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== [[Film]] ==
* [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'', the movie of the 1960s series. "Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb."
** Specifically: Batman runs with into a restaurant with a [[Cartoon Bomb]] and urges everyone to flee for their lives. The crowd promptly panics and escapes [[Rule of Funny|(except for two ladies who ignore Batman and keep eating their lunch as if nothing had happened)]].
* ''[[
* ''[[D.E.B.S.]]'' When Lucy Diamond is spotted at the Endgame celebration, the crowd panics and flees.
* ''[[King Kong]]'' (1933). When Kong attacks the native village while searching for Fay Wray, the natives leave in a justifiable hurry.
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* ''[[Damnatus]]'': Complete with bell-ringing doom prophet.
* Invoked in ''[[Conspiracy Theory]]'' Mel Gibson's character is followed into a movie theater by bad guys and shouts that there's a bomb under his seat in order to escape in the resulting panic.
* When the reporter on the airplane manages to get the fact that terrorists have seized control of the air traffic control systems of the airport in ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
* In [[
* The ending of the Twelfth book of [[A Series of Unfortunate Events]] implies this. {{spoiler|Almost all the major characters throughout the entire series are trapped in a burning building, and other than the Baudelaires and Count Olaf, whether or not they survive is ultimately left up to the reader.}}
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[The Godfather (
* In the entire ''[[Hitman]]'' series, the civilian NPCs panic and flee at anything vaguely violent or seeing someone with a gun in a non-military context. They'll also run if they find evidence of your handiwork, i.e. corpses or in some cases bloodstains.
* The ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'' series have this, normally when you kill someone in full view of them. Oddly, people will cheer you on when you fight with the guards, but flee in terror when you kill one.
* ''[[Prototype (
* ''[[Video Game/The Getaway|The Getaway]]'': People would freak out and run during the first half of the game if you were seen with a gun in public, and [[Reality Ensues|just like they would in real life]], at least some of them call the cops. Less of an issue in the second half, as you're playing a plainclothes police officer and usually accompanied by some uniformed colleagues.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[
* In ''[[
{{quote| '''Ellen:''' Dammit, if the goo starts to eat people I hope whoever that was is the first to go...}}
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