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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'':
▲* ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows|Harry Potter]]'': {{spoiler|Harry does this twice for Draco Malfoy. Malfoy's mother proceeds to return the favor to Harry.}}
** Lampshaded by Ron's utter disgust at the fact that they saved ''Malfoy''. After the second save, Ron punches out Malfoy just to try to feel better about saving him.
** Also, Harry's saving of Peter Petigrew, back in ''Prisoner of Azkaban'' comes back, when Peter hesitates when he's attacking Harry.
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* ''[[Les Misérables (novel)|Les Misérables]]'': Valjean saves his nemesis, [[Inspector Javert|Javert]], from {{spoiler|execution at the barricades}}.
* The [[Batman]] novel "Fear Itself" double subverts this when it has Batman try this with Scarecrow when Batman, the [[Love Interest]] of the week, Scarecrow, a henchman, and the body of a guy Scarecrow had just killed are trapped in a burning house. {{spoiler|Initially, Batman ''does'' leave Scarecrow to die in the mess he created ... But after he rescues the [[Love Interest]] and the Henchman, as well as carrying out the dead victim's body, he goes back for Scarecrow. He apparently doesn't succeed, but they [[Never Found the Body]] and [[Joker Immunity|we all know what kind of record the Bat Rogues have with death.]] }} And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why we love Batman.
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** In ''[[Discworld/Small Gods|Small Gods]]'', [[The Messiah|Brutha]] cares for and carries a comatose [[Complete Monster|Vorbis]] through the desert after they are shipwrecked there. When Vorbis regains consciousness just before they reach civilization, he {{spoiler|[[The Farmer and the Viper|hits Brutha over the head with a rock, tries to murder his God]], [[Villain with Good Publicity|and then takes credit for saving Brutha]]}}. And again at the end of the novel, {{spoiler|when they are both dead, Brutha finds him in [[The Nothing After Death|the desert]], paralyzed with doubt. Even {{smallcaps|
** In ''[[Discworld/Night Watch|Night Watch]]'', Vimes has already set fire to the
*** It's complicated. Vimes is perfectly happy with traitors being hanged, it is the burning he can't stand. Vimes will
* In ''[[Scaramouche]]'', Mme. la Comtesse de Plougastel stops Andre-Louis from killing the [[Big Bad]], the Marquis de La Tour d'Azyr.
* In ''[[Dark Life]]'', Ty saves the outlaw Shade from being hanged by angry settlers—despite the fact that he still has broken ribs from his last encounter, AND the fact that only way to get the settlers to listen was by telling them all his most dangerous secret.
** In ''Rip Tide'', it's a little different.
* There's a version in the [[Tortall Universe|Beka Cooper]] book ''Bloodhound''; having finally caught, outfought, and subdued the [[Big Bad]] in a flooding sewer, our protagonists have to keep her from drowning and later have her healed of her injuries, despite the fact that open wounds that then got tainted with sewage are extremely difficult to treat. However, this is not a second chance: they want her put properly on trial for her crimes so she can be executed in good time.
* In ''[[Septimus Heap|Darke]]'', Septimus has to rescue his opponent Merrin Meredith after the Dragon Duel.
* At the end of volume 22 of the ''[[A Certain Magical 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 flotation 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}}.
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