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[[File:Irreg4686 2x2.jpg|link=Irregular Webcomic!|thumb|400px|He definitely showed that balrog who's boss.]]
You've [[Seen It a Million Times]]. Alice has had enough of Bob's crap. She [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|tells him off]], turns on her heel, and marches out of his life for good, announcing [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|"I'm leaving"]] as she slams the door behind her. A moment later, Bob bellows, "'''And Stay Out!'''"
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This is a [[Stock Phrase]] and the archetypal example of an entire range of behaviors which boil down to attempting -- usually unsuccessfully -- to save face by recasting a negative consequence of one's own actions as a deliberate positive effect, in a kind of [[Xanatos Gambit]]-after-the-fact. Unfortunately, such attempts are often immediately obvious for what they are, and will come across to anyone else as just lame attempts to look good. This is most frequently used a [[Comedy Trope]], but can have its place in drama as well, where Bob's attempt to save face may involve something more (and/or more ''drastic'') than just yelling at a person who's no longer there.
Note that an instance of this trope does ''not'' have to be based around a literal
The [["Just Joking" Justification]] is a [[Sub-Trope|specific case of this trope]].
Compare [[Other Stock Phrases|"You Can't Fire Me, I Quit!"]] Contrast [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]], which depending on the context, may prompt an instance of this trope.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[The Number of the Beast]]'', Lazarus Long's obnoxiously high-handed and patronizing behavior offends the Burroughs-Carter family, who leave in a snit. Hilda Burroughs then proceeds to read him the riot act and is applauded by Lazarus' own family, who've apparently been waiting for someone to finally put him in his place. Lazarus then tries to brush it off by claiming it was a [[Secret Test of Character]] and he doesn't respect anyone who won't stand up for themselves.
== [[Music]] ==
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{{quote|''I ain't missing you at all since you've been gone away
''I ain't missing you, no matter what my friends say}}
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
* [[The Bible]]: If one accepts the [[Alternative Character Interpretation]] that Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden more or less voluntarily because once their eyes were opened they realized it was completely and utterly dull, Genesis 3:24 ("So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life") becomes an [[Older Than Dirt]] case of this trope.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Invoked by name in [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/4686.html this] ''[[Irregular Webcomic!]]'' instalment, which provides the page image.
== [[Web Original]] ==
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* Similarly invoked for comedic purposes in the episode "Pest of the West" of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', where as SpongeBob rides out of town, the local [[Dastardly Whiplash]] character shouts "And stay out!"
* ''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]]'': Jenny shouts this to the partygoers in "Party Machine".
== [[Real Life]] ==
* According to the [https://www.thedailybeast.com/lin-wood-and-michael-flynns-qanon-civil-war-keeps-getting-nuttier-and-sleazier December 1, 2021 "Fever Dreams" column/pocast] on ''[[The Daily Beast]]'' news website, former American President [[Donald Trump]] -- who was banned by his successor [[Joe Biden]] from receiving traditional post-Presidency intelligence briefings after the January 6, 2021 insurrection attempt -- has begun claiming that he ''wasn't'' banned, he instead ''actively refused'' to accept those briefings:
{{quote|“When we reached out to Donald Trump’s office early this week about the reporting we had, and also the details in this newly revised CIA book,” [Fever Dreams co-host Asawin Suebsaeng] relates, “he tried to convince us that his current lack of post-presidency briefings is all his own decision. It was all by his own design…
“It has incredibly huge ‘You didn’t dump me, I broke up with you first’ energy.”}}
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