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The hero and bad guy have had a big fight on the top of a building, which has resulted in the bad guy being knocked over the edge. He hangs there by his fingers, helplessly. The hero is then motivated (or, more cynically, contractually obliged) to attempt to save the villain's life, even putting himself in mortal danger in the attempt. This is presumably done so that the hero can be shown once again to be noble and just. Maybe they feel sympathy for the villain in question due to some past connection they may have had. Sometimes they may strongly wrestle with the notion; the temptation is not just to let him die, but consider himself blameless for not directly causing the death. If no one will realize that the hero could have saved him, What You Are in the Dark may come into play. While some heroes take the philosophy of If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him! very seriously, many take it even further, thinking that letting someone die via inaction on their part is almost as bad. A notable part of this trope is that, often, the villain refuses the hero's help because he can't bear owing his life to the hero, or would rather cause his own death, presumably out of ego or "honor". Sometimes this happens when the villain is facing a cruel fate at the hands of a greater evil who disgusts the hero even more, leading him to shout "Even he doesn't deserve that!" or something of the type. If the villain does accept the hero's help — even if they begged for it — more often than not, they will be complete ingrates and keep trying to kill the hero, sometimes even immediately. In fact, sometimes the villain will use the opportunity to try to kill the hero — leaving both the hero and villain in mortal danger. This generally results in Karmic Death. Other times, the villain may be utterly bewildered as to why anyone would try to save an enemy. On other occasions, the villain will continue pursuing their overall evil goal, but will now refuse to harm the hero out of grudging recognition of their debt. They may even return the life-saving favor at a later point, although this may wipe the slate clean in their eyes (saying that they're "even" at that point) and make it okay for them to resume their attempts on the hero's life. In between, the hero may say Think Nothing of It in the knowledge that the villain will indeed think nothing of it. On the villain part, a more upright antagonist (usually an Anti-Villain) may leave the hero be for the moment but warn him explicitly that "it doesn't change anything!" In the worst of cases, the villain turns out to be an Ungrateful Bastard which leaves the hero (and the viewers) wondering why he bothered. Some villains (mostly Card Carrying Villains) even use things like this as "proof" that Good Is Dumb. In more serious situations, the hero may be unable to save the villain's life but will still not let them suffer Dying Alone. Usually a moment of Genre Savvy (with just a touch of Lampshade Hanging); the heroes are fully aware that this is the ugliest part of their job. An Anti-Hero may specifically not do this, just to emphasize their difference from a "true" hero. On the other hand, if a character whose position was formally on the villain/Anti-Hero fence does this, it can establish them as less of a villain. See also Sword over Head, where the hero saves the villain by not doing anything, and Villains Want Mercy, where the villain begs for this trope. Contrast Villainous Rescue, which is the opposite situation, but may happen because of a life debt created by this trope. Heavily contrasts Refuse to Rescue the Disliked seeing if the villains too despicable to save. When this is combined with a chance to repent, it's also a Last-Second Chance. Subtrope of Save the Jerk. |
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In Night Watch, Vimes has already set fire to the HQ of the Cable Street Particulars when he remembers that one of them is still inside, strapped to a chair in their own Torture Cellar. Vimes runs back in, deciding to at least give the man a chance to escape. He's already dead, and Vimes ends up in a swordfight with his boss. | |
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In Pact, after Blake Thorburn's chronomancer enemy Laird Behaim triggers his Rage Breaking Point by forcing him to relive his greatest traumas using the ghosts the trauma created, he forces a small splinter into his throat, and then, horrified at himself, tries and fails to prevent Laird from choking to death on his own blood. | |
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In the Worm fanfic Intrepid, to her own surprise, Sophia stops Seraph from killing some random Merchant thug in 6.09. Even she doesn't know why. | |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Harry does this twice for Draco Malfoy. Malfoy's mother proceeds to return the favor to Harry. Lampshaded by Ron's utter disgust at the fact that they saved Malfoy. After the second save, Ron punches out Malfoy for immediately running over to Death Eaters for support. The life debt Peter Pettigrew owes Harry thanks to Harry saving him from werewolf Lupin in Prisoner of Azkaban comes back, when Peter hesitates when he's attacking Harry. Which is immediately followed by Harry and Ron attempting to stop Pettigrew's own silver hand from strangling him. They fail. Harry makes a bold but futile attempt to save Lord Voldemort in the final confrontation. At this point, Harry is aware that Voldemort's soul is so badly damaged that if he dies (which is a very likely outcome at this point) he'll be stranded in Limbo for all eternity. Harry tries to suggest to Voldemort to feel remorse for everything he's done, as it's his last chance to repair some of the damage done to his soul. Voldemort is shocked and offended at this suggestion. |
