Just Following Orders: Difference between revisions

*** At least that would have been a redeemable [[Shout-Out]].

* ''[[X-Men: First Class]]'': When Erik is seconds away from {{spoiler|throwing dozens of missiles back at the humans who fired them}}, Charles makes the mistake of using this argument on a ''Holocaust survivor''. He's also unknowingly echoing some Nazi fugitives who tried to use the same excuse when Erik is killing them.

{{quote|'''SPC Devon Dixon''': [feeling bad about killing] I'm not doin' the wrong thing, I'm Just Following Orders, so I'd rather it not be me. So, I had to, you know, I [[It Gets Easier|learned to live with it]].}}

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* Given the [[Playing with a Trope|usual workout]] in ''[[Discworld]]'', not just with the predictable [[Mooks]], [[Punch Clock Villain]]s and [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]s, but also with a number of notable subversions, mainly courtesy of the increasingly morally ambiguous and complex police Captain Carrot, who frequently subverts Just Following Orders by (seemingly) [[Exact Words|playing]] [[Bothering by the Book|it]] [[Loophole Abuse|straight]].

* From ''[[Good Omens]]'', the {{spoiler|mostly}} [[Lawful Good]] angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley discuss [[Not So Different|their bad feelings]] about the coming [[The End of the World as We Know It|end of the world]]:

{{quote|'It's not that I disagree with you,' said the angel, as they plodded across the grass. 'It's just that I'm not allowed to disobey. You know that.'

 

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