murders said Roidmude to quell the number of Roidmudes not acting according to their programming. However, eventually even that commander is revealed to be an Anti-Villain. The solution? Bring in their inventor, who proves to be Eviler than Thou. The moment he is revealed to be the Big Bad, every Roidmude death afterwards was either caused (in)directly by him or if it's by the hero's hands, have said Roidmude be Brainwashed and Crazy.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_5293b208	comment	Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: Played straight and enforced as no matter how much the events had hardened Emu he would never stop trying to save the villains. So obviously someone or something had to come in and fix it. The first Hate Sink, Kuroto Dan was killed by Parado and second Hate Sink, Masamune Dan, killed himself twice just to screw everyone over. Parado himself, on the hand, had been redeemed by Emu.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_52dd4a4c	comment	Ultimate Marvel: Ultimatum: Reed is fully aware of the things that Van Damme did, including his part in all this, but his moral code does not allow him to kill him. So he blames himself that he's partially responsible, because his unwillingness to kill caused all this. He confided all this with Ben, who then took it to himself to do what Reed did not dare to do, and kill Van Damme. The Ultimates: The Ultimates recruit Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, from the Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy. Nick Fury points that this is not the first that the security services made deals with terrorists. Ultimate X Men: Xavier loathes mutants taking advantage of their superior powers to impose their will of regular humans, no matter the circumstances. Wolverine, on the other hand, has no problem making a display of his powers to a mafia boss so he accepts to leave Colossus alone.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_534c1b6b	comment	Kamen Rider Ryuki has a There Can Be Only One approach and the protagonist is unwilling to kill anyone. Leave it to his badass partner to do the work for him. Though even he has hesitations to kill. Cue the Rider who's job prior to being a Rider was nothing BUT killing. Likewise in Kamen Rider Dragon Knight, though the protagonist did end up sending a Rider to the Advent Void.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_53a73ca0	comment	Star Wars: The Clone Wars: "Voyage of Temptation": The traitorous Tal Merrik has Obi-Wan's Old Flame Satine Kryze at gunpoint, while also holding a detonator that will blow up the ship they're on if he's let go. Cue a lightsaber blade through the chest, courtesy of Anakin Skywalker, who's rather suspiciously comfortable with murdering someone in cold blood... In the Umbara Arc, General Pong Krell is a very dangerous combination of ruthless and incompetent, but unfortunately for the clone troopers under his command, he's their commanding officer and they're in a cartoon, so Unfriendly Fire is not really an option. Even after he's revealed to be Evil All Along, Rex can't quite bring himself to execute an unarmed and kneeling man. Dogma, who was previously Krell's most loyal supporter, isn't quite so ready to forgive, and kills him with Fives' blaster. "Escape from Kadavo": While she's a cruel and arrogant slavedriver and tyrant, Queen Miraj Scintel poses no physical threat to the heroes, and as such the Jedi, being heroes, can't really just use the Force to choke her to death. Count Dooku, on the other hand, has no such qualms.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_53b30902	comment	Valkyria Chronicles is pretty devoted to this trope. Selvaria's going to crush the militia! What do we do? Have Faldio shoot Alicia and awaken her Valkyria powers so she doesn't have to accept responsibility for becoming one herself. You also have Georgios Geld in a side chapter. A notorious war criminal who tortured and killed Eleanor Varrot's lover, he is nonetheless released in an If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him! moment. Naturally, someone this bad can't be allowed to get off scot-free, so he flees back to the Imperial headquarters... only to be court-martialed and executed by his own side! Also doubles as Even Evil Has Standards. It also sorta falls flat because Geld's superiors knew all about his war crimes, they just didn't care until they noticed a protagonist wasn't cool with it, apparently. General Damon is an asshole with no apparent positive qualities, and he spends the entire game sending Squad 7 out on suicide missions in order to keep his success record looking good. When Squad 7 finally manages to capture Selvaria alive, he immediately leaps in to take all the credit for it. Welkin and Alicia get upset at Damon for not being nice to her (apparently they've forgotten how she's been killing thousands of Gallians, some of which might be Squad 7 members depending on how you play) but he's the top brass, so they can't stop him and are assigned to escort the Imperial soldiers away from the battleground at Selvaria's request. And then Selvaria fries the entire army with a Suicide Attack, so Damon gets his comeuppance, Varrot becomes the only authority Squad 7 answers to, Selvaria is no longer an obstacle, and the good guys don't get a single drop of blood on their hands. Maximillian's on the ropes and the land battleship is about to explode; it's too dangerous to approach and Welkin and Alicia can't capture him alive! How do we solve this? Have Faldio show up out of nowhere, grab Max, and pitch himself into the exploding inner workings of the machine, killing them both. Again, the villains get their punishment, and our heroes are utterly unconcerned.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_565871de	comment	In The Handmaiden, Kouzuki brings Fujiwara back to his estate after being tipped by Hideko as to his location, and then Fujiwara kills himself and Kouzuki. Sook-hee and Hideko are able to escape without needing to kill either of them directly.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: It falls to sociopathic dictator Tarquin to kill Nale, who Elan had repeatedly refused to let die before. Being Genre Savvy he also points out that with this he freed the plot from yet another recurring villain, wanting himself to be the important villain. In the prequel comic "How The Paladin Got His Scar", it falls to Miko (who while not outright villainous or the Knight Templar she will become in the main comic, has definitely been antagonistic), to kill the Sapphire Guard's increasingly unhinged War Hawk leader Gin-Jun, whose actions and genocidal hatred for hobgoblins had nearly plunged the Azurites and the hobgoblins into a mutually destructive war. Meanwhile, the hobgoblin leadership, who are similarly eager for war and misinterpret the well-meaning actions of O-Chul and Hinjo for weakness, are taken out by one of their own, who wants to avoid any chance of war destroying the settlement they've slowly and laboriously built up.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_58e89136	comment	Is It My Fault That I Got Bullied?: A non-criminal example with Shinji Suzuki. Heâ€™s a successful banker because he is sent to handle clients that appeal to the banker's conscience, where he ruthlessly rejects feeling sympathy for them. Itâ€™s implied that his boss uses him for that kind of work, and his Coworkers greatly admire him for his ruthlessness, even if some are uncomfortable with it, with one of them viewing him as an elite person. Deconstruction by the final chapters of the story. Shinji's mistress and former victim revealed him to be a cheater and a bully to his boss and coworkers. His boss was disgusted and denied him the promotion and later demoted him to make copies of documents all day. His coworkers wanted nothing to do with him, ignored him, and refused to be threatened by him or even talk to him. They were willing to tolerate and even admire Shinji's ruthless methods when it was good for business, but they draw the line when they see what a monster he really is and cut ties with him. And eventually, one of the people Shinji abused and bullied when he was a banker killed him just as he was planning to put his life back together, showing that there are even consequences when legally doing dirty work because your cruelty will catch up to you when one of your victims sick of your abuse.