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A Stock Phrase used to make accepting someone's violent death easier, by pointing out that the dead person knew the risks before he or she signed up for them. Comes in two varieties: Lieutenant Alex is blamed for the death of Private Bob under his command and says that Bob knew the risks when he volunteered. Lieutenant Alex blames himself for Bob's death and is told that Bob knew the risks. This is usually a Death Trope. Unmarked spoilers below! |
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Airplane!. "They bought their tickets. They knew what they were getting into. I say, let 'em crash!" | |
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RWBY: When Hazel accuses Ozpin of sending his sister Gretchen to die and cites this as his reason for siding with Salem, Oscar defends Ozpin by saying Gretchen willingly signed up to be a Huntress knowing it would be dangerous. Hazel doesn't buy it, and it's later revealed that this is because he'd discovered something Ozpin was hiding from everyone, including Gretchen and Oscar: Salem, queen of the Grimm, cannot be killed, making the conflict with her and her minions a Forever War that can only be stopped if she wins. | |
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Zig-zagged in the Hawaii Five-O episode "The Young Assassins". Violent radicals kidnap Danno and another person and send a message that unless the governor releases two of their comrades from jail, the radicals will kill the hostages. McGarrett says that Danno "knew the odds" when he became a cop, but the other hostage (a college professor) didn't know he could become a target. | |
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Attack on Titan has an unusually kind example of the trope: when Mr. Blouse is presented with Gabi, the killer of his daughter Sasha, he doesn't hold it against the killer and refuses to take revenge, stating that the deceased knew what she was getting into when she became a soldier. | |
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In The Last Continent, when the UU faculty fear Mrs Whitlow is about to be eaten by sharks, the Dean says she knew the risks when she took the job. This seems doubtful, as the Senior Wrangler points out: | |
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James Bond: In The Spy Who Loved Me, when Anya realizes Bond killed her lover on an earlier mission, he says, "Anya, in this business, people get killed. We both know that. So did he." In Licence to Kill, M says this of Leiter when Bond is angry that M won't take action against the people who destroyed Leiter's life. Though Bond promptly retaliates that Leiter's wife certainly didn't, to which M can only change the subject. In Quantum of Solace this is implied, if not stated outright, with Matthis, and James tries to handle the man's death as stoically as he can. This is subverted with Agent Fields' death as M explicitly stated that the agent was not meant to come in harms way because she had an office job. |
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Dent says it about himself in The Dark Knight. | |
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Freelancer: Lord Hakkerra invokes this after Ozu dies on a mission. | |
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At the climax of the Batman Beyond episode "The Call", Batman dives underwater to try and stop a Puppeteer Parasite-infested Aquagirl from releasing the rest of the parasites into the oceans. Meanwhile, topside, Superman starts dropping boulders into the water to try and plug the drain. Big Barda objects since Terry is still down there, but Superman answers, "He knew what he was getting into." After a moment, Barda starts helping Superman. Terry survives and succeeds in freeing Aquagirl from the parasite. | |
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In Treasure Planet, Captain Amelia ends her eulogy for her second-in-command Mr. Arrow with this statement. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Ship" | |
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The opening of Mass Effect 2 involves the security mechs on a space station going rogue and attacking people. The player character, having fought their way to the one escape shuttle, can express a desire to go back and search for other survivors, but the two with them state that the player character is more important, and everyone on that station signed on willing to die to save them. | |
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In North Face, a group of mountain rescuers originally refuse to help the main characters, who are now stranded on their mountain in a snowstorm, on the grounds that they knew it was incredibly dangerous to even try. (They're persuaded after discovering that the young woman asking for their help is in a relationship with one of the climbers.) | |
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In Con Air, an antagonistic policeman justifies ordering the hijacked plane to be shot down by saying that the guards aboard understood the risks of the job and that the government does not negotiate with hostage takers. | |
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In both video game adaptations of GoldenEye, this is said of 006's death at the Facility during the Runway mission. Only it turns out Alec's Not Quite Dead. From the N64 version: And from the remake: |
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In Licence to Kill, M says this of Leiter when Bond is angry that M won't take action against the people who destroyed Leiter's life. Though Bond promptly retaliates that Leiter's wife certainly didn't, to which M can only change the subject. In Quantum of Solace this is implied, if not stated outright, with Matthis, and James tries to handle the man's death as stoically as he can. This is subverted with Agent Fields' death as M explicitly stated that the agent was not meant to come in harms way because she had an office job. |
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A non-fatal example: in the Batman: The Animated Series episode "I Am The Night", Batman arrives too late to prevent Gordon from being shot. Part of Dick's attempt to talk him out of the resulting depressed apathy is pointing out that Gordon knowingly accepted the risks of being a cop. | |
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Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth: J. Edgar Hoover says this about a field agent after the latter is horribly burned the slime of a Shoggoth. Made worse by the fact that Hoover just shot the agent himself as the agent was hysterical with pain. | |
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In Quantum of Solace this is implied, if not stated outright, with Matthis, and James tries to handle the man's death as stoically as he can. This is subverted with Agent Fields' death as M explicitly stated that the agent was not meant to come in harms way because she had an office job. | |
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In The Spy Who Loved Me, when Anya realizes Bond killed her lover on an earlier mission, he says, "Anya, in this business, people get killed. We both know that. So did he." | |
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Ender's Game: The pilots who die invading the Bugger homeworld. | |
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In the finale of the space arc of Arthur, King of Time and Space, the Stag King arrives in British Space, seeking the sacrifice of the "true king". Arthur having given most of the actual kingship duties to Mordred, since he actually seems to enjoy them, they both say "Well, I knew the job was dangerous when I took it" simultaneously, then argue about what "true king" actually means in this context. They both end up going. The Stag King takes Mordred, leaving Arthur to be rescued (but unable to return to British Space) by the Ladies of Avalon. | |
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In Hitman (2016), the Shadow Client excuses Sean Rose's death as this to his lieutenant, hacker Olivia Hall. | |
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in the short film Le Mans 1955, Alfred Neubauer tries to play down Pierre Levegh's fatal crash by saying that he knew the risks. John Fitch then points out that the spectators, eighty of which were killed in his crash, sure didn't. | |
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One of the first Pearls Before Swine strips had Pig recount seeing a woman crushed by a ceiling tile at a bingo game, saying "She knew the risks of playing the game." | |
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In Last Scenario, Newick tries to downplay Selene's and Jord's deaths this way. | |
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