History Main / GondorCallsForAid

If the act of making the call is an adventure unto itself, that's BringHelpBack. Compare/contrast with the last resort version EnemyMine, the more metaphysical CombinedEnergyAttack, and the mandatory version BindingAncientTreaty and HeroSecretService. For when the party that is called could beat the living shit out of either side, see AwakeningTheSleepingGiant. When you are ''truly'' desperate, you SummonBiggerFish. For drama related to the physical act of calling for help, see EpicHail. May lead to ClimacticBattleResurrection. BigDamnHeroes and GunshipRescue are smaller versions of this trope. CrowdedCastShot is similar but played for laughs and (usually) not as urgent.

See CavalryRefusal when the allies refuse to help, leading to InTheEndYouAreOnYourOwn. Compare ChangedMyMindKid when they later decide to help anyway.

See CavalryRefusal when the allies refuse to help, leading to InTheEndYouAreOnYourOwn.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4457 when the drone attacks the Friend Zone, the Trike Girl blows on a conch shell to summon aid.]]

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'': The Reds and the Blues hear a distress signal coming from Church, at first most of them don't even think about going to help Church, but Sarge was able to convince everyone to go in and help Church and Wash and save them just in time from the Meta.

* Pro Wrestling loves this trope and tends to use it interchangeably with EveryoneJoinTheParty. The most famous recent example happened on ''Monday Night Raw'' in the summer of 2010 when Wrestling/JohnCena was being victimized by the fifth-column terrorist group Wrestling/TheNexus. For a terrible moment it looked as if Cena was going to tuck his tail between his legs and walk out of the arena in defeat....but then turned around and announced: "You've sealed your fate 'cause guess what: I got me some help." Right on cue, every ''Raw'' Superstar who had been attacked by the Nexus in the past few months came out to join Cena in a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Wrestling/{{Edge}}, Wrestling/JohnMorrison, [[Wrestling/RonKillings R-Truth]], [[TheGiant the Great Khali]], Wrestling/ChrisJericho, and....wait for it....Wrestling/BretHart! What really made this moment splendid is that all these guys often had only negative associations with each other in the past if they had associations at all, and two of them (Edge and Jericho) had been {{Heel}}s up to this point. The "seven samurai" (as Morrison referred to them) then rushed the ring to chase off the Nexus villains, and Cena shouted: "At ''[=SummerSlam=]'', the Nexus IS HISTORY!!!"

If the act of making the call is an adventure unto itself, that's BringHelpBack. Compare/contrast with the last resort version EnemyMine, the more metaphysical CombinedEnergyAttack, and the mandatory version BindingAncientTreaty and HeroSecretService. For when the party that is called could beat the living shit out of either side, see AwakeningTheSleepingGiant. When you are ''truly'' desperate, you SummonBiggerFish. For drama related to the physical act of calling for help, see EpicHail. May lead to ClimacticBattleResurrection. BigDamnHeroes and GunshipRescue are smaller versions of this trope. CrowdedCastShot is similar, but played for laughs and (usually) not as urgent.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'': during the climactic final battle of the movie, Simba is headed to Pride Rock, to face Scar alone. As soon as he takes his first good look at his rightful home, he is shocked to see the devastation that has taken place during his absence. Cue Nala walking out of the fog, telling him that this is what Scar has done to the once-majestic Pride Lands, soon thereafter offering her help. Simba initially refuses, rather vehemently, but then Timon and Pumbaa emerge, backing Nala's claims and addressing how grim the situation is, and offering their servitude. Simba then accepts, dashing off to go confront Scar and reclaim his land. As said actual battle progresses and more and more of the major characters are freed, Rafiki, Zazu, and the pack of lionesses charge in to help Simba.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'' has one hell of an example where, upon learning of a young boy's kidnapping, members of the Rescue Aid Society [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBPRvOtgy9M relay for help to their base in New York from ''Australia'']]. The signal is sent first from a ramshackle broadcasting station in the outback, then from the juryrigged wreck of a P-35 fighter in the Marshall Islands, then from there to a high-tech American Intelligence listening post in Hawaii, which the RAS has apparently ''hacked into'', and then (whilst we don't see the rest of the stations) it jumps from San Francisco to Denver to Chicago to D.C. before finally arriving in New York. ...oh, and did we forget to mention that the RAS is an organisation made up of ''mice''?