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_5a47599	comment	Batman: Arkham Series: In Batman: Arkham Origins The Joker murders Gillian Loeb to sow chaos and dethrones Roman Sionis and usurps his empire. Loeb was a politically corrupt douchebag who was as untouchable as he was corrupt, and Sionis was the top crime boss in town. So while the Joker's intentions weren't pure, he perversely got rid of two of the biggest sources of rot within Gotham. Joker later gloats to Batman that he has "done more in two nights than [Batman has] done in two years". In Batman: Arkham City, Talia kills the Joker during the climax because she knows Batman wonâ€™t do it. However, itâ€™s not the real Joker. He kills her but ends up dying after the next boss fight from his illness.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_5ada53ed	comment	James Bond: Quantum of Solace has a rare case of the villain not dying at Bond's hands. Bond chooses to strand the film's main villain in the desert to fend for himself and it doesn't go well for him (he's later said to have been found with bullets in his neck). In No Time to Die, it's a Mad Scientist acting on behalf of the film's Big Bad, Lyutsifer Safin, who rids the world of Spectre, by sabotaging a party of them that was intended to be for Bond's death, turning the nanomachines-based virus they stole against themselves.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_5b075d7c	comment	Reaver's job in Fable III is to do this. He stands in court to argue in favor of the evil option when making decisions as king. While these options are generally quite despicable and having an orphanage would be fine and dandy in the long run, you could really do with the 1,250,000 you would make from opening a brothel right now to fight back the Eldritch Abomination that threatens to destroy Albion. He also does this in the previous game. If the player does not kill Lucien in the middle of his Motive Rant, Reaver will take the chance to shoot him.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_5b344855	comment	Wolverine: Wolverine considers himself damned already because of his past, so he's willing to cross lines actual heroes shouldn't. He does not want anyone else, especially kids, following his example.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_5b6bf864	comment	Something comparable happens in Uncanny X-Men #269. Here Rogue and the personality she absorbed from Ms. Marvel come out of the Siege Perilous as two separate persons; unfortunately, there is only life force for one of them to survive, and therefore the Ms. Marvel revenant (a separate being from Carol Danvers, who was then in outer space as Binary) tries to kill Rogue. Rogue manages to defeat her, but can't bring herself to kill her even to survive, and so "Ms. Marvel" turns the tables again. She is about to kill Rogue when Magneto intervenes and kills the Ms. Marvel revenant. This could possibly be interpreted as Magneto being a Combat Pragmatist, but the subsequent story (#274-275) shows him starting on the road to becoming a villain again.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_5bb406f8	comment	James S. Corey's The Expanse: In the first book of the series, Leviathan Wakes, Outland-esque rent-a-cop Joe Miller is present when the heroes make their final move on the base of the genius sociopath-staffed corporation responsible for setting loose a bio-modifying hyper-advanced fractally programmed engineered virus on a space station filled with millions of people. When they capture the head researcher, the de facto Big Bad of the novel, and they mean to interrogate him, he goes into a very well-planned justification speech that actually has a lot of legitimate reasoning, and leaves the protagonists kind of doubting their own motives. Miller, recognizing that the man might actually walk, and already having been on a despair bender for the majority of the book, decides to do what no one else seems to have the initiative to, and promptly shoots the man in the head. Three times, no less. In the final book, Leviathan Falls, Colonel Tanaka, Laconia's most experienced, motivated, and bloodthirsty marine officer, is tasked with finding and recovering their self-made God-Emperor Duarte after he Came Back Wrong and wandered off. When it is discovered that he has taken it upon himself to implement his own homebrewed Assimilation Plot, her mission changes from recovery to neutralization. At the eleventh hour, she finally finds him inside the Precursor artifact at the center of the ringspace, with James Holden and Theresa in tow. Neither Holden nor Theresa has the will, let alone the ability, to kill him with the station's Lost Technology at his command, so it falls to Tanaka. She rips him bodily apart with a brutality even she had not displayed before.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_5f3bd79a	comment	In Perfection Is Overrated, the First District is dealt with in a similar manner to canon, but this time by The Usurper-possessed Obsidian Lord and his minions.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_654ab3ee	comment	In Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Ezio promises Suleiman that he will spare the Templar Leader, Suleiman's uncle, Ahmet if he can. During the confrontation, Selim, Suleiman's father and Ahmet's brother, interrupts, strangles Ahmet, and throws him to a Disney Villain Death.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_68edf1c9	comment	Both inverted and played straight in the same example in AJCO when A_J requests that she and Pi be put through the re-education process. Inverted when Egg, arguably the only 'true' good guy (or at the very least the only one without centuries of blood on her hands), is forced to make the decision - then played straight when Req, the most amoral of the four, is the one to push the button. A_J is quick to blame Egg when the Doctor dies, however.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_6abaae36	comment	The Lion King Adventures features two examples: In Friends to the End, Hago kills Scar whilst his back is turned. In The Interceptor's Challenge, the Interceptor rips Shocker's head off, before burying him underneath the ground for all eternity.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_6c2c4bf3	comment	X-Men Film Series: X-Men: The Mutant Registration Act is defeated due to the Brotherhood unintentionally killing the Act's main supporter and Mystique replacing him later on. X-Men: Apocalypse: A Brainwashed and Crazy Wolverine slaughters all of Stryker's soldiers holding our heroes prisoner.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_6c5a9849	comment	In Shadow of the Conqueror, Daylen cites this as the reason why he should be allowed to Pay Evil unto Evil, saving the innocent from having to experience such extreme violence.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_6c6852c4	comment	The prequel Yakuza 0 has Makoto's guardian figure try to protect Makoto by creating a dead Body Double. Majima refuses to do it, but in leaving the plan's ingredients in the trash, he inadvertently allows another yakuza to complete the plan himself, which puts Majima under a microscope with his current boss, a Shimano officer who wants Makoto dead.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_6c6852c5	comment	In Yakuza, Akira Nishikiyama kills Kyohei Jingu.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_6cc7497b	comment	In Castlevania, the Bishop serves as the Arc Villain of the first season, as his fanatical control of Wallachia is what caused Dracula's rampage in the first place (by killing his wife for supposed witchcraft), and leads to him persecuting the few people who can actually do something about it. But in the end, while Trevor and his allies fight the Bishop's men, they don't have to deal with him personally, as Dracula's demons track him down and kill him in his own church.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_6d390243	comment	Zero vs Kira has Kira declaring war upon the forces of Brittania after being accidentally transported to their world.