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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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* Shinji from ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' pulls this off when he runs away for the second time. Situation: Rei and Asuka are both defeated, Zeruel breaks into the command center... just in time for Unit 01 to [[Dynamic Entry|break through the wall and punch the Angel in the face]], [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|meters in front of the entire command staff]].
** The ''Rebuild'' version of said battle upped the ante even higher: he came back because he witnessed Zeruel eating [[Love Interest|Rei]] and [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|took it personal]].
* Aizawa in ''[[
* In ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', Cell is on the verge of overwhelming Gohan and destroying the Earth....all his friends are helping him out but to no avail. Just when all hope appears to have been lost, Vegeta (who was previously too busy angsting about not being able to do anything) joins the fray. He fires a massive energy blast at Cell which weakens him, allowing Gohan to turn the tide and win the day.
** Which is different from how it went in the manga. In the manga, when Cell and Gohan entered their [[Beam-O-War]], everyone looked on helplessly instead of trying to attack Cell. Then, just as Cell was on the verge of overwhelming Gohan, Vegeta attacked Cell, catching him by surprise and distracting him for a moment, during which time Gohan upped his power and overwhelmed the distracted Cell.
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* ''[[A New Hope|Star Wars]]'': Luke and Han come to odds over the attack on the Death Star. Luke is the young idealist, ready to die for a cause. Han is the old realist who sees it as suicide. When Han saves Luke at the last minute he grows as a character, finding his loyalty to his [[Fire-Forged Friends|Fire Forged Friend]] is important enough to risk his life for.
** 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
* 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 ''[[
* [[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 Thrawn Trilogy|Dark Force Rising]]'', a New Republic force is scheduled to head out after the reported location of the Katana Fleet in the morning. Since there's little time and it's headed by [[Divided We Fall|Borsk Fey'lya]], the heroes send out their own force in the middle of the night; in the morning Fey'lya follows, planning to arrest them for treason. Those plans are cut short when the two New Republic forces are ambushed by an Imperial Star Destroyer. The first force flies a delaying action while Fey'lya's force flees, but Fey'lya is lured into an [[Engineered Public Confession]], turning his allies against him and making them go back. Our heroes still needed two more groups of [[Big Damn Heroes]] and two cases of [[Ramming Always Works]] before they won the battle, although [[You Are Too Late|they were too late]].
* {{spoiler|The Vampires}} in [[The Icemark Chronicles|''Blade of Fire''.]]
* In the third ''[[
* In ''[[The Stormlight Archive
== 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 ''[[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 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 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.▼
▲* 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)|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.
* Happens in the [[Super Sentai]] 30th anniversary special: ''[[Go Go Sentai Boukenger|Boukenger]] vs. Super Sentai''. Eiji tries to recruit Rangers from previous sentai series when the rest of his team gets captured by previous series' baddies. They've all gone on with their lives, even the ones who are still Rangering, and turn him down, not having the time. He tries to fight the [[Legion of Doom|villains from other seasons]] who've returned alone, and the retro-Rangers return to save his skin at the [[Just in Time|dramatically appropriate moment]].
** 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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** There was also the time {{spoiler|Sora lost the Keyblade, and they abandoned him to follow Riku, it's new (and [[Missed the Call|technically rightful]]) owner, because their orders specified the Keyblade, not who was holding it. When Riku attacks Sora, however, Goofy jumps ship to protect Sora and Donald quickly follows.}}
* At the end of ''[[Quest for Glory III]]'', the hero's friends arrive to help him fight the demons, all but the thief, Harami, who opts to stay behind. Then, as the hero is fighting a demonic version of himself and the battle looks lost, Harami shows up to stab the demon from behind, giving the hero time to close the gate and send the demons back to their world.
* {{spoiler|Zelos}} in all but one of the endings of ''[[
* The final boss battle in ''[[
* 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 ''[[
* 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 (
{{quote|'''Robin:''' ''[grins]'' I thought you didn't like to play the hero.
* In the 2003 ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 (Animation)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' cartoon, Raphael does this in the "City at War" storyline.▼
'''Red X:''' Doesn't mean I don't know how.}}
* Iago in ''[[Aladdin (Disney)|The Return of Jafar]]''.▼
▲* In the 2003 ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003
* Inverted in the second season finale of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''; {{spoiler|Azula says she needs Zuko's help to make her plan to take control of Ba Sing Se a success. Zuko, having spent the whole season coming to terms with the idea that he could never reclaim his honour (not to mention [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|distrusting Azula]]), initially refuses, only to ultimately be unable to bring himself to turn down an opportunity to achieve the thing he had been obsessing over for the past three years}}.▼
▲* Iago in ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|The Return of Jafar]]''.
▲* Inverted in the second season finale of ''[[
* ''[[A Troll in Central Park]]'' has one of these moments. It's probably the one good moment in the film.
* In ''[[Mickey, Donald, Goofy:
* 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 (
* 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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