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* ''Fanfic/OniGaShikuSeries'': When Izuku was four or five years old, he saw a movie where the hero saves the villain's life, and he's incredibly confused by it because [[BlackAndWhiteMorality villains are the bad guys]] and he doesn't get the concept of a FreudianExcuse yet even as his mom and uncle try to explain it to him. This flashback is played right after [[spoiler:Izuku [[TakingTheBullet takes a bullet]] for the crimelord who kidnapped his mom and had just pulled a HeelFaceTurn.]]
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*WebAnimation/WolfSongTheMovie: Alador challenges Zar to a one-on-one battle in order to protect his pack, and mad battle he notices a snake getting ready to strike his opponent and takes the blow instead. It's by no means fatal, but it's enough to convince Zar and his squad to switch sides and they remain with the heroes from here on out
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* ''Fanfic/MyHeroAcademiaUnchainedPredator'': Izuku and Iida plead for the Slayer to not brutally execute Shigaraki after the Slayer [[AnArmAndALeg ripped off one of his arms]] [[GrievousHarmWithABody and beat him half to death with it.]] This fails because the Slayer still ''intended'' to butcher Shigaraki had Dabi not taken Ochako hostage.
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** At the end of ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'', after Hiro and Baymax foil Yokai[[spoiler:/Callaghan's]] evil plot to get revenge on Krei [[spoiler: for seemingly killing his daughter]], by using Yokai's portal to destroy his microbots, after [[spoiler: Callaghan's]] mask is destroyed, this results in Yokai being about to be sucked into his own portal toward his doom, only for Hiro and Baymax to immediately pull him to safety just to have him be detained by the rest of Big Hero 6 until the police arrive to have him arrested, before [[spoiler: flying into the portal to try and save Callaghan's daughter Abagail, but at the risk of Baymax being damaged in the process, and thus being forced to leave him behind. Fortunately, turns out there is a backup plan to create another Baymax...]]


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* At the end of ''Sam and the Firefly'', Gus the firefly makes a hot dog man angry for sabotaging his signs with his pranks, and angrily traps the firefly in a jar, and then locks it up inside [[RhymesonaDime the back of his car.]] However, as the hot dog man speeds away, his car breaks down on a railroad track, just as a train is about to hit him. As a result, Sam the owl grabs Gus' jar and breaks it, thus allowing him to escape and persuades Gus to try to save the hot dog man by using his light to make the train stop before it runs over the hot dog man and his car. As a result, the hot dog man is grateful for Gus' bravery, so he thanks both him and Sam and forgives the firefly.

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* Invoked by Tyrion in ''VisualNovel/TyrionCuthbertAttorneyOfTheArcane'' but defied by [[spoiler:Beatrice. After he proves she's responsible for her father's death (and therefore prevents her from inheriting his assets), it's revealed she did it because she had signed a DealWithTheDevil that obliged her to claim his assets if she didn't want to suffer eternal damnation in the Abyssal Hells. Tyrion tells her that he can try to dispute the contract and save her soul, but she rejects his help. If he fails to render it null, ''his'' soul will be dragged to hell alongside hers, and she won't let anyone else die for her sake]].
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* ''Captain Easy:'' In the "Jonah" storyline, Slugg murders the captain, abuses the crew and beats many of them within an inch of their life (including Easy and Wash). Yet Easy tries to save him from the burning ship anyway.

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* ''Captain Easy:'' In the "Jonah" storyline, Slugg murders the captain, abuses the crew crew, and beats many of them within an inch of their life (including Easy and Wash). Yet Easy tries to save him from the burning ship anyway.



* ''Fanfic/AbsoluteTrust'' due to her own SanitySlippage brought about by the betrayal of her friends; Fire Lord Ozai deems that Azula was now useless to him and secretly orders for Long Feng to kill her so Azula could be turned into a Martyr for the Fire Nation. [[spoiler:Team Avatar manages to take the near-dead Azula on their escape from Ba Sing Se as Katara is forced to use the Spirit Water to heal her damaged torso. Following her learning that the Dragons she once loved as a young girl aren't all gone and that [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou Ursa actually cared about her]], it convinces Azula to perform her own HeelFaceTurn and joins Team Avatar as their Politics Teacher and as Aangs' Co-Firebending Teacher once she learnt the true meaning of Firebending from Ran and Shaw.]]

