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I swore to Describe I Gave My Word Here, and you shall not deter me! Any dialog to indicate your deep offense that someone says that you could do something that you promised not to, or refrain from something you promised to do — or actually tries to do something you had promised would not happen. (You are, after all, "a man of your word.") Bonus points if no one would realize you had broken it: if you had given it to a dying man, if you gave the promise without thinking of the consequences, or no one would believe the character you gave it to. A Last Request for some reason is actually an especially binding promise — as is a vow made to the already dead. Generally preceded by the Stock Phrase "I give you my word." May indicate Honor Before Reason. On the other hand, a reputation for trustworthiness makes it easier to get people to listen to you, possibly getting you out of a Mexican Standoff, Hostage Situation, or other situation that cannot be resolved by brute force. On the third hand, when getting someone's word, beware of Exact Words. The Blue Blood, particularly the Officer and a Gentleman, is prone to this. Indeed, he may say, "I give my word as a gentleman." More elaborate formulas are possible. This may be because their word is not binding without them, or to emphasize their seriousness. This can be "I swear by X" (usually a deity) — occasionally with the implication that X will personally avenge you on them if they swear falsely — or a specific curse that they invoke to fall on them if they fail (usually expressed in the form "May X strike me down"). Bolt of Divine Retribution is not unknown as punishment. Conversely, some characters, particularly in settings where honor is held highly, will consider any kind of statement, no matter how casual, as binding. Making a blank-check promise — "Yes, I will do something for you" — or making it only because you have been lied to may lead to Honor Before Reason, where a character insists on carrying it out anyway. However, in these situations, even the most honorable character often insists on Exact Words. More prudent characters will break it on these grounds; then, they are more likely to be sure of their facts or refuse to make a blank-check promise. Even some villains stick to scrupulous honesty, either because they retain some ethical standards or because long term Pragmatic Villainy is more effective than short-term Chronic Backstabbing Disorder. It is often a disadvantage for the Devil in a Deal with the Devil. He will follow what he said; he'll squirm the meaning if he can, but if he gave some Impossible Task for you to do and you somehow did it, he will begrudgingly follow through. There are exceptions to this, but if someone is dealing with a literal devil, the deal can be expected to be honored. A truly evil villain, however, may at times respond with "I Lied". If a character with Incorruptible Pure Pureness must break his word, or insist on Exact Words for some sound reason — such as having been tricked — he will break it but think it Dirty Business. A Knight Templar, on the other hand, will either break his word (or insist on Exact Words) without a tremor of conscience or monomaniacally insist on carrying it out, regardless of the consequences. Similarly, heroes forced into the Sadistic Choice (where one option is saving lives and another is keeping their promise) may end up forced into a Frequently-Broken Unbreakable Vow. Required for Combat by Champion. Compare Not Hyperbole when someone literally carries out their seemingly exaggerated words. Contrast Heroic Vow and Will Not Tell a Lie. Closely related to the Blood Oath. When someone has broken this vow so thoroughly they become ostracised they're The Oath-Breaker. Releasing from the Promise is another option, though some characters think that even the person they've sworn the oath to can't free them. Works using this trope may discuss The Power of Language. |
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Valvatorez from Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten is even more willing to keep a promise. He decides to overthrow the Netherworld's government just because they're keeping him from fulfilling his promise to give his Prinny trainees a sardine after he finishes training them. He's also been waiting 400 years to fulfill a different promise to show a certain someone "true fear" before he ever drinks blood again because they died before he could live up to it. | |
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In Pact, mystic practitioners Cannot Tell a Lie due to the presence of minor spirits which penalize lies, and which enforce each vow as a Magically-Binding Contract. When Blake Thorburn is made an Unperson by a demon, these spirits forget about the vows he swore, meaning that he is theoretically able to lie and break his word-but he is offended by the suggestion that he needs spirits as an excuse for him to keep his word. | |
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From Finding Nemo: "No... I promised I'd never let anything happen to him..." | |
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In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, John makes the T-800 promise to never kill anyone, and he literally succeeds, even before he made the promise. | |
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In Law & Order: Special Victims Unit William Lewis tells Olivia he is a "man of his word" after he promised to give her a drink of water after he forced her to drink vodka. He also said that he was a man of his word when he "did everything he said" he would do to an elderly woman when he raped her in front of Benson. | |
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In Lee Lightner's Space Wolf novel Sons of Fenris, when prisoner to the Space Wolves, Jeremiah promises not to escape, and Ragnar gives him and his men their weapons back. Later, after he disputes with Ragnar about where they should go, it ends when he says, "I gave you my word." | |
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's final album, American Dream, was a result of a promise that Neil Young made to David Crosby when the latter got in trouble with the law as a result of a cocaine addiction that nearly killed him. Young said that if Crosby seriously got himself clean and stayed out of trouble, then Young would come back for one more CSNY album. Crosby got clean, and true to his word, Young came back with the full group reconvening to make their first studio album since Déjà Vu. And with David Crosby's death in 2023, it's the final studio album that they'd ever make as a quartet. Young had a solo career after American Dream was over, but he said he'd come back if Crosby got himself clean, and that's just what he did. | |
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Shadows of the Apt: In Salute the Dark, the Dragonflies are honor bound not to try to reclaim their lands. | |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows reveals this trope as the reason why Dumbledore refused to reveal why he was so willing to trust Snape despite his past. Snape made him promise that he wouldn't tell anyone that his reason to switch sides was because of his love for Lily, Harry's mother. True to form, he took that secret to the grave with him. | |
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In the Dragon Age games, this is the reason Varric gives for why he won't tell anyone why his crossbow is named Bianca. "There was a girl, and I made a promise; it's the one story I can never tell." He does finally admit part of the story to the Inquisitor, but only because circumstances sort of force it. | |
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Disgaea: Adell from Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories. He would do anything to keep his promises, even to an enemy. Like, deliver an Evil Overlord's daughter to her daddy, whom he has also vowed to kill. Much to said daughter's surprise, he's quite serious about both getting her to the overlord unhurt AND killing the overlord. Valvatorez from Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten is even more willing to keep a promise. He decides to overthrow the Netherworld's government just because they're keeping him from fulfilling his promise to give his Prinny trainees a sardine after he finishes training them. He's also been waiting 400 years to fulfill a different promise to show a certain someone "true fear" before he ever drinks blood again because they died before he could live up to it. |
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In Mirror of Maybe Severus has made this his lifestyle. He never lies, unless it is required by his position as a spy. This is what makes Harry first take real notice of him (in the mirror); someone expresses surprise that Severus went out of his way to help them, and Severus simply replies — rather irritably — "I said I would, didn't I?" | |
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Lobo: Lobo always keeps his promises. He'll merrily violate the spirit of a contract, but never the word of it. If he's promised not to kill you, he won't, no matter how much he may hate you. (Do note, however, that under the right circumstances, it's quite possible to survive multiple cases of dismemberment.) | |
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This is something that Naofumi from The Rising of the Shield Hero holds absolutely paramount, as he always keeps his promises, for good or ill. | |
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Ichigo in Bleach does this. Inoue Orihime states that "when he says 'I'm going to win' those are the times that he definitely will!" | |
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In Much Ado About Nothing, Benedick wrestles with the notion of his repeated pledges to never marry. | |
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Vampires in Fur And Photography are known for being good with deals, Max having agreed to help mentor Nathan for Jefferson for this reason. | |
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Silver Surfer: The Animated Series. In a particular bit of dramatic irony, Norrin Radd offers his own planet up to Galactus immediately after making a deal with him to become the Silver Surfer to save it and having his memory wiped. Galactus states that the planet is not for beings such as him and the Surfer because he once made a deal with an honorable man. In a later episode, the Surfer rescues his former master from a sentient virus that is killing him. Galactus, who had spirited the Surfer's homeworld away out of spite, promises to tell him "everything he knows" about Zenn-La. Turns out he was using Exact Words to fool the Surfer, since even Galactus does not know where it is anymore. |
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Maledict from Sonic X: Dark Chaos does this numerous times, both good and bad. In particular, during the final battle, Maledict promises to give Sonic his Planet Egg back and spare the galaxy in exchange for the Chaos Emeralds. Afterward, Maledict keeps his word and pardons them... and lets them keep the Chaos Emeralds as thanks for their help. | |
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Red from Solatorobo absolutely insists on keeping his promises. When asked why, his response is just "I swore on my tail that I would!" | |
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Supposedly, when Taiga in Duel Savior Destiny gives his word about something, he always keeps it even when he would much rather lie or break his promise. However, the one example of him actually promising something is an agreement you can optionally break. | |
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The Silmarillion: The Oath of Fëanor: Fëanor and his sons swear to recover the Silmarils. It leads them to slaughter other Elves three times, which is not only despicable in itself (which they know) but also very much hinders their own quest in the long term. Ultimately, Fëanor and all but two of his sons die attempting to fulfill the oath. The two that survive do manage to reclaim two of the Simarili, but they had done so many evil things that the hallowed jewels burn their hands. This finally pushes them over the Despair Event Horizon. | |
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RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse: Insane and poorly-tempered she may be, but Corona is a mare of her word. Unfortunately for her, the Element Bearers are totally unable to grasp this fact, and during "The Return of Tambelon" betray her on the belief she would betray them first. | |
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In The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Angel Eyes shoots his employer after taking money from his last victim to do so. He always keeps a contract, even with a man he's just killed. | |
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In Dragon Quest VII, Nicola wishes to meet the Great Hero of legend and would search for him himself if not for one thing: he promised his father that he would never leave his hometown of Mezar. Thus, even after his father is long gone, he sticks around town, asking any adventurers passing through to see if they can't revive the Great Hero. | |
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Subverted in The Replacements (2000), when team owner Edward O'Neil re-hires coach Jimmy McGinty and asks him to put together a team of replacement players while the real players are on strike, McGinty agrees on the condition that he will have no interference from O'Neil on his player choices. O'Neil is reluctant but answers with "my word is my bond". McGinty, knowing O'Neil, asks for it in writing. Later on, O'Neil breaks his promise and demands that McGinty switch quarterbacks. | |
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A plot point in the Season 6 episodes of House, "The Dig" and "After Hours". In the latter episode, Thirteen is determined, perhaps beyond reason, to keep a promise she made to the woman who had been her cellmate in prison. Chase correctly analyzes that her intense reaction to the idea of keeping her word is a reaction to her having previously kept her promise to euthanize her own brother as he was dying an ugly death from Huntington's disease, which is why Thirteen had spent time in prison, and which disease Thirteen also has herself. As Chase points out, by adopting the philosophy that she had to kill her own brother because she had given her word she would do it and you can't go back on that, it distances her from responsibility for what she did. | |
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In C.S. Friedman's Coldfire Trilogy, the Hunter Gerald Tarrant always keeps his word. Breaking it actually causes him anguish and seems to threaten what little humanity he has left. The only reason he joins the main characters on their quest in the first book was due to this. Under the influence of a powerful Tidal-based Working that exposes a person's true self (Damien displayed his Knight in Shining Armor tendencies and Senzei... isn't proud of whatever it was he did), Tarrant succumbed to his inherent predatory nature and attacked Ciani — and he had earlier promised Karril that he would never harm her. He spends the rest of the book trying to make it up to her, and suffers a great deal in the process, culminating in a near Heroic Sacrifice, although he recovered eventually. Near the end of the first book, Big Bad Calesta nearly tricks Tarrant into breaking his word again by offering him as a sacrifice a girl whom Tarrant hard earlier assured on a whim he would not hurt. Tarrant barely catches himself this time. This pisses him off so badly he joins Damien on his new quest in order to hunt down Calesta. | |
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Redwall: Warbeak gives her word on her mother's egg. When the king orders Matthias's death, Warbeak says so, and the king immediately revokes the order. Vilu Daskar has a fondness for using this trope — and Exact Words — on his victims. When he no longer has a use for certain slaves, he tells them they're free to leave and makes them Walk the Plank. His crew are also seen discussing various ways he's "set prisoners free", including telling them they will leave the ship alive, then sewing them up in sacks and dropping them overboard. |
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Changeling: The Dreaming: This is also a major aspect, especially in the form of oaths. A changeling who breaks her given word often risks facing both dire supernatural consequences and shunning and punishment from changeling society. For example, trolls forfeit their strength should they fail to uphold a promise. Although sluagh have a reputation of being liars and slanderers, when a sluagh says something and gives his word that it's true, it's very likely to be true. This is because the sluagh strive to maintain excellence in their role as information brokers of the Fae. The splatbook for the sluagh notes how dreadful consequences await both those fae who would accuse a sluagh of lying after confirming the truth of a situation and those sluagh who would guarantee the truth after having lied. While sluagh are under no supernatural obligation to lie or to tell the truth, sluagh pride themselves as being information merchants of the highest caliber, and they are quick to literally cut out the tongues of their own peers who would dare to deliberately claim true a falsehood. Likewise, sluagh don't appreciate outsiders accusing them of lying simply because they speak an unpleasant or inconvenient truth. Such accusers risk having their own tongues cut out, or exposed to a sanity-destroying fright, or, worst of all, having all of their darkest, most embarrassing skeletons in their closets set loose upon the world. |
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Disney Animated Canon: Lady Tremaine in Cinderella gives her word that Cinderella can go to the ball if she "gets all her work done and finds something suitable to wear." She does both. Lady Tremaine says, "I never go back on my word." Unfortunately, she never promised that she wouldn't let her daughters tear the suitable dress to bits. From Finding Nemo: "No... I promised I'd never let anything happen to him..." Peter Pan: Hook accuses Peter of being a coward because he always flies away instead of fighting him fair and square. Pan gives his word to fight Hook without flying, despite Wendy begging him not to. Captain Hook himself uses this, albeit in a sneaky, loophole-abusive way. "I have given me word not to lay a finger, or a hook, on Peter Pan. And Captain Hook never breaks a promise..." He says this as he's lowering a bomb into Peter's hideout. It's subverted in that, in the climax, even after Peter agrees to spare his life if he promises to leave Neverland, Hook does break his promise not lay a hook on him, attempting to do so In the Back. In the sequel, Hook convinces Wendy's daughter Jane to tell him where to find Pan, but Jane makes him promise not to hurt Pan. Hook signs a contract promising he wouldn't hurt a hair on Pan's head. Then he goes ahead and captures Pan, plucks a single hair, gives it to Jane, and explains that's the hair he won't hurt. Rapunzel in Tangled. When she makes a promise, no matter how it might hurt her, she will keep it. From returning Flynn the tiara he stole (even if he would leave her, despite her growing feelings for him) to promising Gothel she would stay with her and never run away again, as long as she heals Flynn (even if it means never seeing Flynn again and giving up her freedom). Though earlier, she promises never to ask to leave the tower again, so she's free to actually leave without asking (although she does feel guilty about it). Meet the Robinsons: Ultimately, Wilbur Robinson. He makes a promise under duress to take Lewis (really his father's younger self) back to see his biological mom, and despite assorted happenings that make it clear that said course of action could potentially be dangerous, not to mention the fact that it seemed likely that he never intended to follow through on the promise... he follows through in the end. Wreck-It Ralph: Vanellope inverts it, reminding Ralph that he promised, but he carries through. Gene gives Ralph the penthouse key, though it's a moot point because their game was at risk of being unplugged at the time. |
