History PlayingWith / ThouShaltNotKill

** [[StupidGood Amazing Girl just lets the villain escape]].

** Amazing Girl just lets the villain escape.

** Amazing Girl is eventually forced to kill the bad guy in a kill or be killed encounter, and undergoes a HeroicBsod.

** IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim.

** "I will defeat the forces of evil by whatever means necessary... even if it means killing them."

** Amazing Girl refuses to off the BigBad who killed one million innocent minorities three days ago. This action causes backlash from the general public, especially those who are close to the one million victims, unhappy with Amazing Girl for not doing enough. Cue BrokenPedastal.

** When Amazing Girl’s refusal to kill villains , she and others list a number of moral and practical reasons why a super-powered vigilante acting as JudgeJuryAndExecutioner would be a bad thing for society in general. When someone brings up irredeemable villains being locked up in easily escapable prisons as opposed to getting the death penalty, Amazing Girl agrees that this is an issue, but the solution isn’t for her to start killing people. Since it’s literally the responsibility of ''any'' criminal justice system to hand out appropriate sentences for the people it convicts, clearly something has gone very wrong and people should be agitating for the government to fix things.

** Amazing Girl is allowed only the barest minimum of tolerance from the authorities for her actions, and committing murder would see the authorities pursue her as a criminal.

** Amazing Girl misjudges the how hard she's hitting and kills someone accidentally.

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** Amazing Girl might prohibit herself from killing, but the justice system is under no such constraints and can be trusted to give truly irredeemable villains the needle.

* '''Discussed''': "As long as you're good at stopping bad guys without violence, I don't care how much of a spineless, naive hero you are, Amazing Girl. But you ''damn well'' better keep them locked up. If those scum do so much as step one foot out of prison, [[NinetiesAntiHero they're gonna eat lead and you can't stop me!]]"

* '''Discussed''': "As long as you're good at stopping bad guys without violence, I don't care how much of a spineless, naive hero you are, Amazing Girl. But you ''damn well'' better keep them locked up. If those scum do so much as step one foot out of prison, [[NinetiesAntiHero I will blow their brains out and you can't stop me!]]"

* '''Discussed''': ???

** She is only willing to "kill" WitchSpecies that can [[BackFromTheDead resurrect themselves from the dead]].

** Same as above, except Amazing Girl [[WhatTheHellHero just lets the villain escape]]. (How she can [[NoodleIncident get anything done at all]] is a mystery.)

** Amazing Girl is a reformed character and TheAtoner who in her past life, [[HeWhoFightsMonsters tried to justify her actions to her targets]], only to realize that she was NotSoDifferent from the people she was killing. In order to make her redemption sincere, she swears not to kill, especially since ''she knows from past experience what it feels like.''

** [[VillainProtagonist Amazing Girl]] is [[AxCrazy hyper-violent]].

* '''Enforced''': "This character is supposed to be an inspiration to children, and we certainly don't want to send the message to children that [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop killing people is an appropriate way of dealing with your problems]]."

** Amazing Girl is allowed only the barest minimum of tolerance from the authorities for her actions, and committing murder would see the authorities pursue her as a criminal.

*** Alternatively, Amazing Girl is a reformed character and TheAtoner who in her past life, [[HeWhoFightsMonsters tried to justify her actions to her targets]], only to realize that she was NotSoDifferent from the people she was killing. In order to make her redemption sincere, she swears not to kill, especially since ''she knows from past experience what it feels like.''

** Related to the above, Amazing Girl takes matters into her own hands but prefers torture over the murder.

** Amazing Girl is willing to kill her enemies, but only as a last resort, and even then, only if the villain [[AssholeVictim deserved it]].

'''Basic Trope''': The hero adheres to a rigid code of morality preventing him or her from killing his / her adversaries except in extreme circumstances, and sometimes not even then.

** Amazing Girl believes that killing criminals would mean that they will never have to pay for their transgressions, so [[CruelMercy she wants to spare them for the sake of letting them experience the pain they themselves have caused on others.]] In short, she would rather make them suffer.

** [[VillainProtagonist Amazing Girl]] is [[AxCrazy hyper-violent.]]

** Amazing Girl leaves her opponents alive, but permanently hospitalized and writhing in pain, to the point where they can't so much as blink an eye without wanting to scream in pain [[AndIMustScream yet are unable to vocalize or even move.]] She non-ironically prides herself on not being so sinful and maniacal as to MercyKill them.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Amazing Girl's moral system is...complicated. While she won't kill regular crooks or even unrepentant [[AxCrazy nutters]] under any circumstance, she's very willing to mow down soldiers if she's fighting off an [[AlienInvaders invading force.]] Furthermore, while she thinks ClonesArePeopleToo and supports the rights of both animals and [[LiteralMinded illegal aliens,]] Robots, PlantPeople, and TheUndead [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman barely even blip on her moral radar.]] Furthermore, her perspective on the matter is [[MoralityKitchenSink just one of many among her peers, with some being even more unusual.]]

** [[ExactWords Amazing Girl's moral code is mute on the issue.]]

** "[[ShutUpKirk Spare me your moralizing, dumbass.]] [[TheFettered Obeying, to the letter and spirit,]] [[VirtueIsWeakness that stupid "no killing" code]] even for [[CompleteMonster unrepentant murderers like Evulz]] are why [[GoodIsDumb Superheroes are super stupid.]]"

* '''Exploited''': Evulz shapeshifts into a form with [[GlassCannon very few defences but an incredible amount of killing power, knowing he won't be slain by Amazing Girl anytime soon.]]

Back to ThouShaltNotKill

** Amazing Girl's refusal to kill is a reflection of an [[GoodIsOldFashioned outdated]], hypocritical and cowardly moral and ethical framework which, in allowing vicious murderers who cannot and will not be redeemed and who will inevitably escape confinement to kill again, makes her directly responsible for any future murders that they will commit.

* '''Doubly Subverted''':

* '''Parodied''': Amazing Girl [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beats the tar]] [[CurbStompBattle out of her opponents]] within an inch of their lives. She then resuscitates them, nurses them back to health, and continues to beat the crap out of them.

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