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*In Creator/AgathaChristie's Literature/AMurderIsAnnounced, Miss Blalock is usually nice, but she isn't good, while Miss Marple isn't always nice, but she's good.
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--->''Pray you never face a good man. He'll kill you without a word.

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--->''Pray you never face a good man. He'll kill you without a word.''
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--->''Pray you never face a good man. He'll kill you without a word.
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** Even Carrot qualifies at times, such as when he kills [[spoiler:Dr. Cruces]] in ''Literature/MenAtArms'', and upbraids Colon at the end of ''Literature/TheFifthElephant''.

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** Even Carrot qualifies at times, such as when he kills [[spoiler:Dr. Cruces]] in ''Literature/MenAtArms'', and upbraids Colon at the end of ''Literature/TheFifthElephant''. In the former, Vimes notes that Carrot can be efficiently ruthless precisely ''because'' he's so good; he doesn't want to see his enemy suffer, he just needs them to be ''gone''.
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* In Creator/CSLewis's ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' series, the narrator points out that many who haven't been to Narnia don't believe something can be terrible and wonderful at the same time. They are wrong. We are repeatedly warned that Aslan "is not a tame lion." As the beavers tell us in the first book, he's "good", but not "safe". There is this encounter, from ''Literature/TheSilverChair,'' in which Jill Pole, a girl from our world, encounters Aslan without knowing anything about him except that he's a very large talking lion:

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* In Creator/CSLewis's ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' series, the narrator points out that many who haven't been to Narnia don't believe something can be terrible and wonderful at the same time. They are wrong. We are repeatedly warned that Aslan "is not a tame lion." As the beavers tell us in the first book, he's "good", but [[HolyIsNotSafe not "safe"."safe"]]. There is this encounter, from ''Literature/TheSilverChair,'' in which Jill Pole, a girl from our world, encounters Aslan without knowing anything about him except that he's a very large talking lion:
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* ''Literature/ACourtOfThornsAndRoses'': Nesta is not the monster that Feyre and Rhysand make her out to be, as she does care for her family, her people and the War, but she still doesnt feel the need to be polite to them or the Inner Circle. Somewhat justified, since she is traumatized and its mostly their fault.

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