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When a ship is sinking, The Captain must be the last one to leave. Other crew members typically bear the same obligation, usually so they can oversee and direct the evacuation. Similar sacrifice was traditionally expected of men, who should allow women and children to escape first (in comedies, expect a Dirty Coward to dress in drag in order to save his own skin). When Played for Drama, the captain stoically awaits his fate. When Played for Laughs, the captain is anything but noble and does whatever he can to escape, even appointing someone else captain before making a run for it. The origin of this practice is maritime salvage law — if a ship is abandoned by all the crew but doesn't sink, anyone who comes on board can claim the ship and its contents as salvage, so a senior officer has to remain on board until it becomes clear that the ship really is going down, to prevent the embarrassment of losing the ship to scavengers. (Note that the captain is clear to leave once everyone else is safely out and the ship is plainly doomed.) There are also other practical reasons, such as if rescue comes, the Captain is the first person the rescuers would contact to coordinate rescue efforts, and that would be incredibly difficult if the captain is no longer on the ship. In modern cases, captains go down with the ship because they will face major disgrace if they don't, especially if the ship is only sinking because of their screw-up, or if there are passengers or junior crew still on board. This tradition has been transferred to aviation, since The Sky Is an Ocean. In the event of a crash, the commanding pilot is expected to make sure everyone else escapes first and has final responsibility on the well-being of the people and if possible the equipment. Because also Space Is an Ocean, this also applies to starship captains, even though there's no (literal) "down" for them to go...unless they happen to be near a planet that they can crash on. Compare In Its Hour of Need and Stand Your Ground. No relation to Die for Our Ship, Ship Sinking, or just Shipping in general. As this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware. |
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Awful Hospital: The native lifeforms of Inert Vessels seem instinctively predisposed not to care about dying out from when their world becomes uninhabitable. With the notable exception of Maya Celia. | |
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The Far Side: In one strip, a lone man remains on a sinking ship while the rest of the crew (including a man who is obviously the Captain) rows away. He wonders to himself if "The cook always goes down with the ship" really is a maritime tradition, or the others just lied to him. | |
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In Transformers: Rescue Bots, this occurs with Captain Ambrose, who remained on the S.S Phantom Voyager after a lightning strike rendered it simply immobile and caused everyone to evacuate, leaving him to await the towing lines to rescue him. Historically, the towing lines did arrive, only to find out it disappeared. | |
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Parodied in the PAW Patrol episode "Pups Make a Splash"; when the Flounder starts to give way, Cap'n Turbot attempts this...with a duck floatie and a snorkel. And he lives in the end, because the hole in the Flounder is easily fixed. | |
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During the Battle of Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back, Princess Leia stays inside Echo Base, while it is already being invaded by Imperial troops and after plenty of Rebel troops have been evacuated. This causes her to be too late to evacuate on a Rebel transport ship and Han Solo takes her onboard the Millennium Falcon instead. | |
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In 1959's Ben-Hur, the galley captain tells titular captive Judah Ben-Hur that he won't escape as long as the Roman legion who controls the ship is able to but in case they lose control to outside forces, Ben-Hur, not his Roman captors, will sink with the rest of the slaves, chained to their assigned oars. | |
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Star Trek: Enterprise: This happens even in the amoral Mirror Universe. In "In a Mirror, Darkly", Captain Forrest stays on board I.S.S Enterprise to give his crew time to escape, in particular his lover Hoshi Sato. | |
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Captain Edward J. Smith famously and prominently went down with the ship. However, there are dozens of differing accounts as to how he died; some survivors claim he shot himself just before the final plunge, while others say he swam after a drowning child and lifted him into a lifeboat but died of exposure before he could be saved himself. The most agreed-upon version, shown in James Cameron's film, is that he remained on the bridge for the final plunge. | |
