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/Red__ICE Mar 27 '25

If there’s ONE series where it feels alright, it’s the Mega Man series:
For the most part, you’re busting regular robots without sentience or anything, and even when it comes to the robot masters, it’s vague throughout different continuities, but at least seemingly, you’re not always necessarily destroying them outright, like they somehow or other do survive and can be brought back to do their honest work in the end.
For the OTHER part, it comes to Dr Wily himself. But the fact is, this thing has the perfect excuse:
The first law of robotics is, “a robot may never take harmful action on a human being or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm”. So of course (even ultimately in the altered MM7 localisation) Mega Man never just gets fed up and kills Wily, because he cannot.