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In Kaptain Skurvy's debut episode of Donkey Kong Country, he repeatedly swears by "the Great Great Great Pirate Oath" to grant any favor to whoever can rid him of a terrible toothache he has. Donkey Kong wins the day by unintentionally knocking out Skurvy's bad tooth, freeing him from the pain. While Skurvy tries to welch out of the promise, Cranky Kong forces him to keep his word, so Skurvy returned the stolen Crystal Coconut while vowing to steal it again another time. | |
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No Country for Old Men. Anton Chigurh promises Moss that if he doesn't hand him the money, he will go after his wife. Moss not only didn't hand-deliver the money to Chigurh as he was supposed to, but he dies trying to hatch a plan to keep his wife safe, and after he is buried, Moss's now-widow sees Chigurh sitting in the living room, waiting to kill her. Chigurh knew that Moss's wife did nothing wrong, but he felt he had no choice but to kill her since gave his word that he would kill Moss's wife if Moss didn't return the money. He flips a quarter to determine if she lives or not. In the book, she at first refuses, but gives in and loses. In the film, she refuses to play along at all, pointing out that it's just a half-assed way for him to avoid responsibility for his actions: this is the one time in the film that we see Chigurh lose his cool at all. | |
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Solor from La Bayadere swears a promise of eternal fidelity to the temple dancer Nikea, and does so over a sacred fire. Unfortunately the Rajah intends for him to marry his daughter Gamzatti and is willing to murder anyone who stands in the way of this. On the day of Solor and Gamzatti's wedding, Nikea's shade appears to remind Solor of his vow to her. He's forced to begin the ceremony and the temple collapses, killing everyone inside because of his false vow, as well as everyone's complicity in Nikea's murder. | |
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Subverted in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's. Hayate made Signum promise that the Wolkenritter would not try to fill the Book of Darkness as long as she was its master, a promise that she was all too willing to keep. But when it turned out that Hayate was going to die, it's Signum who suggests that they use the book in a bid to save her. Honor is incredibly important to Signum, but Hayate is more important. | |
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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. Mad Max drives the big rig into the compound through a gauntlet of Desert Punk psychos in exchange for his V8 Intercepter returned with all the fuel he needs. After this act of bravery, the people there are shocked when Max refuses to drive the rig out again the next day, having already fulfilled his part of the bargain. Their leader Papagallo tries to talk him round, delivering an epic "The Reason You Suck" Speech when Max refuses. As Max drives out of the compound that night, Papagallo's Number Two objects. | |
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Meet the Robinsons: Ultimately, Wilbur Robinson. He makes a promise under duress to take Lewis (really his father's younger self) back to see his biological mom, and despite assorted happenings that make it clear that said course of action could potentially be dangerous, not to mention the fact that it seemed likely that he never intended to follow through on the promise... he follows through in the end. | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003): In the final part of the multi-part "Turtles in Space", Leonardo swears on his word of honor that he will use a device that Professor Honeycutt (the Fugitoid) gives him that will destroy his memory chips (killing him, effectively) if they are about to be captured. (Honeycutt has memorized the blueprints for a Doomsday Device that two tyrannical empires want, and he must avoid letting them get it at all costs.) When it looks like all hope is lost, Leonardo sadly agrees to do so. Fortunately, Splinter and the Utroms intervene right before he pushes the button. Donatello promised the people who were trapped in the underground city that he would come back when he found a cure for the curse that would turn them back into monsters if they ever left the protection of the Crystal Star; once he found the cure, he was determined to keep that promise, and even after the Turtles found that the Star was missing and the inhabitants have succumbed to the curse without it, he absolutely refused to turn back, pressing through to create and administer the cure even as they were trying to kill them. |
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Wreck-It Ralph: Vanellope inverts it, reminding Ralph that he promised, but he carries through. Gene gives Ralph the penthouse key, though it's a moot point because their game was at risk of being unplugged at the time. |
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Justice League: In the episode "Hearafter", Lobo's tendency to only follow the letter of what he promised is again an issue. In this episode, Lobo only battles the League in the Watchtower, which is in orbit (believing it to be an audition and not intending permanent harm), and when he is actually on Earth, he only fights Kalibak (who is not from Earth, but Apokolips). Technically speaking, he never broke the promise he made to Superman — but still gave the League a big headache by showing up. In the episode "This Little Piggy", Circe gave her word she would leave Hippolyta alone. That meant she could turn her daughter Wonder Woman into a pig. She plays this straight later when she changes Wonder Woman back after Batman does as she requests (which is simply her idea of fun), despite her being clearly more powerful than Zatanna and Batman. In "A Better World", Luthor makes a deal with the Justice League to use one of his inventions to depower the Justice Lords in exchange for a presidential pardon for his crimes and giving the League the device afterwards. He gets the chance to backstab the League and depower them as well, but refrains: |
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Wearing the Cape: Kitsune and Hope end up in a game where they have to demand the other promise something; the winner is the one who gets the biggest demand (illegal or morally repugnant demands are losses). Kitsune demands that Hope marry him, Hope demands that he serve her family. This is declared a tie, and the promises bound together — once one of them demands fulfillment of their promise, they'll have to fulfill the other promise as well. Hope figures this is the end of it, since she won't make Kitsune serve her family, and since he really doesn't want to do that he won't make her marry him. Except he later explains to her that as a kami, he inherently wants to fulfill his promises, even "promises to promise" like this one. So yes, he is going to call in that marriage one day, though of course he's not going to force her, he's just putting a lot more effort into seducing her than he normally would bother with. | |
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A fair number of Naruto stories have Kakuzu keeping his word in any deal he makes, if only because no one would be willing to deal with a man who's known for going back on his word. | |
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In the Supergirl storyline Red Daughter of Krypton, Guy Gardner promises Bleez that they will eventually go after her partner Rankorr. She questions whether he is a man of his word, and Guy reiterates that he always stays true to a promise: | |
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ANNO: Mutationem has this both ways after the Last-Second Ending Choice. In the bad ending, Ann's refusal to trust The Consortium results in Ryan getting killed and Amok uses Ann's Moment of Weakness to convince her that Ryan will be revived once she takes her vengeance. Amok gave her word and brings Ryan back, but only after the world has been destroyed. The good ending has Ann being told by G that once she undergoes procedures to sever her connection with Amok, Ryan and Ayane will be released and she will be able to return home as well. After Ann permanently seals Amok, she's told her business with The Consortium is finished and she can freely go. |
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The Dukes of Hazzard: Boss Hogg is about as corrupt as you can get and will work any angle, but he will keep his word if he "spits and shakes" on it. | |
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Riza Hawkeye in Fullmetal Alchemist, when she agreed to become Roy Mustang's subordinate. In keeping with his policy of always telling the truth, Greed will keep any promise he makes. Except at the end, where he lied for the first and last time to save Ling and deal Father a devastating blow. Ling Yao states that people of Xing always keep their promises. He proves this to be true twice, once in keeping his word in assisting the Elrics with the capture of a homunculus, and again at Bucaneer's dying request that he protect the front gate of Central Command. Ling's bodyguard, Lan Fan, acts similarly in her promise to return to Amestris and seek out the evil there, which she honors. |
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Les Voyageurs Sans Souci: Seraphine Alavolette, the queen of all birds, may despise humans, blaming them for her friend Golden Eagle's disappearance, and punishing them by kidnapping children. But when Golden Eagle is rescued, Alavolette releases all her hostages without hesitation because she promised she would give them back to their families when Golden Eagle returned to her castle. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: In the comic book adaptation, Link is asked to promise Zelda that he will not leave the palace on a specific day, in the storyline "He Also Stands". Big Bad Ganon uses several different ploys to try to lure him outside (which, unbeknownst to Link, would have had disastrous results), but he keeps insisting that he can't because he promised. | |
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Kyril in Chapter 2 of The Night Unfurls, when he promises Olga that as long as she surrenders her weapon, she will be imprisoned, but treated with utmost respect. Besides, she will also be brought to Celestine unharmed. Although this implies that the promise would expire as long as she is back to Ken, the "keep Olga unharmed" part persists for as long as Chapter 30, where Kyril even calls it an oath he would never rescind. This promise is not present in the remastered version, however. |
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In Beauty: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast, Beauty's family tries to persuade her not to go back to the Beast's castle at the end of her week's visit. She points out, gently, that "I promised." Since Beauty's real name is actually Honour, her father resigns himself to it and adds, "You were well named." | |
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In Kamen Rider Zero-One, Isamu Fuwa is a man who is willing to always live by his word, no matter what. | |
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In Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals, Dekar mentions this after he demonstrates how one of the things he's best at really is not dying. | |
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In Volume 2 of RWBY, Jaune jokingly made a promise to Pyrrha that he'd wear a dress to the dance if she couldn't find a date, entirely unaware that Attractiveness Isolation was in full effect (and even if it wasn't, he's the only one she'd want to go with). When he finds out that she didn't get a date, he wears a dress in front of the entire student body and dances with her. | |
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An interesting example in Fist of the North Star, where Kenshiro breaks a promise to spare a Mook's life, asking the thug how many time he's kept a promise in his life, or spared someone who begged for their life, before leaving him to die messily. | |
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Subverted in A Protector's Pride. Aizen promises to spare Karakura Town if Ichigo promises to leave him alone forever. As Aizen leaves, Ichigo has a massive internal debate, and though it tears him up inside to break his word, he realizes Aizen is too dangerous and will only cause more suffering and destruction elsewhere, then pursues him. | |
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Dragon Ball: In the original Dragon Ball, Goku agrees to marry Chi-Chi, thinking marriage is a type of food. Several years later, Chi-Chi returns to hold Goku to his promise. Even at this point, Goku is still a Chaste Hero who doesn't really understand the concept of romantic love, but he still marries Chi-Chi anyways because he gave his word. In the Battle of the Gods movie, Beerus makes a statement that if no one can defeat him in combat, he will destroy Earth. Later he seems to regret saying that and wants to spare Earth from destruction regardless, but states that now that he's given his word, he must abide by it as a matter of honor. When Goku loses but still gave him an excellent battle, he destroys one rock on Earth's surface, then claims that he's too tired right now to do the rest of it, and he'll come back in a few million years to finish the job. He never did specify WHEN he would destroy Earth, you see. In the final arc of Dragon Ball Super, Goku has Frieza brought back for a day so he can fight in the Tournament of Power, promising to resurrect him properly if they win. Frieza spends most of the tournament plotting to be the last fighter standing so he can get a wish on the Super Dragon Balls. Near the end, however, he decides it's a safer bet just to make sure their team wins, as he knows Goku will keep his word. Sure enough, Whis revives him on the spot once it's all over. |
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Flash Gordon. Princess Aura asks Dale Arden to put a poison pill in Ming's drink. Dale declines, saying she gave her word to Ming to be a good wife to him if he'd spare Prince Barin and Hans Zarkov. | |
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Harry Potter: In Order of the Phoenix, Harry and Hermione are quick to assent when Hagrid asks for their help. Said help turns out to involve looking after a violent, 16-foot-tall giant. The two of them are understandably averse to the idea, but they're even more averse to going back on their word. In J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry is reluctantly made to give his word to Dumbledore that, during their mission, if he tells Harry to run, he'll run; that if he tells him to leave him and save himself, he will do so. Also used in the movie. There is also The Unbreakable Vow, a more literal version of this trope. The Unbreakable Vow is a spell that forces a person into this trope. If the person who gives his word goes back on it, he/she dies. Period. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows reveals this trope as the reason why Dumbledore refused to reveal why he was so willing to trust Snape despite his past. Snape made him promise that he wouldn't tell anyone that his reason to switch sides was because of his love for Lily, Harry's mother. True to form, he took that secret to the grave with him. |
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Omi in Xiaolin Showdown keeps his word, even to the point of withholding the secret to defeating all evil because of a promise to Chase Young. It's a trait even Chase Young keeps to — and is one of his sole redeeming qualities. In spite of Wuya's infamous reputation for her Chronic Backstabbing Disorder, when Wuya makes a promise, she genuinely keeps it, best shown when she gave Raimundo everything he wanted despite being literally able to get away with backstabbing him. |
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Inverted in Neon Genesis Evangelion: Genocide. Misato promised Shinji that he would have not to pilot his Humongous Mecha anymore after killing the latest enemy. When she tells him that maybe he will have to pilot and fight again, he is furious... until Asuka tells him that people make and break promises the whole time, and it’s stupid and unfair hating someone for that. | |
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Supernatural: Dean gives his father his word that if he can't protect his brother from turning evil, he will kill him. This promise causes Dean much angst. Lucifer, the embodiment of evil, promises Sam that he will never lie to him and that Sam will consent to be possessed by him willingly. Lucifer is right on both counts. Castiel gives his vessel Jimmy Novak his word that he will protect Jimmy's family. After being recalled to Heaven and tortured, he returns to Earth just in time to smite the demons who have ordered the death of Jimmy and his family. Unfortunately, Jimmy and his wife eventually both die due to Castiel's actions, but Castiel eventually does try and atone by watching out for their daughter Claire. Crowley, the demon King of the Crossroads, always makes good on his deals and takes pride in that. Crowley also insisted all deals made in his name be honored. When he learned one of his demons made deals, then arranged to have the contractee killed, Crowley wiped said demon out of existence. |
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Villains in Power Rangers are not known for being honorable, but Villamax from Power Rangers Lost Galaxy was an exception. In one episode, he captured most of the Rangers and the Magna Defender and offered to let them go in exchange for Leo surrendering himself. Leo agreed, and much to everyone’s surprise, especially Deviot’s, Villamax kept up his end of the deal. He went so far as to overrule Deviot specifically because he gave his word. | |
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In 24, Jack Bauer carries this on his back to such an extent that he actually can't understand why Dana, who'd only met him a couple of hours earlier, could possibly doubt him. He later breaks his word by killing her. Sucks to be her. His former mentor turned The Dragon, at one point tells Jack he will only cooperate if Jack gives him his word that he will be released after it is over, as he knows how much Jack values his word. Jack does, but the Dragon knows that he has killed too many of Jack's friends, David Palmer, Tony Almeida, and Michelle Dessler, for him to keep his word and lays a trap for Jack. He is then Out-Gambitted. |