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In the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero episode, "Sink the Montana!," General Hawk confronts Admiral Lattimer, the captain of the fatally stricken battleship and finds that he wants to go down with the ship. After being unable to persuade him to leave, Hawk overpowers and drags him off the ship before it sinks. | |
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In Metal Wolf Chaos, General Forester goes down with the command ship in Miami when the President sinks it. It's probably a gesture of atonement for going along with the Vice-President's coup. | |
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Star Trek: Picard: Captain Shaw says that when was he just an engineer on the U.S.S. Constance at Wolf 359, a lieutenant came down to the life deck to choose which 10 (out of 50) crewmen would be able to use the only Escape Pod left. Shaw notes that the lieutenant remained behind with the other crew. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans: In episode 40, after getting framed for transporting illegal weapons, Naze has the rest of the Turbines evacuate the ship with the intent to take the punishment by himself. Amida decides to stay with him. | |
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This trope was occasionally used in Jonah (a comic strip in The Beano about a man who managed to sink every ship he went on). | |
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In Assault on a Queen, the treasure hunters find the body of the U-boat captain still at the periscope. Eric explains that he would have ordered the crew off and then submerged the sub and blown the ballast tanks to keep it out of enemy hands. | |
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Return Of The Obra Dinn: Captain Robert Witterel seems to be a good example. He is reaching the Despair Event Horizon when he sees the entirety of his crew, including his wife, being wiped out due to the ship being attacked by the mermaids, the Crab Riders, and the kraken, which is too much for him to bear. As a result, he accepts the fact that he will not be leaving the ship alive, and authorizes the surviving female passengers, stewards, and Dr. Henry Evans to leave the Obra Dinn in the last remaining lifeboat. He also intervenes on their behalf when topman Leonid Volkov attempts to prevent them from doing so, demanding that Volkov "let them go." Afterward, when there are only a few remaining crew members left to attack the Captain for the magical shells, the Captain is forced to kill them all, including his own brother-in-law and First Mate, in self-defense. Afterwards, he shoots himself in the chest, fulfilling his vow to his wife that he would be with her in the afterlife. | |
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In one episode of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, the characters are playing pirate and their ship springs a leak. Tigger, as the first mate, tells Piglet, who's playing captain, that he must go down with the ship. Piglet then makes Tigger the new captain, who then makes Piglet captain again, and so forth. | |
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Averted in Mobile Suit Gundam 00. Christina tricks Feldt into joining Sumeragi and Ian Vashti in a support craft moments before the Ptolemaios is destroyed. Few minutes afterwards, she and Lichty end up Together in Death. | |
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Averted in Italian-Soviet film The Red Tent (1969). Umberto Nobile is the first to be evacuated from the survivors of an airship crash at the North Pole. The film deals with his guilt over this act, as he faces an imaginary court of colleagues involved in the disaster. | |
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Discussed in Come Back Mrs. Noah when the crew of Britannia Seven find the rescue shuttle doesn't have room for everyone, so start squabbling over who's going to be left behind. When the Britannia Seven is about to accidentally launch into space, the crew tries to evacuate using the emergency suction tube; but because Mrs. Noah is sent first she just gets stuck in the tube preventing everyone else from leaving. |
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Averted in Moby-Dick. When Moby-Dick sinks the Pequod, Ahab curses it for denying him this honor. | |
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Total Drama: Owen is Team CIRRRRH's captain for the naval combat challenge in "Sweden Sour". When it seems they're going to lose, he gives it a final shot by volunteering himself as cannonball to take down Team Amazon's ship. The carnage is impressive and as Chris approaches the bobbing contestants, he quips that "the captain always goes down with the ship" normally relates to the captain's own ship, but this is beautiful too. In a reference to the musicians on board of the RMS Titanic, the butler of the luxury cabin stands outside to play his violin until Wawanakwa Island goes down beneath the waves in "The Final Wreck-ening". It's more than possible he survives, but he's not made an appearance since. |
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Played straight on all sides in the Space Battleship Yamato series. Captain Okita, Yamato's original captain in the series (until cancer forced him to give the seat to Susumu Kodai), goes down with her at the conclusion of Final Yamato, originally the Grand Finale of the original 1975 series. | |