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* ''Fanfic/AbsoluteTrust'' ''Fanfic/AbsoluteTrust'': due to her own SanitySlippage brought about by the betrayal of her friends; friends, Fire Lord Ozai deems that Azula was now useless to him and secretly orders for Long Feng to kill her so Azula could be turned into a Martyr for the Fire Nation. [[spoiler:Team Avatar manages to take the near-dead Azula on their escape from Ba Sing Se as Katara is forced to use the Spirit Water to heal her damaged torso. Following her learning that the Dragons she once loved as a young girl aren't all gone and that [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou Ursa actually cared about her]], it convinces Azula to perform her own HeelFaceTurn and joins Team Avatar as their Politics Teacher and as Aangs' Aang's Co-Firebending Teacher once she learnt the true meaning of Firebending from Ran and Shaw.]]



* In ''Fanfic/BurnTheWitchMiraculousLadybug'', Marinette repeatedly attempts to protect Lila after all her lies are revealed and Rose is akumatised into Witch Hunter, who along with everyone who falls under her spell wants to burn Lila at the stake for what she's done, despite herself having plenty of motivation to let them and even Cat Noir and Tikki falling under the spell and urging her to let Lila have it. Lila herself doesn't provide much incentive to do otherwise by not only sabotaging Marinette's genuine attempts to help her, seeing them more as self-righteous and self-serving ego strokes to make the other girl look and feel better about herself, but persistently lying and slandering her, taking advantage of her parents' kindness when they let her into the bakery to snoop around Marinette's room for blackmail material and gleefully admitting to her willing alliance with Hawk Moth. Even after transforming into Ladybug and hearing that Lila tried to manipulate Oni-Chan into killing her, Marinette does not give in. Once Lila is out of imminent danger and Rose is de-akumatised, however, Ladybug makes it clear that she will be keeping a very close eye on Lila and ensuring that she can't interfere with the heroes during akuma attacks by seeking her out and dumping her in uncomfortable and humiliating places to "keep her safe" during said attacks.

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* In ''Fanfic/BurnTheWitchMiraculousLadybug'', Marinette repeatedly attempts to protect Lila after all her lies are revealed and Rose is akumatised into Witch Hunter, who along with everyone who falls under her spell wants to burn Lila at the stake for what she's done, despite herself having plenty of motivation to let them and even Cat Noir and Tikki falling under the spell and urging her to let Lila have it. [[UngratefulBastard Lila herself doesn't provide much incentive to do otherwise by not only sabotaging Marinette's genuine attempts to help her, seeing them more as self-righteous and self-serving ego strokes to make the other girl look and feel better about herself, but persistently lying and slandering her, taking advantage of her parents' kindness when they let her into the bakery to snoop around Marinette's room for blackmail material and gleefully admitting to her willing alliance with Hawk Moth.Moth]]. Even after transforming into Ladybug and hearing that Lila tried to manipulate Oni-Chan into killing her, Marinette does not give in. Once Lila is out of imminent danger and Rose is de-akumatised, however, Ladybug makes it clear that [[CruelMercy she will be keeping a very close eye on Lila and ensuring that she can't interfere with the heroes during akuma attacks by seeking her out and dumping her in uncomfortable and humiliating places to "keep her safe" during said attacks.attacks]].



** ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' provides an interesting [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] because while [[spoiler: Anna sacrifices herself to save Elsa, who struck her in the heart]], Elsa is [[AntiVillain not really evil]], and Anna [[ThePowerOfLove continued to always love Elsa]] because [[ThickerThanWater she was her sister]]. Furthermore, Anna had UndyingLoyalty towards Elsa and refused to see her as a villain. Anna only saw Elsa as a young woman who was persecuted [[BadPowersGoodPeople because of her powers]] and needed Anna to get over her fears. [[spoiler: This ActOfTrueLove also saves Anna from Elsa's curse and leads to Elsa gaining control of her powers and becoming TheHighQueen.]]

