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### And then in ''Return of the Jedi'', he did it again when he accepted command of the assault team.

* In ''[[The Good, the Bad and the Ugly]]'', the Man with No Name shows a lot of compassion in the last half hour to soldiers on both sides, often at great cost, after spending most of the movie an apathetic [[True Neutral]].

* In ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', two boats full of people are faced with a [[Sadistic Choice]]: explode the other boat, or face dying in an explosion themselves. In a boat populated by convicts, [[Scary Black Man|one of the convicts]] stands up and approaches the guard holding one of the detonators:

{{quote|"You don't wanna die, but you don't know how to take a life. Give it to me. These men will kill you and take it anyway. Give it to me. You can tell them I took it by force. Give it to me, and [[False Reassurance|I'll do what you should've done 10 minutes ago]]". The instant the guard obliges, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|the convict tosses the detonator out the window so that exploding the other boat is no longer an option.]]}}

* ''Twice'' at the end of ''[[Casablanca]]'': first, Rick tells Ilsa to stay with her husband for her own good and the good of the world, and then Louis refuses to turn Rick in for shooting [[Those Wacky Nazis|Major Strasser]] and agrees to join the resistance. "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

* ''[[The Searchers]]''. Ethan Allen says that, when he finds his niece, he's going to do her a favor and put a bullet in her brain. When he finally does catch up with her, he takes her up in his arms and says, "Let's go home."

== Literature ==

* In one of the Bean sequels to ''[[Ender's Game]]'', the current presidents of India and Pakistan (two nations who have been hostile to each other for a ''very'' long time) are encouraged by the resident [[Manipulative Bastard]] to form a non-aggression pact so that they can conquer other neighbors than each other. Then it turns out that they have been betrayed by said [[Manipulative Bastard]] (duh)... And, as a bit of [[Epistolary]], the prime minister of India publishes an open letter to the ruler of Pakistan, inviting Indian from both nations to unite against the barbarian invaders.