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Shoot the Dog

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Shoot the Dog	comment	When a character does an ambiguously (a)moral act because current circumstances make it the most pragmatic and logical thing to do. If The Hero performs the job himself, he may even go so far as to hide it from the rest of the cast (possibly with serious repercussions later) due to the risk of compromising his moral standards, or they might say What the Hell, Hero? to which he might reply I Did What I Had to Do. Otherwise, the Anti-Hero or The Lancer, whose reputations won't be hurt as severely for the deed, take up the task so that the hero doesn't have to. May demonstrate What You Are in the Dark, and is a major reason why Being Good Sucks. If one Shoots the Dog too often, one runs the risk of becoming a Knight Templar or Psycho Supporter. Alternatively, a Psycho Sidekick, popular in hard-boiled crime fiction since the 1980s or so, is a character whom the author approves of whose main purpose is to Shoot the Dog whenever necessary. The Spock is also likely to suggest Shooting the Dog and is the personification of this trope. Depending on the slant of the series, he will also be the one to carry out the shooting, or the characters will Take a Third Option at the last minute. If the author doesn't want to compromise his heroes' goodness, he'll have the Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work. One common way to show the emotional pain this causes is by showing the shooter cradling their kill. This trope is named after the climactic scene of Old Yeller, where the protagonist shoots the "ol' yeller dog" he has come to love to spare him a miserable death from rabies. For a diametric opposition that makes you cheer for the hero's senselessness, see Honor Before Reason. For extra anguish, make it a Senseless Sacrifice because the 'dog' is shot at a point when he's no longer a threat. (And never underestimate the power of Fridge Logic to turn an act from 'necessary' to 'but why??') Note that this trope is not Kick the Dog But More So (the closest thing to that would be Moral Event Horizon); kicking the dog is the villain being evil just to show the audience how evil he is. Shooting the Dog is an ostensibly good character doing something that is necessary but morally grey — such as putting down the old family pet. (Past Experience Nightmares are far more likely after shooting the dog than after kicking it.) Senseless shooting of a dog would actually fall under Kick the Dog or Moral Event Horizon. And it also has nothing to do with the desire every 8-bit gamer ever has had to shoot the Duck Hunt dog. This may or may not be confused with Don't Shoot The Puppy, but do not confuse with Shoot the Shaggy Dog, which is a particular form of Downer Ending. Compare/contrast with Jumping Off the Slippery Slope, Light Is Not Good, Omniscient Morality License, Well-Intentioned Extremist, Knight Templar, The Unfettered, Revolting Rescue, Cruel to Be Kind and Pragmatic Hero. If the act is presented as outright wrong (instead of hard but just) it may fall under Designated Evil. When a villain does the deed so the hero won't have to, it's Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work.
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Shoot the Dog / int_11c2ec2c	comment	Fallen King has Joey throwing Ryou Bakura off the helicopter to his death.
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Shoot the Dog / int_12300cc3	comment	Watchmen: Ozymandias's plan is a nuke the dog. Then later he has to disintegrate his beloved pet, a genetically engineered lynx, in an attempt to destroy Dr. Manhattan.
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Shoot the Dog / int_12557dc4	comment	Code Geass: Paladins of Voltron: C.C. has no problems with doing this, as she was perfectly willing to kill Viletta when the latter saw Shirley's face.
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Shoot the Dog / int_1543f8a	comment	Doing morally questionable things like sacrificing others' lives for the team's sake is a recurring theme in Zero Time Dilemma's Decision Game, but a major one occurs in the "Outbreak" fragment, where Phi has been infected with Radical-6 and begs Diana to kill and burn her before the virus spreads across the globe. The trope is defied here, with horrible consequences: 6 billion people die.
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Shoot the Dog / int_154faf86	comment	Towards the end of Act Five of Homestuck, Vriska is about to leave the trolls' hiding place to try to confront Jack Noir. However, Terezi, who has the power to predict the consequences of decisions, has foreseen that if Vriska leaves, Jack will follow her trail back and kill everyone remaining on the asteroid. Vriska refuses to listen, guessing that Terezi won't have the guts to stop her. She guessed wrong. Later, Aranea drops a house on Jade, who really is part dog, due to said dog being under villainous mind-control that would only be continuously reapplied if she were to live.
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Shoot the Dog / int_17293dfa	comment	Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony has a similar situation with Gonta, who was manipulated by Kokichi into commuting the murder and lost his memories of it. You must prove this and condemn him to die, despite the desperate protests of nearly everyone else, except for Kokichi who just mocks you for it, knowing that you can't touch him because he didn't do the deed himself. This is often considered to be a Moral Event Horizon for Kokichi who set it all up in the first place.
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Shoot the Dog / int_19ed47db	comment	The Question gets in on the act in "Question Authority." He struggles for months about how to prevent the events that led, in an Alternate Universe, to the Justice League becoming fascist rulers of the world—events that centered around Superman murdering Lex Luthor (then came to this universe, imprisoned the League, and impersonated them to take over that world as well). Question's solution: go kill Lex himself (using his tie). After all, Supes is the ultimate good guy, and Question's a confirmed loony conspiracy nut. (Unfortunately, the real conspiracy Question uncovered in the process of confronting Lex was a bit more than he could handle.)
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Shoot the Dog / int_1b489fda	comment	One of the key factors that makes the Aftermath of the Games universe an AU is that Princess Twilight wasn't able to talk Starlight Glimmer down like she was able to do in canon. So she was forced to defeat her by retgoning the original by adopting her younger self from her Orphanage of Fear and taking her to the future. It's made perfectly clear that this really was the only choice Twilight had. Despite this, and her friends, brother, and fellow princesses assuring her that her decision was necessary to save Equestria, she's massively haunted by it. Especially since she thinks the Original Starlight set up her time traveling scheme as a Suicide by Cop gambit, not to mention how Twilight's fully aware of the possible consequences of rewriting part of the timeline. Integration has Celestia telling Twilight's friends that part of helping her rule will sometimes require making difficult decisions with harsh consequences. When they all show fear of doing this, Luna tells them that that's actually good, because hating the responsibility means not only will they'll be able to handle it better than most ponies, they'll truly manage to keep any decisions like that to an absolutely last resort.
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Shoot the Dog / int_1b7fda65	comment	Miracleman: In Alan Moore's run, the titular character executes the innocent Johnny Bates to permanently prevent his evil alter-ego Kid Miracleman from resurfacing. Subverted in that Miracleman had already thrown a bus full of people at Bates/Miracleman without a second thought. The caption implies he did so while with at least partial awareness of the innocent deaths that would cause. It didn't hurt Bates anyway. Which Miracleman may have known. Miracleman also kills Gargunza's dog to stop it from turning back into a monster. With a rock.
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Shoot the Dog / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: During The Dark Phoenix Saga, at the end everyone acknowledges that with Jean's level of power, killing her probably is the most sensible decision, monstrous though it is. They just can't bring themselves to do it. In the end, Jean does it herself. Then later retcons reveal it wasn't Jean, just the Phoenix Force imitating Jean.
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Shoot the Dog / int_1c334568	comment	The Walking Dead: One of the children in the group, Ben, kills and cuts apart his twin sibling. This prompts an eight-year-old Carl Grimes, son of the protagonist, to shoot Ben, because he was "too dangerous" and his father Wouldn't Hurt a Child.
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Shoot the Dog / int_1dbbf4d0	comment	Shawn Michaels and Vince McMahon's actions in the Montreal Screwjob. Vince and Shawn really did screw Bret Hart out of the WWF Championship, out of Vince's fear that Bret would appear on rival promotion WCW with the title, since Hart was about to leave the WWF and go work for WCW. Something similar had happened before where then-WWF Women's Champion Alundra Blaze dumped the Women's Championship belt into a garbage can on WCW's flagship program, WCW Monday Nitro, and Vince didn't want the same thing to happen again. Hart refused to drop the title to Michaels, since the two had bad blood. Finally, at Survivor Series in 1997, as Michaels put Hart into Hart's own submission move, Vince called for the bell, costing Hart the match. Whether or not the real-life screwjob was justified or not is still a contentious issue among wrestling fans, even today.
