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== Anime and Manga ==

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Goku from ''[[Dragon Ball]] Z'' does this, or at least tries to, constantly. Sometimes it works (like with [[Heel Face Turn|Vegeta]]), other times it doesn't, as [[Ungrateful Bastard|Frieza]] proved.

* In the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' anime, the titular heroine saves several enemies, including the greatest foe she ever fought, Galaxia. In the manga, not so much (though she does still save Galaxia, even though Galaxia dies anyway shortly afterward).

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* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' does a traditional villain saving with Fate Testarossa, helping her fly out of a [[Load-Bearing Boss|collapsing lair.]] To be fair, Fate was more [[The Dragon]] than the [[Big Bad]]. Other seasons are mostly saving via [[Defeat Means Friendship]].

** Earlier on, Nanoha intervenes to help Fate while she is performing a highly dangerous attempt to seal the Jewel Seeds that fell into the ocean, splitting the seeds with her and telling her that she wants to be friends with her.

** In A's, Fate intervenes during a fight to save Signum from a desert monster, causing Amy to tell her that her job is to capture her. Signum [[Complaining|notes that she won't thank Fate]] because she destroyed the monster and prevented her from getting its Linker Core, but Fate takes it in stride, noting that she has to interfere with the "bad guys".

** In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's|A's]]'', Fate intervenes during a fight to save Signum from a desert monster, causing Amy to tell her that her job is to capture her. Signum [[Complaining|notes that she won't thank Fate]] because she destroyed the monster and prevented her from getting its Linker Core, but Fate takes it in stride, noting that she has to interfere with the "bad guys".

* During a sequence in ''[[~~Daughter of Twenty Faces|The~~ Daughter of Twenty Faces]]'', a villain attempts to kill Chiko with an axe while atop a speeding train. She overextends, stumbles, and is hanging on for dear life against the wind. Chiko attempts to save her, but...

* During a sequence in ''[[Daughter of Twenty Faces]]'', a villain attempts to kill Chiko with an axe while atop a speeding train. She overextends, stumbles, and is hanging on for dear life against the wind. Chiko attempts to save her, but...

* Vash The Stampede, in ''[[Trigun]]'', has done this on many occasions due to his [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]] mantra, often giving foes that he's injured first aid. This culminated in {{spoiler|him saving his twin brother, Knives Millions, even after vowing revenge on him for his entire life after he killed thousands of people and, more importantly to Vash, his maternal figure Rem.}}

* In ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'', Ash and friends once in a while end up saving the [[Terrible Trio|Team Rocket]] trio's lives. The reaction varies from [[Ungrateful Bastard]] [[Lampshade Hanging|(the lampshade is even hung sometimes)]] to a [[Heel Face Turn]] for the remainder of the episode. Expect them to [[Deadly Change-of-Heart|blast off again, anyway]] because [[Status Quo Is God]].

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* In ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog The Movie]]'', {{spoiler|the final fight scene culminates in Metal Sonic falling into lava after saving the Old Man and the President, upon which Sonic jumps down, much to everyone else's protests. With Knuckles trying to hold Sonic back (fearing Metal would drag Sonic down with him), Sonic offers his hand to Metal to try and pull him out. Metal reaches... then ''smacks Sonic's hand away'', uttering one last sentence before sinking down under: [[Tear Jerker|"There is only one Sonic."]]}}

* In ''[[Freezing]]'', Satelizer saves {{spoiler|Louis}} after he [[Disney Villain Death|falls of a cliff]] into [[Soft Water|the ocean]], ruining his [[Karmic Death|death]] and turning him into a [[Karma Houdini]].

* At the end of volume 22 of the ''[[To Aru Majutsu no Index]]'' light novel, {{spoiler|Touma puts Fiamma of the Right into the last working escape pod on the falling star of Bethlehem.}} Keep in mind this is a 50 km structure very high into the atmosphere that lost more of its floatation power. Though partially justified since Touma {{spoiler|wanted to stay behind and make sure it didn't crash on land, since that would have caused immense damage}}

* In ''[[My-HiME]]'', Natsuki {{spoiler|stops Shizuru from finishing off a Child-less Nao, having come to realize that she and Nao are [[Not So Different]]}}.

* This is usually how [[Martial Pacifist|Kimba]] from ''[[Kimba the White Lion]]'' deals with villains once they're down or about to be killed; this even extends to saving the man who killed Kimba's father before he was born. Most of the time however, the character's rescue causes him or her to do a [[Heel Face Turn]].

* Haru likes to attempt this in ''[[Rave Master]]''. It works once, but it usually fails. Reasons for this vary. Once the villain has already bled too much and there's just no way he could live. One time the man he's trying to save from a huge fall inverts the [[Life or Limb Decision]] and cuts his arm off so he'll fall anyway. It's a mystery whether {{spoiler|Lucia}} chose not to be saved or was doomed anyway, or even if he really died, actually.

* In one episode [[Magical Idol Pastel Yumi]], Yumi is racing the leader of a hang gliding gang. He tries to cheat but only ends up damaging his ~~ownhang~~ glider. Yumi summons a giant bird to save him.

* In one episode [[Magical Idol Pastel Yumi]], Yumi is racing the leader of a hang gliding gang. He tries to cheat but only ends up damaging his own hang glider. Yumi summons a giant bird to save him.

** and then warns him that she won't save him again [[Last Second Chance|unless he changes his ways]].