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Trial by Friendly Fire

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Trial by Friendly Fire	comment	You're the hero, and you've got a chance to take a shot at the villain. If you don't do it now, the chances are good the villain will get away, or the doomsday device will go off, or something equally nasty. One problem: your ally is in the blast zone. "Like You Would Really Do It", the audience (and maybe the villain) is thinking. Sometimes the answer is "Oh, but I would." While it's possible (and more common) for the hero to Take a Third Option, the hero actually going through (even accidentally) with it obviously has much more dramatic impact. An Anti-Hero will decide that saving the world is just too important to let collateral damage or personal concerns get in the way and tearfully pull the trigger. Sometimes there will be consent, explicit or inferred, on the part of the person in the firing line, that getting the villain is more important than them surviving. Non-Anti Heroes put in this position might have sworn a mutual pact to take the villain down no matter what, up to and including a Suicide Pact in dire circumstances, or the trapped character will give some sort of signal indicating to their comrade they're prepared to die for the cause. Or they may have some Applied Phlebotinum or superpower stashed away that the villain (or even the hero) doesn't know about and may secure their survival. An alternate way this trope can occur is when a character makes a Heroic Sacrifice by directing someone else to open fire on their own position in hopes of taking out the villain as the villain attacks them. If the character making the Heroic Sacrifice does die there will be deep repercussions. At the very least, if it's possible, a posthumous recognition of their life and deed will be called for. At worst, the hero will discover just how much Being Good Sucks, No Good Deed Goes Unpunished, and they may spend the rest of their life as The Atoner. May come close to or overlap with I Can Not Self Terminate, Kill Us Both, Mercy Kill, and/or Shoot the Hostage if the character(s) sacrificed has been, or will be, put through hell by the villain, but a Mercy Kill alone does not this trope make. Arguably a supertrope of Kill Us Both. This differs from Shoot the Hostage in that the innocent in the line of fire is not a hostage but a fellow hero. For cases where the character sacrificed is being used as a Human Shield, please put those examples under Shoot the Hostage rather than here. Kill Us Both is a more specific case where the hero can restrain, but not defeat the villain on his own, and decides that he'd rather be killed than let the villain continue his reign of terror. This focuses more on the decision that collateral damage is acceptable and holding fire is not. The heroic counterpart to We Have Reserves, this differs in that while the villain orders his archers to shoot at his own men callously, the heroic general gives the order with a deeply felt tear in his eye. See also Cold Equation, where saving a more important group unavoidably requires dooming a less important group, and Godzilla Threshold, where dire necessity drives the heroes to take extreme measures. Compare Attacking Through Yourself where you shoot through yourself to achieve the same goal. As this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_1463a028	comment	At various times in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Liv and Stabler have each been in a position where their partner is being used as shield by the bad guy. In all cases, the one being held hostage always actively encourages the other to shoot to kill the bad guy with no concern for their own safety. Liv and Elliott ALWAYS Take a Third Option, sometimes with disastrous consequences when their hesitation allows the bad guy to escape. There is one instance that is wholly played straight however in the episode "Zebras" Stabler is taken hostage by the lab assistant Dale Stuckey. Benson proceeds to convince him that she was in love with him and begs him to allow her to beat Stabler, which she does until Stuckey drops his guard and she takes him down.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_14d341dc	comment	In the post-season 8 Federation tutorial in Star Trek Online, the ship on which your Player Character is taking xir midshipman cruise is attacked by the Klingons and your CO, Masc P. Taggart, is taken captive. To defeat the enemy ship's cloaking device Captain Taggart tells you to lock onto his combadge signal and fire, though the Klingon captain stabs him to death before you actually do so.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_16645366	comment	The Cruel Sea: A British ship in World War II finds men in the water after their ship has been sunk by a U-boat. If the ship rescues the men, the U-boat will get away, and sink more ships. If they start dropping depth charges NOW, then the survivors will die, but there is a chance of sinking the sub. They drop the charges.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_184dc16f	comment	In armageddon of The Salvation War, during the final major battle in Hell (the humans against Beelzebub's army) several Russian BMP's called for artillery on their own position. Turned out better than expected for them since the incoming shells were full of sarin gas and a fully locked down BMP is gas tight (no air in). On the other hand, it didn't work out so well for those who didn't get the radio message.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_1b386512	comment	Sometimes, Ranma ½ will have bitter foes teaming up to take down a common (and invariably much more dangerous) enemy. Then one of them will get hit by the other's friendly fire, starting up another fight between them while the actual enemy stares from the background.