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Farscape: In the episode "Prayer", it's ambiguous whether or not John knew Scorpius was going to kill the merged Chiana-Aeryn when he brought him along to the alternate universe, but it's what had to be done. See page quote. In an earlier episode, Moya is in orbit around a planet with notoriously sexist laws, and accepts a visit from a mechanic- accompanied by an armed security guard. Things go well, up until Chiana discovers that the mechanic is actually a woman, rebelling against the government by doing a Sweet Polly Oliver; just when it looks like they're becoming friends, the security guard shows up and, infuriated that he's had a woman under his nose all this time, holds both of them at gunpoint. Given that there's almost nobody else aboard the ship at the time, it looks as though the two of them are going to die...right up until Scorpius calmly drifts past and snaps the man's neck. All the more impactful because Scorpius had been having a friendly chat with the guard before then.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_6f0b3497	comment	The series does this ALL THE TIME considering how many villains die at the hand of other villains — often for all the wrong reasons. The Penguin does this most often thanks to his tenuous, but not quite antagonistic so far, relationship with Jim, compared with the other criminals. The most awesome example comes towards the end of season 2, when Theo Galavan, resurrected in the form of Azrael, is about to kill Alfred, Bruce, and Jim. Cue his mortal enemy Penguin showing up... with a ROCKET LAUNCHER.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_6f734712	comment	This has happened tons of times in Smallville. Clark has to face people with dangerous superpowers, and while he can beat them readily enough, he can't very well run a super-jail or convince them to lead an honest life because, well, Kryptonite gives most people a god complex, and most krypto-freaks aren't stable/good to begin with. Having Clark kill or permanently disable them is far too squicky for a proto-Superman to do, so the preferred solution is to have them depowered or hoist by their own petard. The other solutions that pertain to this trope are to have them be killed by evil infighting among themselves or having Lionel (and later Lex) deal with them. A big one in season nine. Both the Justice League and Zod have a bone to pick with Checkmate. Oliver and John get captured at different points, although they managed to escape. Chloe is also kidnapped and almost killed in an attempt to blackmail Clark into revealing more about their team. Zod, on the other hand? He comes over to visit and burns down their entire castle base with heat vision. Zod will not tolerate human nonsense. Kneel Before Zod.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_6fe3e8a7	comment	Neopets: In the 2023 Faerie Festival, the heroic Illusen and the villainous Jhudora attempt to get information from Monty, but he gives dodgy answers. Jhudora has Illusen step outside so that she can scare Monty into telling the truth.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_71ab396c	comment	Cute Meets Psycho: J.D. makes Hotaru his 18th victim, taking out Mistress 9 in the process, before the Sailor Scouts could ever even meet her.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_7291539d	comment	In Batman: Arkham City, Talia kills the Joker during the climax because she knows Batman wonâ€™t do it. However, itâ€™s not the real Joker. He kills her but ends up dying after the next boss fight from his illness.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_73383fee	comment	Near the end of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, the Big Bad Momokuma/Junko Enoshima invites the remaining students to vote for execution for putting everyone through the Killing School Life. Having survived this long without doing so, none of them are willing to pull the trigger and break out, especially since it just plays into the villain's hands. So she pushes the execution button herself, happily following the Monokumas as they lead her to her doom.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Garak often falls into this trope, since his morality is almost always teetering on the line between gray and black. Probably the best example is from "In the Pale Moonlight", in which he lies, extorts, and murders at least six people (a criminal, a Romulan senator, and his four aides) to bring Romulus into the Dominion War on the Federation's side. He notes at the end that that's exactly why Sisko sought his help because he was capable of doing the dirty work Sisko wasn't willing to do. Sisko himself pulls this gambit in "For the Uniform" in order to capture the renegade Maquis operative Eddington, by using (and threatening to continue using) a biogenic weapon to make a Maquis colony uninhabitable. For anyone else in the Federation, this would be far too heinous an action — but for Sisko, It's Personal.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_74365738	comment	Going Postal also had this, in a way. It turns out that the backlog of unsent letters at the Post Office are sentient and want to be delivered, and are powerful enough to cause telepathic hallucinations. Not only is this very dangerous given the number of Vetinari's men that got killed falling off of ledges that they couldn't see, but it is also flatly impossible to deliver some of them since they come from another universe's Post Office, and could cause a lot of upheaval if they accidentally got out. Conveniently, Reacher Gilt's Dragon is an arsonist and burns the office down, letters and all, relieving Moist of the burden.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_74f0ce72	comment	Avatar: The Legend of Arata: Arashi is the one who kills Visola, rather than any of the heroes. Averted with Tsume; Arata and Kinto don't care that they might have killed him while taking him down, and he ultimately dies at the hands of one of his victims.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_7695a322	comment	Homemade Happy Ending: Mad Mod decides to intervene and help Beast Boy and Terra reunite by disposing of Slade for them. Though naturally, he's also doing this to benefit himself by using Slade's life energy to rejuvenate himself.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_76e539c2	comment	In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, Due disposes of the TSAB High Council, which was responsible for having Scaglietti created, preventing any such mistakes in the future.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_79ab0b3c	comment	Tortall Universe: In the Trickster's Duet, Aly's god-ordered objective is to put one of two sisters on the throne of the Copper Isles as part of a revolution. Among the people they will be usurping are the five-year-old king and the girls' own three-year-old half-brother, whom Aly (and a number of the other Rebel Leaders) has personally cared for. Aly considers binding them with magical oaths to not try and retake the throne and exiling them with a bodyguard, but everyone knows that isn't a perfect solution and the boys could still be figureheads or martyrs for a counterrevolution. Then Aly mentions the problem to said god, he gets impatient over such an "insignificant" problem, and whispers in the regents' ears until they decide to kill the boys themselves so they can have the throne.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: In the 1947 story that introduces Joe Chill, the killer of Bruce Wayne's parents, Batman confronts Chill and, in a fit of anger, reveals his Secret Identity to him. Since this was back when recurring villains didn't get to learn such secrets, but Batman doesn't kill, Chill is instead killed by his own enraged men after he tells them he is responsible for creating Batman... and, naturally, dies before he can say just who's behind the mask. The story was later adapted for Batman: The Brave and the Bold, but tweaks it by having Chill die in a freak accident before Batman's enemies could get him — which was heavily hinted to have been arranged by The Spectre. It still qualifies as this trope, as the Spectre is considered a hero but one that's far, far less scrupulous than Batman. In Post-Crisis on Infinite Earths continuity, Joe Chill would be killed off by psycho vigilante The Reaper just as Batman is struggling with the decision to kill him himself or not. The remnants of The Black Glove that tried to utterly destroy Batman (and utterly failed) in Batman R.I.P. could have caused problems in the future. It's probably for the best that Joker as Oberon Sexton killed them all. Later on, the same thing happens to Simon Hurt. Similarly, when Batman finally goes after the leadership of the Court of Owls in Night of the Owls, he finds that they've all already been killed by Lincoln March.