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* ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'': Lampshaded by [[NobleDemon Luci]] in [[Recap/DisenchantmentS1E3ThePrincessOfDarkness The Princess of Darkness]] when Big Jo plans on burning Bean alive just to exorcise her. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Luci's appalled at this]], even though he admits he [[CardCarryingVillain hates being forced to be the good guy]]. He ejects himself from Bean's body and quickly extinguishes the flames to save her.

* In ''Animation/HappyHeroes 2: The Battle of Planet Qiyuan'', the villain Big M. decides to put aside his hatred of the Supermen for once to save them from having their energy drained. He has his assistant Little M., who is in Lightning S.'s costume, use his lightning powers to strike him and destroy the energy-draining machine (he was just going to have Little M. strike the machine until he realized the lightning zaps him every time he uses the ability).

* ''WesternAnimation/Disenchantment'': Lampshaded by [[NobleDemon Luci]] in [[Recap/DisenchantmentS1E3ThePrincessOfDarkness The Princess of Darkness]] when Big Jo plans on burning Bean alive just to exorcise her. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Luci's appalled at this]], even though he admits he [[CardCarryingVillain hates being forced to be the good guy]]. He ejects himself from Bean's body and quickly extinguishes the flames to save her.

* ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'': Lampshaded by [[NobleDemon Luci]] in [[Recap/DisenchantmentS1E3ThePrincessOfDarkness The Princess of Darkness]] when Big Jo plans on burning Bean alive just to exorcise her. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Luci's appalled at this]], even though he admits he [[CardCarryingVillain hates being forced to be the good guy]]. He ejects himself from Bean's body and quickly extinguishes the flames to save her.

** When Sammy Lawrence attempts to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] him to [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Bendy]] in Chapter 2, Bendy [[spoiler: [[KickTheSonOfABitch kills Sammy first]], which gives Henry enough time to escape from his ropes]]. [[OutOfTheFryingPan He still chases Henry afterward though.]]

* Megatron of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' prevented his version of Starscream from landing a potentially lethal blow to Optimus both because he [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou intends to defeat Prime himself]] and because he intends to pay his treacherous underling back for an attempt on his life.
** He does it again in the Season One finale. [[spoiler: This time by taking out the Unicron-Colossus that was giving the Autobots trouble.]]

* In ''VideoGame/WildArmsMillionMemories [[spoiler: Siegfried [[EnemyMine teams up with Rudy]] to take [[OmnicidalManiac Mother]] down. Mother fires a dark energy blast at Rudy, only for Siegfried to dart in front of him and take the blast instead because he knows Rudy is the best chance Filgaia has.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'': Lampshaded by [[NobleDemon Luci]] in [[Recap/DisenchantmentS1E3ThePrincessOfDarkness The Princess of Darkness]] when Big Jo plans on burning Bean alive just to exorcise her. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Luci's appalled at this][], even though he admits he [[CardCarryingVillain hates being forced to be the good guy]]. He ejects himself from Bean's body and quickly extinguishes the flames to save her.

* ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''/''Film/AvengersEndgame'': While Thanos is both delusional and hypocritical in his goal to save the universe from overpopulation and running out of resources by committing mass murder, he technically does save Earth and what Avengers he leaves alive from the corruption of the government. Ross and the rest of the government [[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar blame the Avengers for damage done to cities and civilian casualties]], which is not only MisplacedRetribution (given that only they could keep it as low as it ended up being), but also just as hypocritical as Thanos because a.) Ross was most directly responsible for the [[Film/TheIncredibleHulk damage done to Harlem when the Abomination was on a rampage and the Hulk had to stop him]], and b.) The government's solution to an Avengers level threat is to [[Film/TheAvengers nuke the city where the enemy is]], which would have caused far more damage and civilian deaths than the Avengers were blamed for in total. This leads to the Sokovia Accords, which not only leads to Captain America and those on his side becoming fugitives despite all the lives they saved, but Hank and Hope [[Film/AntManAndTheWasp being charged with violating the Accords simply because Scott used their tech]] ''[[Film/AntManAndTheWasp behind their backs]]'' (likely a pretext to obtain the tech for themselves). After the Blip, the world receives the wake-up call they needed, the Accords are presumably repealed, and Ross [[spoiler: attends Tony Stark's funeral]], indicating he has seen the error of his ways.

* In ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', [[spoiler:Ryoko attempts to kill Kyon twice; the first time it's her normally and the second time it's her in an alternate reality. And Kyon nearly bleeds to death the second time. In the 10th novel, Ryoko comes up and saves Kyon from Suyoh, claiming that he's her prey. Not very calming, but eh. Kyon isn't dead yet, and Ryoko does put a lot of effort, like by throwing a knife at near-light speed and even after it's caught by Suyoh, it still vibrates rapidly, trying to move]]. That's a lot of kinetic energy.

* To sum up what Ryoko does in ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', the tenth novel, she basically says to Suyoh, "Don't you [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] dare kill him! He's mine, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]!" This is followed by Ryoko starting the fight with a knife flying at near-light speed to Suyoh. Things get epic, really fast. And no, Ryoko doesn't put her body on the line to protect Kyon.

* The White Queen of ''LightNovel/TheUnexploredSummonBloodSign'' does this to Kyousuke on several occasions, [[spoiler:due to being in love with him]]. Notably, one particular instance of this [[UnwantedRescue is the main reason why Kyousuke hates her so much]]. [[spoiler:The White Queen was the target of an army of summoners and their summoned beings, while an unconscious Kyousuke was lying next to her. To prevent him dying in the crossfire, she wiped out the entire army]].

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* And in ''VideoGame/MarioSuperSluggers'' When Wario and Waluigi [[BewareTheSillyOnes went too far]] by firing a bullet bill at Mario and DK, it was Bowser who comes to the rescue and hits the Bullet Bill back at the duo.

* And in ''VideoGame/MarioSuperSluggers'' When Wario and Waluigi [[BewwareTheSillyOnes went too far]] by firing a bullet bill at Mario and DK, it was Bowser who comes to the rescue and hits the Bullet Bill back at the duo.

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