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I have something I'd like to add regarding the example for the Master System and Game Gear versions of Sonic the Hedgehog 2, specifically why Robotnik saves Sonic from falling into the lava pit in Act 3 of Under Ground Zone;

The game's manual states that Robotnik is after the Chaos Emeralds, and by this point, Sonic is supposed to have the first one (the one on the ledge just above the goal sign of Act 1 of Under Ground Zone). Robotnik saved Sonic because he didn't want to risk having the Emerald sink into the lava.

However, I'd like to be able to write it so that it doesn't sound like I'm replying to somebody else who claims there's a different reason, like having Robotnik's Antlion Mech destroy Sonic instead. If possible, I'd like to have the two reasons overlap with each other, like Robotnik trying to get the Antlion Mech to destroy Sonic so he can extract the Emerald from him.

Pulled from the Film section:

• In Jurassic Park, it's the T. rex that literally appears out of nowhere to save the heroes from the raptors. How it appeared there without anyone noticing, or why the protagonists are now less terrified than they were earlier, remains completely unexplained (there was a barely noticeable hole in the wall it possibly came in through). According to the Word of God, the producers were struggling with the ending when they came to the realization that it was really the hero of the movie, and that was when everything fell into place.

This isn't a Villainous Rescue, it's Always a Bigger Fish, and already listed there.

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... do we really need such an exhaustive list of "maybes"? Plus there's a huge number of overlap/very specific versions.

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Now that Big Damn Villains has been renamed Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work, can we please rename this Big Damn Villains (since it is about villains pulling a Big Damn Heroes and was what I (I was the one who YKTTW'd this trope) and others wanted it named originally? Pretty please? Villainous Rescue is such a boring title and only exists because what it should have been named was taken (by a trope that has since been renamed.)

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Would Johnny Quick's Heel Face Turn in "Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths" when he steps up to do what Batman knew Flash shouldn't do (alas, it happened; Batman came back just a little too late to keep the drain of Johnny's act from killing him)? "Hey, it's MY universe too," Johnny had said when he knew it had to be done to stop Owlman, whose taking the QED showed he was now Dragon in Chief if not full-blown True Big Bad.