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-->'''Coleman''': Here's a little bon voyage present for you guys. Gunpowder, nitroglycerine and .44 caliber primers.
-->'''Gordon''': How the devil do you know about explosives?
-->'''Coleman''': U.S. Marshal Coleman. The President wanted me to look after you. But I draw the line at defying gravity, so good luck.

-->'''Aragorn''': ''(to Frodo)'' I would have gone with you to the end. Into the very fires of Mordor.
-->'''Frodo:''' I know.

* In ''Film/{{Hercules 1983}}'', Circe utters "This is as far as I dare go" as she and Hercules arrive on the shores of the principal villain's kingdom, as she was exiled from it long ago as an enemy. Shortly afterward, she is slain by a mechanical centaur sent to stop them.

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* Gwaine does this in season 3 of ''{{Series/Merlin 2008}}'', when he still can't come back to Camelot or Uther will kill him.

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* Spoofed on ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "The Honking", where the robo-villager hired to bring them to the castle says the phrase... five feet from the front door of the castle.

* Inverted in the film version of ''[[Film/TheLordoftheRings The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring]]'' when TheHero, Frodo, ''chooses'' to go on alone into Mordor, although his far more experienced companions would willingly have gone with him.

* In ''Film/StarTrek'', [[spoiler:Spock Prime]] tells Kirk that he can't go with him and Scotty to the ''Enterprise'', saying "That is not my destiny."

** Explicitly parodied in an episode of {{Futurama}} with a village of superstitious robo-peasants, one of whom delivers this exact line as he lets the group out of the carriage... five feet from the front door...

* Spoofed on ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "The Honking", where the villager says the phrase at the front door of the castle.

* In WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory Ego Trip, Dexter and his 22-year-old future self went further into the future to see the utopia they'll create with their neurotomic stabilizer. A guide showed them the way to the home of an elderly Dexter but wouldn't enter for considering himself unworthy.

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* Each of Dante's guides in ''TheDivineComedy'' can only go so far with him because of their divine fates. Vergil, his first guide, can only lead him to the end of Purgatory because he's bound to the First Circle of Hell (the "noble pagans") and his forbidden to enter Heaven.

* ''ThePhantomOfTheOpera'', as Madame Giry leads Raoul to the Phantom.

* In an episode of ''Ben10UltimateAlien'', Paradox takes the protagonists to the edge of a section of space he's no longer allowed in because of an intergalactic treaty, but leaves before he draws attention to himself.

* Gwaine does this in season 3 of ''{{Series/Merlin}}'', when he still can't come back to Camelot or Uther will kill him.

* In ''Film/{{Hercules1983}}'', Circe utters "This is as far as I dare go" as she and Hercules arrive on the shores of the principal villain's kingdom, as she was exiled from it long ago as an enemy. Shortly afterward, she is slain by a mechanical centaur sent to stop them.

* Lampshaded in ''TheMightyBoosh'' episode ''Jungle''. After Howard passes the test to prove his worth to Rudi, Rudi agrees to take him part of the way to the centre of the jungle. Rudi carries Howard forward about two metres before claiming it's as far as he goes.
* Played with a bit in an episode of Boy Meets World. When stuck in Amish Country, Corey's trying to walk back home, when he's lapped by an amish man in a buggy. The man offers Corey a ride, but informs him he's only going as far as "that barn, there", somewhere nearby offscreen. Corey remarks on how useless the offer is.
* In the two-part first episode of ''PairOfKings'', the Kings got help from the Tarantula people to get a new ruby. The Tarantula people refused to enter the temple, which surprised the Kings, considering everything else the Tarantula people agreed to do. However, given the dangers inside the temple, the Tarantula people were justified in their refusal.

* Very common in old horror films, particularly the various versions of ''{{Frankenstein}}''. The protagonist would ask for a ride to the MadScientist's castle, and whatever frightened villager would be foolhardy enough to oblige would stop at the long road up to the castle, then explain that "I can take you this far and no further."
* ''[[Film/{{Hellboy}} Hellboy II: The Golden Army]]''

* Inverted in the film version of ''[[TheLordoftheRings The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring]]'' when TheHero, Frodo, ''chooses'' to go on alone into Mordor, although his far more experienced companions would willingly have gone with him.

* In MightyMorphinPowerRangers TheMovie, the rangers went to another planet to seek the power to defeat Ivan Ooze. There, they met a warrior who agreed to guide them around but reached a spot where she said she'd grow older than Zordon if she ever went further.

** Also when the hobbits are leaving the Shire, Samwise stops and says "This is it." then follows up with "If I take one more step, it'll be the farthest away from home I've ever been." and proceeds to stay with Frodo throughout the rest of the story.

* In ''Northern Lights'' (aka ''TheGoldenCompass''), Iorek cannot cross the ice bridge, and thus Lyra must go alone to face her father.

* ''DungeonsAndDragons''

* In ''[[DonRosa Return to Plain Awful]]'', Flintheart Glomgold hires a guide to take him to the village of Plain Awful. When they reach a wall they could easily jump, the guide invokes the trope. Assuming the guide is just being cowardly and/or superstitious, Glomgold jumps the wall before the guide has the chance to explain why they shouldn't go further: Glomgold [[OhCrap jumped off a cliff]].

* In ''[[DonRosa Return to Plain Awful]]'', Flintheart Glomgold hired a guide to take him to the village of Plain Awful. When they reached a wall they could easily jump, the guide invoked the trope. Assuming the guide was just being cowardly and/or superstitious, Glomgold jumped the wall before the guide had the chance to explain why they shouldn't go further. Glomgold [[OhCrap jumped off a cliff]].

* In one ''GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex 2nd Gig'' episode, Togusa and a woman are looking for a man in a refugee city. They happen upon a teenager who worked with the man in a coal mine and owes his life to him for getting him out in time before the mines were sealed shut after an incident, with many workers trapped inside. When asked if he would take them to the mine entrance, the teenager initially refuses. But after some prodding, reluctantly leads the two there before stating he won't go any further.