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James Bond: Blofeld will not violate a business agreement. He wants S.P.E.C.T.R.E. to be known as a trustworthy organization that is superior to the other crime syndicates. This is demonstrated in a tale of a ransom case where the organization captured a girl and promised to return her unharmed if her father paid a ransom. When Blofeld learned that the girl had been raped by one of her guards after the ransom was paid, he killed the guard and returned some of the ransom as compensation. | |
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In I Love You Phillip Morris, the prisoner in the next cell takes his agreement to play a song in his cassette player for Steven and Phillip to dance to very seriously, continuing to play it after lights out when the guards demand he stop it. When several guards come and try to force him to turn it off, he fights them off, screaming "MY WORD IS MY BOND, BITCH!". | |
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Jounouchi seriously did this in Yu-Gi-Oh! R. In the beginning of the story, he borrowed a Duel Disk from Tilla Mook, the first Card Professor, promising he'd return it. Unfortunately, he lost it over the course of the story but gained the far superior Black Duel Disk created by Tenma after defeating Bandit Keith. Despite the value of this Disk, he later gave it to Mook in the epilogue to replace the one he lost, as he considered himself bound to his promise. (And as you might expect, she didn't mind at all.) | |
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"The Troll's Daughter": Once the boy's term of service is up, the troll asks if he wants to serve for another year for another large amount of money. The boy says no, and the troll has to let him go per the terms of the agreement. | |
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In A Girl and Her Fed, Abraham Lincoln could shut down the rogue ghosts' master plan by simply cutting off their access to his power. He quotes the trope name as his reason why he doesn't, even after being told that they plan to start World War III. | |
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In Ben 10: Alien Force's first 2-Part episode, towards the end, after Ben thanks Kevin, an Ex-con man who helped them because of an Enemy Mine situation, admitting they couldn't have done it without him, Kevin replies in his usual resentful and sharp-tongued manner that they still won't make it without him, clarifying when Gwen asked him if he wants to help that he made a promise to the Magister (A Space Police member who did a Heroic Sacrifice earlier on to save his life), and he intends on seeing it through to the end, which ends (with a little encouragement from Gwen to bury his old grudge towards Ben) with the New trio putting their hands together. | |
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See Making Money for a verbal agreement among bankers. | |
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In Twins (1988), when Vincent delivers the stolen jet engine to Beetroot, Beetroot has realized by now that Vincent obviously got hold of it by accident, and probably doesn't even "know what the hell this thing is". Vincent assumes for a minute that Beetroot is going to kill him, but he doesn't — after explaining to him what the "thing" is, he leaves Vincent the promised $5 million and takes the goods. Unfortunately, Beetroot and his assistant are quickly gunned down by Webster just as Julius arrives, leading to the final showdown of the movie. | |
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Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe — if he gives his word, it's good. Even Inspector Cramer believes him under those circumstances. | |
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In Order of the Phoenix, Harry and Hermione are quick to assent when Hagrid asks for their help. Said help turns out to involve looking after a violent, 16-foot-tall giant. The two of them are understandably averse to the idea, but they're even more averse to going back on their word. | |
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In Xena: Warrior Princess, one of the title character's former generals was terrorizing a town, and he and Xena fought a duel which Xena won. She said that she'd forgo taking his life if he promised to leave the village alone. When he agrees, he and his men begin to clear out... except one, who sneakily goes for his knife to try and attack Xena from behind. The general throws a dagger into his chest from across the room, and says to a surprised Xena, "A deal's a deal." He then leaves as promised. | |
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Kamen Rider Build: After Seito loses the proxy battle against Touto, Nanba encourages Seito's Prime Minister Mido to just ignore the deal to withdraw Seito's forces since they can come up with a justification after they win the war. Mido insists that he will honor the conditions of the proxy battle even though he clearly doesn't like it, so Nanba and Blood Stalk kill and impersonate him then continue the war. | |
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Spinning Silver: The Staryk take promises very seriously and draw magic from them. When Miryem completes an Impossible Task in exchange for a service from the Staryk Lord, it gives him the power to stop time if necessary to see it done. | |
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In Flash Gordon, Ming the Merciless rewarded Sonja's treachery as promised: by marrying her and making her his empress. Then he ordered her execution. | |
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Done in DuckTales (1987), where Scrooge gives his word not to leave the Beagle Boys behind on a pirate isle. He keeps his word, going back for them when he could have escaped. As Scrooge himself says, "Scrooge McDuck's word is as good as gold." (The Beagle Boys still go to jail when they get back, however.) | |
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Tolkien's Legendarium: Beren and Lúthien: Luthien forcing him to promise to not kill Beren is the only reason that Thingol does not execute Beren on the spot when Beren declares nothing will keep him apart from his daughter. Beren insists on trying to carry out the Impossible Engagement Challenge when Lúthien asks him to just run off with her because he swore he would take one Silmaril from Morgoth's crown. The Elven Lord Finrod Felagund makes an oath to Beren's father Barahir to always help him or his kin after the latter saves his life. This leads to Finrod leaving his realm and people to go with Beren on his quest. He dies saving Beren's life. The Silmarillion: The Oath of Fëanor: Fëanor and his sons swear to recover the Silmarils. It leads them to slaughter other Elves three times, which is not only despicable in itself (which they know) but also very much hinders their own quest in the long term. Ultimately, Fëanor and all but two of his sons die attempting to fulfill the oath. The two that survive do manage to reclaim two of the Simarili, but they had done so many evil things that the hallowed jewels burn their hands. This finally pushes them over the Despair Event Horizon. The Lord of the Rings: Defied when Elrond warns the Fellowship of the Ring not to swear to complete their mission, since they don't know what the future holds. True enough, Breaking the Fellowship and pursuing separate goals is what allows the mission to succeed. Also, Faramir in The Two Towers: In the same sequence, Frodo responds to Faramir's attempt to persuade him not to let Gollum be his guide into Mordor by saying he has already given his word to Gollum: |
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In one episode of Challenge of the GoBots, after Doctor Braxis is double-crossed by the Renegades and the rulers of the 21st Level, he offers to help Turbo escape from the latter if he simply lets him go once they're in the clear. Once they make it and reach the other Guardians, Turbo is a little upset that he has to keep his word, but Leader-1 insists he does so. Braxis runs off says he's "glad there's someone around here who knows what a deal is!" | |
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The Order of the Stick: Soon's Oath. Really. Even if it sounds implausible. Roy insists on a pardon for Ian and Geoffrey as well, because he gave his word. In a villainous example, Malack passes up an easy chance to finish off the Order out of respect for Durkon, whose last request was that he spare them. As he's still a bad guy, he eventually decides he can't keep ignoring them. |
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The Professionals. Rancher J.W. Grant hires "Rico" Fardan and his mercenaries to rescue his wife Maria who's been kidnapped for ransom by a Mexican revolutionary. Fardan's friend Bill Dolworth thinks there's something dodgy about this and tries to convince Fardan they should just cut their losses and quit, but Fardan says they gave their word. Dolworth retorts: "My word to Grant 'aint worth a plug nickle!" but Fardan just says that Dolworth gave his word to him. Later it turns out there was no kidnapping, as Maria was forced to marry Grant and just ran away from him. At first Fardan is going to return her to Grant anyway, but he changes his mind in the end and says he'll stick to their contract to save Maria from a kidnapper—Grant himself. | |
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Jingo features the D'regs, the most feared warrior tribe in Klatch. They will not feel bound to oaths or to swearing on something, but if one of them gives you their word, you can be sure they'll honor it. | |
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Played With when Odahviing acts offended when the Dragonborn questions his sincerity, as he is a Dovah ("dragon" in the draconic language) and has given his word. The player can point out that he had just tried to trick them barely a minute ago. Ultimately, however, he does do as he promised. In the Dragonborn DLC, in keeping with his preferred recruitment method of tempting potential followers with gifts of knowledge, Hermaeus Mora (the Daedric Prince of Knowledge) keeps just about every promise he makes and holds his end of every bargain, both in spirit as well as word. Doesn't mean he won't toss you aside when he doesn't need you anymore, however. |
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The player can actually do this in Persona 4. There's a dialogue option in the first part of the game where you make a promise to get to the bottom of the mystery and find the real culprit behind the murders. Following through on this vow to the bitter end is what ultimately earns you the True Ending. | |
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In Fallout: New Vegas The Courier has an option to invoke this trope. During your travels, you can come across an NCR Private upset about the fact that her husband, an NCR Ranger, has been killed and his corpse is being used by Fiends to draw other soldiers in. After killing the fiends and retrieving his corpse, two NCR soldiers express absolute awed disbelief: | |
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In the James Bond film Licence to Kill, this outright said by the villain Sanchez regarding his insistence on paying the corrupt DEA agent who broke him out of prison. | |
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If a certain someone "guaran-damn-tees" a win, expect said win over whoever Vince is feuding with that year. | |
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About three quarters through Undertale, you can have an encounter with Sans in which he tells a story about his befriending someone who asked him to protect any humans who entered the Underground, with clear implications that certain someone was Toriel. Despite his claim that he hates making promises, he agrees and reveals it's the only reason he didn't kill you on sight earlier in the game. The only thing that will force him to break his promise is the sheer carnage you wreak in a No Mercy run, at which point he apologizes to the one he made his promise to before fighting you as the final boss. | |
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In the Turning Red fic Turning Red: Secrets of the Panda, Howard Mitchell is not a man to go against his word unless he has to. When he tells Abby that he won't harm Mei unless he has no other option, he isn't lying. | |
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Superman: The Animated Series: Lobo's vow to always keep his word is repeated in "The Main Man" where he tells Superman "The Main Man's word is as good as gold". When Mr. Mxyzptlk is put on trial for abusing his powers, the charges are breaking interdimensional law, using his powers to torment weaker species, and — most heinously of all — going back on his word. |
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Campione!: Godou Kusanagi's grandfather Ichirou used to date the ageless witch Lucretia Zola. Ichirou's eventual wife Chiyo became jealous and made him promise to never ever see Zola again. Even after Chiyo died, he kept his promise, which is why he made Godou deliver the Prometheus Grimiore to her at the beginning of the series. Duke Voban gives the heroes a Mercy Lead and promises that they only have to last until sunrise. He catches up to them, and despite their best efforts, he weathers all their attacks and then massacres them. Just as he's about to finish them off, the sun rises. Even though he can easily kill them, he keeps his word and lets them go. |
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Kid Colt (2009): The main antagonist, Sherman Wilks, who's first seen violently clearing land for Sheriff McGreeley, is gradually revealed as a Noble Confederate Soldier who absolutely will not break his word. The war left him impoverished, but he’d offered a $1,000 death benefit for the family of each soldier who died under his command, so he became a Bounty Hunter to pay that debt. Even after Colt saves his life, and he accepts that The Sheriff is probably corrupt and Colt was framed, Wilks won't let him go free, because he gave the sheriff his word. | |
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Adell from Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories. He would do anything to keep his promises, even to an enemy. Like, deliver an Evil Overlord's daughter to her daddy, whom he has also vowed to kill. Much to said daughter's surprise, he's quite serious about both getting her to the overlord unhurt AND killing the overlord. | |
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The Revengers: Benedict frees the convicts and asks for the word that they will accompany him on his Roaring Rampage of Revenge. All give their word; although some add that their word is worthless. Only Joe refuses, saying he needs to think things over before giving his word. The next night, the convicts announce they leaving. Except Joe, who announces that he will now give his word and stays with Benedict. However, the next morning four of the convicts return of their own free will, and the fifth is dragged back by one of the others. | |
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Stargate: Stargate SG-1: Subverted in "Spirits" when the character Tonane refers to the Goa'uld larva inside Teal'c as a "demon". In "It's Good to Be King", Teal'c promises the Jaffa Trelak that he'll die quickly. When Teal'c finally kills him, the Jaffa's last words are "You are a man of your word". Todd from Stargate Atlantis isn't someone to be easily trusted. His first encounter with Sheppard though shows, that he has a sense of honor and keeps his word once given — without expecting Sheppard to do the same. One could say it is a case of Honor Before Reason. Todd's esteem certainly arrives from Sheppard's willingness to stay true his word. This is not to say that they like each other. After a few of Todd betrayals (there were extenuating circumstances), Sheppard is understandably a little wary of trusting the guy again. When Todd asks Sheppard in the series finale why he let him go the last time, Sheppard tells him that he gave his word... and also because he thought Todd wouldn't make it on his own. |
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Peter Pan: Hook accuses Peter of being a coward because he always flies away instead of fighting him fair and square. Pan gives his word to fight Hook without flying, despite Wendy begging him not to. Captain Hook himself uses this, albeit in a sneaky, loophole-abusive way. "I have given me word not to lay a finger, or a hook, on Peter Pan. And Captain Hook never breaks a promise..." He says this as he's lowering a bomb into Peter's hideout. It's subverted in that, in the climax, even after Peter agrees to spare his life if he promises to leave Neverland, Hook does break his promise not lay a hook on him, attempting to do so In the Back. In the sequel, Hook convinces Wendy's daughter Jane to tell him where to find Pan, but Jane makes him promise not to hurt Pan. Hook signs a contract promising he wouldn't hurt a hair on Pan's head. Then he goes ahead and captures Pan, plucks a single hair, gives it to Jane, and explains that's the hair he won't hurt. |
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Even though Sage of the Ascendance Series has a flexible relationship with the truth, he does take his word very seriously and will carry out promises he makes, even when there is no benefit or obligation on his part. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic's determination to keep his promises to either the fans or other reviewers usually ends up biting him in the ass. | |
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In Jack Shepherd's The Lost Fleet novel Valiant, one Allied prisoner has gotten to know Geary well enough that he assures the Syndics that he always keeps his word. | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged: After seeing Krillin's efforts to keep her safe from Cell, she thinks to herself that if they both live she'll "rock his four-foot world." She barely manages it. | |
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Sofia the First: When Sofia is given the Amulet of Avalor by Roland, he gives her a solemn promise to never, ever take it off, which she keeps. She proceeds to do just that, and when asked by Cedric if he could take a look at it, she refuses, remembering the promise she made, and like her mother says, she must keep that promise no matter what. | |
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Hiroshi Tanahashi dropped out of the IWGP Heavyweight title scene after losing to Kazuchika Okada at King Of Pro Wrestling 2013 and made no further attempt to return to it, as promised. However, when Bullet Club brought AJ Styles to New Japan and he took the belt, Tanahashi considered the vow fulfilled since it was mainly to give closure to him vs Okada. | |
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In Unseen Academicals, Trev promised his mum not to play football. He insists on keeping it, even though she's dead. | |
