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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"You're all clear, kid! Now let's blow this thing and go home!"''
|'''Han Solo''', from ''[[Star Wars]]: [[A New Hope]]''}}
It starts with the hero about to go into a big fight, maybe against the [[Big Bad]] or at least one of his most powerful minions. He's gonna need all the help he can get, but one of his allies—[[Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure| likely the one he's had the least amount of trust in anyway through this whole ordeal]]—just wants to [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here| leave when he has the chance.]] The guy will call it self-preservation or common sense, but even if the hero chides him for being selfish, he can live with that. "Fine, be that way!" the hero shouts, and they part company, likely on a sour note.
Now, with the hero left alone, the fight looks lost. It's clearly his [[Darkest Hour]], and if he remembers what his friend said at all, he may be cursing him, or even worse, start wondering whether the guy had a point.
But no! At the last moment that same untrustworthy ally in question returns to save the protagonist. Why? Changed his mind, for whatever reason. A way of setting up [[Big Damn Heroes]].
The friend can let the hero down for many reasons. Coming back usually entails character growth.
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Also see: [[Chekhov's Gun]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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** This happens with Luke himself (to Yoda). He walks out on Yoda when his friends are in trouble. Then later, he comes back to complete his training, where Yoda tells him the fact that he came back ''means his training is done''.
* Harry in ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man 3]]''.
* Professor Falken in ''[[
* [[Tom Cruise]]'s character did this at the end of ''[[Top Gun]]'': he bugged out during a battle with enemy jets, then returned and shot down several of them, saving his wingman.
* A rare complete inversion is in ''The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,'' where {{spoiler|Tom Doniphon (John Wayne) acts the part of the cavalry in the gunfight with the titular character, but neither audience nor characters know it until much later}}.
* ''[[Gettysburg]]'': Col. Chamberlain, by the last three holdouts of the 2nd Maine. They later join the fight and save his brother Tom.
* ''[[King Kong]]'' (2005): Snooty actor Bruce Baxter, faced with the perils of Skull Island, gives up on rescuing Ann, only to return later [[Just in Time]] for a [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment.
* ''[[District 9]]'': The whole thing unfolds in seconds: Wikus runs from the captured Christopher in the middle of the climatic battle. As Christopher is about to die he
* The title character in 2002's [[Roger Dodger]], 'saving' his Nephew late in the film.
* In ''[[The Magnificent Seven]]'', the eponymous seven are betrayed by a group of villagers and driven out of the town they were hired to protect. One by one, they each decide to go back, except for Harry Luck, who informs them they're all crazy and rides away. When Chris is cornered without cover during the climactic gunfight, however, Harry comes galloping in to save him.
* [[Insistent Terminology|Captain]] Jack Sparrow abandons ship just before it gets attacked by the [[Kraken and Leviathan|Kraken]]. He then changes his mind and comes back in time to fire the shot that blows up said Kraken's tentacles.
* ''[[Fright Night]]''. After Jerry Dandridge charms and kidnaps Amy, Charlie goes to Peter Vincent for help. Vincent refuses to help him because he's too scared. Later on when Charlie goes to Dandridge's house to rescue Amy, Peter shows up to help him.
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== Literature ==
* ''[[Harry Potter and
** From the same book we get {{spoiler|Horace Slughorn, who initially flees with the Slytherins and other students, but returns [[Just in Time]] alongside ''all the villagers of Hogsmeade and everyone related to anyone left in the castle.''}} Whether that was his intention all along was never revealed.
** Also {{spoiler|Percy Weasley}}.
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* In ''[[The Stormlight Archive|The Way Of Kings]]'', {{spoiler|Sadeas's army abandons Dalinar's force to get slaughtered by the Parshendi, but then one of his bridge crews arrives just in time and helps them escape.}} From their perspective, it's this trope, until they learn that {{spoiler|Kaladin disobeyed orders to save them}}.
== Live
* In the fourth season of ''[[Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda]]'', Beka Valentine initially opts out of the final battle with [[Big Bad|the Magog worldship]], only to fly in during that fight and help out.▼
▲* In the fourth season of ''Andromeda'', Beka Valentine initially opts out of the final battle with [[Big Bad|the Magog worldship]], only to fly in during that fight and help out.
* In the ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' arc where they try to retake the station, the Klingons refuse to commit any ships...until the precise moment in the battle in "Sacrifice of Angels" when the Federation fleet is heading straight into a trap, whereupon a wing of Klingon battle cruisers come screaming into battle, punch open a hole in the Dominion/Cardassian lines and save the day.
* In the pilot of the ''[[The Magnificent Seven (TV series)|The Magnificent Seven]]'' series, Ezra Standish abandons his watch to check out a gold mine nearby; seeing that the bad guys have attacked in force while he was gone, he hurriedly rides away in the opposite direction. ...until he turns around, comes back, and attacks the enemy leader, buying enough time for his captured comrades to free themselves.