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_1bdeba5a	comment	In one X-Men comic, Cameron Hodge tried to goad Cable into shooting him through Psylocke. He failed, and good that he did, since he was literally Made of Iron and Psylocke would have been the only fatality.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_1d367084	comment	Also done in Team Fortress Classic - except that friendly fire is in effect...and Spies look disguised even to their own team.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_222c2051	comment	In an episode of Chuck, a particularly inconvenient air strike led to a near miss Out of the Inferno situation and a lot of Stuff Blowing Up.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	In Heroes, the puppetmaster Eric Doyle was defeated by having Claire's mother shoot her. Lucky for them, Doyle didn't know Claire has a Healing Factor.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_30a5ebfd	comment	This trope is turned on its head in Naruto by Akatsuki members Hidan and Kakuzu. Hidan, a Combat Sadomasochist armed with a triple-pronged scythe and voodoo-doll like powers attacks foes close up, his partner, Kakuzu, a master of Elemental Powers, shoots at Hidan and his opponent locked in combat. What makes this exceptional is that Hidan is functionally immortal, so it's really only dangerous to their opponents.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_32c541e6	comment	In Fullmetal Alchemist, this is what finally manages to put a wound in King Bradley/Wrath. Bradley is holding a half-dead Fu in front of him, when Buccaneer stabs his sword straight through the old man's back, wounding the Homunculus in the process. Turns out the only way to hurt someone who could use his Perfect Eye to see all movements and predict all situations was hitting him from where he could not see.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_4522fd1	comment	Whateley Universe: One of the reasons that all the surviving Dragonslayers are at least mildly insane is the number of times their Communications Officer, God's Messenger, had to call in artillery and/or air strikes on their own position.Supposedly, on at least one occasion, rather than 'danger-close', he called it as 'danger-stupid', adding, 'lock my coordinates and fire for effect!'.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_45f82460	comment	Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan: The whole battle basically consists of this as in real life, but at two points things get really desperate: With Eleven Platoon about to be overrun, Sergeant Bob Buick calls the guns in on his own position. Major Smith has to (reluctantly) endorse this request, and it visibly costs him to do it. Later on, the rest of the company find themselves just as deep in trouble, and Morrie Stanley orders the shellfire in "danger close". When the gunners demur, a stressed-out Stanley shouts into the radio "Fire the fucking guns where we want, or you're gonna lose the lot of us!"
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: In Hogfather, when Teatime is armed with Death's sword that can cut anything and in the presence of a dreamed-of chance to kill The Grim Reaper himself (not to mention the children Susan is responsible for), Susan, in desperation as much as anything, throws the poker (imbued with the children's belief that it can kill monsters), right through Death - showing that Death isn't a monster and the completely-human Teatime is. Death's been a fairly sympathetic character for a while by that point, but even so, Susan admits that she was only "reasonably confident" that it would work.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_49f8e061	comment	In The Green Berets, a forward base is being overrun and the base commander calls an airstrike on his own command post. However, friendly forces evacuate in time.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: Invoked when Quirky Bard Elan and his Evil Twin Nale are duelling. One of them (Nale) tells Vaarsuvius, the team's wizard, to blast both of them, as it's the only way to be sure the evil twin gets hit. The other accuses him of only saying that to convince Vaarsuvius that he's the good twin. Defied when Vaarsuvius Takes A Third Option. While fighting vampires, Hilgya casts a Chaos Hammer spell centered on V, who is being attacked by the vampires. In the backstory as described by Lord Shojo, Soon Kim told Dorukan to cast a rift-sealing spell while Soon himself and Kraagor were dangerously close to the rift. Soon survived; Kraagor didn't.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_59c97fba	comment	We Were Soldiers has this trope when the commander had to call in "Broken Arrow," massive emergency air support, to stop an enemy attack about to overrun their position. Unfortunately, one of the soldiers calling in airstrikes has one that comes too close and some fellow soldiers are hit by the friendly fire. While the soldier is obviously distraught, the commander tells him to not worry about that and keep going since the entire unit's survival is at stake.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_5ada53ed	comment	James Bond In Die Another Day, Bond ends up shooting M to get at the guy behind. Turns out it was a simulation, with M receiving Only a Flesh Wound in the process. In the opening sequence of Skyfall, Eve is trying to line up a sniper shot on a mook Bond is fighting atop a train about to enter a tunnel. However, Bond is fighting the mook in hand-to-hand combat, so she can't gurantee who she'll hit, and there's no time to realign. Despite Eve's hesitation, M orders the shot be taken, so Eve shoots. Bond is hit, and the mook gets off unscathed, setting off the events of the film. (He somehow survives, of course.)
