History Main / NotStayingForBreakfast

* Comicbook/{{Pondus}} has some interesting variations on this one, from the beginning with Jocke as the man leaving, and later with Eddie in similar situations. One of the funniest has Jocke waking up in a bed, not remembering much, but spotting a rather homely girl in the bed beside him. Cue Jocke getting fast out of bed, looking for his clothes and visually about to skidaddle, only to discover he is in ''his own bedroom''. Hilarity ensues.

* The ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' fic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8684304/1/After-the-party After the party]]" opens with Jade and Tori waking up naked in bed together after a drunken party the night before. Jade essentially kicks Tori out of her bed, only allowing her time to wash up before she has to leave her house, vowing to Tori that she will forget this night ever happened, leaving Tori emotionally hurt and bitter at Jade's rejection. It takes seeing Tori dating a new girl at Hollywood Arts and Beck confronting Jade about her actions (having found a video Jade made of some of their night together) for Jade to admit that she was just scared to admit her bisexuality and acknowledge [[ClosetKey her feelings for Tori]].

* Jenny does this to Forrest in ''Film/ForrestGump''.

* [[spoiler:Eris]] of ''Literature/MushokuTenseiJoblessReincarnation'' leaves after her first night with Rudeus, leaving a vaguely-worded note that seems to imply he's inadequate. She actually left because she felt ''she'' was inadequate and needed to be stronger so she could stand by his side; she's bordering on illiterate at that point.

* Creator/JimHenson's ''Series/TheStoryteller'' retelling of "Theseus and the Minotaur": Theseus loves and leaves Ariadne as in the myth. When she wakes up a WomanScorned, she calls down a curse on his head in true [[UsefulNotes/AncientGreece Ancient Greek]] fashion. The curse causes him to forget to put up the right color sail to tell his father he survived -- and thus, as she curses him, he witnesses his father leap from a cliff.
* Charlie in ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' does this often.
* In the ''Series/BabylonFive'' episode "[[{{Recap/BabylonFiveS02E19DividedLoyalties}} Divided Loyalties]]", Talia (in Ivanova's quarters) wakes up and is surprised to find the other half of the bed empty. The next scene is an attack on Lyta Alexander, who has arrived at the station to deliver a warning about a Psi Corps sleeper agent. [[spoiler: This turns out to be a bit of misdirection; after an episode with many clues pointing to Ivanova, the sleeper agent turned out to be Talia.]] The scene also serves as a deniable indication of the characters' [[HideYourLesbians possible relationship]]. WordOfGod has since confirmed that they'd slept together in more than the strictly literal sense.
** On another occasion, Ivanova invokes the trope in her "[[Funny/BabylonFive sex]]" scene with the Lumati ambassador:
--->'''Ambassador:''' What happens now?\\
'''Ivanova:''' Old style, you roll over and go to bed. New style, you go out for pizza and I never see you again.
** [[AmicableExes Jeffrey Sinclair and Catherine Sakai]] are implied to have done this to each other repeatedly over the years: They meet up, start talking about the past, eat dinner, fool around, one of them leaves the next morning, a few months pass and the cycle continues. They finally made an attempt at averting it at the end of Season 1, with him even proposing marriage (which she accepted); unfortunately, nothing came of it on the show as Sinclair's actor had to quit for health reasons. Their story ''is'' fairly neatly tied up with a bow in the declared-canon novel ''To Dream in the City of Sorrows'', though.
* ''Series/ConversationsWithFriends'': After having sex with a guy whom she met on a blind date, Frances sneaks out afterward, dissatisfied.
* Humorously done in ''Series/{{Coupling}}'' with Patrick's behavior as TheCasanova. He has it as engrained behavior to leave immediately after sex and instinctively make a telephone sign should his lover be awake as he is leaving. This understandably creates problems when Sally tries to start a long-term relationship with him.

* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}''. GenderInvertedTrope in "Out of Time" with main character Owen standing in for the woman in every port, and GirlOfTheWeek Diane for the flyboy who leaves before it can get too serious.
* On ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', Barney's standard post-coitus procedure is to sneak away while the woman is in the shower. When he eventually winds up in a committed relationship, he still often ends up sleepwalking out of his girlfriend's apartment.
** Barney's also set up his apartment to invoke this from the women he invites over. Although when the setup starts to go wrong, he uses Lily as a fake wife for a while to scare them away.