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Woody Woodpecker: In "Heap Big Hepcat", a Native American wants to marry the chief's daughter but her father won't bless the union unless he proves himself as a hunter. When the native presents Woody as his prey, the chief considers Woody skinny but approves the union because a deal is a deal. The daughter rescues Woody and goes away with him, leaving her father and her would-be-husband behind. | |
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The Owl House: The only time that Belos ever upholds his end of the bargain is with Luz in the Season 1 finale. He demands Luz to give him the portal door and in return, he will send her to Eda's execution site so she can try to save her. And he goes through with it once Luz agrees, but she betrays him in their deal by putting fire glyphs on the portal door, destroying it as she ascends to the stage. Belos is angry at the portal's destruction, but allows Luz to save Eda regardless. Despite his Blue-and-Orange Morality, The Collector does hold a Pinky Swear as a very serious deal. If he promises something, he will comply, but will expect the same in return: if you renge on your side of the deal, you will find yourself on the wrong end of his Goo-Goo-Godlike powers, as Belos found out the hard way. |
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In one episode of Batman Beyond, Melanie, formerly Ten of the Royal Flush Gang, gives Batman a note for Terry McGinnis but makes Batman promise he will not read it. Batman agrees. What she doesn't know is Batman is Terry, so he tosses the note out without reading it because of his promise (and possibly because Dating Catwoman seemed like a serious mistake). | |
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In The Stormlight Archive: When Kaladin's fellow slaves act as The Cavalry for Highprince Dalinar and his soldiers, saving their lives after a betrayal, Dalinar swears to buy their freedom. He follows through even though it costs him his Shardblade, a priceless artifact — an act of integrity that shakes even Kaladin's well-founded cynicism. | |
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Spenser: The title character lives by this. Starting with his debut in The Godwulf Manuscript, and repeatedly afterward, we're told, "He does what he says he'll do." He also looks for others who are men of their word, and finds them: Hawk and Quirk, in particular. In Potshot, he does his "Seven Samurai" thing and asks many of them for assistance. When it goes badly, the others contemplate reasons to leave; Hawk, however, says, "I'm staying because I said I would." The response? "That's a good reason." | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: A devil (Lawful Evil beastie) does not give his word often, but when he does, you know for certain that he will keep it. However how he keeps it is another matter entirely... there is an entertaining scene in the D&D-based Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer which concerns getting a devil to admit he broke his word. What makes it particularly interesting is that he doesn't realize he's done so until you work through the whole scenario with him and his client. A dangerous example occurs with Pandorym, one of the Eldritch Abominations outlined in the Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition Elder Evils sourcebook. Originally, it was summoned millennia ago by a cabal of foolish wizards after agreeing to a contract in which it would act as a Doomsday Device to be used against the gods, but the wizards double-crossed it and imprisoned it to use as a deterrent. The gods smote the arrogant wizards dead, but Pandorym was too powerful for them to destroy, so it remained in its prison until the present time. If it ever escaped, its first goal would be to enact revenge by slaying every last descendant of its betrayers; however, its second goal would be to fulfill its end of the original contract. With its alien view of reality it is bound by a strange code of honor to keeps its word, even though its summoners broke theirs. And because its side of the contract was to slay every god in existence, this code of honor threatens all of creation. Making this even worse, a kolyarut (an Inevitable — a construct made out of pure Law — who exists to punish those who break contracts) has arrived to break it out of its prison... because the wizards broke their word by not releasing it. |
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Bob and George: Why Proto Man won't tell the Author anything. Or the spirit guide tell George. |
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In Peter Pan & the Pirates, Hook usually follows this policy, insisting that he's "a gentleman" who will always follow his end of an agreement. (And despite the cartoon being Darker and Edgier than the Disney version, he doesn't exploit loopholes as blatantly as his counterpart does.) | |
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In Fallout 4, MacReady, the grown and mature former "mayor" of Little Lamplight in Fallout 3, makes a conscious effort to watch his language after having a foul mouth as a kid. He eventually reveals that he does this because he gave his word to his son that he would try to be a better man. | |
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Once when Tamahome places his life at serious risk to save Miaka in Fushigi Yuugi, she fumes at him and tells him how much he terrified her. He takes this more lightly than other examples do, though; he chuckles and asks to be repaid in time. The other instances of this trope such as when he tries to comfort Miaka after being nearly raped by Nakago by telling her that he promised to make her the happiest bride in the world don't go as well. | |
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In Midnight Screenings, Brad was thinking of walking out of Tyler Perry's Single Moms Club, but he knew that if he broke that promise, Dave and Brian would murder him after they fully sat through three others by Perry. | |
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In Journeys of the Catechist by Alan Dean Foster, the main character gets a Last Request from a dying soldier to save a kidnapped princess from the evil necromancer who'd kidnapped her (the main character was hoping that the man was already dead when he washed up on the beach, so as to avoid this). Instead he got stuck working his way through three books worth of crazy adventures to find her, defeat the necromancer, and discover that in the meantime she'd fallen in love with her captor. But, being a man of his word, he insisted on taking her back to her family but promised that he'd grant her one request. So she asked to go back to the necromancer (which involved more crazy adventures, but all off screen this time). The companions he picked up along the way all expressed their opinions that he'd fallen well into stupid territory. | |
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In Legally Blonde, Brooke Wyndam, the accused, gives her alibi to law student Elle Woods. Elle refuses to divulge this alibi despite being pressured by the lead attorney, Callahan, and the other law students working the case because Elle promised not to tell. | |
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In Farscape Aeryn swears that Scorpius will not be harmed because he saved her life. She binds John to it as well, making him promise. Of course, she's delirious at the time so it wasn't really a fair way to get sanctuary. Not that Scorpius cares. This is later Played for Laughs in "Hot to Katratzi". |
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President Snow is a right evil bastard but being a man of his word is about his only redeeming quality. If he promises something, he will stick by it. He never directly breaks a promise or commitment in either the original trilogy or the prequel book, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, in which he is the protagonist. He promises Katniss that he will never lie to her and this promise clues her into the fact that in the third book, it's actually President Coin who bombed a group of children. In Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, he promises his mentee Hunger Games tribute Lucy Gray Baird that he will do everything in his power to make sure she wins. He risks expulsion from school and much worse to do so. In the third book of the original series, Katniss realizes that it was President Coin who was responsible for her sister's death not him because he promised her he would never lie to her. | |
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In Tales of a Junk Town Pony Peddler the titular Prodigious Peddler is a pony of his word. Don't insinuate otherwise. | |
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In Weak Hero, it's revealed in Gerard's backstory that he made a promise to his ex-bandmate not to fight with his fists for an entire year. Despite the rocky relationship between them, and how beneficial for Gerard it would be if he'd broken said promise (especially when Jake pummelled him), he resolutely kept his word until the end. | |
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Kaguya from Kaguya-sama: Love Is War takes her word very seriously and will pay back any debt she owes. If she swears on her honor as a Shinomiya that Ishigami will pass his remedial exams in order to repay a favor she owes him, then she is going to make sure he passes, whether he wants her help or not. It's eventually revealed that she picked up this habit from her older brother Unyo. | |
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Stargate SG-1: Subverted in "Spirits" when the character Tonane refers to the Goa'uld larva inside Teal'c as a "demon". In "It's Good to Be King", Teal'c promises the Jaffa Trelak that he'll die quickly. When Teal'c finally kills him, the Jaffa's last words are "You are a man of your word". |
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After a prison riot, Birdman of Alcatraz throws a rifle and a revolver out of a window and promises the warden that the prisoners have no other firearms. An official asks the warden how he could trust the word of a convict, but the warden assures him that, despite their problems, Robert Stroud has never lied to him. | |
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Eris in Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas states that "when a goddess gives her word, she's bound for all eternity". Sure enough, when Sinbad passes her test at the end, he invokes this on her and she begrudgingly hands over the MacGuffin she framed him for stealing. | |
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It's not directly said in Avatar: The Last Airbender, but Zuko promising to leave innocent villagers in peace if Aang surrenders to him near the beginning of the series, and then keeping his promise, is an early sign of his more noble nature. | |
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In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Die is Cast" when Odo is missing in the Gamma Quadrant, Michael Eddigton sabotages the Cloaking Device in an attempt to stop Sisko's rescue operation. Sisko decides to continue the mission anyway, at which point Eddington pledged to help, invoking this trope. In "In Purgatory's Shadow", Worf and Garak get sent into the Gamma Quadrant in search of the Cardassians and Romulans that were lost in "The Die is Cast". Before he goes, Garak promises Ziyal he'll return safely. This results in Ziyal refusing to leave the station when Dukat orders her to because "He [Garak] made a promise; and so did I". Dukat is so furious that his daughter would choose a promise to an enemy of her family over obeying her father that he abandons her on the station even though he has secret information that the station is about to become very, very vulnerable. Tweaked with in an episode of TNG, when Worf is stuck in a sort of Romulan prison camp/community. After multiple attempts at causing trouble, including setting off an explosion and trying to escape, Worf asks to go hunting with another Klingon and gives his word that he won't try to escape again. The Romulan commander, however, is having none of this, until an elder Klingon reminds him that he gave his word years ago, and has never broken it. |
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In Starfighters of Adumar, Imperial Admiral Teren Rogriss finds himself in a bind because of this trope. He gives his word to the Adumari people that if they side with the New Republic, the Imperials would leave, and not return except under formal banners of truce or war. He expects that he'll be ordered to bombard Adumar from orbit if they don't comply, in direct contradiction to his promise. This conflicts with his sense of honor greatly. | |
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Halo: In Halo 2, Chief leaves Cortana on High Charity, in an attempt to stop the Flood, promising that he'll return to bring her back. She responds that he shouldn't make promises he knows he can't keep. This leads to a heartwarming moment in Halo 3: In Halo 4, Cortana again warns Master Chief not to make promises that he can't keep as he claims that he can prevent her Rampancy by getting her back to Earth. This time, he can't keep his promise. |
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In Run Fatboy Run, perennial slacker Dennis Doyle promises he will finish the Nike River Run marathon, and he does, despite a badly sprained, and possibly broken ankle slowing him down. | |
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This comes up in Continuum when Kagame trades a hostage he had taken (the grandmother of a traitor) for his own mother. Travis kills the grandmother anyway, and Kagame is pissed. | |
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I Come in Peace: It's a recurring plot point that Jack Caine always keeps his promises when he does make one. The alien cop seems to be aware of this reputation since when he is dying, he also makes Jack promise to stop the alien drug dealer before he can kill even more people. | |
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In Mass Effect 2, while on Mordin's recruitment mission, you can find Mordin's assistant being threatened by some angry batarians. If you use the paragon/renegade option, you tell them that if they let him go, then you'll let them live. If you actually do so, then Shepard can basically say that they gave their word. | |
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MythQuest: Alex takes the place of Sir Caradoc in Episode 6, and accepts a challenge from Eliavres. If Alex cuts off Eliavres' head, he will return in one year and behead Alex. A year later, Alex has been framed and is about to be executed by King Arthur for treason. Rather than try to get out of it, he requests that Eliavres be the one to behead him, and this is his reason. | |
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Lady Tremaine in Cinderella gives her word that Cinderella can go to the ball if she "gets all her work done and finds something suitable to wear." She does both. Lady Tremaine says, "I never go back on my word." Unfortunately, she never promised that she wouldn't let her daughters tear the suitable dress to bits. | |
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Aliens: Ellen Ripley crossed her heart and hoped to die that she will not leave Newt behind, and that's why neither a hive of snarling monsters, their colossal queen-mother nor even an IMMINENT NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST is going to stop her from going back to save her life. | |
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Batman: In Batman: Cataclysm, Bruce Wayne hires many of Gotham's criminals to rescue people from the rubble of the earthquake to divert them from taking advantage of the chaos to loot the city. Some of them get very cross when their comrades suggest not living up to their end of the contract. | |
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Daredevil: When Daredevil surrenders to the Plunderer to save hostages, one of the Plunderer's crewmen suggests tossing him overboard instead. The Plunderer is positively outraged at the very suggestion: "Silence, you scurvy toad! I have given my word!" | |
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The Lord of the Rings: Defied when Elrond warns the Fellowship of the Ring not to swear to complete their mission, since they don't know what the future holds. True enough, Breaking the Fellowship and pursuing separate goals is what allows the mission to succeed. Also, Faramir in The Two Towers: In the same sequence, Frodo responds to Faramir's attempt to persuade him not to let Gollum be his guide into Mordor by saying he has already given his word to Gollum: |
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Chainsaw Man: In the first arc, Denji expresses his dying wish for Pochita to fulfill the former’s dreams for him. When Pochita returns in his "Hero of Hell" form, he tries his best to honor Denji's wish and attempts to live out his dreams. | |
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And his novel Chapter War, when the Howling Griffons are introduced, Mercaeno explains the Back Story of the daemon they had just killed: three thousand years before, they had sworn to avenge the death of Orlando Furioso, and had finally done so. Part of why it had taken so long was that they had other oaths. He explains that they are traveling to this planet to fulfill an oath. The Inquisitor he tells this to says that he, also, is traveling there to keep his word. Indeed, the Howling Griffons' chief motivation throughout the novel is keeping their word; when the Soul Drinkers persuade them that they are not the Black Chalice they have sworn Revenge on, the Howling Griffons stop fighting them and go to keep their oath to protect a planet from orks. | |
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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners: Falco follows David's Last Request to the letter and immediately jumps ship with Lucy in tow, despite her pleas, to escape while David distracts Adam Smasher so Lucy can fulfill her dream of living to the Moon. | |
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In Ben Counter's Horus Heresy novel Galaxy in Flames, when Tarvitz is trying to warn the betrayed Marines on Isstavan III, he invokes The Power of Friendship to get Garro to believe his word, because of their Fire Forged Friendship. And his novel Chapter War, when the Howling Griffons are introduced, Mercaeno explains the Back Story of the daemon they had just killed: three thousand years before, they had sworn to avenge the death of Orlando Furioso, and had finally done so. Part of why it had taken so long was that they had other oaths. He explains that they are traveling to this planet to fulfill an oath. The Inquisitor he tells this to says that he, also, is traveling there to keep his word. Indeed, the Howling Griffons' chief motivation throughout the novel is keeping their word; when the Soul Drinkers persuade them that they are not the Black Chalice they have sworn Revenge on, the Howling Griffons stop fighting them and go to keep their oath to protect a planet from orks. |
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Joshua was tricked by the Gibeonites, making him think that they were from a more distant land than they were (they were a mere 3 days walk away, and they were instructed to kill all the inhabitants of the land). Without consulting God, they made a treaty of peace and found out about the deception three days later. Because of the oath, they could not attack them and defended them when they were attacked by the Amorites. They still were able to make them work as woodcutters and water carriers, however. | |
