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What you are in the dark and Rousseau Was Right are basically the two primary themes of the whole franchise as part of its message that Capitalism Is Bad.
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* ''Film/ThePurge'': When you have an event in which you can literally get away with ''anything'' for 12 hours, it really tests your character.
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* ''Film/ThePurge'': The [[Film/ThePurgeUniverse Purge Franchise]] Features this as one of its reoccurring themes
** The first purge shows that [[RousseauWasRight most people, when given free reign to break the law]] choose not to hurt anyone. It was only mercenaries hired by TheConspiracy who showed up and started murdering people.
** Whenyou given the chance to change the purge, average everyday people will abandon the safety of their homes and put themselves in harms way to protect the person campaigning to do so.
** Even absent the chance to end the Purges once and for all, each film regularly includes bystanders who show up to help even though they havean event in which you can literally get away with ''anything'' for 12 hours, it really tests your character.no reason to.
** The first purge shows that [[RousseauWasRight most people, when given free reign to break the law]] choose not to hurt anyone. It was only mercenaries hired by TheConspiracy who showed up and started murdering people.
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** Even absent the chance to end the Purges once and for all, each film regularly includes bystanders who show up to help even though they have
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The fact that Ben Wade makes a point of mentioning he's escaped from Yuma Prison three times previously rather undermines the selflessness of the action. Instead of being a Heroic Sacrifice it makes it more of a minor inconvenience.
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* In the final scene of ''Film/ThreeTenToYuma2007'', after an entire movie of everyone trying at great cost to bring [[VillainProtagonist Ben Wade]] in to justice aboard the titular train, [[spoiler: every single character of significance is dead or dying, [[TheHeroDies including Dan Evans]], except for Ben himself and Dan's son William. After a brief moment holding Ben at gunpoint, William turns his back on Ben to instead be with his father in his dying moments. Since Ben's late gang wiped out basically the entire police force of the town in their efforts to break him out, there's pretty much nobody left who's still hunting him and absolutely nothing stopping Ben from stealing a horse and riding out of the town to eternal freedom. He willingly climbs aboard the train and locks himself in a cell anyway.]]
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* In the final scene of ''Film/ThreeTenToYuma2007'', after an entire movie of everyone trying at great cost to bring [[VillainProtagonist Ben Wade]] in to justice aboard the titular train, [[spoiler: every single character of significance is dead or dying, [[TheHeroDies including Dan Evans]], except for Ben himself and Dan's son William. After a brief moment holding Ben at gunpoint, William turns his back on Ben to instead be with his father in his dying moments. Since Ben's late gang wiped out basically the entire police force of the town in their efforts to break him out, there's pretty much nobody left who's still hunting him and absolutely nothing stopping Ben from stealing a horse and riding out of the town to eternal freedom. He willingly climbs aboard the train and locks himself in a cell anyway.]]]][[note]] [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] as earlier in the film Ben Wade made a point of mentioning he'd escaped the exact prison he was going to three times previously[[/note]]
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* In ''Film.KnivesOut'', Marta [[spoiler: finds Fran dying of a forced drug overdose while on her way to find and destroy Harlan's toxicology report, which Marta believes would incriminate her for his death. If Fran survives, then Marta would be blamed for her attempted murder on top of being suspected of murdering Harlan. Marta hesitates for a minute as she considers just grabbing the toxicology report and leaving Fran to die, before deciding to save her life anyway.]]
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** In the film's climax, the Beast duels Gaston until he gains the upper hand and dangles Gaston off the roof of the castle. Beast can easily drop Gaston to his death, but as he's regained enough of his humanity, he chooses to spare Gaston's life. Gaston returns the favor by stabbing him InTheBack.
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** In the film's climax, the Beast duels Gaston until he gains the upper hand and dangles Gaston off the roof of the castle. Beast can easily drop Gaston to his death, but as he's regained enough of his humanity, he chooses to spare Gaston's life. life and orders him to GetOut. Gaston returns the favor by stabbing him InTheBack.InTheBack, a deplorable act that immediately costs the egomaniacal hunter [[BackstabBackfire his life]].
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* ''Film/LethalWeapon2'': Riggs and Murtaugh are [[LockedInAFreezer locked in a shipping container]], when they find a light to turn on and find it stuffed to the ceiling with cash.
