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7{{Mercy Kill}}s in FanWorks.
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10* ''Fanfic/AeonNatumEngel'': Two persons consider doing this to their dying 5-year old half-sister, neither of them is able do it, and break down in tears.
11* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13064230/52/And-Now-Yet-Again-Still-Even-More-Fragments And Now Yet Again Still Even More Fragments]]'': At the start, a turned Xander saves Buffy and Jesse from a trap to kill the Slayer and stays back to buy time by holding the door to the tunnel shut. Buffy notes they'll tear him apart for what he's done and stakes Xander, saying no one deserves that.
12* In ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'', during HYDRA's assault on the Ministry of Magic, the Winter Soldier kills [[spoiler: Arthur Weasley]] via NeckSnap in order to spare him being captured and tortured by HYDRA, [[FateWorseThanDeath or worse, handed over to Gravemoss]]. It's rather deconstructed, since even though killing him instantaneously was much kinder than anything HYDRA or Gravemoss would have done (in the sequel, Alison Carter, a woman who's been a spy and involved with the supernatural pretty much all her life, mentions that [[HumanoidAbomination Gravemoss]] took a FateWorseThanDeath to new depths), the fact is that he's still dead, which becomes rather awkward once [[spoiler: the Weasleys have to interact with Bucky Barnes on a regular basis, even if they don't know at first that Bucky was the Soldier]].
13* ''Fanfic/{{Daemorphing}}'' (''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' & ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials''):
14** ''The Abyss'' kicks off when Melissa spares a Hork-Bajir-Controller, allowing the Yeerk to infest her and reveal the Animorphs' secrets. The real Hork-Bajir then puts her out of her misery.
15** Discussed in ''Five Artworks About the Andalite-Yeerk War''. A Hork-Bajir named Inta says they knew Steadfast, a Taxxon queen who died as an involuntary host. Steadfast begged Inta to kill [[BizarreAlienSexes hir]], but the Yeerks gave Inta "poison" (probably sedatives) to prevent this.
16* ''Fanfic/EquestriaGirlsFriendshipSouls'' (''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' & ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls''): [[spoiler:Sweet Cider]] says she's going to do this with her husband, saying that it's her duty as a Soul Reaper and that she doesn't want him to spend eternity [[spoiler:as a Hollow.]] Applejack agrees with her, and also says that she wants to be there when it happens. [[spoiler:Things get much more complicated when the moment actually arrives and they realize that not only is he an Arrancar, but also a PapaWolf to a bunch of Arrancar children.]]
17* ''Fanfic/HelluvaWizard'' (''Literature/HarryPotter'' & ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss''): A variant happens in that Lily and James Potter, now working as [[WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss Exterminators]], decide to make their vengeance against Petunia and Dudley as painless as possible. Vernon's death, on the other hand, they make sure to draw out...
18* ''Fanfic/TheInfiniteLoops'': Whenever Hurricane Billy loops into the Fate/Grand Order branch, the Goetia immedietely causes an EarthShatteringKaboom because in his words, "killing this timeline is a mercy". Ritsuka, who is unaware of Billy's reputation as being LethallyStupid (as Goetia always crashes the loop before Billy has the time to do anything), has to be told by Anakin why Goetia takes such an action.
19* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainKnightOfTheOrangeLily'': Paul London is asked by Lampetia to give her one because her main body has been destroyed and if she's salvaged, the rabbits in the 400 Rabbits Car will experiment on her to get some useful information (and she's connected to the minds of her sisters so they probably will get ''their'' info too). She explains this by stating that, as a kore, she'll regenerate a new body over time as long as her heart is intact. London, who is based on his ''Wrestling/LuchaUnderground'' appearance and has already committed murder and has stated that he draws the line at assisted suicide, eventually does the deed.
20* ''Fanfic/OniGaShikuSeries'': How [[spoiler:Musashi Midoriya]] viewed having to [[{{Patricide}} kill his own father]] after seeing what a husk of a man he became in the many years since he [[TheRunaway ran away from home]], due to being an AddledAddict, financially ruined, and abandoned by his family. In his words, his father had been dead for a long time already and [[spoiler:Musashi]] was just putting the old man out of his misery. Not that this helped soothe the damage on [[spoiler:Musashi]]'s psyche afterwards.
