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* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', this is [[Well -Intentioned Extremist|Melisandre's]] justification for wanting to sacrifice Edric Storm. She says that the sacrifice is necessary, and if they don't do it, Edric will die anyway along with everyone else when the [[Endofthe World As We Know It|Long Night]] comes.

* At the end of ''[[Blood Omen]]: [[Legacy of Kain]]'', Kain is given the choice between sacrificing his own life to restore balance to the world, or using the power he has accumulated to "rule the world in its ruination" - and furthermore, he had been deliberately manipulated towards this end, by someone who expected him to make the 'selfless' choice. He refuses, and so the sequel ''Soul Reaver'' kicks off in the [[Crapsack World]] that results. As the [[Mind Screw]] threads of the [[Timey -Wimey Ball]] are slowly unravelled, and the true identity of [[The Man Behind the Man]] is revealed, however, it turns out that Kain's decision was the ''better'' option for the world. If he DID sacrifice himself, it would only condemn the world to dance at the strings of an unknowable [[Eldritch Abomination]]. After Kain learns this, he chose to appear as a [[Complete Monster]], while carefully engineering the timestream, pushing it to the point where he could "make the coin land on the edge", creating a [[Take a Third Option|Third Option]] for the dilemma.