Opt Out: Difference between revisions

* [[Howard the Duck]] refuses to have a pointless face-off with a Canadian villain, instead just walking away. This [[Heroic BSOD|doesn't end up going well for him]].

 

* ''[[Boyz N the Hood]]'' is particularly unusual in that {{spoiler|the [[Opt Out]] is the right choice. By refusing to fight the gangbangers who killed Ricky, Tre allows himself to escape from the [[Cycle of Revenge]] and start a new life. Doughboy fights them without him, and kills them all, but is murdered in turn two weeks later.}}

 

* {{spoiler|Bobby Pendragon himself}} pulls a dramatic one of these at the end of ''[[The Pendragon Adventure|The Pilgrims of Rayne]]'' by {{spoiler|blowing up his only door off the territory, cutting himself off but trapping the bad guy with him, with the full intention of staying there forever. It doesn't stick.}}

* Stu Redmond in ''[[The Stand]]'' is forced to Opt Out of the final confrontation when he's injured during the trek to Vegas.

* In the last book of ''[[Animorphs]]'', before the final battle, most of the Auxiliary Animorphs ''try'' to opt out. Jake makes it clear that this isn't an option.

** Also, Cassie opts out and comes back earlier in the series.

* In ''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (novel)|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'' and ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (novel)|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'', Harry ''tries'' to convince his friends to do this, but they refuse.

** Also in ''Deathly Hallows'', Zacharias Smith opts out of the Battle of Hogwarts.

* In the ''[[The Lord of the Rings|Lord of the Rings]]'' parody ''[[Bored of the Rings]]'', Arrowroot's ''entire army'' opts out after he utterly fails at a [[Line in the Sand]] speech in front of the gates of Fordor.

 

* Lorne (The Host) Opted Out at the end of ''[[Angel]]'': he said he'd do the one thing ({{spoiler|kill Lindsey}}) but wouldn't come back for the big fight at the end.

* [[J. Michael Straczynski]] deliberately had an extra opt-out in ''[[Babylon 5]]'', when Sheridan gave an "[[Line in the Sand|Anyone who is uncomfortable with what we're doing, leave now]]" speech.

 

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