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Even the most hands-on villain can't take care of imprisoning or killing ''all'' the heroes personally. Ordering an underling to attend to such duties is common. Sometimes, the underling volunteers to "deal with" the hero ... and releases him instead.
There are several possible explanations. Perhaps the underling is [[TheMole a mole]] in the villain's organization. Perhaps the underling feels he [[DebtDetester "owes"]] the hero and chooses this form of repayment. Perhaps the underling is going through a MookFaceTurn, or simply expects the good guys to win and wants to score points toward a pardon.
There are several possible explanations. Perhaps the underling is [[TheMole a mole]] in the villain's organization. Perhaps the underling feels he [[DebtDetester "owes"]] the hero and chooses this form of repayment. Perhaps the underling is going through a MookFaceTurn, or simply expects the good guys to win and wants to score points toward a pardon.
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Even the most hands-on villain can't take care of imprisoning or killing ''all'' the heroes personally. Ordering an underling to attend to such duties is common. Sometimes, the underling volunteers to "deal with" the hero ... and releases him them instead.
There are several possible explanations. Perhaps the underling is [[TheMole a mole]] in the villain's organization. Perhaps the underling feelshe they [[DebtDetester "owes"]] "owe"]] the hero and chooses this form of repayment. Perhaps the underling is going through a MookFaceTurn, or simply expects the good guys to win and wants to score points toward a pardon.
There are several possible explanations. Perhaps the underling is [[TheMole a mole]] in the villain's organization. Perhaps the underling feels
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* In the street kid lifepath intro of ''VideoGames/Cyberpunk2077'', V and Jackie Welles are arrested by NCPD while attempting to steal a CorruptCorporateExecutive's expensive car. The CEO tells the police he doesn't have time to go to court to give testimony and orders them to throw the pair into a river somewhere with concrete shoes. While the officers appear to comply and beat the two unconscious, they end up just releasing the pair in a random alley.
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* In the street kid lifepath intro of ''VideoGames/Cyberpunk2077'', ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'', V and Jackie Welles are arrested by NCPD while attempting to steal a CorruptCorporateExecutive's expensive car. The CEO tells the police he doesn't have time to go to court to give testimony and orders them to throw the pair into a river somewhere with concrete shoes. While the officers appear to comply and beat the two unconscious, they end up just releasing the pair in a random alley.
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* In the street kid lifepath intro of ''VideoGames/Cyberpunk2077'', V and Jackie Welles are arrested by NCPD while attempting to steal a CorruptCorporateExecutive's expensive car. The CEO tells the police he doesn't have time to go to court to give testimony and orders them to throw the pair into a river somewhere with concrete shoes. While the officers appear to comply and beat the two unconscious, they end up just releasing the pair in a random alley.
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* In the Japanese kabuki play ''Yotsuya Kaidan'', Iemon wants to divorce his wife Oiwa after her disfigurement, and asks Takuetsu to rape her so he can divorce for adultery. Takuetsu can't bring himself to do it, and tells Oiwa everything--not just Iemon's plan, but how he murdered her father and hid it from her.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'' has Hack and Slash, who ultimately can't bring themselves to delete Cyrus. They then have an epiphany that they were only willing to do ''most if not all'' of the evil stuff they used to do because they always knew Bob would stop them from [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope going to far]] anyways.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'' has Hack and Slash, who ultimately can't bring themselves to delete Cyrus. They then have an epiphany that they were only willing to do ''most if not all'' of the evil stuff they used to do because they always knew Bob would stop them from [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope going to too far]] anyways.
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* In the Literature/JamesBond novel ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie'', Bond and his friend Felix Leiter have been captured by Mr. Big and are being held in separate rooms. After Bond successfully lies about their assignment, Mr. Big orders the henchman holding Leiter to "hurt him considerably" and then dump him near a local hospital. The mook, however, has taken a liking to Leiter because both of them are big jazz fans, so all he does is knock Leiter cold and then dump him.
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* In ''Series/{{Supergirl}}'', Lex Luthor orders Otto Graves to kill a young boy. It's revealed at the end of the episode that Graves [[DeathFakedForYou faked the boy's death]].
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* In [[Literature/TheBible Exodus]], Pharaoh orders the midwives of Egypt to kill any male Hebrews that are born. They refuse to do so, and get away with it by [[BlatantLies lying to Pharaoh]] that, in Hebrew culture, they don't wait for midwives to show up to give birth.
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* In [[Literature/TheBible Exodus]], Literature/BookOfExodus, Pharaoh orders the midwives of Egypt to kill any male Hebrews that are born. They refuse to do so, and get away with it by [[BlatantLies lying to Pharaoh]] that, in Hebrew culture, they don't wait for midwives to show up to give birth.
