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* Protagonists of [[Shonen]] [[Fighting Series]] tend to do this so many times in their respective anime that it becomes tired and clichéd after a while. Notorious perpetrators of this trope include Goku from ''[[Dragon Ball (Manga)|DragonBall Z]]'', Ichigo from ''[[Bleach (Manga)|Bleach]]'', Kenshiro from ''[[Fist of the North Star (Manga)|Fist of the North Star]]'', and ''[[Naruto (Manga)|Naruto]]''. It has become more and more common to invert this by having the protagonist bailed out at some point (usually during the first fight with a stronger foe) by one of the supporting characters. Listing the complete list of times this happens in this type of show would be a page-eating exercise in pure madness.
* Hilariously subverted in ''[[Dragon Ball (Manga)|Dragon Ball]]''. When Goku decides to storm the Red Ribbon Army's base and his friends hear about it, they all panic and quickly gather everybody to go help him out. Apparently not even Muten Roshi thinks Goku can beat them all by himself. After a pretty intense race to the Red Ribbon hideout, everybody mentally prepares to go into battle...only to find that it isn't necessary. Contrary to their wildest expectations, Goku had already ''[[One-Man Army|single-handedly destroyed the entire base]]''.
** [[Papa Wolf|Piccolo]] tends to do these to help out Gohan whenever he's in a tight spot, to the point it's a [[Running Gag]] in the [[Non
* The last thirty minutes or so of the ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'' movie is pretty much a long string of these moments crammed together. There's so many heroes showing up to foil the bad guys in various places that the narrative starts to fall apart at the end.
* The last 5 or so minutes of the [[OVA]] ''[[Gao Gai Gar]] FINAL'' is the ultimate [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment, after an episode leading up to it: {{spoiler|after all of the Yuusha Corps members pull out all the stops to defeat their 'rivals', the bad guys revive. In droves. No, really. Droves. But then it is revealed that the battles themselves were merely a diversion for GGG to figure out just how the Sol 11 were regenerating themselves - the 'Sun'. So Genesic [[Gao Gai Gar]] flies up and - in what has to be the most incredible attack sequence ever animated - combines with the 3 battleships waiting in orbit, themselves combined in hammer form. The show had its Goldion Hammer before, which crushed enemies with near-infinite mass - the Goldion 'Crusher' was designed to be used against Jupiter-sized enemies. So yeah, GGGG warps to the fake sun, and crushes it into light.}}
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** Chapter 330 {{spoiler|After getting thoroughly stomped by everyone who was ever in KE, Negi and Fate are both down and about to get finished off by Secundum, when in a glorious callback to chapter 51 Eva arrives and stops his attack}}
*** {{spoiler|To be followed by the [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|entire freaking Ala Rubra]], aka the most powerful mages in the world, including [[Crazy Awesome|Jack Rakan]], [[Heroic Willpower|who seems to be making a habit of willing himself back to existence.]]}}
* ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' episode 14: {{spoiler|Sheryl is forced to pilot Skull-02 (Mikhail's Valkyrie) when he's knocked unconscious, but she's shot down less than a minute later and they're both ejected from the vehicle. Then Luca shields them both from the approaching Vajra, but his shots are ineffectual and his gun is knocked away. He's literally staring death in the face (the biggest Vajra is reflected on his visor) when Alto [[Teleporters and Transporters|folds in]] at the last second, destroying all the approaching Vajra and letting loose a [[Macross Missile Massacre|volley of micro missiles]] that demolishes several dozen more, all while performing a continuous [
** Pulled on a grand scale in episode 25, as {{spoiler|not only has Alto's VF-171EX been shot down, the Vajra are enjoying a [[Theme Music Power-Up]] thanks to [[Mind Control Eyes|Ranka]], and to top it off, a Vajra gunship is charging up to fire right into the Battle Frontier's bridge. Cue the SMS Macross Quarter skewering the Vajra gunship with a shot from its Heavy Quantum Reaction cannon, ''while still inside the fold portal''. Then, after explaining everything to the Frontier commanders, the Quarter and all its squadrons proceed to counterattack}}.
* Rom Stoll in ''[[Machine Robo]]: Revenge of the Chronos'' practically lives by this trope. His favorite method is when there is trouble, he would suddenly appear out of nowhere and yell ''MATTE!!!'' (WAIT!!!), causing the said villain to be shocked and ask who's there. With arms crossed, Rom then proceeds to give out a long-winded speech of virtue and justice, frowning upon the said villain, and then the villain would respond with "Wha!? Who are you to talk to me like that!?" Rom's answer? [[Catch Phrase|"You don't deserve to know my name!"]]. Cue ass-kicking.
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** In "''Noodles: Roamin' Off''", after [[Terrible Trio|Team Rocket]] has separated, James goes to catch a violent shiny Metagross, but gets in over his head ([[Did Not Do the Research|He tried to fight it with Psychic-type Mime Jr. and Grass-type Carnivine]], neither of which are very strong against Psychic/Steel Metagross). Just when it looks like he's at its non-existent mercy, Yanmega and Seviper show up with Jessie to save him (not that ''that'' should've worked either).
*** And it didn't; Meowth had to save them both.
** At the climax of ''[[Pokémon 3 (Anime)|Pokémon 3]]'', Ash and Pikachu, [[No
*** Then a few minutes later, when Ash is nearly knocked off the same cliff a second time, his hand is grabbed at the last moment by Brock, who was last seen being on the wrong end of a [[Curb Stomp Battle]]. Brock, Misty [[Villainous Rescue|and Team Rocket]] then pull him to safety.
*** This happens a few more times after that, though him showing up when Ash was in Blackthorn was a coincidence and Ash can always call Riza if he needs his firepower (Johto League and his two Battle Frontier fights).
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** ''[[Fresh Pretty Cure]]'' episodes 42 and 48, anyone?
* God Ginrai does this to Star Saber in the latter's first fight with Liokaiser.
* Volume 11 of ''[[Love Hina]]'' ends with {{spoiler|[[Put On a Bus|Keitaro]] FINALLY showing up - after nearly an entire volume of agonizing strife between [[Yandere|Kanako]] and the rest of the girls, which largely wouldn't have happened had he been there - [[Just in Time|just in time]] to [[Look What I Can Do Now!|accidentally crash his van]] into the [[Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb|booby-trapped street vendor's cart]] Kanako was about to use to [[Disproportionate Retribution|blow up Hinata Sou]], foiling her attempt.}}
* It happens in ''[[Monster (Anime)|Monster]]'', mostly with Tenma, who always has a fire to stop or a child to save.
* Inn ''[[Transformers Zone]]'', Metrotitan has Dai Atlas and Sonic Bomber on the ropes, but then Road Fire suddenly jets in to save them.
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