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* Averted so hard in ''[[Black Orchid]]'' half the tropes on that page are related to that single moment.

* The Yellow Bastard in ''[[Sin City]]'' was fine leaving Hartigan hanging by his neck and didn't stick around long to make sure he couldn't escape, which he did. To his credit, people typically die when they are hanged.

* From [[The Fantastic Four]]:

* Despite being a supergenius, [[Doctor Doom]] falls prey to this a lot whenever he's trying to kill his hated [[Arch Enemy]] Reed Richards ~~of the [[Fantastic Four]]~~. This is sort of justified though, because Doom's end goal isn't killing Reed — it's proving to Reed that Doom is smarter than him, and ''then'' killing him. Therefore, killing Reed without gloating about how he has been outsmarted and making him watch Doom [[Take Over the World]] and kill everyone Reed loves isn't just a tad disappointing to Doom — it would be completely antithetical to Doom's entire purpose in being evil.

** Despite being a supergenius, [[Doctor Doom]] falls prey to this a lot whenever he's trying to kill his hated [[Arch Enemy]] Reed Richards. This is sort of justified though, because Doom's end goal isn't killing Reed — it's proving to Reed that Doom is smarter than him, and ''then'' killing him. Therefore, killing Reed without gloating about how he has been outsmarted and making him watch Doom [[Take Over the World]] and kill everyone Reed loves isn't just a tad disappointing to Doom — it would be completely antithetical to Doom's entire purpose in being evil.

** One of the biggest examples of this trope in Marvel Comics was done by the Frightful Four. Well, three of them anyway; the Wizard, Trapster, and Sandman were, as usual, in need of a fourth member, something they never seemed able to hang onto. They managed to invade the Baxter Building, ambush the team and take the heroes hostage. So what do they do now that they have their foes at their mercy? Dispose of them? Engage in sadistic torture? Maybe hack into Reed's files that contain the secrets of the Negative Zone, unstable molecules, and his other miraculous inventions? Nope. They use the Baxter Building to hold auditions for a fourth member, and force the heroes to watch. Unfortunately for them, most of the folks who showed up were [[Harmless Villain|Harmless Villains]] and a few folks who were trying to decide between this and something more legit including Texas Twister (who rejected their offer because S.H.I.E.L.D. had offered more money), and [[Fun Personified|Captain Ultra]] (making his first appearance here, likely what made the issue stand out most) but it ''really'' turned bad for the villains when Tigra - who was friends with the FF - showed up and saw the situation. She got them out, and when the Wizard announced over the intercom to everyone waiting that whoever helped them fight the heroes could join them, they proved smarter than he was - [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|they ran for the exit.]] One villain, the Brute, remained, and he ended up the fourth member, [[Pyrrhic Villainy|so at least the Wizard did meet his initial goal,]] but like all other fourth members of the Frightful Four, the Brute didn't last long.

* In ''[[Dracula vs. King Arthur]]'', Dracula has Arthur captured and brought to Dracula where he could've easily killed him and took over the kingdom. But rather then doing the sensible thing to clinch victory, he instead decides to "break his will" and just have Arthur throw into the ocean after his subjects and he feed on him. As you can imagine not only does this not happen, but Arthur recovers, gains some new weapons from the Lady of the Lake and regroups his remaining forces for a final battle which ended in Dracula's defeat. Yeah, [[Sarcasm Mode|nice one, lord of the darkness.]]

* ''[[The Phantom]]'' wouldn't have lasted for one generation, let alone [[Legacy Immortality|the twenty-one he's currently at]], without practically ''every'' enemy he's ever met falling for this trope. Of course, Phantoms do get occasionally killed in the line of duty, but it's usually in open combat and not because someone's clever enough to [[Just Shoot Him]] when they have him captured.