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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]]''}}
 
[[Plot -Mandated Friendship Failure|The hero's friend walks out on them just before the big fight.]] The fight looks lost. But no! At the last moment their friend returns to save them. 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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* ''[[Gettysburg]]'': Col. Chamberlain, by the last three holdouts of the 2nd Maine. They later join the fight and save his brother Tom.
* ''[[King Kong]]'' (2005): Snooty actor Bruce Baxter, faced with the perils of Skull Island, gives up on rescuing Ann, only to return later [[Just in Time]] for a [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment.
* ''[[District 9]]'': The whole thing unfolds in seconds: Wikus runs from the captured Christopher in the middle of the climatic battle. As Christopher is about to die he [[Changed My Mind, Kid|changes his mind]]. [[Unstoppable Rage]] meets [[Mini -Mecha]]!
* The title character in 2002's [[Roger Dodger]], 'saving' his Nephew late in the film.
* In ''[[The Magnificent Seven (Film)|The Magnificent Seven]]'', the eponymous seven are betrayed by a group of villagers and driven out of the town they were hired to protect. One by one, they each decide to go back, except for Harry Luck, who informs them they're all crazy and rides away. When Chris is cornered without cover during the climactic gunfight, however, Harry comes galloping in to save him.
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** It seemed to be more of a miscommunication. They fully intended to help him eventually, but had other things to do first. Eiji just got impatient. (and to be fair more or less barged in on them in the first place.) They were however a bit out of practice.
* This editor called it a mile away on ''[[Roots]]'' in regards to Pettijohn refusing to stick his neck out again for Simon Haley and help save Ab Dekker.
* Avon of ''[[Blake's Seven (TV)|Blakes Seven]]'' did this constantly while he was with Blake on the Liberator. But funnily enough, despite professing complete contempt for [[The Messiah|Blake's ideals and cause]], and threatening to leave on many occasions, he never did; in fact, he saved Blake's life on several occasions.
* Combined with [[Conscience Makes You Go Back]] in the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Waters of Mars". The Doctor knows that the staff of [[Stealth Pun|Bowie]] Base One are historically supposed to die by blowing up their own base to destroy the "Flood Monsters". Adelaide even lets him return to the TARDIS, but on the way there he overhears them dying and decides, just this once, to [[Screw Destiny]].
** Yet the fixed point in time - the death of the captain and the destruction of the base - is still established.
** In fact--just for weirdness points here--it's when he goes back to save everyone that he is established as [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]]. Alien moralities and he bigger picture, you see.
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