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In The Muppet Show, Statler mentions that he was on the Titanic, to which Waldorf remarks that he still has the dress he(Statler) wore to get off. | |
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In Star Trek (2009), newly-promoted Captain George Kirk goes down with the USS Kelvin — he sets the ship on a collision course with the attacking Romulan ship (to prevent it from attacking any of the escape pods), but the ship's autopilot is damaged. So he manually pilots the Kelvin and uses his last words to tell his wife he loves her. | |
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In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, when the Bird-of-Prey crashes in San Francisco Bay, Kirk is the last one to leave after opening the cargo bay to release the whales. | |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: In "Death Trap", after the Jedi Cruiser Endurance is sabotaged, Admiral Kilian insists on doing this because it's traditional, telling off Mace Windu when ordered to get in an escape pod. He instead attempts a crash-landing on the nearby planet of Vanqor, and survives, only to be taken prisoner by bounty hunters. | |
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The Legend of 1900: The protagonist chooses to not leave the ship, which was scheduled to be scuttled and sunk far offshore. | |
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DuckTales (1987): Subverted, barely,in "Wronguay in Ronguay". Fighting over a cannon, Glomgold and El Capitan sink their ancient treasure ship. It seems as if El Capitan goes to the bottom with his ship. However, he resurfaces at the end of the episode holding onto some flotsam. | |
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Schlock Mercenary: Averted when Captain Tagon's response is to request to be teraported off the Serial Peacemaker when it's facing destruction. When this trope is brought up, he points out the ship isn't his anymore as it's been hijacked by its Artificial Intelligence. It's not that Tagon isn't brave (he'd already given his life in an alternate history to help his men escape) but he is a professional mercenary and thus is very pragmatic about such things. After the crew of a destroyed ship wake up in an Artificial Afterlife the XO is taking roll with the explanation "Captains go down with ships. Executive officers muster the dead." |
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It's only briefly discussed in one flashback scene, but this was the fate of Bamse's grandfather. His ship sank, and as a captain he saw it as his duty to see everyone else to safety before he himself left the ship. It's implied that he was the only one who didn't make it off the ship in the end. | |
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Used in Kind Hearts and Coronets: "...all hands were saved, save one. Admiral Lord Horatio D'Ascoyne, obstinate to the last, insisted on going down with his ship." | |
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Stargate-verse: In Stargate SG-1, Col. Lionel Pendergast, captain of Earth's first starship Prometheus, stayed at the helm as the ship was blowing up around him in "Ethon" to beam his surviving crew to safety. In Stargate SG-1, a looming asteroid that has naquadah in it, meaning it was not naturally there as there is none of that element naturally in the Sol system is bearing down on Earth. General Hammond sends the entire SGC staff through the Stargate to the Alpha Site, but when queried if he was coming too, he says he "hasn't been relieved of this command". In Stargate Atlantis, in "The Last Man", an alternate reality Carter rams a Wraith Hiveship with the Phoenix, a much smaller 304 Battlecruiser. The Phoenix not only destroys the Hiveship, but two more are destroyed when they get caught in the blast of the first. It is unknown whether Carter meant to go down with the ship, or whether she intended to beam down to the planet below but couldn't because the transporters were knocked out. It may be relevant, however, that yet another alternate reality Carter blew herself and the Jaffa who'd just captured her "straight to hell" with a grenade. |
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In The Last Jedi, Vice Admiral Holdo evacuates the Resistance flagship Raddus before personally hyper-jumping it through Snoke's flagship, destroying both ships and shredding the rest of the First Order armada with lightspeed shrapnel. | |
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Symbolically in Das Boot. Right as the U-boat returns to base, the British launch an air raid. Lt. Werner finds the Captain watching the boat sink at the dock. After it slips beneath the waves, the Captain collapses. | |
