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"The main problem with the situation is that the hostage taker, barring the occasional ones who are willing to give their life, doesn't want to shoot the hostage much more than the heroes do. If they were to kill the hostage because the heroes refused to drop the guns, there is suddenly nothing to keep the heroes from using said guns. However, the characters almost never think this through." Why wouldn't that be Truth in Television? Or wouldn't that be something that maybe the hostage-taker could use to convince the heroes to put down their weapons, while the heroes might throw an anti-Truth in Television counterpoint back at him?
Edited by manhandled I got my political views from reddit and that's bad
Sorcerer in training
Would the film Soldier count as a subversion of this trope? The child soldiers at the beginning of the film are trained to shoot through 'civilian' (paper) targets to get at the 'soldiers' behind them. When they're grown, one soldier is shown doing exactly that to a woman being held hostage by an enemy soldier.
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