History Main / IWillOnlySlowYouDown

* During the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Saipan Battle of Saipan]] of the [[{{WorldWarII/WarInAsiaAndThePacific}} Pacific War]], the Japanese Forces launched a massive [[ZergRush Banzai Charge]] against the Americans. US Army Seargent [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Baker_(Medal_of_Honor_recipient) Thomas Baker]] and his men were forced to fall back after taking heavy casualties & running low on ammunition. Baker was mortally wounded and after the soldier carrying him was injured by the enemy he ordered his men to leave him to save themselves. His men reluctantly agreed, and placed him against a tree, leaving him with a pistol holding eight rounds of ammunition. Later when the men recaptured the position, they found Baker dead at the same tree with the pistol still in his hand, with all eight rounds fired, and ''eight dead Japanese soldiers lying before him.'' For his actions, Thomas Baker was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.

* During the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Saipan Battle of Saipan]] of the [[{{WorldWarII/WarInAsiaAndThePacific}} Pacific War]], the Japanese Forces launched a massive [[ZergRush Banzai Charge]] against the Americans. US Army Seargent [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Baker_(Medal_of_Honor_recipient) Thomas Baker]] and his men were forced to fall back after taking heavy casualties & running low on ammunition. Baker was mortally wounded and after the soldier carrying him was injured by the enemy he ordered his men to leave him to save themselves. His men reluctantly agreed, and placed him against a tree and left him with a pistol holding eight rounds of ammunition. Later when the men recaptured the position, they found Baker dead at the same tree will the pistol still in his hand, with all eight rounds fired, and ''eight dead Japanese soldiers lying before him.'' For his actions, Thomas Baker was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.

* PlayedForLaughs in the episode "Real Time" of ''Series/{{Workaholics}}'' while the guys are trying to race to work, Adam is beginning to pass out in the street on account of being too drunk and tells the others to go on without him. Ders and Blake agree, but then SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome occurs and Adam says "Actually, its very dangerous out here, carry me," and the other two drag him out of the street.

* During the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Saipan Battle of Saipan]] of the [[{{WorldWarII/WarInAsiaAndThePacific}} Pacific War]], the Japanese Forces launched a massive [[ZergRush Banzai Charge]] against the Americans. US Army Seargent [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Baker_(Medal_of_Honor_recipient) Thomas Baker]] and his men were forced to fall back after taking heavy casualties & running low on ammunition. Baker was mortally wounded and after the soldier carrying him was injured by the enemy he ordered his men to leave him to save themselves. His men reluctantly agreed, but placed him against a tree and left him with a pistol holding eight rounds of ammunition. Later when the men recaptured the position, they found Baker dead will the pistol still in his hand, with all eight rounds fired, and ''eight dead Japanese soldiers lying before him.'' For his action, Thomas Baker was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.

The situation will be handled differently, depending on who the other characters in the group are. A heroic character will of course insist that NoOneGetsLeftBehind and will do what they can to help the injured party, and will even have them evacuated first if an opportunity arises. Characters of more anti-heroic persuasions, and especially if they are a PragmaticHero or TheSpock, will note that the injured character is right and have few, if any, qualms about following their request.

* During the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Saipan Battle of Saipan]] of the [[UsefulNotes/WarInAsiaAndThePacific Pacific War]], the Japanese Forces launched a massive [[ZergRush Banzai Charge]] against the Americans. US Army Seargent [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Baker_(Medal_of_Honor_recipient) Thomas Baker]] and his men were forced to fall back after taking heavy casualties & running low on ammunition. Baker was mortally wounded and after the soldier carrying him was injured by the enemy he ordered his men to leave him to save themselves. His men reluctantly agreed, but placed him against a tree and left him with a pistol holding eight rounds of ammunition. Later when the men recaptured the position, they found Baker dead will the pistol still in his hand, with all eight rounds fired, and ''eight dead Japanese soldiers lying before him.'' For his action, Thomas Baker was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.

* In the Halloween episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'', Timmy and his friends (which include his godparents, since [[ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself no one would recognize them as fairies with everyone in costume]]) visit the Buxaplenty Mansion to get candy. Instead they get dogs sic'd on them for not having nice costumes (that and the owner just a snotty jerkass) with Timmy tripping over his costume and telling his friends to go on without him. Without a beat, they all yell, "Okay," and leave him behind, to which Timmy yells he was "being dramatic."

