History Main / NothingCanSaveUsNow

* ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}'': "I'm lost, Aura, nothing can save me now." Cue Music/{{Queen}}..."FLASH! Ah-Ahhhhh!"

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Compare [[SheWillComeForMe She Won't Come For Me]].

* This is Zigzagged in the beginning of the ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' episode "Operation: U.N.D.E.R.C.O.V.E.R." Numbuh One shouts, "Okay team, let's not give up hope now!" to which Numbuh Five replies, "No problem! Cause Numbuh Five gave up hope a long time ago!" The camera then pans to show that the situation IS rather grim; all five members of Sector V are chained to an iceberg with [[TheDragon the Delightful Children]] closing in on a high-tech craft armed with giant, spiked hammers. (The heroes are saved when one of the Delightful Children - Lenny - apparently makes a mistake that causes the craft to rocket away. Later, [[spoiler:it turns out that this was Lenny's way of getting them to trust them for a plan where he acted as a ReverseMole.]])

* In film version of ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Two Towers]]'', an orc is about to kill Merry and Pippin, giggling how nothing can save them now. At that ''exact'' moment, the heroic Riders of Rohan attack and skewer that orc in particular.

* ''[[TransformersFilmSeries Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen]]'', when Jetfire reveals that only a Prime can defeat [[BigBad The Fallen]] in combat, Sam mentions Optimus Prime (who just happened to be LastOfHisKind) and Jetfire inquires as to whether he is alive and on the planet. Sam them breaks in saying that Optimus fell trying to protect him. A disgruntled Jetfire then has this reaction: "So, he's dead. Without a Prime it's impossible." But then they get the idea of trying to bring him BackFromTheDead, so it works out in the end.

* ''Film/FlashGordon'': "I'm lost Aura, nothing can save me now." Cue {{Queen}}..."FLASH! Ah-Ahhhhh!"

* In ''WebAnimation/{{Arfenhouse}} Teh Movie Too'', after Housemaster blows up the grocery store, Joseph turns to him and says, "Now you'll never get another Arfenhouse... not that I care..." A moment later, the Arfenhouse reappears ('''HOUSE GET!''') and Joseph [[GivingUpOnLogic gives up on logic]].

* In ''WebAnimation/{{Arfenhouse}} Teh Movie Too'', after Housemaster blows up the grocery store, Joseph turns to him and says, "Now you'll never get another Arfenhouse... not that I care..." A moment later, '''HOUSE GET!'''

* Invoked almost word for word in ''DeadRising'': "[[spoiler: The helicopter crashed...]] Nobody's coming to save us now..."

* Parodied in ''TheSimpsons'' "Radioactive Man" where the actor blurts this out right before sidekick Fallout Boy rescues him from the wave of acid. Fallout Boy doesn't arrive on cue, so Radioactive Man repeats. Nope. "My eyes! [[GogglesDoNothing The goggles do nothing!"]]
* Spoofed on FamilyGuy when exterminators act like they're in the middle of a BugWar and when cornered by fleas note the only thing left to do is pray.

* The titular character of ''HellTeacherNube'' has died, halfway through his own series, even. Then his students get attacked by a RealityWarper --the fearsome Agyou-san, a monster that can negate anything you say. Oh, wait, the demon isn't here! It's suddenly standing right behind you. It's just a harmless-looking, goofy thing! Agyou-san is now an EldritchAbomination-type mass of flesh and [[CombatTentacles tentacles]]. But wait, [[AnIcePerson Yukime]] and [[NobleDemon Tamamo]] are here, they can beat him! They're immediately impaled and nearly killed. [[NothingCanSaveUsNow If only Nube were here]], but ''[[BigDamnHeroes he's dead]]''...!

* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''SluggyFreelance'', during the Storm Breaker arc. Before Torg and Zoe pick up the book of Gud, Torg proclaims loudly that the situation is hopeless in an attempt to summon help. Zoe asks why he did that, and Torg explains this trope to her. When she acknowledges its relation to NothingCanStopUsNow, the BigBad shows up without warning.

* In film version of ''[[TheLordOfTheRings The Two Towers]]'', an orc is about to kill Merry and Pippin, giggling how nothing can save them now. At that ''exact'' moment, the heroic Riders of Rohan attack and skewer that orc in particular.

-->--'''''Series/TheInvisibleMan'''''

* In Mel Brooks' ''HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'', a character in the Roman Empire segment cries out "Only a miracle could save us now!" Cue Miracle the race-horse. In the French Revolution segment another character does the same. Cue Miracle and one of the Romans, who has chosen to ignore the story's internal logic.

* This is Zigzagged in the beginning of the ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' episode "Operation: U.N.D.E.R.C.O.V.E.R." Numbuh One shouts, "Okay team, let's not give up hope now!" to which Numbuh Five replies, "Fine, cause Numbuh Five gave up hope a long time ago!" The camera then pans to show that the situation IS rather grim; all five members of Sector V are chained to an iceberg with [[TheDragon the Delightful Children]] closing in on a high-tech craft armed with giant, spiked hammers. (The heroes are saved when one of the Delightful Children - Lenny - apparently makes a mistake that causes the craft to rocket away. Later, [[spoiler:it turns out that this was Lenny's way of getting them to trust them for a plan where he acted as a ReverseMole.]])

* This is Zigzagged in the beginning of the ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' episode "Operation: U.N.D.E.R.C.O.V.E.R." Numbuh One shouts, "Okay team, let's not give up hope now!" to which Numbuh Five replies, "Fine, cause Numbuh Five gave up hope a long time ago!" The camera then pans to show that the situation IS rather grim; all five members of Sector V are chained to an iceberg with [[TheDragon the Delightful Children]] closing in on a high-tech craft armed with giant, spiked hammers. (The heroes are saved when one of the Delightful Children - Lenny - apparently makes a mistake that causes the craft to rocket away. Later, [[spoiler:it turns out that this was Lenny's way of getting them to trust them for a plan where he acted as a FakeDefector.]])

->'''Bobby Hobbes''': All right. Let's review our options: Quicksilver madness -- dead. Unchecked infection -- dead. Escape the building -- dead. Stay in the building until Protocol Thirty-Four elapses -- dead.
->'''Darien Fawkes''': Oh, you left out being struck by a giant meteor.

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* During the sisters arc of ''Manga/ToAruKagakuNoRailgun'' Misaka [[spoiler: after trying many different methods of stopping the level 6 shift experiment, finally gives up after finding out the last method she could use; tampering with the supercomputer Tree Diagram, can't be used since said computer was destroyed. She resigns herself to die, saying "Even if i cry and shout, there's no hero who will hear that and come to my rescue"]] cue Touma.

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* ''[[Disney/{{Aladdin}} Aladdin: The Return of Jafar]]'':
-->'''[[JackassGenie Jafar]]''': You can never have my lamp, and it looks like no one's here to save you this time. ([[HeelFaceTurn Iago]] immediately flies down into Jafar's lava pit and starts attacking Jafar)

** Plus the Elves arriving to aid the Rohirrim at the battle of Helm's Deep, and Eomer's arrival during their last stand, and in King when the Rohirrim, then later the Army of the Dead saving Minas Tirith. And their reaction when they think Frodo's dead in the extended cut.