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* Subverted and [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in ''[[Disgaea 2]]'', when Beauty Queen Etna, arrives just in time to save the heroes from being overrun by a neverending flood of zombies. She's actually downright annoyed that she's wound up arriving just in the nick of time, "like one of those 'heroes of justice' losers", and considers just letting the zombies finish you off before taking on the [[Big Bad]] - fortunately for you, the [[Big Bad]] is carrying the [[Villain Ball]], and sics the [[Mooks]] on her instead of letting them finish you. Cue the [[Stuff Blowing Up|explosions]].

** Played straight and lampshaded later in the game with Axel arriving with his flute to subdue the Rifle Demons (see the second page quote)

** At one point in ''[[Disgaea 4 a Promise Unforgotten (Video Game)|Disgaea 4 a Promise Unforgotten]]'', {{spoiler|a machine used to instigate a [[Colony Drop]] gets thoroughly wrecked, but the moon is still on its way down, leaving the party - especially [[Werewolf|Fenrich]] - particularly distressed. Fenrich even [[Tempting Fate|goes on record]] asking [[Nothing Can Save Us Now|what could save them at this point in time]]. [[Humongous Mecha|Cue the Power of Love]].}}

* Happens several times in ''[[Skies of Arcadia (Video Game)|Skies of Arcadia]]''.

* During the second trip through the Forsaken Fortress in ''[[The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker]]'', Tetra pulls this twice - once to distract the Helmarock King and buy time to rescue the captives and again when Link is in Ganondorf's grasp...only for this attempt to fail and require ''another'' dramatic rescue.

** A pretty ironic example, considering that she's the damsel and he's the hero. Well, she's an [[Action Girl]] after all.

* Pretty much happens in every case of the ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' series at some point. The prosecution appears to have won and Phoenix is ready to give up but then...'''''OBJECTION!''''' Someone comes in with new evidence to save the day. The last case in the second game ends up boiling down to stalling until the big damn hero arrives.

** Also of note is the third case of the first and third games where [[Butt Monkey|Detective Gumshoe]] pulls this outside of court. Not to mention Gumshoe's failed attempt at this in the fourth case of second game, and {{spoiler|Franziska's}} pick up save off of this at the very last second.

** Samus pulls this off herself in ''Echoes'', if you look at things from the point of view of the Luminoth. The Ing were literally two rooms away from accomplishing their dominations. ''Two rooms.'' Then Samus turns up.

* ''[[The World Ends With You (Video Game)|The World Ends With You]]'' has Neku and Shiki, in the third day, {{spoiler|almost out of time. Then at the last second, Beat and Rhyme show up and finish off the "master of A-East." Since only one player needs to complete the mission to spare everyone from the threat of erasure that comes with running out of time, their action not only spared them, but also Neku, Shiki, and all the other players currently in the game.}}

** At the beginning of the third week, {{spoiler|Neku is the only player in the game after all the other players have been taken as his entry fee, meaning that he can't partner up with anybody and is completely defenseless. Just as he's about to get erased, Reaper Beat comes out of nowhere to form a pact with Neku.}}

* In ''[[Mega Man X (Video Game)|Mega Man X]] 2'', if X succeeds in retrieving all of Zero's parts from the X-Hunters, Zero will break into the Central Computer's core just before Sigma unleashes his Copy-Zero on X, then proceed to destroy the Copy himself and punch a hole in the floor for X to pursue Sigma, all accompanied by kick-ass heroic music.

* In ''Justice League Heroes'', Superman is completely focused on breaking into {{spoiler|Darkseid's}} fortress while Wonder Woman defends him from attacking {{spoiler|parademons}}. Just as she's about to be overwhelmed, the rest of the League shows up and cleans house.

* ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins''. City Elf origin has one where the hero is [[Rape As Backstory|too late]] to the rescue. However the victim still describes the Warden-to-be like this afterwards if you still took revenge.

* A rare inversion - "[[Prince of Persia|All hail the Prince of Persia! A greater hero the land has never known! You have saved the people of this city, and we have come to repay the favor!]]" It's not often the ''crowd'' comes to rescue the hero.

* In ''[[Tales of the Abyss (Video Game)|Tales of the Abyss]]'', Guy turns a hostage situation around by skydiving off the Tartarus, using the gun-wielding Legretta to break his fall, and rescuing the hostage in a matter of seconds. As if that were not impressive enough, Legretta immediately attempts to shoot Guy while his back is turned, only to have the latter casually [[Implausible Fencing Powers|block the bullet with his sword.]]

* In ''[[King's Quest VI Heir Today Gone Tomorrow]]'', {{spoiler|Caliphim and Allaria arrive to save Alexander from getting killed by Saladin on Cassima!Shamir's orders in the long path}}.

** {{spoiler|Also, Jollo arrives at the last moment to hand Shamir's lamp to Alexander just when Shamir is about to kill him. This only happens if you have befriended Jollo and handed him a replica of the blue lamp in the long path.}}

** In the fifth chapter, when {{spoiler|1=Van Winslow attacks LeChuck's ship with an army of merfolk and saves Guybrush from being murdered by a demonic Elaine.}}

* Depending on choices made, the player can be this twice in the beginning of ''Fallout 3''. Once with Butch's mom, who's being chewed apart by radroaches, and again for the Lone Wanderer's close friend Amata, who's being interrogated by her father and the sadistic Officer Mack. [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|And there's nothing quite so satisfying and blowing Mack's head off while his back is turned to you.]]