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In the X-Universe series, Earth's AGI Task Force fighter pilots will never eject from their ship — likely to prevent the superior technology of the ships from falling in the hands of the Argon Federation or other races. Every other faction fighter has a chance to bail out when they decide that they have no hope of surviving. Because ATF fighters never bail out, they are impossible to acquire in X3: Reunion and X3: Terran Conflict, though X3: Albion Prelude allows players to buy them from shipyards. | |
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In Star Trek: First Contact, even after Picard reluctantly agrees to set the self-destruct sequence on the Enterprise-E in order to destroy the Borg, he remains behind due to the fact that Data is still in the Borg's clutches. | |
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In The Lost Fleet this was believed to have been the fate of John Geary. He ordered his crew to the Escape Pods while he stayed on the bridge to run the ship and cover their escape. However once they were safely clear he did evacuate in an escape pod, but since the pod in question was damaged he had to go into survival sleep and wasn't rescued until nearly a century later. Captain Falco seems to do this in spirit if not in fact since he's not actually the captain but thinks he is. After his mutiny resulted in several ships being destroyed he has a breakdown and loses contact with reality. Later the ship that he's being held prisoner on is destroyed and while he doesn't survive several of the crew who do report that he was issuing orders and helping to organize the evacuation before the ship exploded. |
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Star Wars Battlefront II (2017): Admiral Versio decides to stay on the Eviscerator's deck even as the rest of the crew is evacuating. Iden tries to convince him to get away with her, but to no avail. | |
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A Night to Remember showed this as well. Captain Smith himself is last seen walking onto the bridge (presumably deciding to go down with the ship). Both films also showed the band which played as the ship sank, and a few passengers who intentionally stay aboard for one reason or another. There's even a sub-plot about a young married couple who initially want to stay behind just so they can remain together, but are talked out of it by Thomas Andrews, the architect who ironically went down with the ship himself. | |
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The Season 1 finale of Big Hero 6: The Series sees Obake go out like this when his plans are undone and his lair starts falling apart even telling Baymax he's satisfied with his care. Unlike most examples on this list, there's nothing to do with honor in this scene, just a sort of... sad acceptance. | |
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In another Ealing comedy, The Ladykillers (1955), Mrs. Wilberforce relates that this is how her late husband died. | |
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In Fallout 3, if you purge Vault 101's water chip during "Trouble on the Homefront" and lie to the Overseer that the rebels did it, he stays behind in the vault to die. | |
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Adventures of the Gummi Bears episode "Gummi's Across the Sea" has Duke Igthorn trying his hand at naval warfare. The ship he has is wrecked by an ancient Gummi sub built in the likeness of a sea serpent, of course. When Dukie prepares to abandon ship, Toadwart reminds him of this trope. True to form, Igthorn immediately names Toadie the captain, and the diminutive ogre briefly enjoys his new status before remembering about the rampaging sub and joins the Duke. | |
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Farscape Near the end of Season 3, Crichton plots to destroy Scorpius's Command Carrier in order to stop the Wormhole Weapons project. The plan is successful, executed in such a manner that the ship collapses in on itself, thus allowing the majority of the crew to escape. Crichton then encounters Scorpius in the hangar, where Scorpius laments the destruction of his life's work, and his fears of the pending conflict with the Scarrans. When Crichton tells him that if he's going to leave now would be the time, Scorpius's remarks invoke this trope. Of course he survives, but it's the one time in the entire series we see Scorpius well and truly defeated. Averted in "Nerve"; when a Peacekeeper base has a reactor meltdown, its commander is the first to head for a Prowler to escape. He's not the only one; Captain Durka kills a junior officer and takes his uniform in an attempt to escape the destruction of the Zelbinion. |
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In Stargate SG-1, a looming asteroid that has naquadah in it, meaning it was not naturally there as there is none of that element naturally in the Sol system is bearing down on Earth. General Hammond sends the entire SGC staff through the Stargate to the Alpha Site, but when queried if he was coming too, he says he "hasn't been relieved of this command". | |
