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== Anime ==
* In one ''[[Ghost in
== Comics ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* Very common in old horror films, particularly the various versions of ''[[Frankenstein]]''. The protagonist would ask for a ride to the [[Mad Scientist]]'s castle, and whatever frightened villager would be foolhardy enough to oblige would stop at the long road up to the castle, then explain that "I can take you this far and no further."
* ''[[Hellboy (
{{quote| '''Goblin''': Here we are... and there they are. Seventy times seventy soldiers. Sometimes I wish we'd never created them. Bim-bam went the hammers! Whoosh went the furnaces! One of those fires took my legs off. This is as far as I go. I'm not very good with steps. But if you're here to stop him, the Prince, I wish you luck. The Golden Army must not awaken. Undo what we did.}}
* A variant in ''[[Wild Wild West (
{{quote| '''Coleman''': Here's a little bon voyage present for you guys. Gunpowder, nitroglycerine and .44 caliber primers.<br />
'''Gordon''': How the devil do you know about explosives?<br />
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{{quote| '''Aragorn''': ''(to Frodo)'' I would have gone with you to the end. Into the very fires of Mordor.<br />
'''Frodo:''' I know. }}
* In ''[[
* In [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]] [[The Movie]], the rangers went to another planet to seek the power to defeat Ivan Ooze. There, they met a warrior who agreed to guide them around but reached a spot where she said she'd grow older than Zordon if she ever went further.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Gandalf does this in ''[[The Hobbit]]''.
* In ''[[Harry Potter and The
* In ''Northern Lights'' (aka ''[[The Golden Compass]]''), Iorek cannot cross the ice bridge, and thus Lyra must go alone to face her father.
* In [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s "Red Dog" Kaa the python helps Mowgli in his plan to attack the invading dogs and transports him safely down a raging river, but leaves before the surviving dogs reach Mowgli's wolf pack because it's not his fight.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In an episode of ''[[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien]]'', Paradox takes the protagonists to the edge of a section of space he's no longer allowed in because of an intergalactic treaty, but leaves before he draws attention to himself.
* Spoofed on ''[[Futurama]]'', "The Honking", where the villager says the phrase at the front door of the castle.
* In [[
== [[Real Life]] ==
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