* One episode of ''Series/TheCloser'' had the victim who did this for a reality TV show. He'd pick up drunk women for a night and leave before they woke up. Then find them again and show them the video of the said night and film their reaction. He did this eight times, which led up to the line: "He did this eight times and was only shot once?"
* Subverted on ''Series/{{ER}}'' when Carol wakes up and finds Doug gone. He walks into the room a second later with BreakfastInBed and teases her about her thinking that he had left, although given his previous behavior (he did this frequently the first time they dated) he can hardly blame her.

* Brennan in ''Series/{{Bones}}'' made it her policy never to stay at her lover's place overnight or to let her lover stay with her overnight after having sex, as she didn't believe in romantic entanglements. This changed obviously when she and Booth finally became an OfficialCouple.
* Subverted in the Season 5 premiere of ''Series/{{Castle}}''; Castle wakes up alone in his bed. Enter Beckett, [[SexyShirtSwitch wearing his shirt]], a cup of coffee in each hand, ready for another round. Then double subverted as his mother shows up and Beckett has to hide in the closet.
* Subverted in ''[=McCallum=]'' when the title character wakes up to find his GirlOfTheWeek has slipped out after stealing his brand new shirt and [[HumiliationConga leaving a score of his bedroom performance]] (he didn't rate very high).
* ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'': The very second episode opens with Prue pulling this on Andy, waking herself off to take off before he wakes up. [[MindOverMatter She even uses her powers to]] toss his alarm clock out the window when it's about to go off.
* ''Series/Conviction2016'': In the last episode, Hayes is shown taking off after having had sex with a man the night before. He tries to arrange a future meeting, but she brushes it off and drives away in a cab.
* ''Series/TheGeorgeLopezShow'': In "Now George Noahs Ex-Zack-ly What Happened", George privately confronts Carmen's delinquent boyfriend about his plans to dump her as soon as he gets what he wants. This remark actually makes George lose it and try to attack him.
-->'''George:''' I'm not telling you again: ''It's'' '''''over''''' ''between you two!''\\
'''Zack:''' I think it'll be over when Carmen gets out of bed to make me a sandwich.
* In the 2002 mini-series ''Series/{{Napoleon}}'', his Polish mistress turns up just as his troops are marching off to war. When Napoleon looks reluctant, she jokingly points out that he has the perfect excuse for leaving when he grows tired of her, as he can always say he has to go command his armies.
* One episode of ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' has Elaine warn a coworker (who's a virgin and has it bad for Jerry) about this trope. When this coworker finally manages to sleep with Jerry, she asks him in the afterglow whether he's planning to leave now.
-->''[bewildered]'' Why would I leave? This is ''my'' apartment.
* ''Series/ThePunisher2017''. In the first episode of Season 2, Frank Castle spends the night with Beth TheBartender. Even though they get along fine, he tries to slip out quietly the following morning, except downstairs he unexpectedly runs into her son, and he ends up taking them out for breakfast. The two of them make a more 'adult' departure after that, but Frank decides to come back to her bar the next night instead of [[WalkingTheEarth driving on]]. Unfortunately, that doesn't end so well...
* In the ''Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw'' episode "The Retreat", Jen sleeps with a guy who was not only gone the next morning, but never called her back or answered her text messages. TheStinger makes this even worse when it's revealed that [[spoiler: he [[EvilAllAlong was part of the Intellegencia organization]] and only slept with her so he can steal a sample of her blood.]]
* On ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'', [[KavorkaMan Earl]] has done this to ''a lot'' of women over the course of his life, but the most notable incident is Number 86 on his list. He hooked up with a woman named [[{{Yandere}} Didi]], and when she got out of bed in the morning to make them some breakfast, Earl found out that she had only one leg. He was shocked and upset, and decided to run for it. Meaning, he stole money from her purse, her prosthesis, and her car to make his getaway. It's unknown what he did with her car, but he buried her prosthetic leg under his old trailer home. To make up for it, she makes him do all her chores and errands hopping on one leg, to teach him how difficult he'd made her life in the ensuing years.

