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| 10 | [[caption-width-right:350:And then he turned out to be TheImmune.]] |
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| 12 | ->''"Will it be no joy to think of hereafter in the silence of the night when sleep is not, 'It was my hand that sent her to the stars. It was the hand of him that loved her best, the hand that of all she would herself have chosen, had it been to her to choose?'"'' |
| 13 | -->-- '''Van Helsing''', ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' |
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| 15 | One of the occupational hazards of being a HunterOfMonsters involves the death of your friends and family out of vengeance from the monsters you hunt. But sometimes the monsters don't just ''kill'' your loved ones. No, sometimes they get ''extra'' sadistic and [[TragicMonster turn them into one of their own]]. This puts the protagonist in the awful position of having to kill someone they truly loved. |
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| 17 | Expect this trope to crop up in VampireFiction, almost always when the monsters are AlwaysChaoticEvil. Usually averted with the FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire. This situation can also crop up with other monsters, the most common variations being [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves]] and [[ZombieApocalypse zombies]]. |
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| 19 | Subtrope of ShootTheDog. Likely to be DirtyBusiness and to lead to ILetGwenStacyDie. See also AndThenJohnWasAZombie. May be a case of VanHelsingHateCrimes when the monsters are ''not'' AlwaysChaoticEvil. Related to TranshumanTreachery, as this is what the newly turned are feared to commit. Often the only "good" way WhatHappenedToMommy can end up. Frequently a TearJerker. |
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| 21 | See also ICannotSelfTerminate, MercyKill, and MercyKillArrangement. SubTrope of KillTheOnesYouLove and TragicMonster. Compare and contrast SupportingTheMonsterLovedOne, which is this trope's alternative. Not to be confused with ''[[StalkerWithACrush stalking]]'' [[StalkingIsLove the loved one]]. |
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| 23 | !!As this is a {{Death Trope|s}}, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked spoilers abound]]. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Beware]]. |
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| 25 | !!Examples: |
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| 29 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] |
| 30 | * ''Literature/FateZero'' shows us the consequences of ''not'' doing it: after drinking a potion that transformed her in a vampire, Kiritsugu's childhood friend [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Shirley]] begged Kiritsugu to kill her while she was still capable of resisting her instincts, but when Kiritsugu couldn't go through it (opting instead to ask the local priest for counsel) she caused a [[ZombieApocalypse vampire outbreak]] [[DoomedHometown that claimed everyone on the island but Kiritsugu and his father]]. The experience, including the Church and the Mage Association killing all the vampires and burning down the place and having to kill his own father for experimenting on vampirism, was Kiritsugu's CynicismCatalyst: since then Kiritsugu never hesitated to pull the trigger whenever necessary, and when he got to choose between shooting down a plane with [[ParentalSubstitute his mother surrogate]] and a horde of ghouls on it and risking it to cause another vampire outbreak he immediately shot down the plane. |
| 31 | * In ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', [[LadyOfWar Integra]] is instructed to put down her subordinates-turned-ghouls herself, since she was their leader and thus their being defeated and transformed is her responsibility. |
| 32 | * ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' ends with everyone defeating the [[EnemyWithout Self-Defense Program]] of Reinforce, the former Book of Darkness. She's grateful, but the next day informs them that they have to finish the job with her too or else her programming will be forced to regenerate the [=SDP=]. Nanoha and Fate do because it would be too cruel to make Hayate do so. |
| 33 | * {{Subverted}} in ''Manga/{{Parasyte}}''--Shinichi tries to do this to the Parasite who killed/infested [[spoiler:his mom]] but freezes up at the critical moment. [[NonProtagonistResolver Mamoru Uda and Jaw kill her instead]], with the former arguing that Shinichi shouldn't have to be the one to do it. |
| 34 | * ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': |
| 35 | ** [[spoiler:Kyouko is forced to kill Sayaka, who turned into a Witch]]. |
| 36 | ** [[GroundhogDayLoop In the previous iteration]], it's Homura who must MercyKill Madoka. [[CynicismCatalyst This pushes her into]] {{Antihero}}dom. |
| 37 | ** Darkly {{Invoked}} too by [[spoiler:Mami in the previous iteration, rather than seeing her other mentee go Sayaka's path, she would rather kill them. Madoka stopped her from killing Homura... by shooting her first]]. |
| 38 | * In an inversion, ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'' has the vampiric Moka nearly beating [[spoiler:the human Tsukune]] to death because he had become a ghoul that was dangerous to everyone around him. She considered it her responsibility to finish him because she was the one who caused the transformation. |
| 39 | * ''Manga/TokyoGhoul [=:Re=]'': [[spoiler: After encountering his NotQuiteDead [[DeadSidekick Sidekick]] as a deranged [[HalfHumanHybrid half-ghoul]], Houji makes the difficult decision to attempt to put down his former subordinate himself. It......does ''not'' end well, with Takizawa slaughtering the entire squad in a rage. He kills Houji via decapitation, before strangling [[ImpliedLoveInterest Akira]] while demanding to know why they would try to kill him when he just wanted to help them]]. |
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| 42 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 43 | * The ''ComicBook/BatmanVampire'' trilogy features Batman becoming a vampire to oppose Dracula, with Commissioner Gordon and Alfred Pennyworth aiding him against the remaining vampires after Dracula's death. However, when Batman succumbs to his vampire urges and drinks the Joker's blood, he orders Gordon and Alfred to stake him so that he cannot become a monster like Dracula. While they go through with this request, Alfred ultimately removes the stake so that Batman can stop Gotham's new crime wave, but the corrupted Batman vows that he will not allow his old allies to pierce his heart again. Forced to accept that their old friend is dead, Gordon and Alfred ally with Gotham's last remaining criminals- Two-Face and Killer Croc- to lure Batman into a trap, destroying the roof of the former Batcave so that Batman will be destroyed by the sun, ending his reign of terror before he can turn his hunger on innocents after he runs out of "deserving" prey. |
