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{{quote|'''Bruce''': I saved your life.

'''Ducard''': I warned you about compassion, Bruce. }}

** It's slightly more complicated than that. One, Ra's shares equal responsibility with Batman for the train crash - while Bruce had his ally shoot out the tracks, Ra's is the person who'd deliberately disabled the train's emergency brakes and so rendered himself unable to safely stop in time. (Furthermore, since Bruce shot out the tracks not to murder Ra's but to try and stop a WMD from being taken to its detonation point and wipe out the city center, his intent is ethical, while Ra's intent was to ensure the delivery of the weapon and thus entirely unethical). Lastly, Ra's has physical skills equal to Batman and is presumably capable of saving ''himself'' if he wishes - instead, his final scene shows him as deliberately resigning himself to die.

* In ''[[The Dark Knight Saga]]'', {{spoiler|it's played straight with the Joker. Not so much with Two Face, but that was accidental; Batman was trying to save a child's life more than trying to kill Two Face.}}

* Yet another Batman example: ''[[Batman Forever]]'', with Robin saving Two-Face. It turns out it was a bad idea, as he gets captured and used in a [[Sadistic Choice]] by The Riddler to determine Batman's identity. When Two-Face falls to his death later, he doesn't get saved.