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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"You will not evade me (player name)!"''|'''Hundreds upon hundreds of high-level monsters and bosses in''' ''[[
{{quote|''"C'mere! Get over here!"''|'''Scorpion''', of ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' fame.}}
Sometimes your opponent is strong. Really strong. Sometimes, even if you're [[The Chosen One]]
So you run away. Maybe you already have a clever escape strategy, or some cute idea that revolves around hiding among [[Metal Gear|cardboard boxes]] in a warehouse and ambushing him when he comes to find you. Things are looking good ... until your opponent decides to stop you from getting away. [[Oh Crap]]!
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May lead almost immediately to [[Just Eat Him]] and/or a [[Womb Level]] in some cases. Despite what it sounds like, not related to [[Get Back Here Boss]].
{{examples}}
* [[Trope Namer]]: The original ''[[
▲== Video Games ==
▲* [[Trope Namer]]: The original ''[[Ever Quest]]'', an MMORPG, allows many high-level monsters and bosses to use the "summon" ability against players who are in combat with them. This ability instantly teleports a targeted player to the monster's location, regardless of how far away that player has fled and regardless of whether the monster can still see him or her. This ability can be used every ten seconds or so and helps ensure that the monster in question can always "catch" fleeing opponents or over-aggressive spellcasters who try to compensate for their fragile armor by keeping a lot of space between themselves and their opponent. Summoning equalizes things, pulling the target instantly into melee range for a good old fashioned beatdown, often resulting in quick and potentially humorous deaths. Best of all, when a player is summoned in this fashion, everyone in the immediate area will know it--because the monster doing the summoning will say, "You will not evade me (player name)!" And so the trope gets its name.
** Summoning was most likely put in the game as a way to prevent players from using ranged damage to kill high-end monsters without having to worry too much about their dangerous melee attacks. The mechanic has since become infamous among the game's players, both for its quirky "You will not evade me!" line and because of how irritating or deadly it can be to get summoned in the heat of a battle. Instantly warping to the location of a boss while trying to run away (or simply reposition one's character) is very disorienting and often results in being hit from behind.
** Many spoofs of ''EverQuest'' gameplay logs (such as the fan-famous "Veeshan's Peak raid log") make humorous use of the summon mechanic and the beatdowns that ensue as a result of its use.
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** Also, if you try to climb to a position that the boss can't reach, ''any'' boss can teleport you back.
*** Non-boss monsters can't do this, but if you get into a position that they can't reach they'll reset, and any attack launched against a monster while it's resetting will result not in a "Miss" or a "Dodge" or a "Parry", but in an "Evade." So while you will not evade a boss, a monster ''can'' evade you!
* Parodied in the April Fools Day 2009 "update notes" for ''[[Guild Wars]]''. The assassin skill Scorpion Wire was reportedly changed to summon the afflicted foe to location of the person who cast
* The "Teleport Foe" ability from ''[[City of Heroes]]'' does this as well. This is a power that is available to any [[Player Character]] as early as level 6. The Gravity Control set also has "Wormhole" as one of its higher-level powers, which is an AoE version of this that also stuns those pulled through it.
* Templars in [[Aion]] can do this to large groups of enemies by using energy beams.
* Iron Tager is the only character in ''[[
* ''[[Gaia Online|zOMG!]]'': "The world turns inside-out as you are drawn inward to the Giant Stone Coatl!" This particular boss is stationary, so it uses this power to bring you in range of its [[Breath Weapon|breath laser]]; if you play keep-away, only its minions can threaten you otherwise.
* ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'' has a mechanic very similar to [[
** Frequently abused during one of the Chains of Promathia missions. One boss is in the back of a dungeon, behind dozens of monsters with true-sight (can see through invisibility) and locked doors. Instead of fighting your way to the back, most players opt to have the alliance (of up to 18 players) wait at the entrance, while one lone character (typically a thief, who can open the doors without keys; or alternatively a thief to open the locked doors, and whomever is best at sneaking for the rest of it) runs to the back. As soon as that character is detected by the boss, ''the entire alliance'' is drawn in, from across the zone.
* In ''[[Devil May Cry]] 3'', the Kalina Ann has a move in Gunslinger style for pulling enemies to Dante. However, since Gunslinger is so situational, it doesn't see much use. In ''[[Devil May Cry]] 4'', Nero's Devil Bringer can Snatch small enemies to Nero. This time, it's an integral part of the system.
* Some bosses in ''[[Dragon Age]]'' could do this, most notably the Revenants.
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* "Teleport to" and "teleport foe" are fairly common abilities within ''[[Angband]]'' and other roguelikes. Usually found on phase spiders, blink dogs, and mid-to-high-level magic-using bosses.
** In ''Angband'', blink dogs cast both spells frequently, and and come in ''packs.''
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
* In ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]'', various characters have different ways of bringing opponents to them. Super Skrull and Spencer have extendable arms, Spider-Man shoots out a web to grab them, and Magneto uses his magnetic powers to briefly immobilize opponents and force them right in front of him. Also, Magneto's [[Limit Break|Level 3 Hyper, Gravity Squeeze,]] can tag the opponent anywhere on the screen.
