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RedWren
Since: Nov, 2009
livettora
Since: Jun, 2009
5th Feb, 2011 11:01:27 PM
Not quite. I was thinking more along the lines of "if the character had just waited, they wouldn't have had to resort to murder/cannibalism/etc."
thegrenekni3t
Since: Dec, 2009
What's the trope for when a character (or characters) has to do something horrible, often murder, in order to survive or save the world, but later find out that it was unnecessary e.g. they were never in any real danger?