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** ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' provides an interesting [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] because while [[spoiler: Anna [[spoiler:Anna sacrifices herself to save Elsa, who struck her in the heart]], Elsa is [[AntiVillain not really evil]], and Anna [[ThePowerOfLove continued to always love Elsa]] because [[ThickerThanWater she was her sister]]. Furthermore, Anna had has UndyingLoyalty towards Elsa and refused refuses to see her as a villain. Anna only saw Elsa as a young woman who was persecuted [[BadPowersGoodPeople because of her powers]] and needed Anna to get over her fears. [[spoiler: This [[spoiler:This ActOfTrueLove also saves Anna from Elsa's curse and leads to Elsa gaining control of her powers and becoming TheHighQueen.]]



* ''WesternAnimation/Planet51'' has a climax where the AbsoluteXenophobe of a General almost succumbs to the explosion he caused to try and kill TokenHuman Chuck, u til Chuck saves his life, because “We can’t just leave him here”. This causes the General to have a HeelFaceTurn and realise that Chuck is as friendly as his friends on the planet have been saying.

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* ''WesternAnimation/Planet51'' has a climax where the AbsoluteXenophobe of a General almost succumbs to the explosion he caused to try and kill TokenHuman Chuck, u til until Chuck saves his life, because “We can’t just leave him here”. This causes the General to have a HeelFaceTurn and realise that Chuck is as friendly as his friends on the planet have been saying.



* ''WesternAnimation/SpiesInDisguise'': In the climax, Walter and [[BigBad Killian]] are airborne by way of drone when the former finally cracks through the drone's software. Killian points out that activating the kill code would doom the both of them and Walter's not a killer. [[WhatYouAreInTheDark After a few moments of deliberation, Walter agrees]], then slaps [[ChekhovsGag one of his inflatable hug]] devices onto Killian to ensure he'll survive, and [[HeroicSacrifice hits the kill code as he enters a freefall.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanVsTheElite'', Superman spends the entirety of the film trying to prove the validity of his ThouShaltNotKill philosophy, and for that reason he tries to save even the [[AdaptationalVillainy unrepentant mass murderer Atomic Skull]] from NinetiesAntiHero Manchester Black. He isn't fast enough however, and ends up [[AlasPoorVillain using his own cape as a burial shroud]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/SpiesInDisguise'': In the climax, Walter and [[BigBad Killian]] are airborne by way of drone when the former finally cracks through the drone's software. Killian points out that activating the kill code would doom the both of them and Walter's not a killer. [[WhatYouAreInTheDark After a few moments of deliberation, Walter agrees]], then slaps [[ChekhovsGag one of his inflatable hug]] devices onto Killian to ensure he'll survive, and [[HeroicSacrifice hits the kill code as he enters a freefall.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanVsTheElite'', Superman spends the entirety of the film trying to prove the validity of his ThouShaltNotKill philosophy, and for that reason reason, he tries to save even the [[AdaptationalVillainy unrepentant mass murderer Atomic Skull]] from NinetiesAntiHero Manchester Black. He isn't fast enough enough, however, and ends up [[AlasPoorVillain using his own cape as a burial shroud]].



** In the BadFuture, [[Characters/HarleyQuinnTheCharacter Harley Quinn]]'s AlternateTimeline counterpart Yo-Yo is thrown off a building by Thomas Wayne, but is saved by the WideEyedIdealist [[Characters/TeenTitansNewTeenTitans Cyborg]].

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** In the BadFuture, [[Characters/HarleyQuinnTheCharacter Harley Quinn]]'s AlternateTimeline counterpart Yo-Yo is thrown off a building by Thomas Wayne, Wayne but is saved by the WideEyedIdealist [[Characters/TeenTitansNewTeenTitans Cyborg]].



* In ''Literature/DarkLife'', Ty saves the outlaw Shade from being hanged by angry settlers--despite the fact that he still has broken ribs from his last encounter, AND the fact that only way to get the settlers to listen was by telling them all his most dangerous secret.

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* In ''Literature/DarkLife'', Ty saves the outlaw Shade from being hanged by angry settlers--despite the fact that he still has broken ribs from his last encounter, AND the fact that the only way to get the settlers to listen was by telling them all his most dangerous secret.



* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': In one of the stories in ''Code of the Clans'', the [=ShadowClan=] leader Ripplestar orders his Clan to attack the other four Clans at the Gathering. During the battle, he and the [=ThunderClan=] leader, Finchstar, are left on the Great Rock. Ripplestar slips, and Finchstar tries to save him despite what Ripplestar had done, but he falls off and dies.

