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== Anime & Manga ==
* [[Black Butler]], especially season 2; Sebastian contractually owns Ciel's soul & literally kills anyone who tries to kill Ciel before he can, even other demons. In the anime he actually does try to murder Ciel.
* ''[[Gintama]]'' - Kamui [[In Love with Your Carnage|gets excited]] watching Gintoki fight Hosen. He declares Gintoki is his (prey) and that he won't allow anyone else to touch him. He even leaves Yoshiwara alone so that nobody will come after Gintoki, and to a lesser extent Kagura.
* Goemon and Lupin from ''[[Lupin III]]'' is an archetypal example of the [[Heel Face Turn]] variant of this trope in Anime. In addition, Detective Zenigata and Lupin are another example from the same series.
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* Rau Le Cruset in [[Gundam Seed]] believes he is the only one who can kill... [[Dark Messiah|everything]]. Especially Kira.
* Jin and Mugen, mutually, in ''[[Samurai Champloo]]''.
** Becomes the main theme throughout "[[Samurai Champloo]]", especially with the main characters: [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Jin and Mugen]] each live this trope in their [[Friendly Enemy|friendship]] and ardently believes that they are only ones to kill each other. This also is ''the only thing'' that keeps them with Fuu throughout the show as they promised her that they would not kill each other until they help her find "the samurai that smells of sunflowers". Additionally Fuu spends the entire show trying to find the samurai who smells of sunflowers {{spoiler|so that she can exact her revenge against him for abandoning her and her mother when Fuu was little. She is robbed of this pleasure when she finds him dying in the last episode.}}
** Also, the secondary and tertiary characters follow this trope with many of Jin's former dojo partners hunting him down {{spoiler|so they can exact their revenge against him for killing their master}}, all while believing that none should rob them of the opportunity to do so. Mugen too was betrayed by {{spoiler|his friend}} in the past and thus thought that he would be the only one to kill him too. Sheesh, this show must believe that revenge is a dish best served by yourself.
*** Created an interesting situation in which {{spoiler|one of Mugen's old partners shows up and subsequently betrays Mugen, seemingly killing him. Jin proceeds to kill him for killing the man he was supposed to defeat, but when Mugen shows up alive, he is extremely angry at Jin for killing the other man he thought only he was allowed to kill.}}
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* In ''[[Battle B-daman]]'', [[Anti-Hero]] Enjyu is obsessed with defeating [[The Hero]] Yamato Delgato and ends up secretly helping the main gang because doing otherwise would let [[Big Bad]] Marda-B defeat Yamato.
* Yami from ''[[To Love Ru]]'' acts this way towards Rito, to the point of saving his life repeatedly so that she can kill him. Of course, she's had dozens of opportunities to off him, but never actually ''does'', so it seems that the whole "only I can kill him" thing is just an act to justify saving him all the time.
** Or it is because, as Yami justifies it, so that she can stay on Earth since she likes it there.
* [[Large Ham|Graham]] [[Hot-Blooded|Aker]] of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' believes that he's the only one allowed to defeat Setsuna F. Seiei (or more to the point, Setsuna's Gundam). Setsuna has more important things to do.
** In the side stories, this trope is how [[Psycho for Hire|Fon Spaak]]'s relationship with Celestial Being begins. In 00P, he manages put together some clues and begins to suspect the existence of some sort of secret organization. He then organizes an ambush and has his ass promptly handed to him a Gundam, but Celestial Being's supercomputer orders the pilot to let Fon go, because he's too good to just kill off and won't leak the information anyway because... well, see the page title.
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* From ''[[Liar Game]]'', it appears that Yokoya is heading towards this path in regards to both Nao and Akiyama. At first, it seemed that he only wanted to crush Nao in an attempt to defeat Akiyama. But after the Pandemic Game, he's got his sights set on defeating Nao as well.
