Finish Him!: Difference between revisions

** In ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'', Palpatine gives Luke the same instruction as he stands over the defeated Darth Vader. This time, however, it doesn't work, and Luke's refusal to kill his own father is a major factor in the latter's [[Heel Face Turn]].

* ''[[Batman Begins]]'': Played straight, though, without prior knowledge of Ra's Al Ghul's personality, it would seem to a [[Secret Test of Character]] instead.

** As well as Flash's mercy wins over Vultan ''and'' Barin.

* ''[[Mad Max|Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome]]'' (1985). Max refuses to kill Blaster after knocking off his helmet and finding the hulking brute is actually a drooling idiot. This violates the rules of the Thunderdome, in which two men with a quarrel enter and only one leaves (designed to stop quarrels from spreading and involving others). Worse, he blurts out the fact that Aunty Entity hired him to kill Blaster, forcing [[The Dragon]] to take direct action and kill Blaster himself. Entity gets her revenge by banishing Max into the desert.

* In ''Naked Weapon'', the evil Madame M kidnaps little girls from all around the world, brings them to her heavily guarded secret island and trains them to be sexy assassins. Once they're [[She Is All Grown Up|all grown up]] and their training is finished, she makes all 25 of them fight to the death until only one is left standing. Talk about wasting resources...

* John Kreese in ''[[The Karate Kid]]'' says this, just before his pupil gets his ass handed to him by Daniel's Crane kick.

 

* ''Market Forces'' by Richard K. Morgan has a case where the main character actually goes along, after a page of agonizing. This incidentally marks his [[Moral Event Horizon]].

* In ''[[X Wing Series|Starfighters of Adumar]]'', Cartanese culture calls for the winner of a ground duel to offer this choice to someone in the crowd (usually either the ''perator'' or their [[Love Interest]]), who can choose either mercy or death. {{spoiler|Part of Cheriss's plan to commit honorable suicide involves her giving the ''perator'' the choice and then ''refusing'', knowing that after that, no one would offer her mercy.}}

* ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians|Battle of the Labyrinth]]'': Percy refusing to kill Ethan after defeating him in a gladiator-style duel and being ordered to kill him.

 

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* [[Trope Namer]] is [[Mortal Kombat]], where Shang Tsung (and, subsequently, [[Big Bad|Shao Kahn]]) orders the winning fighter to do this after every match. However, this only rarely comes up in the storyline, as most characters are killed in battle rather than after it.

* ''[[Guitar Hero]] III''. After defeating Lou in the final boss battle in Hell, you get an opportunity to play the final section in the song and [[Finish Him!]] to regain your soul. Why does he come back in GH:WT? He got sent back to hell.

** The devil always comes back. He came back to Georgia, after all.

* In ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', Commander Sheppard can, if his/her Renegade points are high enough, force {{spoiler|Jack to kill one of her childhood inmates}} to prevent him from reopening the facility.

** Of course, if you let him go, then you get a message in ''Mass Effect 3'' that he has gone straight and thanks you for your mercy.

** He also does this to {{spoiler|Ganondorf during the final battle. As this is the only way to finish him off}}.

 

 

 

** {{spoiler|Which she does. ''Messily''.}}

*** Which is invoked on purpose, since she is told to do it with a ''mace''.

 

 

 

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