21* ''Fanfic/ShatteredSkiesTheMorningLights'' (MassiveMultiplayerCrossover): [[Franchise/LyricalNanoha Alph]] is effectively euthanized by her master, Fate, after succumbing to the effects of a HatePlague which destroyed her sanity and rendered her feral.
22* ''Fanfic/SOE2LoneHeirOfKrypton'' (Franchise/TheDCU & ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''): In chapter 20 [[spoiler:Asuka did it to Kaworu at his request.]]
23* ''Fanfic/TheWeaverOption'' (''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' & ''Literature/{{Worm}}''):
24** Taylor uses the Nebula Shard to kill Sliscus and destroy his soul, something they both view as a more merciful end than allowing Slaanesh to claim him.
25** During the raid on [[spoiler:Commorragh]] the Imperium lacks the time and space to evacuate more than a fraction of the slaves they free. Just before the final battle, the Imperium nukes the slaves they can't take with them to spare them from the approaching daemonic horde.
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27[[AC:''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'']]
28* ''Fanfic/FrozenHeartsRedWitch'': Given the ''terrible'' state that Damon is in after Sifine's possession, Simon decides to give him mercy, by killing him with a sword. Finn even lampshades this on how it is mercy with the others sadly confirming that it is actually mercy considering the state he is in.
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30[[AC:''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'']]
31* ''Fanfic/AllAssortedAnimorphsAUs'':
32** It's mentioned in "What if they saved Jake's family?" that it would be kinder to shoot the half-blind owl in Cassie's barn than leave it to starve.
33** Discussed in "What if they rescued Alloran in #8?". Jake steps aside to ask Alloran a difficult question — strongly implied to be about [[KillTheOnesYouLove killing Tom]] — and Alloran says he was grateful when his brother tried to kill him shortly after he became a [[MeatPuppet Controller]].
34* Discussed in ''Fanfic/WhatTomorrowBrings''. Tom was happy when Rachel killed him in the original timeline because at least he wouldn't be a slave anymore... and is immensely frustrated that he's alive again.
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36[[AC:''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'']]
37* ''Fanfic/TheFallOfTheFireEmpire'': When Ozai descended into senile madness, Azula smothered him with a pillow. [[EvilChancellor Qing Xi]] describes it as the only merciful act of her life.
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39[[AC:''{{Manga/Berserk}}'']]
40* ''Fanfic/TheEntireWorldIsABattlefield'' ([[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5481820/1/The-Entire-World-is-a-Battlefield here]]: Discussed when Guts is met by a spectre of pre-Eclipse Casca. While the real Casca is not dead, [[RapeLeadsToInsanity she is mentally gone]], and Guts wonders if the current Casca is better off dead [[FateWorseThanDeath after what she experienced.]]
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42[[AC:''Manga/{{Bleach}}'']]
43* ''Fanfic/VowOfTheKing'': Isane quickly finishes off Menoly after a stray attack by Loly starts melting her.
44
45[[AC:''Franchise/CodeGeass'']]
46* ''Fanfic/CodeGeassMegiddo'': [[spoiler:After killing his father to save the life of his best friend, only for said best friend, years later, to start a revolution in his country, culminating in not only the death of said country but also the death of the woman he loved and the tarnishing of her good name, and ''then'' betraying said now-former-best friend to the father he hated, having his memories wiped, and then having to play the part of best friend with him]], one really can't blame Suzaku Kururugi for going full-throttle with the SanitySlippage. It's for this reason that numerous characters state that if Lelouch truly does still care for Suzaku (which he does), this is the ''kindest'' thing he can do for him. [[spoiler:Both Lelouch and Todoh acknowledge this, but state that if there's still the slightest possibility it can happen, they will both try to save Suzaku from himself, and even make pact over it]].
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48[[AC:''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'']]
49* In Chapter Seventeen of ''Fanfic/TiberiumWars'', Brother-Captain Alvarez of the Black Hand is torn between engaging in a LastStand to evacuate a small number of wounded troops, or saving his men by ordering a retreat and leaving the wounded to be captured by GDI, who he believes will torture and kill them. He instead [[TakeAThirdOption chooses a third option]]: executing his own wounded to keep them out of GDI hands.
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51[[AC:''Anime/DarlingInTheFranxx'']]
52* ''FanFic/DarlingInTheFranXXHomecoming'': In the first chapter, 059 finds the same wounded bird Hiro passed when he met Zero Two, and seeing its condition and how it most likely won't fly again, [[NeckSnap snaps its neck]] to put it out of its misery.
