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* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', the Faerie Courts of Winter and Summer are neutral to the war between the White Council of Wizards and the Red Court of vampires. They offered the Council access through their territory (letting the wizards take advantage of the [[Alien Geometries]] of Faerie) but were otherwise neutral. Then in ''Dead Beat'', the Red Court {{spoiler|invaded Faerie in an effort to wipe out the senior leadership of the Council after an already-devastating victory}}, and Summer immediately fell all over the Reds, with Summer declaring war on the Red Court for the transgression. However, the Summer forces could not go on the offensive because Winter refused to move against the vampires and made to threaten Summer's borders, which only allowed the Summer fae to provide limited support to the wizards. |
* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', the Faerie Courts of Winter and Summer are neutral to the war between the White Council of Wizards and the Red Court of vampires. They offered the Council access through their territory (letting the wizards take advantage of the [[Alien Geometries]] of Faerie) but were otherwise neutral. Then in ''Dead Beat'', the Red Court {{spoiler|invaded Faerie in an effort to wipe out the senior leadership of the Council after an already-devastating victory}}, and Summer immediately fell all over the Reds, with Summer declaring war on the Red Court for the transgression. However, the Summer forces could not go on the offensive because Winter refused to move against the vampires and made to threaten Summer's borders, which only allowed the Summer fae to provide limited support to the wizards. |
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* In the [[Dragaera]] universe, a rival Dragonlord attempts to start a war with Morrolan, who employs Vlad as a security consultant. Vlad makes no effort to support Morrolan until Fornia's men [[Berserk Button|come to his house and threaten him]] to make sure he stays out of it. Now that they've threatened him, and, further, have broken a rule he and the rest of the underground criminal syndicate hold sacred, [[It's Personal|he is]] ''[[It's Personal|pissed,]]'' [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|joins Morralan's army out of pure spite]], and winds up being a central figure in the final battle of the war. |
* In the [[Dragaera]] universe, a rival Dragonlord attempts to start a war with Morrolan, who employs Vlad as a security consultant. Vlad makes no effort to support Morrolan until Fornia's men [[Berserk Button|come to his house and threaten him]] to make sure he stays out of it. Now that they've threatened him, and, further, have broken a rule he and the rest of the underground criminal syndicate hold sacred, [[It's Personal|he is]] ''[[It's Personal|pissed,]]'' [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|joins Morralan's army out of pure spite]], and winds up being a central figure in the final battle of the war. |
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* In one of Michael Gilbert's stories of [[Spy Fiction|British secret agents]] Mr. Calder and Mr. Behrens, the two got involved with student vs. administration politics at a university, and helped a student agitator humiliate the school's rector under circumstances likely to get him fired. When their boss, Mr. Fortescue, reprimanded them for exceeding their mission, they explained that the rector made them furious by using bigotry to get another agitator pulled out of the university: he'd told the young fellow's '''Arab''' father that his son was "in danger of being debauched by a girl of Jewish parentage." Mr. Fortescue thought that over for a few seconds, and his final words implied he no longer regarded embarrassing the rector as the wrong thing to do. |
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