| 44 | * ''ComicBook/CaballisticsInc'': Hannah Chapter reveals to a psychic vampire that before becoming an OccultDetective she was once involved with a woman who turned into a zombie, forcing Hannah to blow her head off. She turns off her com so that Lawrence (her closest friend) can't hear this. |
| 45 | * Cassie Hack in ''ComicBook/HackSlash'' had to do this to her [[DeathByOriginStory deranged undead mother]]. It ended up as a recurring FlashbackNightmare for her. She's actually done it ''three times'' so far. Delilah Hack just doesn't seem to want to stay dead. |
| 46 | * The last act of Dmitri Mishkin, in ''ComicBook/HouseOfMystery'''s "I... Vampire" series, was to stake his own mother. Kind of an odd encounter, given that she'd been turned when Dmitri was a small boy and he'd been hunting her for decades, so his mom looks a good fifty years younger than he does. |
| 47 | * ''ComicBook/NewAvengers2015:'' A future version of Hulkling, called King Hulk, travels back in time with what's left of the Avengers to stop Teddy's husband before he's possessed by an evil warlock called Mor-i-Dun. By the time they show up, it's apparently too late, and Future Teddy advises Present Teddy to kill Wiccan before Mor-i-Dun can go on an omnicidal rampage with all of Wiccan's powers. Present Teddy says "screw that!", and manages to encourage Billy into driving the warlock out himself. |
| 48 | * In one ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' story, ComicBook/{{Morbius}} [[OurVampiresAreDifferent the Living Vampire]] is confronted by his once human ex-fiancée Martine, now a real vampire. During the fight that follows, Spider-Man is unable to go through with staking her because he reasons she used to be a living human being. It is Morbius who then throws Martine onto the stake Spider-Man is holding, afterwards explaining that the real Martine died a long time ago. |
| 49 | * In the tie-in comic ''Literature/TheStrain: Mister Quinlan - Vampire Hunter'' detailing the backstory of Mr. Quinlan, he was part of a slave ludus during the Roman Empire. When [[BigBad the Master]] arrives and turns all other slaves except [[TokenBlackFriend Bruk]] into vampires, forcing Quinlan and Bruk to fight their way out against their former friends. Bruk is infected during the struggle and request his friend to decapitate him before he can become a monster himself. |
| 50 | * In Marvel's ''Comicbook/TheTombOfDracula'', Drac is clockwork predictable with this trope. Virtually no one outside the 'Bridge Crew' was taken prisoner without being turned. |
| 51 | * Defied in ''ComicBook/XMen'', where the team flat out rejected this as an option after ComicBook/{{Jubilee|MarvelComics}} was turned, although Blade tried to convince them there wasn't any other. She handled herself okay until she was eventually cured. |
| 52 | * Becomes a recurring theme in the ''[[ComicBook/DcVsVampires Dc Vs Vampires]]'' [[ComicBook/DCVsVampiresWorldWarV series]], due to the question whether the titualr superheroes, many of them having [[ThouShallNotKill vowed to never take a life]], are willing, capable or succesful in doing so, depending on the character and moment. Some of the ''less spoilery'' examples: |
| 53 | ** At first Batman says they should stake the vampires outright and starts the series seemingly willing to fight seriously, but when the moment comes that they've captured two of their friends, he hesitates and changes his mind, telling Green Arrow they shouldn’t kill them. |
| 54 | ** The reverse happens with Green Arrow, who at first fails to kill [[spoiler: a friend when Batman tells him to do so, pretending he's missed his shot. He changes his mind later and succesfully stakes him, after seeing how far gone he is]]. |
| 55 | ** [[AvertedTrope Completely averted]] with John Constantine, who never tries to attack [[spoiler: Zatanna (and in fact chastises Dr. Fate when he does so)]]. |
| 56 | ** [[AvertedTrope Also averted]] by the non-turned members or the Justice League, like Superman, who are under [[spoiler: the assumption that Batman is a vampire. Their only interest is to contain Batman and find a cure]]. |
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| 60 | * The ''Series/{{Heroes}}''/''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'' crossover "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12045706/1/Dark-Days Dark Days]]" features a low-key version of this when [[spoiler:the Haitian is revealed to have been turned into a vampire as part of Victoria and Adam’s plans. While Elle wasn’t a close friend of his, she was at least a professional acquaintance, and accepts the Haitian’s request that she kill him after Adam and Victoria have been dealt with as he doesn’t want to exist like that]]. |
| 61 | * In the ''Series/{{Angel}}''/''Literature/TheHungerGames'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10718717/1/Demon-s-Games Demon's Games]]'', the final battle sees [[spoiler:Katniss forced to stake the now-vampire Prim, tearfully accepting that the sister she loved has gone forever before she hits the DespairEventHorizon and has to be saved from a burning building by Peeta]]. |
| 62 | * Peripherally applies in ''Fanfic/TorontoBatFansLetMeIn'' fic ''Eternally Bonded'', when Owen and Abby essentially kill a woman who was attacked by Abby's vampire uncle Jebediah (they burn down the morgue her body was being kept in before she can 'wake up' as a vampire). They don't know the dead woman themselves, but she was married to a friend of Owen's grandfather Oscar, who has given Owen and Abby a safe place to stay since they left Owen's apartment building. |
| 63 | * Done with a twist in ''FanFic/TheReturn'' when one character is forced to shoot her sister who has been turned into a demon so that she can be given an EmergencyTransformation to save her. |
| 64 | * In Creator/StephenKing's ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'' fanfic story ''The Reach'', the inhabitants of a small New England island off the coast of Massachusetts cooperate to rid their island of zombies and to prevent the local graveyard from spawning new ones. When the strain gets to be too much for one old man, he begins suffering a heart attack. Rather than risk dying and coming back as a zombie, he tells his sons that he's going to recite the Lord's prayer, and when he says "Amen", they are to put the muzzles of their shotguns up to his chest and pull the trigger, just so he can spare them this. |
