History Main / NoHarmRequirement

* [[BountyHunter Bounties]] in ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' are only awarded for capturing suspects alive, no matter how extreme their crimes are. One reason for the Bebop crew's PerpetualPoverty is that they're either forced to kill their most valuable targets or they otherwise end up dead anyway. Whatever governing body handles bounties seems to be run by a bunch of cheapskates, to point they pay nothing for an even in-tact culprit that turned out to be an ArtificialIntelligence, [[InhumanableAlienRights and thus "not alive"]].

** During [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries the Johto saga]] in the episode ''Once In A Blue Moon'', a Quagsire steals the GS Ball. When Ash gets it back by battling it with Squirtle, the gang almost get arrested by Officer Jenny because the Quagsire in Cherrygrove City are a [[EndangeredSpecies protected species]]. So when the Quagsire steals the ball again, they have to follow it to waterfall where it conducts its waterfall ritual and wait for it to finish with the ball.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':
** During Johto in the episode ''Once In A Blue Moon'', a Quagsire steals the GS Ball. When Ash gets it back by battling it with Squirtle, the gang almost get arrested by Officer Jenny because the Quagsire in Cherrygrove City are a [[EndangeredSpecies protected species]]. So when the Quagsire steals the ball again, they have to follow it to waterfall where it conducts its waterfall ritual and wait for it to finish with the ball.
%% (several missing words)** In the Hoenn episode, ''You Can Never Taillow'', Ash and Pikachu find themselves having to square off against the leader of a fierce Taillow flock. However, is a [[TheDeterminator determined]] BloodKnight and keeps battling despite taking numerous powerful Electric attacks from Pikachu. Fearing that he may cause it too much damage, Ash ends up capturing.
** In Sinnoh, the gang has to deal with Hunter J who is an EvilPoacher who poaches Pokemon, whether they are owned or rare, and sell them to clients via a black market. To ensure maximum pay for her quarry, she zaps the Pokemon with a [[AndIMustScream petrification ray]] and seals them in clear pods.
** In the Unova episode, ''A Home for Dwebble'', the gang help a Dwebble get its home back from a bigger, bully Dwebble that attached its shell to its bigger one. Eventually, Dwebble gets to fight it mono-et-mono, but it has to restrain itself out of risk of damaging its own shell. Eventually it's able to use [[LimitBreak Shell Smash]] to destroy the rival Dwebble's shell and send it packing while leaving its own shell unharmed.

Compare EscortMission where one is assigned the task of escorting a character safely (often with ''very'' explicit No Harm Requirements) and ProtectionMission where the thing that must be protected from harm remains stationary. Also compare HeroMustSurvive, a video game trope where the player must keep the hero alive lest they want a GameOver, and the even more extreme NoDamageRun where the player can't take any damage at all.

* Six of the twelve Labors of Hercules in Myth/ClassicalMythology involved bringing back the The Ceryneian Hind, The Erymanthian Boar, The Cretan Bull, The Mares of Diomedes, The Cattle of Geryon, Cerberus all alive.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', Mirage and Syndrome hire Mr. Incredible to recover a giant robot that has gone rogue on an island. Because of the large expense that went into the robot, he is supposed to shut it down without destroying it. He ends up tricking the robot into taking itself down [[HoistByHisOwnPetard by getting inside it and getting it to stab itself out of commission]]. But unbeknownst to Mr. Incredible, [[spoiler:the real purpose of the mission was for the robot to kill Mr. Incredible]].

* Following the discovery of how to create real food in the game world of ''LightNovel/LogHorizon'', the protagonists begin collecting wildlife for use as ingredients. However, only someone with the chef subclass can get the most out of any one kill, which necessitates having to capture the beasts alive and bringing them to the chefs, which is considerably more difficult than killing them outright.