History HonorBeforeReason / WebOriginal

* Neil Sinclair of ''Roleplay/{{Survival of the Fittest}}'' fits this trope. The primary example of such behaviour is trusting Dominica Sharpiro by offering her a place in his Pro escape group, despite knowing, for ''certain'' that she [[spoiler:earlier killed another group member]] who became separated from the others.
* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic is big on this one, protecting friends and children to the most extreme degree even though he knows full well it'll get himself hurt.
* In ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', Sarge refuses to use sniper rifles and other long distance weapons other than regular guns, as he believes the only way to kill someone is up close and personal. He admits that he has no problem with using a nuke on an enemy because of RuleOfCool.
* In Sherwood Forest, Will follows Robin to the castle and rushes into battle to save him. This would be very noble if not for the fact that he's a terrible swordfighter and basically just manages to kill a guy through sheer dumb luck. He also got lucky in that his appearance made the Sheriff's guards scatter; if they'd stuck around long enough to realize he was just flailing wildly with a sword, they probably would have killed him.
* Tempered Steel from ''Podcast/FalloutIsDragons'' will always, always, always try to talk others into doing the right thing. Even a pissed off dragon who is currently preparing its breath weapon.
* Actually {{Invoked|Trope}} in ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' as an argument [[spoiler:against Goku in "[[Franchise/DragonBall Goku]] vs Franchise/{{Superman}}". Many Anime/DragonBallZ characters, Goku included, have a habit of demanding a fair fight even against an obviously superior opponent. Hence, even if [[IdiotHero Goku]] managed to figure out Superman's weaknesses to kryptonite and exposure to a red star, he would refuse to exploit them.]]
* This goes into levels of stupid in ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged''. During the second half of Goku's fight with Cell, everyone notices Goku's starting to lose steam. Trunks angrily tells the other Z Warriors to stop going by the tournament rules and ''help him''. Vegeta tells Trunks off, claiming that his Saiyan heritage would refuse such help... only for Goku to declare he gives up. When Gohan is tagged in, he believes he can take the weakened Cell... until Goku tosses Cell a Senzu Bean. This earns him a WhatTheHellHero from ''everyone''.
* WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged: [[spoiler:Walter's]] betrayal is reworked into this. He'd rather fulfill his duty as a [[spoiler:vampire hunter]] and destroy Alucard, than his fulfill his duties to Hellsing (and Integra) and to a currently-being-overrun-by-vampire-Nazis England.
* Krusk from ''WebAnimation/PuffinForest'''s ''TabletopGame/CurseOfStrahd'' story has an interesting problem with this. He's a paladin, which means he gets a lot of advantages when fighting TheUndead, like most of [[BigBad Strahd's]] servants are. The one he considers his nemesis, however, is [[TheRenfield Rahadin]], Strahd's very much living chamberlain.

* WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged: [[spoiler:Walter's]] betrayal is reworked into this. He'd rather fulfill his duty as a [[spoiler:vampire hunter]] and destroy Alucard, than his fulfill his duties to Hellsing (and Integra) and to a currently-being-overrun-by-vampire-Nazis England.

* WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged: [[spoiler]]Walter's[[/spoiler]] betrayal is reworked into this. He'd rather fulfill his duty as a [[spoiler]] vampire hunter[[/spoiler]] and destroy Alucard, than his fulfill his duties to Hellsing (and Integra) and to a currently-being-overrun-by-vampire-Nazis England.

* This goes into levels of stupid in ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged''. During the second half of Goku's fight with Cell, everyone notices Goku's starting to lose steam. Trunks angrily tells the other Z Warriors to stop going by the tournament rules and ''help him''. Vegeta tells Trunks off, claiming that his Saiyan heritage would refuse such help... only for Goku to declare he gives up. When Gohan is tagged in, he believes he can take the weakened Cell... until Goku tosses Cell a Senzu Bean. This earns him a WhatTheHellHero from ''everyone''.

