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[[Talking Your Way Out|Talk to the guard.]]
No, seriously. Half the time they're part of a [[Weird Trade Union]] or are [[Punch Clock Villain]]s and otherwise normal people. Ask them if they know what their boss did to [[You Have Failed Me...|Bob,]] or [[Even Mooks Have Loved Ones|plans to do to their family]]. Do they know the scar behind their left ear contains a [[Villain Override|mind control device?]] How about that their boss [[Involuntary Suicide Mechanism|can remote activate]] a [[Cyanide Pill]] he had installed during their last trip to the dentist if things go south?
If that doesn't [[Scare'Em Straight|scare 'em straight]], then ask them about their wife and kids, hobbies, or sports team. An ounce of [[Character Development]] will make them a [[Mauve Shirt]] and get them to do a [[Heel Face Turn]] faster than you can say [[Signed Up for the Dental|"No Dental".]]
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* In [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]]'s ''[[Chronicles of Narnia|The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe]]'', Tumnus was supposed to kidnap Humans for Jadis if he ever met them. He was already very displeased with Jadis when he met Lucy, and they became fast friends. He let her return. Jadis found out and [[Taken for Granite|executed him]]. He was with the Narnian envoy to Calormen in ''The Horse and his Boy''.
* Blaggut in the [[Redwall]] book ''The Bellmaker'' is eventually pushed too far by Captain Slipp {{spoiler|after Slipp kills Mellus. Blaggut snaps and [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|strangles Slipp]], then goes back to the Abbey to confess}}.
* In [[Ben Counter]]'s ''[[Warhammer
* Subverted in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', where Ford Prefect gets a Vogon mook interested in art and music... but the Vogon throws Ford and Arthur Dent into the airlock as instructed anyway.
* In the [[World of Warcraft]] novel [[The Shattering Prelude to Cataclysm]], Stormsong leads a band of Grimtotem sent in to assassinate Baine Bloodhoof, but instead slips out and warns Baine about the plot, having believed that his leader Magatha [[Moral Event Horizon|went too far]] by {{spoiler|killing Baine's father, the High Chieftain Cairne, whom Stormsong had respected despite sometimes disagreeing with}}. Stormsong then helps Baine escape and assists him in his quest to oust Magatha. After Baine succeeds, he exiles the Grimtotem except for those who swear loyalty to him, knowing that some of them did so for self-serving reasons and deciding to watch over them.
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