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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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== 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 7
* 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 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
▲** 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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* [[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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