Bug-Out: Difference between revisions

{{trope|wppage=Bug-out}}

Maybe it's because of an oncoming natural disaster or an invading army -- or maybe your annoying brother-in-law just called to let you know he's dropping in for the weekend. But whatever it is, you have to get away from wherever you are, ''fast''. You pack a few bags, grab what non-perishable food you can, and bundle the kids into the car before heading off to safer territory. It's a '''Bug-Out''' -- a short-notice escape from some threat that you simply can't weather in place, because if you try, ''something'' bad will happen.

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== [[Fan Works]] ==

* Aiko Yamada's panic in chapter 8 of the ''[[Ranma ½]]''/''[[Sailor Moon]]'' [[Crossover Fic]] ''[[Relatively Absent]]'', where because of her daughter Nodoka's actions upon learning of Ranma's apparent death, she is about to set in motion all manner of contingency plans, including the immediate dispatch of vulnerable underage household members to safehouses in overseas locations.

* ''[[Last Man Standing (U.S. TV series)|Last Man Standing]]'', a 2011-2021 [[Sit Com]] starring [[Tim Allen]] as an executive at a sporting goods store chain who is also a survivalist/prepper. Bugging out is discussed in multiple episodes, with one 2015 episode including a scene where Allen's character chastises an employee for not having bug-out plans and a survival cache.

* ''[[American Blackout]]'', a 2013 [[TV Movie]] from the [[National Geographic Channel]], which used a [[Found Footage Films|Found Footage]] format to tell a ''[[The War of the Worlds (radio)|War of the Worlds]]''-style semi-[[Mockumentary]] story of a nationwide disaster. One family followed by the story is prepared with their bug-out bags and immediately take off for their bunker in the woods.

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Subnautica]]'' begins with a panicked dash by the player character into an [[Escape Pod]] when the starship he is on suffers a catastrophe and he must flee for his life.

== [[Real Life]] ==

* Pick a disaster, any disaster. ''Someone'' had to evacuate, and almost always on short notice. Standard emergency preparedness advice recommends keeping a [[w:Bug-out bag |"bug-out" bag or kit]] in your car or somewhere else handy, containing clothes, nonperishable food, water, necessary medicines and cash.

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