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Fear Is the Appropriate Response
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Usually Played for Laughs. A character is facing a conflict. The Big Bad, The Dreaded, or a similar foe has been revealed at last. This may be the moment of triumph for the protagonist... however, instead of standing and fighting it like a Hero would do, this character does what any of us would do: freezes up in terror, screams, runs away as fast as his legs can carry him, or a combination of the first three. Also used with a party of two or more, when they are cornered. One asks "What do we do now?" and one says something along the lines of "we... RUN!", often having about a three-second head start before the others realize what is happening. Sometimes this may be used to save another character, who is completely oblivious to the danger. This, of course, is only one type of example of this trope. The fear responses ordinarily come in four different types: Freezing - Going completely immobile in fear, which may conceal the character from the foe's notice. note This is a relatively common behavior in many animals. As it turns out, humans are among the few species on the planet with any sort of proficiency in seeing stationary objects. Flight - Running from the threat at top speed. Scream - Giving a cry of terror as loudly as possible (which may or may not deter the threat, but might alert someone who can help). A combination of the two above. Related to Run or Die. The distinction between this and Run or Die is that with this, you're choosing to break off the engagement mostly on your own terms, but with Run or Die, you're narrowly avoiding (or escaping) what you know is a Curb-Stomp Battle with you on the wrong end. Also compare Fear Is Normal, which is about the emotion of fear, as opposed to fearful behaviours, being normal. "Anger Is Healthy" Aesop is when a character is taught to be angry. Those with Nerves of Steel or the Fearless Undead, seeing the odds against them, might acknowledge this trope in Dramatic Deadpan during a controlled tactical withdrawal. A Mentor may explain to a young character that only a Fearless Fool would face this when he had options. See also Screw This, I'm Outta Here |
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The excuse the residents of Net Surf Village use when Taichi accuses them of being wimps for hiding when a demon supposedly appears in the nearby net ocean in Digimon V-Tamer 01. This forces Taichi to rely on a land-based Digimon, after teaching him how to swim of course. | |
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The Penguins of Madagascar, "Cat's Cradle": | |
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From Watchmen: | |
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There are several instances in The Road to El Dorado, one of which involves Miguel and Tulio being cornered by a raging bull. | |
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In Guild Wars, this trope applies to a nobleman's response to harpies attacking a festival that he is at. | |
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There's a bit in Ah! My Goddess where Mara and Hild have put together a magical trap that zaps all of the main cast except Belldandy... and then Bell accidentally releases them. Mara realizes that this overloaded the trap's system, and takes off running until Hild snaps, "Mara! Halt! Explain yourself!" Mara explains that overloading means the thing's about to explode. "Mara... Thank you for explaining!" as Hild runs away. | |
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Depending on who you ask, Barbra losing her mind in the original Night of the Living Dead (1968) and going into near-catatonic shock after being attacked and surrounded by flesh-eating zombies whom she watched kill her brother is either sexist... or a perfectly appropriate, understandable, and realistic response for someone who was just attacked and surrounded by flesh-eating zombies and watched them kill her brother. | |
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In Big Human on Campus, Jin has a procedure for fleeing in terror, including optional screaming during retreat and curling up in a ball and gibbering after they're safely back at the Protection Committee office. It's used when they unexpectedly meet Ranma when investigating Tsukune. | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978): According to the Guide, when one encounters a Hagunnenon, a creature with such unstable and ever-changing DNA they can't retain the same shape long enough to reach for a glass, and which has engendered in them a violent hatred for all "filthy, stinking rotten samelings", the best thing to do is "run away, terribly fast." | |
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Shows up in Spamalot, which isn't surprising, as it's just the stage version of the Holy Grail (see also under Film above). Worth mentioning because they turned "Run Away" into a Broadway hit song. | |
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Yellow Submarine: "Once more into the breach, dear Meanies. You're advancing in the wrong direction! Retreat backwards!" | |
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The Dark Knight Rises has Bane kidnapping a scientist from the CIA by destroying the airplane they are on while holding on to a rope lowered by his men from another plane flying above them. And that's just the first thing we see him do in the movie. | |
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In Freefall, after learning that the area they are in is going to be hit by an asteroid, Sam and Helix immediately decide to panic (against Florence's protests). | |
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Discussed in Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin asks Hobbes what to do if Moe threatens to beat him up. Hobbes tells him that when a rhino charges, tigers "scramble like maniacs for the nearest tree". Calvin is not convinced by this. | |
