...in front of your enemy's child?

[stonethered]

I'd call him out on bringing his kid to a climactic showdown. I mean that's just bad form right there. I mean, he knows I wouldn't want to traumatize the poor kid, I'm the good guy after all.

Then I'd try to convince the kid to leave if the villian didn't. And worst case scenario, Apologize to the child for killing his/her dad.

Afterwards I'd see to it that arrangements where made to care for the child. Check up on him/her regularly, ultimately I expect the child would either A) understand why I felt it nessesairy to kill his/her father and accept it, which I would do my best to achieve; B) chose to take revenge on me, to which I would allow a climactic showdown of my own, and attempt one last time to explain things, failing that I would accept death as pennance for killing his/her father; C) the child would not only see my point of view but accept it as their own and become a sort of uneasy hero/sidekick in their own right.

The child would not die given the option; even if the only other option was my dying. Although I guarantee the kid's dad dies. But the way I see it, by stealing the child's father I have an obligation as the good guy to do everything in my power to fill that role. It's just not right to leave him an orphan and he's to young to be held accountable for his father's crimes/sins/deeds. Killing him would only make the murder I'm already going to commit even heavier a burden.

 

[Earthmonger]

Kill the enemy without pause or remorse. Leave the kid to sort it out. You can't hold kids responsible for the crimes of the parent, it's irrational. The kid was probably hooked on crack and about to kill their parent anyway.

 

[Chaos-Spider]

I'd call him out on bringing his kid to a climactic showdown. I mean that's just bad form right there. I mean, he knows I wouldn't want to traumatize the poor kid, I'm the good guy after all.

Then I'd try to convince the kid to leave if the villian didn't. And worst case scenario, Apologize to the child for killing his/her dad.

Afterwards I'd see to it that arrangements where made to care for the child. Check up on him/her regularly, ultimately I expect the child would either A) understand why I felt it nessesairy to kill his/her father and accept it, which I would do my best to achieve; B) chose to take revenge on me, to which I would allow a climactic showdown of my own, and attempt one last time to explain things, failing that I would accept death as pennance for killing his/her father; C) the child would not only see my point of view but accept it as their own and become a sort of uneasy hero/sidekick in their own right.

The child would not die given the option; even if the only other option was my dying. Although I guarantee the kid's dad dies.

Congratulations, other than murdering X+1 people to get to this point, you have proven yourself to be a truly good hero-type person and a very much bigger person than myself. I will now totally laugh at the irony if you turn out to be a very short person.

I Guess this means that you now win this scenario sir.

 

[SantoUno]

Scenario: You've been on a long journey to kill your enemy. If this was a book/movie the audience would be rooting for you to storm into the lair of your enemy and have an epic final showdown. and normally you would. You have your reasons to want this person dead, whatever reason it may be, they may be planning to destroy a city or they have murdered your whole village, or another "justifiable" reason to end this person's life.

However when you burst into where your enemy is, blood stained from all the minor threats in the way, with rock music blaring in the background, you notice your enemy sitting down... with their child. Under normal circumstances you would have engaged your enemy to a fight to the death (or just shoot them in the face) and settle matters, but how would this child affect your next actions? (if at all)

Edit: The child in this scenario is 12 years old.

So you just saw the Bourne Identity?

I'm going to make threads about movie scenes I find to be trippy.

 

[SantoUno]

Wasn't this part of the first Bourne movie?
I'd kill the kid, one life added to all the tohers I've taken won't matter much.

One day, that child will seek me out for revenge.

And I will await him.

For the cycle of revenge never ends.

That's why you kill them now. Get one up on the system. It's like why you don't send people to kill someone, do it yourself and why you don't explain your plans to the hero, you just kill the bastard.

Good someone in the first page noticed.

 

[Kazturkey]

Kill the father, kill the child, burn the lair down.

 

[Kazturkey]

Go read Machiavelli's "the Prince":
His 12 year-old-son being present would actually make things easier for you: if you are going to eliminate rivals via physical force, you must also eliminate anyone who could possibly make them into a martyr, and thus a rallying point for your opposition-- including their children. That is what they mean when someone says "eliminate them, trunk, branch, root, and seed."

It actually makes me chuckle, because the vast vast VAST majority of people could not be ruthless enough to be a tyrant, as much as they might like to pretend to be misanthropic jerks.

I use 'Terminate with extreme predjudice' for that.

 

[Tdc2182]

One day, that child will seek me out for revenge.

And I will await him.

For the cycle of revenge never ends.

Reminds me of that seen from Kill Bill.

 

[Tdc2182]

If it was all cool like, I would engage the man in pre=fight casual conversation. Next I would tell the man to walk outside to a nearby park. Then we duel.

 

[sylekage]

Screw the kid, if I just slayed dozens of guards and god knows how many more people, I'd just pop the guy, bid the kid adieu, and be on my way.

 

[Allstar309]

Kidnap the kid and hold him for ransom, sending fingers and other appendages to your enemy making it the cruelest revenge possible. Crueler then Death.

Then give the kid back and tell your enemy that the fingers were from his pet monkey. Then pop a cap in his ass.

Seems pointless i know but who cares its my revenge.

 

[Helmet]

I don't feel like reading through 8 pages to see if someone has beaten me to my answer, so I'm just going to assume that nobody has.

Ahem.

I would kill the enemy, wait 20 years, then encounter the child. Said child would then say, "Hello. My name is _____ _____. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

 

[Wintermoot]

a scenario like this also happend in Kill Bill I would chalange the father to a duel to the death and fight when the child isnt there

 

[SamFancyPants252]

The Bourne Identity had this scenario..and in such a scenario I would think about exactly HOW DEAD I wanted them. Weigh it up.

 

[havass]

Depending on how badly he ruined my life, I'll either kill the father straight away or shoot the son down in front of his father.

Then kill the father.

 

[Banana Pancake]

If he was really my enemy I would kill him without a second thought about the child. Also I mite kill the child to stop himbecoming an "avenger" -_-