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'''Henry Zabrowski:''' Well that's the extreme version.

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'''Henry Zabrowski:''' Well Well, that's the extreme version.
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Equally disingenuous is the villain trying to pull this on the hero (If You Kill, You Will Be Just Like Me), drawing a moral equivalency between the people he has killed to achieve his goals, and the minions the hero has killed trying to stop him. True, they've both killed, but most people understand the difference between killing for power or wealth and killing in self-defense.

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Equally disingenuous is the villain trying to pull this on the hero (If You Kill, Kill Me, You Will Be Just Like Me), drawing a moral equivalency between the people he has killed to achieve his goals, and the minions the hero has killed trying to stop him. True, they've both killed, but most people understand the difference between killing for power or wealth and killing in self-defense.
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->'''Clayton''': Go ahead, shoot me. Be a ''man''.\\
(''Tarzan presses the barrels right to Clayton's throat... and mimics the sound of a loud gunshot.'')\\
'''Tarzan''': Not a man like '''''YOU!''''' (''breaks the gun'')

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->'''Clayton''': ->'''Clayton:''' Go ahead, shoot me. Be a ''man''.\\
(''Tarzan ''[Tarzan presses the barrels right to Clayton's throat... and mimics the sound of a loud gunshot.'')\\
'''Tarzan''':
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'''Tarzan:'''
Not a man like '''''YOU!''''' (''breaks ''[breaks the gun'')gun]''



* Subverted in ''[[Webcomic/WalkyVerse It's Walky!]]'' In the final battle, Head Alien tries to pull this on Sal, who [[https://www.itswalky.com/comic/whew/ kills him anyway]].

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* Subverted in ''[[Webcomic/WalkyVerse ''[[Webcomic/RoomiesItsWalkyJoyceAndWalky It's Walky!]]'' Walky!]]''. In the final battle, Head Alien tries to pull this on Sal, who [[https://www.itswalky.com/comic/whew/ kills him anyway]].



* Inverted in ''Webcomic/GastroPhobia'', where the protagonist Phobia is nearly killed by a [[HeWhoFightsMonsters deer-turned-monster]] attempting to avenge his mother (who Phobia killed six years ago). But upon seeing that Phobia is herself a mother, the deer can't bring himself to kill her. [[spoiler:Giving her an opening to stab him to death.]]

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* Inverted in ''Webcomic/GastroPhobia'', ''Webcomic/PepsiaPhobia'', where the protagonist Phobia is nearly killed by a [[HeWhoFightsMonsters deer-turned-monster]] attempting to avenge his mother (who Phobia killed six years ago). But upon seeing that Phobia is herself a mother, the deer can't bring himself to kill her. [[spoiler:Giving her an opening to stab him to death.]]

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