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Harry Dresden from The Dresden Files reminds us that running away from things you cannot hurt is the best strategy at least twice in every novel. And he really knows best. In fact, he spends quite a bit of his downtime running so that the next time something tries to kill him he'll be able to run away even better. Later in the series, this gets turned around. In Changes, for example, Harry comes upon a Red Court Vampire in his office building. The vampire's entirely justified response is to scream its head off and run away like his ass was on fire. Which, to be fair, was very nearly the case. | |
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Rincewind from the Discworld series adapted this as his default strategy in any remotely dangerous situation (particularly the running type). Having a strong belief in his own pre-emptive Karma, Rincewind has a very broad definition of "any remotely dangerous situation". He also knows more than anyone else how to run away: It's all about knowing you are running away from one thing, not towards something else. He's practically turned it into his religion, which has a large following. | |
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My Hero Academia: Unchained Predator: After watching the Slayer butcher the entire Steel Sabers organization, including Nine and his lieutenants, all the hostages, captured heroes, UA students and even Wolfram's gunmen are panicking because A: This guy singlehandedly butchered the entire Steel Sabers Organization. And B: He was coming this way. The panic of the gunmen sum it up. | |
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail: The Rabbit of Caerbannog has just killed several of Arthur's knights. | |
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In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, when Eddie Valiant is confronted by Baron Von Rotten, his brother's killer, he is utterly horrified and tries to flee at first. While understandable since Von Rotten is a maniacal sadist who can't be harmed by anything at Eddie's disposal, Eddie's frightened reaction is ironic since his last name is "Valiant", a synonym for "brave". | |
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DuckTales (1987), "A DuckTales Valentine": Upon reaching the position of the sunken temple, Launchpad doesn't want to get into the water, having heard the area is shark-infested. When Scrooge tries to goad him into it by implying he's scared, Launchpad responds that some things make perfect sense to be afraid of. | |
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Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks: After it becomes clear that their weapons are useless against the animated armor/costumes, the Nazi soldiers run like bunnies. | |
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In The Order of the Stick, this is the standard response every time they face overwhelming odds (which they seem to do with great regularity). | |
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This is the spirit behind Maxim 3 from Schlock Mercenary- "An Ordnance Technician at a dead run outranks everybody." This turns up in the comic when Kevyn or Pi start looking panicky. Anyone nearby should feel scared, very scared. | |
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Red Dwarf does this frequently, but the standout moment is from "Meltdown" the 6.28 mark here: | |
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In Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure, Scamp and Angel are talking on a railroad about what they could do living in the wild. There is a train coming toward them, unnoticed by Scamp. | |
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Tal of The Seventh Tower understands the dangers of Aenir and the tower much better than Milla does and lacks her Proud Warrior Race Guy characteristics, resulting in him having far more sense when it comes to knowing when to run and when to fight. It causes serious tensions between them at times. It's played completely seriously. | |
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Unusually for a shonen series, in Slayers it's a common gag for Lina to throw a Burst Rondo in the face of powerful foes that don't go down in the first few volleys, then skedaddle. | |
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Grrl Power: Maxima is ambushed by some alien bounty hunters, and they capture her in a stasis beam, intending to transfer her to a stasis pod and then sell her to the highest bidder. However, Maxima's allies are attempting to intervene. After a minute or two of fighting, Lapha notices that even though she started off with a full charge, the battery on her stasis beam is already down to sixty percent. And then she sees Maxima slowly turn around and glare at her, while still under the effects of the stasis beam. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder both have Fearless Undead. However, intelligent undead aren't blind to danger, so they can apply this trope as a matter of critical thinking and run away or scream for help to save their skins (or their bones or ectoplasm, as the case may be). | |
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In The Damned Trilogy, the first Amplitur to interrogate a captive human discovers to his horror that humans are not only immune to their Mind Control powers, but using them causes a feedback that renders the Amplitur almost catatonic. The Amplitur panics and orders the guards to gun down the prisoner on the spot. Later he expresses deep shame for this lapse into what these highly-civilized aliens regard as psychotic behaviour, but another Amplitur points out that he was facing an incomprehensible danger, so a lapse into a primitive survival state was not only understandable but necessary. | |
