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* In ''ComicBook/DeathVigil'' the Reaper has no problem with being summoned for engagements her Death Knights can't win on their own. And yes, both are heroic.
* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke''.

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* In ''ComicBook/DeathVigil'' ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'':
** ''ComicBook/Aquaman2016'':
*** Aquaman and Jurok launch a desperate attack to destroy Corum Rath's Crown of Thorns, but are overwhelmed by his forces. When all seems to be lost, [[spoiler:King Shark and
the Ninth Tride arrive to assist him, turning the tide of the battle]].
*** During the final battle against Corum Rath, [[spoiler:Aquaman is severely wounded, Atlan's Trident is broken, and the heroes' forces are overwhelmed by the villain's undead monsters. Cue Mera arriving with Orm's Trident and the Xebellian army to save the day]].
* ''ComicBook/BakerStreet'': In issue #5, Sharon and Susan are about to be shot by Davenport and his henchmen when they are saved by the arrival of Domino and the Tower of Hell gang, who have the area surrounded and have just heard Davenport's confession that he is really the one behind the deaths of their members during the recent gang wars.
* ''ComicBook/BlazeOfGlory'': In an inversion of the trope's original form, it is Red Wolf and his tribe who show up to save the day in the last issue. Kid Colt [[LampshadeHanging lampshades it]].
--> '''Kid Colt:''' Well, would you look at that! Cavalry's come to town---[[{{Irony}} and they're all injuns!]]
* ''ComicBook/TheBluecoats'': Repeatedly subverted; since the heroes ''are'' the cavalry, more often than not they need rescuing. The fact that Captain Stark's sole known order is "CHAAAAAAAARRRGGGGGEEEEE!", willingness to attack when his regiment is reduced to ''three people'' including himself, and refusal to retreat under any circumstances ([[KnowWhenToFoldEm save a wildfire]]) might have something to do with it.
%%* ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'': Namor's arrival at the end of the Civil War should count as one. Problem was, Iron Man had his own cavalry as well.%%ZCE -- why *does* it count?
* ''ComicBook/DeathVigil'': The
Reaper has no problem with being summoned for engagements her Death Knights can't win on their own. And yes, both are heroic.
* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke''.''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'':



* ''Franchise/GreenLantern'': The Green Lantern Corps frequently pops in to help out on Earth, doing so in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' amongst other stories.
* ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'':
** In one story, the role of the cavalry is played by ''the entire population of Earth'', freshly given superpowers and ready to tear apart a primordial force of evil in order to help Superman.
** In an earlier point in that JLA run, this is done -- with a tad more subtlety -- when the entire population of Earth is mobilized by Superman to fight back against an alien White Martian invasion, using fire. Earlier in that story, Batman acts as a one-man cavalry in service to the entire, captive JLA. Given extra oomph since the aliens are convinced that he's no threat because he's "[[BadassNormal just a man]]".

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* ''Franchise/GreenLantern'': ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': The Green Lantern Corps frequently pops in to help out on Earth, doing so in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' amongst other stories.
* ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'':
''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'':
** ''ComicBook/JLA1997'':
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In one story, the ''ComicBook/JLA1997'' story arc "World War III", the role of the cavalry is played by ''the entire population of Earth'', freshly given superpowers and ready to tear apart a primordial force of evil in order to help Superman.
** *** In an earlier point in that JLA run, the first couple of issues, this is done -- with a tad more subtlety -- when the entire population of Earth is mobilized by Superman to fight back against an alien White Martian invasion, using fire. Earlier in that story, Batman acts as a one-man cavalry in service to the entire, captive JLA. Given extra oomph since the aliens are convinced that he's no threat because he's "[[BadassNormal just a man]]".man]]".
* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'':
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDWIssue32To33 Night of the Living Apples]]", just when the attack on Sweet Apple Acres goes sour and Twilight, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Applejack are about to completely overwhelmed by the living apples, Fluttershy -- having just learned how to take control of her normally wild and animalistic vampiric form -- arrives with an enormous flock of vampire fruit bats in tow to rescue them.
** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDWIssue100To102 issue #102]], the foreign elements show up as the Knights are destroying Canterlot to rescue the heroes.



* ''ComicBook/SensationComicsFeaturingWonderWoman'': Diana shows up with an actual cavalry contingent of Amazons to save the day when Oracle calls her to help Gotham after the Bat-Rogues have, for once, actually properly teamed up and managed to take down Batman, Nightwing and Robin in an explosion, overwhelm the not badly wounded Bat-Fam members, and are quickly turning Gotham into a living hell.
* ''ComicBook/BlazeOfGlory'': In an inversion of the trope's original form, it is Red Wolf and his tribe who show up to save the day in the last issue. Kid Colt [[LampshadeHanging lampshades it]].
--> '''Kid Colt:''' Well, would you look at that! Cavalry's come to town---[[{{Irony}} and they're all injuns!]]



