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* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has a few examples. [[PrincessClassic Euphemia]] [[AllLovingHero li Britannia]] is the biggest, stepping in to help a random girl in a dangerous situation and basically giving herself up to the terrorists as an important hostage as part of it. [[Characters/CodeGeassLelouchLamperouge Lelouch vi Britannia]] is more {{Tsundere}} than most, but in the first episode alone he runs over to a crashed truck to help and goes on to try to assist the MysteriousWaif that turns out to be in said truck survive a massacre. [[AcePilot Suzaku]] at first ''seems'' to have this but [[spoiler: he's actually a DeathSeeker looking to pull off a HeroicSacrifice as a form of suicide.]]

* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has a few examples. [[PrincessClassic Euphemia]] [[AllLovingHero li Britannia]] is the biggest, stepping in to help a random girl in a dangerous situation and basically giving herself up to the terrorists as an important hostage as part of it. [[GuileHero Lelouch]] [[FallenPrincess vi Britannia]] is more {{Tsundere}} than most, but in the first episode alone he runs over to a crashed truck to help and goes on to try to assist the MysteriousWaif that turns out to be in said truck survive a massacre. [[AcePilot Suzaku]] at first ''seems'' to have this but [[spoiler: he's actually a DeathSeeker looking to pull off a HeroicSacrifice as a form of suicide.]]

* ''Radio/TheLoneRanger'': Wherever they do, no problem is too small for the Lone Ranger and Tonto to help solve it. They actively seek out trouble sometimes just to try and put things right.

* Averted in crossover ''Fanfic/TheHavocSideOfTheForce''. After all the messes he got in during the books because of doing the heroics for free, Harry Potter decided that now he would not get involved in a mess if it did not benefit him somehow.

* In ''VisualNovel/MysticMessenger'', this is the root cause of [[spoiler:[[BigBad Rika's]]]] SanitySlippage; [[spoiler:after experiencing a lifetime of abuse, neglect, and mental illness, [[StepfordSmiler all of which she hid from almost everyone she knew,]] she developed a compulsion to help other people she felt had been "forsaken" just like her. As her relationship with V progressed and he fed into her downward spiral, [[ReluctantPsycho her mental health got worse and worse until she became delusional,]] convinced that the only way the world would get better is if she could help ''everyone''; this eventually led to her and V [[FakingTheDead staging her death and telling everyone in the RFA that she committed suicide]] while she absconded to the mountains to start the cult Mint Eye to [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul "save" everyone she could get her hands on through kidnapping, drugging, and indoctrination.]]]]

* In ''VisualNovel/MysticMessenger'', this is the root cause of [[spoiler:[[BigBad Rika's]]]] SanitySlippage; [[spoiler:after a lifetime of abuse, neglect, and mental illness, [[StepfordSmiler all of which she hid from almost everyone she knew,]] she developed a compulsion to help other people she felt had been "forsaken" just like her. As her relationship with V progressed and he fed into her downward spiral, [[ReluctantPsycho her mental health got worse and worse until she became delusional,]] convinced that the only way the world would get better is if she could help ''everyone''; this eventually led to her and V [[FakingTheDead staging her death and telling everyone in the RFA that she committed suicide]] while she absconded to the mountains to start the cult Mint Eye to [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul "save" everyone she could get her hands on through kidnapping, drugging, and indoctrination.]]]]

*** ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'': His attempts to help his friends to go to college as he feels guilty they get rejected because he's Spider-Man lead to some multiversal supervillains ending up in his home dimension. After finding out that they probably are going to die once they return to their universes, je decides to help them instead which leads [[spoiler:to his Aunt May's death and the whole world forgetting Peter Parker exists]].

* ''VisualNovel/SoulOfSovereignty'': [[GentlemanWizard Loïc Ard]] never turns down the chance to offer a hand to somebody, regardless of who they are. When he's given the chance to pull back from [[TheFarmerAndTheViper helping someone he knows full well might use him for her own gain]], he can't help himself but to go out of his way for her -- even with disastrous consequences, up to and including trading away his own life for hers.

* Yuta Hibiki of ''Anime/SSSSGridman'' and ''Anime/GridmanUniverse''. Fighting the Kaiju while playing the host of Gridman is something that he believes is "something only he can do", and will not hesitate to jump in and protect everyone, the risks or his safety be damned. Part of this is because [[spoiler:it isn't actually Yuta at all, but rather ''Gridman'' himself possessing him, with the real Yuta being dormant the whole time]]. In ''GRIDMAN UNIVERSE'', [[spoiler:we get to see the real Yuta (who doesn't possess any memory of his time with Gridman), and he's dangerously even ''more'' of a selfless hero than before, almost bordering on suicidal, When Gridman asks for his help again, Yuta immediately JumpedAtTheCall without a second thought — something that his friend Rikka is ''[[AngerBornOfWorry not]]'' [[AngerBornOfWorry happy with at all]]]].