* Variation in ''Series/CriminalMinds'': Morgan is in a serious committed relationship with Savannah and awakens early one morning to find she isn't in bed. She's in the living room preparing to leave, since she'd been called into work (she's a doctor). She gives him a brief goodbye, asks him to walk her dog for her, and tells him to lock up when he leaves. In this case, it's used to show that the relationship is ''advancing'' and that Savannah is comfortable having him around her apartment without feeling the need to excuse her absence. Garcia also points out the DoubleStandard, as Morgan would have no qualms about doing the same to Savannah if he'd been called in for a case, but the fact that it was a woman doing it to him weirded him out.

* ''Series/TheMurders'': In "Queen of Hearts", after sleeping with Pete the night before Kate leaves early in the morning after declining an offer to stay longer with the excuse she has work, but is heavily implied to not want more than having casual sex.
* ''Series/KeepBreathing'': Liv continually resisted getting into a real relationship with her on again/off again lover Danny, rejecting his offer to make breakfast the morning after they slept together. It's made clear from her past that she fears intimacy due to her mom abandoning her, thinking he'll just leave her as well later so she avoids it this way preemptively, despite Danny's protests.
* ''Series/TedLasso'': Subverted in "[[Recap/TedLassoS3E03FourFiveOne 4-5-1]]". The episode opens on Colin waking up alone after clearly having slept with someone the night before, but it turns out that [[spoiler: [[QueerEstablishingMoment the other guy]]]] is just downstairs making coffee.

* [[SmugSnake Benny]] doesn't bother sticking around after sleeping with a female character in VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas. He ''does'' leave a note, however, that is simultaneously hilarious, sweet, and completely infuriating.

Also known as ''"[[PrecisionFStrike Fuck]] then [[{{Pun}} fuck off]]".''

* Music/{{Supertramp}}'s "Goodbye Stranger".

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* In ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', after having sex with Princess Charlotte, Griffith escapes her bedroom in the morning before she wakes up and only leaves a pendant he promised to return. Unfortunately for Griffith, [[spoiler:soldiers catch him immediatly and Charlotte's father has him tortured before attempting to rape his own daughter.]]

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** Averted later on with an impulsive casual sex scene: the sort you figure that the participants will probably regret immediately afterward, and would typically set-up Not Staying For Breakfast. Yet despite at least one of the lovers having a WhatHaveIDone moment [[BedmateReveal when they notice who they've woken up with]], the pair stick together for a cozy morning lay-in.

* The [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/199588/where-did-daddy-go Hooves]]-[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/214973/where-is-my-love Platinum-verse]]: In the first story, Derpy explains to her daughter how, after a date with a stallion, she had gone to bed with him in a hotel room, but woke up the next morning to find he was gone, leaving her alone and pregnant with Dinky. Then the chapter transitions to the stallion in question, who's also thinking about her and how she'd been gone by the time he got back with the engagement ring he'd gone out to buy. Furthermore, since they'd never gotten one another's names, neither has any idea where to find the other and clear up the misunderstanding. Until the second story, that is.

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]

* ''Film/SixtyEightKill'': This is what Chip thinks has happened when he wakes up the motel and Violet gone, along with the money, the guns and car. [[spoiler:Then he finds her body in the bathroom.]]
* In ''Film/AmericanPie'', Jim and Michelle sleep together at the after-prom party. Jim wakes up alone. He realized he was used. After a moment's reflection he's psyched about it.
* After Crash and Annie finally sleep together in ''Film/BullDurham'', she wakes up to a note from Crash explaining that he was headed out to Asheville for an opening as a catcher. Annie is mildly disappointed but understands: baseball may be where she finds metaphysical meaning in the world, "but it's also a job." [[spoiler:He comes back at the end of the baseball season after breaking the minor league home run record and quitting.]]
* ''Film/CabinFever'': Paul and Marcy go from being platonic friends to casual lovers in a matter of minutes. As soon as the deed is done, Paul is almost as fast to rinse Marcy's love juices off his wang with listerine and tell her curtly that he's gonna run off into the forest to look for Marcy's boyfriend Jeff, because ''"[He] just can't stay there any longer ''[with her]''"''. Despite Marcy's anxious protests, Paul leaves her all alone in the Cabin. Of course, he left with a parting gift from Marcy: [[spoiler:the flesh-eating disease she passed to him because they didn't use a condom]].
* ''Film/{{Colombiana}}'': Cataleya always leaves her boyfriend Delaney early on the mornings after they have sex.
* ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'' loves and leaves Valeria in the movie, in order to head to the Mountain of Power and infiltrate Thulsa Doom's cult to take vengeance for his people. She chases after him, which is just as well because Conan gets his ass kicked by the cultists when Doom uncovers him.
* ''Film/Daredevil2003''. Matt Murdock gets dumped by a girl he's dating for constantly doing this trope. Of course his reasons for slipping out at night are because he's a masked vigilante, plus [[BlessedWithSuck he has to sleep in a sensory deprivation chamber]] thanks to his SuperHearing--but he can hardly tell her this. Later Elektra does the same to Matt, but leaves an engraved invitation to a black tie event held by her father (which he'd previously turned down) on the pillow next to him.