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Shoot the Dog / int_1ea03c87	comment	In the Deliver Us from Evil Series, Smith kills his step-nephew (who was a nice guy) out of a desire for his brother's estate, infects Davey Wiggins and tortures Holmes for the heck of it. Luckily for Holmes, Watson kills Smith when he tortures Holmes with an inch of his life and gloats over the guy while he's dying. That proves that messing with a detective is not a smart or survivable idea in this fic.
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Shoot the Dog / int_20c8a091	comment	Happens a lot in Shadow Unit; one instance involved an actual dog, which (hidden for squick) a gamma nicknamed "Mrs. Chow" had started eating. Alive. From the middle.
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Shoot the Dog / int_267cbfa	comment	In Dominic Deegan, Rilian the First Necromancer has taken the role of Dog Shooter several times, and is always ready to do so again. Rilian has killed Acibek on Acibek's request to seal the Storm of Souls the first time. He later killed the first Sylvan Oracle to deal with the Storm a second time. He's also let the Deegan's worst enemy threaten Dominic and his brothers as children, because he knew their mother would kill her to protect them. Later yet, he arranged for a "test" of Dominic and Luna, to see if Dominic was ready to Mindbreak; since Mindbreak is essentially a psychic Superpower Meltdown, it is a very bad thing. If Dominic failed any of the tests, Rilian was ready to kill him. Rilian noted once that his role requires him to be cold. Immediately afterwards, it was revealed that Rilian was able to be his old jolly self around Dominic during the test, making the whole scene a rare case of Petting The Dog while holding a gun behind your back. In a twist, while unaware of Rilian's plan, Dominic did check his future if he didn't go on the trip — definite Mindbreak and the mass murder of anyone within range — which, given Dominic is one of the more powerful psychics in his universe, is pretty darned big.
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Shoot the Dog / int_282d4f6d	comment	In 2008, Batista confronted Shawn Michaels for doing this to Ric Flair and ending his career. Old Yeller was referenced leading up to the friendly match at WrestleMania 24, but — as was referenced in the color commentary for the match itself — it was rabies, not age, that forced the main character to kill the dog. Still, the match was presented as Shawn knowing full well that Flair was too old to wrestle any more and that he was going to lose to someone soon — all Michaels could do was fulfill his friend's wishes and be the one to end his career. It's implied that Batista was jealous, because Flair asked Michaels and not him.
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Shoot the Dog / int_2949a787	comment	Zombie Ranch: The Wild Zones are populated with "practical sorts" who either lived through the Zombie Apocalypse or grew up knowing that zed bites are best dealt with quickly and with a minimum of fuss. The law's even on your side, as discussed here.
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Shoot the Dog / int_2d316bc0	comment	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012): Parodied in an episode of Leonardo's favorite sci-fi show one character gets taken over by a Puppeteer Parasite and another character instantly decides they should kill him, doing so without a second thought. Later played straight in Splinter's fight with the Rat King, Victor Falco. Splinter tricks the Rat King into a hopeless battle until the King falls off a cliff to his demise. As the King was an amoral monster that had mind-raped Splinter multiple times and directed him to murder his own sons, Splinter loses no sleep over it. Splinter advocates this as part of his Combat Pragmatist nature: he's perfectly fine with showing mercy but he is also not soft.
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Shoot the Dog / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	Happens several times in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited. These unpleasant-but-necessary duties seem to fall on Shayera "Hawkgirl" Hol's shoulders quite frequently: In "The Savage Time", in the middle of a retreat, Green Lantern tells Hawkgirl to leave him behind so she can carry wounded soldiers out in his place. She does so without argument. In "Starcrossed", she helps the Thanagarian invasion force defeat the League and conquer the Earth, because she believed the occupation of Earth was necessary to defeat the Gordanians, which was in the best interests of both her home planet Thanagar and Earth. (Though she draws the line at destroying Earth to save Thanagar, and she turns on her brethren upon discovering that they intend to do exactly that.) In "Wake the Dead" Solomon Grundy gets reanimated through Chaos Magic as a raging, mindless zombie, and the only merciful option is to kill him (again): In "Epilogue", Shayera reached for the weapon designed to kill Ace, but Batman insisted on taking it himself to insure that things were done his way. The Question gets in on the act in "Question Authority." He struggles for months about how to prevent the events that led, in an Alternate Universe, to the Justice League becoming fascist rulers of the world—events that centered around Superman murdering Lex Luthor (then came to this universe, imprisoned the League, and impersonated them to take over that world as well). Question's solution: go kill Lex himself (using his tie). After all, Supes is the ultimate good guy, and Question's a confirmed loony conspiracy nut. (Unfortunately, the real conspiracy Question uncovered in the process of confronting Lex was a bit more than he could handle.) In "A Better World", the show opens with Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman storming the White House to put a stop to President Luthor's current plan to start a nuclear war. Luthor takes the time to gleefully gloat to Superman that sure, they stop him now, but the dance will just repeat itself because Superman can't bring himself to end it by killing Lex once and for all. Realizing that he's right, Supes takes that step and fries Luthor with his heat vision. It turns out that this moment is the Start of Darkness for the Justice Lords, the previously-mentioned evil alternates.
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Shoot the Dog / int_2e833eb	comment	Fallout: Equestria: Calamity is not shy about shooting anything threatening, even if it's morally ambiguous to do so. When the group sees a raider colt who hadn't even gotten his cutie mark yet, Littlepip and Velvet Remedy can't bring themselves to shoot, but Calamity kills him without hesitation. As he points out, the colt was currently participating in the rape and murder of an innocent pony; the fact that such a young pony was involved is a tragedy, but he makes no apologies for killing a raider.
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Shoot the Dog / int_30065ab	comment	In the Cuphead fan comic from DeviantArt, "Cagney Is a Carnation" by fuyuflowga, Cagney Carnation has to become Necessarily Evil in order to get the sibling protagonists Cuphead and Mugman to battle him out for the Soul Contract, knowing that he'll at least be free from servitude to the Devil if he gets killed. During the battle, on discovering that Mugman must be so important to Cuphead, Cagney reaches a terrible, reluctant decision: he has to kill Mugman with his bare, thorny vines in an effort to spur his brother to avenge him and destroy Cagney for the contract. Needless to say, the ploy works (and the result just isn't pretty), although both Mugman and Cagney get better after a hard battle.
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Shoot the Dog / int_30b255fb	comment	Supergirl: In the fourth issue of Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade, Streaky the Supercat appears to be de-stabilizing a reactor core to blow the school up, so Lena decides to shoot him. However Supergirl stops her.
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Shoot the Dog / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman Vol. 2: In Sacrifice, Wonder Woman snapped Maxwell Lord's neck, in order to break his mind control over Superman. The latter wasn't too happy when he found out.
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Shoot the Dog / int_392473f6	comment	In Jewel of Darkness, Falcon convinces the Endless Council to send an assassin after Midnight in order to prevent Trigon from using her as his portal. The justification he gives is that as she's evil, she's more easily corruptible than other versions of Raven, which means that there's a greater chance she won't defeat Trigon, allowing him to conquer that universe, and later the whole multiverse. He presents this as the Lesser of Two Evils.
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Shoot the Dog / int_3dc754a7	comment	In the Tamers Forever Series, we have Takeru's plan to allow Takato to die in order to prevent Daemon from acquiring the power of God.
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Shoot the Dog / int_4c2f51af	comment	Beast Wars: Uprising: The comic is an extended deconstruction of this. In the Grey-and-Gray Morality of the Grand Uprising, many factions and characters are willing to Shoot The Dog if victory depends on it... a fact that does nothing but make the conflict even worse, as it pushes everybody else into increasingly extreme acts out of fear and desperation. Most notably, Lio Convoy's near-constant and ruthless dog-shooting not only leaves him overwrought with crippling guilt, but also pushes the Builders into unleashing the Vehicon plague, which quickly spirals out of control and threatens to destroy the entire planet. It's also clear that many of the crimes committed for the supposed "greater good" are actually done out of incompetence or self-gratification rather than intelligent pragmatism. In the end, the real heroes who save Cybertron end up being people like the Ex-Bots or Hot Rod, who refused to let the war corrupt them and did everything they could to find a better way. The Distant Finale shows that most of the dog-shooters get remembered as little more than idiots and bastards who almost got everyone killed.
