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** [[HumansAreBastards Everyone except Alice is an irredeemable bastard.]] Bonus points if Alice is the [[LastOfTheirKind last]] of an AlwaysLawfulGood species.
** [[ItIsBeyondSaving It's too late to save the world]], so Bob decides it's better to save one person than nobody at all.
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* '''Straight''': Bob stops fighting [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]] to rescue Alice from being killed by [[DarkChick Violet Darkheart]] and [[TheDragon General Drake]].

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* '''Straight''': Bob stops fighting [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]] to rescue Alice from being killed by [[DarkChick [[DarkActionGirl Violet Darkheart]] and [[TheDragon General Drake]].
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** Alternatively, [[WoundedGazelleGambit Alice intentionally puts herself in danger]] because she ''knows'' Bob will come charging in guns blazing and take out the villain in the process. She can trust that whoever needs justice will get it, even if for the wrong reasons.

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** Alternatively, [[WoundedGazelleGambit [[WoundedGazelleWarcry Alice intentionally puts herself in danger]] because she ''knows'' Bob will come charging in guns blazing and take out the villain in the process. She can trust that whoever needs justice will get it, even if for the wrong reasons.
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** Bob's insistent desire to save the girl causes Alice to feel as if she's not allowed to solve her problems herself, causing tension between her and Bob.
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** Bob knows the world wouldn't care about or celebrate him [[UngratefulBastard even if he saved it]], so he chooses to save the one person who he ''knows'' cares about him; Alice.
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** Alternatively, [[WoundedGazelleGambit Alice intentionally puts herself in danger]] because she ''knows'' Bob will come charging in guns blazing and take out the villain in the process. She can trust that whoever needs justice will get it, even if for the wrong reasons.
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** after Bob says this, Evulz promises he won't kill Alice along with the rest of the world and so Bob saves Alice anyway.

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** after After Bob says this, Evulz promises he won't kill Alice along with the rest of the world and so Bob saves Alice anyway.

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* '''Defied''': Alice tells Bob to save the world and worry about her afterward.

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Alice tells Bob to save the world and worry about her afterward.afterward.
** Bob doesn't get a choice. Evulz kills Alice and enacts his plan at the same time, [[KickTheDog all to break Bob]] and claim emotional and physical victory over him.

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* '''Deconstructed''': Bob drops everything to save Alice, allowing Evulz to win; Alice kills herself in despair or comes to hate Bob as a result.

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* '''Deconstructed''': '''Deconstructed''':
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Bob drops everything to save Alice, allowing Evulz to win; Alice kills herself in despair or comes to hate Bob as a result.result.
** Now that Bob has chosen the girl over the world, he now gets to ''live'' in that world he made by saving her instead of cutting out the consequences from the narrative. And neither world nor girl are 100 percent kind to him for the endeavor.

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