-->'''Murtaugh''': These are thousand-dollar bills! Man, with what I'm holding in my hand, I could put all my kids through college!\\
'''Riggs''': [[TheCorrupter Why don't you take it?]]\\
''(Silence, then Murtaugh throws the money down.)''\\
'''Murtaugh''': Fuckin' drug money, man!\\
'''Riggs''': So what? Do something good with it.
** Despite Riggs' words, neither of them touches the money.
-->'''Murtaugh''': These are thousand-dollar bills! Man, with what I'm holding in my hand, I could put all my kids through college!\\
'''Riggs''': [[TheCorrupter Why don't you take it?]]\\
''(Silence, then Murtaugh throws the money down.)''\\
'''Murtaugh''': Fuckin' drug money, man!\\
'''Riggs''': So what? Do something good with it.
** Despite Riggs' words, neither of them touches the money.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'':
** After Beast manages to fight off the wolves, he is left injured and collapses from them. Belle had the chance to leave and who wouldn't? The Beast imprisoned her father, kept ''her'' as a prisoner, and was a complete {{jerkass}} up to rescuing her. But instead, Belle takes him back to the castle to nurse his wounds.
** In the film's climax, the Beast duels Gaston until he gains the upper hand and dangles Gaston off the roof of the castle. Beast can easily drop Gaston to his death, but as he's regained enough of his humanity, he chooses to spare Gaston's life. Gaston returns the favor by stabbing him InTheBack.
** After Beast manages to fight off the wolves, he is left injured and collapses from them. Belle had the chance to leave and who wouldn't? The Beast imprisoned her father, kept ''her'' as a prisoner, and was a complete {{jerkass}} up to rescuing her. But instead, Belle takes him back to the castle to nurse his wounds.
** In the film's climax, the Beast duels Gaston until he gains the upper hand and dangles Gaston off the roof of the castle. Beast can easily drop Gaston to his death, but as he's regained enough of his humanity, he chooses to spare Gaston's life. Gaston returns the favor by stabbing him InTheBack.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Leo}}'': On the birthday party of the [[RuleOfThree third]] child, Jayda, Leo is [[ItMakesSenseInContext riding on a bubble animal]] seconds away from freedom, but the kids are worried that they can’t find him. He has a choice to either fulfill his selfish dream of living in the Everglades, or sacrifice it to continue imparting his decades of wisdom to help the rest of the class. He pops the bubble animal and heads back, thereby choosing the latter.
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* ''Anime/OneStormyNight'': Toward the film's climax, Mei and Gabu find themselves trapped in a blizzard, unsure if they have enough strength left to survive without starving to death. Realizing this, Mei concedes that, while he'd never do it for any other wolf, [[spoiler:he'll allow Gabu to eat him to ensure that at least one of them lives]]. Gabu, conflicted between his growing hunger and [[spoiler:his staunch refusal to harm Mei, eventually tells Mei that he'll accept the offer]], but once he's out of Mei's sight he immediately refuses and instead tries to search for food out in the cold, resigned to risk freezing to death rather than betray their bond.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'': Steele initially started out as a narcissistic JerkJock, a bully to Balto, and an AbhorrentAdmirer to Jenna. But after he gets his sled team lost while trying to return to Nome with important medicine, he angrily refuses Balto's help out of pride and attacks him, risking the medicine's destruction in the process. After surviving falling off a cliff and seeing Balto become the new lead dog for the sled team, Steele decides to sabotage Balto's trail to keep him and the team from returning home with the medicine, proving that he would rather let the children die from their illness than let Balto claim all the glory Steele believes he's entitled to. Steele would return home claiming that Balto and the sled team died failing their mission, with only Jenna seeing through the lies, and when Balto and the sled team return and disprove this, [[KarmicShunning all the dogs immediately shun Steele for his lies]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie'' Charlie Brown winds up getting the perfect score on a test. Because of this, all the kids in school and town, barring Lucy, view him as a genius, which earns him a large amount of popularity. [[spoiler:During an award ceremony for passing the test, he discovers that he and Peppermint Patty accidentally signed their names on each other's test sheets when they were rushing to turn the papers in - she's the one who really got the perfect score. He's the only one who knows the truth, and if he wanted to could continue to keep it a secret, keeping his newfound popularity in the process. Instead he confesses the screw-up to everyone and tells them that Peppermint Patty was the one who aced the test. This turns out to be one of the main factors to winning the Little Red-Haired Girl's heart.]]