* In the ''Podcast/BlackJackJustice'' episode "The Late Mr. Justice", an old enemy of Jack's, Rick Morales, gets released on parole and immediately sets out to kill Jack. To do so he kidnaps Jack's girlfriend Dorothy and threatens to kill her if Jack doesn't give himself up. Jack agrees, but during the confrontation Jack reveals Morales gave Jack enough time to assemble as many allies as he could on short notice. What Morales intended as a massacre turns into a shootout between his gang and Jack, his partner Trixie, fellow detectives "Button-Down" Theo and Alf [=McKinney=], and police officers Lieutenant Sabien and Sergeant Nelson, during which Jack's long time friend and small time hood, Freddy "the Finger" Hawthorne locates Dorothy and gets her to safety.

* In 1992, Wrestling/GenichiroTenryu departed from Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling to become the spokesman of Megane Super, an eye glasses company. Megane Super executive Hachiro Tanaka had interest in running a pro wrestling promotion however and so Tenryu became one of the faces of the "Super World Of Sports", which in turn lead to Yoshiaki Yatsu, Ashura Hara, Shunji Takano, The Great Kabuki, Hiromichi Fuyuki, Tatsumi "Koki" Kitahara, Masao Orihara, Isao Takagi and even referee Hiroyuki Unno to also depart from All Japan to join Tenryu in the new promotion. Giant Baba felt betrayed and proclaimed he would never allow Tenryu to return to All Japan, pushing Wrestling/MitsuharuMisawa in his place and leading Tenryu to start his own promotion, WAR, when Megane Super pulled the plug on SWS. After Giant Baba died his wife demoted Misawa, who in turn also left All Japan and took 92% of the native roster with him to form Wrestling/ProWrestlingNOAH in 2000, whom All Japan's distributor, NTV, decided to broadcast instead of All Japan while using its shares in AJPW to keep it from shopping for another television network spot. The situation became so dire Mokoto Baba called on Tenryu, who closed down WAR and took the roster back to All Japan. WAR was the ''first'' promotion in the history of Japanese pro wrestling that shutdown for a such a practical reason, rather than monetary failure, political in fighting, mismanagement or the like.
* Pro Wrestling loves this trope, and tends to use it interchangeably with EveryoneJoinTheParty. The most famous recent example happened on ''Monday Night Raw'' in the summer of 2010, when Wrestling/JohnCena was being victimized by the fifth-column terrorist group Wrestling/TheNexus. For a terrible moment it looked as if Cena was going to tuck tail between legs and walk out of the arena in defeat....but then turned around and announced: "You've sealed your fate 'cause guess what: I got me some help." Right on cue, every ''Raw'' Superstar who had been attacked by the Nexus in the past few months came out to join Cena in a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Wrestling/{{Edge}}, Wrestling/JohnMorrison, [[Wrestling/RonKillings R-Truth]], [[TheGiant the Great Khali]], Wrestling/ChrisJericho, and....wait for it....Wrestling/BretHart! What really made this moment splendid is that all these guys often had only negative associations with each other in the past if they had associations at all, and two of them (Edge and Jericho) had been {{Heel}}s up to this point. The "seven samurai" (as Morrison referred to them) then rushed the ring to chase off the Nexus villains, and Cena shouted: "At ''[=SummerSlam=]'', the Nexus IS HISTORY!!!"