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* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': In one of the stories in ''Code of the Clans'', the [=ShadowClan=] leader Ripplestar orders his Clan to attack the other four Clans at the Gathering. During the battle, he and the [=ThunderClan=] leader, Finchstar, are left on the Great Rock. Ripplestar slips, slips and Finchstar tries to save him despite what Ripplestar had done, but he falls off and dies.



* In a ScreenToStageAdaptation of ''Film/ThePinkPantherStrikesAgain'', the climax to changed so that [[spoiler:the scientist activates a self-destruct on the doomsday machine, and Dreyfus is prepared to go down with it. However, due to his morals, Inspector Clouseau is determined to either save him...or die with him. Faced with the prospect of going into and spending eternity with the man he absolutely hates, Dreyfus agrees to flee and be taken in]].

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* In a ScreenToStageAdaptation of ''Film/ThePinkPantherStrikesAgain'', the climax to is changed so that [[spoiler:the scientist activates a self-destruct on the doomsday machine, and Dreyfus is prepared to go down with it. However, due to his morals, Inspector Clouseau is determined to either save him...or die with him. Faced with the prospect of going into and spending eternity with the man he absolutely hates, Dreyfus agrees to flee and be taken in]].



* ''WebAnimation/ElementsOfJustice'': The defendant of a murder case Coco Pommel [[spoiler:regains her memory and realizes that another suspected witness, Suri Polomare, cannot have committed the murder, so she interrupts the final verdict to testify in Suri's favor. Defense attorney Phoenix Wright (along with everyone else in the courtroom) is shocked, but ultimately decides to defend both]].

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* ''WebAnimation/ElementsOfJustice'': The defendant of a murder case Coco Pommel [[spoiler:regains her memory and realizes that another suspected witness, Suri Polomare, cannot have committed the murder, so she interrupts the final verdict to testify in Suri's favor. Defense attorney Phoenix Wright (along with everyone else in the courtroom) is shocked, shocked but ultimately decides to defend both]].



* Many first-world countries such as the USA teach their soldiers that saving enemy combatants from life-threatening injuries is the moral thing to do as long as it doesn't unnecessarily endanger allied combatants. Often, though, the injured will be captured and made a POW for a wide variety of pragmatic reasons including not wanting to risk them being an UngratefulBastard and jumping back into the fight later on down the road. POW's are also supposed to be treated humanely no matter how cruel or malicious they were before their capture. A driving reason behind this is to encourage enemy surrender which in turn saves lives on both ends: if the enemy knows they will be treated humanely as a prisoner they are far less likely to fight to the death or attempt to [[TakingYouWithMe take the allied combatants with them]].

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* Many first-world countries such as the USA teach their soldiers that saving enemy combatants from life-threatening injuries is the moral thing to do as long as it doesn't unnecessarily endanger allied combatants. Often, though, the injured will be captured and made a POW for a wide variety of pragmatic reasons including not wanting to risk them being an UngratefulBastard and jumping back into the fight later on down the road. POW's [=POWs=] are also supposed to be treated humanely no matter how cruel or malicious they were before their capture. A driving reason behind this is to encourage enemy surrender which in turn saves lives on both ends: if the enemy knows they will be treated humanely as a prisoner they are far less likely to fight to the death or attempt to [[TakingYouWithMe take the allied combatants with them]].
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* At the climax of ''Literature/AngelaAndDiabola'' the EvilTwin Diabola tries to push her [[IncorruptiblePurePureness saintly]] sister Angela off of the roof of their apartment building, only to fall off herself. Angela, who [[AllLovingHero loves her sister unconditionally]], tries to pull her to safety. But Diabola only tries to pull Angela over the edge too, not caring if she dies as long as she [[TakingYouWithMe takes Angela with her.]] In her shock and horror at this realization, Angela accidentally lets go of Diabola, who plunges to her DisneyVillainDeath.
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* ''Animation/BoBoiBoyTheMovie'': Papa Zola saves J-Rex; who has been chasing him, Adu Du, and Probe, from falling off a cliff, even though they are also hanging on that cliff. After that, [[HeelFaceTurn J-Rex becomes Papa Zola's pet]].
--> '''Papa Zola:''' Justice never lets anyone fall!
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* ''Fanfic/AbsoluteTrust'' due to her own SanitySlippage brought about by the betrayal of her friends; Fire Lord Ozai deems that Azula was now useless to him and secretly orders for Long Feng to kill her so Azula could be turned into a Martyr for the Fire Nation. [[spoiler:Team Avatar manages to take the near-dead Azula on their escape from Ba Sing Se as Katara is forced to use the Spirit Water to heal her damaged torso. Following her learning that the Dragons she once loved as a young girl aren't all gone and that [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForLeavingYou Ursa actually cared about her]], it convinces Azula to perform her own HeelFaceTurn and joins Team Avatar as their Politics Teacher and as Aangs' Co-Firebending Teacher once she learnt the true meaning of Firebending from Ran and Shaw.]]