| 65 | ** This sounds very much like "Home Delivery", which he published in ''Literature/NightmaresAndDreamscapes''. Apparently, he recycles. |
| 66 | * This is a recurring plot point in ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'' where whenever a ninja is brought back with Edo Tensei it's usually one of their still living friends or family members who ends up fighting them. In fact it's common for people to deliberately seek out their zombified loved ones due to a combination of wanting to see them returned to their peaceful rest, having the best chance of beating them because of familiarity with their techniques, and giving the dead emotional closure being one of the only ways to stop them without sealing them away. |
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| 70 | [[folder:Film]] |
| 71 | * In ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'' Selena tells Jim right near the start that if he got infected she'd kill him "in a heartbeat", and she proves this by killing one of her other friends when he turns. At the climax, she believes Jim has been infected due to the [[EyeScream shockingly brutal]] killing the formerly gentle man commits. [[spoiler:She can't bring herself to actually attack him.]] |
| 72 | ** Earlier on [[spoiler:Frank]] is infected but Jim can't bring himself to deliver the death blow, even though he knows he's only got seconds before they're all in danger and Selena is screaming at him to do it. |
| 73 | * In ''Film/ArmyOfTheDead'', Scott Ward found himself having to kill his own wife when she was turned into a zombie during the Las Vegas outbreak. [[spoiler:Scott's daughter Kate has to do the same as he turns into a zombie in the end.]] |
| 74 | * ''Film/{{Blade}}'' has to stake [[spoiler:his own mother]] in the first film; [[spoiler:he believed she had died giving birth to him after a Vampire bite]]. |
| 75 | ** He also [[spoiler:gives Whistler a gun to shoot himself before he fully turns. Blade does an UnflinchingWalk as a gunshot is heard behind him. Subverted when it turns out that Whistler missed and survived]]. |
| 76 | * In ''Film/BloodRedSky'', after getting full confirmation that his VampireRefugee mother Nadja has completely turned into a vampire and given in to her killer instincts, Elias ([[HarmfulToMinors Nadja's 12-year-old son]]) sets off the explosives in the plane the vampires were holed up in, incinerating all of them in the humongous fireball that ensues. |
| 77 | * Subverted in the first ''Film/CountYorga'' film, one of the protagonist is given the chance to stake a female friend of his that been turned by the title character (she actually stands there and waits on him). He considers it but ultimately can't do it and leaves her in her undead state. |
| 78 | * ''Film/DaylightsEnd'': On the first day of the outbreak, Ethan had to put down his infected brother Evan. |
| 79 | * Parodied in ''Film/DraculaDeadAndLovingIt'', where Van Helsing (played by Creator/MelBrooks) invokes this trope as an excuse to not have to stake Lucy: |
| 80 | -->'''Van Helsing''': It must be done by one who loved her in life!\ |
| 81 | '''Jonathan Harker''': But I only liked her!\ |
| 82 | '''Van Helsing''': Close enough! |
| 83 | * ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn''. [[spoiler:Seth has to kill his brother. Kate has to kill her father ''and'' brother after her brother found himself unable to kill the father and was infected as a result]]. |
| 84 | * ''Film/IAmLegend'' featured [[spoiler:the main character's dog being bitten by the "vampires" and he must put her down when it becomes obvious that the antidote he's been trying to develop didn't work. Worse than a lot of examples because the main character is the last human left in a city full of monsters, and the dog was his only companion.]] |
| 85 | * ''Film/JohnCarpentersVampires''. When John Crowe discovers that his Vatican liaison is withholding information from him, he threatens the priest, who refuses to believe that Crowe will harm a human being. Crowe responds thus: |
| 86 | -->"Listen to me, you fuck! My father kept a secret once. He had been bitten by a vampire. [[ZombieInfectee He kept it a secret from me and my mother]]. By the fifth day, he was turning. That night he attacked my mother. And then he came after me. I killed my own father, Padre. I got no trouble killing you." |
| 87 | * ''Film/LivingDeadSeries'': |
| 88 | ** In ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1990'', Barbara is forced to shoot her friend Ben after he dies and turns into a zombie. |
| 89 | ** Depicted on a city-wide scale in the opening of ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978'', with disastrous results. Efforts by the Philadelphia Police Department to enforce RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain on all {{Zombie Infectee}}s go over ''very'' poorly in the city's Black and Puerto Rican neighborhoods, leading to riots and the final breakdown of public order in communities that already didn't trust the police (and given [[RabidCop what we see]] [[PoliceBrutality of them]], it's not hard to figure out why) and saw their response to the ZombieApocalypse as just an excuse to kill them and their loved ones. |
| 90 | ** [[Film/DawnOfTheDead2004 The remake]] of ''Dawn'', meanwhile, had Andre snap after Norma kills his zombified, pregnant wife Luda, leading to a shootout in which the two of them kill each other. When the other survivors show up, they find Andre cradling his newborn daughter, who was [[UndeadChild infected in the womb and born a zombie]]. |
| 91 | * ''Film/ResidentEvil2002''. Matthew Addison has to kill his ally Rain Ocampo after she turns into a zombie. |
| 92 | * Non-fantastic example in ''Film/TheSearchers'': Debbie Edwards's own family expect her uncle to kill her after they learn she's been indoctrinated by the Comanches who kidnapped her into becoming their squaw - and they have hardly any regrets because, after all, Debbie is now the enemy. Of course, since said uncle is a fanatical Indian-hating psychopath, Debbie's blood tie to him never even enters the picture [[spoiler: until he actually has the opportunity to do it, and he experiences an AdoptTheDog moment]]. |
| 93 | * In ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead,'' Shaun has to kill [[spoiler:his zombified mother]]. Subverted in the case of his [[spoiler:zombified best friend; Shaun locks him in a shed in his back yard and they play video games together]]. |
| 94 | * ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'': {{Downplayed}} on the "loved one" part, but when the Borg invade the ''Enterprise'', Captain Picard makes it clear what must be done to all drones, even former crewmembers. He then shoots one RedShirt whose assimilation has just begun, and later on he guns down a drone who used to be Ensign Lynch. |