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54[[AC:Franchise/TheDCU]]
55* ''FanFic/AllTheRoofsOfUncertainty'': Jason offhandedly kills an injured alien that no longer poses a threat to save it from ending up in the hands of ''"Waller or her ilk"''. He discovered Dick when he was walking towards what he thought was another injured alien he intended to put down.
56* ''Fanfic/WithThisRing'': The alternate version of Paul who landed in a Warhammer Fantasy universe captures a group of dark elves on his first day, and is somewhat freaked out by what he should do with them. He settles on using his orange ring to alter their desires and make them non-evil, but gives each of them the option of a quick and painless death if they prefer it.
57--> "Well volunteered." I remove his muzzle. "Please confirm your decision audibly."\
58"I would sooner die than be tainted by a human's magic. Or that of a slave to the Chaos Gods." He turns his head as much as his bonds allow to sneer at his fellows. "Show some ''pride'' and do not ''abase'' yourself before this ''thing''."\
59I nod. "Those were good last words." I raise my left hand and want him dead, every part of his body crumbling and burning until nothing's left for being ''that obscenely '''vile'''''.\
60An orange bolt hits him, and he dissolves into grey dust and blows away.
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63[[AC:''Franchise/DeathNote'']]
64* In ''FanFic/ConstantTemptation'' Light [[ShootTheDog does this for his father]], he writes his name in the Death Note after his father has been kidnapped and tortured to breaking by Beyond Birthday before Beyond was finished hacking ''[[ToThePain pieces]]'' off of him.
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66[[AC:''Franchise/FireEmblem'']]
67* In ''Fanfic/GoldenThreadsTieUs'', [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Cynthia]] takes a Pegasus Riser down in such a way the horse falls onto the rider. Lucina takes pity on the Risen and decides to kill him quickly instead of letting him getting slowly crushed to death by the winged horse's weight.
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69[[AC:''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'']]
70* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': Since [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonTitansAndOtherCreatures the Many]] are a walking, constantly-assimilating FateWorseThanDeath, killing them is a Mercy Kill for the assimilated victims by default. Mothra in particular wants to see the Many eradicated due to outrage that so many creatures' souls have been trapped in such a state instead of joining the [[CessationOfExistence Mother Darkness]].
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72[[AC: ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi'' / ''Series/TheUntamed'']]
73* ''Fanfic/GoldPoisons'' has Jin Guangyao doing this on the regular in his backstory despite his reputation as Wen Ruohan's torturer; when he could, he would kill those he was entrusted to destroy and only mutilated their bodies afterwards.
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75[[AC:''Franchise/HarryPotter'']]
76* ''Fanfic/TheSnapeChronicles'': Severus Snape encounters Alastor Moody after the latter is knocked from his broom and half his face is burned away. Snape finishes him off, at Moody's request, so he won't be captured by the Death Eaters or suffer any further.
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78[[AC:''Literature/TheHungerGames'']]
79* In ''[[Fanfic/ThePartsWePlay Spectator]]'', after Thresh breaks Cato’s back, Cato asks Clove to kill him because he doesn’t believe the Capitol can treat his injury and he doesn’t want to be a burden to her when she still has to beat Peeta and Prim.
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81[[AC:''Franchise/JurassicPark'']]
82* A group of guards in the BloodierAndGorier ''Film/JurassicWorld'' rewrite ''Fanfic/JurassicWorldTheGeekyZoologist'' find almost the entire Thomson family and the rest of the truck’s passengers massacred by the ''Indominus''. The only survivor is the Thomson’s son, and even he is slowly dying, with his ''face'' having been eaten by ''Compsognathus''. The guards are forced to put the boy out of his misery.
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84[[AC:''VideoGame/Left4Dead'']]
85* ''Fanfic/ActsOfMercy'': Played with. Originally, it's implied that the titular 'Act of Mercy' is Marcy saving Den from the barbed wire fence; later on, it's when she is forced to kill Denver after he tries to attack her. Ultimately subverted, though, since [[spoiler:the CEDA intervenes before she does the deed.]]
