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== Anime and Manga ==

* Lampshaded in the ''[[Mazinger Z]]'' manga. After some Iron Cross soldiers are fatally injured breaking into Kouji's house to try and kidnap him, he states he wants to try and save them so he won't be a murderer (and he was very hesitant about killing them even if he was defending himself. And after getting forced to kill one, [[Heroic BSOD|he was shaking, shell-shocked]]). A policeman who helped protect ~~them~~ points out that self defense isn't a crime, and that Kouji's using the "justification of a manga protagonist".

* Lampshaded in the ''[[Mazinger Z]]'' manga. After some Iron Cross soldiers are fatally injured breaking into Kouji's house to try and kidnap him, he states he wants to try and save them so he won't be a murderer, and he was very hesitant about killing them even if he was defending himself. And after getting forced to kill one, [[Heroic BSOD|he was shaking, shell-shocked]]). A policeman who helped protect Kouji and co. points out that self defense isn't a crime, and that [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall|Kouji's using the "justification of a manga protagonist"]]. This is also justified since... well, they aren't exactly ''alive''. To elaborate: they are {{spoiler|cyborgs made from corpses, reanimated with a mechanized brain, programmed to obey faithfully Hell and his [[Co-Dragons]].}} [[Empty Shell]] doesn't even begin to describe it.

** This is also justified since... well, they aren't exactly ''alive''.

*** To elaborate on it: they are {{spoiler|cyborgs made from corpses, reanimated with a mechanized brain, programmed to obey faithfully Hell and his [[Co-Dragons]].}} [[Empty Shell]] not even begins to describe it.

* Averted in ''[[Trigun]]'' by Vash the Stampede who refuses to take a human life, sometimes using his [[Improbable Aiming Skills]] to shoot other people's bullets out of the air. When he gets caught flat-footed by a couple of [[Mooks]] in one episode and accidentally shoots them seriously in self-defense, he's overcome with panic for their welfare, desperately trying to bandage them up first even though he was shot as well. On the [[Crapsack World]] he lives, even young teens consider this behavior immature.

* Similarly averted in ''[[Grenadier]]'' with Rushuna Tendou, who is pretty much Vash's [[Distaff Counterpart]]. She offers everyone she meets a smile and a hug and even if they try with all their might to kill her, no matter who, she sticks to her ultimate strategy of "taking away the enemy's will to fight", which involves not killing them. And I'll be damned if it doesn't work, [[Marshmallow Hell|it being what it is]].