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== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Baldr Force EXE]]'': Tohru has to kill Ren to keep her from destroying everything in the Wired.''

* Raziel from ''[[Angel Sanctuary]]'' forces himself to shoot his beloved superior Zaphikel when the latter transforms into a ghoul.

* ''[[Code Geass]]'': Lelouch (as Zero) is forced to shoot Euphemia after he accidentally Geasses her into killing all the Japanese, sending her on a rampage. Just as he does it, he mentally bids her farewell, and even thinks to himself that she was his first love. He's later shown angsting over it.

** And then there's the finale, where Suzaku, disguised as Zero, stabs Lelouch in a [[Thanatos Gambit]]. He's shown crying while doing it.

* ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]'' loves this trope. ''Loves'' it. Aya has to kill two of his mentors; Ken has to kill his best friend, girlfriend, surrogate mother, ''and'' old friend's brother; and Youji gets to kill ''three'' girlfriends.

* In [[Naruto]], Sakura has decided to kill Sasuke with her own hands, to save their land and spare him from falling even lower than he already has. Subverted, as when push comes to shove, she can't bring herself to do it and is nearly killed herself.

*** Even more impressive in that episode was when [[Tsundere|Wolfram]] became convinced that Yuuri had gone crazy was going to kill him and ''didn't'' invoke this trope, just curled up and waited. [[Power of Love]].

** When Conrad and Yuuri met in the coliseum it looked like this was going to happen, too, and about ten episodes later it {{spoiler|very nearly did.}}

 

 

 

== Live Action TV ==

* Done tragically in ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]'' - Ziva kills her brother Ari (who is a [[Complete Monster]]) and is never able to mention him again without visibly stiffening or crying.

* In ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]: Children of Earth'', Jack has to sacrifice his grandson.

* [[Russell T Davies]] seems to like this trope. In ''[[The Second Coming (TV)|The Second Coming]]'', Steven Baxter, who also happens to be the son of God, is poisoned by his girlfriend [[Meaningful Name|Judith]]. She does tell him that the food is poisoned, but he finds that she is right, he [[Tear Jerker|must die]].

*** There's also quite a bit of this in ''[[Blaze Union]]''--C route gives us the quintessential [[Came Back Wrong]] fight with Jenon, and the bad end of the B route has [[Omnicidal Maniac]] Emilia in need of [[Staking the Loved One|staking]]. The A route ''tries'' to pull this when Medoute [[Fantastic Racism|concludes that Gulcasa has become a monster]] and decides to [[Et Tu, Brute?|take him down herself]], but Gulcasa [[Defied Trope|gives this trope the finger]] and [[Turn the Other Cheek|spares her]], despite being told in no uncertain terms that this is [[Kill Him Already|incredibly dangerous]]. As this proves his humanity, however, Medoute and Jenon leave the country instead of going after him again.

** ''[[Knights in The Nightmare]]'' has Willimgard unwittingly kill his own son, who's been turned into a werewolf, and later the now-harpy Pisce as well. The narrator [[What the Hell, Hero?|calls him out on the latter]].

** ''[[Gloria Union]]'' features three of these fights--Ishut against his childhood [[The Rival|frienemy]] [[Came Back Wrong|Velgas]], Elisha and Zazarland against Elisha's mother [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Enryetta]], and Ishut versus his badly-abused twin brother [[Psychopathic Manchild|Ashley]]. Despite this being a [[Lighter and Softer]] game, the trope is played straight every time.

* ''Very'' prevalent in ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia]]''. Let's see...

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