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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 ''[[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]]'', 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.}}