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* ''Literature/OnlyVillainsDoThat'': This is the modus operandi of the AntiVillain protagonist.
** Uncle Gently sold five orphans to Lady Grey, who then stabbed them to death and displayed the corpses around the city. Seiji responds by ''crucifying'' the former (after setting him on fire repeatedly) and ''waterboarding'' the latter for about five minutes while reciting a corny monologue.
** Hoy is one of the biggest narcissistic bullies in the entire series, using his army as cannon fodder while constantly screaming childish threats at them. Seiji crushes him with a truck.[[note]]Keep in mind, MedievalStasis means nobody on the planet has ''seen'' a truck, so it's like getting charged and mauled by an EldritchAbomination.[[/note]]
** Uncle Gently sold five orphans to Lady Grey, who then stabbed them to death and displayed the corpses around the city. Seiji responds by ''crucifying'' the former (after setting him on fire repeatedly) and ''waterboarding'' the latter for about five minutes while reciting a corny monologue.
** Hoy is one of the biggest narcissistic bullies in the entire series, using his army as cannon fodder while constantly screaming childish threats at them. Seiji crushes him with a truck.[[note]]Keep in mind, MedievalStasis means nobody on the planet has ''seen'' a truck, so it's like getting charged and mauled by an EldritchAbomination.[[/note]]
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* Literature/{{Raffles}} is AffablyEvil, but he still [[EvenEvilHasStandards draws the line]]...while he's normally not one for murder, he comes close to killing a blackmailer, and after his return, has no remorse for inadvertently causing the deaths of some Camorra men who'd captured him.
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* Literature/{{Raffles}} ''Literature/{{Raffles}}'' is AffablyEvil, but he still [[EvenEvilHasStandards draws the line]]...while he's normally not one for murder, he comes close to killing a blackmailer, and after his return, has no remorse for inadvertently causing the deaths of some Camorra men who'd captured him.him.
* ''Literature/TheSwordOfSaintFerdinand'': Pedro de Guzmán is a hateful, double-faced asshole who -among other things- has tried repeatedly to destroy the lives of people who never wronged him out of spite, has murdered at least one innocent old man to cover his schemes up, and has betrayed his country for money and power. So old soldier Fortún Paja does not feel particularly remorseful abut killing him and dumping the corpse into a river.
* ''Literature/TheSwordOfSaintFerdinand'': Pedro de Guzmán is a hateful, double-faced asshole who -among other things- has tried repeatedly to destroy the lives of people who never wronged him out of spite, has murdered at least one innocent old man to cover his schemes up, and has betrayed his country for money and power. So old soldier Fortún Paja does not feel particularly remorseful abut killing him and dumping the corpse into a river.
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** When Tom first arrives at St. Brendan's Isle, he likes to play mean tricks on the local sea life, including feeding pebbles to the anemones.
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** When Tom first arrives at St. Brendan's Isle, he likes to play mean tricks on the local sea life, including feeding pebbles to the anemones. When Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid gives sweets to all the other water-babies, she only gives Tom a pebble.
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I can't talk about the rest of the books, but the first one has many, many deaths during warfare and one assassination atttempt from the besieged. If you choose to readd can you then mention specific cases where the defenders choose to use force on their enemies or at least a case where they consider it but ultimately don't go through and subvert it?
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* ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' comes off as a rather well-done example. The fighters usually try to repel or turn the bad guys, not kill them outright. In fact, for the most part, the only deaths in the series are:
** The BigBad [[KickTheDog Kicking The Dog]].
** [[HijackedByGanon The Big Bad being killed by a Bigger Bad]].
** The Big Bad being killed by an AntiHero ([[BloodKnight usually a badger]]).
** The heroes killing a snake (snakes are AlwaysChaoticEvil).
** The BigBad [[KickTheDog Kicking The Dog]].
** [[HijackedByGanon The Big Bad being killed by a Bigger Bad]].
** The Big Bad being killed by an AntiHero ([[BloodKnight usually a badger]]).
** The heroes killing a snake (snakes are AlwaysChaoticEvil).
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* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''Literature/TheHobbit'', which quite possibly was the most important act in the series. [[spoiler:After getting away from Gollum using the Ring to become invisible, Bilbo has a perfect chance to kill Gollum for trying to kill and eat him after losing the riddle game... But chooses not to after realizing what a miserable life the creature had.]]
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* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''Literature/TheHobbit'', which quite possibly was the most important act in the series. [[spoiler:After getting away from Gollum using the Ring to become invisible, Bilbo has a perfect chance to kill Gollum for trying to kill and eat him after losing the riddle game... But chooses not to after realizing what a miserable life the creature had. This act of admirable pity is vital in forming his character during the ownership of the Ring and the future of Middle-Earth.]]