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_7e49f77f	comment	At the climax of The Night Manager, the heroes are able to screw up Richard Roper's arms deal and get him arrested, but he smugly predicts that his connections will prevent any actual jail time. Then his very angry business partners show up and take him away from the police, clearly intending to kill him.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_7eceb06d	comment	He also does this in the previous game. If the player does not kill Lucien in the middle of his Motive Rant, Reaver will take the chance to shoot him.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_7fc78282	comment	Wormtongue killing Saruman near the end of The Lord of the Rings.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_81202666	comment	In Chainsaw Man, Quanxi takes out huge numbers of Santa Claus' doll minions when Denji is reluctant to harm them out of fear that they're still human and very much alive despite their transformation.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_81f5d35d	comment	For most Kamen Rider shows, the monsters are often monsters taking the guises of humans. Double and Fourze, however, do the opposite: humans who take the guise of monsters. While taking them out is a breeze (all that's needed is to break their Transformation Trinket and they will no longer be able to transform), taking out the higher-ranked members, some of which are Anti Villains, might be a hassle, especially with Double being a detective who helps the police nab criminals and Fourze being the All-Loving Hero. Leave it to the resident bad guys or self-dooming inflictions to do those villains in. Though Double and Fourze have their share of defeating the higher-ups, rarely killing them in the process (or putting one in a coma for one case). Kamen Rider Ryuki has a There Can Be Only One approach and the protagonist is unwilling to kill anyone. Leave it to his badass partner to do the work for him. Though even he has hesitations to kill. Cue the Rider who's job prior to being a Rider was nothing BUT killing. Likewise in Kamen Rider Dragon Knight, though the protagonist did end up sending a Rider to the Advent Void. In Kamen Rider Wizard, the main hero is all about being the Hope Bringer. Though the Big Bad's hope is to revive his daughter. Well, noble goal, right? Well, his means involve sacrificing tons of people and converting them into monsters so as to power up a spell to revive her. What's a Hope Bringer like Haruto to do in a situation like that, especially since he was going to do this all over again? Cue The Dragon to come and run the Big Bad through with his own sword. Although, because this action might cause people to think this Dragon is a hero, he kills the Big Bad's daughter next. It would be good to note that said Hope Bringer has Good is Not Nice tendencies and killed The Dragon, disregarding his wish to become human again. He was a monster even when he was still human so there was not much to pity. In Kamen Rider Gaim, this was done not so much as to spare the hero from killing someone, but to make it so the person doing the dirty work crosses the line in doing so and becomes the local Hate Sink. Want context? Well, Kouta is hesitant to fight a human that he saw transform into an Inves before his eyes and is dead set on trying to have him be human again. He gets to his breaking point and at that time, Sigurd arrives, easily kills the human, then rubs it in Kouta's face by claiming it as a heroic feat. A similar thing happens late in the series, when Mad Scientist Ryoma has just vivisected Mai in his quest for the power that she now holds, killing her in the process and also reducing another villain to tears in the process. Kouta might be too nice to kill him (and had been in a bad situation of nearly dying), but Kaito isn't; brutally beating Ryoma and driving him to suicide cemented himself as the series' final antagonist. Gaim's finale subverts this as while Kouta had to kill Kaito or let him destroy the world so he could remake it in his image. Kamen Rider Drive pulls this off a bit differently. Throughout the series, the Roidmudes are presented as cruel and vicious towards the human race, to which the heroes must stop them. However, over time, Roidmudes who are actually good towards humans get slowly revealed. One such example is a Roidmude who befriends the cast and another is a Roidmude commander who considers every other Roidmude to be his friend. To spare the dilemma of killing off the former Roidmude, one of the other commanders is revealed to be a genocidal yandere who murders said Roidmude to quell the number of Roidmudes not acting according to their programming. However, eventually even that commander is revealed to be an Anti-Villain. The solution? Bring in their inventor, who proves to be Eviler than Thou. The moment he is revealed to be the Big Bad, every Roidmude death afterwards was either caused (in)directly by him or if it's by the hero's hands, have said Roidmude be Brainwashed and Crazy. Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: Played straight and enforced as no matter how much the events had hardened Emu he would never stop trying to save the villains. So obviously someone or something had to come in and fix it. The first Hate Sink, Kuroto Dan was killed by Parado and second Hate Sink, Masamune Dan, killed himself twice just to screw everyone over. Parado himself, on the hand, had been redeemed by Emu. This gets exaggerated with Kamen Rider Build, as the show slowly reveals that Blood Stalk, later revealed to be Evolt was responsible for every single bad thing that happened to the protagonists, even removing Gentoku from the responsibility of plunging Japan into war and killing Ryuga's girlfriend via members of Evolt's race reveal that they talked him into doing that. Another thing to note is that Evolt is the one that removes the major powers from conflict: using Faust as a stepping stone and ditching it when it no longer served a purpose, putting Hokuto in a military coup, killing Seito's Prime Minister, and decimating Namba's forces. Kamen Rider Zi-O has a minor example in regards to a Monster of the Week. In most cases, they're often the Victim of the Week as well, being manipulated by the Time Jackers to become their puppet. Then we get to Yuko, who is an outright yandere who murdered someone before she even received her powers. After she's defeated, one of the Time Jackers, Ora, kills her due to her earlier fooling around with them. She would have otherwise walked away with nary a scratch.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_8203cde7	comment	In EDENS ZERO, Homura lets Madame Kurenai go. She runs off into some woods, laughing at her daughter's weakness. And promptly runs into Cedric and his gang - and they definitely do not let her go, Cedric repaying her disfigurement of him with high interest and a metal baseball bat. Not to mention what is implied to happen to her afterwards - and for a whole year.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_82c4618a	comment	In The End of Ends, Dr. Beljar makes it really easy for the Titans to not kill Beast Boy since he takes over control of the Dark Prognosticus, and it's required that whoever controls the Prognosticus must die in order to close the void. This arguably ends up being a moot point, though, when Beast Boy dies anyway from injuries sustained in the battle.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_84777531	comment	Androgyninja's A Drop of Poison: During the Konoha Crush, Kabuto attacks Shimura Danzo, rendering them comatose. This helps prevent them from taking advantage of Konoha's weakened state after the invasion and seizing power, or from immediately exploiting the death of Sakura's parents.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_8525bf6a	comment	Doki Doki! PreCure has it in for Bel killing off Leva and Gula after they got defeated by Precure for the last time, effectively giving the team not only free from the duo but also getting their darkness to use it on Ira and Marmo.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_856d96e	comment	Juleka vs. the Forces of the Universe: When Juleka learns that Ms. Bustier is a Shipper on Deck who intends to pair Marinette and Adrien up for an assignment despite how Marinette gets Tongue-Tied and constantly humiliated around him, she knows that their teacher won't listen to anything she has to say. So she points ChloÃ© her direction, knowing the Spoiled Brat will throw a fit over not getting her way — and that Ms. Bustier constantly caves to ChloÃ©'s bullying.