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_5c897f4a	comment	Schlock Mercenary: Just from the comic's Big Book of War there are two relevant entries: The defictionalized version of the book contains some annotations on the margins. Maxim 5 has some by Karl Tagon: That "page" becomes the Titan Wall, a massive monument of 4.5 thousand tons of titanium. The most important incident that Tagon Junior still bears a grudge about happened during the opening salvo of the terraforming wars, when Kaff Tagon's girlfriend turned out to have been packed full of weaponized nanotech. She infected Karl's wife, Karl noticed what was going on, sealed his armor, grappled the two and commanded his son to throw an incendiary grenade to burn both of them and the expanding cloud of nanites. Kaff hesitated and Karl let go of the girlfriend to reach for his own grenades, which gave her enough time to spit the nanites at the other people in the room. The entire family died except for Kaff and Karl, with both of them blaming the other and making little attempt to hide it.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_5fc0e68d	comment	Happens twice in the final battle against the Guild in Last Exile: Sophia orders the Sylvanas to shoot its way through the downed Urbania in order to not crash into it while they are charing Dalphine's warship. Moments later they shoot said warship only to learn just too late that Sylvanas' captured captian, Alex, was on board. And Alex's last words upon seeing the Sylvanas approaching were for her to open fire.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_63230cb	comment	Dragon Ball Z Abridged: Goku asks Piccolo to warn him before he fires so that he can get out of the way and leave Raditz to die alone, but Piccolo simply kills them both instead and proceeds to kidnap Goku's son as part of a plot to take over the world.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_6535218b	comment	A variation occurs in Red Storm Rising. As the NATO soldiers on Iceland are being overrun by Soviet troops, their newly arrived air support is forced to strafe dangerously close to the good guys' position. It's so close, in fact, that The Hero, Lt. Edwards, is nicked by shrapnel.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_6698027c	comment	In Beneath Hill 60, Pte. Tiffin has been trapped in a collapsed mine shortly before the explosion is set to be detonated. Unable to dig him out in time, the team beg Woodward to delay firing until Tiffin has been freed. Woodward, knowing what the consequences would be after months of careful planning, sets off the explosives, killing Tiffin.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: At least one Wizard has centered the Fireball spell on themselves in order to save the rest of the party. Note that some editions allow builds that can exclude certain areas from area spells, and suddenly a desperation move becomes an everyday strategy. Also a tactic when you have a Totem Barbarian that has taken Bear as their first totem. With Danger Sense giving them a chance at quartering the damage, they have a decent chance of outlasting the enemy. Also good with a Rogue or other class that has the Evasion feature. With a high Reflex save, they stand a good chance of taking no damage at all.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_6cd3b44f	comment	In Black Lagoon when Fabiola displays her combat skills on the Columbians, their leader orders a car-mounted machine gunner open fire on the bar while he's still inside.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_747d9a6f	comment	[PROTOTYPE]: Blackwatch has no qualms against "burning" their own to stop the spread of The Virus. Alex even gets an ability later that lets him impersonate a grunt, point at anyone and shout "It's him!!". Every soldier around immediately unloads on the poor schmuck. Yup, even if it's just another grunt. Heck, even if it's their commanding officer. Better safe than hideously dismembered by an abomination unto the eyes of God.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_7f87dafc	comment	In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, Lt. Badgiruel at one point orders a missile strike while Kira is in the blast radius, the reason being that Kira was overwhelmed by his opponents and needed some assistance. She reasons that he will be fine because his mobile suit has Phase Shift armor meant to resist such attacks (but is by no means invulnerable to them). Andrew Waltfeld, the enemy commander, wonders whether the Archangel doesn't care about the life of their pilot, or if they have such trust in his abilities that they know he will not be harmed by such tactics.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_8c264362	comment	In the opening sequence of Skyfall, Eve is trying to line up a sniper shot on a mook Bond is fighting atop a train about to enter a tunnel. However, Bond is fighting the mook in hand-to-hand combat, so she can't gurantee who she'll hit, and there's no time to realign. Despite Eve's hesitation, M orders the shot be taken, so Eve shoots. Bond is hit, and the mook gets off unscathed, setting off the events of the film. (He somehow survives, of course.)