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* ''Fanfic/AbsoluteTrust'' due to her own SanitySlippage brought about by the betrayal of her friends; Fire Lord Ozai deems that Azula was now useless to him and secretly orders for Long Feng to kill her so Azula could be turned into a Martyr for the Fire Nation. [[spoiler:Team Avatar manages to take the near-dead Azula on their escape from Ba Sing Se as Katara is forced to use the Spirit Water to heal her damaged torso. Following her learning that the Dragons she once loved as a young girl aren't all gone and that [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForLeavingYou [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou Ursa actually cared about her]], it convinces Azula to perform her own HeelFaceTurn and joins Team Avatar as their Politics Teacher and as Aangs' Co-Firebending Teacher once she learnt the true meaning of Firebending from Ran and Shaw.]]
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* ''Fanfic/AbsoluteTrust'' due to her own SanitySlippage brought about by the betrayal of her friends; Fire Lord Ozai deems that Azula was now useless to him and secretly orders for Long Feng to kill her so Azula could be turned into a Martyr for the Fire Nation. [[spoiler:Team Avatar manages to take the near-dead Azula on their escape from Ba Sing Se as Katara is forced to use the Spirit Water to heal her damaged torso. Following her learning that the Dragons she once loved as a young girl aren't all gone and that [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForLeavingYou Ursa actually cared about her]], it convinces Azula to perform her own HeelFaceTurn and joins Team Avatar as their Politics Teacher and as Aangs' Co-Firebending Teacher once she learnt the true meaning of Firebending from Ran and Shaw.]]
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See also SwordOverHead, where the hero saves the villain by ''not'' doing anything, and VillainsWantMercy, where the villain ''begs'' for this trope. Contrast VillainousRescue, which is the opposite situation. Heavily contrasts RefuseToRescueTheDisliked seeing if the villains too despicable to save. When this is combined with a chance to repent, it's also a LastSecondChance.

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* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'':
** The movie starts with [[EvilCounterpart Reverse-Flash]] convincing ComicBook/TheFlash's entire RoguesGallery to form a LegionOfDoom, then [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness planting bombs on them]] to annihilate Flash along with the entire city. The rest of the Justice League shows up, and ComicBook/CaptainAtom offers to simply disintegrate the bombs but ComicBook/WonderWoman refuses to let him kill the rogues in the process, and the League risks their own lives to save them after carrying them to a safe distance. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that most of the Flash's enemies are {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s rather than psychotic mass murderers like Batman's rogues.
** In the BadFuture, [[Characters/HarleyQuinnTheCharacter Harley Quinn]]'s AlternateTimeline counterpart Yo-Yo is thrown off a building by Thomas Wayne, but is saved by the WideEyedIdealist [[Characters/TeenTitansNewTeenTitans Cyborg]].
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* In ''Fanfic/TruePotential'', Naruto ends up saving Dosu (one of the Sound Ninjas working for [[BigBad Orochimaru]]) from being killed by Gaara during the Chūnin Exams preliminaries. Hayate, Anko, and Han also step in to prevent Gaara from killing Dosu.
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* In ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'', Mr. Mighty has to [[https://web.archive.org/web/20201227193157/https://www.smackjeeves.com/discover/detail?titleNo=141697&articleNo=120 stop]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20201227193157/https://www.smackjeeves.com/discover/detail?titleNo=141697&articleNo=121 Jane]] from caving in her former boss' skull with a hammer.

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** The life debt Peter Pettigrew owes Harry thanks to Harry saving him from werewolf Lupin in ''Prisoner of Azkaban'' comes back, when Peter hesitates when he's attacking Harry.