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Disney Animated Canon: In The Fox and the Hound, as Amos Slade and Copper pursue Tod, they get cornered and almost killed by a gigantic bear. Tod, seeing his childhood friend Copper in danger, turns back to fight the bear, also saving Slade from it during the process. At the climax of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, where Frollo knocks Quasimodo over the edge of the cathedral but is pulled along with him. Despite having just found out that Frollo killed his mother, Quasi doesn't let go of the cloak by which Frollo hangs. As Esmeralda desperately tries to pull Quasimodo back up, Frollo (who refuses to drop his sword, even to save himself), manages to swing himself to a handhold before attempting to finish them both off, at which point karma kicks in. Very pointedly averted in the novel. Attempted in Tarzan. Tarzan had only meant to incapacitate Clayton, tying him up in vines. Clayton, however, is in an Unstoppable Rage and starts slashing through them...except for the one around his neck. Tarzan sees the problem before Clayton does and tries to warn him: "Clayton! Clayton, don't!" He doesn't listen, plummets downwards, and Tarzan zips after him. Unfortunately, he's not fast enough, and by the time he reaches Clayton, he's already hanged himself. One look at Tarzan's face and you know he really did hope to save him... Frozen provides an interesting subversion because while Anna sacrifices herself to save Elsa, who struck her in the heart, Elsa is not really evil, and Anna continued to always love Elsa because she was her sister. Furthermore, Anna has Undying Loyalty towards Elsa and refuses to see her as a villain. Anna only saw Elsa as a young woman who was persecuted because of her powers and needed Anna to get over her fears. This Act of True Love also saves Anna from Elsa's curse and leads to Elsa gaining control of her powers and becoming The High Queen. In the sequel Aladdin and the King of Thieves, Aladdin seems to try to save Sa'luk from falling off a cliff at the end of their duel to the death but fails. Sa'luk proves to be Not Quite Dead and later returns to menace the protagonists further. The Lion King II: Simba's Pride. Kiara does this to Zira when she's trying to pull herself up. Kiara offers a paw to Zira to pull her back up, but she swipes at her and falls to her death in the raging flood below. Woody and Buzz save Lotso in Toy Story 3 from a shredder without hesitation, even though it was Lotso's fault in the first place that any of them was in a life-threatening situation. Lotso doesn't return the favor. At the end of Big Hero 6, after Hiro and Baymax foil Yokai/Callaghan's evil plot to get revenge on Krei for seemingly killing his daughter, by using Yokai's portal to destroy his microbots, after Callaghan's mask is destroyed, this results in Yokai being about to be sucked into his own portal toward his doom, only for Hiro and Baymax to immediately pull him to safety just to have him be detained by the rest of Big Hero 6 until the police arrive to have him arrested, before flying into the portal to try and save Callaghan's daughter Abagail, but at the risk of Baymax being damaged in the process, and thus being forced to leave him behind. Fortunately, turns out there is a backup plan to create another Baymax... |
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In Kevin & Kell, Rudy tricks the bacteria possessing his long-time nemesis Vin into entering his body (he had mouthwash on hand to kill them when they entered his mouth), and shortly afterward helps Vin fake his death and enter The Wild for good. | |
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In Superman vs. the Elite, Superman spends the entirety of the film trying to prove the validity of his Thou Shalt Not Kill philosophy, and for that reason, he tries to save even the unrepentant mass murderer Atomic Skull from '90s Anti-Hero Manchester Black. He isn't fast enough, however, and ends up using his own cape as a burial shroud. | |
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Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation has an odd variant of this: the villain, Dark Heart, spends the movie blackmailing a girl named Christy into helping him, mostly interacting with her in the form of a boy about her age. About halfway through the movie, he hits his head, falls into a river and almost drowns, except that Christy dives into the water to save him. He's naturally a bit stunned that she would do this. This winds up being the first step toward a Heel–Face Turn that turns him into an actual child. | |
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In RWBY, Ghira jumps under a collapsing balcony to keep it from falling on Ilia; this becomes a Karmic Death for Fennec when he tries to take advantage, only for Blake to pull Ghira out, killing Fennec. | |
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Les Misérables: Valjean saves his nemesis, Javert, from execution at the barricades. It backfired spectacularly. | |