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Gilligan's Island: The second episode has the castaways gathered in an extra-strong hut to weather a storm. When it begins to look like it might collapse around them, Skipper orders Gilligan to lead the others to safety while he goes down with the hut. In another episode, the castaways find a life raft and, after repairing it, intend to use it to sail off the island and back to civilization, only for it to sink due to everyone but Gilligan bringing along a bag of gold. As the raft sinks, Gilligan asks Skipper if he intends to go down with it: |
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In War of Omens, Pietra Siani chooses this over being taken prisoner by Listrata. | |
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Midway (2019): After the Hiryū is severely damaged in the titular battle, her Captain, Tomeo Kaku as well as Rear Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi elect to stay aboard the crippled aircraft carrier as the surviving Japanese Navy ships scuttle her. As it happened in real life. | |
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Subverted in The Bacta War when Captain Joak Drysso of the Lusankya proclaims he is willing to go down with the ship to prevent its capture by New Republic, even going so far as to ram the ship into the planet Thyferra. However, while Drysso is willing to go down with the ship, his crew most certainly are not, resulting in him being shot in a mutiny. | |
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Mass Effect 2: Shepard is told Joker is ignoring orders to abandon ship; in his case it's less about dying honorably and more about trying to save the Normandy. After Shepard manages to get him into an escape pod, an explosion blasts them away from it. Shepard sends the pod off anyway, saving Joker but sacrificing themself. Shepard didn't want to go down with the ship, they're just altruistic. Besides, Shepard's death didn't stick. | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. The Kraken destroys the Black Pearl with Captain Jack Sparrow handcuffed aboard. | |
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Discussed in Halo: Combat Evolved. In the intro, as the Pillar of Autumn is being shot down over the titular Halo, the ship's captain order's the ship's AI to load herself into a data disc and evacuate the ship while he stays on board. She asks him if he's planning on going down with the ship, to which he says he's actually going try to crash land the ship on the Halo ring. He wants her to evacuate because the ship will almost certainly be captured after landing and the AI is far too valuable to fall into enemy hands. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: In "An American Tragedy", Mr. Conklin, Mr. Boynton and Miss Brooks are stranded on a rowboat in the middle of Crystal Lake. Mr. Conklin proclaims himself captain, however it turns out the rowboat is leaking and starts to sink. Neither Mr. Conklin nor Miss Brooks can swim . . . . Fortunately, they had unknowingly drifted near the shore and the water under the boat was only three feet deep |
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An episode of The Flintstones has the Flintstones and the Rubbles go out on a sea vacation after Barney won a houseboat on a game show expy of The Price Is Right. After the ship begins sinking, Wilma and Betty are given the life raft while Fred and Barney, who spent the episode bickering about who should be the captain, begin trying to pass the duty off to the other to avoid going down with it. They spent so much time fighting over it, they both end up going down without realizing it. | |
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Occurs in FreeSpace when the Galatea is destroyed by the Lucifer. The Galatea launches escape pods, which you are charged with defending, but the the mission debriefing states that the Captain stayed behind and went down with his ship. | |
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Played straight in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and SEED Destiny by Natarle, who goes down with the Dominion when she locks Muruta Azrael in with her on the bridge while the rest of the crew evacuates on her orders, and Captain Todaka, who goes down with ORB's flagship carrier when he (deliberately) leads it to ruin and is killed by Shinn in the Impulse. | |
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Star Trek: Star Trek: The Original Series: Subverted in "The Doomsday Machine". After the U.S.S. Constellation is put out of action, Commodore Decker evacuates the crew to a Conveniently Close Planet, remaining aboard because The Captain is the "last man to leave the ship". Unfortunately, the transporters fail, and he's Forced to Watch as the eponymous weapon ignores his spaceship and begins devouring the planet her crew had taken refuge on. In the Pilot Movie of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "Emmisary", a flashback shows us Lt. Commander Sisko and crew abandoning the Saratoga during the battle of Wolf 359; Sisko is the last to board an escape shuttle (the captain had been killed; Sisko as first officer was now in command). He had to be dragged aboard, not because he felt he should go down with the ship but because his wife was killed and he was in despair. It happens to Sisko again with the U.S.S. Defiant