| 95 | -->'''Picard:''' ''(to his security teams)'' You may encounter ''Enterprise'' crewmembers who have already been assimilated. Don't hesitate to fire. [[MercyKill Believe me, you'll be doing them a favor]]. |
| 96 | * When Secker and Paxton in ''Film/TasteTheBloodOfDracula'' find vampirized Lucy in a casket, Secker tries to stake her, only for Paxton to chase him away, so that the task of slaying his daughter would befall on him alone. He fails because he takes too much time to do the deed. |
| 97 | * The first film in the ''Film/TheTwinsEffect'' duology have the vampire hunter, Reeve, being infected with vampirism, and failing to procure the antidote on time, begs his lover, Gypsy, to pull this trope on him if he becomes savage. It ''did'' happen, eventually. |
| 98 | * In ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'', Columbus and Tallahassee come across Wichita and her zombie-bitten sister, Little Rock. They hand her the gun to do the mercy kill, but things don't go ''quite'' as they plan because [[spoiler:they're faking the zombie bite just so they can get a hold of Columbus and Tallahassee's guns and truck]]. |
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| 101 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 102 | * In one ''Literature/AnitaBlake'' book, the parents of a dead girl ask Anita to do this for them before their daughter rises as a vampire. |
| 103 | * In ''Literature/{{Baltimore}}'', or the Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire, Baltimore has to do this [[spoiler: not only to his wife, but his father, mother, and sister as well]]. |
| 104 | * In ''Literature/BloodPromise'', Rose has to do this to [[spoiler:Dimitri]]. |
| 105 | * Buffy having to stake the vamped Giles in the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' novel ''The Lost Slayer''. |
| 106 | * In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels, Angua has specifically ''requested'' that Carrot do this if she ever ends up becoming as monstrous as her brother Wolfgang. |
| 107 | * Best known example from Bram Stoker's ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' when Helsing shows the men first hand of Lucy's undead form after she "dies" and seeing she's more monster than human. Although he notes that he ''is'' willing to deal the final blow himself, he offers her fiancé Arthur the chance to do so instead, rationalizing that if Lucy were able to, she would have wanted Arthur to do it as well. All three suitors agree, and Arthur thanks Van Helsing for the chance. After Mina is bitten by Dracula later, she [[MercyKillArrangement makes the men promise]] to do the same to her if she becomes a vampire. |
| 108 | ** In the PerspectiveFlip book ''Literature/TheDraculaTape'', Dracula uses this incident to advance his argument that Helsing is a sadistic psychopath. |
| 109 | * Invoked in-universe in ''Literature/DreamPark'', when the casualties of the South Seas Treasure Game are sent back in make-up to "attack" their former comrades as part of a zombie horde. Gwen, acting under the Game Masters' orders, winds up in a duel with her out-of-game boyfriend Oliver, and he's so shocked that she has to whisper "Kill me, Ollie, please" before he'll play out the scene properly and strike her down with his virtual weapon. |
| 110 | * In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', ''Literature/{{Changes}}'', [[spoiler:Harry is forced to kill his vampire girlfriend Susan when she turns fully. The situation was further complicated in that the Red Court vampires that sired Susan were about to kill their daughter to activate a spell that would kill her family line, and by killing Susan, Harry could use the spell against the villains, destroying all members of the Red Court]]. |
| 111 | ** Made even worse when one realizes that [[spoiler:our hero]] knowingly manipulated the situation so that [[spoiler:Susan would lose control and kill, thereby turning into the youngest Red Court vampire. He hates himself for doing it and will never forgive himself, even though it saved their daughter]]. |
| 112 | ** Note finally that [[spoiler:Susan had]] ''regained'' control in the final moments, and knew exactly what [[spoiler:he was doing and why. The fact that she realized it was the only way to save their child, and didn't struggle, arguably made it even harder for Harry to cope with this trope]]. |
| 113 | * ''Literature/DustDevils'': Cody ends up having to destroy his friend and newly turned vampire Willet on Willet's urging to put him out of his misery. Cody later ends up destroying the body of his beloved father Jack to prevent him possibly rising up again as a vampire. |
| 114 | * ''Literature/EdenGreen'' follows a rationalist attempting to cure her best friend of an alien needle parasite. As she begins to realize the seriousness of the situation, she resolves to do whatever is necessary to make sure the parasite doesn't spread. |
| 115 | * ''Literature/TheGardellaVampireChronicles'': |
| 116 | * Subversion in ''[[Literature/DenOfShadows All Just Glass]]''. [[spoiler:The main character herself is a vampire hunter and witch who is turned into a vampire. Her sister, another hunter, wants to do this, but ultimately can't bring herself to do it.]] |
| 117 | ** There's another subversion in the book that comes right before it in the series, ''Shattered Mirror''. [[spoiler: Sarah goes out to kill Kristopher, and then gets turned into a vampire.]] |
| 118 | * In ''Literature/IAmLegend'', Neville must kill his reanimated wife when she returns. |
| 119 | * In the ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' novel ''Nemesis'', Eladamri kills the Phyrexian Belbe, who was created from the corpse of Eladamri's daughter. Overlaps with VanHelsingHateCrime in that Belbe had already gone through a HeelFaceTurn and was actively sabotaging the Phyrexians' plans. NiceJobBreakingItHero. |
| 120 | * In the ''Literature/MercyThompson'' novels, doing this to werewolves who can't control their "wolf side" is usually the duty of their closest werewolf relatives, but if they can't do it, the Marrok (Alpha-in-chief of all North America's werewolf packs) or his son Charles has to step in. The novels make it clear that both the Marrok and Charles have already done it too many times for their own peace of mind. |
| 121 | * In the post-ZombieApocalypse ''Literature/{{Newsflesh}}'' world, it's accepted that if someone is about to amplify (become a zombie), even close relatives are expected to put the victim down for good, both as [[MercyKill an act of compassion]] and to keep the victim from spreading the problem by attacking those around him/her. In the first book, we hear about a mother forced to kill her child and see an about-to-be-zombie shot by a close friend. Then there's [[spoiler:Shaun performing a MercyKill on his [[BrotherSisterIncest lover]]/[[NotBloodSiblings adoptive sister]] Georgia]], which sends him into SanitySlippage for the next two books. |