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Shoot the Dog / int_4c363bcc	comment	Sentinels of the Multiverse: Parse is the most likely to put an arrow into someone's body. Her introduction to the world of Sentinel Comics was her stepping in and putting an arrow through the head of Serial Killer Spite, and Highbrow's villain origin involved Parse killing a different supervillain and her mutant brain was created in the aftereffects.
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Shoot the Dog / int_4eac6d8a	comment	Ultimate X-Men (2001): An unfortunate teenager wakes up one morning and discovers that he's a mutant whose sole ability is to emit an "Instant Death" Radius of a few hundred feet that kills every living thing around him. By the time he realizes what's happening, he has unwittingly killed his entire town including his family and friends. Frightened out of his mind, he hides in a nearby cave. Then Wolverine, who is able to survive thanks to his Healing Factor, appears. He gives the kid a beer and tells him what happened. In the end, to keep the kid from accidentally hurting anyone else and to keep his existence a secret (since news of a mutant with that kind of power would destroy any chance of peace between mutants and humans), Wolverine kills him. By that point it's almost a Mercy Kill since the kid can't live with being responsible for so much death.
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Shoot the Dog / int_53dc3731	comment	Atomic Robo: At the climax of Atomic Robo and the Vengeful Dead, Robo's right-hand man Jenkins is infected by the parallel universe vampires, and ALAN reluctantly Mercy Kills him at his own insistence. While Robo refuses to hold it against ALAN, saying that he probably saved everyone there, including Robo himself, from what Jenkins could do if fully turned, ALAN takes it pretty badly.
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Shoot the Dog / int_553051f	comment	In "The Savage Time", in the middle of a retreat, Green Lantern tells Hawkgirl to leave him behind so she can carry wounded soldiers out in his place. She does so without argument.
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Shoot the Dog / int_5755b96a	comment	In The Order of the Stick, Lord Kubota surrenders to avoid being killed, and once captured, proceeds to outline his plan to escape justice by manipulating the upcoming trial to an enraged Elan, who can't do anything about it. Vaarsuvius, however, overhears, and takes measures to eliminate the obviously still dangerous threat because Elan can't. The next strip subverts it, though — Vaarsuvius had no idea who Kubota was, and had only overheard the "trial" portion, concluding that indulging in such a thing would do nothing but waste valuable time and making this more of a Kick the Dog moment for V.
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Shoot the Dog / int_5b344855	comment	Wolverine: As Wolverine puts it so often, he's the best there is at what does, and what he does... isn't very nice. Often Logan will take it upon himself to do whatever no-one else on the team is able to bring themselves to do, such as disposing of a guard blocking them from getting to a vital area. Subverted in ''Wolverine (1988)' #47. The killer's wacked-out behaviour causes Logan to associate him with a rabid dog, which for some reason makes Logan unable to kill him, shown as flashbacks to him being unable to put down a rabid pet dog when he was young. After Logan retracts his claws, the killer is shot dead by a female police officer. In talking with her, Logan reveals at the end of the issue that Silver Fox took the gun from him and shot the dog herself. Wolverine was recruited into the New Avengers specifically so that they'd have someone willing to shoot the dog on the team. With Captain America, Spider-Man, Luke Cage, and Iron Man on the team at the time, the argument was that they needed a dog-shooter for those situations when a hard moral choice might be necessary.
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Shoot the Dog / int_5c897f4a	comment	Schlock Mercenary: There was debate among the fandom about whether Petey's making the Tricameral Assembly into an object lesson in the necessity of a healthy defense budget in the Teraport age by vaporizing them from orbit was a Shoot the Dog moment or falling through the Moral Event Horizon... However, the revelation that the "vaporizing" was just a show to scare the other governments into compliance, and that he'd merely teleported them away to draft them into his attempt to save the Andromeda Galaxy — and the universe in general — from hostile Dark Matter aliens made it pretty clear it's the former. Petey has a bit of a habit of this. During the "A Function of Firepower" arc, those dark matter entities create a micro-supernova in the Xuvoth system, home to a world with a population of three hundred billion. Petey immediately uses precision targeting to take out every single teraport denial system in the system, then deploys a device that had been referred to as a "soulgig" and teleports the brains of the people out - essentially killing them in order to ensure that there is something to revive them from later. A failed version is the reason Kaff Tagon and his father Karl hate each other. Kaff's girlfriend was a mule for a nanite attack, and had infected Kaff's mother. Karl grabbed them both and ordered Kaff to throw an incendiary at all three of them before the nanites could spread and kill everyone else in the room. Kaff hesitated to kill his parents, so Karl had to grab one of his own grenades, but that gave the mule a chance to wriggle free and sprew nanites across the room, killing everyone except Kaff and Karl (who had their helmets up). Flinders points out that this was all Karl's fault: He could have pulled out an incendiary grenade before grabbing them, blowing up the whole mess in one go, but he couldn't bring himself to kill his wife so he asked his son to do it instead, then blamed him when he couldn't.
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Shoot the Dog / int_5d7f0a07	comment	Turnabout Storm: Phoenix, in order to save Rainbow Dash from a guilty verdict by extending the trial one day to get more time to investigate, places suspicion of the murder over Fluttershy. To make matters worse, he gets berated constantly as he's doing this, and given the circumstances, he can't explain to them neither his reasoning behind this nor how much he hates himself for it.
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Shoot the Dog / int_60a7a86d	comment	Shade, the Changing Man: Shade is forced to kill an enemy that can't be reasoned with or contained.
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Shoot the Dog / int_63495904	comment	In Yu-Gi-Oh! East Academy, Marcus orders his partner to read the mind of a helpless cultist then execute him. Naturally, this horrifies the other members.
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Shoot the Dog / int_6e3e0cd1	comment	Night of the Shy: After Fluttershy is possessed by the Big Bad, Nightmare, the rest of the Mane Cast reluctantly discuss the possibility that if all else fails, they may have to kill Fluttershy in order to defeat Nightmare. Princess Luna actually attempts to do so during the Battle of Ponyville but is Out-Gambitted before she can strike the killing blow and is killed herself.
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Shoot the Dog / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: Avatars Kyoshi and Yangchen (and probably others, but notably not Aang) believe this to be part of the duty of the Avatar. Word of God has it that only Kyoshi was actively advocating that Aang kill the Fire Lord. Yangchen's advice ("be prepared to sacrifice your spiritual needs") is ambiguous, as Yangchen was not necessarily stating that killing Ozai was the best option; she was only telling Aang that, if a better option didn't present itself, killing Ozai was a very viable option, and not something to be dismissed out of hand because Aang was feeling squeamish. For her part Kyoshi takes responsibility for the death of a conqueror during her time as the Avatar, who fell off of a cliff after Kyoshi separated her home from the main continent. When Aang consults her in later episodes, he claims that she was not responsible for his death as he was killed by a freak accident when the rocks he was standing on fell away. Kyoshi refuses to recognize the distinction, and adds that she would have killed him had it come down to that. Sokka also has a tendency to this. At one point, he immediately leaps on a (somewhat poor) village's asking how they can be repaid despite Katara's Keep the Reward attitude, pointing out that trips across the world are expensive. He also goes back on a promise made to a powerful spirit who is disgusted by human belligerence (made on his behalf by Aang, no less) in order to discover information necessary for forming a strategy to defeat the Fire Nation. Notably, when Aang hesitates to "kill" a training dummy of the Fire Lord and asks how he can be expected to kill another human being, Sokka coldly lops the training dummy's head off with his sword and replies, "like that." Sokka acts as the team's Plucky Comic Relief so much that it's easy to forget that he's also the prince of a warrior tribe and has trained in warfare his entire life.
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Shoot the Dog / int_73383fee	comment	Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc has a non-player version when Kyoko is forced to let Makoto take the blame for the fifth murder case in order to avoid a trap laid by the mastermind, leading the mastermind to attempt to execute Makoto in Kyokoâ€™s place. Luckily Alter Ego hacks the machine and saves Makoto.
