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Note for the Yanks here that "mate" is used in the British slang meaning of "friend", not necessarily one's actual mate, though occasionally killing your spouse or lover is used as a particularly strong test.
This is a subtrope of [[If You're So Evil Eat This Kitten]]. It is often used as a stage in [[Bring Them Around]]
Compare [[Involuntary Battle to the Death]], [[Finish Him!]].
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* In ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', [[Fake Defector|fake defectors]] Sailor Uranus and Neptune are asked by Sailor Galaxia, the [[Big Bad]], to kill Sailor Pluto and Saturn by removing their Star Seeds. Which, in a subversion, they ''do''. After that, when they try to attack Galaxia herself, it doesn't work because she doesn't ''have'' a Star Seed — she removed it long ago. Uranus and Neptune themselves get offed instead.
* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]''. When one of Gauron's mooks has Kurz Weber pinned down, he suggests Kurz surrender and let himself be taken to the [[Big Bad]]. "If you shoot one of the crew in front of him, he'll let you join us." Kurz decides being a backstabbing mook wouldn't go with his cool image, and kills the mook instead.
* One arc in ''[[Darker than Black]]'' has the Syndicate ordering Huang to kill a Contractor he was once romantically involved with (and betrayed by) in order to test his loyalty while getting rid of a potential information
* While undercover, [[Kurau Phantom Memory|Kurau]] is told to shoot the hostage she is secretly trying to rescue. She uses her powers to make the gun misfire, successfully convincing all but one of the [[Mooks]] that they can trust her.
* Earlier in ''[[One Piece]]'', Nami when pretending to join Buggy and "betraying" her captain, was told by him to fire a cannon ball at Luffy. The funny thing was that at that point, Nami wasn't even part of Luffy's crew yet and was simply using Luffy as a means to an end. However, Nami noticeably hesitated because she hated pirates and didn't want to lower herself to their level by killing another human being.
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* In ''[[Warrior Cats|Warriors]]: The Darkest Hour'', {{spoiler|Stonefur, a half-Clan cat}} is told to kill {{spoiler|two half-Clan apprentices}} to prove his loyalty. {{spoiler|He refuses, sacrificing his life to save the apprentices.}}
** Later on, when {{spoiler|Ivypaw}} is acting as a spy for the Clans in the Dark Forest, the Dark Forest cats, suspicious of her loyalty, order her to "kill" {{spoiler|Flametail}}, a StarClan spirit that got lost and found his way to the Dark Forest. She attacks him, but is stopped by the cat's brother. Even though she didn't actually wipe out his spirit, this still secures the Dark Forest's trust in her.
* In [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld/Pyramids|Pyramids]]'', Teppic goes up for his Assassin final, the last step of which is shooting what may be a dummy and may be one of his friends, who failed the final. He decides to not do
* In the novel ''[[Sharpe's Tiger]]'', anti-hero protagonist Richard Sharpe and his ally William Lawford are sent by the British Army to infiltrate the rebel stronghold of [[wikipedia:Battle of Seringapatam|Serignapatham]] and rescue intelligence agent Colonel McCandless. To prove his loyalty to the Sultan of Tippo, Sharpe is given a loaded musket and told to kill McCandless. Naturally, the musket doesn't fire properly. Sharpe later tells Lawford that he knew the gunpowder used to prime the musket was bad, but its left ambiguous whether Sharpe knew about the bad powder before or after he fired the weapon.
** He knows; he tastes the powder before he fires. However, he makes it perfectly clear later, that if the powder had been good he would have shot McCandless anyways to keep his cover.
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** The opposite occured as well a season earlier. Rattrap was pretending to have betrayed the Maximals for the Predacons, and Megatron demanded he shoot Dinobot as proof of his loyalty. He didn't.
* Brother Blood of ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' gave Cyborg a special weapon which amplified his powers, to prove his loyalty to the H.I.V.E. he had to shoot the Titans. Psych! Cyborg turns around and shoots Brother Blood!
* In ''[[Exo Squad]]'' the titular crew is captured by the Neosapiens (rebellious artficial super-humans) after an ostensible betrayal by a Neosapien crew member Marsella. The Neosapien leader Phaeton decides to pull the
* In one episode of ''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]]'', Charlie tried to [[Face Heel Turn]] and was asked to kill Itchy. [[Fridge Logic|Which is no biggie, since, y'know, AllDogsGoToHeaven.]]
* Near the end of ''[[Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker|Return of the Joker]]'s'' infamous [[Wham! Episode|Wham Flashback]], the Joker managed to smash Batman up, even so far as to shank him in the leg and send him plummeting to the ground, where he picked ol' Bruce up and tossed a [["BANG!" Flag Gun]] to Robin so he could "deliver the punchline". An interesting twist is that Robin ''wasn't'' actually trying to infiltrate the Joker's organization; the Joker had kidnapped Robin, and spent weeks [[Cold-Blooded Torture|torturing]] him, and wanted to prove that he had broken Robin's mind.
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