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** In {{spoiler|"The End of Time"}} this trope is invoked yet again, when the Doctor {{spoiler|repeatedly pleads with the [[Death Is Cheap|newly-returned Master]] to let him help with the Master's mental illness. For once, the Master seems to be on the verge of accepting the Doctor's offer, but subsequent events drive him to follow the other doomed Time Lords back into the Time War. Who knows what attitude he'll have the next time he's alive again.}}
** In "Flesh and Stone", {{spoiler|the Weeping Angels beg -- or ''demand'', even -- that the Doctor to do this for them by throwing himself into a crack in time to spare their lives. Unfortunately for the Angels, they hadn't actually given him much of a reason to do so; he refuses, they fall in and [[Ret-Gone|cease to have ever existed]].}}
** Zigzagged in "The Magician's Apprentice", where it was revealed that, as a child, [[Big Bad|Devros]] himself was saved from death via a mine field on a war torn planet by a mysterious man with a sonic screwdriver, who was, in fact, the Twelfth Doctor. While Devros had yet to reach his [[Start of Darkness]] (and technically not a "villain" at the time) the Doctor was well-aware he was rescuing a child who would become a genocidal monster as an adult. He had no choice - this was a "fixed point in time", and letting Devros perish would have damaged the timeline irrevocably.
* Subverted in the ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' episode "The Prodigal" {{spoiler|Michael teeters on the brink of falling off the top of Atlantis to his awful demise. Teyla not only doesn't pull him up, she actually kicks his hands to hasten his death. This is what happens when you mess with [[Mama Bear]].}}
** {{spoiler|And even the 'in the dark' portion doesn't work, since Sheppard is just offscreen.}}
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** Of course, Angel being [[The Atoner|Angel]], and the whole message of the show is "everyone is capable of, and deserves, a chance at redemption, this is played straight sometimes, as Angel often tries to save villans. In Season Two, him not doing this {{spoiler|letting a load of Wolfram and Hart lawyers be killed by Darla and Drusilla}} is shown as an almost [[Moral Event Horizon]].
* It happens quite a few times in ''[[Wicked Science]]'' where Toby has to help Elizabeth when her experiments [[Gone Horribly Wrong|gave her]] [[Gone Horribly Right|unexpected results]].
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