r/TopCharacterTropes • • Mar 27 '25

Weekly Discussion Post Probably the most controversial one , honest thoughts on "No Kill Rule"? What are the most egrigious examples of it in your opinion? What media makes it work in your opinion?

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u/Boris_Godunov Nov 18 '25

Killing even the "right" person would have a huge moral weight on most people, especially if it was the first person they killed. That tends to give people trauma, especially good people.

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u/Electronic_Issue_978 Aug 30 '26

People tend to forget that because they consume a lot of action hero content. And that genre has a habit of showing the main characters mowing down a bunch of nameless henchmen while still being portrayed as likable or heroic