Please Don't Leave Me: Difference between revisions

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'''Rhett:''' [[Precision F-Strike|Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn]].|''[[Gone with the Wind]]''}}

 

* In ''[[Junjo Romantica]]'', Nowaki's about to leave, thinking Hiroki doesn't want him there, when Hiroki stops him by putting his hand on the door from behind Nowaki and holding it shut.

* ''[[Spice and Wolf]]''. Holo's character is based around this. Although she tries to hide it, she's terrified of being alone.

'''Holo''': "Solitude is an affliction as grave as death." }}

** Lawrence experiences this midway through the anime/at end of the first book. {{spoiler|Afraid that Holo will leave anyway if he asks her not to (it's a long story), he instead demands that she stick around to pay for the clothes she ruined. It works.}}

* ''[[Gungrave]]'', episode 24: Grave is about to leave Mika {{spoiler|permanently because his necro-rise is wearing off with no hope of getting a transfusion}}, and since Mika's become rather attached to him, naturally she pleads with him to not leave her alone.

* ''[[Game X Rush]]'' has {{spoiler|Miyuki}} give the tearful, desperate version to {{spoiler|Yuuki-whom-she-thinks-is-Memori, shortly after the ''real'' Memori gives the angry "I'll kick your ass if you try to leave, so stay here with me!" version to Yuuki}}. Neither speech is romantic. We think.

* ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' manga chapter 80 has this. While in the car on the way to the airport to see {{spoiler|his mother after three years,}} Tamaki grabs Haruhi's hand and says, "Please stay with me until the end," after she tells him she'll wait in the car with Kyouya.

== Fan Fiction ==

* In the ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' fanfic "Fire Burns," Katherine is sick and on the verge of death, as well as having constant nightmares. When Severus is visiting, there is the following exchange:

'''Severus:''' I won't. And don't even think about leaving me. }}

* In the ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' fanfic "[[Elemental Chess Trilogy|Brilliancy]]," Riza is kidnapped and possibly dead. After she's recovered alive:

'''Riza:''' I'll do my best, sir. }}

* In ''[[Ace Combat: The Equestrian War]]'', Derpy, in [[Your Mileage May Vary|probably]] the biggest [[Tear Jerker]] in the whole story says this in chapter 15 to {{spoiler|Carrot Top}} while gagging on tears:

 

 

== [[Film]] ==

* Dory to Marlin in ''[[Finding Nemo]]''.

* ''[[Gone with the Wind]]''. See the title quote.

* ''[[Coraline (animation)|Coraline]]'' had a [[Nightmare Fuel|nightmarish]] version.

* In ''[[Fern Gully]]'', Crysta says this to {{spoiler|her mentor, Madgie, who is about to essentially die}}.

* In ''Far and Away'', Shannon says this to Joseph, after {{spoiler|his [[Dying Declaration of Love]]}}.

* [[The Lion King|"Remember..."]]

* An especially wrenching version in the film ''[[Open Water]]'', where the female lead tearfully screams at her husband, who's dying from the wounds sustained in a shark attack, to "hang on! Don't you leave me out all by myself!" {{spoiler|Sadly, it proves useless. He dies and the heartbroken woman finally gives up hope of rescue and kills herself}}

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* In ''[[Leverage]]'', Hardison has been captured, and ''buried alive.'' Parker is holding up pretty well, but as things heat up, she begins to lose it.

* In ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'': [[The Movie]], Justin loses his memory, resulting in Alex desperately begging him not to leave her, [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|after she starts crying and telling him that he is everything that she has ever wanted to be]].

* [[Doctor Who]]'s recurring villian coaxes one of these out of the Doctor:

'''Doctor''': You've got to, come on. It can't end like this. You and me, all the things we've done? Axxons, remember the Axxons? And the Daleks. [[You Are Not Alone|We're the only two left.]] [[Last of His Kind|I've no one else.]] [[Tear Jerker|REGENERATE!]] <br />

'''Master''': How about that? [[Take That|I win!]] [[Not So Stoic|...will it stop, Doctor? The Drumming? Will it stop?]] ''*Dies*'' }}

* ''[[Criminal Minds]]'': The UnSub of "The Uncanny Valley" says it to {{spoiler|a victim that's trying to escape}}. It manages to be both a [[Tear Jerker]] and the stuff of nightmares.