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_8d81bb26	comment	In NCIS, Gibbs had tracked down a spy within NCIS. Her operator, though, had grabbed her as a human shield. With the standard dramatic pauses, he finally shot through her and killed the bad guy, and her too. Though in Gibbs' defense he only shoots her after he sees her mouthing for him to shoot.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_91209b29	comment	In Xenosaga, Kos-mos shoots through a team member to kill an enemy when she calculates it to be more efficient.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_9432814f	comment	During the climax of Flight of the Intruder, Lieutenant Commander Virgil "Tiger" Cole, already badly wounded, realizes that a nearby NVA antiaircraft vehicle knows where he is and is using him to lure the Combat Search and Rescue helicopter into their kill zone. He pops smoke, then radios the AD-1 Skyraiders circling overhead to blast his position off the face of the Earth.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_a02270dc	comment	Parodied in 8-Bit Theater when Black Mage orders Fighter to attack a dragon they planned to blast with spells.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_a037ae41	comment	Fate/Zero has Kiritsugu shoot down a jumbo jet full of undead and Natalia, the woman he sees as a mother, rather than risk the undead spreading after it landed.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_a4a6b86a	comment	In Code Geass, after Suzaku is immobilized but has caught Zero, the Britannian military orders him to keep them both there so they can bomb the area and kill them both together. This result is only avoided by Lelouch using his Geass to force Suzaku to save them. This is more due to apparent racism against Suzaku (an Honorary Britannian-A Japanese citizen that's in the Britannian military) as well as hatred of Zero, and Princess Euphemia herself tries to stop the bombing.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_a660fd96	comment	A villainous example occurs in Avengers: Endgame. Thanos, being slowly ripped apart and tortured by Scarlet Witch in retaliation for what his alternate self did to her beloved in Infinity War, calls in panic for a massive airstrike on her position. When informed by Corvus Glaive what the consequences will be for his own side, he tells him to do it anyway. It's a small price to pay considering what he intends to do if he survives and wins.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_a796bde8	comment	Played perfectly straight in Metal Gear Solid. Shortly after Grey Fox takes out MG's radome, Snake is put in this position, complete with Liquid's comment "Can you really shoot? You'll kill him too!" Needless to say, you can't pull the trigger (or whatever the equivalent is on missile launchers). There is a subversion that's possible, though. If Snake has at least one missile remaining, he'll mentally berate himself if you try to pull the trigger by thinking "It's no good, I can't do it!" If, however, you have no missiles left, he'll mentally berate himself by thinking "It's no good, I'm out of missiles." As if he could, but lacks the ammo.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_b9aa11da	comment	The film Bat*21 has Gene Hackman's character calling down an air strike on a massing of enemy troops, despite the reconnaissance pilot's warning that it's too close. Though, it's probably more inexperience than bravado.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_bcadd7cb	comment	The Warhammer 40,000 Apocalypse asset Fire On My Coordinates, available to the Imperial Guard, allows them to drop an orbital strike on a friendly unit who is being overrun. Commander Chenkov is quite famed for dealing with the enemy by flooding them with human waves. One of his favored tactics of a slightly different variety is to surround the enemy command forces with troops in close-range to stop them from slipping away and then leveling the entire area with artillery fire. Unlike other examples of the trope, Chenkov is more executing the trope because he chooses to instead of needing to.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_bff01809	comment	The Skaven in Warhammer are the only faction allowed to shoot into close combat, because they don't really care about their expendable Mooks. The rule is called either "Life is cheap" or "Coratteral damage".
