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* Spike the rat from ''WesternAnimation/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood''. After he does a HeelFaceTurn, he decides to join the Animals of Farthing Wood and defend the White Deer Park from other rats. While one rat can't do much against the others, he does assist Weasel in teaching Cleo and Fido how to hunt rats by serving as their pretend prey.

* Spike the rat from ''WesternAnimation/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood''. After he does a HeelFaceTurn, he decides to join the Animals of Farthing Wood and defend the White Deer Park from other [[DirtyRat rats]]. While one rat can't do much against the others, he does assist Weasel in teaching Cleo and Fido how to hunt rats by serving as their pretend prey.

* Spike the rat from ''WesternAnimation/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood''. After he does a HeelFaceTurn, he decides to join the Animals of Farthing Wood and defend the White Deer Park from other rats. While one rat can't do much against the others, he does assist Weasel in teaching Cleo and Fido how to hunt rats by serving as their pretend prey.

* Hawkman and Hawkwoman helped Adam Strange defend Planet Rann from Thanagarians. Because of this, they were branded as traitors and exiled from Thanagar. Which is fine with them since they regard Earth as their home. They also defend humans against their own people during ''The Shadow War'' and ComicBook/{{Invasion}}.

* While ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' and ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' has its share of Evil SixthRanger arcs that are resolved by a HeelFaceTurn, special mention has to go to Akira Nijino from Ressa Sentai Toqger, who was effectively a monster of the week who became a DefectorFromDecadence from the Shadow Line prior to the series start and worked as a maintenance worker for the Rainbow Line prior to becoming the SixthRanger. This is the first time that someone who willing worked for the bad guys became a Ranger (all other cases were either misinformed or brainwashed).

** The [[Characters/DoctorWhoTenthDoctor Tenth Doctor]]'s final episode revealed that [[spoiler:he basically became this in the final days of the Time War, choosing to destroy his own people because the Time Lord's plan to end the War would have also destroyed the rest of the universe]].

This trope is often [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by [[FantasticRacism Fantastic Racists]], who will argue to the one defending that the group they seek to protect isn't worth harming their own kind for. The smaller and more fantastical of a group X is, the more likely this sort of argument is to work. It can lead to accusations that the protector is a CategoryTraitor. A man who refuses to defend a woman against another man, for instance, is a HeManWomanHater, but a vampire who kills other vampires will certainly have at least a moment's pause about killing vampires to save humans. On the other hand the protector can fire back by pointing out to the Fantastic Racists that their behavior is no justification to harm, bully, or kill the group they are protecting, especially if said racist continue on endorsing things like genocide and cruelty hence the justification for protection and rights groups to exist in the firat place.

This trope is often [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by [[FantasticRacism Fantastic Racists]], who will argue to the one defending that the group they seek to protect isn't worth harming their own kind for. The smaller and more fantastical of a group X is, the more likely this sort of argument is to work. It can lead to accusations that the protector is a CategoryTraitor. A man who refuses to defend a woman against another man, for instance, is a HeManWomanHater, but a vampire who kills other vampires will certainly have at least a moment's pause about killing vampires to save humans. On the other hand the protector can fire back by pointing out to the Fantastic Racists that their behavior is no justification to harm, bully, or kill the group they are protecting, especially if said racist endorse things like genocide and cruelty.

This trope is often [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by [[FantasticRacism Fantastic Racists]], who will argue to the one defending that the group they seek to protect isn't worth harming their own kind for. The smaller and more fantastical of a group X is, the more likely this sort of argument is to work. It can lead to accusations that the protector is a CategoryTraitor. A man who refuses to defend a woman against another man, for instance, is a HeManWomanHater, but a vampire who kills other vampires will certainly have at least a moment's pause about killing vampires to save humans.

* Comic/{{Vampirella}} is a vampire who protects humans from other vampires and monsters, some of which are members of her own family.

* Small kitten Oliver from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' makes an insane leap between speeding vehicles in order to compel TheVillain to loosen his grip on young Jenny Foxworth. Sykes seizes Oliver, and flings him into the back seat, where his vicious dobermans bare their teeth at the hopeless kitten. Suddenly, the mutt Dodger makes the leap into the villain's sedan, willing to tussle with two dobermans to save this plucky kitten.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' story ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'', the ''ComicBook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}} figure out they're dealing with a Kryptonian clone so they call Supergirl and send her, Dev-Em -another Kryptonian- and Laurel Kent -Franchise/{{Superman}}'s descendant- out.