| 122 | * ''Literature/OldYeller'': After his loyal and brave dog contracts rabies, Travis insists to his mother that since it’s his dog, he must be the one to shoot Old Yeller. |
| 123 | * ''Literature/TheSagaOfErikTheRed'': During the winter Thorstein Eriksson and Gudrid spend in the Western Settlement with farmer Thorstein and his wife Sigrid, people start dying from a mysterious disease (later revealed to be the doing of the ''draugr'' Gardi). Sigrid dies, but hours later comes alive again as an undead and tries to get into the bed of the sick Thorstein Eriksson. Her husband puts her to rest again by driving an axe into her breast. |
| 124 | * Happens to several characters in ''Literature/SalemsLot''. |
| 125 | ** Another Creator/StephenKing instance in "[[Literature/NightmaresAndDreamscapes Home Delivery]]", when a pregnant widow faces her reanimated husband in a ZombieApocalypse. She's normally rather passive and indecisive anyway, even in normal situations, but discovers her MamaBear side. |
| 126 | * In the ''Literature/SherlockHolmes Classified Dossier'' by Christian Klaver, [[spoiler:Watson and his wife each become vampires due to the manipulations of the now-vampire Moriarty. While Watson is able to hold on to his true character and remains Holmes’s ally, Mary succumbs to her darker nature, culminating in Watson being forced to kill her by striking her with an oil-lamp]]. |
| 127 | * ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': One of Tormund Giantsbane's sons dies of exposure and comes back as a wight. |
| 128 | -->'''Tormund:''' Had to see to him m'self. That was hard, Jon. He wasn't much of a man, truth be told, but he'd been me little boy once, and I loved him. |
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| 131 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 132 | * ''Series/{{Angel}}'': |
| 133 | ** In "[[Recap/AngelS03E09Lullaby Lullaby]]", VampireHunter Holtz returns to his home to find Angelus and Darla have been there first to kill his wife and turn his daughter, whom he kills by throwing her into the sunlight. The act fuels his RoaringRampageOfRevenge against Angel in the present day. |
| 134 | ** In "[[Recap/AngelS01E20WarZone War Zone]]", Gunn had to stake his sister after she was turned. |
| 135 | ** When Illyria takes over the body of Winifred Burkle, the most beloved member of Team Angel, none of them show any hesitation over trying to kill her. They were just totally incapable of achieving it. |
| 136 | --->'''Illyria''': You held affection for this shell, and yet you strike at its form without remorse. |
| 137 | ** A RunningGag is that whenever a member of Team Angel warns a co-worker to be ready to kill them if they turn evil, they agree a lot more readily than the other one finds comfortable. [[IHateYouVampireDad Especially Connor.]] |
| 138 | ** On two occasions a cast member had to dismember the body of a loved one in the mistaken belief they had been killed by vampires. |
| 139 | ** Subverted in "[[Recap/AngelS03E18DoubleOrNothing Double or Nothing]]". Angel is playing an AbsurdlyHighStakesGame that if he loses will cost him his soul (which will turn him evil). He hands Cordy a wooden stake and says she knows what to do if that happens. When Angel does lose the game, Cordy instead rams the stake through the BigBad's palm, holding him in place so Angel can lop off his head. |
| 140 | * ''Series/BeingHumanUK'': |
| 141 | ** Sort of done when [[spoiler: Lauren begged Mitchell to stake her and he did. Only counts as a "sort of" example as Mitchell was the one who turned her into a vampire in the first place.]] |
| 142 | ** Done totally straight by [[spoiler: George to Mitchell. He even makes sure to tell him "I'm doing this because i love you."]] |
| 143 | ** Now in the US version, Aidan is forced to stake [[spoiler: Bernie, his ten-year-old neighbor, because as a child he cannot control his emotions or appetites]]. A little later on, Aidan again stakes [[spoiler: Rebecca at her request.]] |
| 144 | * ''Series/BladeTheSeries'': |
| 145 | ** Krista does this to [[spoiler:her mother]] after her plan to turn [[spoiler:her]] into a vampire goes awry. |
| 146 | ** Subverted in the case of [[spoiler:Krista's uncle]] after he is [[spoiler:bitten by Krista's newly-turned mother]]. Blade [[OffWithHisHead beheads]] him as a precautionary measure. |
| 147 | * Javier did this to his girlfriend on ''Series/BloodTies2007''. |
| 148 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', many times. |
| 149 | ** Season Two is a protracted inner struggle for Buffy, who can't bring herself to stake Angelus in their first encounter. She ends up having to send him to Hell to stop Acathla when he'd ''just'' had his soul restored. |
| 150 | ** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E2TheHarvest The Harvest]]", Xander staking one of his best friends by ''accident.'' He couldn't do it and only survived because a panicked bystander unknowingly shoved the vamp onto his raised stake. |
| 151 | ** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E17LiesMyParentsToldMe Lies My Parents Told Me]]", Spike had to stake his newly-sired mother after it was made clear that she was a completely different person. And evil. And trying to shag him. |
| 152 | * ''Series/{{Curfew}}'' features feral creatures called "mooks" which are created when humans are infected with a virus. In episode five, [[spoiler:Ruby Newman]] defends the Donahue family from a group of mooks, but gets bitten and infected by one that wasn't dead yet. When she's unable to kill herself, her [[spoiler:sister Kaye]] performs the Mercy Kill instead. |
| 153 | * ''Series/ForeverKnight'': |
| 154 | ** In "A More Permanent Hell" [=LaCroix=] is brought across by his early-teen daughter Divia to escape the destruction of Pompei, but when she declares that mortal rules should no longer constrain them, and they should become lovers, [=LaCroix=] [[EvenEvilHasStandards is horrified]], and [[spoiler:beheads Divia and imprisons her remains in a sarcophagus]]. |
| 155 | ** Later, in the final episode, [[spoiler:Nick asks [=LaCroix=] to stake him so that he and Natalie can die together, telling [=LaCroix=] that he should do it because of their friendship. (The scene cuts away before the actual staking, though, so it's a popular fan theory that [=LaCroix=] instead smacked Nick in the head with the wood and brought Natalie across.)]] |
