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{{quote|'''Minion:''' Um, [[Baleful Polymorph|I've been turned into a cow]]. Can I go home?
'''Yzma:''' You're excused. Anyone else?
'''Other Minions:''' No, we're good.
|''[[The Emperor's New Groove]]''}}
This is it. The end of the line. The final confrontation with the [[Big Bad]] awaits and almost every one of the Good Guys is rarin' to go.
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* In ''[[Harry Potter]]'' books [[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince|Six]] & [[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows|Seven]], Harry ''tries'' to convince his friends to do this, but they refuse.
* 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 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.
== Live Action TV ==
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* In the short lived reality show ''[[Cha$e]]'', this was an option to the players when brought up in the middle of the game with a small cash prize as a consolation.
* Rimmer from ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' does this all. The. Time.
** Even when no-one offers him the ''chance'' to opt out. He's got a longer yellow streak than a herd of
* In ''[[Kamen Rider Dragon Knight]]'', Lacey steps away from the Rider/[[The Men in Black]] alliance at the end. Having been drawn into the [[Masquerade]] just recently, she wasn't dealing well with the weirdness; and unlike her [[Conspiracy Theorist]] friends (an [[Intrepid Reporter]] and a [[Hollywood Hacking|Hollywood Hacker]]) she didn't have a skillset that could help.
* ''[[The Adventures of Pete and Pete]]'': When little Pete and his friends decide to answer the payphone that's been ringing for thirty years (and has most of the townspeople frightened), his friends start to drop out for various reasons- one says he's caught in a force field, and another says she's just too chicken.
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