as it's being blasted to scrap in "The Changing Face of Evil". He's the last one on the bridge after calling for the crew to abandon ship, and probably the last one off before the Dominion finish the job. Star Trek: Voyager: In the climatic scene of the Two-Part Episode "Year of Hell", Captain Janeway remains on board Voyager for a ramming Suicide Attack. Thanks to a temporal Reset Button, she fares better than Decker did. Janeway lampshades the trope in "Dark Frontier" as one of the "three rules of being a Starfleet captain" (the others being always keep your shirt tucked in and never abandon a member of your crew). Star Trek: Enterprise: This happens even in the amoral Mirror Universe. In "In a Mirror, Darkly", Captain Forrest stays on board I.S.S Enterprise to give his crew time to escape, in particular his lover Hoshi Sato. Star Trek: Picard: Captain Shaw says that when was he just an engineer on the U.S.S. Constance at Wolf 359, a lieutenant came down to the life deck to choose which 10 (out of 50) crewmen would be able to use the only Escape Pod left. Shaw notes that the lieutenant remained behind with the other crew. |
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In the three-part finale of Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, Terra Ventura is attacked by Trakeena's forces, forcing the crew and the residents to evacuate in the shuttles towards the nearby planet they had reached. Commander Stanton does his duty and stays on the bridge, watching the stars go by. Thankfully, he gets to evacuate in time after everyone else and survives. | |
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A Hat in Time: The Captain of the Arctic Cruise attempts to do this after the ship crashes into an iceberg and starts sinking, even trying to refuse rescue as you carry him to safety. While there are sadder implications considering his mentor did the same and died, this captain is a walrus, and is thus never really in any danger of drowning or hypothermia, which he points out bemusedly after you went through all the trouble. | |
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Bugs Bunny short "Mutiny on the Bunny". Yosemite Sam is the captain of a sailing ship. Bugs tricks him into thinking the ship is sinking and Sam jumps into a lifeboat. Bugs reminds him that "The captain goes down with his ship", so Sam resigns and makes Bugs the captain. Afterwards, Bugs pulls him out of the lifeboat again, claiming "women and children first". Sam then disguises himself as an old woman and Bugs tosses an anchor dressed in a bonnet and diaper over the side, which Sam attempts to catch, with predictable results. |
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Star vs. the Forces of Evil: Glossaryck chooses to stay in the Realm of Magic as it collapses, even saying he's the captain going down with the ship. | |
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Gundam: Played straight in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and SEED Destiny by Natarle, who goes down with the Dominion when she locks Muruta Azrael in with her on the bridge while the rest of the crew evacuates on her orders, and Captain Todaka, who goes down with ORB's flagship carrier when he (deliberately) leads it to ruin and is killed by Shinn in the Impulse. Averted in Mobile Suit Gundam 00. Christina tricks Feldt into joining Sumeragi and Ian Vashti in a support craft moments before the Ptolemaios is destroyed. Few minutes afterwards, she and Lichty end up Together in Death. Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans: In episode 40, after getting framed for transporting illegal weapons, Naze has the rest of the Turbines evacuate the ship with the intent to take the punishment by himself. Amida decides to stay with him. |
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In the prequel of Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Torna: The Golden Country, the king of Torna chooses to die with Torna as it sinks into the Cloud Sea rather than try to escape. | |
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XenoGears: In the introduction, after the captain of The Eldridge witnesses the crew and passengers escape shuttles getting shot down, he takes one last look at a photo of his family before activating the Self-Destruct Mechanism. | |
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Foundation Series: Harry Turtledove's "Trantor Falls": With Trantor nearly conquered, Emperor Dagobert VIII extends an invitation to Dr Yokim Sarns to take him along as they evacuate the planet. Dr Sarns politely refuses, saying that his duty is to stay with the University because he is the Dean of the school. | |
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Sonic Zombie: At the end of "Doom Ship", Vector decides to sink along with The Ikea to honor Espio and Charmy after they were killed. | |
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In the series finale of Last Resort, Captain Marcus Chaplin stays on the bridge of his crippled submarine to make sure that no further surprises occur before the F-18's destroy the Colorado. | |
