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The Power of Legacy

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The Power of Legacy	comment	This is the motivation to take a questionable action to preserve a person's legacy, and often to improve it, just a little bit. The mission is over. The MacGuffin has been acquired, the Big Bad has been defeated, and the Hero is on his way home. Unfortunately, it is a bittersweet victory: Bob was killed during the mission, dying just in time for the Hero to hear his last words. Upon his return, the Hero meets Alice, who was very close to Bob, often a significant other, and must perform a Death Notification. She asks the hero what Bob's last words were. The hero, compassionate guy that he is, takes her hand, looks her in the eyes, and... ... lies. Wait, what? The hero has a good reason for doing this, however. At the end of his life, Bob did something that would tarnish his legacy. Maybe his last words were horrifying. Perhaps he did a Face–Heel Turn, or had to reluctantly betray the hero for some reason. Whatever the reason, telling Alice the truth would only result in damaging Bob's legacy, as well as hurting Alice by knocking down someone she held as a hero. Even if the hero has never told a lie up to that point, he will find it best to stretch the truth so that Bob can be remembered fondly. If this takes place at the end of the story, the hero will get away with it, but if the story goes on after the hero's lie then it will usually come back to bite him in the butt. Note that this is the same trope whether the character outright lies or deliberately fails to mention the fact that would taint his friend's legacy. Also note, the Power of Legacy is used to defend a character's honor. If they lie/keep silent to shame the person in question, or to just prevent Alice from hearing his last words when they would actually help his legacy, that's just being a Jerkass. Not to be confused with The Power of Friendship or The Power of Love, although they may be the reason that The Power Of Legacy is invoked. Related to Never Speak Ill of the Dead. Let Them Die Happy is also related, except going in the opposite direction — lying to a dying character to ease their final moments. Compare Motivational Lie, where a lie is used to motivate a character to overcome an obstacle or challenge. Compare and contrast Rebuilt Pedestal, Warts and All, and Post-Mortem Conversion. May overlap with Treachery Cover Up. The inverse is the Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit, where a dead person is blamed for a crime or other actions that they didn't do. If the character being lied to ever finds out the truth, it may lead to them asking "Was It All a Lie?" Warning: Ending Trope/Death Trope, uncensored spoilers ahead.
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The Power of Legacy / int_11d0af1	comment	In The Amber Spyglass, the third book of the His Dark Materials trilogy, Lyra is kept asleep for the first two hundred pages. When she wakes up, she thinks that she may have caught some disease, and that Mrs. Coulter had been taking care of her. In reality, Mrs. Coulter had been drugging her. Will decided it would be better to let her keep the good memory, even if it was a lie.
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The Power of Legacy / int_1ffa775e	comment	In the non-canon The Autobiography of James T. Kirk, the log entry states that Decker was piloting the shuttle to the Constellation when he got caught by the planet killer and attempted to take it down with him, and this inspired Kirk to use the Constellation in a kamikaze attack.
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The Power of Legacy / int_22147342	comment	Arrow: The episode "Canary Cry" has Laurel's legacy as the Black Canary as a major focus. Team Arrow fears that Evelyn's actions in Laurel's costume will leave the Black Canary remembered as nothing but a murderer. To make sure that both Laurel and her secret identity get the legacy they deserve, Oliver reveals that Laurel was the Black Canary at her funeral, causing her to be remembered as the hero she truly was. Laurel's epitaph even reads "The Black Canary" as a reflection of this. So strong is Laurel's legacy that when an alternate Earth doppelganger, Black Siren, takes up residence on Earth-1 she assumes Laurel's civilian identity and eventually (grudgingly) reforms.
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The Power of Legacy / int_22f49cdf	comment	Castle: Beckett decides to do this for Captain Montgomery, and the rest of the cast agrees.
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The Power of Legacy / int_22fa3992	comment	In The Expanse, Diogo tells people that Miller's last words to him were a plea to keep fighting for the Belt. In fact, Miller told him "Go get laid, kid."
