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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': Season Eight near the end of issue #15 ("Wolves At The Gate, Part IV"), where Dracula cripples the leader of the vampire army, who screams at Dracula to let him die with honor. Dracula tells the crippled vampire that he knows nothing of honor, and that he is not Dracula's to kill—after which he hands his sword to Xander, whose girlfriend the vampire leader had murdered. Xander delivers the coup de grace, then breaks down as Buffy comforts him and the battle continues.
== [[Film]] ==
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{{quote|'''Miraz''': What's the matter boy? Too cowardly to take a life?
'''Peter''': ''It's not mine to take''. }}
* Although not a death, something similar to this is subverted in
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Harry Potter]]'', Harry gives
** In ''Prisoner of Azkaban'', Black and Lupin give Harry the choice of whether the man who was responsible for giving away Harry's parents' location to their murderer should live or die.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Can be played straight or averted with ''[[Mass Effect]] 2''. Pretty much every loyalty mission that comes with a distinct "Kill this person" ending, can have the players Shepard kill the target, have Shepard convince their team-mate to kill the target, or not kill the target at all.
* Can be played straight in ''[[Dragon Age]]'', too. At the Landsmeet, {{spoiler|upon defeating Loghain in single combat, you have the option to either kill or spare him. If you choose to kill him, you can then finish the blow yourself, or hand it off to Alistair on the grounds that, for him, [[It's Personal]]}}.
** Similarily, at the end of the Leliana's Song DLC, Leliana refrain from killing [[Complete Monster|Harwen Raleigh]], leader of the Hard Line mercenaries. Instead, she can allow her comrade Silas, who was tortured for several months in Raleigh's dungeons, to finish him off.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[The
* In ''[[Escape from Terra]]'', a family is killed by invaders, leaving one survivor (a teenage girl), and the man who gave the order captured. When he taunts the man in charge about whether he has the balls to kill him and face the consequences from his superiors, the man explains that it's not up to him and gives his gun to the girl.
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