* Played with in ''Film/TheEigerSanction''. Government assassin Dr Hemlock meets a beautiful black stewardess on the aircraft taking him to Switzerland and spends the night with her, only to find she's gone the next day. Then to his delight she rings him on the phone...[[HoneyTrap only to tell him to get in contact with his spymaster boss]].

* In the film ''Film/{{Heat}}'', Neil [=McCauley=] is shown leaving Eady in the night, after making love. Neil is a professional thief, and has vowed to have no attachments as to be able to walk out of his life in thirty seconds if the heat turns up. And then subverted when he gets back together with her a day or two later.

* Subverted in ''Film/IfYouCouldSayItInWords''. Sadie wakes up in Nelson's apartment, thinking she's alone until he suddenly walks into the room. He tells her that he bought her coffee and a sweet bun, and that they did not have sex.

** In ''Film/IronMan1'', Christine had sex with Tony and woke up to find Tony gone and Pepper kicking her out of the mansion with clean clothes, a waiting cab and a snide remark.
** ''Film/IronMan3'': Tony does this to Dr. Maya Hansen in the opening prologue taking place before the first movie. [[spoiler:It bites him in the butt years later when she returns with a vengeance.]]

* In the Creator/StanleyKubrick adaptation of ''Film/{{Lolita}}'', our first indication that Humbert has accepted Charlotte Haze's marriage proposal is her reaching over to his side of the bed and finding him not there. He's actually reading in the study, and promptly goes and locks himself in the toilet when he realises she's awake. This is done as a sign that their marriage is a sham as Humbert's sexual interests lie elsewhere.

* Professor Harold Hill loves and leaves in ''Film/TheMusicMan''. [[spoiler:At least until he finally gets his "foot stuck in the door" with Marian.]]

* ''Film/TheSaint1997'' had Simon romance Emma so he could steal her formula and then left her next morning with a bunch of notes saying "I'm sorry" because he'd genuinely formed an emotional response to her. Emma, however, subverted the trope because she wanted her cards back and went after him.

* ''Film/ToughGuys'' (1986). Elderly ex-con Archie does on a date with much younger Skye. After a night of passion, Archie tells Skye to go ahead to the gym and he'll join her later, as she's worn him out.

* Colonel Hal Moore has to leave in the middle of the night to deploy with his men to Vietnam in ''Film/WeWereSoldiers''. Julia wakes up in the middle of the night, but only after he has gone. With the subversion that he hasn't left because he doesn't love her, but because he knows that her watching him leave to go into combat will be very painful for her. He also doesn't look back, and doesn't give her a thought until he finally returns home from his deployment.
* ''Film/WhenHarryMetSally'' has a variation. [[spoiler:He stays but rushes away in the morning.]]

[[folder:Literature]]

** There are still remnants of this in ''modern'' Japanese language, where the wedding banquet is called "coming-out-of-the-closet banquet," i.e. a departure of this stage into a more regular, ritualized relationship.
* The protagonist of ''Literature/{{Airframe}}'' has a casual sexual relationship with a pilot, and he never stays after sex, though she wishes he would. Contrasted with the antagonist, a shallow television news reporter who has sex with a stuntman she knows in the area, and is ''annoyed'' that he doesn't leave afterwards.
* ''Literature/BabylonBabies''. The protagonist takes home a woman he met in a bar, but as he has to get back to bodyguarding the LivingMacGuffin, tries to sneak out without even waiting for morning. She gives a YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe reaction when she catches him doing so.