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A variation in Schindler's List. Near the start, the pre-Character Development Schindler is convincing the Jewish black market to finance his factory in exchange for a share of the products, and the Jews ask for a guarantee that he'll uphold his end of the deal. Schindler contemptuously points out that any sort of contract or attempt to make a legally binding agreement would be pointless, so they must simply accept that "I said I'll do it. That's your guarantee". The fact that he does keep his bargain even though he could easily screw them over is an early indication that there's more to him than a greedy war-profiteer. | |
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In Transformers: Prime, this is one of Dreadwing's most noticeable character traits, as he'll keep his word even to his mortal enemies the Autobots. A particular example comes during a Mexican Stand Off where Megatron's life hung in the balance and Optimus offered to let the Decepticons go if Dreadwing ordered his men to lower their weapons. Contrary to even the other Autobots' expectations, Dreadwing agreed without falsehood... though as Megatron pointed out, while Dreadwing gave his word, HE did no such thing and ordered his troops to open fire as he and Dreadwing escaped. | |
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Girl Genius: The Jagers break their promise to not reveal the Sneaky Gate to non-Jagers, but it's no big deal since they didn't get caught. It's not that they revealed the 'sneeky gate' to outsiders, it's that the Jagerkin have vowed not to re-enter Mechanicsburg until a Hetrodyne is officially in residence. Being UNDER it doesn't count. Earlier, Agatha has them swear on their loyalty to the Heterodynes Embi, a member of Master Payne's Travelling Heterodyne Show, claims he swore a sacred oath to see the world when he was young and didn't understand how big the world was, and that his oath made him functionally immortal. Of course, he is a carny, so how much is true, how much is "for the show" and how much is "hazing the new girl" is anyone's guess. |
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In The Last Kingdom, Danes are honor-bound to keep their word. They're seen constantly pillaging, killing and raping all across England where they go, but if any of them give their word to not do something, even if would be to their advantage not to, they will. not. do it. This is best shown in Season 2 where the main character Uhtred, captures one of a pair of brothers who are leaders of their band. Even though the band has Uhtred completely surrounded, all Uhtred has to do is threaten one brother's life to make the other swear to leave England. Not only does Uhtred then let go of the brother right then and there despite being surrounded, but the other brother is also a man of his word and they actually leave England for three whole years. | |
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Werewolf: The Apocalypse: The Kitsune werefoxes are forbidden by their laws against breaking their word once it is given. On the other hand, they aren't required to give their word in the first place... | |
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Vinland Saga: Oaths are considered important by the Norse (especially those sworn by family or blood), hence making things like Thorfinn swearing revenge on his father's name and his later blood oath with Einar significant. To Thorfinn's remaining blood relations, knowing that Einar is Thorfinn's blood brother makes him family in their eyes. Played With by "Askeladd" Olafsson, the Deuteragonist of the first arc, who swears oaths both on his father's name and on his mother's name. Askeladd's father was a viking warlord who abducted and raped his mother before condemning her to slavery, making Askeladd both Born into Slavery and a Child by Rape. Askeladd hated his father (and eventually murdered him), thus making any oaths on his name worthless. By contrast, he loved his mother and went to extreme lengths to have her buried in her beloved Wales, and anything Askeladd swears on his mother's name he will fulfill to the best of his ability. |
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In Sad Cypress, Elinor Carlisle promises her dying aunt that her lawyer will be sent for so that a provision can be made for her protege Mary Gerrard (who is Elinor's romantic rival). After the aunt dies without leaving a will, Elinor herself gives Mary an adequate sum of money (all the while hating her and feeling intensely jealous of her). Then, of course, Mary dies and Elinor is charged with the murder... | |
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Lost: If Ben Linus says he'll let you get off the island, you will get off the island. | |
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Monk featured this in "Mr. Monk Goes to Jail", the Season 2 finale. Dale the Whale, Monk's Arch-Enemy, is a suspect in the murder of an inmate where he's incarcerated. Dale gets Monk to agree to a deal: solve the case, and the villain will tell Monk everything he knows about Trudy's murder. When Monk finds the truth and exonerates Dale, the latter remarks that "a deal's a deal" and shares some crucial information. It's ultimately a Subverted Trope, though, as a later season reveals that the whole thing was a Xanatos Gambit designed to frame Monk in a later crime which, if successful, would end in Dale's freedom. | |
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Popeye: A pair of Al Brodax cartoons made by Gene Deitch dealt with a talking dog named Roger who causes problems for Popeye. In the second cartoon, Roger returns and promises to not talk to anyone except Popeye and Olive, which causes another problem after he witnesses a bank robbery. Outside the Brodaxverse, there's a story where Popeye and Bluto were searching for a sunken treasure and promise to split it into two equal parts. Despite Bluto's failed attempts to get rid of Popeye and keep the whole treasure to himself, Popeye still allowed Bluto to keep his half. Not that it'll do Bluto any good for as long as he's still stranded. |
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Superman: In the Supergirl storyline Red Daughter of Krypton, Guy Gardner promises Bleez that they will eventually go after her partner Rankorr. She questions whether he is a man of his word, and Guy reiterates that he always stays true to a promise: In most version of Supes' origin story, his father Jor-El promises the Kryptonian Council that he and his wife Lara won't try to leave Krypton but never promises not to send his son into space. If you can get any of the Phantom Zone criminals to swear a Sacred Kryptonian Oathnote An oath that a Kryptonian can take only once in a lifetime that's never been broken or the Colossus of Hadradnote A Kryptonian criminal oath then you can take them by their word. In Way of the World, Supergirl goes through many pains to try to find a cure for a young cancer patient. Whenever someone questions her drive and her inability to accept the inevitability of death, Kara replies she promised Thomas she would save him. |
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Mad Max: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. Mad Max drives the big rig into the compound through a gauntlet of Desert Punk psychos in exchange for his V8 Intercepter returned with all the fuel he needs. After this act of bravery, the people there are shocked when Max refuses to drive the rig out again the next day, having already fulfilled his part of the bargain. Their leader Papagallo tries to talk him round, delivering an epic "The Reason You Suck" Speech when Max refuses. As Max drives out of the compound that night, Papagallo's Number Two objects. Averted in the sequel Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. Aunty hires Max to kill Blaster, but Max refuses to Finish Him! when a Dramatic Unmask shows the Giant Mook to be a simpleton. Because a contract is Serious Business in Bartertown, Aunty is able to use the law to punish Max for his failure to follow through. |
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In Persuasion, Anne Eliot's friend Mrs. Smith fishes to discover whether she is engaged to Walter Eliot before she reveals the truth; if Anne had been, she would be bound by her word, and for Mrs. Smith to tell her the truth would not warn her off but merely make her unhappy for no good reason. (Fortunately, Anne wasn't.) | |
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Hogfather and Thud! both mention that if you want to make it as a criminal in Ankh-Morpork, you need to have a reputation for honesty. | |
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In the Goof Troop episode "Tub Be or Not Tub Be," PJ makes a promise to Max not to give away any secrets and later makes one to Pete not to tell on him (though at the time, he had no idea what he was promising not to tell on him for). When PJ discovers Pete has been using him as an unwitting spy, he is stuck trying to figure out who to break the promise to: his best friend or his dad (and matters were not at all helped by Pete putting him on a guilt-trip about breaking a promise he only made because he was lied to and Max mistakenly believing he was a traitor). Eventually, he makes it obvious that Pete was using him without explicitly saying so, even when asked for direct confirmation. | |
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XenoGears: After Fei and the others are captured by Krelian, he requests that Elly surrenders to him and he promises to spare them. Once Elly has been taken, Krelian keeps his word and leaves everyone else unharmed. | |
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The Wheel of Time: The Aes Sedai Cannot Tell a Lie, so they must intend to keep any promise they make... at the time, within the limits of their knowledge, in its Exact Words. Nothing prevents them from changing their mind later on. Siuan swears her most solemn oath to Work Off a Debt under Gareth Bryne, then promptly runs away, reasoning that she has more urgent business and never specified when she'd do the work. He assembles an army to track her across the entire continent and force her to fulfill the promise. It takes him a painfully long time to realize that this is because he's in love with her, not the principle of the thing. Mat Cauthon and company (including Aes Sedai and Seanchan captives, among others) are being chased by the Seanchan at one point (kidnapping a Seanchan princess would do that). When it seems that their pursuers have caught up, Mat is flying from one end of the circus to the other, barking orders at all the rest, except one, to try and keep them from attracting attention. When that one (the Seanchan Princess) later asks him why he had no such orders for her, he says that he remembers that she gave her word one book ago that she would stay hidden by any means necessary. This is an uncanny show of savvy for a series characterised by the Mars and Venus Gender Contrast and constant Idiot Ball-ing and really elevates her esteem of him. |
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The Goblin Emperor: Subverted. One of the Emperor's bodyguards tells him that he would never betray him. As all of the Emperor's bodyguards swear loyalty and are required to commit ritual suicide if the Emperor is killed through their actions or failure, the man quickly adds "... even if I had not sworn an oath on it." | |
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Farquaad, from Shrek, may be A Nazi by Any Other Name, but at least he keeps his word. He could've screwed Shrek out of their deal to clear out his swamp in exchange for Fiona, but he kept his end of the bargain, and even gave Shrek a deed to his land. Though he then tells Shrek to leave before he changes his mind. | |
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In Windaria, neither Prince Roland nor Princess Veronica wants to fight, yet they swore they would on their parent's deathbeds. | |
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Steel Ball Run: Funny Valentine promises Lucy Steel that he'll save the life of her husband, Stephen, and holds to it even after Stephen interferes with his plan. But even if he ensures Stephen doesn't die, he'll punish him with pain. Subverted when he vows not to take revenge on Johnny, as his refusal to destroy his pistol suggests that he was probably playing it off. | |
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Fate: Kill: While infiltrating a Wakoku meeting, Leone captures and interrogates a guard, promising to let him live if he talks. He talks, then Leone knocks him out. Akame attempts to kill him, but Leone stops her, saying that keeping their word is what separates them from the scum of the Empire. | |
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In Northanger Abbey, at the end, Henry Tilney asks Catherine to marry him, and then tells her that his father has forbidden it. She is glad of the order: if she had known first, she would have been honor-bound to refuse him, but now, she has said she would and is bound by that. | |
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In the final arc of Dragon Ball Super, Goku has Frieza brought back for a day so he can fight in the Tournament of Power, promising to resurrect him properly if they win. Frieza spends most of the tournament plotting to be the last fighter standing so he can get a wish on the Super Dragon Balls. Near the end, however, he decides it's a safer bet just to make sure their team wins, as he knows Goku will keep his word. Sure enough, Whis revives him on the spot once it's all over. | |
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In Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid, Mamori agrees to transform into a sword for Mirei to wield but makes her promise not to fight anybody. Mirei keeps the promise and escapes after fending off a few attacks, even though Mamori is unconscious during her transformation and would not have any way of knowing what Mirei does while wielding her. | |
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In the Battle of the Gods movie, Beerus makes a statement that if no one can defeat him in combat, he will destroy Earth. Later he seems to regret saying that and wants to spare Earth from destruction regardless, but states that now that he's given his word, he must abide by it as a matter of honor. When Goku loses but still gave him an excellent battle, he destroys one rock on Earth's surface, then claims that he's too tired right now to do the rest of it, and he'll come back in a few million years to finish the job. He never did specify WHEN he would destroy Earth, you see. | |
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In Wooden Rose: As promised. I always keep my word. | |
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The Scorpion King: Apparently, an Akkadian must always honor an oath. Arpid reminds Mathayas of this while making him promise not to kill him and let Arpid travel with him. Mathayas keeps his word, but due to Exact Words, roughs Arpid up a bit and forces him to walk instead of letting him ride his camel. | |
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In the Pony POV Series, a Draconequus (and probably anyone else who knows a thing about her) will never break a promise if they swore on their Mother, Entropy, not even Discord. Justified, as they literally can't break it because Entropy hates having her name taken in vain and is The Dreaded for very good reason. | |
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The titular character in Lupin III. Despite being a thief, he is known even to the ICPO as a man of his word. He will keep it even when it places him at a disadvantage. | |
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In Faux Pas, Dusk is astounded: she had given her word not to eat the rabbits, and some part of her didn't even want to do it. | |
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Treasure Island (1950): Silver calls for Dr. Livesey to treat Jim's wounds after extracting a promise not to escape. Livesey then whispers to Jim a plan to take the opportunity to escape, and Jim invokes this trope. Livesey concedes that Jim can't break his word, Honor Before Reason being considered a virtue — even a requirement — in English culture at the time. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: Brienne of Tarth has this as a major character trait, setting her up as a Foil for Jaime Lannister; she's one of the only characters who can legitimately be trusted never to go back on her word or do something dishonorable. Because she lives in a Crapsack World, this bites her in the ass. A lot. When told she could either do something she felt was dishonorable or be executed, she refused to make the choice, until after her captors started hanging her and her companions. For a largely villainous family, the Lannisters take their unofficial motto "a Lannister always pays his debts" fairly seriously. They take pains to fulfill their promises and repay their debts... although the flipside of this is that they also take pains to fulfill their threats and repay their grudges. Jaime fulfills this trope himself to a fair degree. He broke only one oath, but then you find out why he really did it. In the later part of the series, his increasingly desperate attempts to toe the razor's edge between his strong loyalty to his family and keeping his word only get him disliked by people on both sides who don't understand why he's doing it or refuse to believe that the Kingslayer would ever consider keeping an oath. The backstory novel of Fire & Blood, set in the same universe, has King Aenys Targaryen offering to grant Lord Goren Greyjoy any reward he might ask for putting down a rebellion against the Iron Throne. Greyjoy asks for the right to expel the Faith of the Seven from the Iron Islands and reinstitute worship of the Drowned God. Having given his word, Aenys has no choice but to agree, even knowing the decision will make him a lot of enemies amongst the Faith. |
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Captain Barbossa in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is another one of those who keeps to the word of his promise but not the spirit; he has gotten grievously offended by both Elizabeth's and Will's accusation that he didn't fulfill his part of the bargain he made to them, and tells them if they have a problem with how he did it, it's their fault for not being specific in the agreement. | |
