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** The "good" vampires appear not to have thought of using their immeasurable powers to save people's lives; they're more content to repeat high school for the umpteenth time and play baseball, and seem to be happy with their brethren slaughtering innocent people as long as they leave Bella alone. And Bella herself doesn't lift a finger to help anyone even when she knows they're as good as vampire food.
* E. E. Smith's ''[[Lensman]]'' series exemplifies this. The actions of various protagonists are consistently applauded - including one man judge/jury/execution, destruction of entire planets/solar systems/civilizations, with or without noncombatants, various nasty means of underhanded (or overhanded) warfare, torture, mind rape, etc.
** Justified Trope: the entire plot of ''Lensman'' is one giant war story. Ethics in war is largely about target selection, not method. (Consider that almost every war crime on the books is ''not'' a war crime if done to enemy combatants, and that the 'crime' element only comes in when done to the wrong people.)
* This [[Trope]] is examined in ''[[Discworld/The Last Hero|The Last Hero]]'' by Vetinari who points out that most "heroic" acts would have anyone else hanged for wanton death and destruction, but since they are committed by a "hero" they are considered acceptable.
** See also Susan's revised retelling of "Jack and the Beanstalk" in ''Hogfather''.
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