* A variation in the Classic ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' adventure ''Rescue on Galatea'' by FASA. During a rescue mission in enemy territory an {{NPC}} is wounded. The {{PC}}s hear a shot: when they arrive they find the {{NPC}} dead, killed by another {{NPC}} named Freeman. Freeman explains that he had to shoot the wounded {{NPC}} because he would have just slowed them down, or worse been forced to tell about the team's mission if captured.

* Played straight and inverted in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'', where a struggling Survivor may encourage the rest to go on to the next safe room without them. Justified because DeathIsCheap and they'll respawn in the safe room at the beginning of the next map. This is considered a valid tactic on the higher difficulties, since a dozen or more attempts may be needed to finish a campaign on Expert.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Oates#The_return_journey Captain Lawrence Oates]] is most well known for committing suicide by Antarctic so the rest of his exploration party could live. He was suffering from a frostbitten foot and injuries he received during service in the Boer War. Unfortunately, this didn't help save his comrades. His last words were written in Robert Scott's diary as:
-->"I'm just going outside [[GallowsHumor and may be some time]]."
** The leader of a different party in the same expedition, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Evans,_1st_Baron_Mountevans#Scott.27s_Second_Antarctic_Expedition_.281910-1913.29 Edward "Teddy" Evans]], dying of scurvy, ordered his two companions to leave him in his sleeping bag. [[NoOneGetsLeftBehind They refused to leave him,]] dragged him on their sledge and were very lucky to all survive.

* Mountain climbers in the so called 'Death Zone' have the choice of abandoning companions who can't climb under their own power or sitting down beside them to die too. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_American_Karakoram_expedition The 1953 American expedition on K2]], the second highest mountain in the world, tried to carry down a stricken member, Art Gilkey. After a slip and mass fall might have killed almost all the climbers Gilkey's stretcher was secured to the mountainside while his teammates set up tents. While they were working the men heard Gilkey calling what they assumed to be encouragement and shouted back reassurances but when two men went to fetch Gilkey they found an avalanche had scoured the mountainside clean where he'd been left. It is not impossible that Gilkey's shouts were a deliberate and successful effort to call down the avalanche upon himself. The rest of the expedition, unburdened by Gilkey, made it down safely, though frostbitten.
** Some of the expedition members suspected that instead of succumbing to the avalanche, Gilkey had deliberately loosened his stretcher and allowed himself to fall. The expedition members have politely[[note]]to paraphrase Charles Houston, the expedition had made them TrueCompanions[[/note]] disagreed on whether Gilkey was killed by an avalanche or let himself fall, and on whether they could have been able to save Gilkey: Expedition leader Charles Houston initially believed the avalanche was to blame, but later changed his mind; Houston also believed that Gilkey's death, while tragic, likely contributed to the survival of the remainder of the team, whereas Pete Schoening, the person responsible for single-handedly stopping the mass fall[[note]]In an act known simply as The Belay[[/note]], has always believed that it was possible to rescue Gilkey, though at the cost of more frostbite being suffered by the rest of the team.

** "[[Recap/CaptainPlanetAndThePlanteersS1E3BeastOfTheTemple Beast of the Temple]]": Linka gets her foot stuck during one of the dragon attacks, and when Wheeler can't pull it loose, she begs him to leave her and save himself. Unsurprisingly, he refuses.

'''Can be a DeathTrope, so expect spoilers.'''

->'''Creator/RLStine:''' Unh, I'm stuck! Go on without me! Save yourself!
->'''Champ:''' Okay, good luck!
->'''R.L. Stine:''' No, I didn't mean it, Champion! What kind of monster would take me up on that offer?!

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-->'''Zorrow:''' Run man, save yourself.
-->'''Lance:''' Thanks dude, I so owe you!
-->'''Zorrow:''' What the fuck! I didn't fucking mean it! Get back here and save me!

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1''.

--->'''Soldier:''' Go on without me! Just go!
--->'''Sergeant:''' A good soldier never leaves a man behind! ''[pulls him to safety]''
** Near the end Woody is trapped under a crate in Sid's room.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', when Nick and Judy are trying to escape [[spoiler: Bellwether and her minions]], Judy injures her leg, making her incapable of running. She tells Nick to leave her as she will only slow him down. [[NoOneGetsLeftBehind Nick refuses.]]