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One Piece: Luffy zigzags this Trope. Usually he keeps his word, but he has broken it a few times. At two different points in the series, he's been forced to promise not to fight on a certain island. Both times he ended up getting angry enough that he broke his promise anyway, with particularly bad consequences in the second case. It's not that he's unreliable: he'll fight to the death against seemingly unbeatable odds to protect a friend, but he tends to do things his own way regardless of what other people think of it. (In Luffy's mind, this is both justified and simple. When others make him give his word, he'll usually only give it in order to shut them up and later either forget about it or simply do the opposite thing because he considers that better. When he gives his word on his own without any prompting, you can be sure he'll keep it forever.) One particular case where this Trope applies (and probably the most well-known among the fandom, considering its aftermath), is when Hachi made Luffy promise to not antagonize the World Nobles, no matter what they do. Luffy was planning on keeping this one, considering that if he didn't, an admiral would show up on the island. And then one of them shot Hachi. That was perhaps the only time anyone could forgive Luffy for knowingly going back on his word. Arlong, who always keeps his word when it comes to money. Which is why he was upset when Nami almost had enough money to buy her village and leave his crew despite all his henchmen telling him that he could just break his promise. That is why he found other means to keep Nami from leaving. Despite being a bloodthirsty government agent with the license to kill, Rob Lucci is very adamant about keeping his agreement with Nico Robin and he keeps reminding his colleagues to leave the Straw Hats alive. It's only after he has delivered Robin to Enies Lobby and the Straw Hats' declaration to fight the World Government that Lucci is ready to kill them. Brook's backstory, dream and general reason for living all run on this. "Dying is no excuse!" Oddly enough, Crocodile. This guy has Chronic Backstabbing Disorder, but as proven in the Impel Down Arc (where he had numerous opportunities to go back on his promise and get away with it) he honored the deal he made with his reluctant allies and sticks to it. Zoro plays this trait straight. When he gives his word, he keeps it, and doesn't like any insinuations that he doesn't. In fact, his primary motivation for becoming the World's Greatest Swordsman is a promise he made to his Childhood Friend and rival Kuina, who also had that as her Goal in Life. The two planned to reach that dream together, but her premature death ruined that; Zoro, emotionally broken, swore on her sword Wado Ichimonji that he would achieve it for both of them. That promise is so important to him that he refuses to break it for anything, even in the face of death. |
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The backstory novel of Fire & Blood, set in the same universe, has King Aenys Targaryen offering to grant Lord Goren Greyjoy any reward he might ask for putting down a rebellion against the Iron Throne. Greyjoy asks for the right to expel the Faith of the Seven from the Iron Islands and reinstitute worship of the Drowned God. Having given his word, Aenys has no choice but to agree, even knowing the decision will make him a lot of enemies amongst the Faith. | |
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Tarzan: Deconstructed in the first two novels, Tarzan of the Apes and Return of Tarzan. In the first book, Jane, afraid she is falling for the wild Ape-Man and rationally calculating the gentleman William Clayton would be a better match for her, accepts Clayton's proposal of marriage. When she later gives into her feelings for Tarzan, she insists it's too late, that even though she loves Tarzan, she gave Clayton her word and is bound to keep it. The result? Jane spends two years constantly finding excuses to delay the wedding until she and Clayton are shipwrecked on a (seemingly) deserted African coast, and she finally tells him it's ridiculous for anyone to expect her to marry a man she doesn't love just because she promised she would, that her forcing herself to keep her promise has only made them both miserable, and she's retracting her earlier, "Yes." | |
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In the Futurama episode "Robot House", Dean Vernon hosts an inter-fraternity boat race, which unfortunately for him includes the troublemaking Robot House. He declares that should the winning house be on "any sort of multiple secret probation" (Robot House is on "dodecatuple secret probation"), he will lift the probation and host a parade in their honor, then shoots Robot House's boat to finish the countdown. He hadn't expected Robot House to actually win, which they do much to his surprise and anger. The end of the episode depicts the Dean leading the Robot House parade as promised, with a look of rage on his face. | |
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This is part of Dakkon's backstory in Planescape: Torment. When The Nameless One saved his life, he swore his allegiance for life, not knowing that The Nameless One was immortal. If the player tries to free him of his obligation, he replies that it isn't your decision to make. This is also worked into the game mechanics — certain dialogue choices are marked "Vow" or "Promise", and choosing them binds you to whatever you just said. If you then break your word, it pushes your alignment more towards Chaotic or Evil, depending on the vow in question. | |
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In Fury Born: Tisiphone will not break her word if she vows to help somebody obtain vengeance, however the price is literally the person's soul and sanity. | |
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Golden Wind: Bucciarati gave his solemn word that he and the rest of the team would protect Trish after given the mission to do so. After finding out it was so The Boss would have the opportunity to kill her himself, the team defects from Passione to keep Trish safe until they figure out a way to defeat The Boss. | |
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The Bible: Joshua was tricked by the Gibeonites, making him think that they were from a more distant land than they were (they were a mere 3 days walk away, and they were instructed to kill all the inhabitants of the land). Without consulting God, they made a treaty of peace and found out about the deception three days later. Because of the oath, they could not attack them and defended them when they were attacked by the Amorites. They still were able to make them work as woodcutters and water carriers, however. This is a recurring pattern throughout the Old Testament. The Jews turn away from God, ignoring the Law and following the gods of the neighboring nations. God says "I'm angry and really should wipe you guys from the face of the earth, but for the sake of My covenant with your forefathers I'll just dole out some punishment until you repent of your evil ways." Eventually they see the light and come back, only to fall away again a generation or two later. |
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In The Iliad, it's why the Greeks went to The Trojan War — Odysseus decided that the only way to avoid war over who should marry Helen of Troy was to make all of her suitors promise that they would abide by her father's decision (whoever it was) and go to war against anyone who would abduct her. They all agreed, and it was a good idea — after all, who would be stupid enough to face all the armies of Greece for one lady? | |
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In The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Gollum swears by the One Ring that he will lead Frodo and Sam to Mordor. He actually does so before betraying them. There is an interesting difference in the wording between the original novel and the movie. In the book he tries to swear "on the Precious", but Frodo refuses to accept a vow that depends on his lust for it, and makes him swear by it, instead, which binds him to serve Frodo as long as he's holding the Ring, whereas in the movie Frodo simply accepts "on the Precious". Another interesting difference: in the film, when confronted ("Sméagol promised!") he replies "Sméagol lied." In the books, he swore to serve "the master of the Precious," so by stealing it for himself, he became the master of the Precious and could serve himself. The same could be said of the Ring itself. Gollum also swore never to let Sauron have it. Sauron was coming for the Ring when Gollum had it. ....there was only one way to keep the vow, even if Gollum doesn't realize it. One more, though more of a curse than a promise: After Gollum attacks Frodo on the slope of Mount Doom, Frodo says that if Gollum ever lays hands on him again, he himself will "perish in the fire." And Gollum does. And guess what happens to him moments later. Another example: Samwise Gamgee. Also, Aragorn releasing the dead army after the battle of Pelennor Fields despite Gimli urging him not to. |
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All the gods (even the tricksters, even mighty Zeus) must honor their word when they swear by the Styx. If they don't, the punishment as described by the Theogony is one year of being conscious but unable to move, then seven to nine more years of being barred from the presence of other gods and Olympus, and being barred from eating ambrosia or drinking nectar. Hera tricked Dionysus' mother Semele into making Zeus swear by the Styx to show her his true, divine, form — which burned her to a crisp. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: When Gil-galad presses Elrond to tell him the secrets of the Dwarf's mithril vein, Elrond refuses to elaborate, stating that he promised Prince Durin he would never to reveal his people's secrets. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh!: Yu-Gi-Oh!: Pegasus J. Crawford released the souls of Seto Kaiba, Mokuba Kaiba and Sugoroku Mutou in the English dub after being defeated by Yugi. He gives a soliloquy about how he always keeps his word. This is frequently Yami Yugi's reasoning, combined with a sense of responsibility. He makes a promise to the spirit of Black Magician Girl in one of the filler arcs and at one point states he has a promise to keep. A former suitor of Mai's shows up in Battle City, reminding her that when she turned down his marriage proposal, she said she'd accept if he could ever beat her in a duel. Even though she was 100% kidding, she decides to keep her word and duel him anyway. She wins. (Unfortunately, Jean-Claude Magnum isn't so honorable, but he doesn't get very far with his Plan B.) Jounouchi seriously did this in Yu-Gi-Oh! R. In the beginning of the story, he borrowed a Duel Disk from Tilla Mook, the first Card Professor, promising he'd return it. Unfortunately, he lost it over the course of the story but gained the far superior Black Duel Disk created by Tenma after defeating Bandit Keith. Despite the value of this Disk, he later gave it to Mook in the epilogue to replace the one he lost, as he considered himself bound to his promise. (And as you might expect, she didn't mind at all.) Eliphas, the god-like ruler of the Astral-world in Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL was fanatical in his disdain for Chaos and the beings that possess it, and willing to commit genocide upon the Barian World to meet that goal. Despite being likely a thousand times more powerful than Yuma, and blaming him for Astral's injuries, he agreed to duel Yuma, so long as Yuma was willing to wager his memories of Astral. Without a doubt, Eliphas' ability to use Shining Draw whenever he wanted was blatant cheating (clearly, he didn't have as much regard for Law as he thought he did) but Yuma still won, and claiming to be a man of his word, Eliphas kept his side of the bargain and released Astral. (Both physically and from the "programming" previously placed on him.) Rex Goodwin, the Big Bad of the first season of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds. While he did not survive the final battle with Yusei, Jack, and Crow, the promise he originally made to Yusei — to build the Daedalus Bridge and liberate the citizens of Satellite — was still kept. The first episode of 5D's starts when Rally brings the wrath of Public Security down on the group's hideout for stealing a microchip. Yusei offers to duel Officer Ushio under the condition he forgets about arresting Rally if he loses. Yusei wins, and since Security does indeed stop hunting down the group this time, they assume, to their surprise, that Ushio kept his word. The audience learns that he even went as far as to pay for the stolen goods himself so the charges would be dropped, not because he cares about anyone at this point but solely because he felt it his duty as a duelist to honor the deal. When Yusei and Jack finally met in Neo-Domino City after Jack betrayed his friends and stole Yusei's first D-Wheel and his Stardust Dragon, Yusei challenged him to get his Stardust Dragon back. While the duel got interrupted by the Crimson Dragon, video recordings reveal that Jack was about to lose to Yusei's Trap Card, which Jack didn't take well. And while the public will never know, Jack still knew about it, which hurt his pride a lot. After Yusei got out of prison, Jack personally sought after him and gave him his Stardust Dragon back, and he's waiting to get his revenge on Yusei in the Fortune Cup. |
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The Commish. Commissioner Scali's son David turns out to have been a direct witness to a schoolyard shooting. Dad is naturally angry and demands to know why he didn't come forward as the whole community is up in arms over this. David protests that he promised not to tell anyone (a friend had shot a school bully). Scali says that while he taught his son to keep his promises, "...part of growing up is knowing when you have to break them." | |
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Civil War: A heroic example became a bone of contention between Wolverine and Namor. Wolverine has tracked Nitro, the villain responsible for the Stanford incident, and promised Nitro his protection until Wolverine can find out who's responsible for Nitro's out of control explosive powers (long story). Namor captures Nitro since Nitro was responsible for his niece Namorita's death. When Wolverine goes to Atlantis to retrieve Nitro, Namor calls him out on giving his word to a multiple murderer. Wolverine won't have any of it. | |
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In Impure Blood: O-on the honor of my family line, then, as far back as it can be traced! And he means it, grumbling about how he's not free yet. |
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In Way of the World, Supergirl goes through many pains to try to find a cure for a young cancer patient. Whenever someone questions her drive and her inability to accept the inevitability of death, Kara replies she promised Thomas she would save him. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders: As Steely Dan continues in having Jotaro committing acts of humiliation, Jotaro calmly tells Dan that he will soon receive his karmatic payment in full when the moment comes. Once Steely Dan is at his mercy, Jotaro gives him his payment and receipt... in the hundreds. Golden Wind: Bucciarati gave his solemn word that he and the rest of the team would protect Trish after given the mission to do so. After finding out it was so The Boss would have the opportunity to kill her himself, the team defects from Passione to keep Trish safe until they figure out a way to defeat The Boss. Steel Ball Run: Funny Valentine promises Lucy Steel that he'll save the life of her husband, Stephen, and holds to it even after Stephen interferes with his plan. But even if he ensures Stephen doesn't die, he'll punish him with pain. Subverted when he vows not to take revenge on Johnny, as his refusal to destroy his pistol suggests that he was probably playing it off. |
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In Superman, Luthor has sent off two missiles, one to the San Andreas fault, which could potentially destroy California, and another to the town of Hackensack, New Jersey, knowing that Superman could not stop both. As added insurance, he leaves Superman with a chunk of Kryptonite to prevent him from saving anyone. Eve Teschmacher, however saves Superman on the condition that he promises stops the missile headed towards Hackensack. The reason? Her mother lives out there. Superman keeps his word. | |
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From Horatio Hornblower book series: In Midshipman Hornblower, our hero is a prisoner of the Spanish and gives his parole not to escape. Later he's permitted to save the lives of some shipwrecked Spanish sailors and is picked up by an English ship shortly afterwards. Though sorely tempted, he tells the Captain he must keep his word to go back. This being the 18th century, everybody understands completely. Played with in Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies when Hornblower gives his word as a gentleman that he is telling the truth when he lies that Napoleon was dead. When he reaches port, and is about to confess his shame and prepare to resign from the Navy, he learns that Napoleon really was dead. |
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In one rather memorable series of Peanuts strips, Charlie Brown was sick at the hospital, and amazingly, the one who was the most upset about it was Lucy, who had otherwise treated him so mean. She finally went outside and made the following vow: "Charlie Brown, I know that you can't hear me, but I want to make you a promise. I promise that if you get well, I'll never pull the football away again!" Unfortunately for her, Charlie Brown did get better, he did hear it somehow (maybe Linus told him) and held her to it; the amazing thing is, she actually tried to keep her word, but Charlie Brown missed, kicking her in the hand. (He apologized, to which she replied, "The next time you go to the hospital, stay there!" and apparently, she decided she wasn't bound by the promise anymore, because the annual prank continued as always, starting the next year.) | |
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Game of Thrones: Tyrion Lannister on two occasions offers to pay considerable sums when his life is threatened. First, he offers a purse of gold to Mord, his jailer when he is held captive in The Eyrie. Second, he offers a wealth of weaponry to various hill tribe warriors when they threaten to kill him. Despite being quite capable of screwing over both parties, Tyrion honours his promises in keeping with his family's unofficial motto "a Lannister always pays his debts." He even utters this phrase when paying back Mord. In the Season 6 finale, it is revealed that Ned Stark promised his dying sister Lyanna that he would protect her baby son (who would become Jon Snow), offspring of her and Rhaegar Targaryen. This led to Ned lying to his friend King Robert and sullying his own name to protect his sister's child. Osha gave her word to a dying Luwin, that she'd take Bran and Rickon to their brother Jon Snow at Castle Black, and no further — as she is quick to remind Bran. |
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In the Spider-Man novel "Forever Young", Vanessa Fisk asked Peter Parker to contact Spider-Man (unaware that the two are the same man) to help her find a tablet with supposed healing properties so that Vanessa can use its power to help her currently-catatonic husband, Wilson Fisk, AKA the Kingpin. She offers in turn to pay the medical bills for Peter's Aunt May, who has just been diagnosed with a rare disease. While Spider-Man is unable to retrieve the tablet, and learns that it wouldn't have been able to heal the Kingpin anyway, Vanessa still pays May's medical bills as she recognises that Peter and Spider-Man did their best and it's not the fault of either that the tablet couldn't do what she hoped it would. | |
