Tired of Running: Difference between revisions

* In both movie and book of ''[[Howl's Moving Castle (novel)|Howl's Moving Castle]]'', Howl admits to Sophie that he feels this way. {{spoiler|In the movie, it works out well for him. In the book, it doesn't at first, as he goes completely in the opposite direction and becomes a bit too aggressive for his own good.}}

* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' manga and second anime, in one scene, [[Large Ham|Alex]] [[Boisterous Bruiser|Louis]] [[Gentle Giant|Armstrong]] says about his conviction to stays with [[Supporting Leader|Mustang]].

== [[Fan Fiction]] ==

* ''[[The Matrix]]'': Throughout the movie, Neo is repeatedly told that anyone who has fought an Agent has been killed, and that he should run away from them. He follows this trope (without actually saying anything) in the subway station when he decides to stop running from Smith, turning and fighting him instead. {{spoiler|He actually manages to defeat Smith, but defeating an Agent is meaningless, as Smith simply body-hops to another person, so Neo ends up running away anyway.}}

* ''[[Star Trek: First Contact]]'': After the Borg invade the ''Enterprise'', Picard refuses to engage the self-destruct and evacuate the ship.

** It turns out to be a subversion: Instead of a rousing fight and the destruction of the Borg, Lily openly compares Picard to [[Moby Dick|Captain Ahab]], convincing him that he's obsessed with gaining revenge on the Borg for assimilating him earlier, and he decides to evacuate the ''Enterprise'' and blow it up after all.

* 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]].

* [[A Knight's Tale]]. "I will not run! I am a knight!"

* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]: [[The Return of the King]]'' Aragorn gives this speech to Sauron through the Palantír, setting himself up as bait in the hope that Sauron's distraction will allow Frodo to complete his mission.

== [[Literature]] ==

* [[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 ''[[Discworld/Interesting Times|Interesting Times]]'':

* 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 druglord enforcers, who are well-armed but of questionable fighting quality. At one point during the pursuit Chavez, the POV soldier, wonders to himself why they don't stage an ambush or two on the pursuing soldiers, when the pursuers were still operating in small groups. A few well-placed ambushes could've broken the mercenaries' morale, whereas continuing to run could only bring in more reinforcements on the mercenaries' side. Later on, they do stage counterattacks, but by that point it's too late to heavily affect the mercs.

* 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.

* In the second season of ''[[Prison Break]]'', in what was either a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] or [[Jumping the Shark]] (maybe both):

'''Michael''': Good to hear it. Because today's the day we stop running. }}

* Although we haven't really seen her much while she was on the run, and she didn't seem to have one specific enemy she was fleeing, Vala Mal Doran of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' does this. Daniel later explains this choice to her when she has amnesia:

* Between the first two seasons of ''[[Fringe]]'', Peter boasts that they're done tracking bad guys after they killed and will be on offensive from now on. They proceed in the second season to basically follow the trails of deaths again, [[Irony|culminating]] with {{spoiler|Peter's kidnapping}}. Hey, they get him back, but that's still acting in defending with your self-designated king lost to you for a while... {{spoiler|and losing your queen in the process.}}

* In ''[[Lexx]]'', after they've ran away half a season from an unstoppable {{spoiler|end of the Universe}}, Stanley and the crew finally decide to stop running to an obvious coward's death and make a stand. Unfortunately, it was a tad too late by then. {{spoiler|For that Universe, at least.}}

== Videogames ==

* 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.

** 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 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:

* In ''[[Transformers Generation 1]],'' the Predacons versus [[Cosmic Horror|Unicron]]'s [[It Got Worse|big brother]]. Tornedron sucks the life out of anything on contact, and grows to ever larger and more terrible monster forms... unecessarily, since it doesn't need to fight to kill ''anything'' in its path. The assembled [[Enemy Mine|good guys and bad guys]] have just been trying to survive, when:

''[The Predacons [[Fusion Dance|combine into Predaking]].]''<br />

'''Predaking''': "Tornedron, face Predaking! To the end!" }}