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At the climax of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, where Frollo knocks Quasimodo over the edge of the cathedral but is pulled along with him. Despite having just found out that Frollo killed his mother, Quasi doesn't let go of the cloak by which Frollo hangs. As Esmeralda desperately tries to pull Quasimodo back up, Frollo (who refuses to drop his sword, even to save himself), manages to swing himself to a handhold before attempting to finish them both off, at which point karma kicks in. Very pointedly averted in the novel. | |
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In the sequel Aladdin and the King of Thieves, Aladdin seems to try to save Sa'luk from falling off a cliff at the end of their duel to the death but fails. Sa'luk proves to be Not Quite Dead and later returns to menace the protagonists further. | |
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In Everyday Heroes, Mr. Mighty has to stop Jane from caving in her former boss' skull with a hammer. | |
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In The Princess Twins of Legendale, Eve tries to save Queen Dume from falling to her death despite knowing how evil she is now. Dume jumps over the tower edge and attempts to take Eve with her, though Eve survives with Dawn's help. | |
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Done in The Young Protectors during Kyle's date with Duncan - better known as "The Annihilator". The two are attacked during a lunch date in Hong Kong by two vigilante heroes targeting the Annihilator, and Kyle winds up beating the crap out of one of them after said vigilante causes plenty of destruction to civilian property and recklessly endangers said civilians in his pursuit of Anni. | |
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In BURN THE WITCH (Miraculous Ladybug), Marinette repeatedly attempts to protect Lila after all her lies are revealed and Rose is akumatised into Witch Hunter, who along with everyone who falls under her spell wants to burn Lila at the stake for what she's done, despite herself having plenty of motivation to let them and even Cat Noir and Tikki falling under the spell and urging her to let Lila have it. Lila herself doesn't provide much incentive to do otherwise by not only sabotaging Marinette's genuine attempts to help her, seeing them more as self-righteous and self-serving ego strokes to make the other girl look and feel better about herself, but persistently lying and slandering her, taking advantage of her parents' kindness when they let her into the bakery to snoop around Marinette's room for blackmail material and gleefully admitting to her willing alliance with Hawk Moth. Even after transforming into Ladybug and hearing that Lila tried to manipulate Oni-Chan into killing her, Marinette does not give in. Once Lila is out of imminent danger and Rose is de-akumatised, however, Ladybug makes it clear that she will be keeping a very close eye on Lila and ensuring that she can't interfere with the heroes during akuma attacks by seeking her out and dumping her in uncomfortable and humiliating places to "keep her safe" during said attacks. | |
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Sesame Street: In the "Superhero" episode of Elmo: The Musical, Baddy McBad uses a giant robot to block off the entrance to a playground with an anvil too heavy for even Mighty Elmo to push out of the way. After Baddy taunts Elmo, her giant robot loses its balance and falls over, and she is unable to get back up. Elmo saves Baddy, and this leads to Baddy undergoing a Heel–Face Turn. | |
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Discworld: In Small Gods, Brutha cares for and carries a comatose Vorbis through the desert after they are shipwrecked there. When Vorbis regains consciousness just before they reach civilization, he hits Brutha over the head with a rock, tries to murder his God, and then takes credit for saving Brutha. And again at the end of the novel, when they are both dead, Brutha finds him in the desert, paralyzed with doubt. Even Death, who tends to be objective, points out that Vorbis is pure evil. Brutha replies: "But I'm me." and leads him through the afterlife. In Night Watch, Vimes has already set fire to the HQ of the Cable Street Particulars when he remembers that one of them is still inside, strapped to a chair in their own Torture Cellar. Vimes runs back in, deciding to at least give the man a chance to escape. He's already dead, and Vimes ends up in a swordfight with his boss. |
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In Guilded Age, when the Peacemakers find two of the World's Rebellion's champions fighting the beast the cultists let into the world, they soon decide that not only is it too dangerous to let the monster get stronger by consuming more people, they can't stand by and let these people die like that. | |
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In Incredibles 2, during the climax, Helen saves the Big Bad from a fatal fall from a plane by acting as a parachute. Helen persists even as said Big Bad is still fighting her and trying to thwart Helen's rescue attempt. | |