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' has one of these at the climax of the ''Resident Mad Scientist'' book. After the Milky Way is doomed by a superweapon so powerful it ''breaks causality,'' a time traveling Kevyn Andreyasn escapes to the past to try again. Upon his return, resident super-AI Petey convinces basically every sentient, starfaring race in the galaxy to aid in a battle against the dark matter entities at the galactic core who set the weapon off.

* Finally happens at the very end of ''Webcomic/ErrantStory'', when the elves figure out that they are utterly screwed and ask Tsuiraku for help. Of course, what really matters isn't that they get the Tsuirakuan battlemages, but rather, that they get the FiveManBand (Meji, Ellis, Jon, Sarine and Sara), whom they did not actually ask for.

* ''WebVideo/PositivelyDreadful'': When held at gun point by a masked villain, Sideburns calls on fellow Youtuber Julz Chan for help. [[spoiler:Which he does, at the end of the video.]]

%%* ''Literature/YnglingaSaga'', once in each run-through.

->'''Aragorn:''' The Beacons of Minas Tirith! The Beacons are lit! [[TropeNamer Gondor calls for aid]]!\\

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'' has one hell of an example where, upon learning of a young boy's kidnapping, members of the Rescue Aid Society [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBPRvOtgy9M relay for help to their base in New York from ''Australia'']]. The signal is sent first from a ramshackle broadcasting station in the outback, then from the juryrigged wreck of a P-45 fighter in the Marshall Islands, then from there to a high-tech American Intelligence listening post in Hawaii, which the RAS has apparently ''hacked into'', and then (whilst we don't see the rest of the stations) it jumps from San Francisco to Denver to Chicago to D.C. before finally arriving in New York. ...oh, and did we forget to mention that the RAS is an organisation made up of ''mice''?

See CavalryRefusal when the allies refuse to help.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'' has one hell of an example where, upon learning of a young boy's kidnapping, members of the Rescue Aid Society relay for help to their base in New York from ''Australia''. The signal is sent first from a ramshackle broadcasting station in the outback, then from the juryrigged wreck of a P-45 fighter in the Marshall Islands, then from there to a high-tech American Intelligence listening post in Hawaii, which the RAS has apparently ''hacked into'', and then (whilst we don't see the rest of the stations) it jumps from San Francisco to Denver to Chicago to D.C. before finally arriving in New York. ...oh, and did we forget to mention that the RAS is an organisation made up of ''mice''?

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* In 1992, Wrestling/GenichiroTenryu departed from Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling to become the spokesman of Megane Super, an eye glasses company. Megane Super executive Hachiro Tanaka had interest in running a pro wrestling promotion however and so Tenryu became one of the faces of the "Super World Of Sports", which in turn lead to Yoshiaki Yatsu, Ashura Hara, Shunji Takano, The Great Kabuki, Hiromichi Fuyuki, Tatsumi "Koki" Kitahara, Masao Orihara, Isao Takagi and even referee Hiroyuki Unno to also depart from All Japan to join Tenryu in the new promotion. Giant Baba felt betrayed and proclaimed he would never allow Tenryu to return to All Japan, pushing Wrestling/MitsuharuMisawa in his place and leading Tenryu to start his own promotion, WAR, when Megane Super pulled the plug on SWS. After Giant Baba died his wife demoted Misawa, who in turn also left All Japan and took 92% of the native roster with him to form Wrestling/ProWrestlingNOAH in 2000, whom All Japan's distributor, NTV, decided to broadcast instead of All Japan while using its shares in AJPW to keep it from shopping for another television network spot. The situation became so dire Mokoto Baba called on Tenryu, who closed down WAR and took the roster back to All Japan. WAR was the ''first'' promotion in the history of Japanese pro wrestling that shutdown for a such a practical reason, rather than monetary failure, political in fighting, mismanagement or the like.
* Pro Wrestling loves this trope, and tends to use it interchangeably with EveryoneJoinTheParty. The most famous recent example happened on ''Monday Night Raw'' in the summer of 2010, when Wrestling/JohnCena was being victimized by the fifth-column terrorist group Wrestling/TheNexus. For a terrible moment it looked as if Cena was going to tuck tail between legs and walk out of the arena in defeat....but then turned around and announced: "You've sealed your fate 'cause guess what: I got me some help." Right on cue, every ''Raw'' Superstar who had been attacked by the Nexus in the past few months came out to join Cena in a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Wrestling/{{Edge}}, Wrestling/JohnMorrison, [[Wrestling/RonKillings R-Truth]], [[TheGiant the Great Khali]], Wrestling/ChrisJericho, and....wait for it....Wrestling/BretHart! What really made this moment splendid is that all these guys often had only negative associations with each other in the past if they had associations at all, and two of them (Edge and Jericho) had been {{Heel}}s up to this point. The "seven samurai" (as Morrison referred to them) then rushed the ring to chase off the Nexus villains, and Cena shouted: "At ''[=SummerSlam=]'', the Nexus IS HISTORY!!!"

