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* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'': Tekkadan and [=McGillis=] have their vices ([[CharClone McGillis]] especially) but they at the very least have more scruples than [[DiabolicalMastermind Rustal Elion]]. After a season-long chess match between the two sides, [[spoiler:[=McGillis=] springs his uprising within Gjallarhorn and Tekkadan meets Rustal's Arianrhod Fleet in open battle. However, Rustal claims victory after an attempt to blow up his flagship narrowly fails and spends the final few episodes hunting Tekkadan down, culminating in Mikazuki and Akihiro (and separately [=McGillis=]) mounting an epic last stand against the Arianrhod forces. While all of them die, they are able to buy enough time for the rest of Tekkadan to escape and find new lives, and they're able to leave enough of an imprint to force Rustal to give Mars its independence and implement some reforms to Gjallarhorn (although the changes Rustal enacts involve making himself sole leader of Gjallarhorn, so its questionable how much Gjallarhorn actually is reformed).]]
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* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'': Tekkadan and [=McGillis=] have their vices ([[CharClone McGillis]] (McGillis especially) but they at the very least have more scruples than [[DiabolicalMastermind Rustal Elion]]. After a season-long chess match between the two sides, [[spoiler:[=McGillis=] springs his uprising within Gjallarhorn and Tekkadan meets Rustal's Arianrhod Fleet in open battle. However, Rustal claims victory after an attempt to blow up his flagship narrowly fails and spends the final few episodes hunting Tekkadan down, culminating in Mikazuki and Akihiro (and separately [=McGillis=]) mounting an epic last stand against the Arianrhod forces. While all of them die, they are able to buy enough time for the rest of Tekkadan to escape and find new lives, and they're able to leave enough of an imprint to force Rustal to give Mars its independence and implement some reforms to Gjallarhorn (although the changes Rustal enacts involve making himself sole leader of Gjallarhorn, so its questionable how much Gjallarhorn actually is reformed).]]
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* ''Literature/TheScholomance'': Arjun Sharma, the main protagonist's father, dreamed of [[spoiler:finding the Golden Stone Sutras and bringing back the Golden Enclaves]] while he was growing up. He was further encouraged he met the similarly-minded Gwen Higgins while they were both attending the Scholomance and fell in love with her. Eventually, [[spoiler:they tried to summon the sutras, leaving the payment open, and the universe granted them what they wanted by allowing the conception of their daughter, the first wizard in generations that would be able to properly wield the sutras in thousands of years. However, the cost would turn out to be Arjun's life, as he would later perform a HeroicSacrifice to save the pregnant Gwen from Patience on their Graduation Day. In short, while El will go on to fulfill Arjun's dream, Arjun will never get the chance to see it himself]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': In Season 3, this is ultimately part of [[Characters/TheOwlHouseEmperorBelos Emperor Belos]] never-ending attempts to commit genocide against the Witches despite said task having become both practically unfeasible and unrewarding to him by present. His desire to justify Caleb's [[SiblingMurder death]] by canceling it out through an act of 'greater good' means he keeps desperately [[LivingOnBorrowedTime staving off his inevitable passing through whatever means he can]] and seeking a method to enact his FinalSolution despite the low odds. It's made clear through his ranting at the hallucinations (or [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane actual shades]]) of Caleb and the Grimwalkers that he feels he ''can't'' die without first having succeeded in his 'heroic' goal, aware on some level that he's dammed from his sin and delusionally trying to convince himself he can escape judgement through his success before he expires.
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* UsefulNotes/{{Cricket}}: The English press has a habit of declaring a "moral victory" when England lose. This has resulted in MemeticMutation where '''all''' England matches are declared "moral victories", no matter how badly they're beaten.
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* UsefulNotes/{{Cricket}}: The English press has a habit of declaring a "moral victory" when England lose. This has resulted in MemeticMutation where '''all''' England matches are declared "moral victories", no matter how badly they're beaten.
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* The Ascended Ancients of ''Series/StargateSG1'' faced becoming a victim of this through their vow of non-interference when the Ori become aware of human life in the Milky Way galaxy. While the Ancients operate on a policy of non-interference on the lower planes, the Ori have presented themselves as gods to the humans of their home galaxy as they gain power through worship, claiming that they will Ascend their followers upon their death even though they will never actually do so. Certain Ancients claim that they choose to avoid interference to prevent themselves becoming like the Ori, but when Stargate Command learn that the Ori intend to gain sufficient power from their new wave of worshippers to destroy the Ancients, the Ancients' choice of non-interference becomes basically stupid. They even go so far as to enforce this rule by preventing certain other parties even providing key information to Stargate Command; Orlin, an ally of the SGC, returned to human form as a child and was left in a brain-damaged state just to warn the SGC about the Ori's long-term agenda, while [[spoiler:Merlin was left to die during his efforts to give them a weapon that could defeat the Ori and Morgan was banished from her galaxy for trying to pass on key information (although Morgan later returned to provide assistance in the Ori home galaxy).
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* The Ascended Ancients of ''Series/StargateSG1'' faced becoming a victim of this through their vow of non-interference when the Ori become aware of human life in the Milky Way galaxy. While the Ancients operate on a policy of non-interference on the lower planes, the Ori have presented themselves as gods to the humans of their home galaxy as they gain power through worship, claiming that they will Ascend their followers upon their death even though they will never actually do so. Certain Ancients claim that they choose to avoid interference to prevent themselves becoming like the Ori, but when Stargate Command learn that the Ori intend to gain sufficient power from their new wave of worshippers to destroy the Ancients, the Ancients' choice of non-interference becomes basically stupid. They even go so far as to enforce this rule by preventing certain other parties even providing key information to Stargate Command; Orlin, an ally of the SGC, returned to human form as a child and was left in a brain-damaged state just to warn the SGC about the Ori's long-term agenda, while [[spoiler:Merlin was left to die during his efforts to give them a weapon that could defeat the Ori and Morgan was banished from her galaxy for trying to pass on key information (although Morgan later returned to provide assistance in the Ori home galaxy).galaxy)]].
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* The Ascended Ancients of ''Series/StargateSG1'' faced becoming a victim of this through their vow of non-interference when the Ori become aware of human life in the Milky Way galaxy. While the Ancients operate on a policy of non-interference on the lower planes, the Ori have presented themselves as gods to the humans of their home galaxy as they gain power through worship, claiming that they will Ascend their followers upon their death even though they will never actually do so. Certain Ancients claim that they choose to avoid interference to prevent themselves becoming like the Ori, but when Stargate Command learn that the Ori intend to gain sufficient power from their new wave of worshippers to destroy the Ancients, the Ancients' choice of non-interference becomes basically stupid. They even go so far as to enforce this rule by preventing certain other parties even providing key information to Stargate Command; Orlin, an ally of the SGC, returned to human form as a child and was left in a brain-damaged state just to warn the SGC about the Ori's long-term agenda, while [[spoiler:Merlin was left to die during his efforts to give them a weapon that could defeat the Ori and Morgan was banished from her galaxy for trying to pass on key information (although Morgan later returned to provide assistance in the Ori home galaxy).