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In All Mixed Up!, Oprah decides to resurrect Mariana Mag and turn her back to normal from her personalized anagrammed object form — a small maroon rug with designs of four figs and a design of a pitcher of lemonade on it — after her defeat at the hands of Otto, instead of simply destroying her Anagram-inator and leaving her in that form forever. Oprah's reasoning for this is due to a Heel Realization that she was in the wrong and Mariana, known as Maggie following her resurrection, was in the right when Maggie was an agent of Odd Squad. | |
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My Hero Academia: Unchained Predator: Izuku and Iida plead for the Slayer to not brutally execute Shigaraki after the Slayer ripped off one of his arms and beat him half to death with it. This fails because the Slayer still intended to butcher Shigaraki had Dabi not taken Ochako hostage. | |
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Not quite a villain, but during the attack on the parade in The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World, all the Angels there are paralyzed because they have conflicting imperatives—they must attack Animals and they must heal hurt people, and if they're outnumbered by both sets of people, they simply freeze in place. John, who loathes Angels and blames them for his massive attack of claustrophobia that ruined the four's Cloud Horn Plan A, nevertheless ends up protecting a couple of them from some Animals. He gets nothing out of it but some praise from Quill, his Circle companion. | |
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Relativity starts In Medias Res (sort of) with Black Torrent rescuing a villain whose plans had gone awry. In a later story they don't so much save the villain directly as escape from his deathtrap (which he's trapped in as well) and invite him along: | |
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There's a version in the Beka Cooper book Bloodhound; having finally caught, outfought, and subdued the Big Bad in a flooding sewer, our protagonists have to keep her from drowning and later have her healed of her injuries, despite the fact that open wounds that then got tainted with sewage are extremely difficult to treat. However, this is not a second chance: they want her put properly on trial for her crimes so she can be executed in good time. | |
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In Wicked, Elphaba spends quite a lot of time trying to save her increasingly unstable sister Nessarose, despite the fact that said sister has always hated Elphaba. Madame Morrible eventually takes advantage of her protectiveness of Nessarose by murdering the latter with Dorothy's falling house to bring Elphaba out of hiding. In "No Good Deed", after her sister's brutal death, Elphaba realizes how pointless her attempts to save her have been. | |
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The Order of the Stick: Seen in strip #68. Elan has some internal conflict about saving his evil twin, Nale, but ultimately does it because, as he says in the next strip, "I'm the Good twin, not the Neutral twin." Subverted much later, in a Call-Back to the above scene, when his father invokes this trope to get his son to pull him up. Elan explains quickly that he has several Genre Savvy reasons why he isn't going to this time: he cites his previous explanation but notes that he isn't a "twin" anymore (since Tarquin had just murdered Nale), his dad isn't even the real main villain (so the trope isn't required by narrative convention), and Elan knows that his dad is strong enough to survive the fall anyway. |
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Utterly subverted in Sam & Fuzzy, when Mr. Blank ends up dangling from the edge of a skyscraper after a last-ditch attempt to kill Sam, and states openly that he knows that Sam hasn't got it in him to let him fall to his death. Sam replies that he is utterly correct... And then stands aside and lets Fuzzy punt him off instead, stating that "but I bet he's ok with it". | |
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In Luann, Brad is menaced by Dirk, his new girlfriend Toni's ex-boyfriend. At one point, he tries to run Brad off the road, resulting in Dirk himself being involved in a serious accident. Brad uses his EMT training to save Dirk's life, but Dirk's attitude towards him does not change. | |
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Turnabout Storm: The antagonist confesses to the crime, creating a straightforward road for Phoenix to get a Not Guilty verdict. But he feels something's not right about the confession, and following his Crusading Lawyer ideals, he stops the Not Guilty verdict in order to further question her and uncover the truth: That she is also completely innocent of the murder. | |
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In Pedestal, the narrator tries to pull one of these on Nick as he's falling into lava. He doesn't succeed and ends up falling as well until Arceus shows up. | |
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The Stormlight Archive: The Third Ideal of the Windrunners is "I will protect even those that I hate, if it is right." It doesn't go quite as far as saving actual villains; the point is that just because a Windrunner personally dislikes someone doesn't mean that person deserves to die—or even deserves not to be saved. | |