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_c0d295c4	comment	A common maneuver in Team Fortress 2 is the "spycheck": attack your supposed teammate. If he doesn't flicker in enemy colors (or in the case of getting blasted by the flamethrower, catch on fire), then he really was on your side after all. (Fortunately, in this game you are Friendly Fireproof, so spychecking—or running at a supposed teammate to see if you no-clip through them—is highly recommended.) Also done in Team Fortress Classic - except that friendly fire is in effect...and Spies look disguised even to their own team.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_c4076b9e	comment	Gunslinger Girl. Terrorist Big Bad Dante tries to use Rico's handler as a Human Shield against his cyborg, who is brainwashed to protect him at all costs. However Jean had earlier instructed Rico to kill Dante (who had killed Jean's family years before with a car bomb) even at the cost of their own lives. Rico decides to Shoot the Hostage. With an anti-tank rifle.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_c43df4d8	comment	The Doctor of Doctor Who has occasionally found himself in this type of position. Most notably, it was revealed that in the Time War he locked all of the fighting in a inescapable loop, dooming everyone in it to eternally repeat the fighting. This included not only the Daleks and the Evil time-lords, but all his friends and family. In the End of Time he was forced to repeat his choice. After the trauma of the war, it perhaps explains why he hesitated so much in making a similar choice again, if it meant the death of his companion Rose. He got out of it the first time; the second he tricked her in to being sent home, while still leaving himself and Captain Jack Harkness to die.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_ccf875f7	comment	A much less extreme example, but in the Criminal Minds episode LDSK, Hotch does first verbally devastate and then physically kick the shit out of Reid in order to gain the trust of a sniper who's taken both of them hostage. And so Reid can get Hotch's backup gun from his ankle holster.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_d31cdea	comment	At the end of the first Hunger Games book, Cato has Peeta in his grip, and Katniss cannot kill him without also killing Peeta. She shoots Cato in the hand instead, and he lets go.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_d3b17858	comment	Also a stock-standard maneuver in Final Fantasy Tactics, where non-Summon Magic spells hit anyone caught in the blast zone regardless of allegiance. While sometimes you might want to get away from a targeted enemy to avoid damage to your adjacent units, you might also decide to weather the damage if it will take out the enemy. In fact, two favorite techniques among players are to target your own unit with a spell, then send it rushing into the thick of enemy forces, or just going ahead and blasting everyone in the battlefield with a Calculator. Protecting them with magic-absorbing equipment is optional.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_d461f757	comment	A variant appears in the Battlestar Galactica pilot:
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_d5f03f8d	comment	A common manoeuver in Worms, a game that includes both teams of characters and various weapons of mass destruction. A deadly combination.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_e694aadb	comment	In the Ciaphas Cain short story "The Beguiling," Cain calls down an artillery barrage on a finishing school he'd just left. The students are actually Slaaneshi cultists who'd created a daemonhost. He mentions several of these incidents when serving with Colonel Mostrue, one of the few people suspecting he's the self-serving weasel he describes himself as, and who has very little problem with speedily authorizing an artillery barrage on Cain's position. Both of the audio dramas end with Cain ordering an airstrike, and telling the attackers to use his combead signal to tell them where to shoot. Of course, he then immediately removes the combead, leaves it in the target area, and runs like heck.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_ec28245c	comment	In Dragon Ball Z, Subverted during Goku and Piccolo's fight against Raditz — the only way to kill Raditz was for Piccolo to shoot him with his Special Beam Cannon while Goku was holding onto Raditz from behind. Goku does indeed make the sacrifice willingly, but Piccolo wanted to kill him anyway, and only regrets that Goku can come back to life afterwards. Goku exploits this trope in his fight against Cell. Cell has announced his intention to kill everyone on the planet one by one should he win, so when Goku starts charging up a Kamehame Hadouken at an angle that would destroy the Earth if actually fired, it gets Cell so taken aback by Goku's seeming willingness to go for the Mercy Kill of the planet and its population that he's caught completely off-guard when Goku teleports right next to him, Kamehame Hadouken ready to go at an angle that leaves no one aside from Cell in the beam. No. Goku wouldn't blow up the planet — he just needs you to think he would.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_eddcc845	comment	A "call in an air strike on your own base" occurs near the end of Platoon. As North Vietnamese Army troops are overrunning a U.S. base, the commander orders a U.S. jet overhead to "expend all remaining" ordnance inside the base's perimeter. The ordnance turns out to include napalm, which incinerates almost everyone.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_fd49dcff	comment	In Die Another Day, Bond ends up shooting M to get at the guy behind. Turns out it was a simulation, with M receiving Only a Flesh Wound in the process.
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Trial by Friendly Fire / int_ff9ab17f	comment	The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Best of Both Worlds Part 1" ends with Commander Riker ordering an all-out attack on the Borg ship, even though Captain Picard is being held on board. (Un)fortunately, the attack is completely ineffective precisely BECAUSE Picard is aboard the enemy ship and has had all his knowledge of Star Fleet defenses and attack plans absorbed as part of his assimilation into the Borg.
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