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_88383ee7	comment	In Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), the brothers need to create the Philosopher Stone. Problem: By episode 40, it became obvious that in order to do that, one needs to kill quite a lot of people. Solution: Scar did it. And died in the process.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_8a10bde9	comment	This is pretty standard procedure for Ulquiorra in A Hollow in Equestria when something needs to be done that the ponies can't do themselves.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_8aba7478	comment	Street Fighter vs. Darkstalkers: Jedah Domah is killed by Gill (his partner whom Jedah betrayed) by pulling out his heart from his body and then Akuma (a decidedly grey character) delivers the killing blow by striking him with the Dylec sword. Granted, it's not like the heroes weren't trying, it's that Jedah was so powerful that it just so happened the ones to defeat him were bad guys. Ironically, Gill himself is defeated when he tries to claim victory for getting rid of the competition, as he is teleported back to Earth by his own cultists trying to resurrect him. Also the demonic fetus created by the villains is defeated when Morrigan and Lilith Aensland fuse together and deliver a powerful blast at the demonic child. An unusual only-adaptational case giving they are not evil in canon, but in the comic they are depicted as malevolent succubi that kill humans draining their souls.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_8c73e990	comment	Ultimatum: Reed is fully aware of the things that Van Damme did, including his part in all this, but his moral code does not allow him to kill him. So he blames himself that he's partially responsible, because his unwillingness to kill caused all this. He confided all this with Ben, who then took it to himself to do what Reed did not dare to do, and kill Van Damme.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_8d81bb26	comment	In the NCIS episode "Iced" a low-level hood killed his gang's leader and then used text messages supposedly from said leader to take control of the gang. The team doesn't have enough evidence to get a conviction, so instead they hold the hood in interrogation while showing the gang's senior members exactly how they've been duped. The hood is dropped off at his gang's hideout and is found dead the next morning, executed gangland style and left in a dumpster.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_8d84ebc5	comment	In an episode of Taxi, Elaine visits a trendy hair stylist(played by Ted Danson) and comes away with an atrocious hairdo. She, Alex, and Louie pay the stylist a visit to demand an apology and he rebuffs them. Elaine considers dumping a bowlful of hair dye on the stylist's head but decides not to, declaring "I'm better than you." Before they leave, Louie casually dumps the hair dye over the stylist and says, "She might be better than you, (Beat)...but I ain't!"
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_8f8df73b	comment	Simba from The Lion King is too moral to give Scar the killing blow. However, the hyenas who Scar tried to blame for everything when things started looking bad... they have no such morals. And they haven't eaten in a while...
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_90c73dda	comment	In Animorphs Rachel starts out as The Big Guy, but as the war goes on slips into Token Evil Teammate. Upon realizing they may need to kill David, Jake immediately thinks of getting her. She's torn between acknowledging she's the person for the job and wondering what it says about her (and his opinion of her) that he knows that. Much later, she takes it upon herself to do a particularly morally dubious but necessary action, and when Cassie questions if she can really do it, angrily demands to know if Cassie can instead. She can't, which leaves Rachel. In the finale, Jake sends her on a suicide mission to kill his brother, her cousin. She agrees, knowing she's the person for the job, and by this point is too broken by the war to do anything else. She also, at one point rationalizes the need for her to do these things, so the others don't as:
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_9322493f	comment	Kamen Rider Zi-O has a minor example in regards to a Monster of the Week. In most cases, they're often the Victim of the Week as well, being manipulated by the Time Jackers to become their puppet. Then we get to Yuko, who is an outright yandere who murdered someone before she even received her powers. After she's defeated, one of the Time Jackers, Ora, kills her due to her earlier fooling around with them. She would have otherwise walked away with nary a scratch.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_95b62321	comment	Likewise in Kamen Rider Dragon Knight, though the protagonist did end up sending a Rider to the Advent Void.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_97174ff5	comment	In Red Sun, the villains are about to kill the heroes, only to be interrupted by an attack by murderous Comanches.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_9ba3174f	comment	Ruahkini in The Quest of the Unaligned is an incredibly rude and borderline crazy Rich Bitch perpetually insulting Laeshana and patronizing Alaric, as well as being partially responsible for the destructive imbalance in Caederan's magic. Unfortunately, he's also the royal chancellor, so there's no conceivable way for the heroes to get rid of him. Luckily, his Axe-Crazy hoshek brother Gaithim shows up and kills him.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_9c326590	comment	Roze From Remnant: After Roze defeats Salem, Oma Zi-O pulls the villainess to Earth 2068 and confines her there, keeping Remnant safe while his younger self builds up the power to take down Salem permanently.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_9d47a2a2	comment	In A Song of Ice and Fire this is how Lannisters endeared themselves to Robert Baratheon. Robert's Rebellion was won except for the Targaryens' last holdout, King's Landing. Tywin Lannister, who had stayed out of the fight until it was all but decided, tricked the Targaryens into letting his army inside their city and then sacked it. Tywin's son Jaime Lannister instigated a Bodyguard Betrayal on King Aerys, while Tywin's bannermen assassinated the last of the Targaryen line still in the city. This deflected a lot of blame for the atrocities at King's Landing onto the Lannisters, sparing Robert's reputation and conscience. Tyrion would question the wisdom of this, citing that it made the entire realm despise the Lannisters when they could have let Robert take the blame. Tywin, however, felt that they had to do it to prove their allegiance, and Robert would be exceedingly grateful to them for doing the dirty work of killing off the royal bloodline, which simultaneously satisfied Robert's desire for revenge against the Targaryens and would prevent future uprisings by Targaryen loyalists. How Jaime Lannister murder of Aerys Targaryen was viewed by Robert and Ned. Robert was in fact glad the Lannisters got the Targaryen blood on their hands, saving him the trouble.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: In-Universe example. After Saint Charlos tries yet again to kidnap and enslave Shirahoshi, her brothers quickly try to attack him in response. Saint Mjosgard steps in the way and tells Fukaboshi to show restraint as a royal... before giving Sai and Leo verbal permission to flatten Charlos. Since they are pirates, their countries won't have to answer for their crimes.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_9eb393b3	comment	In Tales of Sonic the Hedgehog, Dr. Robotnik has his Badniks execute Kodos with their weapons.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_9f2cd38d	comment	Similarly, when Batman finally goes after the leadership of the Court of Owls in Night of the Owls, he finds that they've all already been killed by Lincoln March.