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When the hero lets the Big Bad go, or refuses to off a dangerous character (thanks to the Karmic Death scenario), he will sometimes be quite depressed that justice wasn't served. Invariably, his Lancer will tell him, "You did the right thing". Invariably, this will never satisfy the hero. A common subversion is to have the speech of this type, then have the hero say, "I was out of bullets," or other conveyance that he was unable, rather than unwilling, to kill. Also see I Did What I Had to Do. Compare with Not Quite the Right Thing in what either is or seems to be the right thing doesn't bring good results. Contrast You Did Everything You Could. |
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Said by the detectives to many a suspect on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit who decides to cooperate and help nail the worst bad guy. | |
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In Bleach, Kaien's last words to Rukia as she performsnote In the manga, her sword is at her side, and she has to stab him as he's lunging at her. In the anime, he seems to fall on her sword a Mercy Kill on him as he is possessed by Metastacia. Rukia mentally disagrees with this, as she believes that she ran away (on her and Kaien's captain's orders) because she was afraid to face him, came back because she couldn't bear the shame of doing nothing and stabbed him because she was unable to see him in pain, and bears the weight of her guilt for years. While she earns his siblings' forgiveness, she later learns that Metastacia's body returned to Hueco Mundo and got absorbed by Aaroniero, with Kaien's body and memories along with it. Rukia realizes she could not even say she was freeing him by doing so, leading her to once again question what she did and have a temporary Heroic BSoD. | |
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In Girls und Panzer, Yukari has this opinion about Miho's decision to abandon the flag tank in the finals of the last tankery tournament to save the crew of another one from drowning, resulting in her old school being defeated for the first time in a decade, and her decision to transfer and give up tankery. She says that the teammates Miho saved are likely grateful for Miho's decision, and she is proven correct. | |
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CSI: NY: In "And Here's to You, Mrs. Azrael," Mac tells Sheldon that his father, who was in severe pain from being in the final stages of lung cancer at the time, had begged him to turn off his life support system, but he couldn't bring himself to do it. His distressed look implies that he feels guilty for letting his father suffer. Sheldon, being a doctor, tells him he did the right thing by letting him live a little longer. | |
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In Osmosis Jones, Jones eventually reveals to Drix why he was suspended. When Frank ate a contaminated oyster, Jones noticed that a dangerous microbe came along for the ride. Jones immediately triggered Frank's vomit response to get the pathogen out of Frank. The resulting fallout cost Frank his job and made Shane's reputation at her school drop. Drix tells Jones that he did the right thing, pointing out that the pathogens on contaminated shellfish are very dangerous. | |
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In the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode "Bouncing Back", both Coulson and Simmons try to assure Fitz that he did the right thing in destroying Will once it was revealed he was a walking corpse possessed by Hive. | |
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Stated word-for-word by Kermit the Frog, playing as Captain Smollet, in Muppet Treasure Island after Jim Hawkins lets Long John Silver escape with the treasure. Moments later we learn that out of the Hispanola's jolly boats, Silver took the one that was... unsafe. | |
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Near the end of Neon Genesis Evangelion, Misato tells Shinji he did the right thing after killing the 17th Angel. Seeing as the 17th was also the only person in the show who showed any kind of unconditional affection for Shinji, and Shinji was in truly desperate need of affection from anyone, this just serves to break Shinji even further and sends him over the Despair Event Horizon. | |
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In the S.W.A.T. episode, Never Again, due to a core part of his upbringing, Hondo is left shaken after he fatally shoots one of a crew of Israeli veterans turned bank robbers, only to realise the robber was a woman. Deacon talks him out of it by pointing out the woman was shooting back at them, and it was a choice between killing her or putting other police officers and civilians in danger. | |
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In Fallout: New Vegas, after bringing Boone to Coyote Tail Ridge, where he participated in the Bitter Springs Massacre and killed several of the Great Khans' non-combatants, you're given the option to effectively tell him this, saying the only thing he did wrong was not bringing enough ammo. Doing so not only angers Boone, it gives you evil karma. | |
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In Perfection Is Overrated, similar to the My-HiME example above, Mai tells this to Shizuru after killing Hitomi's child to save her and Natsuki results in Hitomi's own death, saying that Shizuru, like she did back when she destroyed Alyssa's Child, chose to do what she believed to be right. | |
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Dr. McCoy pretty much says this in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock after Kirk is forced to self-destruct the Enterprise. | |
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Thor: Ragnarok: At the end, when Thor and the refugees watch Asgard burn, Thor whispers "What have I done?", but Heimdall assures him that he saved Asgard from extinction. | |
