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{{quote|'''Lily:''' So when they blew up the Death Star, those were ''people'' on that thing?}}
* Critics of the failed 2011 pilot for ''[[Wonder Woman]]'' have called out the lead character for this. {{spoiler|After beating up (and by on-screen evidence killing in a couple of cases) several super-powered mooks, Wonder Woman proceeds to successfully deflect a standard-human guard's bullets easily before throwing a pipe through his neck, killing him. Moments later, she encounters the [[Big Bad]] and does little more than knock her out.}}
* In ''[[Power Rangers]]'', the Trope is usually played very straight, with each villain having an army of footsoldiers that seem easily disposable. Occassionally, however, the Trope is downplayed when a particularly clever mook appears; [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers| in the first series]] alone, Jason encounters a Putty Patroler who is smart enough to drive.
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** Seen earlier but not expanded on during the ''Nightfall'' Pogahn Passage mission. While disguised as a Kournan, it was possible to overhear the enemy talking about how Varesh was a visionary who planned to bring prosperity to all the nations. Most telling was one who talked about how his poor family had been promised fertile land in Istan for their role in the war.
* ''[[Sifu]]'': {{spoiler|Getting the true ending only requires you to spare the bosses. You can toss mooks off high places, poke them with sharp objects, and generally do all kinds of should-be-lethal injury without suffering any penalty.}}
* ''[[The Last of Us Part II]]'': In the final showdown {{spoiler|Ellie chooses to spare Abby, forgoing the revenge that drove most of the plot}}. Of course, this is after she has murdered countless numbers of her friends, allies, dogs and {{spoiler|a pregnant woman}}.
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* Utterly averted in [[ThunderCats (2011 series)|the 2011 ''Thundercats'' show]]. The lizards, while being ancient enemies of the thundercats, are revealed in the first episode already to have a very good and valid reason for attacking Thundera - the cats have occupied the most fertile lands in the desert and are denying other races the food and water needed for survival. Despite the lizards remaining the main antagonists throughout the first 13 episodes, many lizards have been depicted as individuals, despite most of them remaining nameless. The best example are the two lizard prisoners whome Lion-O saves from a lynching mob in the first episode—at the end of the second episode, the same lizard repays his kindness by helping him escape from prison.
** Panthro is very much an equal opportunity guy in his handling of the trope—his own arch-enemy gets the same treatment as any nameless mook. Whenever he encounters Grune, he doesn't even want to talk to the guy who used to be his friend before his betrayal—he just wants to kill him, same as any other enemy. (And, he is not afraid to make any sacrifices to get the job done).
* ''[[Star Trek: Lower Decks]]'' is an animated series that seems devoted to the
* Two episodes of ''[[G.I. Joe|G.I. Joe a Real American Hero]]'' features interesting aversions, in which what would normally be a Mook was presented as very human:
**In the Season 2 episode, "In the Presence of Mine Enemies”, Slip-Stream is forced into a very one-sided [[Enemy Mine]] with a female Cobra Strato-Viper, after both crashed in the wilderness and ended up in an abandoned COBRA base, (or rather, an ''evacuated'' base because one of Dr. Mindbender's failed experiments — a huge, slug-like monster — was lurking inside). The Viper was certain for most of the episode that her comrades would come to send aid, but all that eventually came were a bunch of Battle Android Troopers who didn't help her at all (which the beast tore through within seconds) and eventually, a message from Mindbender himself confirmed the worst — she wasn't considered important enough to rescue. Fortunately, the Joes were more willing to rescue Slip-Stream, and got both of them out. When Lifeline asked him if he had brought a prisoner, the Viper slowly tore the COBRA insignia off her uniform, and Slip-Stream responded, [[Heel Face Turn| "No, I think this one's a recruit.”]]
** The second example was the episode where the Joes tried to salvage the sunken FLAGG aircraft carrier, only to be interrupted in their efforts by Zartan and the Deadnoks; however, both factions find that the sunken vessel has been taken over (more or less) by [[Team Chef| a former Cobra mess sergeant named BA McCarr]], who went down with the vessel and managed to survive, but at the cost of his sanity. Zartan [[But for Me It Was Tuesday| can't even remember him]], but when he appeals to the former Cobra chef claiming that he's a member of the organization, BA is surprised that Cobra is still around, and ''very'' angry that they never tried to rescue him. Later in the episode, BA suffers a blow to the head that knocks some sense into it, and he helps get everyone to safety, but when Zartan offers to take him with them, he angrily tells him off and disavows Cobra. ("I don't want to go back to Cobra!" he cries. "They left me to drown!") The episode ends with the assumption that he also defects to the Joes' side.
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