* Tempered Steel from WebOriginal/FalloutIsDragons will always, always, always try to talk others into doing the right thing. Even a pissed off dragon who is currently preparing its breath weapon.

* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', the trope is discussed in [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/snare-13-10/ Snare 13.10]] when [[spoiler:Grue i.e. Brian is talking to Taylor i.e. Skitter]]:
-->'''[[spoiler:Brian]]:''' I ''worry'' about you. You throw yourself into these situations like you don't care if you die, like you've got nothing to stick around for except for those people you insist on protecting. [[spoiler:Dinah]], the people from [[spoiler:your territory]]. People you barely know, if at all. And then you actually make it out okay, so you do it again, only more so. Riskier stuff. I start thinking about how I'm supposed to protect you, get you to stop, get you to focus on a goal that's actually attainable, because you're so capable that you could be amazing if you stopped acting suicidal.

* Actually {{Invoked|Trope}} in ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' as an argument [[spoiler:against Goku in "[[Franchise/DragonBall Goku]] vs Franchise/{{Superman}}". Many Anime/DragonBallZ characters, Goku included, have a habit of demanding a fair fight even against an obviously superior opponent. Hence, even if [[IdiotHero Goku]] managed to figure out Superman's weaknesses to kryptonite and exposure to a red star, he would refuse to exploit them.]]

* Neil Sinclair of ''{{Survival of the Fittest}}'' fits this trope. The primary example of such behaviour is trusting Dominica Sharpiro by offering her a place in his Pro escape group, despite knowing, for ''certain'' that she [[spoiler:earlier killed another group member]] who became separated from the others.

* Actually {{Invoked|Trope}} in ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' as an argument [[spoiler:against Goku in "Goku vs. Superman". Many Dragonball Z characters, Goku included, have a habit of demanding a fair fight even against an obviously superior opponent. Hence, even if [[IdiotHero Goku]] managed to figure out Superman's weaknesses to kryptonite and exposure to a red star, he would refuse to exploit them.]]

* Tempered Steel from WebOriginal/FalloutIsDragons will always, always, always try to talk others into doing the right thing. Even a pissed off dragon who is currently preparing its breath weapon.

* In Sherwood Forest, Will follows Robin to the castle and rushes into battle to save him. This would be very noble if not for the fact that he's a terrible swordfighter and basically just manages to kill a guy through sheer dumb luck. He also got lucky in that his appearance made the Sheriff's guards scatter; if they'd stuck around long enough to realize he was just flailing wildly with a sword, they probably would have killed him.

* In ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', Sarge refuses to use sniper rifles and other long distance weapons other than regular guns, as he believes the only way to kill someone is up close and personal. He admits that he has no problem with using a nuke on an enemy because of RuleOfCool.

-->'''[[spoiler:Brian]]:''' I ''worry'' about you. You throw yourself into these situations like you don't care if you die, like you've got nothing to stick around for except for those people you insist on protecting. [[spoiler:Dinah]], the people from [[spoiler:your territory]]. People you barely know, if at all. And then you actually make it out okay, so you do it again, only more so. Riskier stuff. I start thinking about how I'm supposed to protect you, get you to stop, get you to focus on a goal that's actually attainable, because you're so capable that you could be amazing if you stopped acting suicidal.

* {{Literature/Worm}}. [[TheFettered Taylor]] has the power to control bugs, [[SuperpowerLottery that's it]]. [[spoiler:[[NighInvulnerability Levia]][[TheJuggernaut than]] has just shrugged off many of the strongest parahumans in the setting and is now attacking a shelter full of civilians. [[WhatYouAreInTheDark Nobody else is around and her tracker is broken]]. She's heavily injured, already [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood considered]] a villain and the civilians include a [[AdultsAreUseless teacher]] who stood by as her life was made [[TheBully a living hell]]. [[ForegoneConclusion What does]] [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu she do?]]]]