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PistolsAtDawn
Since: Oct, 2013
Is there a trope for the kind of situation where a main characters says a line like "It's not okay if you sacrifice yourself!", another character overhears it and recalls saying the same thing under a different context, showing that they're not really all that different? It seems to be a commonly used technique to play for empathy.