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'''Batman''': (Considers it)
'''Joker''': BATMAN! (Batman pulls him up) }}
**::* Batman's expression during the moment is priceless.
*:* An interesting subversion happens during the three-part "World's Finest" episodes in ''[[Superman: The Animated Series|Superman the Animated Series]]''. The Joker has just accidentally set the huge flying wing he, Harley Quinn, Batman, and [[Lex Luthor]] are all on board to exploding; Superman turns up, Batman tells Superman to get Luthor, he's got Quinn... ''exeunt omnes'' through Superman's entrance hole... ''without making even the slightest effort to save [[The Joker]]'', who's on the far side of what's functionally a minefield. Granted, it did give us the immortal lines after the plane had gone up in a fireball the size of a small city:
{{quote|'''Harley Quinn''': '''PUDDIN'!'''
'''Batman''': At this point, he probably ''is''. }}
**::* That scene came across as practicality on Batman's part - he knew he only had time to save one person, and Harley was closer and less of a threat to the world at large, so she got chosen. If Harley hadn't been there, you know he would have gotten Joker out of the plane.
***::* For that matter, had it been physically possible to reach Joker in time you know Batman would have gotten them ''both'' out of the plane. As is, the Joker was not only too far away but impossible to reach without blowing yourself up even if the plane ''hadn't'' been a few seconds away from exploding and so, laughing boy pretty much doomed ''himself''.
* In the ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]]'' episode "Twilight", this is ''averted'' by ''[[Superman]]'' of all people. When [[Darkseid]] tells the League that Brainiac is trying to assimilate Apokolips, Superman refuses to help and the rest of the League has to convince him otherwise. After Darkseid's inevitable betrayal, Superman actually hunts him down to personally kill him. And he ''succeeds''—Darkseid remains dead all the way to the finale of ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' four seasons later.
** Also subverted in the earlier episode "The Enemy Below." Orm ends up dangling off a ledge over a high drop, screaming for help, after trying to kill both his brother Aquaman and his infant son as well as untold numbers of people by melting the polar ice caps. Aquaman reaches down... and grabs his nearby trident instead, while Orm falls to his apparent death.
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** Naturally, Aang, the hero, has saved Prince Zuko on a number of occasions, including in the unaired pilot. However, despite the page quote, Zuko never actually tried to kill them and actually [[I Want Them Alive|thought he had to catch Aang alive]].
** Even MOMO saves enemies which wanted to eat him five minutes earlier.
* Reversed in ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'': Slade, the villain, saves Robin, the hero, from falling off a roof, purely because Slade loves messing with Robin's head.
** It's revealed later that Slade had plans for Robin. Robin would have been useless dead.
** Happens again in the fourth season, when Slade {{spoiler|arrives at the end of the final battle in time to save the Titans from the ominous-looking sphere of electricity that Trigon had trapped them in.}}
* ''[[The Perils of Penelope Pitstop]]'': In the episode "North Pole Peril", Penelope rescues the Hooded Claw after a yeti throws him off a cliff. Naturally, she regrets it later.
* Audience-based subversion: There was once an ''[[Action Man]]'' advert where Dr. X was hanging off the edge of a building, about to fall to his death, and viewers voted whether Action Man should save him or not. They voted no, and Dr. X fell to his death.
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'''Bart''': Yeah - I guess this means you won't ever try to kill me again, huh?
'''Sideshow Bob''': ''[Sinister]'' Oh, I don't know about ''that''. ''[Bart cringes back fearfully]'' Joking, joking! }}
*:* Not surprisingly, he [[Status Quo Is God|does try to kill him again]]. That might have had something to do with, in the same episode where Bart saved him, it ended with him [[Status Quo Is God|going back to jail for absolutely NO reason.]]
*** That might have had something to do with, in the same episode where Bart saved him, it ended with him [[Status Quo Is God|going back to jail for absolutely NO reason.]]
* Taken [[Up to Eleven]] in the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "One Hundred Big Ones" where Fry's consumption of 100 cups of coffee causes him to rescue ''three'' of the series' villains - [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Mom]], [[Abhorrent Admirer|Zapp Brannigan]], ''and'' [[President Evil|Richard Nixon]] - in the same scene. ([[Villains Out Shopping|They weren't doing anything really evil at the time]], but still...)
* Occasionally [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] on ''[[Captain Planet and the Planeteers]]'':
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