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* ''Fanfic/KingdomHeartsTheAntipode:'' Prior to the climax of ''The Year Between'', a wounded Aqua saves Xemnas's life. {{Justified|Trope}} [[spoiler: due to her seeing a glimmer of [[OldFriend Terra]] within him.]]

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* ''Fanfic/KingdomHeartsTheAntipode:'' Prior to the climax of ''The Year Between'', a wounded Aqua saves Xemnas's life. {{Justified|Trope}} [[spoiler: due to her seeing a glimmer of [[OldFriend Terra]] within him.]]him]].



* Zigzagged in ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'': During "The Apokolips Agenda", ComicBook/LexLuthor and [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Dr. Shivana]] ask Franchise/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} to save them from ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}. Superman agrees to rescue them as long as they help them out. Sivana believes Superman is bluffing because heroes feel compelled to save everyone, including villains, but Supergirl retorts that, given the stakes, she's willing to leave them to their devices. At the end, Luthor and Sivana agree to cooperate and are rescued.

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* Zigzagged in ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'': During "The Apokolips Agenda", ComicBook/LexLuthor [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] and [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Dr. Shivana]] Sivana]] ask Franchise/{{Superman}} Characters/{{Superman|TheCharacter}} and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Characters/{{Supergirl|TheCharacter}} to save them from ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}.[[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]]. Superman agrees to rescue them as long as they help them out. Sivana believes Superman is bluffing because heroes feel compelled to save everyone, including villains, but Supergirl retorts that, given the stakes, she's willing to leave them to their devices. At the end, Luthor and Sivana agree to cooperate and are rescued.



* In ''Fanfic/FuneralForAFlash'', Wally West must save the Weather Wizard, who has been kidnapped by someone who is willing to kill him if he doesn't give up his secrets of weather control.

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* In ''Fanfic/FuneralForAFlash'', [[Characters/TheFlashWallyWest Wally West West]] must save the Weather Wizard, who has been kidnapped by someone who is willing to kill him if he doesn't give up his secrets of weather control.



* The Franchise/{{Batman}} novel "Fear Itself" double subverts this when it has Batman try this with ComicBook/TheScarecrow when Batman, the {{Love Interest|s}} of the week, Scarecrow, a henchman, and the body of a guy Scarecrow had just killed are trapped in a burning house. [[spoiler: Initially, Batman ''does'' leave Scarecrow to die in the mess he created ... But after he rescues the {{Love Interest|s}} and the Henchman, as well as carrying out the dead victim's body, he goes back for Scarecrow. He apparently doesn't succeed, but they NeverFoundTheBody and [[JokerImmunity we all know what kind of record the Bat Rogues have with death.]] ]] And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why we love Batman.

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* The Franchise/{{Batman}} novel "Fear Itself" double subverts this when it has Batman try this with ComicBook/TheScarecrow [[Characters/BatmanTheScarecrow The Scarecrow]] when Batman, the {{Love Interest|s}} of the week, Scarecrow, a henchman, and the body of a guy Scarecrow had just killed are trapped in a burning house. [[spoiler: Initially, Batman ''does'' leave Scarecrow to die in the mess he created ... But after he rescues the {{Love Interest|s}} and the Henchman, as well as carrying out the dead victim's body, he goes back for Scarecrow. He apparently doesn't succeed, but they NeverFoundTheBody and [[JokerImmunity we all know what kind of record the Bat Rogues have with death.]] ]] And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why we love Batman.



** In ''Intergalactic Games'' Franchise/WonderWoman saves Lena Luthor from a fiery DisneyDeath. She doesn't appreciate it, though.
* ''WebAnimation/ElementsOfJustice'': The defendant of a murder case Coco Pommel [[spoiler:regains her memory and realizes that another suspected witness, Suri Polomare, cannot have committed the murder, so she interrupts the final verdict to testify in Suri's favor. Defense attorney Phoenix Wright (along with everyone else in the courtroom) is shocked, but ultimately decides to defend both.]]

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** In ''Intergalactic Games'' Franchise/WonderWoman Characters/{{Wonder Woman|TheCharacter}} saves Lena Luthor from a fiery DisneyDeath. She doesn't appreciate it, though.
* ''WebAnimation/ElementsOfJustice'': The defendant of a murder case Coco Pommel [[spoiler:regains her memory and realizes that another suspected witness, Suri Polomare, cannot have committed the murder, so she interrupts the final verdict to testify in Suri's favor. Defense attorney Phoenix Wright (along with everyone else in the courtroom) is shocked, but ultimately decides to defend both.]]both]].



