History Main / OneWayTrip

* About halfway through ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', Tidus finds out this is the case for [[spoiler: every High Summoner and then the whole party learns a short time later that at least one Guardian is expected to be sacrificed as well. To top it off, the PowersThatBe know that each time this sacrifice is made there is NO HOPE of it lasting]]

!!'''Often an ending or DeathTrope, so beware of spoilers.'''

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* In ''Manga/BusoRenkin'', Kazuki [[spoiler: punts himself and Victor to the Moon, in the knowledge that there will be no rescue]].

* Done subtly in ''Anime/CodeGeass''.

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* In ''Film/TheAbyss'', Bud Brigman uses up too much of his oxygen getting to the nuke and disarming it to return to the undersea habitat. He even uses the phrase "I knew it was a one-way trip". {{Subverted}} in that he's saved by the aliens. Also, it's the aliens who stop 50-foot waves from flooding coastal cities and not him. To be fair, the aliens were inspired by Bud's message.
* In ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', the OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness launches a nuke at Manhattan in the hopes of shutting down the portal that is spewing the Chitauri invasion forces. Fury warns Iron Man about it. Just before the Black Widow shuts down the portal, Tony flies the nuke Superman-style into the portal with Captain America telling him it's a one-way trip (because, despite the portal being two-way, the Avengers can't risk leaving it open and have to shut it immediately). The boosters use up the power of the ARC reactor, and Tony releases the missile as it flies towards TheMothership. His out-of-power suit starts falling back to towards the portal and barely makes it through before it closes.

* From ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074899/ Midway]]'': a Japanese sailor stops the pilot attempting to board the aircraft he's working on: 'Sir, there's a hole in the right fuel tank!' Pilot: 'Did you fill the left one?'
* In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'', there was only enough fuel in the jetpacks for the monsters to get to the BigBad's UFO.
* ''Film/TheThing1982''. An alien capable of [[KillAndReplace duplicating and replacing]] people infests an Antarctic camp. If it makes it out into the world, humanity is doomed. After it's apparently destroyed, the two survivors (one of whom may be an alien replacement) talk it over.

* From ''Franchise/StarWars'': "Escape is not his plan. [[LeaveHimToMe I must face him alone]]."

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* Tecna of ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' decides to enter the Omega Portal and close it the only way she can�from the inside�to save Andros from exploding, though she knows that she will most likely never be able to survive there with all the escaped convicts around, much less ever be found [[spoiler:Timmy manages to find her by building a super computer linked to her]]

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* Leave A Legacy, an Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes fan fic, has an entire basis on Janet knowing that she will not survive the mission. Possibly a dead fic.

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* In ''Film/TheAbyss'', Bud Brigman uses up too much of his oxygen getting to the nuke and disarming it to return to the undersea habitat. He even uses the phrase "I knew it was a one way trip".
** [[spoiler: In a subversion, he's saved by the aliens and makes it anyway.]]
*** [[spoiler:Not "anyway" but "because of". The aliens save him and stop 50-foot waves from flooding coastal cities because of that one message]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'', there was only enough fuel in the jetpacks for the monsters to get to the BigBad's UFO.
* From ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074899/ Midway]]'': a Japanese sailor stops the pilot attempting to board the aircraft he's working on: 'Sir, there's a hole in the right fuel tank!' Pilot: 'Did you fill the left one?'

* In ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', the OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness launches a nuke at Manhattan in the hopes of shutting down the portal that is spewing the Chitauri invasion forces. Fury warns Iron Man about it. Just before the Black Widow shuts down the portal, Tony flies the nuke Superman-style into the portal with Captain America telling him it's a one-way trip (because, despite the portal being two-way, the Avengers can't risk leaving it open and have to shut it immediately). The boosters use up the power of the ARC reactor, and Tony releases the missile as it flies towards TheMothership. His out-of-power suit starts falling back to towards the portal and barely makes it through before it closes.

--> [[spoiler: Mark: How do we set the nukes inside the comet and get out before they blow?]]
--> [[spoiler: Orin Monash: We don't.]]

--> [[spoiler: Kurt Russel: 'We're not gonna make it!]]
--> [[spoiler: Stephen Segal: 'You will' (pushes him to safety and falls)]]

-->'''Childs''': The explosions set the temperatures up all over the camp. But it won't last long though.
-->'''[=MacReady=]''': When these fires go out, neither will we.
-->'''Childs''': How will we make it?
-->'''[=MacReady=]''': Maybe we shouldn't.

* In ''[[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings The Return of the King]]'' Frodo's only concern is that they have enough supplies to reach Mount Doom. Samwise mutters that they might be wanting to make it back as well. Sam slowly realizes that they almost definitely won't make it back.

Often an ending or death trope, so beware of spoilers.

** The [[AirstrikeImpossible Doolittle Raid]] in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII wasn't ''strictly'' supposed to be this, with the plan being for very stripped-down US Army B-25 Mitchell medium bombers carrying extra fuel to launch from Navy aircraft carriers, bomb targets in Japan, and then land at friendly airfields in China. The Navy task force was discovered a day before they planned to launch, forcing the Army bombers to launch several hundred miles farther away from Japan than they intended, and most of their intended airfields in China were captured by the Japanese. Several bombers ended up crash landing in the sea or in China, and one managed to make it to the neutral Soviet Union[[note]]Though the Russians were fighting the Germans alongside the Americans and British, they were neutral in the war with Japan.[[/note]], where the crew was interred for some time. The motivation for this raid? The Americans badly needed a victory to rally morale, due to a string of losses in the first few months of the war. As a side benefit, the Japanese, thinking the Americans had a land base within range of the Home Islands, ended up diverting considerable resources to their defense, [[ParanoiaGambit years before the Americans would be able to launch any]] ''real'' attacks.

* In ''Manga/BusouRenkin'', Kazuki [[spoiler: punts himself and Victor to the Moon, in the knowledge that there will be no rescue]].

* In ''[[LordOfTheRings The Return of the King]]'' Frodo's only concern is that they have enough supplies to reach Mount Doom. Samwise mutters that they might be wanting to make it back as well. Sam slowly realizes that they almost definitely won't make it back.

* In ''[[LordOfTheRings The Return of the King]]'' Frodo's only concern is that they have enough supplies to reach Mount Doom. Samwise mutters that they might be wanting to make it back as well.