%%* ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'': Namor's arrival at the end of the Civil War should count as one. Problem was, Iron Man had his own cavalry as well.%%ZCE -- why *does* it count?
* In ''ComicBook/{{Violine}}'', Violine's pet mouse, Klaas, provides one in the form of his offspring.
* ''ComicBook/UltronForever:'' Faced with an endless army of Ultron robots, and the offer of surrender and be turned into a mindless slave or to fight, lose and ''then'' be turned into a mindless slave (but with more pain), the Avengers are joined by the entirety of the Nine Realms. Some epic [[HoldTheLine line-holding]] ensues.
* In ''ComicBook/BakerStreet'' #5, Sharon and Susan are about to be shot by Davenport and his henchmen when they are saved by the arrival of Domino and the Tower of Hell gang, who have the area surrounded and have just heard Davenport's confession that he is really the one behind the deaths of their members during the recent gang wars.
* In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise'', things look hopeless for the Autobots after Megatron takes the capital, until Ironhide and the Dinobots (who were all presumed dead) show up to turn the tide.

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%%* ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'': Namor's arrival at the end of the Civil War should count as one. Problem was, Iron Man had his own cavalry as well.%%ZCE -- why *does* it count?
* In ''ComicBook/{{Violine}}'', Violine's pet mouse, Klaas, provides one in the form of his offspring.
* ''ComicBook/UltronForever:'' Faced with an endless army of Ultron robots, and the offer of surrender and be turned into a mindless slave or to fight, lose and ''then'' be turned into a mindless slave (but with more pain), the Avengers are joined by the entirety of the Nine Realms. Some epic [[HoldTheLine line-holding]] ensues.
* In ''ComicBook/BakerStreet'' #5, Sharon and Susan are about to be shot by Davenport and his henchmen when they are saved by the arrival of Domino and the Tower of Hell gang, who have the area surrounded and have just heard Davenport's confession that he is really the one behind the deaths of their members during the recent gang wars.
* In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise'', things
''ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise': Things look hopeless for the Autobots after Megatron takes the capital, until Ironhide and the Dinobots (who were all presumed dead) show up to turn the tide.



* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'':
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDWIssue32To33 Night of the Living Apples]]", just when the attack on Sweet Apple Acres goes sour and Twilight, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Applejack are about to completely overwhelmed by the living apples, Fluttershy -- having just learned how to take control of her normally wild and animalistic vampiric form -- arrives with an enormous flock of vampire fruit bats in tow to rescue them.
** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDWIssue100To102 issue #102]], the foreign elements show up as the Knights are destroying Canterlot to rescue the heroes.
* ''ComicBook/TheBluecoats'': Repeatedly subverted; since the heroes ''are'' the cavalry, more often than not they need rescuing. The fact that Captain Stark's sole known order is "CHAAAAAAAARRRGGGGGEEEEE!", willingness to attack when his regiment is reduced to ''three people'' including himself, and refusal to retreat under any circumstances ([[KnowWhenToFoldEm save a wildfire]]) might have something to do with it.

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* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'':
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDWIssue32To33 Night
''ComicBook/UltronForever'': Faced with an endless army of Ultron robots, and the offer of surrender and be turned into a mindless slave or to fight, lose and ''then'' be turned into a mindless slave (but with more pain), the Avengers are joined by the entirety of the Living Apples]]", just Nine Realms. Some epic [[HoldTheLine line-holding]] ensues.
* ''ComicBook/{{Violine}}'': Violine's pet mouse, Klaas, provides one in the form of his offspring.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': In ''ComicBook/SensationComicsFeaturingWonderWoman'', Diana shows up with an actual cavalry contingent of Amazons to save the day
when Oracle calls her to help Gotham after the attack on Sweet Apple Acres goes sour Bat-Rogues have, for once, actually properly teamed up and Twilight, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Applejack are about to completely overwhelmed by the living apples, Fluttershy -- having just learned how managed to take control of her normally wild down Batman, Nightwing and animalistic vampiric form -- arrives with Robin in an enormous flock of vampire fruit bats in tow to rescue them.
** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDWIssue100To102 issue #102]],
explosion, overwhelm the foreign elements show up as the Knights not badly wounded Bat-Fam members, and are destroying Canterlot to rescue the heroes.
* ''ComicBook/TheBluecoats'': Repeatedly subverted; since the heroes ''are'' the cavalry, more often than not they need rescuing. The fact that Captain Stark's sole known order is "CHAAAAAAAARRRGGGGGEEEEE!", willingness to attack when his regiment is reduced to ''three people'' including himself, and refusal to retreat under any circumstances ([[KnowWhenToFoldEm save
quickly turning Gotham into a wildfire]]) might have something to do with it.living hell.
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** Much later in the series, [[spoiler:during the final battle against Eren and the past Titan shifters, the Alliance is on the verge of defeat. Pieck is skewered in place by Lara Tybur's Warhammer Titan, while Armin is trapped in Okapi Titan's mouth. Connie and Jean are both hanging by a single tether, only barely stopping Levi and Reiner respectively from falling to their deaths. Just when Mikasa gathers the strength to continue the fight alone, Annie and Gabi fly in on Falco's Jaw Titan, saving the dangling soldiers and joining the battle.]]