* In ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'', Mr. Mighty has to [[https://www.smackjeeves.com/discover/detail?titleNo=141697&articleNo=120 stop]] [[https://www.smackjeeves.com/discover/detail?titleNo=141697&articleNo=121 Jane]] from caving in her former boss' skull with a hammer.

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* In ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'', Mr. Mighty has to [[https://www.[[https://web.archive.org/web/20201227193157/https://www.smackjeeves.com/discover/detail?titleNo=141697&articleNo=120 stop]] [[https://www.[[https://web.archive.org/web/20201227193157/https://www.smackjeeves.com/discover/detail?titleNo=141697&articleNo=121 Jane]] from caving in her former boss' skull with a hammer.



* In ''Webcomic/{{Waterworks}}'', the protagonist, in a fit of rage, almost [[http://mspfanventures.com/?adv=43&id=87 throws Jose down from a railing,]] but she has a change of heart at the last moment and saves him. (And at that moment Jose's partner, who has just arrived to save him, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero kicks her away.]])

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* In ''Webcomic/{{Waterworks}}'', the protagonist, in a fit of rage, almost [[http://mspfanventures.com/?adv=43&id=87 throws Jose down from a railing,]] railing, but she has a change of heart at the last moment and saves him. (And at that moment Jose's partner, who has just arrived to save him, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero kicks her away.]])



* [[http://tafadhali.tumblr.com/post/102185055751 This]] Website/{{Tumblr}} post. ComicBook/LexLuthor dresses as Superman at a Halloween party as a joke, then gets drunk and tries to fly by jumping off the roof. [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Guess who saves him?]]

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* [[http://tafadhali.tumblr.com/post/102185055751 This]] Website/{{Tumblr}} post. ComicBook/LexLuthor [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] dresses as Superman at a Halloween party as a joke, then gets drunk and tries to fly by jumping off the roof. [[Franchise/{{Superman}} [[Characters/SupermanTheCharacter Guess who saves him?]]
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* Many first world countries such as the USA teach their soldiers that saving enemy combatants from life-threatening injuries is the moral thing to do as long as it doesn't unnecessarily endanger allied combatants. Often, though, the injured will be captured and made a POW for a wide variety of pragmatic reasons including not wanting to risk them being an UngratefulBastard and jumping back into the fight later on down the road. POW's are also supposed to be treated humanely no matter how cruel or malicious they were before their capture. A driving reason behind this is to encourage enemy surrender which in turn saves lives on both ends: if the enemy knows they will be treated humanely as a prisoner they are far less likely to fight to the death or attempt to [[TakingYouWithMe take the allied combatants with them]].

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* Many first world first-world countries such as the USA teach their soldiers that saving enemy combatants from life-threatening injuries is the moral thing to do as long as it doesn't unnecessarily endanger allied combatants. Often, though, the injured will be captured and made a POW for a wide variety of pragmatic reasons including not wanting to risk them being an UngratefulBastard and jumping back into the fight later on down the road. POW's are also supposed to be treated humanely no matter how cruel or malicious they were before their capture. A driving reason behind this is to encourage enemy surrender which in turn saves lives on both ends: if the enemy knows they will be treated humanely as a prisoner they are far less likely to fight to the death or attempt to [[TakingYouWithMe take the allied combatants with them]].
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* ''Fanfic/HopeForTheHeartless'': After [[VillainProtagonist the Horned King]] [[VillainousRescue rescues]] his escaped prisoner Avalina from the [[SavageWolves Mad Pack]] and [[PostVictoryCollapse collapses]], she takes him back to his castle to be tended even though she wants to be free of him and is aware how sinful he is, knowing in her heart that she could never leave someone to die willingly and live with it.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheUltimateEvil'', Shendu (who's [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Valmont's body at the time) is close to drowning at one point, but Valerie Payne dives in and reinvigorates him by [[UnderwaterKiss transferring oxygen into his system through mouth]], allowing them to reach the surface. She does this because [[VillainousRescue Shendu has saved her life]] multiple times by that point and she feels that she needs to return the favor.