* In ''Film/TheCranesAreFlying'', a young soldier get injured during an ArmyScout mission with Boris and tells the latter to go on without him. Boris [[NoOneGetsLeftBehind refuses and carries his partner on his shoulders into safe territory]].
* ''Film/FlightOfTheIntruder''. One of the pilots had an agreement with his observer that they would leave the other behind if they were too wounded to walk out when TrappedBehindEnemyLines. He is ostracized for this (they stuck to the agreement, he changed his mind and went back but his observer had been killed already) so lets his new pilot know that he has no intention of fulfilling this trope.
* Subverted in ''Film/ForrestGump'' - after his platoon is ambushed and decimated in Vietnam, a wounded Lieutenant Dan Taylor ''[[DeathSeeker wants]]'' to be left behind to die so his surviving men can escape ([[HeroicLineage one man from his family had fought and died in battle in every American war up until now]], so he believes it's his destiny to do the same) but Forrest rescues him anyway. He's initially angry and bitter about losing his legs when he feels he should have died honorably on the field with his men, but eventually finds a new lease on life.
* ''Film/Goosebumps2015'' {{parodie|d Trope}}s it, as shown in the current page quote. Stine, unable to fit through the narrow opening in a chained up gate, suggests that the heroes go on without him. Champion agrees a little too eagerly, leading Stine to call him out, saying that he didn't really mean it.
* ''Film/TheGunsOfNavarone''. Major Franklin has a serious leg injury and can't keep up with the team, so he tries to commit suicide to avoid slowing them down. Mallory tells him his HeroicSacrifice is unnecessary because the mission has been cancelled as an allied invasion will be taking place [[WeNeedADistraction on the opposite side of Navarone from their target]]. [[GoodIsNotNice Franklin is then left behind to be captured and interrogated]] until he gives up this false information.

* ''Film/TheLastSamurai''. Katsumoto's wounded son Nobutada single-handedly holds off scores of Japanese soldiers at a small bridge behind his father's home in Tokyo, so that Katsumoto, Algren and the rest of the samurai can make their escape.
* In ''Lou'' the title character threatens to leave Hannah behind if she slows her down while tracking the man who kidnapped Hannah's daughter Vee. After Lou is wounded, she begs Hannah to take her because she's walking into an ObviousTrap. Hannah [[spoiler:who's just found out that the kidnapper is Lou's son]] gives an IronicEcho of Lou's words and abandons her. Later Hannah gives the trope straight, telling Lou to get Vee to safety instead of carrying her.

* This was astronaut [[CoolOldGuy Bud Chantillas']] stance in ''Film/RedPlanet''. After the ship crash-lands on Mars and mortally wounds his liver, he tells his younger comrades, "This is no time for misguided heroics" and demands that they carry on with their mission without him. [[DyingMomentOfAwesome He even allowed himself to die in a sitting position.]]
* In ''Film/TheReef'', [[spoiler: Matt]] urges the group to leave after [[spoiler: the shark bites off his leg. It's a moot point because he dies of blood loss shortly after]].
* ''Set It Off'' Queen Latifah draws the attention and gunfire of the police by revving the engine of the getaway car - so her pal Jada Pinkett can escape via the greyhound coach.
* Ed in ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'', being severely wounded ''and'' infected, suggests this to the hero who grudgingly accepts. Shaun does make sure [[LeaveBehindAPistol to leave him the rifle with two shots left in it]], [[spoiler:though he ultimately uses it to kill two zombies and hide himself from the horde and military before passing away, and then his zombie is found by Shaun.]]
* In the first ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' movie, a wounded MI trooper named Watkins asks to take an nuclear RPG round and remain behind so he can pull a YouShallNotPass on the Bugs. When asked "You trying to be a hero?", he replies, "I'm trying to kill some Bugs, sir. Get outta here!"
* ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}''
** ''Film/TheTerminator''. Kyle Reese tries this, collapsing from his gunshot wound after Sarah Connor has dragged him into the factory. By this time in the movie Sarah has [[TookALevelInBadass taken a level in badass]], so she isn't buying it.
-->'''Sarah:''' Move it, Reese! On your feet soldier! ''On your feet!''