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Shoot the Dog / int_7832b74c	comment	In Steven Universe, Rose Quartz had to do this a couple of times during the Gem War. She betrayed Bismuth and covered up what happened, as the alternatives were letting Bismuth genocide the Diamonds and their allies or telling her army the truth and sowing discord at the worst time possible. She also may have murdered Pink Diamond to save Earth, though recent revelations have called into question whether she was actually responsible; she certainly took credit for it though. Steven's view of his mother is badly damaged by learning of all this, as he wonders if her quasi-Death by Childbirth was just a way to escape the consequences of her actions. In reality she actually was one of the Diamonds. And she defected from the Gem Empire by faking her own death under the belief that the other diamonds didn't care enough about her and falling in love with the earth.
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Shoot the Dog / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: Jason Todd thought he was doing this for Batman and Nightwing back when he was more Anti-Hero than Anti-Villain. Then he went really dark.
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Shoot the Dog / int_810d4160	comment	Exiles: In the second storyline, the team are assigned the job of killing the Phoenix. They initially think this is no problem because, hey, it's just the Phoenix Force replacing Jean, right? Wrong. They're informed that in this reality, it's just Jean. Suddenly, everyone but Blink (who has less emotional connection to her reality's Jean) gets cold feet. Then the Tallus shows them what will happen if they don't. However, even with this knowledge, they still find it hard, and as a result half that reality's X-Men die. Funnily enough, the next storyline introduces their shadowy counterpart team, Weapon X, whose job is to do the more unsettling parts of fixing reality (and even they sometimes have complaints about what they do).
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Shoot the Dog / int_813b324e	comment	The opening of asdfmovie 9:
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Shoot the Dog / int_81b7a44	comment	Bloodquest: In the Warhammer 40,000 comic, Cloten and Lysander are forced to gun down civilians while masquerading as renegade marines, or they would risk blowing their cover. They are utterly disgusted by what they have done, but given that a Chaos invasion was under way and if they just left the civilians to actual Chaos Marines to find them and the horrible things they would put them through, it was just better to kill them as mercifully as possible.
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Shoot the Dog / int_85a5a3b9	comment	In the season 2 finale of Transformers: Prime, Optimus Prime destroys the Omega Lock — thus ruining any chance of restoring Cybertron — in order to prevent Megatron from using it to terraform Earth and wiping out humanity in the process.
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Shoot the Dog / int_86c3beca	comment	Baron Wulfenbach in Girl Genius apparently has to do this a lot. At one point the heroine has to be talked into leaving a situation for him to deal with because they know he'll do it. (The fact that as the ruler of most of Europe he's much better equipped to handle it probably factored in as well.)
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Shoot the Dog / int_87e00d8e	comment	In Teen Titans, when Robin becomes Red X to uncover Slade's plans.
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Shoot the Dog / int_88aef33b	comment	Invincible: Invincible once killed future Immortal, who turned into a dictator and was begging him to do it.
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Shoot the Dog / int_89c5d699	comment	In Philoctetes, after spending ten years away from home caught in a war with heavy casualties, it's reasonable that if Odysseus knew of a way to end it soon and with Greek victory, he would pursue that course. That course requires bringing a crippled man he had personally wronged and left alone on a Deserted Island for years back to the war front. He is pragmatic in trying this first by deceit and then by force, because the man would never agree, but it's not very flattering for Odysseus.
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Shoot the Dog / int_8bc98505	comment	In All My Sons, this is discussed when Chris is arguing with Ann about why he can't put his father in jail where he deserves to be. "We used to shoot a man who acted like a dog, but honor was real there, you were protecting something," Chris says. In this dog-eat-dog world, however, Chris doesn't see any sense in singling out his father for acting the way everyone else has to, even though "it just happened to kill a few people this time."
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Shoot the Dog / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: In the storyline The Supergirl Saga, Superman is the last living bastion of good in an alternate universe and must pass judgement on three Kryptonian criminals who just went and murdered the entire Earth. As he would reason with the Cleric during the Superman: Exile storyline, they threatened to escape to his Earth and destroy it as well and he felt that trying to try them on his Earth wouldn't even fly, so he is forced to play judge, jury and executioner and kill the trio with Kryptonite. Superman is so distraught by this that it's part of the reasoning for his exile from Earth.
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Shoot the Dog / int_8f25225c	comment	In general, exposing the killer in a Danganronpa case typically feels like this, since the culprit is often a Sympathetic Murderer forced into a Deadly Game like everyone else. If they are exposed they will receive a Cruel and Unusual Death, but if the wrong person is picked everyone else will die instead. Particularly sad examples of this: Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc has a non-player version when Kyoko is forced to let Makoto take the blame for the fifth murder case in order to avoid a trap laid by the mastermind, leading the mastermind to attempt to execute Makoto in Kyokoâ€™s place. Luckily Alter Ego hacks the machine and saves Makoto. Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair has an absolutely heartbreaking moment in Chapter 5, when Chiaki turns out to be the accidental killer and the Future Foundation spy- only she isn't even a spy, just an observer who was on the class's side the whole time. You have to play a few more mini games to convince everyone else that she is the spy, meaning that, in order to survive, you have to actively condemn Hajimeâ€™s Love Interest to death, all while the others beg and plead for you not to. Try not to feel like a bastard afterwards... Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony has a similar situation with Gonta, who was manipulated by Kokichi into commuting the murder and lost his memories of it. You must prove this and condemn him to die, despite the desperate protests of nearly everyone else, except for Kokichi who just mocks you for it, knowing that you can't touch him because he didn't do the deed himself. This is often considered to be a Moral Event Horizon for Kokichi who set it all up in the first place.
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Shoot the Dog / int_914ba844	comment	Later, Aranea drops a house on Jade, who really is part dog, due to said dog being under villainous mind-control that would only be continuously reapplied if she were to live.
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Shoot the Dog / int_948c4c72	comment	Moonshadow: Discussed and Played Straight. The plan the group comes up with to deal with The Collector in chapter 9 is to send them back to their prison with the mirror disc Luz, Amity, Willow, Gus, and Hunter found in the human realm and then destroy it leaving them permanently stuck there. King and Eda voice their concern over the morality of this with Luz eventually coming to the realization that theyâ€™ll be sentencing a child into eternal solitary confinement. Darius in chapter 10 admits to not liking it but not seeing any other solution and having to make these kinds of decisions before.
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Shoot the Dog / int_95e705e1	comment	Diddybob in Mind My Gap finds himself stuck on the mountains with his only son Jona screaming and crying his head off. Nothing he tries to sooth him helps and the cries become too much for him to bear. He's right at the end of his mind until he's interrupted by the man from the mountains. "You've got a gun in that frikkin suitcase no? What are you waiting for? Use it man!"
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Shoot the Dog / int_986e857e	comment	Ben 10: In the episode "Framed," Ben and his Evil Counterpart Kevin 11 are dueling on a bridge, surrounded by an army led by Lieutenant Steele, an Inspector Javert alien hunter, whom Ben just stopped Kevin from killing. After Ben wins and spares Kevin, he ends up dangling from the bridge.
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Shoot the Dog / int_994af351	comment	Teased hard in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney — Justice for All, where Phoenix has to make the Sadistic Choice to either acquit a murderer or let his friend Maya die. While the game mercifully lets you Take a Third Option, it makes the player choose first whether you will violate justice or Shoot the Maya.
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Shoot the Dog / int_9ab32c13	comment	In the Pony POV Series, this is how the Alicorns and Draconnequi justify destroying the G3 world and triggering a Cosmic Retcon. If they hadn't, the errors in that world would have caused it to collapse anyway and destroy everything. At least their way allows the world to start over again; they even state they wouldn't be doing so if they had any other choice. Similarly, this is why, after the universe reboots, Destruction prevents the transition from G2 to G3 by basically nuking the planet at the critical moment. Sure, millions die and pony civilization collapses back into the Dark Ages, but if he hadn't, the Cosmic Retcon would have been rendered pointless. Pandora, the Draconequus of Imagination, had no choice to imprison her child (the entity that would eventually become General-Admiral Makarov) in her box after it went on a rampage and turned the Realm of Legends into its own twisted fairy tale, despite clearly not wanting to. Later on, she has to help Shining feed Makarov to the Blank Wolf to save the entire world, and more or less sees doing so as this trope.