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* William Sanders's ''Journey to Fusang'' is an alternative history in which Europe lost out to China and the Arabs in the race to colonize the New World. The Big Bad is a Mongol warlord who wants his piece of North America. The hero escapes from the villain and is chased through the desert by Asian horsemen, He is saved by the timely arrival of some Native Americans. Yep, he says it: "If those savages hadn't arrived in the nick of time, those cavalrymen would have killed us."

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* William Sanders's ''Journey to Fusang'' ''Literature/JourneyToFusang'' is an alternative history in which Europe lost out to China and the Arabs in the race to colonize the New World. The Big Bad is a Mongol warlord who wants his piece of North America. The hero escapes from the villain and is chased through the desert by Asian horsemen, He is saved by the timely arrival of some Native Americans. Yep, he says it: "If those savages hadn't arrived in the nick of time, those cavalrymen would have killed us."



* In Creator/PoulAnderson's ''Three-Cornered Wheel'', the natives arrive to save young David Falkayn from attack.

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* In Creator/PoulAnderson's ''Three-Cornered Wheel'', ''Literature/ThreeCorneredWheel'', the natives arrive to save young David Falkayn from attack.


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* ''Literature/TheGoldenHamsterSaga'': In ''Freddy in Peril'', the guinea pigs Enrico and Caruso manage to communicate to their owner Mr. John that Freddy the hamster has been kidnapped by MadScientist Professor Fleischkopf. Mr. John races to Freddy's rescue, with the help of his friends Gregory and Linda. They arrive just as Professor Fleischkopf is about to dissect Freddy's brain.
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* ''Film/{{Sheroes}}'': Near the end, when it looks like the girls will be shot dead by the drug traffickers, a team of DEA agents arrives, rescuring them.
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* ''Literature/WarsOfTheRealm'': several times throughout ''Light of the Last'', Commander Malak and his legions of [[TheArmiesOfHeaven warrior angels]] arrive just in the nick of time to save Validus and his team from being obliterated by the Fallen.
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** Right when things begin to escalate in Egghead, who decides to show up to provide backup? [[spoiler:[[TheBusCameBack Dorry and Brogy]], leading the once-disbanded [[OurGiantsAreBigger Giant Warrior Pirates]].]] Within minutes, what looked like a difficult stalemate turns into a ''vastly'' more hopeful situation.
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* ''ComicBook/ROMSpaceknight'': The Dire Wraiths have succesfully corrupted Earth's sun and soon Earth itself will become another Wraithworld. Rom's attempt to stop them fails when they use magic to paralyze him. [[DarkestHour All seems lost]] - but then, it turns out Rick Jones sent out a call to every hero available around the world to help Rom... and now [[BigDamnHeroes EVERYONE IS HERE]].
-->'''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica:''' That's where you're wrong, wraiths! The heroes of Earth would never surrender their world without a fight!!
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** ''Literature/StormFront'', Morgan walks into the end of the climatic fight and swings his sword toward Harry, who is falling unconscious. He regains consciousness to find Morgan administering [[CleanPrettyReliable CPR]]; Harry had, after all, saved himself from falling into a maelstrom of magic by chaining himself to a burning building, and Morgan had to get him free somehow.

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** ''Literature/StormFront'', ''Literature/{{Storm Front|DresdenFiles}}'', Morgan walks into the end of the climatic fight and swings his sword toward Harry, who is falling unconscious. He regains consciousness to find Morgan administering [[CleanPrettyReliable CPR]]; Harry had, after all, saved himself from falling into a maelstrom of magic by chaining himself to a burning building, and Morgan had to get him free somehow.

