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* One of the pitfalls of a high Compassion virtue in ''[[Exalted]]''. Indeed, the rulebook's example of a circumstance that requires you to make a Virtue roll is a high-Compassion character falling victim to a mixture of this and [[Dudley Do-Right Stops to Help]]. Even worse, failing to satisfy this urge may drive up the character's Limit and trigger the [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|Great Curse]].
* The Charity Virtue in the ''[[New World of Darkness]]'' encourages you to act like this in exchange for Willpower. The sample blurb for the virtue discusses a woman who's investigating a ritualistic [[Serial Killer]]... and who stops to pick up a hitchhiker with a broken arm (in real life, a favorite trick of Ted Bundy), even though she ''knows'' it could be a trap, because she fears he could end up a victim.
* Paladins in most editions of ''[[Dungeons
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* The title character of ''[[Nie R]]'' may be [[The Unfettered]] in his desire to keep Yonah safe, but that doesn't mean he won't stop to help such diverse problems as help a merchant get started, a family get enough to eat, or get a bartender rare supplies.
* ''Star Ocean: The Last Hope'' has Edge Maverick. Though his job is to find a new habitable planet suitable for humans, he quite quickly ends up trying to save a village of people he doesn't know, destroy a certain race to prevent them invading planets and then accidentally destroys a planet in a different dimension when he was only trying to help it, leading him to mentally break down and blame the entire thing on himself despite everything his friends try to say to him.
* In ''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'', Ezio's primary goal in Constantinople is to recover the keys that he needs to access the library at Masyaf, but along the way he keeps getting roped into the fight against injustice, and not unwillingly. As he needs help from the Assassins in the city, he winds up working to bolster them in their fight against the Templars. He also befriends Suleiman, the future Sultan, whose father and uncle are involved in a war for the succession of the Sultanate. Further, he meets and falls in love with a librarian in his search for the keys and is eventually forced to protect her from his enemies. At this point in his life he is bone-weary of the constant struggle, but as long as he remains an Assassin, he must keep fighting it.
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