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*** Those knights and thieves were ''actively trying to kill the party''. Ragou and Cumore were defenseless and could have been caught and brought in to the (horribly flawed) justice system.
** ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'' also plays a bit with this trope: There are no [[Random Encounters]] with human enemies until Luke kills a human in a cutscene and suffers a [[Heroic BSOD]] for it: Barring cheating, it is virtually impossible for Luke to have killed a human in a battle up until that point.
* ''[[The World Ends With You]]'': Neku and Beat must kill at least a dozen [[Red Shirt|Red Shirts]]s in the third week. {{spoiler|ALL the Reapers are brainwashed by O-pins, except one lucky bastard who missed the memo requiring him to wear his.}} Yet Beat and Neku only spare the three that are identified NPCs, 777, Usuki, and Kariya. When Neku suggests that they erase the latter two he says something along the lines of, we can't kill them because they're [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]. Especially egregious because Uzuki and Kariya were the only Non-Game Master Reapers actively trying to erase them at any point in the game, while the rest just made you buy stuff or fight Noise. Even if it took them till Day 6 to realise that the Reapers were brainwashed on day seven he goes back to erasing hapless [[Red Shirt|Red Shirts]]s. Of course... The Red Shirts in question were all of the Harrier (player-erasing) variety rather than Support (fetch-quest-assigning) variety, and Kariya had been erratically nice to Neku. Of course, Uzuki was still pretty violent for pretty much the whole game.
** 777 doesn't even have that excuse, this was back when the reapers were attacking you for promotions. 777's way of saying "thank you" for running around Shibuya for him, apparently.
* In ''[[Arcanum]]'' one can streak through town all they like and get no real lasting penalties from it, but when you do it for a quest everyone reacts and you get a bad reputation out of it.
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