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** Naruto acts the same way on his fight with Pain.

* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]],'' Mai insists that Jounouchi duel Dinosaur Ryuuzaki without any advice. Jounouchi is willing to do this in order to prove that he can win on his own, but Honda opposes it.

** Negi's whole motivation for training like that is so that he ''can'' do everything himself. Although in this case it's not so much for personal validation as that he doesn't want his [[True Companions]] to be in danger because they had to bail him out.

* In the second season of the live action ''[[Gokusen]]'' drama, [[The Chick|Takeda]] takes on a college-level boxing champ on a rocky beach. When Yankumi shows up, she tells the rest of the [[True Companions]] not to intervene, even though it's more of a [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]] than a proper fight and [[Family-Unfriendly Violence|those rocks look they really hurt to land on]].

* Very poignantly done in an episode of ''[[Inuyasha]]'', ''Jinenji, Kind Yet Sad.''

{{quote|'''Shockwave''': The secondary heroes stand around and watch, calling on their burning spirit and heart of justice to empower the main hero from afar.

'''Optimus Prime''': Mmmm...no, we won't be doing that. }}

* Played sort-of straight and simultaneously spoofed in ''[[Hot Fuzz]]''. The hero is in a gas station, struggling with the decision of whether or not to return to try and save the village. After some inspiration thanks to seeing ''Point Break'' and ''Bad Boys 2'' on DVD, he stops at the counter to purchase some badass sunglasses. The extremely wired-looking attendant asks "Is there anything else I can do for you, sir?" The response, of course, in a deep, gravelly, action-hero voice is, "No... This is something I have to do myself."

* In ''[[Labyrinth]]'', Sarah reaches the goblin castle but tells her companions that she has to face Jareth herself, because "[[Genre Savvy|that's the way it's done]]".

* ''[[Firefly]]'' hilariously [[Defied Trope|defies]] this, in the episode where Mal was being held by Niska. At the end, a badly injured Mal and [[The Dragon]] (well, Niska's ''current'' Dragon) are wrestling on and around the railing over [[No OSHA Compliance|a precipitous drop into a shaft filled with machinery]]. Zoe, Jayne and Wash show up, but Zoe prevents their intervention:

{{quote|'''Zoe''': This is something the captain's got to do for himself.

'''Zoe''': Oh. ''*They open fire*'' }}

* Subverted on the ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' episode "Sateda" when Ronon tells the rest of the gang that if they kill the Wraith "General", he will kill them. He gets his ass handed to him and only survives because Beckett blows away said Wraith with a drone weapon. Ronon is actually relieved.

== Tabletop Games ==

 

** The ''Comet'' card will cause the character who draws it to gain a level... if he or she defeats the next monster(s) encountered single-handedly.

** The ''Skull'' card makes a dread wraith (or, in earlier editions, a "minor death") appear and attack the character, who must then defeat it alone (anyone who helps gets a dread wraith to fight as well)...and if the character loses, he or she is slain forever.

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'''Tarvek''': Excuse me. So, Wulfenbach - just checking - is this going to be some kind of macho exercise where you insist on battling a potentially superior opponent alone - in some kind of misguided attempt to "prove" your intrinsic worth?

'''Tarvek''': ''Drat''. }}

* In ''[[Sonichu]]'' issue 9, the titular hero is facing down [[Big Bad]] Slaweel the Witch and handily defeats her, leaving her hanging off the platform they were fighting on. However, he ends up saving her and lets her get away because only Chris can defeat her. Which he promptly does in the next issue.

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