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* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': ComicBook/HarleyQuinn had to decide between saving a girl's eyesight or getting codes that give her lots of money. [[spoiler:She chooses the money. But she can barely look at herself in the mirror afterwards and the girl in question deals with it better than Harley does.]]
* ''ComicBook/TheBlackRing'': During the final confrontation between Franchise/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/LexLuthor prior to ''Flashpoint'', Luthor has gained god-like power and has actually brought total peace to the cosmos. However, the Lois Lane android with him warns him that he can't do negative things like, say, ''kill Superman''. Luthor actually agonizes over before finally deciding that killing Superman is the lesser evil. All the while ComicBook/TheJoker is laughing back in Arkham, realizing that Luthor had all of that power and he ''threw it all away''.
* The first story in ''ComicBook/{{Bucky OHare|and the toad wars}}'' twists the trope a bit. There is a moment when the human boy, Willy Dewitt, tries to save his imprisoned friends by threatening to destroy vital code records. The villain turns it into a hostage situation, threatening to jettison Willy's friends into the hard vacuum of space. Willy agonizes over what to do, then cedes to his friends' urging to destroy the records, rather than save them. The villain immediately receives a copy of the records, rendering Willy's decision meaningless.
* In ''Comicbook/DoctorStrange: The Oath'', Strange has the last drop of a magic potion that can cure any disease and must choose between using it to save his friend's life or using it to make enough potion for everyone in the world.
* ''ComicBook/TheBlackRing'': During the final confrontation between Franchise/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/LexLuthor prior to ''Flashpoint'', Luthor has gained god-like power and has actually brought total peace to the cosmos. However, the Lois Lane android with him warns him that he can't do negative things like, say, ''kill Superman''. Luthor actually agonizes over before finally deciding that killing Superman is the lesser evil. All the while ComicBook/TheJoker is laughing back in Arkham, realizing that Luthor had all of that power and he ''threw it all away''.
* The first story in ''ComicBook/{{Bucky OHare|and the toad wars}}'' twists the trope a bit. There is a moment when the human boy, Willy Dewitt, tries to save his imprisoned friends by threatening to destroy vital code records. The villain turns it into a hostage situation, threatening to jettison Willy's friends into the hard vacuum of space. Willy agonizes over what to do, then cedes to his friends' urging to destroy the records, rather than save them. The villain immediately receives a copy of the records, rendering Willy's decision meaningless.
* In ''Comicbook/DoctorStrange: The Oath'', Strange has the last drop of a magic potion that can cure any disease and must choose between using it to save his friend's life or using it to make enough potion for everyone in the world.
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* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': ComicBook/HarleyQuinn had to decide between saving a girl's eyesight or getting codes that give her lots of money. [[spoiler:She chooses the money. But she can barely look at herself in the mirror afterwards and the girl in question deals with it better than Harley does.]]
*''ComicBook/TheBlackRing'': During the final confrontation between Franchise/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/LexLuthor prior to ''Flashpoint'', Luthor has gained god-like power and has actually brought total peace to the cosmos. However, the Lois Lane android with him warns him that he can't do negative things like, say, ''kill Superman''. Luthor actually agonizes over before finally deciding that killing Superman is the lesser evil. All the while ComicBook/TheJoker is laughing back in Arkham, realizing that Luthor had all of that power and he ''threw it all away''.
* The first story in ''ComicBook/{{Bucky OHare|and the toad wars}}'' twists the trope a bit.''ComicBook/BuckyOHareAndTheToadWars'': Subverted. There is a moment when the human boy, Willy Dewitt, tries to save his imprisoned friends by threatening to destroy vital code records. The villain turns it into a hostage situation, threatening to jettison Willy's friends into the hard vacuum of space. Willy agonizes over what to do, then cedes to his friends' urging to destroy the records, rather than save them. The villain immediately receives a copy of the records, rendering Willy's decision meaningless.
* In''Comicbook/DoctorStrange: ''ComicBook/DoctorStrange: The Oath'', Strange has the last drop of a magic potion that can cure any disease and must choose between using it to save his friend's life or using it to make enough potion for everyone in the world.
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* The first story in ''ComicBook/{{Bucky OHare|and the toad wars}}'' twists the trope a bit.
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* ''ComicBook/SupermansPalJimmyOlsen'':
** In "Superman's Phantom Pal", Jimmy gets a chance to see Superman changing into his Secret Identity. As Clark points out afterwards, this would be "scoop of the century", but it would betray his friend's trust. Jimmy opts to shut his eyes.
** In "The Legends that Came to Life", some magical phlebotinum affects the studio of a game show Jimmy is participating in, causing the answers to become real. After escaping death when the living legends use him as bait for a kryptonite trap, Jimmy runs back to the studio...because he's figured out what's going on. Once there, he gives the wrong answer in order to create a new Superman to save his friend.
** In "Superman's Phantom Pal", Jimmy gets a chance to see Superman changing into his Secret Identity. As Clark points out afterwards, this would be "scoop of the century", but it would betray his friend's trust. Jimmy opts to shut his eyes.
** In "The Legends that Came to Life", some magical phlebotinum affects the studio of a game show Jimmy is participating in, causing the answers to become real. After escaping death when the living legends use him as bait for a kryptonite trap, Jimmy runs back to the studio...because he's figured out what's going on. Once there, he gives the wrong answer in order to create a new Superman to save his friend.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
** In ''ComicBook/Superboy1949'' #90, Pete Ross is invited to his popular, wealthy classmate Joe's big costume party...on the condition that Pete doesn't bring his dull friend Clark Kent along. Pete retorts he is not going anywhere without his best friend, and Joe threatens to scratch him off his guest list forever if Pete rejects his invitation. Pete suggests Joe to go and do that, and goes skating with Clark.
