![]() In S2 of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Nena Trinity seeks to avenge her brothers by killing Ali and those who employ him.Two years later, his response is to lead a ZAFT invasion of the same country, the irony of the situation and the fact that he could be creating other children just like him, completely escapes his notice. Special mention goes to Shinn, who snaps because his family was killed during the Earth Alliance invasion of Orb.He does it again in episode 29, in which Kira kills Nicol Amarfi, and Athrun flies into a rage because Kira slashed Nicol in self-defense, as he forgets that he's the one chasing after the Archangel and the Strike, and not the other way around.One example includes Athrun of Gundam Seed getting all pissed off as his friend gets shot down, even though he and his friends were conducting a sneak attack against a civilian outpost of a neutral nation (granted it was supplying weapons to their enemies) which involved killing dozens if not hundreds of enemy personnel with large explosions, including non-combat ones. In the various Gundam series, the pilots can be heard screaming their friend's names when they get blasted.He tries to protect his son Yoshikage from having his "quiet life" disturbed (which happens to involve killing women, cutting off their hands, and keeping them.) Said son was a deranged psychopath who enjoyed raping and killing women. When Enya Geil from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure finds out that her son has been killed by the protagonists, she swears revenge and stops at nothing to try to kill them.The Cannibal Tribe may employ this to avoid self-depopulation while also refusing to abandon cannibalism. When the writers seem to wholeheartedly privilege the protagonists this way, it's a case of Protagonist-Centered Morality. Likely to be a "gray" in Black and Gray Morality, Gray and Gray Morality, or White and Gray Morality. See also Ape Shall Never Kill Ape, A Million Is a Statistic, Moral Dissonance, It's All About Me, and Would Be Rude to Say Genocide. Hell, we've probably all done something like this at some point, to varying degrees. Real Life has many examples of this trope. After all, how many good men would speak against murder as the ultimate evil - but if they found out a loved one committed it, they would make excuses for them and let them get away with it, if they could? And on the other side of things, how many do-gooders actually take into account the lives of minor evil minions that will be necessarily lost on the way to saving the world? Particularly blind sorts may even throw in a Holier Than Thou Hannibal Lecture. These are likely to spit at you that they do not subscribe to your idea of "evil". If you ever accuse them of being evil and demand that they justify their actions - if they even feel any need to justify something to an outsider - don't expect any remorse about their Dirty Business, or even admissions of villainy, whether regretful or gleeful. ![]() SPACE RUNAWAY IDEON TROPE FULLLack of Empathy is on full display everyone else is a nonperson, subhuman, fair game. They may be royalty, a Proud Warrior Race Guy, The Beautiful Elite, Scary Dogmatic Aliens, Fire-Forged Friends and True Companions Villainous Friendship or not, a close family or fervent patriots, but the attitude is all the same: They are justified in taking anything and delivering Disproportionate Retribution upon anyone who would take anything from them. SPACE RUNAWAY IDEON TROPE CODEThe implicit or explicit code of conduct within a social group whereby the standards of morality stop applying past the fence of their back yard. ![]()
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