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PAW Patrol: The Movie sees Ryder having to rescue recurring villain Mayor Humdinger again...but this time, Ryder drops his professional front a little and lets him freefall down the elevator shaft (he's still okay when he hits the bottom). Ryder comments how satisfying it is to be able to do that after all the trouble he's caused throughout the series. | |
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At the end of Big Hero 6, after Hiro and Baymax foil Yokai/Callaghan's evil plot to get revenge on Krei for seemingly killing his daughter, by using Yokai's portal to destroy his microbots, after Callaghan's mask is destroyed, this results in Yokai being about to be sucked into his own portal toward his doom, only for Hiro and Baymax to immediately pull him to safety just to have him be detained by the rest of Big Hero 6 until the police arrive to have him arrested, before flying into the portal to try and save Callaghan's daughter Abagail, but at the risk of Baymax being damaged in the process, and thus being forced to leave him behind. Fortunately, turns out there is a backup plan to create another Baymax... | |
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Zigzagged in Hellsister Trilogy: During "The Apokolips Agenda", Lex Luthor and Dr. Sivana ask Superman and Supergirl to save them from Darkseid. Superman agrees to rescue them as long as they help them out. Sivana believes Superman is bluffing because heroes feel compelled to save everyone, including villains, but Supergirl retorts that, given the stakes, she's willing to leave them to their devices. At the end, Luthor and Sivana agree to cooperate and are rescued. | |
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Misho saves Nova in Keychain of Creation here. Turns out that she wasn't really in danger and she's not really all that much of a villain. It didn't have to come to a fight, anyway. Both parties sort of did that to themselves. |
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Spies in Disguise: In the climax, Walter and Killian are airborne by way of drone when the former finally cracks through the drone's software. Killian points out that activating the kill code would doom both of them and Walter's not a killer. After a few moments of deliberation, Walter agrees, then slaps one of his inflatable hug devices onto Killian to ensure he'll survive, and hits the kill code as he enters a freefall. | |
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Frozen provides an interesting subversion because while Anna sacrifices herself to save Elsa, who struck her in the heart, Elsa is not really evil, and Anna continued to always love Elsa because she was her sister. Furthermore, Anna has Undying Loyalty towards Elsa and refuses to see her as a villain. Anna only saw Elsa as a young woman who was persecuted because of her powers and needed Anna to get over her fears. This Act of True Love also saves Anna from Elsa's curse and leads to Elsa gaining control of her powers and becoming The High Queen. | |
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In Smurfs: The Lost Village, Hefty insists on saving Gargamel and Azrael from drowning after the river chase. Smurfette backs him up despite Brainy's objections and despite her own history with him. Gargamel feigns gratitude at first, only to sweep them all off their raft and steal it. | |
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In the ThunderCats (1985) fanfic Dirges of Discord, Mumm-Ra is captured by an alien race who want to use him as a power source. The Thundercats initially don't want to rescue him, but upon learning that the aliens will have the power to destroy the entire universe if they don't, they set out to do so. | |
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In The Boxtrolls, Eggs tries to stop Snatcher from eating one last bite of cheese that will almost certainly kill him due to his food allergies despite everything Snatcher did to him and his loved ones. He fails. | |
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The Batman novel "Fear Itself" double subverts this when it has Batman try this with The Scarecrow when Batman, the Love Interest of the week, Scarecrow, a henchman, and the body of a guy Scarecrow had just killed are trapped in a burning house. Initially, Batman does leave Scarecrow to die in the mess he created ... But after he rescues the Love Interest and the Henchman, as well as carrying out the dead victim's body, he goes back for Scarecrow. He apparently doesn't succeed, but they Never Found the Body and we all know what kind of record the Bat Rogues have with death. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why we love Batman. | |
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Girl Genius: Gil saves Zola from Tarvek mostly on impulse, walking into a room and seeing someone he doesn't trust beating an old friend to death was a bit much for him even though he knew she was incredibly dangerous. Zola comes back to be a major thorn in Gil's side as the Queen of Dawn. | |
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Invoked by Tyrion in Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane but defied by Beatrice. After he proves she's responsible for her father's death (and therefore prevents her from inheriting his assets), it's revealed she did it because she had signed a Deal with the Devil that obliged her to claim his assets if she didn't want to suffer eternal damnation in the Abyssal Hells. Tyrion tells her that he can try to dispute the contract and save her soul, but she rejects his help. If he fails to render it null, his soul will be dragged to hell alongside hers, and she won't let anyone else die for her sake. | |