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* Fully justified in ''Film/TheGodfather''. While the two boys that savagely beat Bonasera's daughter to the point that "she will never be beautiful again" are implied to get what they deserve in the movie, the novel goes into detail. It would fall under ExtremeMeleeRevenge, except that that requires the revenge to go well beyond what is deserved, and there's little doubt that these two deserved every bit of it. Skipping over the details, the young men are said to need several months of hospital care and extensive reconstructive surgery. Subverted in later chapters, when Michael goes to Sicily and sees the end result of an ''entire society'' dedicated to this. This is a huge part of what drives his attempts to drive the Corleone Family into legitimate enterprises.
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* Fully justified in ''Film/TheGodfather''. While the two boys that savagely beat Bonasera's daughter to the point that "she will never be beautiful again" are implied to get what they deserve in the movie, the novel goes into detail. It would fall under ExtremeMeleeRevenge, except that that requires the revenge to go well beyond what is deserved, and there's little doubt that these two deserved every bit of it. Skipping over the details, the young men are said to need several months of hospital care and extensive reconstructive surgery. surgery.
** Subverted in later chapters, when Michael goes to Sicily and sees the end result of an ''entire society'' dedicated to this. This is a huge part of what drives his attempts to drive the Corleone Family into legitimate enterprises.
** Subverted in later chapters, when Michael goes to Sicily and sees the end result of an ''entire society'' dedicated to this. This is a huge part of what drives his attempts to drive the Corleone Family into legitimate enterprises.
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* ''Literature/CrimeAndPunishment'' - One of the antagonists of the novel, Porfiry, works as a police officer and interrogator, which usually would qualify as a good-aligned job. As you further witness this officer's tactics in catching criminals, you see him commit to bribery, thievery, death-threats, and psychological torture to force an admission. Furthermore, he seems to actually enjoy it, toying with amateur criminals like a cat torturing a wounded mouse. The justification, of course, being that the victim of this was a murderer, and therefore deserves it.
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* ''Literature/CrimeAndPunishment'' - One of the antagonists of the novel, Porfiry, [[HeroAntagonist Porfiry]], works as a police officer and interrogator, which usually would qualify as a good-aligned job. As you further witness this officer's tactics in catching criminals, you see him commit to bribery, thievery, death-threats, and psychological torture to force an admission. Furthermore, he seems to actually enjoy it, toying with amateur criminals like a cat torturing a wounded mouse. The justification, of course, being that the victim of this was a murderer, and therefore deserves it.
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* Fully justified in ''Film/TheGodfather''. While the two boys that savagely beat Bonasera's daughter to the point that "she will never be beautiful again" are implied to get what they deserve in the movie, the novel goes into detail. It would fall under ExtremeMeleeRevenge, except that that requires the revenge to go well beyond what is deserved, and there's little doubt that these two deserved every bit of it. Skipping over the details, the young men are said to need several months of hospital care and extensive reconstructive surgery.
** Subverted in later chapters, when Michael goes to Sicily and sees the end result of an ''entire society'' dedicated to this. This is a huge part of what drives his attempts to drive the Corleone Family into legitimate enterprises.
** Subverted in later chapters, when Michael goes to Sicily and sees the end result of an ''entire society'' dedicated to this. This is a huge part of what drives his attempts to drive the Corleone Family into legitimate enterprises.
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* Fully justified in ''Film/TheGodfather''. While the two boys that savagely beat Bonasera's daughter to the point that "she will never be beautiful again" are implied to get what they deserve in the movie, the novel goes into detail. It would fall under ExtremeMeleeRevenge, except that that requires the revenge to go well beyond what is deserved, and there's little doubt that these two deserved every bit of it. Skipping over the details, the young men are said to need several months of hospital care and extensive reconstructive surgery.
**surgery. Subverted in later chapters, when Michael goes to Sicily and sees the end result of an ''entire society'' dedicated to this. This is a huge part of what drives his attempts to drive the Corleone Family into legitimate enterprises.
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* In various parts of the ''Inferno,'' Dante kicks, beats, or swindles the damned souls, always with the approval of his guide Virgil. Justified (in the context of the poem, at least) in that the victims genuinely ''are'' damned souls who have been condemned by God for their sins, and ''pitying'' them would be an act of ''impiety''.
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* ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'': In various parts of the ''Inferno,'' Dante kicks, beats, or swindles the damned souls, always with the approval of his guide Virgil. Justified (in the context of the poem, at least) in that the victims genuinely ''are'' damned souls who have been condemned by God for their sins, and ''pitying'' them would be an act of ''impiety''.
