Wants a Prize For Basic Decency: Difference between revisions

* Edward Cullen from ''Twilight'' ''embodies'' this mindset. "I'm not killing every random human in my path, I deserve a cookie!", even though he's never lifted a finger to stop anyone ''else'' from eating people, or tried to save anyone in danger of getting eaten. Come to think of it, pretty much ''everyone'' in Twilight fits this mentality.

 

* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Spike the erstwhile evil vampire tries to impress Buffy by helping people injured in a roof collapse, and especially wants credit for not drinking their blood.

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Boom Town", Blon Slitheen has a nice chat with a young pregnant woman about family instead of eating her. The Doctor doesn't fall for it.

'''Doctor:''' You let one of them go, but that's nothing new. Every now and then, a little victim's spared... because she smiled, cos he's got freckles, cos they begged. And that's how you live with yourself, that's how you slaughter millions, because once in a while, on a whim, if the wind's in the right direction, you happen to be kind. }}

** It's also worth mentioning that said villain's scheme would have ended up destroying the world, making her arguments even more hollow.

 

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