* Suzaku is this to Zero (and, indeed, whoever he feels is "wrong") in ''[[Code Geass]]'', though somewhat subverted in that he does not go out of his way to protect them from others who decide to take the opportunity. He will complain, but that's about it.
** This is pretty much his role in {{spoiler|Zero Requiem}}.
* The jury is still out, but this may have been {{spoiler|Trafalgar Law's}} motivation for saving Luffy in ''[[One Piece]]'' due to him ''frequently'' denying considering Luffy a friend.
** He says he considers Luffy a [[Worthy Opponent]] and thinks it would be "lame" for Luffy to die prematurely.
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* [[Harry Potter]] was, in fact, ''prophesied'' to be the only one to defeat Voldemort; it was a [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy]], since Voldemort's preemptive strike gave Harry both means and motive.
** Voldemort, however, ''was not'', so his adamant intention to kill the boy personally was [[Idiot Ball|completely ungrounded]] and in the end became his undoing.
** Subverted when Harry returns to Hogwarts in ''Deathly Hallows'' when he invokes something like this - Neville points out that while Harry was off chasing Horcruxes, he'd been fairly effectively leading the resistance in his absence and Luna points out that she'd worked out how to find the penultimate Horcrus before Harry (or even Hermione) had.
* In ''The [[Wheel of Time]]'', Black Sister Elza Penfell destroys one of her superiors (though she is unaware that he is her superior because he is in disguise) who is trying to kill Rand al'Thor, because she believes Rand must stay alive long enough to face (and be destroyed by) the [[Big Bad|Dark One]].
* In one of the ''[[BattleTech]]'' novels, Phelan Kell gives a speech that typifies this trope: "I saved him because if Vlad is going to die, it will be at my hands."
* Sandor Clegane in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' gets particularly irritated when anyone apart from him expresses an interest in killing [[Cain and Abel|his brother]], the pathologically nasty Gregor Clegane, who permanently disfigured Sandor in his youth. As Littlefinger explains to Ned, "Gregor was ''his'' to loathe, not yours to kill."
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* Inversion from the ''[[Suikoden]]'' series: Clive, Kelley, and Elza started as [[Two Guys and a Girl]] being raised by a group of assassins. The story ends pretty much like you'd expect: Elza, [[The Chick]], on the run from Clive after being framed for Kelley's murder. What makes this different: she secretly ''wants'' to be caught, making this a case of "You're The Only One Allowed to Defeat ''Me''". (Naming all the times the trope was played straight in the series could very well overtake the page.)
* Scorpion wants to kill Sub-Zero in ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'', to pay him back for killing him (as illustrated in ''Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero''). At the end of the first Mortal Kombat, he succeeds. Then after discovering that Sub-Zero had a younger brother, Scorpion then subverted this to some extent by vowing to be the younger Sub-Zero's guardian as an act of penance for killing his brother. Quan-Chi then reverts it back to normal for ''[[Mortal Kombat 4]]'' and ''[[Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe|MK vs. DC]]'' by convincing Scorpion that this Sub-Zero was responsible for the death of his clan and family. However, by the 5th game, Scorpion learns the truth and the two end up having another truce.
* In ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star
** ''Starfox Command'' explains this a little better. Because they flew under Andross's colors in other games, Wolf and his teammates have had a bounty placed on their heads by Corneria. And since Starfox used to do mercenary work for the Cornerian army, Wolf can't really be blamed for being a little bit defensive whenever Fox and his team shows up, even if they 'should' be working together against the Big Bad. This doesn't make it any less corny when the big ''[[Enemy Mine]]'' moment actually happens.
* Heather in ''[[Silent Hill 3]]'', when {{spoiler|Claudia eats the baby God fetus, and proceeds to give birth to it (seriously, how does that work?). Shortly afterwords, the God presumably killed Claudia, as she was pulled down the hole at over 300 mph. Heather then proceeds to state, "No! You can't die! I wanted to kill you!"}}
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* In ''[[Antihero for Hire]]'', Wizard to Dechs, Dechs to Hector.