* In ''Film/TheThirteenthWarrior'', one of the 12 Norsemen stays behind in the tunnel to hold off the rampaging horde of [[spoiler:cannibalistic cave-dwelling Neanderthals]] after uttering the [[YouShallNotPass tip-off phrase]] for a wounded soldier: "Well, I think I've gone as far as I can. [[AGoodWayToDie Today was a GOOD day. ]]Meet me in Valhalla!"
* ''Film/USMarshals''. As fugitive Mark Sheridan and his girlfriend attempt to flee, they quickly realize that he can't pull her over the wall blocking their path. She immediately lets go of his hand and all but begs him to go, even as he continues to yell at her to keep trying to climb.
* ''Film/Warlock1989''. While they're pursuing the Warlock, Kassandra uses the "Go on without me" version on Redferne after she undergoes RapidAging to become sixty years old.
* ''Film/WhiteWolves 4'': After being bitten by a snake, Pamela unsuccessfully tries to convince Jack that staying to nurse her will needlessly endanger him.
* Zig-zagged in ''Film/TheWorldsEnd''- [[spoiler:Steven tells Gary & Andrew to leave him as the Blanks drag him away in 'The Beast' only to turn up fine a few minutes later]].

* In Creator/SandyMitchell's ''[[Literature/CiaphasCain Cain's Last Stand]]'', [[spoiler:cadet Donal and the governor]] opt to stay behind and delay the enemy after they are wounded. Cain [[spoiler:promotes Donal on the spot to Commissar in honor of his bravery]]. Subverted when this well-meaning sacrifice [[spoiler:allows Varan to uses his CompellingVoice to take control of them.]]

* In ''Heaven's Queen'', final book of the ''Literature/ParadoxTrilogy'', John Brenton sacrifices himself this way during the battle at Dark Star Station. Aware that he's mortally wounded, Brenton stays behind at a control panel holding down a button so the others can escape.
* TheCaptain of the [[spoiler:HMS ''Madrigal'']], in ''[[Literature/HonorHarrington The Honor of the Queen]]'', says this to let the surviving Grayson ships leave them and escape.
* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' series.
** In ''Catching Fire'', [[spoiler:Mags walks into poisonous gas in the Quarter Quell so Finnick can focus on rescuing Peeta.]]
** In ''Mockingjay'', [[spoiler: Peeta]] asks to be left behind because of [[spoiler: his personality issues.]]
* In Teresa Frohock's ''Literature/MiserereAnAutumnTale'', the elderly Matthew sends Lucian on alone because he is too old and would only slow him.

-->'''Polly:''' What did I tell you? I said stop trying to save me.
-->'''Tick:''' [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Do I ever listen to you?]]

-->"Ralphy! Roxy! Get out of here — it's too dangerous. Run — save yourselves!"
-->Of course, he always said that when trapped in life-threatening situations, but the one time we did run and save ourselves, he grounded us for two months once he got out of traction. So now we know that "run—save yourselves" really means "get your butts over here or suffer the consequences".
* Rockjaw Grang in the {{Literature/Redwall}} novel ''The Long Patrol'', after [[TakingTheBullet being fatally wounded]]. He manages to kill over twenty {{Mooks}} before he finally dies.

* Attempted on a strategic[=/=]long-term sense early in ''[[Literature/TheScholomance The Last Graduate]]'', when [[TheHero El]] concluded it was vanishingly unlikely she could recharge the PowerCrystal stash she had drained prematurely during the events of ''A Deadly Education''[[note]](were she willing to [[SadisticChoice let a bunch of freshmen get slaughtered in her presence she would not have that problem]], but she ain't so she does)[[/note]] to the point of [[TheLoad pulling her weight]] when she and her allies Aadhya and Yi Liu [[UltimateFinalExam made their desperate monster-infested dash for the Scholomance's exit at the end of the term]], she confesses the situation to them and tries to talk them into 'ditching' her in time to throw in their lot with groups likely to survive Graduation Day where she was doubtful she was even going to last that long.