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Shoot the Dog / int_9b713a05	comment	Revolutionary War: In the Marvel UK event, Mephisto has brainwashed the hero Killpower into leading a demonic invasion of Britain for him. In the final issue, his former partner Motormouth manages to re-access his heroic personality, who begs her to kill him before Mephisto reasserts his control. Motormouth refuses, as she's a hero, but Colonel Liger of the Warheads, Major Hauer of the Supersoldiers, and Death's Head I and II point out that they are most certainly not heroes and empty copious amounts of lead into him.
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Shoot the Dog / int_9c9538fd	comment	Subverted in ''Wolverine (1988)' #47. The killer's wacked-out behaviour causes Logan to associate him with a rabid dog, which for some reason makes Logan unable to kill him, shown as flashbacks to him being unable to put down a rabid pet dog when he was young. After Logan retracts his claws, the killer is shot dead by a female police officer. In talking with her, Logan reveals at the end of the issue that Silver Fox took the gun from him and shot the dog herself.
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Shoot the Dog / int_9ebb8e6f	comment	X-Force: In Uncanny X-Force, it is revealed that a resurrected Apocalypse will bring about the Age of Apocalypse. To prevent this, X-Force, an already morally ambiguous team that's entire purpose is to shoot the dog, decides to kill Apocalypse. However, it's revealed that Apocalypse is actually a child, who is still innocent. The team is split, with Angel the most adamant about killing Kid Apocalypse, saying that Kid Apocalypse won't be able to control his nature, and that doing this will save millions of lives. However, he stops himself, and the team decide to take Kid Apocalypse back for training. Then Fantomex shoots him in the head. Later on, Deadpool of all people is the one to call the team out on this, and Wolverine says it was the right thing to do, and that sparing him was just a moment of weakness. Fantomex himself secretly cloned Kid Apocalypse.
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Shoot the Dog / int_9f22267f	comment	Thorgal: The comic has one case of this when Thorgal and Shania end up petitioning one of the gods for the return of Thorgal's wife. Said god lives on a box floating in the middle of a void filled with threads, with each thread representing a single human life. All the god requires to return Thorgal's wife is for Thorgal to take his bow and fire an arrow in any given direction, which will be certain to at some point sever a thread and kill someone. When Thorgal can't bring himself to do it, Shania takes the bow from him and does it instead. The thread she severs turns out to be her own.
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Shoot the Dog / int_a1a2ee98	comment	In Way Back Home, thinking Mana Ahmad is dead, Elle moves to kill Yasid; lest she "sully [her]self" — in body whether or not not in soul, due to feathries' Mark of Shame — Zamil does it instead.
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Shoot the Dog / int_a7c9f8e9	comment	In Legend of the Five Rings, the Scorpion clan's 'hat' is that they exist solely to shoot the necessary dogs. The Scorpion, despite being traitorous bastards, are extremely loyal to the Emperor, and people who are worthy friends. Make sure you are one of those two, and preferably both. A story explaining them: An author asks, in jest, each clan what the most important virtue is. Each clan picks one, and the Scorpions pick loyalty, while the Lions pick honor. The other clans laugh at the Scorpion talking of Loyalty, since they are traitorous bastards. The Scorpion proposes that each Daimyo will call his greatest warrior in, and give him a task. The one whose warrior does not hesitate, loses. The others are suspicious, but he talks them into it, offering to demonstrate the task first. He calls his warrior in, stares at the author, and gives her a look that says, "You know what I am about to do." He then says his command. "Kill me." Without hesitation, the Scorpion Warrior kills his Daimyo, then draws a knife and commits seppuku. Everyone else can only stare in awe.
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Shoot the Dog / int_a7ff651f	comment	Absalom: Absalom and his men sometimes kill kittens to draw out vampires.
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Shoot the Dog / int_a825da3e	comment	This was pretty much Urza's whole hat in the original storyline for Magic: The Gathering. He had several thousand years to prevent a Phyrexian Invasion on his home plane of Dominaria. In the end, he started wars, killed thousands, ruined other planes (particular Rath and Mercadia), betrayed the person who was the closest thing he'd ever had to a son, sacrificed the lives of half a dozen other pre-sundering Planeswalkers, and was himself destroyed. When the smoke cleared, Dominaria was badly damaged, but still standing, while Phyrexia was a ruined husk, its Machine-God destroyed in the process. Pity that it got better a few years down the line. Taken to the most agonizingly literal extreme in the Shadows Over Innistrad block. The archangel Avacyn has been driven insane by Nahiri's cryptoliths, and is killing the very humans she was crafted to protect. And the only one strong enough to stop her is Sorin Markov. For reference, Sorin created Avacyn, and she is probably the only thing in the countless universes he still loves.
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Shoot the Dog / int_ab60e67e	comment	In Origin Story, there is Alex Harris's reluctant murder of Henry Peter Gyrich. Gyrich was going to keep coming after Alex and Louise, and it was inevitable that Louise would eventually get killed, as she already nearly had been during Bullseye's attack. To Alex, removing Gyrich from the equation was the only possible way to keep Louise safe. So she removed him.
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Shoot the Dog / int_ada3973b	comment	Rise of the Galeforces: Violet feeds Ludlow to baby T. rexes. In front of everyone. Though to be fair, Adam did imply several times before that Ludlow thoroughly deserved it.
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Shoot the Dog / int_af6562ac	comment	Ami from Sailor Nothing was a haughty Alpha whom most of the main characters hated, to the point that Shin said she hoped something horrible happened to her. And it does. She's kidnapped by Argon of the Yamiko, who then turns her into a living music box by surgically strapping her into a machine made from human bones and teeth. Ami is kept in place with wires and hooks that are inserted into her face, eyelids, arms, legs, breasts, and her vagina. The worst part is that Ami is still alive, and her mind hasn't been shattered so much as it has been obliterated completely, save for her mad laughter. And Argon purposefully targeted Ami because he knew the Sailors hated her, to make it a point that the so-called soldiers of peace and justice wished for an outright evil fate to befall on Ami.
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Shoot the Dog / int_b4f10112	comment	In Harkovast, Quinn-Tain breaks Brightleaf's neck because he considers after she has already been disarmed and is helpless. He considers this to be essential to serve as a warning to others. This gets a furious reaction from Scatterpod. After she has gone, Quinn-Tain expresses regret, but still considers his actions necessary evils.
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Shoot the Dog / int_b683cf93	comment	Better Angels has this as Shane Walsh's modus operandi, lightly contrasting the "Ricktatorship" that takes place in The Walking Dead show canon.
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Shoot the Dog / int_b9b796cf	comment	In the infamous "Mind of Steel" 'bad' end (#30) in Fate/stay night, having been told that Sakura, the girl he loves, will go insane through mana deprivation and kill people, Shirou decides to follow his father's footsteps by freezing his emotions in order to kill Sakura and (once he learns the true nature of the Grail) coldly win the Grail War—whatever it takes—for the sake of the greater good. As Kotomine says, now that he has turned his mind to steel, he is his father, and his success is guaranteed. Also, killing Saber on the same route. Yes, it avoids a horrific Bad End, but at the time you have no way of knowing that, so choosing that option on your first playthrough without having read a walkthrough has many aspects of this.
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Shoot the Dog / int_bc810180	comment	52: Renee Montoya and The Question are at the wedding of Black Adam and Isis looking for a suicide bomber. When they find the bomber they discover that it is a young girl, just a kid, but they are too far away from her to reach her before she detonates her bomb. Since an explosion in this crowded space would result in hundreds, possibly thousands of deaths Renee realizes she has no choice and shoots the bomber, killing her before she can activate the device. Charlie, and later Black Adam himself, assure her that she had no choice, but Renee is traumatised by the fact that she just killed a little kid.
