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* Inverted in the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'' classic, ''City on the Edge of Forever'': Save the person, ''doom'' the world.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has an entire episode revolve around this. In "Turn Left", it is revealed that {{spoiler|Donna meeting the Doctor saved the multiverse, as without her he would have died (along with several other companions who filled his role in various episodes) and nobody would have been left to stop the Dalek's Reality Bomb.}}
* Baby Eve from ''[[Being Human (UK)]]'' is {{spoiler|an inversion of}} this. All of the good guys protect her, because she's the War Child, who prophecy says will kill all of the vampires, which means all of the vampires are trying to kill her. {{spoiler|Then, it turns out that she has to ''die'' to bring about the death of all vampires, meaning that the protagonists who want to keep her alive are inadvertently screwing the world over. It's never really explained how Eve living would cause the vampires to win, but it's theorized that as long as she was alive, humans would stay lazy and expect her to be the one to save them.}}
== Myth And Legend ==
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