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87[[AC:''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'']]
88* Heavily implied to have happened with Gohma in ''Fanfic/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13189099/1/The-Legend-Of-Zelda-Ocarina-Of-Time found here]]. Early on, Ganondorf threatens to curse the Great Deku Tree, which would turn it evil and leave it in "constant, never-ending pain until [his] slow death arrives". After realising that such a curse would not work on such a pure deity, he redirects it at a nearby crust spider which transforms it into Gohma. If what Ganondorf said was true then that crust spider was suffering in agony until Link unknowingly put it out of its misery.
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90[[AC:''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'']]
91* A kill beyond death in ''Fanfic/SpellboundLilafly''; Felix is unable to save a girl from being eaten by a kelpie, and her troubled soul haunts him, demanding release from her suffering, until he gives in and [[SoulEater eats it]]. Despite being done at her request, he still feels later like he shouldn't have, and it has lasting effects on his magic and [[CantStayNormal humanity]].
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93[[AC:''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'']]
94* ''FanFic/AFeddieStory'' has one of the tanks brew up after getting hit by a Zaku. The driver gets out safely, but the commander is on fire by the time they bail out. They roll on the ground for a moment before the gunner of one of the other tanks machineguns them rather than watch them burn to death.
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96[[AC:''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'']]
97* In the ''Blog/AskSeriousRainbow'' blog [[spoiler:this is the real reason Green Eyes (Pinkie) had killed Serious: in her old universe Twilight went insane and tried to kill her friends, and it was too late to save Serious. She asked Green Eyes to put her out of her misery before she died of blood loss]].
98* In ''Fanfic/CheerileesGarden'', after Cheerilee submerges [[spoiler:Pinkie Pie]] into a container full of boiling hot water, she convinces [[spoiler:Rainbow Dash]] that it would be better to put her out of her misery rather than to let her go on living.
99* In ''Fanfic/ElementsOfHarm'', each of the Mane Six becomes an "Element" of a different aspect of warfare; [[TheCutie Fluttershy]], of all ponies, is the Element of the Mercy Kill, "quieting those in agony and making sure they stay down."
100* ''The Fall of Cleveland'' has Marshall find a ''hideously'' tortured WebOriginal/FluffyPony in the chapter "The Facility". It begs for help, but it's so horribly maimed that Marshall can't think of a way to help it. So he does the only thing he can and breaks its neck. The fluffy's last word is "Ffffffffffannnnnnkkkkkkkk..." (Fluffies can't pronounce "th" sounds.)
101* ''Fanfic/NightOfTheShy'' (author DiedDuringProduction): Birostris Oswaft, the [[LastOfHisKind last of the Sand Mantas]], begs Twilight to do this to him, as he wants nothing more than to [[WhoWantsToLiveForever join the rest of his people in death]].
102* The ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'':
103** This comes up during the FinalBattle with Princess Gaia/[[spoiler: Nightmare Whisper]]. Both Rarity and Rainbow Dash decide they have to kill her, not out of hate, but because [[spoiler: they both figure Fluttershy would rather die than see [[SuperpoweredEvilSide what she's become]]]].
104** During the [[BadFuture Epilogue/Dark World]] timeline, Apple Bloom apparently ended up subjected to the same curse as [[VideoGame/StoryOfTheBlanks Sunny Town]]. After eventually helping the entire town free themselves from the curse and move on, she begs Liarjack to do the same for her so she can be with her family; reluctantly, LJ agrees, and Apple Bloom dies.
105** This rationale is how his allies comfort Shining Armor for having killed [[spoiler: one of [[BigBad Makarov]]'s Alicorn cyborg CoDragons]], by pointing out that the poor soul was in a [[AndIMustScream living hell]].
106** Apparently one of Entropy's, the [[TopGod Elder God of the End]], jobs is to do this on a cosmic level to universes that have been abandoned by their Shadows Who Make before maturing enough to exist on their own (which basically results in them continuing what they were last doing for eternity, unable to die or change what they do), as it's a mercy compared to that fate.
107* ''Fanfic/ThePowersOfHarmony'': After [[TheDragon Eclipse]] fatally poisons him, condemning him to a slow and painful death, [[spoiler:Strauss]] requests that [[NeverMessWithGranny Granny Smith]] put him out of his misery. She reluctantly complies.
108* In Franchise/MyLittlePony {{Crossover}} ''Fanfic/MLPTrinity'', Sweetie Finemare administers a fatal overdose of opiates to her dying husband Rich Greentree, to spare him further agony.