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Shoot the Dog / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: The Imperium of Man regularly Blows Up The Planet The Dog Was Living On in response to the worst outbreaks of heresy, daemonic incursions, or alien threats. Billions are killed, and the planet is rendered uninhabitable or destroyed, but the alternative is generally much, much worse. To enforce this trope, a special Inquisitorial group scrutinizes every use of Exterminatus: if insufficient justification is found, the person who ordered it is sentenced to immediate execution, or to be killed on sight if they have already fled. (The meme of Exterminatus being performed by the Imperium because someone on a planet sneezes and it sounds vaguely like "Chaos!" is pure Fanon and/or Black Comedy.) The Commissars are justified in shooting their men as maintaining unit cohesiveness for the cost of a few men is preferable to having many more die in the chaos of a general rout.
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Shoot the Dog / int_bcb03d22	comment	Hazbin Hotel: While the angels that actually carry out exterminations of sinners' souls in hell are shown as self-righteous sadists, Sera, who authorised these mass executions, presents it as a hard decision and a necessary evil to safeguard heaven from being invaded by the endless hordes of hell. She also hides the decision from most other angels.
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Shoot the Dog / int_c0540e21	comment	The Powers of Harmony: When Cetus first reveals herself, Luna and Shining Armor try to kill her, despite the fact that she's possessing Rarity. Shining actually points out that everyone else will be upset with them, but Luna views it as a necessary evil.
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Shoot the Dog / int_c34f83b2	comment	Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair has an absolutely heartbreaking moment in Chapter 5, when Chiaki turns out to be the accidental killer and the Future Foundation spy- only she isn't even a spy, just an observer who was on the class's side the whole time. You have to play a few more mini games to convince everyone else that she is the spy, meaning that, in order to survive, you have to actively condemn Hajimeâ€™s Love Interest to death, all while the others beg and plead for you not to. Try not to feel like a bastard afterwards...
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Shoot the Dog / int_c399cd39	comment	One bit of flavour in Eclipse Phase is a message from a Firewall veteran telling you how much of your career will consist of this and how shitty you will feel afterwards. One of the examples given involves a child infected with The Virus, and a handy airlock.
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Shoot the Dog / int_c62995ba	comment	Child of the Storm: Bucky Barnes a.k.a. the Winter Soldier snaps Arthur Weasley's neck in chapter 70 of the first book while still partially under HYDRA's control, on the grounds that Arthur was facing a Fate Worse than Death if captured alive. Of course, while it was a genuine Mercy Kill, one that Arthur thanked him for and held no grudge over post-mortem, his family don't see it the same way. Which, since they don't know that the Winter Soldier is in fact not dead, but actually right under their nose, is a problem just waiting to be exploited in the sequel... Peter Wisdom a.k.a. Regulus Black, Director of MI13, whose willingness to do this is perhaps his defining trait. In the sequel, for instance, he makes it abundantly clear to Thor that he would personally shoot Harry, a fourteen-year-old boy, in the head if he proved to be a mortal threat to Britain — a genuine possibility, considering the fact that Harry's got a fragment of the Phoenix inside him, his body was used to conquer half a continent by the Red Room, and he's already gone Dark Phoenix once — and he thought that it was necessary (though he is aware that it would most likely just make things worse). He'd feel horrifically guilty for doing so, but he'd do it, and accept the retribution that came with it. Doctor Strange is also ruthlessly manipulative, coldly moving people around like chess pieces, and continually calculating the cost-benefit balance of each action in human and superhuman lives via his Time Stone boosted abilities as a Seer. As he puts it: "I do what I must, because the alternative would be worse."
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Shoot the Dog / int_cba3559b	comment	Survival of the Fittest character Adam Dodd was forced to euthanise his friend Marcus Roddy, as he had fallen into a coma. Most of the rest of his group didn't agree with the action, but Adam pointed out that had they left him catatonic, somebody else would have just come along and done the same, or he would have just been eaten by animals or some equally gruesome fate.
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Shoot the Dog / int_d0744832	comment	The Avengers: The Avengers (Jonathan Hickman) revolves around whether or not The Illuminati (a secret group of some the world's most influential heroes, including Iron Man, Mister Fantastic, Black Panther and Namor) are willing to shoot the dog. Shooting the dog, in their case, means potentially destroying an entire alternate version of the planet Earth due to a phenomenon known as "incursions." During an incursion, two universes clash, with their respective Earths being the collision point. If the two Earths collide, the universes are destroyed, so the only way to save both universes is to destroy one of the Earths. For the most part, the Illuminati avoid committing genocide because most of the alternate Earths end up being destroyed by people other than them, with the first case in which they had to choose the destruction of an Earth by themselves having said Earth devoid of life. When the time comes to choose to destroy an inhabited world, everyone but Namor decides it's not worth it, so he destroys the Earth himself, prompting the rest of the Illuminati to kick him out. Then, Namor assembles a group of villainous monsters to destroy the ensuing colliding Earths until the final incursion between the last two universes.
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Shoot the Dog / int_d352a67f	comment	Identity Crisis (2004): Some Justice League members erased Dr. Light's memory, and when Batman found out about it, they did the same to him.
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Shoot the Dog / int_dc4e4f67	comment	In The Wotch, Miranda offs Natasha Dahlet.
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Shoot the Dog / int_e1f005f8	comment	Mirror's Image: Queen Chrysalis was forced to let her first daughter die of starvation, rather than let the rest of her subjects die trying to feed her.
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Shoot the Dog / int_e25322af	comment	Homestar Runner: Played for dark laughs in the Strong Bad Email "virus". The computer viruses in Strong Bad's virus-riddled computer start infecting the Flash file and warping reality throughout Free Country USA, so Bubs is forced to take a shotgun to the Compy to turn things back to normal.
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Shoot the Dog / int_e2cb4c1	comment	Doctor Strange: Doctor Strange will do whatever is necessary to protect the Earth and his loved ones. He'll agonize about it afterward, but he'll still do it.
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Shoot the Dog / int_e5ea79ee	comment	The Authority: In one arc, a woman comes to the team claiming to be three-year-old Jenny Quantum's mother. In fact, it turns out she's Jenny's twin sister, Jenny Fractal, with all the same reality-warping powers, but absolutely insane because she was kidnapped and brainwashed by a government conspiracy. Fractal kills Jenny and tears a hole in the fabric of reality that will destroy the world. The only way to stop her and save Jenny is for Midnighter to go back in time and murder Fractal as a helpless baby, just hoping he can tell the difference between her and his daughter. It works, but he was very reluctant to do it, and can barely stand to look at Jenny once it's over. He might be a textbook Sociopathic Hero, but that's a line even he feels rotten for crossing.
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Shoot the Dog / int_e6275a02	comment	In Looking for Group, Cale'Anon on his quest to redeem his evil race through personal heroism, is railroaded by Forces Beyond His Control to murder a child in order to save the future. The child turned out to be the Arch-Mage in disguise (and he got better as soon as they left), so it was actually a Secret Test of Character.
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Shoot the Dog / int_e92b62ba	comment	Rat-Man: In the Grand Finale, a broken and defeated Topin mocks Rat-Man with the fact he, being a superhero, can't kill, thus he'll come back again and kidnap and brainwash his daughter, and if he kills him he won't be a superhero anymore... But before Rat-Man can decide if to take the risk or kill him former Big Bad Janus Valker kills him, keeping his son from taking a life.