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The Power of Legacy / int_25f6f1a0	comment	In Umineko: When They Cry, the late arcs reveal that there are at least two characters who invoke this. On one side Eva, the (not quite) Sole Survivor of the Rokkenjima massacre, blew up the island to erase what happened and hid the truth to Ange, at the cost of being herself painted as the culprit in the future. Ange eventually learns of the real culprits, and it drives her to suicide, heavily implying that it was her own parents. On the other side after her initial plan went horribly wrong, Beatrice paints herself as a cruel witch and claims to have committed the murders so that the memory of the family wouldn't be tainted. However she wanted at least Battler to know the truth and understand her.
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The Power of Legacy / int_2ae406c1	comment	One of the quotes in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri discusses the trope after the Hologram Theatre facility is first constructed. In-universe, the quote is given by a Morgan Industries executive in a speech:
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The Power of Legacy / int_32c541e6	comment	Fullmetal Alchemist: In the end, the heroes have to whitewash Fuhrer Bradley's reputation and claim that he was an innocent victim of the coup d'etat. In reality Bradley was one of the ringleaders of a Government Conspiracy that very nearly annihilated the entire nation, but he was such a Villain with Good Publicity that the heroes feared revealing the truth would lead to civil unrest and rioting.
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The Power of Legacy / int_35e05f2a	comment	RWBY: Leo dedicated his life to protecting Mistral but eventually fell under Salem's influence to betray both Ozpin and the people he was sworn to protect. After Haven is saved from the villains, Ozpin covers-up the truth by portraying him as a hero who died protecting the school. When Yang challenges him, Ozpin tells her that Mistral deserves better than the truth; he's not whitewashing Leo's actions, but one terrible mistake shouldn't undo a lifetime's worth of service.
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The Power of Legacy / int_3f3abe9	comment	In an episode of Rick and Morty, the pair travel to a fantasy world where Morty is attacked by a pedophile. Rick later kills the guy, who turns out to have been a beloved local king. Afterwards, several of the king's officials find evidence of what the king was doing, but decide to Destroy the Evidence so he would continue being an inspiration to the people.
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The Power of Legacy / int_40b4d50d	comment	In the Father Brown story "The Sign of the Broken Sword," Father Brown has this to say about a notable general who murdered the soldier who found evidence of his treachery and then led his troops on a suicide charge to effectively hide the body regarding the memorials raised to him:
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The Power of Legacy / int_40c8681	comment	Forest Kingdom: Happens twice in the Hawk & Fisher spinoff series' book 1, once when the Battle Couple Guards claim that The Renfield of a vampire they'd battled was just another victim, and again when they blame all the deaths at Gaunt's mansion on the guest who was secretly a werewolf. In the former case, it's to spare the feelings of the man's widow; in the latter, it's to preserve Adam Stalker's reputation as a hero Haven's people can look up to.
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The Power of Legacy / int_43a9c333	comment	In the Cowboy Bebop episode "Black Dog Serenade", Jet learns that Fad, his partner from the days when Jet was a cop, is a Dirty Cop and was involved in the ambush that caused Jet to lose his arm. (In fact, Fad fired the shot that destroyed Jet's arm.) Events of the episode imply Fad has become a Death Seeker and The Atoner for his past misdeeds, and he all but commits suicide by getting into a gunfight with Jet while his revolver is mostly unloaded. The end of the episode subtly implies that Jet arranged the scene in a way so that it will look like Fad died a hero's death against the bad guys he and Jet were there to take down.
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The Power of Legacy / int_455e3038	comment	In the King of the Hill episode where Cotton dies, Cotton is on his death bed, and asks Hank to make his dying wish come true: to mail his severed head to the Japanese Emperor and stuff a letter filled with expletives in his mouth. After Hank begrudgingly agrees, Cotton then goes on to tell him that being his father was the worst thing to have happened in his life. As Hank steps out of the room for minute, Peggy tells Cotton that she and everyone else he knew think he's nothing but a hate filled old man that no one would be sad about dying, but Cotton dies unrepentant about saying that Hank was a terrible son. When Hank comes back into the room shortly after Cotton's death, Peggy lies about their final interaction by saying that Cotton regrets being such a tough father, and deep down he did love him, and to never mind about sending his severed head to the Emperor of Japan.
