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Cavalry Refusal
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Our heroes are in trouble. They're being slaughtered by the Big Bad's Legions of Terror, who are obviously too strong for them... but wait! There is a large regiment of cavalry in the area. Let's just call in these guys and the Big Bad will be easily defeated. Or so you'd think. In fact, the cavalry doesn't feel like rushing in to save the day at all, and stubbornly refuses your desperate call for help. Perhaps they have some kind of Obstructive Code of Conduct forbidding them to intervene. Perhaps the Big Bad has powerful friends whom they don't want to get into trouble with. Or the Cavalry are organised more or less democratically and some of them are opposed to helping the heroes (or they all agree about that, but argue endlessly about the details). Whatever the reason, the Cavalry refuses. This trope is in play when the heroes need help, and there is an entity which could and/or should provide it but says 'Screw you'. Can lead to the heroes (and, if the unwilling Cavalry's excuse is particularly poor, the audience) exclaiming 'Why don't you do something?' or 'What The Hell, Hero?' If the heroes looked up to their supposed protectors, this will result in a Broken Pedestal. Comes in two varieties: Formal Authority is when the unwilling Cavalry is a (supposedly) neutral authority figure with power over both the heroes and the villains. They don't rush in to protect the heroes, even if the villain is clearly violating the rules which they are supposed to enforce - for example, in a schoolyard setting, a teacher not doing anything to protect the bullied protagonist. Related to Adults Are Useless and Police Are Useless. No Formal Authority is when the Cavalry have no formal power over the villains, but are big and strong enough to significantly aid the heroes. They are supposed to be on the heroes' side (thus making them potential Cavalry), but refuse to help. Compare Cavalry Betrayal (when the Cavalry does show up, but turns out not to be on the heroes' side after all), which sometimes invokes a Cavalry Refusal to set up Let's You and Him Fight (when what was thought to be the Cavalry plans to let the heroes and villains exhaust each other, before intervening to the detriment of both sides). Contrast One-Man Army (when the hero refuses any help from the Cavalry and does all the jobs on his own). It's also not unheard of for the Cavalry to rescue the heroes after all but have their own reasons for holding off. |
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Hours 'Verse: When the world is on the verge of ending late in Butterfly Cascade, Mitsuru contacts all of the older Persona users requesting backup. Yuka refuses to answer the call as she lives up north and decides she'd rather stay with her kids, Mark and Rise can't answer the call because they're overseas, and Brown and Reiji don't respond at all. | |
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The Grace of Kings: Part of the infighting that undermines the rebellion against the Xana Empire. The armies of Faça and Gan stand by at the Battle of Wolf's Paw, having been convinced they should trust Xana mercy rather than risk themselves for the other kingdoms; when Mata Zyndu rallies in a crushing victory for the rebellion, they belatedly help out, but Zyndu has their leaders arrested afterwards. | |
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Dune: The Emperor stands aside and does nothing when House Harkonnen breaks the laws of the Landsraad and openly attacks House Atreides shortly after the latter has taken up their position on Arrakis. This is because he's joined forces with House Harkonnen to get rid of the too-popular and too-successful Atreides. | |
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In Suikoden V, the Dragon Cavalry is slow to respond to the Prince's calls for aid in dealing with the uprising. This is partly because they have traditionally maintained a neutral position and stayed out of internal conflicts, but also because Nether Gate took their dragon eggs hostage. | |
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Early on in Unavowed, Kalash, the leader of the New York chapter of the titular organisation and the Player Character's boss, attempts to make an appeal to their brother chapter in Dublin for assistance in getting the current string of increased supernatural activity under control. Their leader, Lady Aralax, turns down his request, saying that they are currently themselves having too many problems to be able to spare any manpower. | |
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In the final book of The Queen's Thief, the Greater Powers decide that they don't like how the little countries of Attolia, Eddis, and Sounis have united under Eugenides so effectively that they've held off the Mede Empire multiple times, so they withold their reinforcements and betray him to the Medes instead. This backfires on them; ultimately, it only serves to make Eugenides really mad. | |
