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** The same goes- perhaps even moreso- for the ''[[Too Dumb to Live|utter fools]]'' who keep trying to hurt Anton Zilwicki's kids.
*** After the bodies stopped bouncing from that one, they shifted focus primarily from trying to kill his kids to trying to kill ''him''—which is still this trope, but is at least some kind of improvement.
**** Being fair, after their initial mistake in starting a literal blood vendetta with Zilwicki they'd already gone past the point of no return -- even if they stopped trying to kill him, he damn sure wouldn't stop trying to kill them.
** Averted when one of Luiz Rozsak's subordinates suggests having Lt. Thandi Palane, who is trying to quit their criminal conspiracy, killed to tie up the last loose end. Roszak quite reasonably points out that she is unlikely to testify against them as the people she is defecting to are allies of convenience that would still benefit indirectly from Roszak's success... and also points out that not only was Palane the deadliest person in their entire gang but that her new friends including the galaxy's most notorious terrorist, the deadliest assassin in known space save possibly Palane herself, and one of the greatest spymasters alive.
* Happens in the ''[[Mass Effect]]'' novel ''Ascension'' where one of the kids in the Ascension Project decides to pick on Gillian Grayson. To be fair to the kids picking on her it didn't seem that she had much power but boy was he mistaken.
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