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The Power of Legacy / int_564871a	comment	On Blue Bloods, Danny tries but fails to talk a traumatized war veteran out of jumping off a rooftop. When he fills out his report on the incident, he claims the man had decided to come back to his family, but had slipped and fallen to his death accidentally. That way, at least the soldier's son can believe his father had intended to stay with him.
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The Power of Legacy / int_5755b96a	comment	In The Order of the Stick, O-Chul accepts responsibility for destroying the gate to protect the already-tarnished-enough legacy of Well-Intentioned Extremist/Knight Templar Miko Miyazaki.
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The Power of Legacy / int_5db577ba	comment	The Dark Knight uses it twice: Batman takes the blame for Two-Face's actions, in order to keep Harvey Dent's "White Knight" reputation intact (and to make sure the criminals Harvey put behind bars stay there). There were other options, such as blaming the Joker, but those weren't brought up, and were slightly less airtight. The power is strong enough that years later during the events of The Dark Knight Rises Gotham celebrates Harvey Dent Day and crime rates are at an all-time low. Bane shatters the legacy by revealing the truth. Meanwhile, Alfred decides to burn Rachael's final letter to Bruce, explaining her reasoning for accepting Harvey's marriage proposal, as he believes it's better for Bruce to think she was planning to continue waiting for him. This also comes to light in the sequel, when Alfred realizes this belief was holding Bruce back from moving past Rachael's death. The revelation shatters Bruce's trust in Alfred, but ultimately enables him to find happiness with Selina Kyle in the end.
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The Power of Legacy / int_629cd094	comment	In Dragon Age: Origins, the Warden is asked by Ruck's mother to find her son in the Deep Roads, where he's been missing for two years and assumed dead. While the Warden finds him alive, he's been turned into a half-crazed Ghoul as a result of the being infected with the Taint either by constant exposure or consuming Darkspawn flesh to survive. The Warden has the option to agree to his request to tell his mother that they found his body in the Deep Roads, letting her believe he died a hero.
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The Power of Legacy / int_62aa95a6	comment	In The Lost Fleet, The Alliance brass has intentionally used this to paint a mediocre ship commander's Last Stand as the most heroic act in history, turning "Black Jack" Geary into a Memetic Badass, using edited recordings of his last (and only) battle to underscore his greatness in order to inspire generations of fleet officers. Unfortunately, it ends up turning them into Glory Hounds with an Attack! Attack! Attack! mentality. This is partly done to account for the immense losses the Alliance takes during its century-long war with the Syndics, resulting in most of the knowledge of how fleets are supposed to fight, as well as what it means to be an Officer and a Gentleman, forgotten. By the time Geary is recovered from his Human Popsicle state, this average officer from the past turns out to be the best damn fleet commander the Alliance has. Unfortunately, he has a hard road ahead of him to get the ship commanders to change their mentality and fight the way they're supposed to, especially since they are rather disappointed that he doesn't fit their image of the great "Black Jack". When he finally returns the titular fleet to Alliance space, the brass refuses to believe that the fleet has fought all those battles and survived given Geary's relatively light losses, given how, in their minds, battles are "supposed to be" fought.
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The Power of Legacy / int_6c39a620	comment	Ascendance of a Bookworm: At some point, a knight ordered to guard Myne attacks her because she's a commoner holding a job usually given to those of noble blood, but currently experiencing shortage of applicants of proper lineage. In the process, he worsens the problem both Myne and the group of knights he's part of were sent were sent to fix. He gets executed, and his family gets two options: getting punished themselves or having his father sign a contract promising nobody in the family will ever interact with Myne in the future and paying a fee. The latter option, which was taken, comes with the extra feature of replacing the knight's attack on Myne and execution by a honorable death in battle in official records.
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The Power of Legacy / int_6e94492	comment	Batman takes the blame for Two-Face's actions, in order to keep Harvey Dent's "White Knight" reputation intact (and to make sure the criminals Harvey put behind bars stay there). There were other options, such as blaming the Joker, but those weren't brought up, and were slightly less airtight. The power is strong enough that years later during the events of The Dark Knight Rises Gotham celebrates Harvey Dent Day and crime rates are at an all-time low. Bane shatters the legacy by revealing the truth.