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Shoot the Dog / int_ff5835e3	comment	In Fractured (SovereignGFC), a Mass Effect/Star Wars/Borderlands crossover, Samantha Shepard experiences a Heroic BSoD that tilts her away from her usual paragon self, but in the sequel Origins, she has My God, What Have I Done? breakdown that makes her question why anyone else would keep her around. Others justify retaining Shepard (rather than imprisoning her for war crimes) based on She Did What She Had to Do. There are plenty of other morally-questionable actions throughout that may or may not have been justified In-Universe through I Did What I Had to Do but nonetheless qualify as shooting the dog: Moxxi gets Jackie drunk during a "therapy" session to keep her talking. Jackie deliberately allows an otherwise-innocent marine to be killed by defense systems in her family's Vaults, since him calling for help would lock everyone inside. Depending on one's point of view, the Republic Intelligence Service's attempts to deal with the Alien Invasion could qualify. Admiral Nimitz clearly does not like working with the Maliwans and Torgue who gleefully bombarded civilian worlds to punish Jakobs. The KOMBT School seems to qualify as a Boarding School of Horrors since severe injuries are considered par for the course in its more physical classes. Bacta takes most of the sting out, and is the given reason why such brutal training is even allowed in the first place. Keeping Sarah around after she killed millions to stop the Flood doesn't let the heroes sleep easy at night either. The Citadel Council, after being incompetent morons for most of the story, finally "do what is necessary"...by sentencing the entire Terminus to death in order to buy time for defenses to consolidate elsewhere. Surprise! It doesn't work.
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Shoot the Dog / int_ffc4c2fe	comment	In Order in Chaos, a Centauri patrol finds an Orieni explorer and initially accepts their surrender... Up until the desperate Orieni admit they had landed on Na'ka'leen and something had invaded their squadron there, at which point they destroy the explorer, screen the survivors for infection, kill the infected on the spot, and interrogate the last ones to find out how many other ships were with them so they'll be able to destroy every single one. Na'ka'leen is home of brain-eating creatures that reproduce by infecting sentients, hence why the Centauri had quarantined it (the Orieni having managed to land on it only due the war forcing the Centauri to redeploy most of the blockade ships), and allowing even a single one to reach an inhabited planet would mean sentencing billions to death, with not shooting down the ship to reduce the Orieni to interrogate would carry an unacceptable risk of an infectee slipping by and start the cycle anew on their ship.
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Lazarus (Comic Book) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Salvation Run (Comic Book) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Scooby Apocalypse (Comic Book) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Secret Identities (Comic Book) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Secret Warps (Comic Book) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Shade, the Changing Man (Comic Book) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW) (Comic Book) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Squadron Supreme (Comic Book) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Star Wars: Doctor Aphra (Comic Book) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade (Comic Book) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Avengers (Jonathan Hickman) (Comic Book) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Superman Adventures (Comic Book) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Transformers: Unicron (Comic Book) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Walking Dead (Comic Book) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Time Runs Out (Comic Book) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Ultimatum (Comic Book) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Wolverine (1982) (Comic Book) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Wolverine (1988) (Comic Book) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Wonder Woman: Black and Gold (Comic Book) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
X-23 (2010) (Comic Book) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
X-Men (2019) (Comic Book) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
X-Statix (Comic Book) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
You Are Here (Comic Book) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Far Side (Comic Strip) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Exiles / Comicbook / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Avatar: The Last Airbender Revised / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Shoot the Dog
Callof Darkness / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Shoot the Dog
Dungeon Keeper Ami (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Embers / Fan Fic / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Eugenesis	seeAlso	Shoot the Dog
Fargo / Fan Fic / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Forward / Fan Fic / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Just Like Last Tuesday Except With Zombies / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Shoot the Dog
NightOfTheShy	seeAlso	Shoot the Dog
Tamers Forever Series / Fan Fic / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Venenum Iocus / Fan Fic / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
A BFG's World Tour (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
A Witch in Wartwood (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
After That Fateful Night (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Aftermath of the Games (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
All That's Left (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
An Unsung Song (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
CONSEQUENCES (Miraculous Ladybug) (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Dead on Arrival (MHA) (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Embers (Vathara) (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Failure to Explode (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Fate Denied (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Forward (Peptuck) (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Hours 'Verse (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Kingdom Hearts: The Antipode (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Lelouch of the Wings of Rebellion (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Moonshadow (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Most Unlikely of Friends (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
My Hero Playthrough (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
My Little Denarians (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Not the intended use (Zantetsuken Reverse) (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Rise of the Galeforces (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Ryuugi's The Games We Play (Fanfic)	seeAlso	Shoot the Dog
Star Wars: The Sith, Zero (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Syngenesophobia (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Games We Play (The Gamer/RWBY) (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Gunslinger (Mugiwara N0 Luffy) (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Legend of Total Drama Island (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Road Not Trekked Series (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The S.H.I.E.L.D. Codex (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Shinji Ikari Raising Project (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
XSGCOM (Fanfic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
A Most Violent Year / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Ambulance / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
American Sniper / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Blood Red Sky / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Bullet in the Head / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
By Dawn's Early Light / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Carriers / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
City of Life and Death / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Cube Zero / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Dark Touch / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Demon Seed / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Dog Soldiers / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Drag Me to Hell / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Edge of Tomorrow / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Face/Off / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Fear Street / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Frankenstein (2015) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Fresh / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Giant / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Godzilla (2014) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Greenland / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
I Am Legend / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Inja / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Insomnia / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
It Comes at Night / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Kingsman: The Secret Service / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Lawrence of Arabia / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Lean on Me / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Lethal Weapon 3 / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Lord of War / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Maps to the Stars / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Mars Attacks! / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Mister Lonely / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Never Grow Old / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
New Police Story / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Octopussy / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Patton / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Priest (2011) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Rebel Without a Cause / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Red Riding Hood / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Ricochet / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
SÃ©ance / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Serenity / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Serenity (2005) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Shackleton / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Solomon Kane / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Splice / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Suicide Squad (2016) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Sunshine / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Taken / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Barrens / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Day After / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Eagle (2011) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Expendables / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Force Awakens / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Foreigner (2017) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Human Factor / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Hunter / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Keep / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Killer (1989) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Killer (2023) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Last King of Scotland / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Last Voyage of the Demeter / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Legend of Lizzie Borden / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Men Who Stare at Goats / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Way of the Gun / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Wind That Shakes the Barley / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Witches of Oz / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
True Grit / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Two Brothers / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Uncaged / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Vertical Limit / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Wanted / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
War of the Worlds (2005) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
What Just Happened / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
X-Men: The Last Stand / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
HAT Films (Lets Play)	seeAlso	Shoot the Dog
Zisteau (Lets Play) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Allison & Lillia / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Fate/Zero / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Magika no Kenshi to Shoukan Maou / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
SSS-Class Suicide Hunter / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
A Game of Life and Death / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Allison and Lillia / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Arc of a Scythe / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Black Man / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Changes / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Codex Alera / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Cujo / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Deathstalker / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Deptford Mice / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Divergent / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Division by Zero / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Dracula / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Fate/strange Fake / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Fate/Zero / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Gaunt's Ghosts / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Gearbreakers / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Gleams of Aeterna / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Hometown / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Hometown (2014) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Horatio Hornblower / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Horus Heresy / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Howling Dark / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
I Became the Villain the Hero Is Obsessed With / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Intertwined II The Lost Spirits / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Kaze no Stigma / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
King Goldenlocks / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Kino's Journey / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Kris Longknife / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Kull / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Legacy of the Force / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Legend Series / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Legend Trilogy / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
MagicForBeginners	seeAlso	Shoot the Dog
Magika Swordsman and Summoner / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Malevil / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Micro Adventure / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
New Jedi Order / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Of Cinder and Bone / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Of Mice and Men / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Old Man's War / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Old Yeller / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Outbound Flight / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Protector of the Small / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
RCN / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Realm of the Elderlings / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Red Army / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Red Storm Rising / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Reflections of Eterna / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Remembrance of Earth's Past / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
SSS-Class Suicide Hunter / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Sally Lockhart / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Sandman Slim / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Sano Ichiro / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Shadow Ops / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Shadow Unit / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Sharpe's Tiger / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
So I'm a Spider, So What? / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Star Wars: Master and Apprentice / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Stinger / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Tales of the Otori / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Temeraire / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Black Company / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Bounty Trilogy / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Cold Equations / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Comfortable Courtesan / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Dark is Rising / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Dark Tower / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Handmaid's Tale / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Hellequin Chronicles / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Hollows / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Hunger Games / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Masked Empire / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Prince / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Puppet Masters / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Regeneration Trilogy / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Robots of Dawn / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Runelords / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Salvation War / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Trials of Apollo / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The War Against the Chtorr / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Theirs Not to Reason Why / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
