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{{quote|''"No more running. I aim to misbehave."''|'''Malcolm Reynolds''', ''[[Serenity]]''}}
{{quote|''"No, I'm tired of running! [[I Am Not Shazam|Did Braveheart run away? Did Payback run away?]]"''|'''Homer Simpson'''
Sometimes it's easier to run. Especially if there are [[Stern Chase|people chasing you]] who want to capture or hurt or kill you. And especially if these people are stronger or greatly outnumber you and to face them is to [[Run or Die|give up your life or freedom]]. In these cases, it's a lot easier to run.
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But taking the easy way out is not always the best solution. Living a life on the run can be stressful and demeaning. There comes a time when a character grows tired of running. They decide to stand their ground and [[Last Stand|fight]] (or surrender in some circumstances) even though the odds of winning are slim. This can be portrayed as very brave, very stupid, or both. Still there is no denying that there is something admirable about a person choosing to face their fears. Notably, it works a lot of the time... but not always.
Sometimes it may not be the enemy that the person is fleeing, but destiny itself.
See also [[Do Not Go Gentle]], [[Rousing Speech]]. For the video game mechanic, see [[Sprint Meter]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In the first episode of ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'', Akito goes out to distract the Jovians while the Nadesico launches. He spends a lot of time just running before he says, "The hell with this!", turns around and starts beating on them with his [[Rocket Punch]].
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{{quote|'''Alex''': The military's methods were unconscionable, [[This Is Unforgivable!|of that I was certain]]. [[Heroic BSOD|But I deserted]]. I turned my back on on my soldiers. [[My Greatest Failure|I should have remained on the battlefield and fought this wrong!!]] Ever since I fled from the Ishvalan front, [[The Atoner|Not a day has gone by that I felt ashamed of straying from my values and giving up.]] '''And now that I am on the battlefield once again. How can I put my tail between my legs and flee!?'''}}
== [[Fan
* One [[Fictional Document]] in ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'' details what to do if you're
* Fauna in [[DC Nation]] makes "no more running" part of her superheroing motive. She may be too much of a [[Granola Girl]] to ever be entirely comfortable with vigilante work, but the alternative of being afraid of her shapeshifting and looking over her shoulder all the time for Luthor is even less appealing.
== [[Film]] ==
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* In "[[Centurion]]", before climax skirmish with the Picts. Dias even says "I don't know about you, but I'm tired of running" just before [[Lock and Load Montage]].
* Right before the final battle sequence of the ''[[Firefly]]'' movie ''[[Serenity]]'', Malcolm Reynolds makes a [[Rousing Speech]] to his crew, telling them that he's finished fleeing from the Alliance and is ready to stand and fight, so that there can be justice for everyone the Alliance has hurt [[Knight Templar|while trying to "make people better."]]
* In ''[[Jumanji]]'', Alan spends most of the film running from manhunter Van Pelt. Towards the end of the film, Alan is held at gunpoint by Van Pelt. When asked why he doesn't run when given the chance, Alan replies his father always told him to face his fears. <s>Ironically</s> Aptly, Alan's father and Van Pelt are played by the same actor.
** Likely more a case of layered meaning than irony given how Alan, as a child, found his father quite intimidating. He's not only standing up to Van Pelt here.
*** ''The hunter from the darkest wild makes you feel '''just like a child'''...'' The resemblance was quite intentional.
* In ''[[Apocalypto]]'', once Jaguar Paw reaches the forest while running from the bad guy Mayans, it's [[Took a Level
* Ash seems to get tired of running at the end of each ''[[Evil Dead]]'' film, but by the beginning of the next, he becomes a witless coward again.
* In '[[The 13th Warrior]]' Helfdane the Fat, one of the older warriors, has been wounded while fighting deep into a cave system with no apparant way out except for through the horde of neanderthal-like 'wendol' chasing them. He staggers at one point, then gets back up and says to the protagonist: "I've run about as far as i care to. *coughs up blood* Run along now, little brother. *spits blood, smiles* Today was a ''good'' day." Offscreen and read between the lines; he then holds the thin passageway for as long as he can before he dies.
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* [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]: In ''Cestus Deception'', one of the guerrillas sums it up as "Resta sick to death of backin up. Resta not backin up no more."
* In ''[[Arms and the Man]]'' by George Bernard Shaw, Bluntschli has been on his feet for three days straight without sleep, low on food and morale, has been running for his life the past day or more, and finally makes it to "shelter" in Raina's bedroom, where he holds her at gunpoint, hoping he can hide here from the soldiers who pursue him. Halfway through the scene he caves, points out that {{spoiler|his gun doesn't even have any ammo}}... and then they hear soldiers entering the house. Bluntschli tells Raina to hide her eyes, as it'll all be over in a minute - but of course she has a wild bout of heroism and finds a way to hide him.
* In [[John Ringo]]'s [[Posleen War Series]] novel ''Gust Front'', this is one of the reasons given for why The Six Hundred defended Washington, DC, after a horrific rout, compounded by Darhel interference and loads of [[General Failure
* In ''Cast of Corbies'' by [[Mercedes Lackey]] Free Bard Magpie says this about the Church. In her case this means staying for her part in a play not a fight.
