Honor Before Reason/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character does incredibly unwise things and plays it off by stating that they're adhering to a code of honor. ""Alice had a clear shot at the Emperor, just one pull of the trigger and they'd be scraping his brains off the carpet, but she wouldn't shoot him."
 * Straight: Alice has the chance to ambush and kill Emperor Evulz for good, but decides against it because she finds sneak attacks dishonorable.
 * Exaggerated: Alice has a ridiculously specific code of honor, to the point where she's almost ineffective as a hero.
 * Justified: Alice doesn't like being dishonorable - she'd rather get killed.
 * Inverted: Alice is a Combat Pragmatist, willing to fight as dirty as possible to win.
 * Alice knows that the honorable thing is not always the smart thing, and acts in a way consistent with that
 * Subverted: Alice weighs the loss of honor from ambushing the Emperor versus the loss of life that Evulz has caused, and decides to ambush him.
 * Double Subverted: However, she gives up on the plan halfway through because it just feels wrong.
 * Parodied: Alice refuses to use American Customary Measurements, even when it would make her more easily understood, because she knows metric is simply better.
 * Deconstructed: Emperor Evulz repeatedly invokes Alice's code of honor, to the point where she's not able to fight back and he successfully kills her.
 * In a way, Honor Before Reason is a Deconstruction in itself.
 * Reconstructed: Alice's code of honor is the source of her power.
 * Zig Zagged: Alice tries her best to adhere to a code of honor, but it's a semi-flexible one.
 * Averted: Alice has no stated code of honor.
 * Enforced: "Emperor Evulz is popular, so we can't just have him be losing all the time! Wait, I've got it..."
 * Lampshaded: "I'm not going to attack an enemy from behind. I just won't! It's not fair!"
 * Invoked: Alice's predecessor was a Blood Knight of the highest caliber. To avoid being like him, she decides to create a code of honor.
 * Defied: "I know it's dishonorable to sneak up on him and kill him. But I don't care. This is for the good of the world."
 * Discussed: "Emperor Evulz! Turn around, I want you to see this one coming!"
 * Conversed:

"Why not?"

"Because she only saw the back of his head, and Alice never attacks a guy when he has his back turned to her.""

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