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* Sarah and Nick from ''[[Jurassic Park|The Lost World]]''. Granted, the team of mercenaries sent to capture the dinosaurs weren't using kid gloves, but the sabotage that the two of them did is directly or indirectly responsible for ''every human death in the film''. Even after the mercenaries save the two of them from death, Nick uses it as an opportunity to sabotage [[Great White Hunter|Rol]][[Only Sane Man|and]]'s gun. Apparently, killing a dinosaur is wrong even if it is rampaging through your camp, killing your men. And it wasn't as if nature was at stake. The dinosaurs were created in a lab and introduced in a time period that was unsuitable for them. The fact that they exist at all could be disastrous to the ecosystem. This was the entire point of the first movie and somehow, the filmmakers forgot all about that.
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'', killing a diplomat during negotiations is apparently okay if you're a protagonist. To be fair, the Fellowship had already told the [[Mouth of Sauron]] they weren't there to negotiate, so he probably should've figured they were going to move on to [[Aggressive Negotiations]]. When Aragon killed him, he had already moved on to taunts and psychological warfare. By any reasonable metric, negotiations were over. By Tolkien's treatment of the same scene, the heroes drive off Sauron's diplomat ''just by staring at him''.
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:: '''The Mouth of Sauron:''' I am a herald and ambassador, and may not be assailed!
:: '''Gandalf:''' Where such customs are in use, it is also customary for heralds to speak with less insolence.
▲** Also, diplomatic niceties of behavior between warring nations is a mutual obligation and not a unilateral one. The standard penalty for refusing to honor ambassadors is the total severing of diplomatic relations, and the standard penalty for not honoring an enemy's surrender is the enemy now being allowed to kill you out of hand even if ''you'' try to surrender. Since this is exactly what Sauron is planning to do to the armies of the West ''anyway''... well, let's just say the Mouth really should have known what he was in for.
* ''[[300|Three Hundred]]'' is full of this, mostly due to the [[Unreliable Narrator]]. The Spartans are touted as a just and free society, even though they're shown in the movie to hurl imperfect babies off cliffs, kill messengers, and toss boys into the wilderness as a rite of passage.
** Their so-called "just and free society" didn't preclude slavery. Leonidas at one point also makes fun of some Athenians for being homosexuals, when [[Real Life]] Spartans actually preferred the company of other men to women, whom they considered to be unworthy and only useful as [[Baby Factory|breeding stock]].
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