Basic Trope: Deliberately not saving someone from dying.
- Straight: Jack chooses not to save Victor from being killed by a knife-wielding Serial Killer.
- Exaggerated: Jack lets Victor to die an extremely slow and painful death from an incurable disease, even passing up any chance to give him a mercy killing.
- Downplayed:
- Jack doesn't prevent Victor from suffering a severe but non-fatal injury.
- Jack doesn't save Victor from a burning house, given that Victor was the one who set it on fire in the first place.
- Jack gives Victor a knife, despite that he is no match for the killer, armed or not.
- Justified:
- Jack isn't concerned about the affairs of the world and is concerned about his own.
- Victor was a Jerkass who abuses Jack at every opportunity, so Jack thought that leaving him for dead was a good form of revenge.
- Jack always wanted to murder Victor, and this way leaves less evidence.
- Attempting to save Victor would only reveal Jack to the killer and make it harder to give the police a good ID on the perp.
- Jack believes that Victor is irredeemable, that he brought the fate upon himself, and that even if Jack saved Victor, the latter would still carry on trying to hurt him and other people. Leaving him to his fate would ensure that Victor had gotten away with his misdeeds for the last time.
- Jack wouldn't have gotten to Victor in time anyway.
- Victor killed Alice, getting mortally wounded in the process.
- Inverted: Jack saves Victor someone by doing nothing, and not interfering with the people actually capable of saving his life.
- Subverted: It were to look like Jack was going to leave Victor in a pool of his own blood until he jumps in to stop the serial killer.
- Double Subverted: But after that, he leaves a wounded Victor behind, going on his own business.
- Parodied: Victor actually cannot die permanently, and no matter how many times Jack abandons him, he keeps coming back to die again.
- Zig Zagged: Jack can't decide whether to save Victor, mercy kill him, or leave him for dead.
- Averted: Jack doesn't allow Victor to die from his injuries.
- Enforced: The author wants to make a point about how being a bystander will make you lose your humanity by having Jake leave Victor to die.
- Lampshaded:Victor: "You're just going to leave me here, Jack!?"
- Invoked: Jack is ordered to leave Victor to his fate.
- Exploited: Victor already being in mortal peril saves Jack a moral dilemma, at least in his eyes. If Victor dies now, Jack didn't kill him, he just had it coming.
- Defied:Jack: "You think I'm just going to leave you here, Victor?!"
- Discussed:Victor: "Wait, you're leaving me to die?"
Jack: "Yes. You want to know why? Because you're a bastard and you deserve this to happen to you. But I won't kill you because your suffering will be too quick. I'll just stand there and bask in the moment of your long-awaited death." - Conversed: "The creator says that Jack doesn't kill anyone, but leaving Victor to die kinda counts as murder IMHO."
- Implied: Jack walks by Victor, who's about to die, and doesn't look his way.
- Deconstructed: Jack's decision in not saving Victor earns him the harsh criticism from society and his friends and spends the rest of his life in prison.
- Reconstructed: But even so, other people never liked Victor and are glad that Jack left him for dead.
- Played For Laughs: Victor's ghost comes back to haunt Jack with annoying reminders about the time Jack let Victor die.
- Played For Drama:
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