This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Firefly]]'' hilariously [[Defied Trope|defies]] this, in the episode where Mal was being held by Niska. At the end, a badly injured Mal and [[The Dragon]] (well, Niska's ''current'' Dragon) are wrestling on and around the railing over [[No OSHA Compliance|a precipitous drop into a shaft filled with machinery]]. Zoe, Jayne and Wash show up, but Zoe prevents their intervention:

{{quote|'''Zoe''': This is something the captain's got to do for himself.

'''Zoe''': Oh. ''*They open fire*'' }}

* Subverted on the ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' episode "Sateda" when Ronon tells the rest of the gang that if they kill the Wraith "General", he will kill them. He gets his ass handed to him and only survives because Beckett blows away said Wraith with a drone weapon. Ronon is actually relieved.

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'''Tarvek''': Excuse me. So, Wulfenbach - just checking - is this going to be some kind of macho exercise where you insist on battling a potentially superior opponent alone - in some kind of misguided attempt to "prove" your intrinsic worth?

'''Tarvek''': ''Drat''. }}

* In ''[[Sonichu]]'' issue 9, the titular hero is facing down [[Big Bad]] Slaweel the Witch and handily defeats her, leaving her hanging off the platform they were fighting on. However, he ends up saving her and lets her get away because only Chris can defeat her. Which he promptly does in the next issue.