Place
To keep
Both terms in one sentence
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All this being said, please remember to keep YMMV tropes in their proper place and to keep any FlameWars off of the main page.
Source: Anime / Mobile Suit Gundam AGE - Makuta in Mask of Light comes off as a villain who commits atrocities only to keep the islanders in place and to keep the Great Spirit asleep because, as he pouts it, "sleep spares him pain" (and unbeknownst to the villagers, awakening him would destroy the island).
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If you killed Hitler in the 19th century hoping to keep Nazism and its various atrocities from going down, it would not work, because somebody else would simply take Hitler's place.
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