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*** What's more, in retrospect for the entire series, that book's ending was almost a [[Shaggy Dog Story]]. The purposes the violence served were to keep information from the ''reader'', and to explore the puzzle of why somebody would rationally feel forced to commit the act. Given who was in the vicinity, and what they'd already have known, the act probably ''didn't'' solve anything in-universe.
* Subverted in ''[[Rainbow Six]]''. After three confrontations with terrorists that refuse to negotiate or surrender, resulting in a [[Kill'Em All]] for each group of baddies, the fourth one manages to end with some of them being talked into giving themselves up rather than having to be gunned down.
*[[Vorkosigan Saga]]: The Vor nobility were so apt toward feuding and vendetta that they had to be put down brutally. In the more mellow time of Emperor Gregor's reign he is still called "Dorca the Just" because it is generally excepted that he [[I Did What I Had to Do|did what he had to do.]] However the ferocity with which he did it is indicated by the nickname of his chief enforcer, Pierre La Saguinaire-or in English "Bloody Pete."
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