* Subverted in ''[[Literature/NightHuntressWorld First Drop of Crimson]]''. Denise wakes up the morning after to find the other half of the bed empty with smooth sheets, and the bathroom empty. At first she panics: ''Maybe he regrets it. Maybe he left me,'' before she calms down and thinks ''Maybe he doesn't rumple the sheets when he sleeps, and maybe he just went downstairs.'' She's right, of course; Spade spent the night in her arms, and left just before she woke to answer the door.

* ''Literature/SevenStars'' has a gender-inverted example, with series protagonist Richard Jeperson waking up to find that the woman he's just spent an extremely satisfactory night with has already left; he never sees her again.

** In ''A Matter for Men'', [=McCarthy=] spends the night with a woman, then has an OhCrap the next morning when he realises he's late for a meeting with his superior. The woman assumes this trope and refuses to talk to him again, despite repeated attempts.
** Earlier his friend Ted seduces the poor boy while he's still smarting from the whole "man-eating alien caterpillars are real" thing, then treats it as a mindless fling the next morning. Worst part is that Ted's highly libertine upbringing means he never really understands what [=McCarthy's=] so pissed about.

* Rand and Elayne in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'', with Rand leaving (for the perfectly understandable reason that he still has to go out and save the world). He leaves behind a flower as an apology/expression of love (which she accepts). [[spoiler:He also leaves her pregnant, but he doesn't actually know that yet.]]

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]

** In "Keep Your Enemies Closer", we see Oliver Queen getting dressed because he has carry out a secret vigilante mission, then a RevealShot shows that [[IceQueen Isabel Rochev]] is in his bed. When he's about to make up an excuse for leaving, she responds bluntly: "Do I really strike you as someone who needs to cuddle?"

** In "Genesis", Thea wakes up to an empty bed, only to find her next boyfriend Alex Davis is downstairs cooking breakfast. However the momentary disquiet she feels is only the first when she realises there is something odd about the StepfordSuburbia he's brought them to...

** In "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E3TheHarshLightOfDay}} The Harsh Light Of Day]]", we have the "went to get coffee" version when Buffy sleeps with Parker. When she sees the coffee, she's greatly relieved, which makes the following reveal - that Parker was really just in it for sex - much more cruel.

* Creator/JimHenson's ''Series/TheStoryteller'' retelling of "Theseus and the Minotaur": Theseus loves and leaves Ariadne as in the myth. When she wakes up a WomanScorned, she calls down a curse on his head in true [[UsefulNotes/AncientGreece Ancient Greek]] fashion. The curse cause him to forget to put up the right color sail to tell his father he survived -- and thus, as she curses him, he witnesses his father leap from a cliff.

* In the ''Series/BabylonFive'' episode "[[{{Recap/BabylonFiveS02E19DividedLoyalties}} Divided Loyalties]]", Talia (in Ivanova's quarters) wakes up and is surprised to find the other half of the bed empty. The next scene is an attack on Lyta Alexander, who has arrived at the station to deliver a warning about a Psi Corps sleeper agent. [[spoiler:This turns out to be a bit of misdirection; after an episode with many clues pointing to Ivanova, the sleeper agent turned out to be Talia.]] The scene also serves as a deniable indication of the characters' [[HideYourLesbians possible relationship]]. WordOfGod has since confirmed that they'd slept together in more than the strictly literal sense.

** [[AmicableExes Jeffrey Sinclair and Catherine Sakai]] are implied to have done this to each other repeatedly over the years: They meet up, start talking about the past, eat dinner, fool around, one of them leaves the next morning, a few months pass and the cycle continues. They finally made an attempt at averting it at the end of Season 1, with him even proposing marriage (which she accepted); unfortunately nothing came of it on the show as Sinclair's actor had to quit for health reasons. Their story ''is'' fairly neatly tied up with a bow in the declared-canon novel ''To Dream in the City of Sorrows'', though.

* On ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', Barney's standard post-coitus procedure is to sneak away while the woman is in the shower. When he eventually winds up in a committed relationship, he still often ends up sleep-walking out of his girlfriend's apartment.

