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Inspired by recent discussions: one of my anti-kinks and pet peeves are situations in which characters, usually male, decide to leave other characters, usually female, "for their own good". Hence the inspiration for this poll, which will spoil you for season 3 of Buffy, season 1 of Angel, episode 2.4 of Merlin and the novel Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Should you wish to remain unspoiled, avert your eyes from the polls that follow. Otherwise, go for the ticky box!

Poll #2409 Unilateral break-up is a hero's duty, or: Noble Jerks

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 6

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If I decide to leave a woman for her own good, I'll say...

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You should have a real relationship instead of this freak show
2 (40.0%)

How can we be together if the cost is your life, or the lives of others?
3 (60.0%)

Listen. I can't be involved with you anymore. Voldemort uses people his enemies are close to.
1 (20.0%)

Tell her some things aren't meant to be.
0 (0.0%)

The way to avoid actually asking my beloved for her opinion on the matter is...

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To break up with her while we're hunting monsters
1 (20.0%)

To ask superpowers for a time reversal and mindwipe first
1 (20.0%)

To make it clear I have to go to save the world immediately afterwards
3 (60.0%)

To not talk to her at all and instead let a friend give her the message
1 (20.0%)

Good reasons for a break-up are...

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We can't have sex, and there's a huge age difference
3 (60.0%)

If I'm without my superpowers, she'll go soft as well
0 (0.0%)

I have to defeat my arch nemesis first, and she has to finish school anyway
3 (60.0%)

A guy with far greater social status than me might be interested. Of course, I have no idea whether she also is interested in him, since we never talked about him, but I really like the guy in question, so she'll come around as well!
0 (0.0%)

This pollster is biased against and unfair towards....

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Angel in "The Prom"; Buffy was still a teenager, and it really wasn't a healthy relationship for her
3 (50.0%)

Angel in "IWRY"; if he hadn't acted, it would have been a very short spin-off!
1 (16.7%)

Harry in HBP; HE was still a teenager, and Voldemort had used Ginny once already
1 (16.7%)

Lancelot in "Lancelot and Guinevere"; he only wanted a better life for Gwen than the one he could offer
1 (16.7%)