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In the Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius movie, Nick runs out into the arena, holding a spear, to face Poultra and the Yolkians. Suddenly, Poultra starts hatching and her three eyes glare down at Nick... who then screams like a girl and runs away. | |
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Fisk is always trying to teach Michael this in the first two books of the Knight and Rogue Series. By the third, he's finally getting it. | |
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Also The Pirates of Penzance: | |
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In District 9, the main character, Wikus, initially turns and runs away when finally confronted by his bounty hunter, Koobus. | |
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Exiles: Morph's reaction to having a Hulk land right in front of the team? Turn into a chicken and try to run for it. Unfortunately, in said running, he steps on a twig and... well... HULK SMASH. | |
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Izuku explains this using animal logic in Izuku Midoriya the Rabbit. As a rabbit that lives in a warren, Izuku is used to the idea that not reacting strongly enough to danger will result in death. | |
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Beasts of Burden: In Wise Dogs and Eldritch Men, when the monster starts attacking, a warlock yells to the others not to panic and to stand their ground. Then the creature comes into full view. | |
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Sailor Moon does this frequently. Instead of fighting the Monster of the Week, she will typically cower in fear or run from the enemy's attacks, only finally attacking after a Rousing Speech from Tuxedo Mask (or, in his absence, any character who happens to be present). The trait shows up less and less frequently later on in the show. | |
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This is looked at in two Known Space short stories by Larry Niven. In Flatlander, two travellers are visiting an unusual star system when their supposedly indestructible spaceship hull disintegrates. Elephant, the one financing the trip, wants to continue and land on the system's planet. Beowulf, the experienced spacer, decides to stop and go home because he is scared. It turns out the system is made of antimatter. In At The Core, Beowulf has been commissioned by the Puppeteers to take an experimental spaceship on a trip to visit the core of the galaxy. He is unable to complete the trip because the galactic core is exploding, reports his failure back to the Puppeteers, and heads home. When he gets back, he discovers the entire Puppeteer race has fled. He concludes that the humans (who are ignoring the situation) are the ones who are the real cowards. |
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In one of the first episodes in Red vs. Blue, Grif and Simmons both turn around and are looking right down the cannon belonging to Sheila [the tank]. Simmons says, "All right, on three, we make a break for it." As he starts counting, Grif quietly runs away. (Ironically, this made Grif a better target and he was the one who got fired at immediately.) | |
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Batman: The Animated Series: In the episode "Trial", the assembled villains who are about to kill Batman discover that he's escaped and is out there in the darkness somewhere. Two-Face yells, "Nobody panic!" Then, they find Harley (who had been holding Batman's utility belt) tied up in the straitjacket Batman had been bound in. The Joker's response: "Okay... start panicking." This trope gets discussed much later on in the episode "Never Fear", when the Scarecrow is releasing a toxin that actually removes people's fear, and as a result, has them performing reckless behavior. Even Batman isn't safe as he comes dangerously close to violating his Thou Shalt Not Kill rule. After Robin gives him the antidote and they save the day, Batman tells him how a little fear can be a good thing. |
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In The Wizard of Oz, the Wizard tells the Cowardly Lion he's been too hard on himself for thinking he's cowardly for being afraid to fight a powerful wicked witch who's been trying to kill them, pointing out anyone would be terrified of that. | |
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Sheen Estevez, from The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, despite often being Too Dumb to Live, sometimes would recognize when something is just too dangerous or scary, and will suggest his friends obey this trope. In the spin-off series Planet Sheen, he even admits that running and yelling when facing danger is his primary ability. In the Jimmy Neutron episode "Sheen's Brain" after Sheen becomes an Evil Genius: |
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An episode of Sliders had the group go to a witch doctor, and upon not being able to pay for the service, they form a huddle so that Arturo can outline his plan: "Run! Run like hell!" | |
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In Buck Godot, the previously absolutely undefeatable Hyraxx' reaction to the Ulgib mercenaries is a simple, panicked "RUN!" | |
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In Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple, the titular protagonist usually screams in terror and runs for his life whenever his masters announce that they intend to increase the severity of Kenichi's training regime. Since this is a series that takes Training from Hell up to eleven, Kenichi's reaction is completely justified. | |
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It's played in One Piece by Kamakiri after he discovers that Eneru can become intangible (by turning into electricity) thanks to his Devil Fruit power. | |