* Used ''cruelly'' in the season 5 finale of ''Series/{{House}}'' -- [[spoiler:she was gone in the morning because she was never there]].
* One episode of ''Series/TheCloser'' had the victim who did this for a reality TV show. He'd pick up drunk women for a night and leave before they woke up. Then find them again and show them the video of the said night and film their reaction. He did this eight times, which led up the the line: "He did this eight times and was only shot once?"

* Played with in different ways in ''Series/SexAndTheCity''. Features everything from really making them breakfast, to finding a break-up post-it note the morning after, to the girls themselves fleeing the beds of various guys right after for different reasons.
* Subverted in ''Series/SixFeetUnder''. Nate gets together with a woman from his daughter's creche. Having recently lost his wife and in need of emotional support, he stays, only for her to snub him and tell that she hoped he would have left because she was just after some quick shag.

* ''Series/ThePunisher2017''. In the first episode of Season 2, Frank Castle spends the night with Beth TheBartender. Even though they get along fine, he tries to slip out quietly the following morning, except downstairs he unexpectedly runs into her son, and he ends up taking them out for breakfast. The two of them make a more 'adult' departure after that, but Frank decides to come back to her bar the next night instead of [[WalkingTheEarth driving on]]. Unfortunately that doesn't end so well...

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* "Angel of the Morning" was a hit song in 1968 for Merrilee Rush and the Turnabouts. Its importance can be gauged by the 29 cover versions listed on Website/TheOtherWiki, from 1968 to 2007. It describes the feelings of a woman who expects her lover to Not Stay For Breakfast. She has an adult acceptance of the one-night-stand she is seeking, but is conflicted; perhaps longing for something more.
* Music/TheBeatles' "Norwegian Wood" from ''Music/RubberSoul'' (though in this case, it's the lady who owns the house that leaves; the guy replies [[DisproportionateRetribution by torching the place]])

* In 1967, Julie London sang "Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast", explaining to her beau that the ''right'' thing for a woman to do was to avoid having to skip breakfast by not spending the night in the first place. But she completely subverted the notion; the last line is "[[spoiler:Please pass the jam.]]"

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* Chris ''tries'' to do this to Kim in ''Theatre/MissSaigon'', but finds himself too enamored of her to leave. Plus, she wakes up shortly after he returns to her room.

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* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', [[spoiler:Eva does this to Naked Snake, leaving behind a note that tells of TheReveal.]]
* Enforceable in ''VideoGame/Persona3 [[VideoGameRemake Portable]]'', if the female main character [[spoiler:does Shinjiro's [[OptionalSexualEncounter special event]] on October 3rd...]]

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* Happens twice in ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'': [[spoiler:after having sex with Shiki, Arcueid leaves to fight Roa alone to not endanger Shiki; similarly, Kohaku drugs him and leaves to confront Akiha on her own]]. The former scene also makes it to the anime adaptation.[[note]]There the sex is implied though embracing and nakedness rather than being overt.[[/note]]

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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', episode ''Stan of Arabia'', Hayley the liberal moves to Saudi Arabia and jumps into bed with a member of Al-Qaeda. She wakes up and says, "Hmm, now I know how a kebab feels." She rolls over and finds him gone, in his place is a note explaining that he's gone away to bomb the American embassy. When she arrives at the embassy, she finds him working a fast food kiosk nearby. Two American girls walk up and explain, "He tricked you into thinking he was a terrorist so you'd have sex with him. He does that with all the American girls."
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': Mel is shown waking up alone after spending the night with Jayce. The very next scene shows he has a good reason to have left, since he went to the hospital after hearing [[DelicateAndSickly Viktor]] had collapsed.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' both parties end up doing this in "Tanks for Nuthin'"; [[TheCasanova Brock]] tries to sneak out of his newfound partner [[WonderWomanWannabe Warriana]]'s apartment only to see she's already up and dressed for work and she dismissively tells him there's coffee in the kitchen. However the two make up by the end of the episode and start a proper relationship.

* In ''FanFic/RivalsSeries'': this happens twice:

* Subverted in ''FanFic/ThingsWeDontTellHumans''. Wheeljack wasn't supposed to stay for breakfast, but he does, much to everyone's brief embarrassment when Prowl finds him asleep on the couch with Ratchet.

* Subverted on ''Series/{{ER}}'' when Carol wakes up and finds Doug gone. He walks into the room a second later with breakfast and teases her about her thinking that he had left, although given his previous behavior (he did this frequently the first time they dated) he can hardly blame her.