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Discord directly invokes this trope in A Hollow in Equestria when Twilight is veering dangerously close towards Despair Event Horizon territory as the belief Ulquiorra has rendered her and her friends obsolete. | |
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At the climax of Angela and Diabola the Evil Twin Diabola tries to push her saintly sister Angela off of the roof of their apartment building, only to fall off herself. Angela, who loves her sister unconditionally, tries to pull her to safety. But Diabola only tries to pull Angela over the edge too, not caring if she dies as long as she takes Angela with her. In her shock and horror at this realization, Angela accidentally lets go of Diabola, who plunges to her Disney Villain Death. | |
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Absolute Trust: due to her own Sanity Slippage brought about by the betrayal of her friends, Fire Lord Ozai deems that Azula was now useless to him and secretly orders Long Feng to kill her so Azula could be turned into a Martyr for the Fire Nation. Team Avatar manages to take the near-dead Azula on their escape from Ba Sing Se as Katara is forced to use the Spirit Water to heal her damaged torso. Following her learning that the Dragons she once loved as a young girl aren't all gone and that Ursa actually cared about her, it convinces Azula to perform her own Heel–Face Turn and joins Team Avatar as their Politics Teacher and as Aang's Co-Firebending Teacher once she learnt the true meaning of Firebending from Ran and Shaw. | |
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Lampshaded in Digger, during the troll bridge story, when Digger saves the at-the-time antagonistic Grim Eyes from falling off said bridge. | |
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Attempted in Tarzan. Tarzan had only meant to incapacitate Clayton, tying him up in vines. Clayton, however, is in an Unstoppable Rage and starts slashing through them...except for the one around his neck. Tarzan sees the problem before Clayton does and tries to warn him: "Clayton! Clayton, don't!" He doesn't listen, plummets downwards, and Tarzan zips after him. Unfortunately, he's not fast enough, and by the time he reaches Clayton, he's already hanged himself. One look at Tarzan's face and you know he really did hope to save him... | |
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In Les Misérables, owing his life twice to Jean Valjean causes a Villanous BSOD in Inspector Javert. His Black-and-White Morality worldview utterly subverted, Javert breaks out into a version of his Villain Song and then takes his own life. | |
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In Darke, Septimus has to rescue his opponent Merrin Meredith after the Dragon Duel. | |
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Woody and Buzz save Lotso in Toy Story 3 from a shredder without hesitation, even though it was Lotso's fault in the first place that any of them was in a life-threatening situation. Lotso doesn't return the favor. | |
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Typically, though, he plays it straight, as seen in Shadows of the Empire, where he outfights a Ridiculously Human Robot with vastly enhanced speed, strength, durability, and combat skills while unarmed and then, when she tells him he won fairly and should kill her, says, | |
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In The Bible, when God tells Abraham that He plans to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham pleads for mercy, and God agrees that He'll spare the cities if His angels can find ten righteous people living there. They can't. | |
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In Origin Story, Alex Harris actually averts this trope several times. She's got plenty of time, for example, to fly Songbird to the hospital in time to keep her from dying, but simply doesn't, allowing Songbird to bleed out. Likewise, she displays a casual disregard about whether or not Reed Richards is going to be permanently injured when she freezes him in place with her super-breath. Mostly this is because she believes that people who attack her or Louise (something both Songbird and Richards did) deserve what comes to them. | |
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BoBoiBoy: The Movie: Papa Zola saves J-Rex; who has been chasing him, Adu Du, and Probe, from falling off a cliff, even though they are also hanging on that cliff. After that, J-Rex becomes Papa Zola's pet. | |
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In the Rainbow Magic series, Rachel and Kirsty have had to save the goblins from being hurt by their own stupidity many times. | |
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Sir Guyon from The Faerie Queene wants to help save the vile Pyrrochles from the furor of Furor. His assistant convinces him it's none of his business, especially since Pyrrochles released Furor onto the world in the first place. | |
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Planet 51 has a climax where the Absolute Xenophobe of a General almost succumbs to the explosion he caused to try and kill Token Human Chuck, until Chuck saves his life, because “We can’t just leave him here�. This causes the General to have a Heel–Face Turn and realise that Chuck is as friendly as his friends on the planet have been saying. | |
