Even Mooks Have Loved Ones: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|'''Miss Teschmacher:''' [after learning that Luthor has sent a nuclear missile heading toward Hackensack] Lex, my mother lives in Hackensack.

{{quote|''Do you remember...the piranha plant you roasted in 5-1? And were you there when his family received the news about their son?''|''[[Brawl in the Family]]''}}

 

 

Henchie will ask if he can at least save this one person they love... and the boss will refuse. For extra sting the effort needed would be minimal ''and'' [[It's All About Me|the boss will rail on the henchman for placing others above his goals]]. Worse is the variant where the boss [[Shoot Your Mate|puts a gun in their hand]] and ''[[And Your Little Dog, Too|tells them to shoot]]'' as a proof of their loyalty. Despite whatever horrible things they've done, the resulting [[Conflicting Loyalty|conflicting loyalties]] nearly always come up on the side of the loved one. As you can guess, this [[Egregious]] [[Villainous Demotivator]] will cause a [[Mook Face Turn]] pretty darn fast, or at least prompt the minion to release someone who ''can'' save the loved one... namely, the hero who is in the (actually) inescapable [[Death Trap]].

 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* In ''[[Berserk]]'', the Count, the second major Apostle that Guts fights in the manga, became an Apostle by sacrificing his wife, whom he walked in on during a pagan orgy that went down in his very own castle, which drove him over the [[Despair Event Horizon]]. But the Count also had a daughter named Theresia, who meant the entire world to him. She is used as a [[Human Shield]] by Guts against him in a moment that sparks a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] from Puck, Guts's companion who was captured and got to know the little girl. When Guts defeats the Count and he calls on the God Hand in order to avoid death, Femto, a.k.a. Griffith, shows his first sign in the manga of what a [[Complete Monster]] he can be by demanding that he sacrifice Theresia (since in order to become an Apostle one has to sacrifice those one most dearly loves in order to surrender oneself to evil) or be dragged off to Hell. The Count ultimately chooses his own death rather than the sacrifice of the only loved one he still has left.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

** Of course there were limits and this makes a Minion do a [[Face Heel Turn]].

*** If you sign to be a minion of Hydra is probably expected that you have a expectancy of life really low, but that doesn't mean your family should have.