** ''ComicBook/SupermansPalJimmyOlsen'':
** *** In #62 "Superman's Phantom Pal", Jimmy gets a chance to see Superman changing into his Secret Identity. As Clark points out afterwards, this would be "scoop of the century", but it would betray his friend's trust. Jimmy opts to shut his eyes.
** *** In issue #33 "The Legends that Came to Life", some magical phlebotinum affects the studio of a game show Jimmy is participating in, causing the answers to become real. After escaping death when the living legends use him as bait for a kryptonite trap, Jimmy runs back to the studio...because he's figured out what's going on. Once there, he gives the wrong answer in order to create a new Superman to save his friend.
** In ''ComicBook/Superboy1949'' #90, Pete Ross is invited to his popular, wealthy classmate Joe's big costume party...on the condition that Pete doesn't bring his dull friend Clark Kent along. Pete retorts he is not going anywhere without his best friend, and Joe threatens to scratch him off his guest list forever if Pete rejects his invitation. Pete suggests Joe to go and do that, and goes skating with Clark.
** ''ComicBook/SupermansPalJimmyOlsen'':
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Of course, a true hero will choose to save his friend over taking the treasure every single time. (Besides, [[StatusQuoIsGod it wouldn't be wise]] to resolve a whole major ongoing plotline [[SpoiledByTheFormat right in the middle of the season]], now would it? Or to lose any of the regulars, either.) It's very rare that the hero manages to TakeAThirdOption and do both; that's usually reserved for a GrandFinale or situations where a villain forces a hero to make a SadisticChoice. It's even rarer when the friend, and everyone else for that matter, pushes for the hero to choose the idol when the stakes are that high. Further down the line of [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism cynisim]], the hero forgoes their friend and takes the idol, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone regretting it later]], or sometimes learns to late that [[AmbitionIsEvil the treasure wasn't worth it]]... or they [[FallenHero become something worse]]. The rarest and most cynical option is for the hero to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere abandon both the treasure and the friend]].
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Of course, a true hero will choose to save his friend over taking the treasure every single time. (Besides, [[StatusQuoIsGod it wouldn't be wise]] to resolve a whole major ongoing plotline [[SpoiledByTheFormat right in the middle of the season]], now would it? Or to lose any of the regulars, either.) It's very rare that the hero manages to TakeAThirdOption and do both; that's usually reserved for a GrandFinale or situations where a villain forces a hero to make a SadisticChoice. It's even rarer when the friend, and everyone else for that matter, pushes for the hero to choose the idol when the stakes are that high. Further down the line of [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism cynisim]], cynicism]], the hero forgoes their friend and takes the idol, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone regretting it later]], or sometimes learns to late that [[AmbitionIsEvil the treasure wasn't worth it]]... or they [[FallenHero become something worse]]. The rarest and most cynical option is for the hero to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere abandon both the treasure and the friend]].
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* Subverted in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' when Da Boyz are ordered by Agatha to stop the Jaegar (apparently) attacking the town, and she throws Othar Tryggvassen (GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER!) at them, saying "Dis vill slow hyu down!" [[TheNotCatch It doesn't]]. (And since [[spoiler: the whole "attacking the town" thing was a misunderstanding and she and Da Boyz were actually working together]], she probably never expected it to.)
-->'''Oggie'''': Sorry, vos ve supposed to ''catch'' him?\\
'''Maxim''': I dunno. ''I'' don't like him.
-->'''Oggie'''': Sorry, vos ve supposed to ''catch'' him?\\
'''Maxim''': I dunno. ''I'' don't like him.
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* ''Webcomic/MarbleGateDungeon'': Randulf faces one [[https://marblegate.webcomic.ws/comics/328 here]]: the seerabellums might be able to find the specific dungeon floor he has spent decades trying to find again, but they demand that he allow them to sacrifice Coleen to their dark god before they will help him.
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Of course, a true hero will choose to save his friend over taking the treasure every single time. (Besides, [[StatusQuoIsGod it wouldn't be wise]] to resolve a whole major ongoing plotline [[SpoiledByTheFormat right in the middle of the season]], now would it? Or to lose any of the regulars, either.) It's very rare that the hero manages to TakeAThirdOption and do both; that's usually reserved for a GrandFinale or situations where a villain forces a hero to make a SadisticChoice. It's even rarer when the friend, and everyone else for that matter, pushes for the hero to choose the idol when the stakes are that high. Further down the line of [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism cynisim]], the hero forgoes their friend and takes the idol, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone regretting it later]], or sometimes learns to late that [[AmbitionIsEvil the treasure wasn't worth it]]... or they [[FallenHero become something worse]]. The rarest and most cynical option is for the hero to abandon both the treasure and the friend.
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Of course, a true hero will choose to save his friend over taking the treasure every single time. (Besides, [[StatusQuoIsGod it wouldn't be wise]] to resolve a whole major ongoing plotline [[SpoiledByTheFormat right in the middle of the season]], now would it? Or to lose any of the regulars, either.) It's very rare that the hero manages to TakeAThirdOption and do both; that's usually reserved for a GrandFinale or situations where a villain forces a hero to make a SadisticChoice. It's even rarer when the friend, and everyone else for that matter, pushes for the hero to choose the idol when the stakes are that high. Further down the line of [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism cynisim]], the hero forgoes their friend and takes the idol, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone regretting it later]], or sometimes learns to late that [[AmbitionIsEvil the treasure wasn't worth it]]... or they [[FallenHero become something worse]]. The rarest and most cynical option is for the hero to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere abandon both the treasure and the friend.
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