* ''[[Animorphs]]'' book "The Message" had the Animorphs tire of running (swimming, actually) from Visser Three and opted to go down fighting instead of being picked off one by one. It was only due to a last-second save by a whale that they didn't all get killed.
* In one of the [[Dinotopia]] books, an entire crew of pirates becomes instant pacifists during a [[Heel Face Turn]] because of this. [[The Professor]] of the crew even gives a short speech to this effect.
* In ''[[Child of the Hive]]'', Sophie {{spoiler|builds mental shields to prevent the Hive getting into her brain. Eventually she decides that the only way to be free is to confront the Hive, turning their mental connection into her greatest weapon.}}
* [[Cal Leandros]] and his brother decide to stop running from his Auphe relatives and settle down in NYC at the beginning of the series. {{spoiler|As it turns out, running did them no good anyway, as the Auphe could track Cal anywhere, any time.}}
* Rather surprisingly (not least to himself), [[Lovable Coward|Rincewind]] does this in ''[[
{{quote|Rincewind had always relied on running away. But sometimes, perhaps, you had to stand and fight if only because there was nowhere left to run.}}
* Discussed, to some extent, in [[Tom Clancy]]'s ''[[Clear and Present Danger]]'' (the book, not the film). The situation: the American special forces squad are being pursued by a 200-man army of
== [[Live
* There was a skit from ''[[The State]]'' where they played with this. A man escapes from prison (through a wide open gate) and then returns years later, but finds that they gave up looking for him.
* In ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'', John advocates this strategy when dealing with [[Implacable Man|Cromartie]], saying he's tired of constantly running from him and wants to turn the tables on the Terminator.
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* The song "Easier to Run" by Linkin Park talks about how it is a lot easier to run from your problems instead of choosing to face them head on.
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* In ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', Shepard visits the Migrant Fleet, the traveling home of the quarians. The quarians are a people who lost a [[Robot War]] to their own creations, and have spent the last three hundred years wandering, nomadic. Admiral Shala'Raan [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5LWctIJjmg reveals] that there's a growing movement among the fleet to return to the homeworld and fight - even though as things stand that would be suicide.
{{quote|"We grow tired of wandering the stars, Shepard. We want our world back. We have paid enough for our mistake."}}
** Depending on the order you played in, this may come across as unnecessary after Legion explains that the Geth would be happy to let the Quarians return... if they'd stop attacking them.
* In [[Final Fantasy Dissidia]], the Onion Knight finally decides to stop running away from his fights...and then kicks the Cloud of Darkness' ass.
** In a rather surprising twist, one would be well to notice that Sephiroth flees the party several times in [[Final Fantasy VII]]. However, it should also be noted that had he faced them at the time, he almost [[Took a Level
** The one time you DO finally fight him (ignoring Bizzaro and [[One-Winged Angel|Safer]] [[Trope Namer|Sephiroth]]), it's scripted so that you beat him on the first attack. With an [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|Omnislash]], at that.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Played for comedic effect in the ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]''-based webcomic ''[[Bob and George]]'' by David Anez. Yellow Demon chases Mega Man and Proto Man around for a few comics, until Mega Man decides to stand and fight. [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000715 And throw in some movie quotes while he's at it.]▼
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* Parodied in the ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' movie where Spongebob and Patrick are confronted by [[Badass]] Dennis. Spongebob tells Patrick to run. Patrick's reply: "No. I'm tired of running. If we run now we'll never stop—" His sentence is cut short when Dennis punches him in the face and sends him flying. His response after that: "RUN, Spongebob!"
** Another ''Spongebob'' had Mrs. Puff horrified at the consequences of her giving him an undeserved driver's license - she imagines him ruining the town and decides she'll have to change her identity and start fresh somewhere else...then she resolves "...no. Not ''again''!"
** In another episode, "Prehibernation Week", Spongebob promises his friend Sandy that he'd play with her everyday until she had to go into hibernation. Her ideas of "playing" turn out to be a series of painful activities such as a game of "Find the Hay in the Needlestack." He eventually decides to run away from her for the rest of the episode and go into hiding, but at the very end he confronts her rather than running from her and lets her know that her idea of "playing" together just ins't his cup of tea. But in the middle of his explanation she falls asleep and starts hibernating.
* In the [[Terminator]] parody episode of ''[[Drawn Together]]'', Wooldoor Sockbat makes a [[Dead Baby Comedy]] version of this trope:
{{quote|'''Wooldoor:''' Like Paul McCartney's ex-wife... we're not running anymore!}}
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{{quote|'''Headstrong''': "I detest fleeing. I would rather die fighting!"
'''Razorclaw:''' "He is right! Predacons, unite!"
''[The Predacons [[Fusion Dance|combine into Predaking]].]''
'''Predaking''': "Tornedron, face Predaking! To the end!" }}
** As for how it turned out, {{spoiler|they totally die. But they get better. Because Grimlock saves the day. No, really.}}
▲* Played for comedic effect in the ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]''-based webcomic ''[[Bob and George]]'' by David Anez. Yellow Demon chases Mega Man and Proto Man around for a few comics, until Mega Man decides to stand and fight. [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000715 And throw in some movie quotes while he's at it.]
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