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Eagal This is a title. from This is a location. Since: Apr, 2012 Relationship Status: Waiting for Prince Charming
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#1: Aug 8th 2016 at 11:18:40 PM

The Samaritan Syndrome trope is about people, usually superheroes, who go out of their way to save people, and so much so that their lifesaving may interfere with their personal life, and feel guilty if they don't do everything in their power to help others.

Yet the page picture is exactly the opposite of that. It depicts a superhero actively refusing to help anybody at all, ignoring a man falling to his death and a crime in progress and appearing to be quite happy about doing so.

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Berrenta How sweet it is from Texas Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
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#2: Aug 9th 2016 at 5:06:27 AM

Yep, that needs to go.

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#3: Aug 9th 2016 at 5:54:19 AM

That's a good illustration for another trope, but not this one.

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#4: Aug 9th 2016 at 6:43:16 AM

Looks more like Refusal of the Call. But yep, current needs to go.

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#5: Aug 9th 2016 at 8:57:06 AM

Make it go bye-bye.

(Annoyed grunt)
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#6: Aug 9th 2016 at 10:13:45 AM

It's pulled and the page is tagged.

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dr_blink_samaritan_syndrome_6183.png
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#8: Aug 24th 2016 at 5:56:23 PM

Should we close this early, since we had no action since the pull?

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#10: Aug 24th 2016 at 11:08:31 PM

Close.

I swear there's a trope that that image is illustrating, but I have no idea what.

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