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{{quote|'''The Operative:''' I believe in something greater than myself. A better world. A world without sin.
'''Capt. Malcolm Reynolds:''' [[Utopia Justifies the Means|So me and mine gotta lay down and die... so you can live in your better world?]]
'''The Operative:''' I'm not going to live there. There's [[Trope Namer|no place for me there]]... any more than there is for you. Malcolm... I'm a monster. [[Necessarily Evil|What I do is evil. I have no illusions about it, but it must be done]].|''[[Serenity]]''}}
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** "Yes, he would kill for peace. And that was the problem."
*** [[Inherent in the System|Not that he has any chances of success otherwise]]
* In the [[Baldur's Gate]] expansion pack ''Throne of Bhaal'', {{spoiler|Balthasar}} is on a mission to kill all of the Bhaalspawn. Since he is one himself, his final plan is to kill himself once all of the others are dead. In fact, he planned to use a ritual suicide to ensure Bhaal could never be resurrected.
* {{spoiler|Kreia}} from [[Knights of the Old Republic]] is well aware that destroying the Force will eliminate her along with the endless Jedi versus Sith conflict that periodically burns the galaxy. She's perfectly happy with it, and actually delighted that Exile {{spoiler|is able to not only prove her theories, but become strong enough to kill her.}}
* The very end of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker]]'' has {{spoiler|King Hyrule use the Triforce to grant hope to Link and Zelda. He also decides to have Hyrule washed away by the ocean... permanently. After fighting Ganondorf, Zelda tries to convince Hyrule to come with them to a new land, but he refuses, having realized he is just as tied to Hyrule as Ganondorf.}}
* In [[
** This is actually a crucial thematic and characterization point for the series: Tosh [[Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism|believes that, after they take down Mengsk, another 'Mengsk' will take his place, and the next day another one after that.]] He is still loyal to Raynor, he and his Specters are just out for revenge against Mengsk. Still, Tosh openly challenges Matt's belief that he can actually create "A better tomorrow". Raynor actually reaches Tosh ''and'' Matt with the above declaration, which is the [[Take a Third Option|third option]] to the dilemma, providing a way forward for both the cynical "devils" of the past and the idealistic "free thinkers" of tomorrow.
* At the end of the Resistance campaign in ''[[Brink]]'', Chen, the Resistance leader, opts to stay behind on the Ark and {{spoiler|give up his seat on the plane the Resistance was using to look for land to someone with "less blood on their hands."}}
* At the end of the ''[[
* Used on a small scale, and with a bit of a twist, in the original ''[[Fallout]]'' game. Your main motivation for everything you've done in the game is to safeguard the Vault you grew up in, first by securing their water-supply, and then by wiping out a major [[Big Bad|threat to the continued existence of unmutated humanity]]. However, at the end of the game, as you return to the Vault, you are blocked at the doorstep by the administrator of the place. He outright tells you that you have no place there anymore - you've become too much of an outsider, too much of a warrior, to fit into the peaceful, bottled piece of civilization that Vault represents. How well you take it [[Karma Meter|depends on your choices so far]], but the end result is always the same - turning your back on the tiny world you helped save, you wander back out into the dangerous wasteland...
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* Othar Tryggvassen, [[Gentleman Adventurer]]! of ''[[Girl Genius]]'' is [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040922 on a one-man crusade] to kill every [[Mad Scientist|Spark]] and end the threat they pose to everyone. However, [[Hunter of His Own Kind|he's a Spark as well]], so he plans to end the crusade with himself.
* {{spoiler|Mako}} in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' - except she's not too optimistic about how easy "no [[I Am a Monster|monsters]]" state would be to achieve.
{{quote|Civilization needs people who can protect it, and then go back to being a ''part'' of it. Otherwise it stops being a civilization. [...]
I wish this job could have been done differently. Maybe you'll figure out how that works.
You know, so you can save civilization from its enemies without making it afraid of its weapons. }}
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