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* Crime Boss Wallenquist from ''[[Sin City]]'' refuses to seek revenge on Wallace, who almost singlehandedly dismantled his human slavery market, because there's no benefit to him.
{{quote|"Revenge is a loser's game. There's no percentage in it. All that matters is profit and power."}}
* [[Spider-Man]] examples:
** The Shocker
** [[Venom (Comic Book)|Carnage]] is known to be a sadistic [[Serial Killer]] who kills simply [[For the Evulz]]. In one story, however, after escaping from Ravencroft, assaulted Martha Robinson and then wrote his catchphrase "Carnage Rules" using her blood ''and'' his own next to her on an elevator wall, but did ''not'' kill her. His own reasoning was that a live, injured, and frightened victim would cause more panic among the ''Daily Bugle'' staff than a corpse would. (And it certainly did.)
* He needed [[Wonder Woman]] to point it out, but no, Ares does not support nuclear and biological war. If everyone died, there would be no one left to fight wars anymore.
* [[Darkseid]] will never try to conquer the universe through [[Time Travel]] on the grounds that it is far too reckless.
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* A Russian mob boss during Chuck Dixon's run on the ''Green Arrow'' comic displayed this trope in spades when his psychotically violent loan shark collector managed to offend the local resident superheroes. Having already decided to cut this guy loose because his excessive love of violence was resulting in decreased revenue (the point is, after all, to beat them up enough to motivate them to pay their debts, not to beat them to death for shits and grins because dead people don't make loan payments), the mob boss walks in on his enforcer while he's managed to get Green Arrow (who was coming after him to investigate his latest murder rampage) trapped in a pit. 'Look at this, boss! We can just throw grenades in the pit and shoot him! I win, yes?' His boss responded by shooting the ''enforcer'' instead and helping Green Arrow out of the pit, because he knew full well that a dead Green Arrow on his watch would result in the Justice League showing up the next day.
{{quote|'''Mob Boss:''' Idiot. This man is a superhero. They ''always'' have friends. Kill him and tomorrow I will have ''Superman'' pulling me out of my car.}}
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