* In the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' short story ''[[Literature/StarWarsBladeSquadron Blade Squadron]]'', Rebel Wing Commander Adon Fox orders the remaining three fighters in the squadron to leave him behind and rejoin the rest of the Rebel fighters rather than try to rescue him from his crippled fighter. The story ends with him still alive, but with little hope for rescue before his injuries kill him or his fighter falls apart.
* Also in the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', in the opening book of the ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' series, [=ExGal=]-4 scientist Tee-Ubo tells her colleague to leave her behind, as she is slowing him down and one of them has to make it back to base in time to warn them of an impending biological disaster. When he protests, she deliberately exposes herself to the plague, condemning herself to a quick and certain death, so that he won't waste time and resources trying to save her.
* In the ''Literature/{{Bounders}}'' novel ''The Tundra Trials'', [[TheBully Regis]] steals Mira's bounding gloves, leaving her stranded in the middle of nowhere on the tundra planet Gulaga, where the temperature after dark is dangerously low. Mira urges Jasper to bound back to Gulagaven, but he stays with her while they shelter in an AbandonedMine.
* Subverted in one of Creator/MackReynolds' ''Literature/UnitedPlanets'' [[InSpace spy stories]]. Section G's top operative, Ronny Bronston, takes a new agent on a training mission to an enemy planet. Ronny is wounded and tells the newbie to kill him so the enemy won't capture him. The rookie instead helps Ronny to their escape vehicle. The subversion comes because Ronny wasn't ''that'' badly wounded; it was an impromptu SecretTest, and by not being ruthless enough to kill his comrade, the new guy ''failed'' and gets washed out of field agent training. Ronny's boss points out that the rookie was trying to save Ronny's life. Ronny replies flatly that saving his life wasn't the mission.
* In ''[[Literature/TheSwordOfShannaraTrilogy Wishsong of Shannara]]'', half of Jair's companions die like this. Garet Jax is technically an exception, because he wasn't wounded when [[YouShallNotPass he remained behind to hold off the Jachyra]]. Jair really was leading a SuicideMission when you come right down to it.

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%%* Anders in ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}''.

** In the serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E6TheInvasionOfTime The Invasion of Time]]", one of the savage Gallifreyans to Leela. He then goes for PlayingPossum.

-->'''Elaine:''' Come on, father, you can make it.
-->'''Priest:''' No, I can't. I've got a bad hip. Go on without me.
-->'''Elaine:''' No! I won't!
-->'''Priest:''' Leave me! You must.
-->'''Elaine:''' All right. Take it easy.
-->''(catches up with the others)''
-->'''Elaine:''' All right, we can move faster without Father O'Gimpy.
-->'''Priest:''' I heard that!

* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "All Our Yesterdays", [=McCoy=] tries to tell this to Spock after getting frostbitten. The Vulcan tells him that NoOneGetsLeftBehind.
** In the movie "The Undiscovered Country," [=McCoy=] is again suffering from the cold, this time with Captain Kirk on a Klingon prison planet. He tries this trope again, and the captain tells him [[spoiler:the Enterprise is tracking their location and will rescue them if they can hold on a few more minutes.]]

** Injured Kira to Dax after the crash in "The Siege", but Dax takes her along anyway.
** Dax is bleeding to death in "Change of Heart" and is left behind by Worf to finish a mission. [[spoiler:He ends up abandoning the mission and comes back for her.]]
** Dax again in "Move Along Home" - during the Wadi's game (which the characters think is real), Dax is injured and tells Sisko and Kira to leave her. They refuse, and all three are "killed" (meaning nothing more than Quark losing the game).
** Humorous example in "The Ascent", where Quark hauls the injured Odo (during the period when he had become a "solid") up a mountain on a stretcher. When Odo protests, Quark emphasizes his reasoning: Odo's along for emergency rations; if he dies, he's food.

** A mortally wounded Eddington holds off a Jem'Hadar attack to let Sisko, Eddington's wife, and numerous refugees get to their ship and escape in "Blaze of Glory." Fitting for Eddington as he previously saw himself as the hero of his own story.
-->'''Eddington:''' (chuckling to himself) This seems like a good time for a song.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''
** In "The Haunting of Deck 12", an injured [[TheSpock Tuvok]] tries to invoke this on [[TheHeart Neelix]]. [[NoOneGetsLeftBehind Three guesses]] how that turned out.
** But subverted in "The Chute" where Tom Paris and Harry Kim are confined in an inescapable prison. Tom tells Harry to leave him behind if necessary, but as they both start to crack up under the stress, Tom loses his bravado and begs Harry not to abandon him. Harry doesn't.
%%* Tony in ''The Time Tunnel'' episode "Kill Two By Two".

