Tenma as he's forced to pick up a gun to hunt and kill a monster he unknowingly saved. Monster: One of the major themes of the manga is the mental and physical tribulation of Dr.Legato wanted Vash to willingly decide to take a life. The situation in the previous point was orchestrated so that Vash had to be fully aware of his decision to kill after weighing his options. In all fairness though, Vash was very angry, and people have been known to do crazy things when royally pissed off. But that side of him was pretty much never seen again after.
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Oddly enough, Vash was almost willing to kill someone much earlier in the series for killing a few dozen people.Bear in mind that this was merely The Dragon he killed, and getting himself shot was the whole point. However, at one point, he is given a true no-win scenario, where the villain sets up a situation that will result in the death of his friends, unless Vash kills the villain (he has. He doesn't believe in a situation where you can't save everyone. However, as a master of Improbable Aiming Skills, he uses them solely for trick shots, and when in serious trouble, will at most shoot a person somewhere where they'll heal.
Then everyone realizes that this sword was also reverse-bladed, so Chou naturally has survived. Only when Chou threatens to kill Iori on the spot, Kenshin snaps out of it and defeats Chou with a single blow. However, Kenshin hesitates, since using a normal sword means that he will almost certainly kill Chou, which would break his oath of never killing a man ever again. When everything seems lost, Iori's father appears and gives Kenshin Shakku Arai's last sword. Kenshin manages to pull a fight even though his reversed-bladed sword is broken, but Chou eventually disarms him. Chou kidnapped the baby to blackmail the baby's parents into telling him the location of the last sword ever made by the legendary sword-smith Shakku Arai, Iori's grandfather.
Named for Batman's use of a gun during Grant Morrison's Final Crisis. This trope is about the first time the rule is broken (though of course with alternate continuities and such a character might have more than one "first" time breaking their vow), not subsequent breaks or near misses. Otherwise, every fifth Joker story would count, as would about fifty Doctor Who episodes. Also, please don't bother with examples of almost breaking their rule characters who have a prominent rule tend to frequently be pushed/tempted/pressured to break it, but it's only this trope if and when they actually do. When adding examples, please be sure to mention for the sake of clarity what the rule is that's being broken. Can be a Moment of Awesome, but it will always be Played for Drama. Pretty much always results in an Oh, Crap! moment for the villain. Is Serious Business, and/or Despair Event Horizon. Can, and often does, overlap with Let's Get Dangerous!, Big Damn Heroes, O.O.C. Contrast the Frequently-Broken Unbreakable Vow. Happens most frequently to the Retired Badass, Knight in Shining Armor, or Invincible Hero, often during a What You Are in the Dark moment. For it to truly count as Batman Grabs a Gun, it must be a moment where hero breaks their golden rule, on purpose, in the real world version of their continuity. It's also not this trope if they almost break their rule but then don't Batman and the Doctor particularly have a bad habit of almost breaking their rule, or breaking their rule in a hallucination/alternate timeline/dream sequence, or breaking it under some version of brainwashing or mind control… none of which is this trope. If they've done it before (at least in that continuity), it isn't this trope. It's a hero doing something they're fundamentally against doing or have sworn that they would never do. This trope isn't just a hero doing something they wouldn't normally do. There's only one way to put things right. The world, even the universe, is hanging in the balance. Maybe a villain bent on bringing about universal entropy arrives. Maybe his parents were brutally murdered in front of him with one, spurring him into heroism in the first place. Let's say, hypothetically, that one of those rules is that he'll never use a gun. He's a really good hero, and he has rules (heroes often do, after all).
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