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{{quote|'''Majesty:''' Burn the whole city... that's pretty extreme for the life of one woman.

 

The hero makes it uncomfortably plain that they value the life of their [[Love Interest]] over those of everyone else: friends, [[Thicker Than Water|family]], [[True Companions]], or even all other life in the universe. Can come about as the result of a [[Sadistic Choice]], only having enough time to rescue one person out of several, or whatever other requirements the plot puts in their way and well, plainly making a decision.

* On [[House (TV series)|House]], Foreman secretly switched Hadley from the placebo to the real drug in the drug trial he was working on, something that could end his career if it became known. Hadley was a bit weirded out by this, as they had only been dating for a couple of weeks.

** {{spoiler|When the drug gave Hadley a brain tumor and turned her blind}} he was all set to openly tell his supervisors about it. They got better.

* ''[[Angel]]'' nearly makes this choice when he learns that the only way to save Fred is to let hundreds of thousands of people die in her place. He initially spits out an angry "to hell with the world" and storms off to perform the ritual as the scene cuts away. When it returns, though, he's still standing at the threshold, unable to actually go through with it, and he finally, sadly turns away.

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]]'', meanwhile, is willing to let the entire world die in torment to save Dawn. It doesn't fit on the surface, but [[Word of God]] says that Dawn was intended to fill the dramatic role of [[Love Interest]] from Season 5 on out.