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* In ''WesternAnimation/DeadSpaceDownfall'', a number of characters end up doing this, [[spoiler:though more because they realize that the marker is slowly driving them insane than because of any physical injury]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''[='=]s [[TheMovie The Beast with a Billion Backs]], the cast is being chased by a tentacled monster from another dimension.
-->'''Zoidberg''': (after tripping, on the ground, talking to Leela) I can't make it. Go on without me!
--> ''[camera pans, so we see that he's clinging to her leg]''
-->'''Leela''': I'm trying!
-->'''Zoidberg''': Go on without me faster!
* PlayedForLaughs in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': [[ItMakesSenseInContext The Hills are trying to find their dog Ladybird before she goes nuts in a retirement home.]] Bobby gets stopped by a couple of old women who start pinching his cheeks and cooing over him. He tells his parents to go on without him, but when one offers to let him play with her dentures, he shouts "I changed my mind! Come back!!"

-->'''Ozzy:''' Forget about me, just go on without me.
-->'''Drix:''''' [visibly saddened]'' Do you really mean that?
-->'''Ozzy:''' [[SubvertedTrope Of course not!]] Save me! Save my butt right now!

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{ThunderCats|2011}}'' (2011) episode "Omens Part Two", Jaga, wounded during the escape from their invaded castle, uses the line ''verbatim'' when telling Lion-O and the other Thundercats to leave him behind.
** In the original 1985 version of ''WesternAnimation/{{ThunderCats|1985}}'', Lynx-O, blinded by a jet of hot gas escaping from the dying planet Thundera, begs Ben-Gali and Pumyra to leave him and save themselves. Needless to say, they refuse to abandon him, even when he protests that he is "holding them back".

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* In ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'', after [[TakingTheBullet taking the mortal blow]] for Manny during the fight against his own pack, Diego insists that Manny and Sid go on returning the human baby to its father without him. Since he seems to be dying, they accept it.

* In the ''Anime/WeissKreuz Dramatic Precious'' DramaCD, [[TheHandler Birman]] is captured and subjected to MutilationInterrogation by [[ThePsychoRangers La Mort]]. Weiss is ordered to kill her before she cracks and tells them everything she knows; when they protest, Manx reminds them that they're [[HitmanWithAHeart killers,]] not rescuers. When they find her alive, they decide to rescue her anyway, and she asks Aya for the gun he carries as a backup weapon, saying grimly that she's still got one finger to pull a trigger with. Aya gives it to her, [[HopeSpot apparently thinking she wanted to help cover their escape]], but she explains the trope and shoots herself instead.

* Played straight in the original ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic''. Sousuke gives Kaname a transmitter and tells her to try to make it to the coast, leaving a wounded Kurz and Sousuke behind. When Kaname refuses, Sousuke threatens to shoot her rather than let her be captured and experimented on, but Kaname talks him into TakeAThirdOption.

->'''Creator/RLStine:''' Unh, I'm stuck! Go on without me! Save youself!

* In ''Lou'' the title character threatens to leave Hannah behind if she slows her down while tracking the man who kidnapped Hannah's daughter. After Lou is wounded, she begs Hannah to take her because she's walking into an ObviousTrap. Hannah [[spoiler:who's just found out that the kidnapper is Lou's son]] gives an IronicEcho of Lou's words and abandons her.

* In ''Lou'' when the title character threatens to leave Hannah behind if she slows her down while tracking the man who kidnapped Hannah's daughter. After Lou is wounded, she begs Hannah to take her because she's walking into an ObviousTrap. Hannah then gives an IronicEcho of Lou's words.

* In the novel ''[[Literature/{{Bounders}} The Tundra Trials]]'', [[TheBully Regis]] steals Mira's bounding gloves, leaving her stranded in the middle of nowhere on the tundra planet Gulaga, where the temperature after dark is dangerously low. Mira urges Jasper to bound back to Gulagaven, but he stays with her while they shelter in an AbandonedMine.
* Subverted in one of Creator/MackReynolds' ''United Planets'' [[InSpace spy stories]]. Section G's top operative, Ronny Bronston, takes a new agent on a training mission to an enemy planet. Ronny is wounded and tells the newbie to kill him so the enemy won't capture him. The rookie instead helps Ronny to their escape vehicle. The subversion comes because Ronny wasn't ''that'' badly wounded; it was an impromptu SecretTest, and by not being ruthless enough to kill his comrade, the new guy ''failed'' and gets washed out of field agent training. Ronny's boss points out that the rookie was trying to save Ronny's life. Ronny replies flatly that saving his life wasn't the mission.