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_9f3684de	comment	Marvel's Spider-Man 2: Kraven is revealed to be a Death Seeker who is trying to find a Worthy Opponent to slay him in battle, by forcing them into battles to the death (because he's Secretly Dying of cancer and can't bear the thought of passing quietly of a disease). Of course the Spider-Man duo, as heroes who refuse to kill, can't grant him this request even if they defeat him, so Kraven is instead killed by Venom, who takes over the role of Big Bad afterwards.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_ad859fae	comment	In Little Black Death Note: Kira disposes of Voldemort, while Team Slytherin investigates Raito Yagami and Hondo Makurai.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_b1e46e9a	comment	Adventurers!' Argent: While that may not have been necessary if you know the backstory it's hard to blame him.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_b36a4699	comment	Ultimately subverted in Exam; as White is going into a coma, Brown tries to prevent him from getting his medicine. His plan doesn't work when Blonde gets the pill anyway.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_b40eb913	comment	Infinite Crisis: At the end of the series, Alexander Luthor has managed to escape the Final Battle and is planning to start over. Unfortunately, he forgot that he had pissed off everyone's favorite homicidal clown. Not content with the possibility that Luthor might return, the writers have Mister J burn him with acid, electrocute him and shoot him in the head.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_b56ed876	comment	In Mortified, Skulker leads an army of ghosts, filled with villains like Johnny 13 and Kitty, Desiree, Walker and his goons, and former Circus Gothica performers, to attack the GIW headquarters.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_b5a087d7	comment	Robot Chicken inverts this in a He-Man sketch where Skeletor leases out Snake Mountain to some College frat boys. Sick of the loud parties, Skeletor tricks his tenants into thinking Castle Grayskull is a rival frat talking shit about them, provoking the Frat into egging Castle Grayskull. This results in He-Man and his crew killing the frat and dumping their bodies in a river.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_b61693a1	comment	Infinity Train: Blossomverse: Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail: Grace Monroe, leader of a denizen killing cult, discusses this trope with Chloe Cerise, stating that there are some things that only adults should do — one of them being killing Walter just as he's strangling Chloe. She's also the one to ultimately disband her cult when she realizes how much damaged it has caused. While UnSara had been assaulted by a million PokÃ©mon moves beforehand, Parker Cerise is ultimately the one to defeat the apparition for good, not only wishing for the Bad things she did to be followed by good things, but make sure those good things remain long after she's gone. Infinity Train: Boiling Point: Hazel saves The Innocence from The Trauma and then snaps their neck while verbally breaking down Grace.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_b712435c	comment	This is one of the main ideas of Leverage. Sometimes bad guys make the best good guys. When Nate goes for revenge on the two men behind his father's murder, Elliot warns him that straight-up murder carries a much higher moral cost than their usual method of destroying a bad guy's life. In the end, Nate plays the two against each other (getting each of them to point out why they should want the other dead) then leaves them to fight over a gun with a single bullet. They both fall off the nearby cliff while fighting over the weapon.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_b7296d31	comment	My-HiME: One wonders what The Omniscient Council of Vagueness group of old ladies who rule Japan (First Division) would have done to the cast had Shizuru not gone crazy and killed them all after the cast kills their god. It's doubtful that they were resurrected along with the rest of the cast. A scene with the Obsidian Lord indicates that he was planning to kill them himself anyway, but Shizuru got to them first. In Mai's fight with Shiho, she's unable to go on the offensive, realizing that as both of them consider Yuuichi their most important person, either of their Childs being destroyed will result in his death (Shiho, being overcome with jealous rage, fails to realize this). Yuuichi, not wanting them to fight, orders Mai to destroy Shiho's Child while fully knowing that he'll kick it, but she refuses. Then a brainwashed Mikoto jumps in, having been conditioned to attack Mai's enemy, and destroys Shiho's child. Yuuichi thanks Mikoto for this before he passes away.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_baae1d02	comment	In The Transformers: Punishment, Slug says that the Dinobots are the group that "does the things so that the heroes can keep being heroes." During the Great War and actually well before that, they functioned as a black ops group that specialized in missions where collateral damage was not a concern. Optimus Prime really clashes with them over their behavior.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_bad6ce79	comment	X-Men: The Mutant Registration Act is defeated due to the Brotherhood unintentionally killing the Act's main supporter and Mystique replacing him later on.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_c0da5437	comment	In The Punisher / Daredevil crossover Seventh Circle, Matt Murdock arranges for the guilty-as-hell Antonov to be put on trial in Texas, as there's no way they can get an impartial jury in New York. Frank Castle (who doesn't know they're the same person) has a different theory: Murdock is setting up the trial in Texas as they still use the death penalty, ensuring Antonov dies legally rather than a sniper's bullet (Frank's plan). Several people die because they can't agree on the ethics of the whole thing.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_c11e7037	comment	Whispered Tribulation plays with this in its Appendix; Stain and Himiko jump in to defend Izuku and Eri from Overhaul... by nailing him in the nads. Which Izuku did first; Stain and Himiko are following his lead.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_c6dbe98e	comment	Johan from Monster kicks off the plot by killing the corrupt doctors who screwed Tenma's career over. He also tends to kill any lesser villains who might be threatening Tenma or Nina.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_c72c2d06	comment	Star Wars Rebels: Throughout Season 2, the Inquisitors, Vaders personal Quirky Mini Boss Squad, had been a recurring threat to the heroes. However, they were so badly outclassed by the Jedi that the only reason they kept coming back was that they were allowed to retreat. Finally in Twilight of the Apprentice the heroes were forced into a brief Enemy Mine with Maul, who slaughtered them all in short order and berated the heroes for refusing to do it themselves.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_c781e69e	comment	Blue Beetle (2023): Big Bad Victoria's right hand man Carapax is the one who kills Victoria, taking himself in the process, which spares the hero-protagonist Jaime from having to do it.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_d11e211f	comment	In Kamen Rider Gaim, this was done not so much as to spare the hero from killing someone, but to make it so the person doing the dirty work crosses the line in doing so and becomes the local Hate Sink. Want context? Well, Kouta is hesitant to fight a human that he saw transform into an Inves before his eyes and is dead set on trying to have him be human again. He gets to his breaking point and at that time, Sigurd arrives, easily kills the human, then rubs it in Kouta's face by claiming it as a heroic feat. A similar thing happens late in the series, when Mad Scientist Ryoma has just vivisected Mai in his quest for the power that she now holds, killing her in the process and also reducing another villain to tears in the process. Kouta might be too nice to kill him (and had been in a bad situation of nearly dying), but Kaito isn't; brutally beating Ryoma and driving him to suicide cemented himself as the series' final antagonist.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_d4fe0152	comment	Inverted in Oz. Schillinger and O'Reily's separate efforts to stop Adebisi's takeover of Em City fail miserably; instead, the noble and principled SaÃ¯d is the one who ultimately brings him down.