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The Power of Legacy / int_6f3f6dc8	comment	In the original Judas Contract arc of Teen Titans, the other Titans gave Terra a hero's funeral, a statue in their hall, and told everyone (including her half-brother, Geo-Force) that she died a hero. The truth was that she was The Mole and Evil All Along.
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The Power of Legacy / int_70790363	comment	The Saga Of Tanya The Firebender has Princess Azula find out that Tanya had killed Admiral Zhao in order to rise in the ranks, and planned to use this to make Tanya bend the knee to her authority; only for Tanya to immediately decide to rename the Northern Water Tribe Capital she had conquered into "The City of Zhao" in honor of her former superiors' military strategy that paved the way for the Fire Nations' victory: which she had immortalized in a public speech after returning victorious.
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The Power of Legacy / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: O'Neill is forced to work with a former friend who's been in a sort of exile because of suspicions of Unfriendly Fire that killed a mutual friend of theirs. Turns out he had killed the other man on purpose, because that man was betraying them by signaling their position to the enemy. A variation, as he didn't care so much about the traitor's legacy as he did that the widow, who was also a friend, would lose her husband's pension. O'Neill offers to exonerate his friend with the brass.
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The Power of Legacy / int_786a5a97	comment	In Chicago P.D. episode "Fallen" police sergeant McGrady is killed in the line of duty while investigating a drug dealer for murdering three people. It then turns out McGrady was stealing from a police-backed charity to fuel/pay for his gambling habits, and he framed the drug dealer for his suicide. His apparent death in the line of duty closes the investigation into him, sees the drug dealer arrested for his murder (they couldn't prove he was guilty for the others), and guarantees his family collects his pension. Despite being disgusted at the thought of him being thought of as a hero Voight and Upton decide to allow it, both to ensure his family is provided for and it is the only way the drug dealer will face justice, even if it is for something he's innocent of.
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The Power of Legacy / int_7fc78282	comment	Boromir's dying words are a confession: "I tried to take the Ring from Frodo. I am sorry. I have paid." Even when discussing where Frodo has gone, Aragorn refuses to tell the others this.
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The Power of Legacy / int_89daf5f5	comment	Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye: I "Cold Case", Sue gets involved in a cold case about a murdered teller, Julia Randall, at the request of the teller's cancer-patient mother. It turns out Julia was involved in the robbery. Jack makes a plea deal with Julia's killer for this reason. In addition to the flimsiness of the evidence, a trial would reveal the fact that Julia was the robber's accomplice, which would further break her dying mother's heart. In light of that, he sees not prosecuting the case as the best option.
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The Power of Legacy / int_8d7f29ec	comment	A heartbreaking example happens on Glee. Finn never knew his father as he passed away when Finn was a baby, and his mother Carole told him he died in the Gulf War. As a result, Finn grew up idolizing him. When he announces that he plans to join the military after high school like his father, Carole admits that he didn't die in Iraq. He was dishonorably discharged and turned to drugs to cope, then left his family and was found dead several months later in a Cincinnati crackhouse. She understandably didn't want to lay all that on Finn when he was a child, but didn't know how to tell him once he was old enough to understand. Nonetheless this leads to a Heroic BSoD in Finn.
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The Power of Legacy / int_90c73dda	comment	Animorphs: The Andalite high command pressure Ax into doing this with his murdered older brother Elfangor upon learning he used his last minutes to give morphing power to humans. Ax reluctantly takes the blame so that the Andalite citizens can continue remembering his brother as a hero untainted by disgrace (the war against the Yeerks started when an Andalite gave tech to less-advanced species). It's a rare case, though, where the decision to do so clearly isn't liked by the main characters, who feel the Andalites over-enforce their Prime Directive law and because Ax has now been barred from advancing further in the military. He becomes enough of his own hero in the end, allowing him to be promoted to prince. When they meet some Andalites in book #18 and Ax lies that he gave the humans morphing, they immediately spot the hole in his story, since he also mentioned they first met him in dolphin morph, which they wouldn't have been able to do unless someone had already given them the tech.