* ''Franchise/{{Blade}}'' is a dhampir who defends the innocents against other vampires.

* In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'', [[GeneticEngineering Coordinator]] Kira Yamato defends the Naturals on ''[[CoolShip Archangel]]'' against other Coordinators.

* In ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', the protagonist and several others DefectorFromDecadence allies team up to protect Pandora from the U.S. military. His commander [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this by essentially calling him a CategoryTraitor.

* Tends to happen in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'' due to every faction being at war with the other. One ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' novel has the summoning of a Slaaneshi daemon interrupted by Khornate SpaceMarines (since both Chaos gods hate each other), and Cain is all too happy to let the superhuman butchers take out the cultists since he has his own (much squishier) secret weapon against daemons.

* In the ''[[Film/Underworld2003 Underworld]]'' AU fic “[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10323818/1/The-Vampire-Leader The Vampire Leader]]”, after the vampire Sonja escapes the fortress while her lycan lover Lucian dies, she becomes the lycans’ leader against the vampires due to her tactical expertise and training as a Death Dealer, although she tends to rely on Raze to act as her ‘public face’ with only a few other lycans aware of her existence.

* In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', Odo and Garak basically take on this role for the most part, helping the Federation's efforts to defeat the Founders and the Cardassians during the Dominion War in particular.
** Also arguably applies to Worf during the show's fourth season, as he was brought to [=DS9=] as a strategic advisor after the Klingons ended their prior treaty with the Federation, [[spoiler:although this treaty was eventually restored mid-way through the fifth season and Worf's own status in the Empire restored towards the end of the same season]].

This trope is often [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by [[FantasticRacism Fantastic Racists]], who will argue to the one defending that the group they seek to protect isn't worth harming their own kind for. The smaller and more fantastical of a group X is, the more likely this sort of argument is to work. A man who refuses to defend a woman against another man, for instance, is a HeManWomanHater, but a vampire who kills other vampires will certainly have at least a moment's pause about killing vampires to save humans.

** In ''Discworld/{{Snuff}}'', Vimes must solve a goblin girl's murder and save the remnants of her tribe from the bigotry and exploitation of his fellow humans.

* Disney's ''Disney/BrotherBear'' has an inverted example. Kenai, the boy turned bear, sometimes finds himself protecting his friends (particularly Koda) from other human hunters.
* Small kitten Oliver from Disney's ''Disney/OliverAndCompany'' makes an insane leap between speeding vehicles in order to compel TheVillain to loosen his grip on young Jenny Foxworth. Sykes seizes Oliver, and flings him into the back seat, where his vicious dobermans bare their teeth at the hopeless kitten. Suddenly, the mutt Dodger makes the leap into the villain's sedan, willing to tussle with two dobermans to save this plucky kitten.
* Disney's ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}'' has European explorer John Smith poised for execution by Chief Powhatan. Smith is believed responsible for the death of the Chief's best warrior, Kocoum. The chief's daughter, Pocahontas, arrives in the nick of time to block the execution. This move is witnessed by Smith's fellow settlers, who note the natives are capable of both mercy and reason.

%%* In the ''[[Film/Underworld2003 Underworld]]'' AU fic “[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10323818/1/The-Vampire-Leader The Vampire Leader]]”, after Sonja escapes the fortress while Lucian dies, she becomes the lycans’ leader against the vampires, although she tends to rely on Raze to act as her ‘public face’ with only a few other lycans aware of her existence.

* In the ''[[Film/Underworld2003 Underworld]]'' AU fic “[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10323818/1/The-Vampire-Leader The Vampire Leader]]”, after Sonja escapes the fortress while Lucian dies, she becomes the lycans’ leader against the vampires, although she tends to rely on Raze to act as her ‘public face’ with only a few other lycans aware of her existence.

The smaller and more fantastical of a group X is, the more likely this is to result in divided loyalties. A man who refuses to defend a woman against another man, for instance, is a HeManWomanHater, but a vampire who kills other vampires will certainly have at least a moment's pause about killing vampires to save humans.

* Tends to happen in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'' due to every faction being at war with the other. One CiaphasCain novel has the summoning of a Slaaneshi daemon interrupted by Khornate SpaceMarines (since both Chaos gods hate each other), and Cain is all too happy to let the superhuman butchers take out the cultists since he has his own (much squishier) secret weapon against daemons.