| 156 | * ''Series/{{iZombie}}'': In the season 2 finale, [[spoiler:Liv finds out that Vaughn Du Clarke's people have experimented on some of the zombies kidnapped by Major, attempting to cure the condition. Unfortunately, the "cures" end up turning them into "full Romero" zombies. Drake ends up volunteering for an experiment to spare another zombie and goes mindless. Clarke then sics him on Clive, forcing Liv to shoot Drake in the head]]. |
| 157 | * A vampire hunter in a ''Series/{{Sliders}}'' episode does this after finding his wife in a coffin before the other vampires swarm him. Quinn is ready to do this to Wade, except she hasn't been bitten and was just sleeping in the coffin. |
| 158 | * ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': |
| 159 | ** The second season episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS02E17Heart Heart]]" forces Sam to do this for GirlOfTheWeek Madison, who has become a werewolf. |
| 160 | ** Gordon beheaded his sister after she became a vampire, a fact which disturbs Sam and Dean. Part of this was probably because he tracked her down and killed her (in an episode showing that FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires, or at least non-murderous ones, existed too) instead of her attacking him. |
| 161 | ** Invoked by Meg when she possessed Sam and tried to convince Dean that his PsychicPowers had turned him evil, knowing that killing his brother would cause him the most pain and that what he tried wouldn't kill her, just Sam's body. |
| 162 | ** When he's suspected to have the [[TheVirus Croatoan Virus]], Dean [[{{Defied}} refuses to]] kill him or let anyone else do it, instead deciding to stay with Sam until he "dies". |
| 163 | ** Bobby had to do this to his wife twice: when became [[DemonicPossession possessed]], he stabbed her, not knowing what else to do, and later kills her again when she comes back to life as a zombie. |
| 164 | --->'''Bobby:''' She was the love of my life. [[TearJerker How many times do I have to kill her?]] |
| 165 | * The ''failure'' to do this quickly enough, when his infected friend hands him a silver-loaded pistol and begs him to end his suffering, is what set Eric Cord on his quest in ''Series/Werewolf1987''. |
| 166 | * Many times in ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'', given the fact that it's a show about the zombie apocalypse. A few notable examples: |
| 167 | ** Andrea held her sister Amy's body until she rose again as a walker before shooting her in the head. (Shooting or stabbing walkers in the head is the only way to stop brain activity and kill them.) In season 2, Hershel is unable to kill his zombified family members and instead keeps them in a barn. Shane goes and kills them all anyway. |
| 168 | ** After the season 2 reveal that [[spoiler: the virus is in all of them and when they die, regardless of if they were bitten or not, they will rise again as a walker]], it becomes standard procedure to stab or shoot their loved ones in the head whenever they die. One of the more disturbing examples is [[spoiler: Carl, a young teenage boy, shooting his mother in the head after she dies in childbirth]]. |
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| 171 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 172 | * In the ''Music/SoundHorizon'' song "Koibito wo Uchiotoshita Hi" ("The Day I Shot Down My Lover"), a girl must kill her lover - who saved her life from a monster - when the venom from his battle wound causes him to turn into a monster himself. |
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| 175 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 176 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': In the ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' setting, Dr. Rudolph Van Richten dedicated his life to [[VampireHunter hunting vampires]] after his son fell victim to one. The first vampire he killed was his own son, who asked him to do it [[DyingAsYourself before the transformation could corrupt his soul]]. |
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| 179 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 180 | * In ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'', [[spoiler:your love interest (if you have one)]] gets turned into a vampire and you have to kill them. They'll be only partially turned, so it works like normal dying, not vampire "dying", except that resurrection spells won't work. [[spoiler:There's another way to bring them back to life, though.]] |
| 181 | * In ''VideoGame/CrisisCore: VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', [[spoiler:Zack has to kill his mentor, Angeal, who actually makes himself monstrous to make it easier for Zack to kill him]]. |
| 182 | * This is the fate of DamselInDistress Sara Trantoul in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLamentOfInnocence'' to [[MercyKill spare her of her fate as a vampire]], her soul ends up [[PoweredByAForsakenChild possessing the Vampire Killer]]. |
| 183 | * The backstory of ''VideoGame/DaemonSummoner'' sees your wife, Emily, being converted into a vampire, and you'll need to eliminate her so she may rest permanently in peace. You face her as early as the first stage, but she will escape no matter what; you then fight her again in the asylum level where you finally kill her for good. |
| 184 | * In ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'', if you complete Siegward of Catarina's [[CompanionSpecificSidequest questline]] before facing Yhorm the Giant, Siegward will join you for this boss battle, revealing that the "duty" he spoke of earlier is a promise he made to Yhorm, his old friend, long ago--namely, to MercyKill him, should he ever be brought back to (un)life after sacrificing himself to the First Flame. To this end, Yhorm had, in fact, given Siegward one of two Swords of Giant-Slaying (the other is kept in his boss arena), which make the boss fight a ''lot'' more manageable. If you manage to get the other one and equip it yourself during the battle, you and Siegward can steamroll the game's biggest DamageSpongeBoss in just a few hits. |
| 185 | * In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyAdventure'', the hero is forced to kill Amanda, a fellow gladiator, after she gets bitten by Medusa. |
| 186 | * In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'', when Ramza has foiled the Lucavi's plots once too many times, Folmarv abducts his older half-brother, Zalbaag, and turns him into an undead monster. Although Zalbaag is perfectly [[AndIMustScream conscious and aware of his condition]], his body will relentlessly pursue Ramza and try to kill him, at which point he begs the younger Beoulve to put him out of his misery. Granted, Zalbaag was [[AristocratsAreEvil a bit of a jerkass]] throughout the game, but he was on the path of [[RedemptionEqualsDeath redemption]] and actually cared for his family, making this a TearJerker. |