* ''[[Pokémon]]'' both plays this straight and has a slight variation: the moves Block, Mean Look, Spider Web, and [[The Corruption|Shadow Hold]] will prevent foes from running away or switching out to another party member. There are also a few abilities that do this naturally, such as Arena Trap (doesn't work on Flying or Levitating mons, though), Magnet Pull (only works on Steel types) and Shadow Tag (works no matter what, [[Obvious Rule Patch|unless against another trapper]], and is the sole reason [[Lethal Joke Character|Wobbuffet]] used to be banned in competitive play). The variation is that if an enemy has a higher level/speed stat than your current Pokémon, you won't be able to run away. You can still switch, though.
* Not an exact example but similar, in the freeware game ''Power of the Mind'', the (telekinetic) final boss Arogath is driven into an [[Unstoppable Rage]] by your ultimate thwarting of his plan, and lashes out in a berserk frenzy. If you try to hide from him, he bellows "[[Punctuated!
* Characters with tethers (ranged grabs) in ''[[Super Smash Brothers]]'' could count. This includes each [[The Legend of Zelda|Link]] (with the [[Grappling Hook Pistol|hookshot]], or the [[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|clawshot]]), [[Metroid|Samus Aran]] (grapple beam, or plasma whip as Zero Suit), [[
* ''[[Arcana Heart]]'''s Medein (magnet arcana) powers can draw opponents closer to the wielder.
* ''[[Sly Cooper]] 2'' has The Contessa, who will reel you in with webs if you try to leave. And drop you in front of her, shortly followed by a rush attack. Strangely enough, she can do this even when she's falling off the arena herself.
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* The Embryon in [[Darius|G-Darius]] will catch you with a cagelike attack which severely reduces your mobility while it fires ''homing'' lasers at you. Fortunately, you can destroy it, but in the meantime, better practice your evasion-while-bound skills.
* [[Nethack]]: Once you've found him and woken him up, The Wizard of Yendor will reappear periodically wherever you are, and taunt you for thinking you could elude him (if he was alive and on a different dungeon level.) A slightly different taunt appears if he was killed instead (he revives after a while). Several high-level monsters, including the Wizard, will teleport to your location if you try to run away from the fight but are still on the same level.
* When fighting against Venom in the [[PS 1]]/N64/Dreamcast Spider-Man game, don't try escaping by crawling up a wall. He'll grab you, yell "GET OFF OF THAT WALL", then pull you off of it.
* The final boss of [[Return to Castle Wolfenstein]] is armed only with a [[BFS]]. Well... no good against the hero, who is basically a walking WWII firearms store at the moment. So the villain periodically slams his sword into the ground, causing a small earthquake that sends PC flying towards him (immediately followed by a terrifying slash) and makes stones rain from above. This qiute dangerous attack can be countered by a well-timed jump, which either negates its effect or, vice versa, makes you ''leap over the boss''.
== Anime & Manga ==▼
== Non-Video game examples ==
▲=== Anime & Manga ===
* The final battle sequence of ''[[Digimon]]: The Movie'' features an evil Cherubimon {{spoiler|(originally digivolved from Kokomon due to the effects of a virus)}} who conjures spheres of gravity that suck the heroes' much smaller digimon into his hands. [[Evil Clown|He then juggles them.]] See the first minute and a half of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9JYfhT2vFI this AMV clip] for an audiovisual account of Cherubimon's You Will Not Evade Me ownage.
* Akainu often says this to any pirate that he deems as "potentially dangerous" in ''[[One Piece]]'', and will pursue his targets til he kills them. His determination is so strong that he continued to go after Luffy even though he suffered 2 direct strong blows from Whitebeard. In the end he was pissed off at Shanks for letting Luffy get away.
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* Inverted with ''[[Batman]]''. Because no normal criminal can ever possibly defeat him in combat, they usually run, only to be caught a few seconds later. One notable example had Dick Grayson chasing Roadrunner, a sprinter. Dick fails to catch up with him, comments "To hell with this.", then uses the Batclaw to reel the villain to him.▼
=== Film ===
▲* Inverted with [[Batman]]. Because no normal criminal can ever possibly defeat him in combat, they usually run, only to be caught a few seconds later. One notable example had Dick Grayson chasing Roadrunner, a sprinter. Dick fails to catch up with him, comments "To hell with this.", then uses the Batclaw to reel the villain to him.
* ''[[Star Wars]]'' has a force power called Force Pull, which is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: You use The Force to telekinetically pull something (likely someone) towards you.▼
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* With its fourth edition, ''[[
▲* [[Star Wars]] has a force power called Force Pull, which is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: You use The Force to telekinetically pull something (likely someone) towards you.
▲* With its fourth edition, ''[[Dungeons and Dragons|Dungeons & Dragons]]'' formally introduced the concept of 'forced movement' and with it powers that allow the user to push, pull, slide, or even teleport unwilling targets across the battlefield. One fairly basic example is the first-level druid at-will power Thorn Whip, which on a hit inflicts damage and pulls the target two squares towards the user.
** Not that it was entirely unheard-of before. Third Edition monsters with Improved Grab pull grappled opponents into their own space, rather than moving into the opponent's space like in a normal grapple. Spells like Baleful Transposition or Telekinesis and powers like Baleful Teleport or Telekinetic Thrust can reposition targets against their will and to great detriment.
* Daemon Princes of Slaanesh in ''[[Warhammer
* Masters of Space in ''[[Mage: The Awakening]]'' can do this with the "Labyrinth" spell.
== Western Animation ==▼
▲=== Western Animation ===
* In ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'', the [[Rubber Man|elastic villain]] Madame Rouge attempts to pull this one on Kid Flash. It works at first, despite Kid Flash's [[Super Speed|obvious superpower]]. Emphasis on "at first".
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