* ''[[Torchwood]]: Children of Earth''.

* {{spoiler|Claire}} more than once in season 6 of ''[[Lost]]''.

* An episode of ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' that added much fuel to the [[Les Yay]] fire had Xena screaming, ''"Don't you leave me!"'' while trying to resuscitate a not-breathing Gabrielle.

== Literature ==

* Brekke, in the second [[Pern]] novel, pleads with F'nor to not die after he is severely injured during a dangerous scouting mission to the Red Star. Her anguish is so amplified by dragon minds that pretty nearly the entire planet hears it and gives F'nor and his dragon the willpower to teleport back home.

* In the ''[[Darkest Powers]]'' series, Chloe has an unvoiced one when [[Jerkass Woobie|Derek]] admits that he often believes that he should leave [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|the group]], because he endangers them due to [[Our Werewolves Are Different|being a werewolf]]. (Not because he might hurt them, but because staying [[It's Not You, It's My Enemies|puts them in the line of fire]] of [[Fantastic Racism|the numerous people trying to kill]] ''him''.)

When I thought of Derek leaving, the ground seemed to slide under my feet. I needed something to hold on to, something solid and real when everything around me was changing so fast. Even if there were times when I thought it would be easier without Derek there, ready to tear a strip off me at every misstep, in some ways I relied on that--someone to keep me thinking, keep me striving to do better, keep me from burying my head and praying that it all worked out. }}

* All over the place in the ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' saga.

* Scout, in Yoda: [[Dark Rendezvous]], was grudgingly taken on as a Padawan by a Jedi who didn't want to like her, since he thought she'd wind up killed. {{spoiler|Her previous Master, just before she became his padawan, had been killed in the Clone Wars, and this one was mortally wounded in an ambush.}}

{{spoiler|His eyes closed, and he was gone.}} }}

* ''[[Lord of the Rings]] The Two Towers'', from Sam to Frodo: "[[Tear Jerker|Don't go! Don't go where I can't follow!]]"

== [[Music]] ==

* [[Pink]]'s "Don't Leave Me". Goes straight to [[Nightmare Fuel]] if you watch the music video or listen closely.

* "Don't Ever Leave Me" from the musical ''Sweet Adeline''.

* City and Colour's "Constant Knot" and "Weightless".

* ''[[Persona 3]] [[Updated Rerelease|Portable]]'': In a [[New Game+]] you can pick a love interest to spend your last moments with. Out of all the love interests only {{spoiler|[[May-December Romance|Ken Amada]]}} seems to realize that the protagonist performed a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] and asks her to stay with him. Granted {{spoiler|[[You Killed My Father|he lost his mom]] but some of the others have missing parents and [[Dead Little Sister|Dead Little Sisters]] too. Children Are Observant? Actually yes. [[Fridge Brilliance]] reminds us that [[Tarot Motifs|Justice]] sometimes represents clarity and that is Ken's arcana.}}

* In ''[[Mitsumete Knight]]'', {{spoiler|[[Rich Bitch|Linda]]}} says this sentence almost word for word in her Ending:

* In ''[[Ōkami|Okami]]'', after you free Kaguya from the prison, she says that she feels that she must go to the bamboo field in Sasa Sanctuary, as though being driven by an unseen force. When she gets there, she meets her adoptive grandfather, Mr. Bamboo. She says that it would have been better if they didn't meet before she left, and you help her unearth a rocket. Mr. Bamboo reveals that he always knew the rocket was there, but it quickly turns into a desperate plea for his precious granddaughter to not leave him alone. When she leaves, the rocket becomes a [[Twinkle in The Sky]], and a [[Single Tear]] escapes Mr. Bamboo's eyes... [[Tear Jerker|which is a hell of a lot less than what will come out of yours.]]

* Odd example in [[Pokémon Black and White]] in one of the ferris wheel cutscenes, the girl you're riding with goes over to your side and desperately wants you to hold her until it's over. Afraid of heights, or...