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_d5e9a8ed	comment	The Ultimates: The Ultimates recruit Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, from the Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy. Nick Fury points that this is not the first that the security services made deals with terrorists.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_e09bacf4	comment	In Webwork, an enraged Tohru almost crosses the line by killing the new Squid Khan General Simon Leston. Before he can, however, Jade swoops in and handles it for him.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: "Wild at Heart": The Scooby Gang don't kill werewolves, because they're human most of the time, but Oz's wolf side is amoral and thus free to kill Veruca. In "The Zeppo", Xander defeats his undead Villain of the Week with a Breaking Speech, but lets him go. Moments after the departing baddie swears vengeance, he, too, is eaten by feral-werewolf-Oz. Buffy can't kill the Anointed One, partly because she's prophesied not to but mostly because he's a kid. Luckily, Spike does it for her in "School Hard". Borderline case because he's not a bad guy, though he has apparently had his moments: in "The Gift", Giles kills the hellgod Glory while Ben, the mortal human man with whom she shares a body, is the one on the surface because Buffy won't kill a defenseless human being.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_e92b62ba	comment	Rat-Man: In the final issue, the title character struggles with the idea of killing Topin, even after his former apprentice nearly destroyed the world, kidnapped his daughter and was revealed to have influenced him into not contacting her or her mother. Before Rat-Man can steel himself and do the deed, Valker stomps on Topin's head. Valker was rescued from the Shadow specifically for this trope: being a sociopathic villain who just happened to have a reason to side with the heroes, namely remembering that Rat-Man is his son, he's more than willing to murder any of the Shadow's minions, and, as his body count of superheroes can attest, extremely capable at it.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_ec28245c	comment	Dragon Ball Z: Vegeta's entire purpose, story-wise, for being on Namek is to kill every single minor villain so the heroes (or at least Goku) don't have to. Cui, Dodoria, Zarbon, 4/5ths of the Ginyu Force (two while helpless!)(and he gets the last one later) and most of Freeza's mooks. Goku clearly doesn't want him doing this, and even calls him out after killing the two helpless Ginyu Force members. Though Goku kills Freeza himself, or would have if King Cold didn't show up to revive him... only for both of them to be killed off by Vegeta's Kid from the Future.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_f10a65b	comment	Inverted in Legends of Tomorrow: When Rip Hunter thinks that they may need to kill their own teammate Martin Stein to keep the secret of the Firestorm matrix from falling into the hands of Vandal Savage, he turns to Sara Lance, the White Canary, rather than to hardened criminal Leonard Snart, Captain Cold. Lance, it is true, is a trained assassin, but she is not evil and has never been one of the bad guys. Snart was a villain on The Flash (2014) before being recruited by Hunter, and remains a cold-blooded criminal even in Hunter's service. Snart even calls Lance out on this, pointing out that in all the jobs he pulled, no matter how bad things got, he never killed one of his own accomplices. Lance responds that if killing Stein is the only way to stop Savage and save the world, then she will do what she has to do.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_f38b1d2f	comment	X-Men: Apocalypse: A Brainwashed and Crazy Wolverine slaughters all of Stryker's soldiers holding our heroes prisoner.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_f4a1d45b	comment	In Post-Crisis on Infinite Earths continuity, Joe Chill would be killed off by psycho vigilante The Reaper just as Batman is struggling with the decision to kill him himself or not.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_f4e799ee	comment	This is Michael Weston's modus operandi in Burn Notice. Michael mostly abides by Thou Shalt Not Kill, in part due to guilt over a past that includes having killed innocent people to get his target, but, despite this, many a Villain of the Week has wound up dying in incredibly horrible ways at the hands of their boss or criminal rivals due to Michael's actions. Seldom (if ever) has Michael or any other member of Team Weston batted an eye at this happening or expressed any moral qualms at indirectly causing the death of their target. As an example, Sam once goaded three criminals into a Mexican Standoff inside a house, then stood outside the house and fired his gun into the ground so that the three would all pull the trigger at once and kill each other. Yipes. Note that none of the main characters ever expresses a moral objection to killing. (And frankly, considering their pasts in Special Forces [Sam], various spy agencies [Michael and Jessie], and as a bomb maker for the IRA [Fiona], it would be surprising if any of them did have unresolved moral hangups on the subject.) Most of the early episodes have an obligatory scene where Fiona offers to murder the bad guys and Michael explains why that would cause more problems than it solves. They're all okay with bad guys being killed, it's just easier to accept them as the heroes if they don't do it themselves. It has more to do with pragmatism than anything else. Unexplained dead bodies attract police. If they let the bad guys kill each other, any investigation by the police will stop there.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_f8df4747	comment	In The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye, Whirl believes he's already a monster and knows that sometimes to keep people safe there are difficult decisions in which there is no winner. He is willing to make those choices so that good people aren't forced to do bad things.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_f913059	comment	In The Big Heat, Debby kills Mrs. Duncan and brings down the titular big heat on the mob â€” sparing the Technical Pacifist hero from doing it.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_fae48d18	comment	A bizarre example happens in The Prayer Warriors. After Dumbledore is killed, the heroes need to burn his body, and they apparently do not have any other means to set a fire, so they have Harry Potter, their (recently Back from the Dead) enemy, burn it with fire magic, because he's going to hell anyway.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_fb8549c	comment	Deadpool: In the last issues of Deadpool's first ongoing series, his friend and assistant Sandi is hospitalized after her boyfriend assaults her. When Deadpool and Taskmaster visit her, she makes Deadpool promise he'll only scare the abusive boyfriend off, not kill him. Deadpool follows through with a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. Taskmaster didn't make any promises. Cue Gory Discretion Shot.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_fb9c177d	comment	Transformers: In The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye, Whirl believes he's already a monster and knows that sometimes to keep people safe there are difficult decisions in which there is no winner. He is willing to make those choices so that good people aren't forced to do bad things. Rodimus can't bring himself to kill Getaway while retaking the Lost Light, going so far as to save him from a fire. Then the vicious scraplets Whirl befriended get involved. Getaway doesn't survive. In The Transformers: Punishment, Slug says that the Dinobots are the group that "does the things so that the heroes can keep being heroes." During the Great War and actually well before that, they functioned as a black ops group that specialized in missions where collateral damage was not a concern. Optimus Prime really clashes with them over their behavior.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation: Subverted in "Redemption". Chancellor Gowron offers Worf the chance to execute Toral, Puppet King of the Duras family who've done Worf so much harm. Worf refuses. So Gowron just orders Kurn to do the deed, but Worf stops this too, pointing out that Gowron has granted Toral's life to Worf, and he's chosen to spare it.