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The Power of Legacy / int_9a7088bc	comment	Star Trek: The Original Series, 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before". Gary Mitchell gains vast psionic powers and begins to think of himself as a god who regards humans as insects to be crushed. After Captain Kirk manages to kill him: Likewise, in "The Doomsday Machine" Kirk states that his log will note that Commodore Decker died in the line of duty, omitting the part where the man pretty much went insane with survivor's guilt and almost got the crew of the Enterprise killed. It's heavily suggested that Kirk is attempting to imply by omission that Decker performed a Heroic Sacrifice by piloting the Constellation into the Doomsday Machine to destroy it, instead of the truth where he went out in a futile suicidal gesture by crashing into the machine with a shuttlecraft. The Power of Legacy is so strong, in fact, that Spock brings up logging Decker as having died in the line of duty, even though Decker constantly ignored his advice and put the Enterprise in mortal peril on multiple occasions. Not only is it so morally ambiguous that paladins can do it, but so can Vulcans. In the non-canon The Autobiography of James T. Kirk, the log entry states that Decker was piloting the shuttle to the Constellation when he got caught by the planet killer and attempted to take it down with him, and this inspired Kirk to use the Constellation in a kamikaze attack.
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The Power of Legacy / int_9cc59f9c	comment	At the end of Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire, Security Chief Parahexavoctal is revealed to have committed several large-scale crimes in pursuit of his assigned duty, including (but not limited to) genocide and the large-scale enslavement of a sentient race. When confronted with his sins, he continues to claim that he just did what he had to do. The Prime Mover acknowledges this, and decrees that his record shall stand unblemished. Par smiles and thanks him for fulfilling his ultimate wish, even as he is wiped from existence.
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The Power of Legacy / int_9e5f03e3	comment	Ally does this for Billy after his death: she tells Georgia his Last Words were "Tell Georgia I love her", but he'd died in the midst of a tumor-induced hallucination:
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The Power of Legacy / int_a49a890c	comment	Deconstructed, then averted in Preacher: When Jesse is hanging on to Cassidy from a plane, he tells Cassidy to tell Tulip he loves her, then orders him to let go. Cassidy then reveals himself by telling Tulip he couldn't hear what he said. But at the very end, Cassidy's goodbye letter explains to Tulip what Jesse had really told him.
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The Power of Legacy / int_a796bde8	comment	At the end of Metal Gear Solid, Snake gives a rather generic speech about how Grey Fox had wished the best for Naomi, who Fox had practically been a big brother to. Snake decides to skip the part where Grey Fox confessed that he had been the one who had killed Naomi's parents. The way Snake probably sees it, telling Naomi how much Grey Fox really did care for her was more important.
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The Power of Legacy / int_b1170177	comment	Over the course of L.A. Confidential, the main characters learn that the well known and widely respected Captain Dudley Smith of the Los Angeles Police has started setting himself up as a major organized crime figure, with the help of a number of current and former policemen. Dudley and his men are killed in a shootout with Detectives Edmund Exley and Bud White, but the Chief of Police and the D.A. know that such a scandal getting into news may destroy the police force. Dudley and his men are thus proclaimed to have died in a shootout with the mob and held up as heroes to the public.
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The Power of Legacy / int_b61bbe0a	comment	Something close to this trope happens on Modern Family. Gloria takes Alex with her to meet her psychic adviser. Alex, an intellectual, deduces early on that the woman relies on Cold Reading, and when the psychic claims to speak for Gloria's deceased grandmother, it's clear that she is just telling her what she wants to hear. However, Alex decides to keep quiet after seeing how the psychic's words bring Gloria comfort.
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The Power of Legacy / int_c2297a9c	comment	Crops up fairly frequently in Judge Dredd: two of the Chief Judges in history were Driven to Suicide, and in both cases the Judges went on to craft a more heroic end for them.
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The Power of Legacy / int_c5302528	comment	John Doe: The episode "John Deux" ends with John telling the estranged father of a deceased vagrant that he knew him from working at the same factory, and that "he wanted you to know that he made something of his life".
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The Power of Legacy / int_ccc74c7e	comment	In Sacrifice, the ending for Persephone/James' sees Eldred omit the fact that Mithras was a guise of Marduk and instead claim Mithras made a Heroic Sacrifice and should be remembered as a hero for telling the truth.