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Chuckie Finster, from Rugrats, often tries to convince his friends to follow this trope before they actually get into trouble. Most of the time they should listen to him. | |
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From Futurama: | |
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Even though Shaggy and Scooby-Doo run away from everything as a Running Gag, around a third of the time it works in their favor. | |
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In Trollhunters, rule number one of being a titular Trollhunter is "Always be afraid", as fear keeps your senses sharp and arrogance gets you killed. | |
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In The Lion King 1 ½, one of the more notable examples of the screaming response is directly advised: | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Joseph Joestar runs from more powerful opponents in the second (and briefly in the third) arc. Subverted, though, in that it's usually a part of one of his plans. A more straight example happens in a flashback when Avdol first met DIO. He was so overwhelmed with fear at seeing the vampire firsthand and how his soothing words eased him, proving he was indeed dangerous. When DIO gets ready to implant a flesh bud to control him, Avdol screams at the top of his lungs, dives out a window, and runs for his life to escape. While telling the story, he mentions that the idea of fighting back did not once even cross his mind at that moment. |
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The Dekaranger episode of Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger features this exchange, when it suddenly occurred to the wanted space pirates that walking into S.P.D. HQ was likely to get them arrested: | |
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The Taming of the Shrew gives us this rather priceless stage direction when the Zany Scheme goes awry: | |
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Nope: Played mostly seriously - the smarter characters, upon seeing the supernatural nonsense around them, promptly mutter "Nope!" or a variation, and back off. This is a good indication that character will survive that scene, since it eventually turns out that the monster takes any kind of eye contact as a personal challenge. | |
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A villainous example for that one would be from The Princess Bride when Inigo finally catches up with Count Rugen. He cuts through four guards effortlessly, declares he is there for revenge, they face each other with weapons drawn, and Rugen... runs away. | |
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Another shonen example comes from Fairy Tail. In a competition to determine the next S-Class wizard, Natsu goes up against Gildarts, one of the most powerful (if not the most powerful) members of the Fairy Tail guild outside of the guild master, since the contestants either face a rival candidate or an S-Class wizard. After a short battle, Natsu almost gets past but refuses to go on without winning the fight. Gildarts' response is to release his full power in order to teach him about this. Natsu is paralyzed with fear, then briefly tries to charge anyway but coming up close, his fear overtakes him. He unashamedly goes to his knees and accepts defeat in tears. | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean's Jack Sparrow screams at things quite often, runs away even more, but his behavior in Dead Man's Chest when the Kraken's after him frightens the whole ship: | |
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Boldores And Boomsticks: Faba, understandably, freaks when Nebby evolves into the Legendary Solgaleo. | |
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In Year One Zed and Oh have just been spotted by a cougar, stand paralyzed with fear, and try to discuss how to deal with their predicament. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Suited for Success", after a failed attempt to talk Rarity out of a 10-Minute Retirement: In "The Best Night Ever", after the Gala has gone From Bad to Worse, Celestia quietly tells Twilight "Run." "Dragon Quest" gives us this exchange: When Cerberus arrives at Ponyville in "It's About Time": |
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This seems to happen quite a bit on Doctor Who; the default modus operandi seems to be: Go somewhere, walk around until you find something horrid that wants to kill you, then run away from it until you find something whose Polarity you can Reverse, fixing the problem. Increasingly lampshaded in the new series. Played straight in complete Sincerity Mode in the New Who episode "Listen". At first the Doctor is telling a kid that "fear is a superpower" which "heightens your senses" and "pumps you full of adrenaline". These words are, through a Timey-Wimey Ball and a Bootstrap Paradox, repeated back to him when he was a young Gallifreyan. |
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Flashman runs away in almost every conceivable situation. He'll cheerfully abandon friends to save his skin. For example, in Flashman at the Charge, while being pursued by Cossacks, he threw a naked woman out of his sledge to lighten the load. (It worked, but the guy driving the sledge was so pissed that he in turn abandoned Flashy when the sledge overturned.) | |
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Happens in the bloopers of The Avengers (2012) where instead of Bruce Banner turning into the Hulk and punching out a giant Chitauri, he runs away like a little girl (quite literally), whilst Captain America starts cracking up. Even better when he starts skipping at the end. | |
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In Dragon Ball, during the 23rd World Tournament, "Ma Jr." receives Clothing Damage and his turban is destroyed. The audience begins to murmur among themselves about the appearance of the contestant until (Bad) Lunch points out he looks like the original Piccolo. At this point, "Ma Jr."/Piccolo Jr. is sick of the squabbling and angrily confirms that he's the original Piccolo's son and vows of re-taking over the world. Naturally, the entire crowd takes off, leaving behind Goku's allies in the stadium...and the narrator. | |