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In The Princess Bride, Inigo wants to help the Man in Black climb the last few feet of cliff—so that he can kill him in a duel: Not to mention that after the "Man in Black" reaches the top, Inigo lets him rest for a bit, and they chat. They really aren't enemies. (Inigo is only a villain by association anyway.) Twisted around when Prince Humperdink agrees not to hurt Westley if Buttercup will come along quietly, with the reasoning being that it will be Count Rugen that actually hurts Westley, and Humperdink will only watch. And ultimately subverted when Humperdink mostly kills Westley. |
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In the comedy Major Payne, the titular character promises a biker thug that he'll take his foot and kick him across the face with it. Distracted by his footwork Payne then proceeds to sucker punch him in the throat and kick him in the nuts. The biker (now on his knees choking) foolishly brings up the Major's threat: | |
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Beren and Lúthien: Luthien forcing him to promise to not kill Beren is the only reason that Thingol does not execute Beren on the spot when Beren declares nothing will keep him apart from his daughter. Beren insists on trying to carry out the Impossible Engagement Challenge when Lúthien asks him to just run off with her because he swore he would take one Silmaril from Morgoth's crown. The Elven Lord Finrod Felagund makes an oath to Beren's father Barahir to always help him or his kin after the latter saves his life. This leads to Finrod leaving his realm and people to go with Beren on his quest. He dies saving Beren's life. |
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In Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Sofina keeps her promise to Forge to let him leave Neverwinter with the contents of the city's treasury and his "adoptive daughter" Kira before she attempts to turn Neverwinter's population into her undead thralls with the Beckoning Death spell despite her visibly loathing every second where she is required to interact with him. | |
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In Young Justice (2010), when Zatara is trying to convince Doctor Fate to release his daughter Zatanna and offers himself up as an alternate host, Fate asks what guarantee he has that Zatara will actually put on the helmet. Zatara simply says, "My word." That's enough for Fate, and Zatara does indeed allow Fate to possess him for the remainder of the series. Somewhat justified in that Zatara is a magician, and that kind of oath has actual magical implication. | |
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In Sense and Sensibility, Edward Ferrars no longer wishes to marry the woman to whom he's engaged. But he refuses to break the engagement, even when threatened with disinheritance. | |
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In Pibgorn I have your solemn word? | |
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An interesting subversion occurs in Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. J. Jonah Jameson is in trouble at one point and begs Spider-Man to save him, promising to stop printing bad things about him. After he's rescued, he immediately tells Spider-Man that he was lying and gloats about it. Spider-Man says that he knew Jameson would break his word; if he had kept his word, then he'd have been surprised. | |
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In Tales of the Questor, Quentyn asked whether he still is keeping his word to be a Questor after hearing he must face a challenge within two weeks. He still abides by his oath. | |
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In an episode of She-Ra: Princess of Power, She-Ra volunteers to surrender herself in exchange for the release of hostage citizens. The villain of the week actually lets them go first, then is surprised and impressed when she keeps her promise to surrender. | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Captain Barbossa in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is another one of those who keeps to the word of his promise but not the spirit; he has gotten grievously offended by both Elizabeth's and Will's accusation that he didn't fulfill his part of the bargain he made to them, and tells them if they have a problem with how he did it, it's their fault for not being specific in the agreement. Will Turner also always keeps his promises. This leads to him betraying most of the cast over the course of the second two movies so he can kill Davy Jones and free his father from eternal servitude on the Dutchman. |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In "The Paper", Squidward tells SpongeBob to keep a discarded gum wrapper and to never give it back to him; SpongeBob decides to keep that promise. Later when Squidward sees SpongeBob do lots of fun things with the paper and is jealous, he asks to use it, but SpongeBob sticks to his word. | |
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Quite common in Warhammer 40,000: In Graham McNeill's Ultramarines novel Warriors of Ultramar, after the Inquisitor promised that he would not call Exterminus on a planet to keep it from the tyrannids, Uriel rebukes him for failing this: "I thought you were a man of your word." Also in his novel Storm of Iron, when rounding up prisoners to flush out where the guns are, Kroeger tells them if they live, they will be permitted to live, he gives his word, and one of them jeers at him for saying that — the word of an Iron Warrior. She does survive, and observes that he gave his word, but she had judged him correctly; he jeers at the notion. And his novel Fulgrim, Fulgrim gives Ferrus Manus his word as his sworn honour brother that he does not lie. Alas, that is exactly when Ferrus Manus is bound to fight him. In Lee Lightner's Space Wolf novel Sons of Fenris, when prisoner to the Space Wolves, Jeremiah promises not to escape, and Ragnar gives him and his men their weapons back. Later, after he disputes with Ragnar about where they should go, it ends when he says, "I gave you my word." In Wolf's Honour, Bulveye assures Ragnar that he knows, in time, Leman Russ and he will meet again, because Russ gave him his word on it. In Ben Counter's Horus Heresy novel Galaxy in Flames, when Tarvitz is trying to warn the betrayed Marines on Isstavan III, he invokes The Power of Friendship to get Garro to believe his word, because of their Fire Forged Friendship. And his novel Chapter War, when the Howling Griffons are introduced, Mercaeno explains the Back Story of the daemon they had just killed: three thousand years before, they had sworn to avenge the death of Orlando Furioso, and had finally done so. Part of why it had taken so long was that they had other oaths. He explains that they are traveling to this planet to fulfill an oath. The Inquisitor he tells this to says that he, also, is traveling there to keep his word. Indeed, the Howling Griffons' chief motivation throughout the novel is keeping their word; when the Soul Drinkers persuade them that they are not the Black Chalice they have sworn Revenge on, the Howling Griffons stop fighting them and go to keep their oath to protect a planet from orks. In Matt Farrer's "After Desh'ea" (in Tales of Heresy), Kharn tells Angron that despite Angron's demand that he fight, he had given his word not to lift his hand to him, and if that means he dies, he dies. Angron is clearly moved by such devotion. In the Back Story of Simon Spurrier's Night Lords novel Lord of the Night, Sahaal had watched the Night Haunter be assassinated, because the Night Haunter had foreseen it and extracted a promise from him to do so. In James Swallow's novel Deus Encarmine, Rafen had promised their father to look out for Arkio. Making their Cain and Abel fight particularly hard on Rafen — and he apologizes to the dying Arkio for not having helped him. And Stele has Koris and other sergeant promise to keep a secret before he lies to them; they would think of this trope and not consider it was a lie. |
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El Goonish Shive: Why Abraham wanted to kill Ellen; he swore an oath to his master and to god to kill all abominations created by the Dewitchery Diamond. Being a Knight Templar, he insists on carrying it out in all cases; even to the point that this attitude almost gets him killed. Also a deconstruction; he could see that Ellen wasn't a monster like the other beings created by the diamond, and he didn't actually want to kill her. But his word was more important to him than his own peace of mind and her life. Fortunately, Nanase got an Eleventh Hour Super Power Desperation Attack powerful enough to stop him in his tracks, and then was able to talk him out of it. She argued that since Abraham's oath was made with the intention of protecting innocent people, given this sort of dilemma, it's more important to follow the spirit of the oath than the letter of the oath. |
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House of the Dragon: Lord Corlys Velaryon sides with Rhaenyra for her claim to the throne at the end of Season 1 as he was Sworn in by Oath years prior, and also because his extended family and heirs are part of her family as well. | |
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In Unnatural Selection, Alison chose death rather than break her promise of not killing a certain opponent. There was a bit of pragmatism in it though, as a majority of suggesters judged her messianic aura as more important to her cause than her life. | |
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Stardust Crusaders: As Steely Dan continues in having Jotaro committing acts of humiliation, Jotaro calmly tells Dan that he will soon receive his karmatic payment in full when the moment comes. Once Steely Dan is at his mercy, Jotaro gives him his payment and receipt... in the hundreds. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic This is a major plot point in "Keep Calm and Flutter On." Fluttershy, the Shrinking Violet of the main cast, is tasked with reforming Discord, a Reality Warper who nearly destroyed the world twice. She decides to do this by showing him nothing but respect and love; Discord, meanwhile, is kept in check by the threat of the Elements of Harmony, six magical relics that have the power to turn him to stone. When Discord's trickery results in a massive flood at Sweet Apple Acres, he agrees to reverse the magic if Fluttershy promises to never use her Element of Kindness on him. She agrees, and Discord does fix the flood...by freezing the water, creating a massive ice field. The rest of the Mane Six urge Fluttershy to use her Element to trap him, but she adamantly refuses, explaining that she made a promise. As the Elements only work when all six are used together, this means that Discord is permanently free, and he gloats incessantly, bragging that he manipulated Fluttershy's friendship with him to get his way; she angrily declares that while she'll maintain her vow, she is not Discord's friend any longer. It's only when he realizes that being such a massive jerk will end in him losing his only friend ever that he decides to fix the problem fair and square. In "Green Isn't Your Color", Rarity and Fluttershy both confide in Twilight about how they feel about Fluttershy's popularity—Rarity is repressing her jealousy for Fluttershy's sake, and Fluttershy is repressing her anxiety for Rarity's sake. The fact that she promised to keep both is why Twilight can't just tell each other what's going on and solve the plot immediately. This is also the general idea behind a "Pinkie Promise", which Pinkie Pie takes very seriously. In "The Last Roundup", Applejack Pinkie Promises to tell her friends why she didn't return to Ponyville during breakfast the next day, only to not show up for breakfast, making Pinkie Pie very angry. In a later episode, "The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows", Pinkie Pie's attempts to isolate herself to avoid spilling the big surprise she's keeping in is kneecapped by how many favors she Pinkie Promised to do. |
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Doctor Who: "Doomsday": The Doctor gives Jackie his word that he'll get her and Rose out alive. He manages to keep it. "Blink": Kathy Nightingale's grandson makes a big deal out of the promise he made to her to deliver her letter to Sally decades after her death, despite having no idea why she asked this (and being royally confused by the result). |
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In Nip and Tuck, I swear by all my beaver ancestors. | |
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Changeling: The Lost: This is a major aspect. True Fae give shape to their surroundings in Arcadia through the force of their agreements, and this is often how they ensnare their victims — binding them, often involuntarily, to agreements that their victims must abide by. This affects escaped Changelings as well — pledges, agreements, and contracts are a fundamental aspect of Changeling life and breaking them results in both societal and magical punishment. Breaking a pledge also damages your Karma Meter (which for Changelings is closer to a Sanity Meter), because you're acting just like the assholes who put you through hell in the first place. | |
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Star Wars: Lost Stars: Ciena won't break her oath of loyalty to the Empire, even when concluding that it's evil, because her culture holds any promise sacrosanct. She continues to serve reluctantly. Previously, her father had the same attitude even after the Empire wrongly convicts his wife (Ciena's mother) of embezzlement on its false evidence and she gets seven years at hard labor. Ciena explains the principle to Thane, saying if a promise were always easy to keep this wouldn't be worth anything. | |
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From The Magnificent Seven, after a discussion of all the good reasons for giving up and going home. | |
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Blake's 7. Used as a Pet the Dog for the ruthlessly pragmatic Avon. In "Star One", Avon takes command of the Liberator to Hold the Line against an Alien Invasion despite being vastly outnumbered. He gives this trope, having agreed to Blake that he will do so. It seems to be a general rule for Avon — he spends the following two seasons searching for Blake because he promised to take him back to Earth. When Avon finally does break his word on something (trying to kill Vila after promising to keep him safe in "Orbit") it's a sign that the end is near. Not that Avon isn't above Exact Words when giving his word. In "Rumours of Death", he promises a Torture Technician a "way out" of his Sealed Room in the Middle of Nowhere if he talks. He does so, and Avon decides to Leave Behind a Pistol. And there's this line in "City at the Edge of the World". Servalan says to Warlord Zukan, "I gave you my word" when forming their alliance, only to betray him. Later when Avon gives his word that he will rescue him, Zukan refuses to accept it. |
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On Jimmy Two-Shoes, after Jimmy gives his word not to leave a certain spot, nothing can make him break it. Said promise is actually a Secret Test of Character that Lucius doesn't want him to pass. | |
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House of Saddam: Subverted. Saddam promises his first wife that Raghad and Rana would be spared his wrath upon their return to Iraq. Their husbands, Hussein and Saddam Kamel, are not as lucky. Technically, Saddam did promise not to harm them but didn't say anything about their Uncle Ali exercising tribal law at Saddam's behest. Thus his word becomes only Metaphorically True. | |
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Teen Titans: In New Teen Titans (Volume 1) #10, Deathstroke laments that his vow means that he has had to come up with a plan to kill the Titans for H.I.V.E.... while simultaneously getting Revenge on H.I.V.E. for tricking him into the contract and killing his son in the process. | |
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In Up, Ellie makes Carl promise that one day they'll have a house next to Paradise Falls in South America. They grow up and get married, but can never afford to make the trip. And the day Carl finally does buy the tickets to South America, Ellie succumbs to old age and is in no condition to go before she passes on. The plot is largely based upon Carl, as an old man, trying to fulfill his promise by moving their house there after Ellie's death. In this case, though, the Stock Phrase is replaced by a repeated "cross over the heart" motion. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: The police sergeant promises his surviving two self-defence grunts that he won't kill them in a session where he's teaching them how to defend themselves against anyone armed with a basket of raspberries. He keeps his word: a released tiger does the job for him. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh!: Pegasus J. Crawford released the souls of Seto Kaiba, Mokuba Kaiba and Sugoroku Mutou in the English dub after being defeated by Yugi. He gives a soliloquy about how he always keeps his word. This is frequently Yami Yugi's reasoning, combined with a sense of responsibility. He makes a promise to the spirit of Black Magician Girl in one of the filler arcs and at one point states he has a promise to keep. | |
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A Court of Thorns and Roses: Promises are Serious Business, considering their world depends on one. | |
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"The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples": Whatever you say about the old mountain's murderous witch, she promised the prince she would give him any of her horses if he fulfilled her (impossible) task, and she (grudgingly) kept her promise. | |
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In the original Dragon Ball, Goku agrees to marry Chi-Chi, thinking marriage is a type of food. Several years later, Chi-Chi returns to hold Goku to his promise. Even at this point, Goku is still a Chaste Hero who doesn't really understand the concept of romantic love, but he still marries Chi-Chi anyways because he gave his word. | |
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Horton Hatches the Egg, by Dr. Seuss: "I meant what I said, and I said what I meant; an elephant's faithful, one hundred percent." Horton sticks with his agreed-upon egg-sitting, no matter how much suffering it puts him through, and no matter how much the bird is abusing it. | |
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Deconstructed (along with several other Western tropes) in The Wild Bunch. Sykes is shot by bounty hunters led by Thornton, who used to be one of the titular outlaws, on his way to rendezvous with the rest of the bunch. Dutch is pissed. | |
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Andromeda: The Ogami will not break a contract and will always complete a mission. [1] | |
