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Working Title: Where\'s Papa Going With That Ax?: From YKTTW
Should this page have a generic "Contains spoilers" message at the top?
Skarmory The PG: Wait, so is this trope about "somebody does something suspicious that turns out to be innocent" or about "people disregard obvious signs of something suspicious as something innocent"?
Haven: The former. Also, it's not about Stab the Scorpion, so I removed these two examples:
- In Resident Evil, the Red Queen offers to provide a code to let the party escape a lab they're trapped in if they kill Rain Ocampo, who's infected with the T-virus. Rain kneels down and orders the others to accept the deal and kill her by cutting her head off with a fire axe. As she and the Red Queen shout for Alice to do so, Alice raises the axe high in the air and... hits the television monitor the Red Queen is shouting through, cutting her off, and refuses to kill Rain.
- In Legend, Lily is apparently about to kill the unicorn with its mate's horn. Instead she uses the horn to strike at and break the chain holding the unicorn, freeing it. Likewise, at the last moment Jack (Lily's lover), who had been trying to decide whether to shoot her with an arrow to prevent her, instead decides to shoot the evil being Darkness.
