Honor Before Reason/Comic Books: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Usagi Yojimbo (Comic Book)|Usagi Yojimbo]]'', when a character makes a decision and says, "I am adamant!", that means literally ''nothing'', especially death threats, will make them change their mind. For instance, a swordsmith said this in refusing to sell one of his swords to a brutish samurai and when threatened to be killed, he all but said, "Kill me if you want, but that just guarantees I won't sell you anything."

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

* In ''[[ROM Spaceknight]]'', the title character found himself in such a situation when he had captured a disguised Dire Wraith disguised as a human scientist, but her security staff, unaware of her true nature, had arrived to help her. The Dire Wraith dared him to banish her at the cost that it will appear he killed her and he would likely never be able to convince humanity of the truth. Rom considers this, but since a friend had [[Heroic Sacrifice|sacrificed his life]] to free his main weapon, he cannot have that sacrifice be for nothing. So, he banishes her and prepares to deal with the consequences.

* Yorick of ''[[Y the Last Man]]'' is like this for the first part of the series. Two major examples: He's the last living male human, yet tries not to cheat on his girlfriend who is half a world away. He comes across a town that's entirely populated by convicts from the near by women's correctional facility. Despite this, it seems to be one of the few nice places [[After the End]] and is actually very stable. Yorick wants to turn them in to the government.