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* Played with when Scans Daily showed a panel with [[Batman/Characters|Robin and the Spoiler]] foiling a convenience store robbery and Stephanie taking a soda. Tim assumes she's going to pay for it, while she explains that she's earned it as they saved the whole store. She grudgingly puts down some money when Tim explains that once you start like that, you soon bend all the rules. |
* Played with when Scans Daily showed a panel with [[Batman/Characters|Robin and the Spoiler]] foiling a convenience store robbery and Stephanie taking a soda. Tim assumes she's going to pay for it, while she explains that she's earned it as they saved the whole store. She grudgingly puts down some money when Tim explains that once you start like that, you soon bend all the rules. |
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{{quote|'''SD''': "It just starts with stealing a soda after saving the store...next thing you know, you're hacking up people and putting them in your freezer!" }} |
{{quote|'''SD''': "It just starts with stealing a soda after saving the store...next thing you know, you're hacking up people and putting them in your freezer!" }} |
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** To be fair to Robin, what he is saying is real-world law enforcement practice; Internal Affairs goes after cops even for accepting the most minor bribes or freebies precisely because taking them psychologically desensitizes police officers towards the idea that they 'deserve' extra-legal recompense for their sacrifices, which is for obvious reasons a train of thought they don't want people to even go near starting. |
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* A German Film ''Stahlnetz: PSI'' begins with two brothers kidnapping a rich girl {{spoiler|actually she is not...}} for ransom. They reason a girl is a [[Spoiled Brat]] anyway and a few days in captivity won't hurt - and for her family, a million is only a pocket money, so it's not really bad. But then the younger brother decides that it is better to leave the girl to die, and {{spoiler|when the other brother objects, beats him up and locks him together with the girl to die}}. |
* A German Film ''Stahlnetz: PSI'' begins with two brothers kidnapping a rich girl {{spoiler|actually she is not...}} for ransom. They reason a girl is a [[Spoiled Brat]] anyway and a few days in captivity won't hurt - and for her family, a million is only a pocket money, so it's not really bad. But then the younger brother decides that it is better to leave the girl to die, and {{spoiler|when the other brother objects, beats him up and locks him together with the girl to die}}. |
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* In [[Star Wars Legacy]] Emperor Roan Fel is willing to use Sith powers to get his Empire back. {{spoiler|He finally slips to the dark side when he plans to use a bio weapon on Coruscant to wipe out the Sith, unbeknown to him they are immune to it, but it will kill his allies and billions of lives still on the planet.}} |
* In [[Star Wars Legacy]] Emperor Roan Fel is willing to use Sith powers to get his Empire back. {{spoiler|He finally slips to the dark side when he plans to use a bio weapon on Coruscant to wipe out the Sith, unbeknown to him they are immune to it, but it will kill his allies and billions of lives still on the planet.}} |
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