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** Also, Cassie opts out and comes back earlier in the series. |
** Also, Cassie opts out and comes back earlier in the series. |
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* As someone who never wanted to be there in the first place, Rincewind emphatically does this in ''[[Discworld/Interesting Times|Interesting Times]]''. While the big battle begins, [[Dirty Coward|Rincewind]] is several miles away, and accelerating. |
* As someone who never wanted to be there in the first place, Rincewind emphatically does this in ''[[Discworld/Interesting Times|Interesting Times]]''. While the big battle begins, [[Dirty Coward|Rincewind]] is several miles away, and accelerating. |
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* 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. |
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** Also in ''Deathly Hallows'', Zacharias Smith opts out of the Battle of Hogwarts. |
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* In [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[IT]]'', Stan Uris dramatically (and lethally) opts out of the final confrontation with the titular monster by climbing into a bathtub and slitting his own wrists. |
* In [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[IT]]'', Stan Uris dramatically (and lethally) opts out of the final confrontation with the titular monster by climbing into a bathtub and slitting his own wrists. |
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* 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. |
* 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. |
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