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{{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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== 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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