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** It seemed to be more of a miscommunication. They fully intended to help him eventually, but had other things to do first. Eiji just got impatient. (and to be fair more or less barged in on them in the first place.) They were however a bit out of practice.
* This editor called it a mile away on ''[[Roots]]'' in regards to Pettijohn refusing to stick his neck out again for Simon Haley and help save Ab Dekker.
* Avon of ''[[Blake's
* Combined with [[Conscience Makes You Go Back]] in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Waters of Mars". The Doctor knows that the staff of [[Stealth Pun|Bowie]] Base One are historically supposed to die by blowing up their own base to destroy the "Flood Monsters". Adelaide even lets him return to the TARDIS, but on the way there he overhears them dying and decides, just this once, to [[Screw Destiny]] - yet the fixed point in time - the death of the captain and the destruction of the base - is still established.
** In
▲** In fact--just for weirdness points here--it's when he goes back to save everyone that he is established as [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]]. Alien moralities and he bigger picture, you see.
== Video Games ==
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* {{spoiler|Zelos}} in all but one of the endings of ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' -- {{spoiler|though the 'walking out' was a faked [[Heel Face Turn]] that allowed him to get his hands on a [[MacGuffin]] the villain possessed}}. The "I changed my mind" is even said verbatim, {{spoiler|delivered to the enraged villain after he demands to know why Zelos has back-stabbed him.}}
* The final boss battle in ''[[Infamous (video game series)|In Famous]]'', {{spoiler|where Zeke, having previously betrayed Cole, shows up to try and redeem himself by rushing at Kessler with a pistol. He gets blasted backwards about fifty feet for his troubles without landing so much as a spitball on Kessler, but he did allow Cole the chance to recover and fight back, and it goes a long way toward repairing Cole and Zeke's friendship in the sequel.}}
* In ''[[Dragon Age 2]]'', at the end of second act, depending on your choices, {{spoiler|Isabela pulls this, and brings back the [[MacGuffin]] whose theft drove the Arishok to start the war in the first place.}} Problem solved, right? Wrong. In order to solve the problem peacefully, you must {{spoiler|turn her over to the Qunari, essentially sending her to her death.}} For those who aren't [[Ungrateful Bastard
* In ''[[Corpse Party]]'', Ayumi and Yoshiki {{spoiler|are returned to the classroom by one of the ghost children as thanks for returning her tongue}}. Ayumi wants to {{spoiler|go back and save their surviving friends}}. Yoshiki, if you choose to object (or {{spoiler|allow Yuka to be caught by Kizami}}) will do so and Ayumi will {{spoiler|return alone after an argument}}. Yoshiki, however, is [[Conscience Makes You Go Back|reminded of how much his friends mean to him]] and {{spoiler|begs the ghost girl to send him back}}. When {{spoiler|he ''is'' sent back, he sends Ayumi a text to let her know he's there}}. It still leads to a Wrong End, though.
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* [[Subverted]] in ''[[The
* In ''[[Endstone]]'', Jon had told them he couldn't, but [http://endstone.net/2010/04/19/issue-3-webpage-26/ returns in time to save Kyri and Herrik].
* ''[[Exiern]]'', the [http://www.exiern.com/?p=1540 Unicorn] changed
== Western Animation ==
* Red X in the ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' episode "X."
{{quote|'''Robin:''' ''[grins]'' I thought you didn't like to play the hero.
'''Red X:''' Doesn't mean I don't know how.}}
* In the 2003 ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' cartoon, Raphael does this in the "City at War" storyline.
* Iago in ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|The Return of Jafar]]''.
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* ''[[A Troll in Central Park]]'' has one of these moments. It's probably the one good moment in the film.
* In ''[[Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers]]'', [[Donald Duck]] decides [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]], but changes his mind after the [[Lemony Narrator]] convinces him.
* In the ''[[Duck Tales]]'' episode "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Duck" Huey, Duey, and Louie try to get help from famed detective and honorary Junior Woodchuck member Shedlock Jones (an obvious parody of [[Sherlock Holmes]]) but he turns them away, because he's on a more important case; but he shows up to help them later, saying that, after all, he ''is'' a Junior Woodchuck {{spoiler|Well, that and because he now thinks their problem relates to that other case, which it does.}}
* Monterey Jack does this during the [[Five Episode Pilot]] of ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]''.
* In one [[Looney Tunes]] short, Sylvester, after seeing a group of mice carry off Porky, flees the house in terror. However, his conscience then scolds him for running away, pointing out that Porky raised him since he was a kitten. It then reminds him that [[Captain Obvious|that he's larger than they are, and that he is, in fact, larger than they are.]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|He proceeds to run back inside and kick mouse-ass.]]
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Goodness Tropes]]
[[Category:Just in Time Tropes]]
[[Category:Index to The Rescue]]
[[Category:Example as a Thesis]]
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