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_ff9ca30	comment	In Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Dark Samus kills the corrupted Hunters after you defeat them. Samus probably couldn't bring herself to Shoot the Dog, making Dark Samus quite convenient in a twisted, twisted way.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
The New Mutants / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
The Punisher (2004) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
The Revenant / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
The Star Chamber / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Willy's Wonderland / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
X-Men / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
X-Men: Apocalypse / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
X-Men: Days of Future Past / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Youth of the Beast / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Pirates of the Caribbean (Franchise) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Heavy Object / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
The Testament of Sister New Devil / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
A School for Sorcery / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Appointment with Death / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Arc of a Scythe / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Battle Royale / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Between Two Fires / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Clear and Present Danger / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Dread Brass Shadows / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Fate/strange Fake / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Fu Manchu / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Heavy Object / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
I Became the Villain the Hero Is Obsessed With / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
In The Best Families / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Magic 2.0 / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Mediochre Q Seth Series / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Millennium Series / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Monstrous Regiment / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, as I Expected / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Nero Wolfe / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Protector of the Small / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Shadow of the Conqueror / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
So I'm a Spider, So What? / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Solomon Kane / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
That Hideous Strength / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
The Cyber Dragons Trilogy / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
The Han Solo Trilogy / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
The Hunger Games / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
The Irregular at Magic High School / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
The Last Vampire / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
The Priory of the Orange Tree / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
The Testament of Sister New Devil / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Trouble In Triplicate / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Worlds of Power / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Worm / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
ArkhamAsylumLivingHell	seeAlso	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Apocalypse no Toride (Manga) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Birdy the Mighty (Manga) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Fort of Apocalypse (Manga) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
High School Exciting Story: Tough (Manga) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Isuca (Manga) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Mega Man Megamix (Manga) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Monkey Peak (Manga) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Moriarty the Patriot (Manga) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Noragami (Manga) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Pluto (Manga) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
The Promised Neverland (Manga) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Yozakura Quartet (Manga) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Rollplay (Podcast) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
A Dragon of the North (Roleplay) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Honorable Hogwarts (Roleplay) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
NoPixel (Roleplay) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Weaverdice Tongju (Roleplay) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
American Horror Story: Murder House / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Ash vs. Evil Dead / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Battlestar Galactica (2003) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Dexter / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Dexter: New Blood / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Falling Skies / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Flander's Company / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Gotham / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Hogan's Heroes / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Iron Fist (2017) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Jessica Jones (2015) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Kamen Rider BLACK SUN / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Kamen Rider Blade / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Kamen Rider Gaim / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Kamen Rider Ryuki / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Loki (2021) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Lucifer (2016) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Luke Cage (2016) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Mr. Inbetween / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Mr. Robot / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Ozark / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Power Rangers Operation Overdrive / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Schmigadoon! / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Taxi / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
The Blacklist / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
The Flash (2014) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
The Good Doctor / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
The Night Manager / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Titans (2018) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
You (2018) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Zorro (1957) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Mage: The Awakening (Tabletop Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Nentir Vale (Tabletop Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
A Man for All Seasons (Theatre) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Assassin's Creed: Revelations (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Astonishia Story (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
BattleTech (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
BattleTech (2018) (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Blacksad: Under the Skin (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Bomberman 64: The Second Attack! (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Dead Space 2 (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Death Smiles (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Destroy All Humans! 2 (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
DUSK (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Europa Universalis (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Final Fantasy XVI (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Gotham Knights (2022) (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Iji (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
King of the Castle (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Like a Dragon (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Loop Hero (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
MechWarrior (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Mega Man Revolution (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Mortal Kombat 11 (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Sonic Boom (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Super Robot Wars: Original Generation (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Tales of Arise (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
The Bunny Graveyard (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Valkyria Chronicles (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Victoria: An Empire Under The Sun (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Yakuza (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Dies Irae (Visual Novel) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Fate/stay night (Visual Novel) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Justice For All (Visual Novel) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
The Great Ace Attorney (Visual Novel) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
OverSimplified (Web Animation) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Masako X - Dragon Ball What-If (Web Video) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
OSW Review (Web Video) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Adventurers! (Webcomic) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
DHS Comix (Webcomic) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Demon Blade (Webcomic) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
8-Bit Theater (Webcomic) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
League of Super Redundant Heroes (Webcomic) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Batman vs. Robin / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Battle for Terra / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Darkwing Duck / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Rango / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Rock and Rule / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Superman vs. the Elite / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
The Transformers: The Movie / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Visionaries / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Blackest Night (Comic Book) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Infinite Crisis (Comic Book) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Smallville / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Wild ARMs 4 (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work

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