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Thranduil in The Hobbit is shown in flashbacks to have refused to help the dwarves, both against Smaug in Erebor and against the orcs in Moria, choosing not to lead his people into a hopeless battle against an enemy that they have no chance of defeating. The White Council (minus Gandalf) were going to be a third one but the dwarves (with good reason) left before they could refuse to help them. | |
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Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures: That's what drove Ezekiel Rage into becoming a criminal. He was a good guy until falling victim to the trope - he was a spy for the U.S. Government when his cover got blown, which got worse when it turned out he brought his family along as a cover. He called for assistance and they refused to bail him out. His car ran off the road, killing his wife and daughter and leaving him horribly scarred and seriously messed up. | |
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Paranormal Mystery Squad: A greater demon named K'aannl'ngua is set on attacking Las Vegas. The US military prepares to defend the city, but is then ordered to stand down by an Animal Wrongs Group activist with a presidential order declaring K'aannl'ngua an endangered species. The military then pulls out and lets Las Vegas get wrecked while the heroes have to defeat it alone. | |
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Yes, Your Grace: Atana's army does the Cavalry Betrayal variant during the battle against Radovia by simply not showing up when called for. | |
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In The Imperial Heresy, the Ultramarines don't bother going to aid the Emperor on Terra, deciding that they'd prefer to wait until both sides weaken each other and go in to finish off the survivors. This backfires when the Alpha Legion and Thousand Sons decide to attack them first. | |
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In The Dark Knight Rises, when Bane has all of Gotham held hostage, despite the government saying that they won't give up on the city, Gordon knows that they're on their own. | |
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Supernatural's first order of business after inventing a cavalry was inventing reasons for that cavalry not to help. The angels as a faction are stuck in a revolving door between this and Cavalry Betrayal. Refusal to answer the call happens regularly, but here are some notable examples: Castiel turns down Dean's pleas in Season 4's The Monster at the End of this Book, although he does offer a creative solution. The Trickster refuses to help the Winchesters when they come calling on the eve of Armageddon. It doesn't take. |
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During the Discordance of the Demiurges in Kill Six Billion Demons, Gog-Agog refuses to get involved in the battle against Jagganoth until Solomon David explicitly demands she obey the Pact of the Sevenfold World. At which point she makes a really impressive showing and partially subdues Jagganoth so the other six can set up another binding... Only to pull a full-fledged Cavalry Betrayal and abandon the others when they fail to be sufficiently contrite to her for her help. | |
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In Last Exile, the Guild (an organisation supposed to enforce The Laws and Customs of War) does nothing to help an army which is being attacked with "forbidden" tactics, because they favour the offending army. | |
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At the Battle of Ostagar in Dragon Age: Origins, the Warden is sent to light a beacon to signal Teyrn Loghain's reinforcements. When Loghain sees the beacon, he does not send the reinforcements as originally planned, but instead orders his forces to withdraw and return to the capital, leaving King Cailan, all of his forces and many of the Grey Wardens to die at the hands of the Darkspawn. Loghain does this because he believes the Darkspawn aren't massing in a true Blight*false and that Cailan's in bed with Orlais, the nation he fought bitterly against for Ferelden's freedom.*True: As established in the "Return to Ostagar" DLC, Cailan's trying to arrange for himself to divorce Loghain's daughter and marry the Empress of Orlais. Both in and out of universe, there's debate on this point. The survivors of the main army insist it was a cowardly betrayal as above, but Loghain and everyone from his army insist the king was beyond saving by that point (in the actual scene the king died seconds later but it's presented in a way that means a time skip is possible), and all charging would accomplish is getting the relievers all killed by overwhelming Darkspawn numbers. The only neutral observer simply says he quit the field, and according to Solas in the third game the reproduction of the battle in the Fade shows both versions. | |
