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* The protagonists of ''[[Sin City]]'' each possess this trait. Despite their violent and sadistic nature, they will still put their lives on the line and suffer greatly for the sake of those they wish to protect.

** Usagi sums up his feelings for this trope when he says "What fools we have in this world, that confuse honor for weakness."

* More of a case of obsession before reason, but Rorschach from ''[[Watchmen]]'' has "Never Compromise" as his motto in the face or murderers and rapists, and the people who would stop him. {{spoiler|This leads to his death as he refuses to allow [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Ozymandias]] to go free, despite that this would render the death of millions meaningless and restart the cold war.}}

* Jubilee of the [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] takes the superheroic [[Thou Shalt Not Kill|code against killing]] to a foolish extreme in one story. While escaping from Operation: Zero Tolerance (who had been torturing her for days), she seriously injured one of the guards -- and broke off her escape to perform CPR on him.

** That was a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].

* In ''Incorruptible'' - a spin-off of ''[[Irredeemable]]'' - Max Damage made a [[Heel Face Turn]] in response to The Plutonian's epic [[Face Heel Turn]]. In the process of "making a clean start of it", he destroys billions of dollars in currency he'd stashed away over the years and destroyed most of his old gear and hideouts. Which is cool and all, but wouldn't all those resources actually ''help'' fight The Plutonian?

** Although the comic does frame this as the supervillainous equivalent of [[Going Cold Turkey]], since Damage is trying to change his ways completely and feels that having the relics of his old life would make it too easy to slip back into old bad habits, same as a recovering drug addict doesn't keep a whole load of drugs stashed about the place just in case.

* In the first ''[[Wolverine]]'' [[Limited Series]], Logan is aghast to learn that not only his girlfriend, Yashida Mariko, is married, but it was on the orders of her father which she obeyed without question. His friend makes it clear that she did it as a matter of personal honor and she literally would rather die than violate that. Logan goes to see her, but is frustrated that she is adamant about keeping her honor in obeying her father, even while her husband abuses her. Fortunately, Mariko eventually realizes that her father is besmirching their family's honor with his evil and plans to kill him and commit suicide in recompense. Fortunately, Wolverine beats her to it and Mariko considers the matter properly settled.