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* [[Unspoken Plan Guarantee]]

* [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him]]:

** In almost any instance where the villain has captured only Modesty ''or'' Willie, they will deliberately hold off on trying to kill their captive until they've successfully found and captured the other one too -- because they're intimately aware that the survivor would go on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] the likes of which the world had never seen and that the only course of action is to make sure both of the duo die within a minute of each other.

** A fourth-wall-friendly version in ''A Taste For Death'': the second banana villain--who has been defeated by them before--practically jumps up and down shouting, "Kill them now!" or (later) "They're up to something, kill them now!" But he's overruled. It goes poorly for him.

** Major the Earl St. Maur, in ''Night of Morningstar'', argues for dropping Modesty & Willie over the side the instant the Watchmen finish determining whether or not our heroes managed to send a message before being captured. (They hadn't.) He is overruled by his superior Colonel Golitsyn, who wishes to keep Modesty & Willie alive for use in an elaborate disinformation plot. Karmically, Golitsyn was one of the first of the Watchmen's senior leaders to die in Modesty & Willie's inevitable escape; St. Maur was the last.