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A justified example happens at the midpoint of the Codex Alera novels. When the Succession Crisis that's been growing more urgent as the First Lord's health worsens finally erupts into open rebellion, the First Lord calls upon his remaining loyal vassals for military aid, only to discover that The Usurper took the precaution of having at least one of each lord's family abducted to hold as hostages. The heroes do ultimately free the hostages, but not before the First Lord has to resort to some very Dirty Business to buy time. | |
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Burning Bridges, Building Confidence: Chat Noir is supposed to be Ladybug's partner and fight alongside her, and has done so for quite some time. However, shortly before this story begins, he decides that's not good enough for him: he wants a Relationship Upgrade, and decides to sit on the sidelines and refuse to help unless she admits that she needs him and agrees to start dating. When Cole calls him out on this, he dismisses her as just a civilian, prompting her to arm herself with some improvised weapons and jump in instead. This stunt also fails to impress Master Fu, who decides to establish another permanent hero in order to offset this: Vexxin, a new Fox, with Cole as its new bearer. Chat Noir pulls this again during the rampage of the Seisquake trio. His reaction to seeing Vexxin get cornered is to crouch on a fallen tree and hiss at her about how she's only getting what she deserves, perfectly happy to stand by and watch her get brutalized. Unfortunately for him, the Seisquake trio are still after his Miraculous, and his desire to watch gets him targeted for his troubles. |
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Suikoden IV: Razril is an island outpost for the Dukedom of Gaien; however, they'd been scaling back their navel operations before the game begins, forcing Razril's branch of the Knights of Gaien to heavily rely upon Vincent Vingerhut's financial backing. They make no effort to support their outpost during the war, even after the Kooluk Empire completely takes over Razril; this results in Razril seceding completely and becoming part of the newly founded Island Nations. | |
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Berserk: Casca's first meeting with Griffith starts with her escaping from a rapist. Instead of helping her, he throws a sword between the two, intending for Casca to choose to take it up and kill the guy ("If you have something you wish to protect, take up that sword."). After a struggle, Casca wins, and Griffith allows her to join him. | |
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This issue concerning Allison Danger in particular and The Chistopher Street Connection in general sexually harassing Alexis Laree caused her to leave Julio Dinero in Ring of Honor in favor of Amazing Red and AJ Styles. Even then, the cavalry was usually late concerning continued Connection advances as well as attacks by Simply Luscious and Christopher Daniels of The Prophecy, but at least Red and Styles tried. They would at least confront the guilty parties later if they were late. | |
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Delinquency of the Red Dragon: Discussed when Shirou insists that he's going to protect Asia from the Fallen Angels. Rias explains to him that the Fallen Angels have Diplomatic Impunity since up to this point, they were only hostile towards Shirou while he had Aisa and was still human, so the Devils technically can't punish them for any of their actions without risking serious political backlash. | |
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Continental Divides has Mark sent up a flare in Chapter 13, desperately signaling that he needs backup from other members of Magma. While his cohorts see the flare, nobody bothers to respond. | |
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This pretty much happens whenever a face is getting a beatdown. The other faces in the back will rarely come to the rescue no matter how many heels are doing the beating. Whereas if a face is beating a heel, all the heel's friends will come to help. Yes, in Professional Wrestling, the bad guys are more loyal than the good guys. This is mostly a product of the post territorial era, as it'd be rare in the Territory System for the baby faces not to spill out of the locker room unless the victimized face was someone really disliked by most of the rest, the mugging occurred too quickly, the promotion had sufficiently trusted security, or logistical issues were involved. | |
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In the backstory of Gods and Warriors, the struggle for power between Akastos, the old High Chieftain of Mycenae and the House of Koronos was decided in the mountains of Mycenae where Akastos asked for the Mountain Clan's help. The Mountain Clan wanted no part in it and refused. This led to Koronos seizing the power and Akastos being forced on the run. The Mountain Clan eventually paid the prize of their neutrality by being hunted down by the House of Koronos. | |