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The Ultimate Evil: While Shendu is portrayed as the lying demon he canonically is, he promises to his love interest Valerie Payne not to harm her or force her into something she doesn't want to as he seeks to make her fall in love with him. He keeps that promise for the most part, with the most notable exception being when he possesses her body and forces her to help him reach the Book of Ages. | |
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In Nomine: Once an angel of Marc, the Archangel of Trade, makes a deal or a promise, they are obliged to follow it to the letter and the spirit. It's dissonant for one to break their word or cheat on a deal. | |
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Although she probably wouldn't be blamed for breaking such a promise in the context of The Hunger Games, Vale Whitaker of Some Semblance of Meaning promised that she would give meaning to this near-certain death sentence by protecting her district partner, Kit. And that is exactly what she intends to do. However, although she tries, she ends up losing Kit when he is killed by a mutt, and she is forced to search for a new purpose in the arena. | |
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In Wen Spencer's Tinker, when Tinker says she could have reneged on a deal, Windwolf asks whether she would break her word of honor. She admits, after a bit, that no, she wouldn't have. | |
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Discussed and weaponized in Imaginary Seas. Percy Jackson possesses one of Theseus' Noble Phantasms, the three favors he received from Poseidon that he promised to answer no matter what. Although Percy hopes to use these wishes to restore enough of Poseidon's personality to hold a conversation, Chiron advises him against that, as the gods repeatedly break their oaths and forgo their favors for their own convenience. Percy knows this but remains steadfast, as though oaths from Poseidon mean nothing to Chiron, as Poseidon's son, his oaths mean the world to Percy, just as Poseidon rushed to his aid during the Battle of Manhattan. | |
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In the Trickster's Duet, Trickster God Kyprioth promises Aly that he'll take her back home if she keeps the Balitang girls, Sarai and Dove, safe through the summer. When Aly realizes that they're the focus of The Prophecy and a planned revolution to take the Copper Isles back from its white conquerors, she realizes she's been set up, but Kyprioth assures her that he will keep his word as gods are required to do. (But he was banking on her deciding to stay anyhow, which she did.) | |
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In Halo 2, Chief leaves Cortana on High Charity, in an attempt to stop the Flood, promising that he'll return to bring her back. She responds that he shouldn't make promises he knows he can't keep. This leads to a heartwarming moment in Halo 3: | |
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In Halo 4, Cortana again warns Master Chief not to make promises that he can't keep as he claims that he can prevent her Rampancy by getting her back to Earth. This time, he can't keep his promise. | |
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In A Fighting Man of Mars, although Tul Axtar is a Dirty Coward and has beautiful women abducted for him, he nevertheless keeps his word not to murder Tan Hadron out of hand, though he does throw him into the most dangerous regions he can find. Sanoma Tora is also a Dirty Coward and traitor to boot but she deserves some credit for insisting on this condition before aiding Tul Axtar. | |
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Lucifer: The titular character never breaks his word, deliberately lies, or leaves a service unpaid. It's a point of pride for him, and those aware of his character often warn against mistaking it for a virtue. His wording needs to be watched, sometimes; if he tells that he gives you a chance to do something, it doesn't mean that he's compelled to tell you when that chance comes, or just what you should do to get the desired outcome. | |
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The Han Solo Trilogy: Muuurgh gave his word of honor to keep his contract with the t'lanta Til priests on Ylesia, which includes watching Han and killing him if he ever betrays them. As honor is the core tenet of his culture, he won't break it — until Han proves they lied to him. Since there's no honor working with a liar, the contract is voided, and he works with Han to go against them. Boba Fett also believes in this, having Han inform Bria's father she had died in combat against the Empire because of a promise he would do this. Notably, this promise was given much earlier in an entirely different context, when he had captured Bria himself for the bounty, and he agreed to her request to inform her father after her death, but he still felt bound to keep it. |
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In A Bride's Story, Amir smuggles a meal to a boy being deprived of dinner as punishment and tells him she will only do it this time. When he disobeys again, his mother, who ordered it, is shocked because Amir insists on her word, and she needs someone to go around her. | |
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Astro City: Infidel has withdrawn into his own pocket dimension and refrain from interfering in human affairs merely because he had promised Samaritan he'd do so. | |
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Rumpelstiltskin/Mr. Gold of Once Upon a Time has only once ever gone back on a deal, and it's possible that he's been trying to make up for it ever since. This is not to say that he won't twist the bargain to his own ends, as he does when he fakes the murder Regina wanted him to frame Mary for, claiming that Regina never explicitly told him to kill the would-be victim. And even if you get exactly what you want from him, the price you'll have to pay may be far greater than you imagine... especially if you try to cheat him out of his end. | |
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Sixes and Sevens: Emily and Roger both promised Dottie that after she helps them clean up the mess with HYDRA they'd set her free, so when Ivan captures her and states that she's too dangerous to be allowed to live they both take offense to that. | |
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The Perfect Run: Ryan always keeps his promises. This is very important, because it's including across loops. He might, on occasion, compromise on a single run for practicality (eg, he promised to destroy the Bliss Factory, but that's politically difficult in most loops), but he always makes sure that he integrates everything everyone asked for into his Perfect Run. | |
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From Jerry Maguire: | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Played straight in "Grave". The Mayor doesn't like others accusing him of dishonesty. |
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In Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, D and Leila make each other a promise: in order to ensure neither dies alone and unmourned, whoever lives longer will visit the other's grave. At the end, D keeps his word, arriving at Leila's funeral sixty years later. He smiles when her granddaughter runs up to him, and looking past her, sees that she died peacefully, with her family surrounding her grave. | |
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In L. Jagi Lamplighter's Prospero Lost, Ferdinard, deeply touched that Miranda is still unmarried, assumes that she was keeping her vow to marry him or remain a maid. He offers to marry her and not consummate the marriage so she can get it dissolved and then marry as she chooses. | |
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Todd from Stargate Atlantis isn't someone to be easily trusted. His first encounter with Sheppard though shows, that he has a sense of honor and keeps his word once given — without expecting Sheppard to do the same. One could say it is a case of Honor Before Reason. Todd's esteem certainly arrives from Sheppard's willingness to stay true his word. This is not to say that they like each other. After a few of Todd betrayals (there were extenuating circumstances), Sheppard is understandably a little wary of trusting the guy again. When Todd asks Sheppard in the series finale why he let him go the last time, Sheppard tells him that he gave his word... and also because he thought Todd wouldn't make it on his own. |
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In Henry Stickmin: Infiltrating The Airship, if Henry succeeds in the mission, General Hubert keeps his promise and pardons Henry's criminal record. | |
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In E.E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman series, a Lensman always keeps his promise no matter how casually made, even to spiders and worms. | |
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Niska, in Firefly believes in this, not out of a sense of honor, but because he takes his reputation very, very seriously. He wants everyone to know that he keeps the deals he makes and that he'll brutally punish anyone who doesn't keep a deal with him. | |
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Rapunzel in Tangled. When she makes a promise, no matter how it might hurt her, she will keep it. From returning Flynn the tiara he stole (even if he would leave her, despite her growing feelings for him) to promising Gothel she would stay with her and never run away again, as long as she heals Flynn (even if it means never seeing Flynn again and giving up her freedom). Though earlier, she promises never to ask to leave the tower again, so she's free to actually leave without asking (although she does feel guilty about it). |
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Family Guy: In the episode "McStroke" Peter takes Brian with him to McBurgertown headquarters so he can find incriminating evidence to sue the company. They find a door to a room that is off-limits and Peter gives his word that they won't go in. When Brian tells Peter this is what they were looking for, he tells him he gave his word, but Brian tells him to forget that and they go in anyway. In another episode, the cast has spent the last few days thinking the world was about to end via a black hole (actually a mean prank by Channel 6 which apparently no one bothered to double-check outside local news), and hardline atheist Brian is seen praying. After the hoax is revealed, Brian heads off to the soup kitchen, claiming he "made a promise to Someone". |
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Though Radiant Rain didn't like her, Mercedes Martinez remained unmolested by her groups after she forced Rain to say "I quit" in WSU. That didn't stop Jessicka Havok from breaking away from Rain's Army and starting her own group threatening to kill her though, nor did it stop Valkyrie from ganging up on Martinez after Rain relinquished leadership to Serena Deeb. | |
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Averted in the sequel Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. Aunty hires Max to kill Blaster, but Max refuses to Finish Him! when a Dramatic Unmask shows the Giant Mook to be a simpleton. Because a contract is Serious Business in Bartertown, Aunty is able to use the law to punish Max for his failure to follow through. | |
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Final Fantasy VIII: When Squall makes a promise, especially to Rinoa, count on it being kept, regardless of the danger involved in doing so or the consequences that might follow. | |
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In The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt DLC Heart of Stone, if you choose to side with a certain GOD, he will offer you to make a wish as a reward. Wish to be rich, and he will remark the banality of it. And let's face it, considering the impossible items he can offer you such as a never-ending flask of alcohol or never-ending horn of plenty, cold hard coin is downright mundane. | |
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Broken Saints: "He gave his word, and his word was his bond." The wording itself is a reference to the creators' catchphrase: "Word is Bond". | |
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A Crown of Stars: Asuka sometimes asks Shinji why he always puts up with her. Shinji always replies that every time he left her alone she went through Hell, so he promised he would never abandon her again, no matter what, and he will not go back on his word. When Daniel or Rayana — the divine rulers of Avalon — make a promise you can trust that they SHALL fulfill it, even if they have to warp time and space to do so. |
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Star Trek: Voyager: the Hazari see completing a contract as a matter of pride. However, they can be bought off for a high price. Also, unreliable and double-dealing clients must increase the bounty money or find another option. | |
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Fantastic Four: The word of Doctor Doom is always honored, although the wise will pay attention to anything left unsaid. Galactus. After Reed Richards saved his life, he swore he'd never attempt to feed on Earth again. Thus far, he has kept this promise. |
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In the Breaking Bad episode "Breakage", Jesse gives his word that he will pay a fair price to the junkyard owner who has towed and stored his RV. When the junkyard owner threatens to sell it off and pocket the money instead, Jesse steals the RV. When Jesse finally gets some cash, he returns with the fair payment, plus interest, plus the cost of the portable toilet and fence that he broke during his escape. | |
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Rajputs in the Belisarius Series are absolutely fanatical about their word even when (by implication at least) given under duress and even when it compels them to serve a monstrous regime. They do however manage to lawyer their way out of it. Other groups have a lot of respect for promises as well. But no one takes it as far as Rajputs. | |
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Arthur of BBC's Merlin is like this, even going so far as to put his head on a literal chopping block after giving his word to accept whatever challenge he was given in exchange for his life. Merlin too, in his second What the Hell, Hero? moment of 2X12 when he frees the Great Dragon, who then proceeds to attack Camelot. |
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In Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, Ace promised a young Akane that she could leave the facility if she solved the puzzle in the incinerator he just threw her into. When she questions this promise, Ace points out that the experiment is only valid if the subject actually has a chance at succeeding. And indeed, Akane was able to leave and was left alone by Ace for the next nine years until Akane set up the Second Nonary Game to send the puzzle solution she needed nine years ago into the past. | |
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The Vampaneze, the odd cousins of the vampires are incredibly honourable in their own way. Lying is abhorent to them to the extent even if one was your mortal enemy, you could trust him to keep his word. | |
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Subverted in The Sopranos episode "Isabella": when Carmella and Tony are discussing ratting out other criminals and going into witness protection, Tony says this. Carmella replies: "What are you, a kid in a treehouse?" A nice way to point out how ridiculous this trope can be when the choice is following your word or protecting your family. | |
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Babylon 5: Londo Mollari gives Narn its freedom in return for G'kar's aid in overthrowing Cartagia. Even though G'kar fulfills his part of the bargain first and Londo would have no problem maintaining the occupation, he chooses to withdraw peacefully. This line is used verbatim to explain why. In "Atonement", Delenn promises to abide by her clan's decision regarding her marriage to Sheridan. |
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Pilgrim (RPG Maker): Master Alice, for some reason (even Nekaneminorpe admits she doesn't know why]]) will not break any deals she makes with people. Though given how she constantly looks for loopholes in them, this seems to be more a case of Magically-Binding Contract than a genuine moral standard. | |
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YuYu Hakusho: Sakyo has placed his own life as a betting chip quite a few times, claiming that he'd kill himself should he lose. Come the end of the Dark Tournament, after his team loses, he does just that by detonating a time bomb that destroys the arena with himself in it. Sensui says he will release the captured Kuwabara if Yusuke's team can kill Gourmet. When Kurama does that, Sensui keeps his promise. However this just ensures that Yusuke's friends fall into a trap, so Sensui can have a one-on-one battle. Raizen is a demon who can only eat humans. He fell in love with a human woman and had a child with her. As a favor to her, he promised he would never eat humans again. Even when his lover died, he kept his promise and slowly starved to death over centuries. All of his comrades begged him to eat but he refused saying he promised her, and eventually dies. |
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Deadpool: Deadpool runs up and down this trope freely. If you're a good person or someone he likes, or if the promise is for a good cause such as protecting innocent people, he'll dive into a pool of boiling acid to keep his word. You don't even have to ask for his word, he'll just do it. But if you're an asshole or someone he doesn't like, or if you think his word is going to make him stand by and do nothing while you hurt innocent people or attempt to harm a child, he'll cheerfully pull a baseball bat out of his Hammerspace, tell you that he had his fingers crossed or that all his promises come with an expiration date and the one he gave you just passed it, then proceed to break all your bones. | |
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Marriage is the promise of eternal love and as a man of honor, Leopold of Kate & Leopold, cannot promise eternally what he has never felt momentarily. | |
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The Smoggies: When the Smoggies decided to leave Coral Island, they needed to replenish their ship's oil supply and their only hope was extracting oil from Coral Island. As part of a deal between them and the Suntots, the Smoggies could extract oil from Coral Island on the proviso they didn't take any oil from the tarbog's pit. When Emma wanted to break the deal, her usually Henpecked Husband invoked this trope. Too bad Emma didn't give hers. | |
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Deconstructed in Lessons from the Mountain. Maedhros and his brothers' oath to retrieve the Silmarils and kill whoever got in the way, no matter what, brought about three genocides and untold chaos and destruction. Several characters point out their oath, which was worthless anyway, was too awful to NOT be broken. | |
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In Sunshine, Sunshine grows worried when Constantine does not show up at the time he stated. | |
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