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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Exception: Jason Todd, [[Batman]]'s second, short-lived Robin, was implied (but not shown) to have pushed a rapist to his death. At any rate, he had the skills to save the man and chose not to.
** When [[Face Heel Turn|he returns as the Red Hood]], he puts Batman in a situation that fits this trope intentionally: he takes the Joker hostage and uses him as a human shield, leaving Batman with only a kill-shot on Todd himself, then demands that Batman either kill Joker right then and there or save the villain by killing his former sidekick. Batman, of course, [[Taking a Third Option|takes a third option]] and uses a ricochet to disarm Todd with a batarang,
* Subversion: [[Marshal Law]], seeing the thoroughly horrible [[Batman]] parody Private Eye dangling over a meat grinder, deliberately walks too slowly to save him and calls out from several meters away, "Here, take my hand." Then he pretends (very briefly) to be sorry when the villain gets ground. Of course Marshall Law is the very model (or, depending on your interpretation, [[The Parody]]) of a [[Nineties Anti-Hero]].
** Although note that he does this after realizing that his hero worship of Private Eye got his partner and only real friend killed and that Private Eye was much worse than any real criminal.
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