| 187 | * Played with in ''VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn'' when [[CuteMonsterGirl Sveta]] realizes that activating the [[WaveMotionGun Apollo Lens]] required to end the Grave Eclipse will [[spoiler: kill her brother, who was [[ForcedTransformation transformed into a monster of darkness]]]] by the games main antagonists. Made worse by the fact that [[BecauseDestinySaysSo she is the only one who can do it.]] |
| 188 | ** Subverted when he [[BigBrotherInstinct regains his memory and knocks her away from it]] so he can [[HeroicSacrifice fire it himself]], [[RedemptionEqualsDeath ending the Eclipse.]] |
| 189 | * In ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs,'' [[spoiler: Henry ends up killing his younger brother Sam after he gets infected. He takes his own life immediately after.]] |
| 190 | * ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'': In Zoey's backstory, her father was bitten by [[NotUsingTheZWord the Infected]] and asked her to shoot him before he turned. A few weeks later, she found out that she was [[TheImmune immune to the infection]]... [[SenselessSacrifice which means that he probably was too]]. |
| 191 | * ''VideoGame/{{Majyuo}}'': If you complete the game as a human (as in, you failed to obtain the final transformation item), it is all but shown through the screen smashing to black with the sound of a gunshot that [[spoiler:the protagonist blew his own daughter's brains out to spare her from her fate as a demon]]. |
| 192 | * In ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood'', Riesbyfe's path takes place in a timeline where Sion fell to vampirism, and she had to kill her. Then she had to do the same thing to Dust of Osiris; a copy of a version of Sion from a possible future that never came to be (It's complicated). She does this knowing that Dust of Osiris is sustaining Riesbyfe's existence. "I hope to see you again, my friend; after the darkness." |
| 193 | * Ending C in ''VideoGame/{{NieR}}'' has the protagonist [[spoiler:killing his LoveInterest Kainé after the [[TheHeartless Shade]] part of her takes over]]. |
| 194 | * At the end of ''VideoGame/ObsCure II'', after [[spoiler:Kenny]] undergoes a FaceMonsterTurn, [[spoiler:his sister Shannon]] is one of the two characters who faces him in the FinalBoss fight. [[spoiler:Afterwards, Amy, who Kenny had [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty raped and impregnated]], undergoes an ExpressDelivery of his monster spawn, and the BolivianArmyEnding that follows has Shannon and her boyfriend Stan getting ready to face her "nephew".]] |
| 195 | * Subverted in ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII''. [[spoiler:Harvey uses the blood of Osvald's wife to make a golem which he sics on Osvald, forcing him to put it down. Osvald initially thinks it actually ''is'' Rita and has an appropriately horrified reaction to the "reveal." However, he then realizes that while Harvey used Rita's blood in the experiment, he didn't give her soul to the golem, simply making it a creature with some of her traits rather than literally being her.]] |
| 196 | * Pretty heart wrenching in ''VideoGame/ParasiteEve'' when the police dog, Sheeva, goes berserk from Eve's influence. Ben, who is only 8 years old and is the son of Daniel, Aya's partner, chases after the dog and almost gets caught by monsters along the way. Once Ben catches up to Sheeva in a big empty room, he clings to the dog, wondering what is wrong with his new friend. Police chief Baker arrives and takes Ben away from Sheeva, telling Ben that Eve turned the dog into a monster. Within that moment, Sheeva mutates into a 3-headed beast, wounding Baker off-screen. Once Aya arrives, [[TearJerker Ben tells Aya that Sheeva is already dead]]. Cue BossBattle. The next day, Catherine informs you that Baker worked with Sheeva when he was a rookie (that's an old dog...) and that it must have been painful for him to shoot at her. |
| 197 | ** Even worse when Aya meets [[spoiler:[[GreaterScopeVillain the original Eve]], who had been using [[TheHeavy the one that had caused the events of the game]] as a puppet controlled via a donated organ containing the mitochondria that took over and mutated the host. This monster resides in [[LongLostRelative Aya's sister, Maya,]] who [[PoweredByAForsakenChild hasn't aged a day since they were separated]]. To [[KickTheDog twist the knife]], the parasite lets Maya "chat" with her sister for a moment. The little girl clearly has no idea where she is or what she's been used for, not even recognizing her sister since [[AlternateIdentityAmnesia her last memory had Aya just as young as she is]], and almost immediately screaming about "[[ArcWords the heat]] coming back". The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrv26cipNQc&ab_channel=VloudLeonhart somber track]] that plays during the twisted reunion is then overlapped with the typical [[OneWomanWail boss theme of Mitochondria Eve]] after the parasite mutates Maya's body while reminding Aya that this is still her sister after the woman [[IllKillYou justifiably rages]] at [[YankTheDogsChain being taunted with her sister being so close yet out of reach]]. It doesn't stop through the whole [[{{Superboss}} extremely difficult fight]], as a reminder to [[PlayerPunch the player]] what must be done]]. |
| 198 | * Done in self-defense in ''VideoGame/{{Phantasmagoria}}''. [[spoiler:Heroine Adrienne is being padlocked into a torture chair which is rigged to kill her when a lever is pulled by her demon-possessed husband Don. At first, she tries to reach out to him with a snowman ornament and pleading that she loves him, but this will fail and he will pull the lever anyway if no action is taken. She ''has'' to pull the lever and make the rigging kill Don to save herself.]] |
| 199 | * In ''[[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime Prince of Persia: The Sands Of Time]]'', the Prince finds himself having to fight his father as a Sand Demon. |
| 200 | * ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'': |
| 201 | ** In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'', Steve is forced to kill [[spoiler:his now-zombified father]], causing him to have a brief HeroicBSOD. |
| 202 | ** In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'', at the beginning of his campaign, Leon Kennedy futilely attempts to talk the zombified President Adam Benford (who is also Leon's close friend) down, but ultimately he is forced to shoot him. |
| 203 | ** Choose the bad ending in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard'' [[spoiler:(save Zoe, not Mia, which results in you having to fight Mia)]] and this is what Ethan is forced to do. |