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In Call of Duty: Black Ops II, you're given a Sadistic Choice as Farid. Either you shoot Harper to maintain Farid's cover, or attempt to shoot Menendez and get shot to death for trying. Choosing the former will have Mason tell Farid that he had no choice. Farid, still in shock, is then led away by Salazar. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender Said by Iroh to Zuko when he gives up on his latest crazy scheme to find Aang... an episode before the stress of doing something so against his Determinator nature drives him into a feverish frenzy. Later said by Aang to Katara following her Sword over Head moment with her mother's killer. Subverted, as it left no reassurance for her. She even questions why she did it. Aang reassures her himself, however. Iroh tells Aang that he did the right thing by abandoning his training, possibly locking him out of the Avatar State in order to pursue his love for Katara. He mentions that, in his experience, power is overrated compared to love. |
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In Mass Effect 2, the loyalty missions sometimes offer the opportunity to say this on Paragon options (Renegade has less concern over morality or squadmates' feelings) when you talk your squadmates out of doing something you believe they will regret, such as in Garrus' loyalty mission, in which you can persuade him not to kill the teammate who betrayed him and led to the rest of their group's deaths. At the end of the game, if you destroy the Collector base, the rest of the group will unanimously approve regardless of how moral or loyal to Cerberus they are. | |
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Ezylryb sums it up well for Soren in Legend Of The Guardians The Owls Of Ga Hoole after the latter kills Metalbeak. | |
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Animorphs Twice, after the war. Jake's most heinous act by far was flushing the Pool ship's pool into space, which killed approximately seventeen thousand unhosted Yeerks. After the battle, Cassie meets with Erek, who is shocked and disgusted that Jake would do such a thing. Defending Jake, Cassie heatedly replies that Jake "did what he had to do": Similarly, during the war crimes trial of Visser One, one of the Visser's defense lawyers says that Jake himself should be under indictment as a war criminal for his actions. Jake, who has been clinically depressed for some time due to guilt, is cut deeply by this remark. Cassie, Marco and Ax later tell him that his actions were, if not wholly moral, were completely necessary; furthermore, Cassie makes the case that "you can't equate the victim and the perpetrator" when it comes to war crimes. The book itself leaves things a bit more up to reader interpretation, and it's obvious that the characters saying so were significantly less sure of what they were saying than they would like to be. |
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Inverted in Ender's Game, when Ender needs reassurance from Bean that he did the right thing in completely crushing Bonzo. | |
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Said by Midori to Mai in My-HiME at the start of the HiME Carnival arc when Nao reminds her of what happened to Alyssa, whose child Mai had destroyed. After she leaves, Midori told Mai that she had no choice, since Alyssa was planning to nuke the school from orbit (it was the only way to be sure). And the fact that they didn't know what destroying a Child does at the time. Unbeknownst to them, the victim was, rather than anyone innocent, the head of the Searrs foundation responsible for the entire invasion and a conspiracy to control the HiME Star. | |
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Criminal Minds: In Hashtag'', Morgan has to shoot a teenage Unsub to save the life of a hostage. He briefly angsts about shooting a kid before Hotch reassures him doing so is the only reason the hostage survived. In ''Pariahville, when Tara Lewis is struggling with having fatally shot someone for the first time, Morgan reminds her that the Unsub was holding a teenage girl hostage at knifepoint, and insists Lewis did the right thing by killing him the moment she had a clean shot. |
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The Martian: When Commander Lewis first contacted Watney after learning he was still alive on Mars, she took responsibility for his being stranded, and promised to buy him a beer if he got back to Earth. Watney's reply: | |
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Used by Slim at the end of Of Mice and Men. | |
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Myst has two cases of this. One Bad Ending is a subversion, where the person you help proceeds to gloat. The other one involves you handing a needed page to Atrus's linking book to Myst so that he can deal with his sons' betrayal, and is played much more straight. | |
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When Anakin ends up beheading Count Dooku in Revenge of the Sith, he gets a bit bent up about it considering it wasn't the Jedi way. Palpatine, however, ensures him that he did the right thing, since Dooku was far too dangerous. Of course, this might be Not Quite the Right Thing, as this ends up being one step for Anakin in turning to the dark side. | |
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Babylon 5 Zack is acting as a double agent between the legitimate forces of government and the Knight Templar forces looking to overthrow them. Just about everyone tells him he's doing the right thing at one time or another. He finds this less than comforting. In an earlier episode, a doctor kills an escaped prisoner in self-defense. Franklin tells her "You did the right thing," she replies "I did the necessary thing, this is not the same as the right thing." Londo tells Vir something similar to the doctor's response after he assassinates Emperor Cartagia. Londo also notes that the fact that doing this made Vir sick to his stomach is proof that Vir's soul is far pure than Londo's own. |
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Gravity Falls: Near the end of "Boss Mabel", Mabel finally loses her temper and starts barking orders like Stan. | |
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