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110[[AC:''Franchise/NeonGenesisEvangelion'']]
111* ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'': In chapter 8 Shinji and Asuka find an alternate Shinji who had been tortured to the point he was dying, forcing Asuka (who had gone to rescue him) to give him a swift death (and then he got better. Long story).
112-->"We got to Shinji, but he was, was...” Tears began to drip onto their joined hands. “...dying. We gave him mercy... He died in my arms. Don’t let yours go."
113* ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'': Shinji and Misato stop Ritsuko from activating the control that destroys the soulless Rei clones in the Dummy Plug system, [[spoiler:so Rei does it herself]].
114-->'''[[spoiler:Rei]]''': [[spoiler:These are not human beings. Their official purpose is to serve as core for the Dummy Plug system, but even that is only secondary. As Dr Akagi explained, they are mere vessels to hold my soul. That was the only reason they were created for, just like the body I possess now and the ones before. Without a soul, they can not become aware of their feelings. They notice the feel of the warm LCL around them, of this glass holding them; they can see us, the world outside of theirs. But... it does not matter to them. All they are doing is existing, blissfully unaware of everything. They cannot understand the difference between pain and joy. They do not know the vast variety of human emotions. They do not feel hope or fear for the future. I always wondered whether to pity or to envy them.]] ''[[spoiler:(pushes the button)]]''\
115'''[[spoiler:Shinji]]''': [[spoiler:Rei... What have you done?]]\
116'''[[spoiler:Rei]]''': [[spoiler:I have... set them free...]]
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118[[AC:''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'']]
119* Happens to Brock and Ash during the course of ''Fanfic/CarnageNecropolis'', after they're [[TheVirus infected]].
120* In ''Fanfic/CommonSense'', the Fearow that attacked Ash is revealed to belong to Proton. Since Ash and Primeape broke its wing, Proton offers it a quick and painless death by poison in respect for its service.
121* In ''Fanfic/LetterToMyDaughter'' [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Ash Ketchum]] is now married to Misty and has a teenage daughter with her named Ashley. Sadly, Misty falls terminally ill and is hospitalised, and once it’s clear she’s never going to get any better, Ash [[VorpalPillow suffocates her with a pillow]] to prevent her from slowly dying from her illness, and subsequently spends the remainder of his life mourning her death.
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123[[AC:''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'']]
124* ''Fanfic/AHistoryOfMagic'':
125** This is how Sacagewea views killing Witches-since she knows Witches are what Puella Magi eventually become, she concludes that a mercy kill is preferable to a life of despair.
126** Anne Frank is forced to do this ''twice'': the first time when Debbie becomes a witch but retains enough willpower to hold herself back so Anne could attack, and then to Sarah as she's on the verge of becoming a witch herself, as Sarah can't bring herself to crush her own Soul Gem due to her views on suicide.
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128[[AC:''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'']]
129* ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfRemnant'': Jacques, Winter, Ghira, and Kali are convinced that killing the Claimed would truly be good for them, since the children they used to be are already dead forever and all they'd be doing is putting down the monsters they've become. [[spoiler:The fact that Jaune comes to agree with them is a large reason why they ultimately decide against their plan]].
130* ''Fanfic/ICanAlmostHearTheHounds'': Weiss suggests that this may be the only way for Yang to save [[FaceMonsterTurn Ruby.]] [[spoiler:She eventually has no choice, but is saved from going through with it (at [[ICannotSelfTerminate Ruby's urging]]) by a last-minute save from Ozpin.]]
131* ''Fanfic/RWBYScars'': In chapter 53, Pyrrha mercy kills an injured man who asks her to. He was the sole survivor of raiders attacking his village but had been crushed by a piece of ceiling. The scene serves to accentuate Pyrrha's InnocenceLost.
132* ''FanFic/WarOfRemnantARWBYAnthology'': Glynda [[VorpalPillow smothers her wife to death]] after she had been paralyzed from the neck down and suffered a miscarriage after being attacked by the White Fang during the Fall of Beacon.
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134[[AC:''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'']]
135* In ''Fanfic/SeanBeanSavesWesteros'', the [[RealPersonFic "real life"]] Creator/SeanBean is transported into the land of Westeros of Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire. Now living as Ned Stark, not just playing him on TV, Sean Bean sends Westeros OffTheRails. In the aftermath of the Battle of the Green Fork, Sean has to give a Mercy Kill to a mortally wounded [[spoiler:Tyrion Lannister]].