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* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie'' Charlie Brown winds up getting the perfect score on a test. Because of this, all the kids in school and town, barring Lucy, view him as a genius, which earns him a large amount of popularity. [[spoiler:During an award ceremony for passing the test, he discovers that he and Peppermint Patty accidentally signed their names on each other's test sheets when they were rushing to turn the papers in - she's the one who really got the perfect score. He's the only one who knows the truth, and if he wanted to could continue to keep it a secret, keeping his newfound popularity in the process. Instead Instead, he confesses the screw-up to everyone and tells them that Peppermint Patty was the one who aced the test. This turns out to be one of the main factors to winning the Little Red-Haired Girl's heart.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'': King Harold is initially opposed to Fiona's marriage to Shrek, both [[DatingWhatDaddyHates because he's an ogre]] and because he promised Fairy Godmother he would have Fiona marry her son Prince Charming in exchange for [[spoiler:turning him into a human so he can marry Lillian]]. Despite hiring Puss in Boots to kill Shrek (which ends up failing), he begins to show reservations about the plan when he sees how unhappy Fiona is with Charming and he's utterly appalled when Fairy Godmother orders him to drug Fiona with a love potion to force her to fall in love with Charming, only agreeing to it when Fairy Godmother threatens to take away his happily ever after if he doesn't comply. But when it comes time to drug her, Harold cannot bring himself to do it and stops her from drinking the love potion-laced tea under the pretense that it is his cup, knowing that he'll be putting himself in hot water with Fairy Godmother. This, along with [[TakingTheBullet taking Fairy Godmother's blast for Shrek]] [[spoiler:(which turns him back into a frog)]] and apologizing for his actions, is what finally earns him forgiveness from his family.
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* In ''Film/AnimalHouse'', Pinto is the only character to resist temptation of any kind -- and what he resists is [[SexAsRiteOfPassage particularly tempting;]] a HardDrinkingPartyGirl who, [[ButLiquorIsQuicker having had more than enough to "get into the mood"]], was [[QuestionableConsent beginning to disrobe]] before passing out. Further, he resists without knowing at the time that his intended is [[ReallySeventeenYearsOld not exactly in his own age demographic]]. Later, when he believes his date is in a state to consent, he behaves differently.
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* In ''Film/AnimalHouse'', Pinto is the only character to resist temptation of any kind -- and what he resists is [[SexAsRiteOfPassage particularly tempting;]] a HardDrinkingPartyGirl who, [[ButLiquorIsQuicker having had more than enough to "get into the mood"]], was [[QuestionableConsent beginning to disrobe]] before passing out. Further, he resists without knowing at the time that his intended is [[ReallySeventeenYearsOld [[Really17YearsOld not exactly in his own age demographic]]. Later, when he believes his date is in a state to consent, he behaves differently.
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** When in public, Ernesto will indulge "his" great-great-grandson Miguel and embrace him as his descendant. But in private, when the boy learns about how his hero murdered his own friend for his songs, Ernesto has Miguel thrown in a cenote so his secret will die with him.
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** When in public, Ernesto will indulge "his" great-great-grandson is beloved by his fans and treats Miguel and embrace him as warmly under the belief he is his descendant. But great-grandson. When in private, when the boy learns about how his hero murdered his own friend for his songs, Ernesto has he doesn't hesitate to trap Miguel thrown and Héctor in a cenote so pit when they find out his dark secret. Said dark secret will die with him.is that he murdered Héctor by secretly poisoning him so he could steal his former partner's songs. In the climax he, unaware that he is being filmed, is witnessed by his fans [[WouldHurtAChild throwing Miguel off a high ledge]], resulting in swift LaserGuidedKarma.
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** [[spoiler: The other Bad Guys reach their DarkestHour, having ditched Wolf and found all their loot has been reposessed by authorities. At spur-of-the-moment, Snake comforts a distraught Shark, leading the group to undergo their GoodFeelsGood epithany. While the others go to rejoin Wolf, Snake angrily rejects this and leaves....at first. Alone, realising he still feels a desire to be good, he decides to bust Marmalade's plan from the inside, despite knowing this will only break his bonds with his teammates even further.]]
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* ''Film/DonnieDarko'': [[spoiler:In the end, Donnie chooses to go back in time and be killed by a falling jet engine, thereby cutting off the timeline where he survived and ensuring the safety and happiness of his loved ones. He dies completely alone in his bedroom, and no one will ever know what his death prevented.]]