There Will Come Soft Rains / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Those That Wake / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
To Build a Fire / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
To Kill a Mockingbird / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Unseen Academicals / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Vampire Huntress Legend / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Villager A Wants to Save the Villainess No Matter What! / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
We All Fall Down 2000 / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Worm / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Xenos / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Z for Zachariah / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
ActionChatroom	seeAlso	Shoot the Dog
AshesToAshesSpoilers	seeAlso	Shoot the Dog
CoyoticEvil	seeAlso	Shoot the Dog
Damages	seeAlso	Shoot the Dog
DarkerThanBlackTwinsOfTheMeteor	seeAlso	Shoot the Dog
EstMachina	seeAlso	Shoot the Dog
FreemaAgyeman	seeAlso	Shoot the Dog
Good Versus Good / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Infant Immortality	seeAlso	Shoot the Dog
LaserGuidedTykeBomb	seeAlso	Shoot the Dog
MagicForBeginners	seeAlso	Shoot the Dog
Mario4812LikedTropes3	seeAlso	Shoot the Dog
NoHardFeelings	seeAlso	Shoot the Dog
PokeWars	seeAlso	Shoot the Dog
Ptitle348j0es8wpxt	seeAlso	Shoot the Dog
Ptitleutqvbyh2	seeAlso	Shoot the Dog
RobertTheBruce	seeAlso	Shoot the Dog
ShoottheDog	sameAs	Shoot the Dog
SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes	seeAlso	Shoot the Dog
The President's Daughter	seeAlso	Shoot the Dog
A Bride's Story (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Area 88 (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Ayakashi Triangle (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
BECK (1999) (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Beck - Mongolian Chop Squad (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Code:Breaker (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Cuticle Detective Inaba (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Defense Devil (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Gunslinger Girl (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Guyver (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Highschool of the Dead (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
IO (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Mai-HiME (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Mushishi (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
My-HiME (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Mysterious Joker (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
PandoraHearts (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
RG Veda (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
School-Live! (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Seraph of the End (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1999) (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Tokyo Ghoul (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Wolf Guy - Wolfen Crest (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Yozakura Quartet (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
YuYu Hakusho (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Dark Air (Manhwa) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Malevolent (Podcast) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
TheDPad	seeAlso	Shoot the Dog
The Penumbra Podcast (Podcast) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
BigFinishDoctorWho	seeAlso	Shoot the Dog
Class Trials Season 5 (Roleplay) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
WALL•E Forum Roleplay (Roleplay) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
We Could Be Round One (Roleplay) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
deathhunters (Roleplay) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Ace Lightning / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Ashes to Ashes (2008) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Battlestar Galactica (2003) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Being Human (US) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Blue Heelers / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Boardwalk Empire / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Caprica / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Chase (NBC) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Chernobyl / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Chuck / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Complications	seeAlso	Shoot the Dog
Cowboy Bebop (2021) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Evil (2019) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Fatal Attractions (2010) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Fortitude / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Hap and Leonard / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Hatfields & McCoys / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
House of Cards (UK) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
House of Cards (US) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Julius Caesar (2003) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Justified / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Kamen Rider Blade / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Kamen Rider Kabuto / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Lost in Space (2018) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Love/Hate / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Merlin (1998) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Peaky Blinders / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Prime Suspect / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Quiz (2020) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Recht Op Recht / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Revolution / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Samurai Sentai Shinkenger / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Sapphire and Steel / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Scorpion / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Sleepy Hollow / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Snowfall / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Star Trek: Enterprise / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Stargate Atlantis / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Strike Back / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Survivors (BBC) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Terra Nova / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Confessions of Dorian Gray / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Killing / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Originals / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Pacific / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Peripheral (2022) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Sandbaggers / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Sinner / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
3% / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Top Shot / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
UFO / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
UFO (1970) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Untold Stories of the E.R. / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Warehouse 13 / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Widows / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Beast: The Primordial (Tabletop Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Sentinels of the Multiverse (Tabletop Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Vampire: The Requiem (Tabletop Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Henry IV, Part 2 (Theatre) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Love in Hate Nation (Theatre) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Philoctetes (Theatre) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
RENT (Theatre) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Richard III (Theatre) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Affairs of the Court (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Aliens vs. Predator (2010) (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Alpha Protocol (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Armored Core (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Assassin's Creed III (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Batman: Arkham Knight (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Brigador (Video Game) / int_5dd2d8e5	type	Shoot the Dog
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Carnivores Triassic (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Cave Story (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Chains of Satinav (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Chroma Squad (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Colonization (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Combat Arms (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Company of Heroes (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Crusader Kings (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Dark Souls (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Demon's Souls (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Desert Nightmare (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Devil May Cry 4 (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Diablo IV (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Digital Devil Saga (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Divinity: Original Sin II (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Don't Escape (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Dragon Quest VII (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Duck Hunt (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Escape from Butcher Bay (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Final Fantasy Dimensions (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Final Fantasy Tactics (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Ghost Trick (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Girls' Frontline (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
God of War (PS4) (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
God of War RagnarÃ¶k (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Gotham City Impostors (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Grime (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Guenevere (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Heavy Rain (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Ikenfell (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Knights of the Old Republic (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
MapleStory (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Marvel Future Fight (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Memoria (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Memoria (2013) (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Nintendo Wars (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
No More Heroes (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
No One Lives Forever (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Oddworld (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Ōkamiden (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Organ Trail (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Perdition (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Phantasy Star II (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Pillars of Eternity (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Planetfall (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Police Quest 4: Open Season (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Red Dead Redemption (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
RollerCoaster Tycoon (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
SOMA (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Sands of Destruction (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Shin Megami Tensei IV (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Sonic Battle (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Spec Ops: The Line (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Splinter Cell (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Star Ocean: The Second Story (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Starsiege (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Suikoden V (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Tales of Vesperia (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Devil in Me (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Evil Within (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Final Station (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Outer Worlds (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Walking Dead: Season Two (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
This War of Mine (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Vampire: The Masquerade â€“ Redemption (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
War for the West (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Warcraft (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Wild ARMs (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Yggdra Union (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Zombie Panic (Video Game) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Shadowrun Returns / Videogame / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Grisaia no Kajitsu (Visual Novel) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Long Live the Queen (Visual Novel) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Crown & the Flame (Visual Novel) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Fruit of Grisaia (Visual Novel) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Zero Time Dilemma (Visual Novel) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
asdfmovie (Web Animation) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Astartes (Web Animation) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Bravest Warriors (Web Animation) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Turnabout Storm (Web Animation) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Where Was My Hero...? (Web Animation) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Zombie Hunters (Webcomic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Bookshops of Arkham (Web Video) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Brony D&D (Web Video) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Mind My Gap (Web Video) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Pandora Hearts Abridged (Web Video) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Twitch Plays PokÃ©mon Crystal (Web Video) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Cuanta Vida (Webcomic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Darths & Droids (Webcomic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Darwin Carmichael Is Going to Hell (Webcomic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Fate/Gag Order (Webcomic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Fate/Gamers Only (Webcomic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Looking for Group (Webcomic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Magellan (Webcomic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Roomies!, It's Walky!, Joyce and Walky! (Webcomic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Spacetrawler (Webcomic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Tales of the Questor (Webcomic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Webcomic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Wotch (Webcomic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Yosh! (Webcomic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Aqua Teen Hunger Force / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Code Lyoko / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Dragons: Riders of Berk / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Green Lantern: The Animated Series / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Justice League: Gods and Monsters / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Legion of Super Heroes (2006) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Moral Orel / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Star Trek: The Animated Series / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Prince of Egypt / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Young Justice - Revival Series / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Kazuchika Okada (Wrestling) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
New Japan Pro-Wrestling (Wrestling) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Shawn Michaels (Wrestling) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Triple H (Wrestling) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Umi Monogatari / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Better Off Alone / Fan Fic / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Clash of the Elements / Fan Fic / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Magic Knight Rayearth (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Vampire Princess Miyu (Manga) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Nikita / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Zombie Ranch (Webcomic) / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Legion of Super-Heroes / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog

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