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137[[AC:''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'']]
138* ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos''
139** [[spoiler: Tails's death]] in Episode 77 is this after he sacrifices himself to stop Dark Tails and suffers AndIMustScream because of it.
140** Eggman and his robots terminate Beelzebub's "[[FateWorseThanDeath test subjects]]" in the Episode 67 rewrite.
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142[[AC:''Franchise/StarTrek'']]
143* In ''Fanfic/FromBajorToTheBlack, Part II'', Eleya guns down a shipmate who's in the process of being assimilated by the Borg.
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145[[AC:''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'']]
146* ''Fanfic/QueensOfMewni'': Venus the Fairest did this to her mother Galaxia the Clairvoyant after visions of a dark future caused her to go brain dead. The resulting trauma from killing her own mother turned her KaleidoscopeHair, [[KaleidoscopeEyes eyes]], and cheek marks black for a year.
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148[[AC:''VideoGame/{{Subnautica}}'']]
149* Near the start of the book when [[spoiler:Volera kills a drowning survivor to end their suffering.]] [[spoiler:Ultimately Played for Drama when Varien learns it was his fiance.]]
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151[[AC:''VideoGame/TeamICOSeries'']]
152* In ''Fanfic/{{Enlightenments}}'', Wander ends up killing a few children before they can be either ritually murdered by dehydration or have their mother use their bodies as soul vessels.
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154[[AC:''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'']]
155* Mammoth does this for Plasmius/Otto von Furth in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9051372/10/Consequence-of-Misunderstandings Consequence of Misunderstandings]]'' after [[BigBad Slade]] makes it impossible for him to sleep (and thus stay human). Gizmo mentions that while Raven's healing powers do prevent most of them, the team has had to perform mercy kills before.
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157[[AC:''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats1985'']]
158* ''[[https://www.angelfire.com/ut/thunderafanfic/thunderatiger.htm A Right to Death]]'': Discussed, but ultimately averted. A deadly disease, the main symptom of which is unrelenting pain, breaks out on Third Earth. Panthro, struck down by the disease, becomes so desperate for relief that he asks Lion-O to take his life-force using a rarely used (and non-canonical) power possessed by the Eye of Thundera. (According to the story, this power may be used if a Thundercat is about to suffer a painful and protracted death.) However, a cure for the disease is obtained just in time to prevent Lion-O from having to resort to such desperate measures.
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160[[AC:''Franchise/TouhouProject'']]
161* In ''[[Fanfic/Gensokyo20XX Apartment Gensokyo]]'', Satori contemplates doing this to a severely injured and dying Koishi by overdosing her with pills but feels horrible for having the idea, so she stops, instead facing the idea of the latter being in pain. This is first serious moment in story.
162-->'''Satori''': Should I let her suffer or should I take her life as an act of mercy?
163* At the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W_7WFgy2po end]] of a trilogy of walfas shorts titled ''WebAnimation/{{Regret}}'', we find out that [[spoiler: Reisin performed this on a younger moon rabbit soldier to spare her from being killed and eaten by mohawk zombies (it isn't clear as to exactly ''what'' they are) when she is almost out of ammo and while they take shelter in an abandoned bunker while the horde closes in]]. However, had she held out a little longer, both she and the younger rabbit soldier could have been saved.
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165[[AC:''Franchise/TheWitcher'']]
166* ''Fanfic/TheAccidentalWarlordAndHisPack'': Esra considered giving Byrtel a mercy strike after he got trampled with deadly internal injuries that would kill him slowly and painfully, before deciding that since they had an emergency beacon they should go ahead and use it and do their best to stay alive rather than living like witchers did prior to the schools regrouping.
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168[[AC:''Franchise/YuGiOh'']]
169* ''Fanfic/EncryptWithinTheDarkToSaveTheClockworkOfAHeart'':
170** In chapter 5, Ai dismantles all the data of the broken and discarded [=SOLTis=] bots he and Playmaker encounter in the virtual desert out of pity.
171---> 'Bye-bye,' he intones humourlessly, watching the last of the data glitter and disappear. 'Maybe you'll be happier like that; at the very least you won't feel any more pain.'
172** In chapter 15, Ai gives [[spoiler:a digitized Queen]] a quick death to stop her pain-induced rampages even though Yusaku, who is nearly absorbed in her and understands that she's too far gone, is unhappy that he's the one to do it.
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