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== Live Action Television ==
* An example from the final season of [[Lost]]. {{spoiler|Many of the remaining characters are on board a submarine, and soon find that the [[Big Bad]] has smuggled a bomb on board. It detonates (taking out a major character in a [[Heroic Sacrifice]]), and proceeds to cause the sub to sink. The survivors rush to flee the sinking vessel, with the exception of Sun (who is trapped behind debris) and Jin (who chooses to remain on-board to die with his wife).}}
* ''[[Babylon 5 (TV)|Babylon 5]]'': The first season episode ''Babylon Squared'' takes place aboard the space station Babylon Four, which had been lost (as in, physically misplaced, as in, a five mile long space station just disappeared in a instant for no known explanation) years previously. The station reappears, just long enough for the crew of Babylon Five to effect an evacuation. As the station is about to disappear again, the remaining crew members (and the personnel from Babylon Five who came to retrieve them) make a hasty retreat to cram onto the remaining shuttles.[[hottip:*: Incidentally, the [[Going Down With the Ship]] trope is discussed and dismissed: Commander Sinclair is most definitely ''not'' Babylon Four's commander, and the officer who ''was'' in charge of the station had every intention of leaving as soon [[The Men First|as the personnel under his command had been evacuated.]]
** The same episode includes a [[Flash Forward]] where Babylon Five, in flames, is being evacuated as the security personnel frantically attempt to hold off the unseen attackers to give the civilians time to escape. As a matter of fact, the visual of a lone shuttle escaping the station just before it explodes gets used for a long string of [[Prophecy Twist|Prophecy Twists]] {{spoiler|That visual does finally come true. But not the way anyone expects.}}
** In the episode ''A Voice In The Wilderness'', the station is at risk of being destroyed by the planet below [[Earthshattering Kaboom|blowing itself to pieces.]] Sinclair asks Garibaldi to make sure that [[The Lancer|Ivanova]] makes it onto an escape ship, even if Garibaldi has to [[Tap On the Head|knock her out and bodily toss her in]].
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