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The Power of Legacy / int_d3bc03fe	comment	Outright invoked on One Tree Hill episode "Danny Boy," when Haley promises a dying Dan Scott that she will spare her daughter Lydia (Dan's granddaughter, who is barely a year old) the details of all the horrible things that Dan has done over the years (such as neglecting his oldest son Lucas, emotionally abusing his younger son Nathan, tormenting BOTH his sons' mothers AND killing his own younger brother), and instead choosing to tell her how much Dan loved his grandchildren as gratitude for saving her husband's life (the aforementioned emotionally abused son).
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The Power of Legacy / int_d4efb984	comment	While making a will on The Golden Girls, Rose claims she lost all the savings Charlie had built up during his life, even though this causes a rift between her and her daughter. In fact, Rose just didn't want her daughter to know her father was a business failure with nothing to leave to them.
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The Power of Legacy / int_ddad77ae	comment	Featured in the Astro City story "The Tarnished Angel." At the end of the story, the mastermind is unmasked as the disgraced former super-hero El Hombre, a heroism addict who staged Engineered Heroics in a bid to kill hundreds of villains for his return to the limelight. His complicity is covered up by other heroes, however, out of respect for his past valor.
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The Power of Legacy / int_ddc94ec8	comment	At the end of Secret Identities, The Recluse keeps the truth of Crosswind's deception a secret from everyone and instead makes sure he is remembered as a martyr. Crosswind's "memory" helps the Front Line become better heroes who prioritize helping the innocent over their own aggrandizement.
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The Power of Legacy / int_e293455a	comment	In the final episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Andrew tells Xander that Anya died saving his life, when all indications are she was merely killed during the Final Battle.
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The Power of Legacy / int_e66220af	comment	Pan's Labyrinth: Captain Vidal's father was a famous general. According to the men in his battalion, before he died in battle, he broke his watch upon a rock so that his son would know the exact time of his death, "so he would know how a brave man dies." Vidal denies that this story ever happened while working in secret to repair his father's watch. His intention is to repeat the story with his own son and eclipse his father's legacy with his own. When Mercedes tells him that his son will never even know his name, Vidal is visibly devastated.
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The Power of Legacy / int_e7e37776	comment	In Firefly, when Mal was about to kill Jayne for trying to sell the Tams to the feds, Jayne begged Mal to least not tell the others that he betrayed them. Fortunately for Jayne, his concern for how the others will remember him convinces Mal to give him another chance.
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The Power of Legacy / int_eacdd4fd	comment	Probably the most famous example is from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, in which Kurtz's last words were "The horror, the horror!" Marlow, however tells his fiancee that "His last words were... your name."
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The Power of Legacy / int_f46fa37	comment	Happens at the end of act IV or Cyrano de Bergerac. Roxanne thinks Christian is a brilliant poet and has fallen in love with his words, but actually Cyrano has been writing all his letters for him. When Christian realizes Roxanne is unknowingly in love with Cyrano's writing rather than himself, he tells Cyrano to tell her the truth and charges into battle. Cyrano is about to tell her the truth when Christian is brought back mortally wounded, so Cyrano omits the truth, letting Roxanne continue to believe that Christian was the brilliant writer she thought he was and never deceived her or pretended talents he didn't have (until Cyrano himself is mortally wounded years later and goes to see her and she figures out the truth).
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The Power of Legacy / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation has a whole plot arc around this. A bunch of Klingons were massacred when Worf's father, Mogh, betrayed them to the Romulans, bringing shame on himself and his family. But Worf has reason to believe — and later, proof — that it was actually Duras, not Mogh, who was the traitor. He confronts the Klingon High Council, who reveal that yeah, they knew it all along, but the Duras family is very powerful, and exposing them would have disastrous consequences. So they picked some other fall-guy whose only known descendant was an orphan raised by humans and serving in the Federation, who probably wouldn't care one whit about Klingon honor or politics. Too bad for them that Worf is more Klingon than most Klingons. But fortunate also, because he recognizes the danger of the truth and chooses to accept "discommendation" on himself to uphold the lie and maintain the Empire's stability. Then things get complicated.
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