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Game of Thrones: Lysa Arryn refuses to lend her support when the Starks call for aid, declaring, "The knights of the Vale will stay in the Vale where they belong, to protect their lord." | |
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In Zulu, a force of actual cavalry arrives upon the scene where the heroes are making a Last Stand... and promptly flees. This happened in Real Life, too, but in reality, the cavalry were much more justified in their flight than depicted in the film. | |
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This was the focus of a Ring of Honor angle involving Alex Shelley and Generation Next. Normally when Generation Next caused havoc, they worked quick, cut a promo, and hightailed it before baby faces or security could do anything to punish them. In Shelley's case though, he started Generation Next, so when the other members turned on him for trying to be too facey, everyone not involved purposefully gave them enough time to do whatever they wished with Shelley. | |
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Suikoden: Suikoden IV: Razril is an island outpost for the Dukedom of Gaien; however, they'd been scaling back their navel operations before the game begins, forcing Razril's branch of the Knights of Gaien to heavily rely upon Vincent Vingerhut's financial backing. They make no effort to support their outpost during the war, even after the Kooluk Empire completely takes over Razril; this results in Razril seceding completely and becoming part of the newly founded Island Nations. In Suikoden V, the Dragon Cavalry is slow to respond to the Prince's calls for aid in dealing with the uprising. This is partly because they have traditionally maintained a neutral position and stayed out of internal conflicts, but also because Nether Gate took their dragon eggs hostage. |
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In Firefly, at the Battle of Serenity Valley, the independents pull this on Mal's squad, ordering them to lay down arms rather than providing the air support they had promised. Of course, whether or not said air support would have turned the tide of the battle is unknown; given it was the last battle and the sky almost immediately went black with the number of arriving Alliance ships, probably not. | |
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Happens whenever a face (usually John Cena) and a heel are forced to be tag team partners. The heel will let the face take a beating and refuse to tag in or help him. | |
| Cavalry Refusal / int_ecd3889f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Cavalry Refusal / int_ecd3889f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| John Cena (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
Cavalry Refusal / int_ecd3889f | |
| Cavalry Refusal / int_ed2a7866 | type |
Cavalry Refusal | |
| Cavalry Refusal / int_ed2a7866 | comment |
In the Alicization arc of Sword Art Online, when the Ocean Turtle comes under attack, the JSDF ship Asahi is just outside the facility, but does nothing to help for 24 hours. This is because the attackers, who are after Alice's Artificial Intelligence, pulled strings with a faction of the JSDF to buy time, having them hold back ostensibly out of fear that the personnel in the Ocean Turtle had been taken hostage. | |
| Cavalry Refusal / int_ed2a7866 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Cavalry Refusal / int_ed2a7866 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sword Art Online | hasFeature |
Cavalry Refusal / int_ed2a7866 | |
| Cavalry Refusal / int_f4e799ee | type |
Cavalry Refusal | |
| Cavalry Refusal / int_f4e799ee | comment |
Played oddly in one episode of Burn Notice. Team Westen is trying to get rid of a Mafia capo who's leaning on their client, which in the end comes down to hiring a bunch of scary looking guys to act as a replacement for his soldiers (the heroes have convinced the capo that his crew is no longer reliable). Then they get him to try and assassinate his boss, and then have the crew pull out at the critical moment. | |
| Cavalry Refusal / int_f4e799ee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Cavalry Refusal / int_f4e799ee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Burn Notice | hasFeature |
Cavalry Refusal / int_f4e799ee | |
| Cavalry Refusal / int_fab477d8 | type |
Cavalry Refusal | |
| Cavalry Refusal / int_fab477d8 | comment |
In Mulan: Rise of a Warrior, Mulan's Defensive Feint Trap fails due to this. | |
| Cavalry Refusal / int_fab477d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Cavalry Refusal / int_fab477d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mulan: Rise of a Warrior | hasFeature |
Cavalry Refusal / int_fab477d8 |
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