* Seen [http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2003-08-01 here] in ''[[Dominic Deegan]]: Oracle For Hire'', but [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] over the [http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2003-08-02 next] [http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2003-08-04 three] [http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2003-08-05 strips], which make it clear that Jacob's motives for killing the Chosen were [[Batman Gambit|purely selfish.]]
* In ''[[Adventurers!]]'', when [[Big Bad]] Khrima (a [[Harmless Villain]]) saves the heroes from [[Knight of Cerebus|Eternion]] in a [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment, he does it because he doesn't want another villain upstaging him.
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'', Belkar helps rescuing Elan from bandits who've captured him, because "if anyone is going to get XP from him, it'll be me".
** Also [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] When [[The Rival|Crystal]] is more than willing to let Haley go so that she can take another level of Assassin from all the free XP she gets in order to be at exactly the same level as Haley whenever they meet.
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** Forget the Optimus/Megatron rivalry...Starscream, a [[The Dragon|Dragon]] so treacherous he's [[The Starscream|got his own trope]], is so obsessed with being the only one allowed to defeat, defy or otherwise annoy Megatron; he goes into an apparently righteous rage when Skyfire, Thrust, Sideways and ''the Constructicons'' even allude to an [[Enemy Civil War]]. Hell, he even saves Megatron from someone else's betrayal in "Atlantis, Arise!" It's a safe bet that he only went along with Blitzwing and Astrotrain's plan in "Triple Takeover" because they let him be the one to lead Megatron into the trap.
* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'': The Monarch and Baron Ãœnderbheit compete for this role against Thaddeus Venture, with The Monarch's unexplained obsession forming the basis of a comical deconstruction of this trope as a form of addiction.
** In general, the Guild of Calamitous Intent arranges these through the villains and protagonists so that there is ''supposed'' to be only one person you can defeat you. This is what gets the Monarch in trouble with the Guild originally, he wasn't the person who was allowed to defeat Venture.
* Proto Man and Mega Man in the US series of ''[[Mega Man (animation)|Mega Man]]''.
** Specifically, in the ''very first episode'' when Wily wants to [[Just Shoot Him|blast Mega Man,]] Proto Man smashes the necessary button before Wily can press it and tells Wily that Mega is "his". And in "Future Shock", Mega's attempt to use the stolen time machine (long story) is thwarted by a low-powered bomb planted in the cockpit--by Proto Man, no less; it was only so he and Mega could have a proper fight. And don't get me started on [[Foe Yay|"Bro Bots"...]]
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* Sinedd to D'Jok in ''[[Galactik Football]]'', apparently.
* In the ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (TV series)|Legion of Super Heroes]]'' cartoon, Superman clone Superman X was literally created to fight galactic despot Imperiex; when Brainiac 5 wiped him out with the wave of a hand, X seemed a lot more disturbed by the appropriation of his nemesis than by Brainy's [[Face Heel Turn]] or his subsequent "[[Not Quite Dead|murder]]" of Superman.
* ''[[Batman Beyond]]'': this was the reason given by the Stalker after he rescued Terry.
* In one episode of ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'', a candy salesman gets mad at the duo for eating all the product they were supposed to sell. When he begins attacking the two of them for it, the teacher, Coach Buzzcut, steps in and beats him up, proclaiming, "This is MY class, I do the ass-kicking around here!"
* Zim of ''[[Invader Zim]]'' is out to destroy the Earth, but won't stop at anything to thwart anyone else who tries to do it <s>more</s> competently.
* In the ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "And Then There Were Fewer", {{spoiler|Diane Simmons}} attempts to kill Lois. However, Stewie shoots {{spoiler|Diane}} so that ''he'' can be the one to kill Lois.
* Something similar happens in [[Rugrats in Paris]]: The Movie when Angelica is telling off [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] Coco LaBouche about what she was doing:
{{quote|'''Angelica''': "Listen, lady, no one messes with my dumb babies 'cept me!"}}
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