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 == ''[[Discworld]]''==
 * Subverted in [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[The Fifth Elephant]]'', in which the conscientious Sam Vimes insists on going through proper police procedure, including asking the creature whether it is resisting arrest, before firing on an insane [[Our Werewolves Are Different|werewolf]]. The ethics of killing "monsters" that are also sentient creatures in the Discworld is dealt with in several of its books.
-* In ''[[witches Abroad]]'', Granny Weatherwax insists on having an anthropomorphic wolf given a proper burial after it is killed at its own request.
+* In ''[[Witches Abroad]]'', Granny Weatherwax insists on having an anthropomorphic wolf given a proper burial after it is killed at its own request.
 ** The [[Big Bad]] was bringing [[Fairy Tales]] to life. In the fairy tale, the [[Little Red Riding Hood|Big Bad Wolf]] behaves like a human, but it's okay to kill him like a wolf. By burying him as if he were human, Granny was fighting the story. So Pratchett was playing with how the story of [[Little Red Riding Hood]] is an example of this trope.
 * And of course there's Carrot, whose freeing of Dorfl started the golems' own peaceful self-liberation, and who once ''arrested'' a dragon.