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The "freezing" variant is what Alan Grant recommends in the Jurassic Park movies when confronted with a Tyrannosaurus rex. Whether or not his advice is heeded is another matter, such as with a run-in with a sub-adult in Jurassic Park III. | |
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Star Trek: The Animated Series: In the first episode, Spock calls Bones and Scotty primitive for being nervous while on an ancient, mysterious ship. Kirk shoots back they have a right to be afraid, given the circumstances. | |
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Before they were the Ghostbusters, Doctors Stanz, Venkman, and Spengler do this in the New York Public Library, after attempting to bum-rush a ghost. | |
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When the "Blood-Red Van" comes after the dogs in Homeward Bound 2: Lost in San Francisco, they immediately react by running and hiding. | |
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In the Rise of the Guardians fanfic What Is Courage Without Fear?, enforcing this was supposed to be Pitch Black's purpose; he used fear to make sure children didn't do dangerously foolish things. For instance, in Chapter 6 he punished a Big Brother Bully who ditched his little sister in the woods by filling his head with fears of what might have happened to her there, and how much trouble he'd be in. It was a combination of Jumping Off the Slippery Slope and learning that Evil Feels Good that turned him into the Boogeyman. | |
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In Codename: Kids Next Door "Operation L.I.C.E.", the doorway is surrounded by scores of giant lice. Numbuh 2 asks Numbuh 1 what to do. | |
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Gangsters, vampires, demons? El Santo will take them all on. Dogs, not so much. | |
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From the (now infamous) 1998 version of Godzilla: | |
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At the conclusion of "The Island and the Idol" arc in The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob, after the heroes have gotten home, Bob suffers a mild but uncharacteristic panic attack from what they've all just been through, and Jean reassures him, "You're allowed to be scared!" | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In "The Harvest", when vampires take over The Bronze nightclub, the lead vampire, Luke, announces: | |
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Ciaphas Cain's reaction to Necrons tends to be like this. Then again, he's one of the few people to have survived an encounter with them, so he's well aware of how deadly they are. And they took his fingers. And, by 'few people' we mean 'they killed planets of billions'. | |
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In Goblins, a chance encounter with an Eldritch Abomination gives us this exchange: | |
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In Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, Max was chasing a lone mechanic, only to start running away from an angry mob of Bartertown guards. | |
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In 9, the Trope Namer, 1 says this right before the Winged Beast attacks. However, considering that 8 tries to fight the Winged Beast before they run, this trope applies more to the awakening of the Fabrication Machine, in which 7, 9, and 5 immediately run away as soon as it's awakened. | |
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Sword Art Online: Kirito's and Asuna's response to spawning The Gleam Eyes in the 74th-floor dungeon is to high-tail it out of the boss room. | |
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Salah has just met Marcus Brody in Iskenderun. A German comes up to them and invites them to a museum. Salah realizes that there is no museum in Iskenderun and that they're in danger. | |
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Don't Rest Your Head: While designing your character, you get to pick how your character responds to abusing their Madness Power. Checking off a flight response means avoidance. Whether you do that by running away, turtling up, or hiding behind a web of lies is all up to you. Meanwhile, your fight response is all about destruction. Your fists are one way, but words are also among the many ways you can hurt those around you. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: When the hobbits first meet the Ringwraiths, their only strategies are running or hiding (both things Hobbits can do very well in a pinch). When the Ringwraiths track Frodo to the Prancing Pony Inn in Brie, Aragorn asks Frodo if he's afraid. Frodo says yes, and Aragorn points out that Frodo isn't afraid enough, since he's being pursued by undead swordsmen who will not stop until he is dead. Gandalf is listed in Run or Die already, but in The Fellowship of the Ring, he doesn't just inform them that the Balrog is unstoppable. He calmly explains what a Balrog actually is while it's coming at them (not as Egregious as it sounds though, as it wasn't even in visual range), pauses to take a deep breath, looks shaken, and then shouts... "RUN!" and takes off ahead of the others, while they are still standing there looking at it. Making an about-face in the process. |
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In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Q Who", when the Enterprise has its first encounter with the Borg, Guinan, the sage barkeeper of Ten Forward whose people were driven to the brink of extinction by the Borg, warns Picard: "If I were you, I'd start back now." | |
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