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* ''Fanfic/HopeForTheHeartless'': After [[VillainProtagonist the Horned King]] [[VillainousRescue rescues]] his escaped prisoner Avalina from the [[SavageWolves Mad Pack]] and [[PostVictoryCollapse collapses]], she takes him back to his castle to be tended even tended. Even though she wants to be free of him and is aware of how sinful he is, knowing she knows in her heart that she could never willingly leave someone to die willingly and live with it.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheUltimateEvil'', ''Fanfic/TheUltimateEvil'': Shendu (who's [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Valmont's body at the time) is comes close to drowning at one point, but Valerie Payne dives in and reinvigorates him by [[UnderwaterKiss transferring oxygen into his system through mouth]], with an UnderwaterKiss, allowing them to reach the surface. She does this because [[VillainousRescue Shendu has saved her life]] multiple times by that this point and she feels that she needs to return the favor.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie: The Shadow of Scar Snout'': Eliza sees Scar Snout fall off the bridge with Spike and wants to help Scar Snout as his possibly just unconscious body briefly floats in the water. But he goes over the waterfall before she can do anything; Eliza is told by Anura the frog that he couldn’t be saved either way.
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* Sir Guyon from ''Literature/TheFaerieQueene'' wants to help save the vile Pyrrochles from the furor of Furor. His assistant convinces him it's none of his business, especially since Pyrrochles released Furor onto the world in the first place.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanVsTheElite'', Superman spends the entirety of the film trying to prove the validity of his ThouShaltNotKill philosophy, and for that reason he tries to save even the [[AdaptationalVillainy unrepentant mass murderer Atomic Skull]] from NinetiesAntiHero Manchester Black. He isn't fast enough however, and ends up [[AlasPoorVillain using his own cape as a burial shroud]].
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* A chapter of ''Anime/MyHeroAcademia'' shows Izuku having a vision of Tomura's past. He says that there may be a chance that Tomura can be [[MercyKill Mercy Killed]] But he wants to save him from the [[WouldHurtaChild abuse]], including All for One's influence that [[TheDogBitesBack drove]] him to murder, and villainy.
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** Harry does this twice [[spoiler:for Draco Malfoy. Malfoy's mother proceeds to return the favor to Harry]]. Lampshaded by Ron's utter disgust at the fact that they saved ''Malfoy''. After the second save, Ron punches out Malfoy [[UngratefulBastard for immediately running over to Death Eaters for support.]]

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** Harry does this twice [[spoiler:for for Draco Malfoy. Malfoy's [[spoiler:Malfoy's mother proceeds to return the favor to Harry]]. Lampshaded by Ron's utter disgust at the fact that they saved ''Malfoy''. After the second save, Ron punches out Malfoy [[UngratefulBastard for immediately running over to Death Eaters for support.]]

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* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'': [[spoiler: Harry does this twice for Draco Malfoy. Malfoy's mother proceeds to return the favor to Harry]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017'', [[spoiler:Tempest Shadow is betrayed by The Storm King when he refuses to repair her horn, even after she keeps her end of their deal and gives him the magic of all four alicorn princesses. Tempest ends up clinging on to the railing of the balcony and is almost sucked into the hurricane created by The Storm King, but Twilight grabs her and pulls her to safety, prompting a HeelFaceTurn from her]].

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* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017'', [[spoiler:Tempest Shadow Shadow]] is betrayed by The Storm King when he refuses to repair her horn, [[spoiler:her horn]], even after she keeps her end of their deal and gives him the magic of all four alicorn princesses. Tempest [[spoiler:Tempest]] ends up clinging on to the railing of the balcony and is almost sucked into the hurricane created by The Storm King, but Twilight grabs her and pulls her to safety, prompting a HeelFaceTurn from her]].her.



%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie: The Shadow of Scar Snout'': Eliza sees Scar Snout fall off the bridge with Spike and wants to help Scar Snout as his possibly just unconscious body briefly floats in the water, but he goes over the waterfall first and then Eliza is told by Anura the frog that he couldn’t be saved either way.

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%%* * ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie: The Shadow of Scar Snout'': Eliza sees Scar Snout fall off the bridge with Spike and wants to help Scar Snout as his possibly just unconscious body briefly floats in the water, but water. But he goes over the waterfall first and then before she can do anything; Eliza is told by Anura the frog that he couldn’t be saved either way.

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