* [[spoiler:Eris]] of ''LightNovel/MushokuTenseiJoblessReincarnation'' leaves after her first night with Rudeus, leaving a vaguely-worded note that seems to imply he's inadequate. She actually left because she felt ''she'' was inadequate and needed to be stronger so she could stand by his side; she's bordering on illiterate at that point.

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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''

* ''Series/Batwoman2019''. Played seriously when Kate Kane hooks up again with a girl she briefly dated earlier in the series, after a [[GladToBeAliveSex near-fatal mission]] to retrieve Lucius Fox's journal, only to wake up the next day and [[HoneyTrap find both the girl and journal are missing]].

* Arashi and Sorata from ''Manga/{{X1999}}'', with the woman leaving. Depending on which version of events you follow, this leads to DeathBySex for either or both of them.

Sometimes the man is leaving on a mission. Added pathos points if the man is [[DeathBySex going to his death]]. In this case, he will often have left [[MementoMacGuffin something]] (or [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy someone]]) behind.

* ''Film/JamesBond'': James is a veteran lover and leaver, but this is done to ''him'' in at least two films--''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'' and ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' (possibly referencing the former film and even if not, fitting, as the woman doing is a DistaffCounterpart)

** ''Film/IronMan3'': Tony does this to [[HotScientist Dr. Maya Hansen]] in the opening prologue taking place before the first movie. [[spoiler:It bites him in the butt years later when she returns with a vengeance.]]

[[folder:Film]]

* In the ''Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw'' episode "The Retreat", Jen sleeps with a guy who was not only gone the next morning, but never called her back or answered her text messages. TheStinger makes this even worse when it's revealed that [[spoiler: he only slept with her so he can steal her blood sample for the HulkKing.]]

* ''Film/Daredevil2003''. Matt Murdock gets dumped by a girl he's dating for constantly doing this trope. Of course his reasons for slipping out at night are because he's a masked vigilante, plus [[BlessedWithSuck he has to sleep in a sensory deprivation chamber]] thanks to his SuperHearing--but he can hardly tell her this. Later Elektra does the same to him.

* * ''Film/Daredevil2003''. Matt Murdock gets dumped by a girl he's dating for constantly doing this trope. Of course his reasons for slipping out at night are because he's a masked vigilante, plus [[BlessedWithSuck he has to sleep in a sensory deprivation chamber]] thanks to his SuperHearing--but he can hardly tell her this. Later Elektra does the same to him.

* Elektra does this to Matt in ''Film/{{Daredevil}}''.

* ''Film/Daredevil2003''. Matt Murdock gets dumped by a girl he's dating for constantly doing this trope. Of course his reasons for slipping out at night are because he's a masked vigilante, plus [[BlessedWithSuck he has to sleep in a sensory deprivation chamber]] thanks to his SuperHearing--but he can hardly tell her this.

* ''Film/Daredevil2003''. Matt Murdock gets dumped by a girl he's dating for constantly doing this trope. Of course his reasons for slipping out at night are because he's a masked vigilante, plus [[BlessedWithStuck he has to sleep in a sensory deprivation chamber]] thanks to his SuperHearing--but he can't exactly tell her this.

* Played with in ''Film/TheEigerSanction'' (1975). Government assassin Dr Hemlock meets a beautiful black stewardess on the aircraft taking him to Switzerland and spends the night with her, only to find she's gone the next day. Then to his delight she rings him on the phone...[[HoneyTrap only to tell him to get in contact with his spymaster boss]].

* "Angel of the Morning" was a hit song in 1968 for Merrilee Rush and the Turnabouts. Its importance can be gauged by the 29 cover versions listed on Wiki/TheOtherWiki, from 1968 to 2007. It describes the feelings of a woman who expects her lover to Not Stay For Breakfast. She has an adult acceptance of the one-night-stand she is seeking, but is conflicted; perhaps longing for something more.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': Mel is shown waking up alone after spending the night with Jayce. The very next scene shows he has a good reason to have left, since he's in the hospital with [[IllGirl Viktor]].

* Arashi and Sorata from ''Manga/{{X1999}}'', with the woman leaving. Depending on which version of events you follow, this either leads to DeathBySex for either or both of them.