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* ''Film/TheThreeMusketeers1993'': At the end, the heroes are confronted by the [[TerribleTrio goons]] that have been pursuing D'Artagnan throughout the movie. Suddenly the goons' leader screams like a girl and the goons turn and run away. [[ScaredOfWhatsBehindYou The heroes think they scared the goons away when suddenly the entire Musketeer Corps appears from behind the heroes, chasing after the goons]]. The goons could see them coming but the heroes couldn't. Possibly more a parody than a real The Cavalry moment, since the Four Musketeers are more than capable of handling SissyVillain Gerard & his brothers. However, it thoroughly emphasizes the '''"All for one"''' part of the Musketeer creed.
** A more straight-forward example happens during the climax when it's just the three main Musketeers against an entire army of Cardinal Guard, only for a large number of men who'd been standing in the background to cast off their cloaks and reveal themselves to be the rest of the Musketeers and charge the Cardinal Guard.

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* ''Film/TheThreeMusketeers1993'': ''Film/TheThreeMusketeers1993''
** During the climax it's just the three main Musketeers against an entire army of the Cardinal's Guard, only for a large number of men who'd been standing in the background to cast off their cloaks and reveal themselves to be the rest of the Musketeers and charge the Cardinal's Guard.
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At the very end, the heroes are confronted by the [[TerribleTrio goons]] that have been pursuing D'Artagnan throughout the movie. Suddenly the goons' leader screams like a girl and the goons turn and run away. [[ScaredOfWhatsBehindYou The heroes think they scared the goons away when suddenly the entire Musketeer Corps appears from behind the heroes, chasing after the goons]]. The goons could see them coming but the heroes couldn't. Possibly more a parody than a real The Cavalry moment, since the Four Musketeers are more than capable of handling SissyVillain Gerard & his brothers. However, it thoroughly emphasizes the '''"All for one"''' part of the Musketeer creed.
** A more straight-forward example happens during the climax when it's just the three main Musketeers against an entire army of Cardinal Guard, only for a large number of men who'd been standing in the background to cast off their cloaks and reveal themselves to be the rest of the Musketeers and charge the Cardinal Guard.
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* In ''Film/Serenity'', the continuation of the adventures of the crew of the Firefly class ship by the same name, the moment when Mal and the crew come through the atmosphere, and the Operative laughs at him, "bastard's not even changing course," when suddenly the lone ship is joined by an army of Reavers chasing them through the cloud cover.

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* In ''Film/Serenity'', ''Film/{{Serenity}}'', the continuation of the adventures of the crew of the Firefly class ship by the same name, the moment when Mal and the crew come through the atmosphere, and the Operative laughs at him, "bastard's not even changing course," when suddenly the lone ship is joined by an army of Reavers chasing them through the cloud cover.
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* In ''Film/Serenity'', the continuation of the adventures of the crew of the Firefly class ship by the same name, the moment when Mal and the crew come through the atmosphere, and the Operative laughs at him, "bastard's not even changing course," when suddenly the lone ship is joined by an army of Reavers chasing them through the cloud cover.
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%%* ''ComicBook/CivilWar'': Namor's arrival at the end of the Civil War should count as one. Problem was, Iron Man had his own cavalry as well.%%ZCE -- why *does* it count?

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%%* ''ComicBook/CivilWar'': ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'': Namor's arrival at the end of the Civil War should count as one. Problem was, Iron Man had his own cavalry as well.%%ZCE -- why *does* it count?
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* In the Batavia episode of ''Podcast/RelativeDisasters'', Captain Pelsaert arrives just in time to save Hayes and his people from the last of the mutineers from the Batavia.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': Before Madame Rouge has a chance to squash Beast Boy like a bug in [Recap/TeenTitansS5E12TitansTogether the second-to-last episode]], the ground beneath her starts to crumble... out pops Cyborg and some reinforcements! Ceiling bursts open... and Starfire has some more! Finally Raven brings in the last of them and Battle Royal against the Brotherhood of Evil begins!!!

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* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': Before Madame Rouge has a chance to squash Beast Boy like a bug in [Recap/TeenTitansS5E12TitansTogether [[Recap/TeenTitansS5E12TitansTogether the second-to-last episode]], the ground beneath her starts to crumble... out pops Cyborg and some reinforcements! Ceiling bursts open... and Starfire has some more! Finally Raven brings in the last of them and Battle Royal against the Brotherhood of Evil begins!!!
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* Subverted in the ''Literature/{{Nameless War}}'' series, as Captain Faith Willis, commanding officer of the squadron of elderly warships nicknamed the Geriatrics, receives word that that the relief force she has been desperately hoping for is still days away.

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* Subverted in the ''Literature/{{Nameless War}}'' series, ''Literature/TheNamelessWar'', as Captain Faith Willis, commanding officer of the squadron of elderly warships nicknamed the Geriatrics, receives word that that the relief force she has been desperately hoping for is still days away.

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