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The Lion King II: Simba's Pride. Kiara does this to Zira when she's trying to pull herself up. Kiara offers a paw to Zira to pull her back up, but she swipes at her and falls to her death in the raging flood below. | |
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In True Potential, Naruto ends up saving Dosu (one of the Sound Ninjas working for Orochimaru) from being killed by Gaara during the Chūnin Exams preliminaries. Hayate, Anko, and Han also step in to prevent Gaara from killing Dosu. | |
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El Goonish Shive: Subverted humorously (via Imagine Spot) in this strip. Played straight later when Elliot hesitatingly defends Jerk Jock and school bully Tony from a supernatural attacker despite a great deal of animosity between them. |
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Hope for the Heartless: After the Horned King rescues his escaped prisoner Avalina from the Mad Pack and collapses, she takes him back to his castle to be tended. Even though she wants to be free of him and is aware of how sinful he is, she knows in her heart that she could never willingly leave someone to die and live with it. | |
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In the Doctor Who novel "Engines of War", even though Karlax tried to kill him, when his TARDIS is wrecked by the Daleks the Doctor saves him. Subverted later. After Karlax kills Cinder, the Doctor dematerialises the TARDIS around him, leaving Karlax surrounded by Daleks. He is quickly exterminated. | |
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DC Super Hero Girls: In the Hits and Myths trade paperback when the "Birds of Prey,"—here a band made of Black Canary, Black Condor and Magpie—steal the Batplane, but run out of fuel in mid-air and are about to crash-land onto the farm of Ma and Pa Kent. In Intergalactic Games Wonder Woman saves Lena Luthor from a fiery Disney Death. She doesn't appreciate it, though. |
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Kingdom Hearts: The Antipode: Prior to the climax of The Year Between, a wounded Aqua saves Xemnas's life. Justified due to her seeing a glimmer of Terra within him. | |
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In Mega Man Reawakened, Megaman saves Bass when the latter starts to overload. He tries to save Bubble Man later, but it doesn't work. Megaman later has to save Wily from Quentin Emerald, who repays the favor. |
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In The Fox and the Hound, as Amos Slade and Copper pursue Tod, they get cornered and almost killed by a gigantic bear. Tod, seeing his childhood friend Copper in danger, turns back to fight the bear, also saving Slade from it during the process. | |
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In Dark Life, Ty saves the outlaw Shade from being hanged by angry settlers—despite the fact that he still has broken ribs from his last encounter, AND the fact that the only way to get the settlers to listen was by telling them all his most dangerous secret. In Rip Tide, it's a little different. At the beginning, the Drift surfs are the villains, but by the time he saves them at the end, Ty's realized that they were never actually the bad guys. |
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In The Revenge of Seven, John Smith actively, knowingly, and willingly saves Setrakus Ra's life when his best friend and a few government agents try to shoot him. The shots would have killed Ella instead of Setrakus thanks to Setrakus Ra's twisted version of the Loric charm. | |
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Black Crayons: In My First Decepticon, when Barricade shows up, Annabelle serves as a distraction so that bullyish thug Carl can escape. | |
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In Waterworks, the protagonist, in a fit of rage, almost throws Jose down from a railing, but she has a change of heart at the last moment and saves him. (And at that moment Jose's partner, who has just arrived to save him, kicks her away.) | |
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The goats in Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf will occasionally save the wolves even though they try to eat them. This usually results in the wolves trying to capture the goats anyway. | |
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The Ultimate Evil: Shendu (who's possessing Valmont's body at the time) comes close to drowning at one point, but Valerie Payne dives in and reinvigorates him with an Underwater Kiss, allowing them to reach the surface. She does this because Shendu has saved her life multiple times by this point and she feels that she needs to return the favor. | |
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At the end of the Rise of the Guardians fic Guardian of Light, the main character Helen has Pitch at arrow point with the chance to kill him. She instead chooses to let him live, thus saving him. She also earlier prevented the Guardians from beating the crap out of him. | |
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Roommates: Memoirs of the Hairless Ape: As Nisha turns out to not be the mastermind, but simply a common criminal being manipulated by Jeremy, the gang rescues her from a gruesome demise at the animatronic's hands. She is, to her credit, extremely grateful and remorseful. | |