| 204 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}: Brood Wars'' Zeratul is forced to slay [[spoiler: his Matriach Razhagal]] after it turns out [[spoiler:she was enslaved by Kerrigan]]. |
| 205 | * In ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' both [[spoiler:Kratos]] and [[spoiler:Regal]] were forced to MercyKill their lovers when they were mutated by Exspheres. |
| 206 | * [[TearJerker The most heart wrenching decision]] you'll have to make in ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadTelltale'' [[spoiler:comes at the end where Lee is about to succumb to the infection that will turn him into a zombie, and the player must decide whether to have Clementine shoot him or simply run and leave him. It seems like a pretty clear-cut choice, and it would be for most, but given the hell that poor Clementine has been through for most of the game, having to shoot the man who's faithfully protected her through it all must seem like murder. Whether she does it or not is up to the player, but either way, its hard to watch. This situation comes up more than once a season, with the drama therein played to the hilt every time]]. |
| 207 | * Jack is forced to do this in ''VideoGame/WildArms1'' to [[spoiler: Elmina, who he was very close to when they were Fenril Knights in Arctica. She's been turned into the demon Lady Harken and the only way to free her is a battle to the death.]] |
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| 210 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 211 | * [[spoiler:Saber]] in Heavens Feel route of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', though in this route she's not a love interest so much as a very close friend. Quite a downer when the Taiga Dojo for ''not'' doing points out if you want to save her you can go play another route, because it's not happening here (assuming the resultant horrifically Bad End didn't floor you already). |
| 212 | ** Doing this to [[spoiler:Sakura]] instead of trying to find a way to save her, on the other hand, is not recommended, as this will net you a Bad End where [[spoiler:Shirou effectively becomes Kiritsugu 2.0, with no qualms about killing anyone in the way of winning the Holy Grail War, [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope up to and including Rin and Ilya]]]]. |
| 213 | * [[spoiler:Akiha]] makes you promise this in ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' when her demon blood is taking over. [[spoiler:Averted in the True End, though, when you TakeAThirdOption by returning your life force to her. The Normal End is actually ''worse'' than if you had killed her.]] Also barely averted in Kohaku's route with [[spoiler:Akiha again.]] Not [[DemotedToExtra Satsuki]] though. She was just a classmate, so Shiki is just upset he had to kill someone at all. |
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| 216 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 217 | * ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' has an arc where Mitzi is ''rather'' quick to do this to Dark Smoke Puncher when he gets possessed by a ghost. She's got good reason, though; for all she knows, the thing has outright killed her son and is using the body as a puppet, and she's being practical. Gordito, however, manages to drive the ghost out before that's necessary. |
| 218 | * In ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate'' when [[spoiler: Victoria]] comes back as a vampire with an altered personality and tries to turn Victor he puts her back in the ground for good. |
| 219 | * The ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' comic shows Zoey's back story that occurred a week after the zombie outbreak. A zombie breaks into the apartment and bites Zoey's mother. She gets infected and attacks Zoey's father, which forces him to shoot her dead. Fearing that he is now infected, Zoey's father asks her to shoot him, which she tearfully does so. This scene is more gut-wrenching when Zoey discovers that the carrier gene (what prevents people from becoming a zombie) is passed down on the father's side on the family, [[SenselessSacrifice thus there was a chance Zoey's father could have been just fine]]. |
| 220 | * This is {{zigzagged}} in ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' when Durkon is turned into a vampire. The reader is left with time to think about what this means will happen, and the other main characters are shown thinking about it too and being really sad about it. They don't mention having to kill him, but it really doesn't need saying. Then, of course, since that's the obvious way for the plot to go, it doesn't: Durkon's vampire master is killed, he becomes free-willed again, and he turns into a FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire who rejoins the group and finds a way to control his need for blood. [[spoiler: Except he really isn't friendly, or even "Durkon" anymore-- he's a vampiric spirit inhabiting Durkon's body, holding his actual spirit helpless while he works to bring about the literal end of the world. This all leads to a confrontation between the party and Vampire!Durkon, during which Real!Durkon's spirit overwhelms the vampiric puppeteer long enough to lower his defenses, finally allowing this trope to be played straight (except that it might be a bit of a stretch to call [[HeroicComedicSociopath Belkar]] a "loved one").]] |
| 221 | * In the ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/7/21/ three]] [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/07/28/ part]] [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/07/30/ story]], the Cardboard-Tube Samurai is forced to kill an old ally who has been possessed by a cursed sword. |
| 222 | * ''WebComic/SluggyFreelance'': |
| 223 | ** In "Vampires", Torg has to stake Valerie, whom he at least thought he was in love with -- with the twist that she'd secretly been a vampire all along. |
| 224 | ** Parodied in "28 Geeks Later", a zombie parody with zombies replaced with animalistic hypergeeks whose brains have been altered so that their empathy and social skills have been replaced ''entirely'' with theoretical smarts, making them geniuses but ravaging maniacs at the same time. One character is infected with just one of the earwigs spreading the condition, making him just a bit geekier, but his crying daughter beats him to the ground with a club anyway (though he doesn't die). Zoë asks why she did it and she explains it's because he's a geek now and she's a cheerleader. |
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| 227 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 228 | * ''Vamp You'' has included a few instances of people trying this trope, but it generally never works out. Usually, there just ends up being two vampires. |
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