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-->'''Rikk:''' How many, Will? If it's two or three, send 'em home. I won't sacrifice--
-->'''Katherine:''' [[http://www.faans.com/books1-6/index.php?p=1568 Richard? Liege and Lord?...]][[http://www.faans.com/books1-6/index.php?p=1569 Your army awaits.]]

* Literature/YnglingaSaga, once in each run-through.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY1fqnGw8rU This]] WebVideo/ChairmanNuke video.
* When held at gun point by a masked villain, [[WebOriginal/PositivelyDreadful Sideburns]] calls on fellow Youtuber Julz Chan for help. [[spoiler: Which he does, at the end of the video.]]
* In the ''Podcast/BlackJackJustice'' episode "The Late Mr. Justice", an old enemy of Jack's, Rick Morales, gets released on parole and immediately sets out to kill Jack. To do so he kidnaps Jack's girlfriend Dorothy and threatens to kill her if Jack doesn't give himself up. Jack agrees, but during the confrontation Jack reveals Morales gave Jack enough time to assemble as many allies as he could on short notice. What Morales intended as a massacre turns into a shootout between his gang and Jack, his partner Trixie, fellow detectives "Button-Down" Theo and Alf [=McKinney=], and police officers Lieutenant Sabien and Sergeant Nelson, during which Jack's long time friend and small time hood, Freddy "the Finger" Hawthorne locates Dorothy and gets her to safety.
-->'''Dorothy (witnessing the aftermath):''' Thank you all. You... you killed... Wow, look at how many people you killed...\\
'''Trixie:''' Only because there weren't more.

''"And Rohan shall answer"''

* ''Blog/RenegadeRhetoric'' had a post of Cy-Kill describing the events of a fictional second season ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGobots'' episode "The Guardian Smashers", which was about [[LegionOfDoom a team being formed of various human villains the Guardians had faced]]. In the end, Matt Hunter turns the tide by assembling the Guardian Auxiliary League, consisting of humans who helped or were helped by the Guardians (Mira Shaw from "Renegade Carnival", Buddy from "Whiz Kid", Greg and Don from "Speed is of the Essence", Professor Janus from "Terror in Atlantis" and Dr. Aeolis from "Clutch of Doom").

* ''Blog/RenegadeRhetoric'' had a post of Cy-Kill describing the events of a fictional second season ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGobots'' episode "The Guardian Smashers", which was about [[LegionOfDoom a team being formed of various human villains the Guardians had faced]]. In the end, Matt Hunter turns the tide by assembling the Guardian Auxiliary League, consisting of humans who helped or were helped by the Guardians (Mira Shaw from "Renegade Carnival", Buddy from "Whiz Kid", Greg and Don from "Speed is of the Essence", Professor Janus from "Terror in Atlantis" and Dr. Aeolis from "Clutch of Doom".