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During The Eugenics Wars, even knowing full well how dangerous the children of Chrysalis are, Gary Seven draws the line at murder. He'll play them against each other but will not murder them in cold blood. | |
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Warrior Cats: In one of the stories in Code of the Clans, the ShadowClan leader Ripplestar orders his Clan to attack the other four Clans at the Gathering. During the battle, he and the ThunderClan leader, Finchstar, are left on the Great Rock. Ripplestar slips and Finchstar tries to save him despite what Ripplestar had done, but he falls off and dies. | |
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After That Fateful Night: Soon after being captured, Twilight decides she doesn't want anypony to die if she can help it and tries to keep Nightmare Moon alive, tending to her injuries and shielding her from assassins. | |
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In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, Bob has shown kindness to Dean Martin (who grew Golly in his lab), Golly herself, and Big Bad Fructose Riboflavin. Very nearly killed himself saving Slick Simmons's life, after the latter had spent half the story arc trying to kill him. |
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Elements of Justice: The defendant of a murder case Coco Pommel regains her memory and realizes that another suspected witness, Suri Polomare, cannot have committed the murder, so she interrupts the final verdict to testify in Suri's favor. Defense attorney Phoenix Wright (along with everyone else in the courtroom) is shocked but ultimately decides to defend both. | |
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Bounders: During the Youli's attack on the Gulagan space dock in The Tundra Trials, Regis tries to cross a bridge that collapses, leaving him stranded on a support column. Jasper and Mira fly over with their blast packs to save him, spending precious seconds that cause them to miss the Space Elevator, meaning they're still on the space dock when the elevator shaft is destroyed. | |
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Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox: The movie starts with Reverse-Flash convincing The Flash's entire Rogues Gallery to form a Legion of Doom, then planting bombs on them to annihilate Flash along with the entire city. The rest of the Justice League shows up, and Captain Atom offers to simply disintegrate the bombs but Wonder Woman refuses to let him kill the rogues in the process, and the League risks their own lives to save them after carrying them to a safe distance. Justified in that most of the Flash's enemies are Ineffectual Sympathetic Villains rather than psychotic mass murderers like Batman's rogues. In the Bad Future, Harley Quinn's Alternate Timeline counterpart Yo-Yo is thrown off a building by Thomas Wayne but is saved by the Wide-Eyed Idealist Cyborg. |
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In Small Gods, Brutha cares for and carries a comatose Vorbis through the desert after they are shipwrecked there. When Vorbis regains consciousness just before they reach civilization, he hits Brutha over the head with a rock, tries to murder his God, and then takes credit for saving Brutha. And again at the end of the novel, when they are both dead, Brutha finds him in the desert, paralyzed with doubt. Even Death, who tends to be objective, points out that Vorbis is pure evil. Brutha replies: "But I'm me." and leads him through the afterlife. | |
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Queen of All Oni: During their fight in the Hall of Ice, Jackie saves Hebi from a potential Disney Villain Death by falling into the pit at the center of the chamber, much to her confusion. Though this is an especially justified case since, as Jackie points out, Hebi is really a brainwashed Viper, so her evil isn't her fault. | |
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In My Little Pony: The Movie (2017), Tempest Shadow is betrayed by The Storm King when he refuses to repair her horn, even after she keeps her end of their deal and gives him the magic of all four alicorn princesses. Tempest ends up clinging on to the railing of the balcony and is almost sucked into the hurricane created by The Storm King, but Twilight grabs her and pulls her to safety, prompting a Heel–Face Turn from her. | |
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Discussed in a Babylon 5 novel, when John Sheridan, the newly appointed head of Rangers, gives a speech to the new recruits. He stresses that Rangers dedicate themselves to saving life, all life, even Shadows', in that they'll fight them as necessary, but they will keep looking to a peaceful resolution of the conflict, so if some of the recruits came looking for a chance at revenge or a Guilt-Free Extermination War, understandable as it may be, they're better off looking for another outfit. | |
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In Funeral for a Flash, Wally West must save the Weather Wizard, who has been kidnapped by someone who is willing to kill him if he doesn't give up his secrets of weather control. | |
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