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In one issue of Sonic X, "Captain Eggman" promotes his cannon to captain and tells it to go down with the ship after Sonic damages it. | |
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The Black Hole. Invoked by Captain Reinhardt to explain why he's the only person left on the Cygnus, which is manned by a crew of robots, the human crew having supposedly abandoned the spaceship but never made it back to Earth. It doesn't take long for the protagonists to find this story doesn't hold water. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series: Subverted in "The Doomsday Machine". After the U.S.S. Constellation is put out of action, Commodore Decker evacuates the crew to a Conveniently Close Planet, remaining aboard because The Captain is the "last man to leave the ship". Unfortunately, the transporters fail, and he's Forced to Watch as the eponymous weapon ignores his spaceship and begins devouring the planet her crew had taken refuge on. | |
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A tragic version of this happens in a flashback scene in Pandorum, describing the greatest disaster in space (before Earth itself is destroyed) due to the titular syndrome. A spaceship captain goes insane and ejects all 5000 sleeping pods into space. Presumably, they all suffocated before he died, the last person aboard. | |
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An episode of Futurama parodies Titanic, using both the "adult men dressing as women and children" (specifically The Professor expressing his relief at not needing to be dressed as a child when they find that there's enough life pods) and Zapp Branigan making Kif the new captain and promptly running for the life pods. (interestingly, this leads to Kif meeting Amy for the first time and thus their romance over the series). | |
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In Yamato, during the ill fated Operation Ten-Go, the Yamato is mortally damaged by American air attack. Both of the senior officers in charge, Vice-Admiral Seiichi Itō and Captain Kōsaku Aruga decide to stay on the bridge after giving the order to abandon ship, and they would both ultimately perish just like in real life. The film though, implies that Vice-Admiral Itō commits suicide before the ship sinks. | |
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Used as part of the ruse in The Hunt for Red October: Ramius fakes a reactor meltdown to get the men off his ship, telling them that he will scuttle the ship before the Americans can get it. Ironically, this is the complete opposite of his actual intentions. | |
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The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie: Robert remains on his ship when it's sinking and his henchmen have all bailed out. However, he doesn't stay on it long after it's sunk. | |
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Invoked by Thorn in the Brotherband book The Hunters. After stopping Zavac from knifing Hal, he uses his false arm to trap the pirate in the cabin of his sinking ship. | |
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In The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III, when The Courageous explodes thanks to a hidden bomb, all Victor S. Arseid can do is to take off his hat and wish for Aidios to guide Laura. | |
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The French-Belgian comic Les Tuniques Bleues has an album containing two subversions to this: First, when a boat Chesterfield and Blutch are sailors on gets sunk, they are outraced by the captain swimming to the safety of a lifeboat. When a later ship gets sunk, the captain stayed on board till the end, and the sailors all salute their captain's bravery... Only for the following shot showing the captain sitting at the bottom of the sea, sighing: "I couldn't tell them I can't swim!" |
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Morning Departure: As captain of the Trojan, Armstrong volunteers to be one of the four who remain on the sunken sub and wait for the rescue team. | |
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In the Temeraire series, dragons and their captains tend to die together. In part this is because they are usually falling from a great height with no kind of rescue equipment (such as a parachute) and so the whole crew dies unless another dragon is close enough to help, but given the powerful emotional bond between dragon and captain, many of them wouldn't save themselves even if they were able. In one case the dragon takes a face full of acid and is dying painfully. The majority of the crew are able to jump accross to other dragons (friendly and enemy) but the captain instead crawls out on the dragons neck to give them a Mercy Kill |
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Captain Magnanimous and his crew in Alex and the Ironic Gentleman. They get better. | |
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Under Ten Flags: Captain Windsor refuses to abandon the ship he's captained for thirty years, but the German Boarding Party just tell him he's got five minutes to collect his things and get dressed. We then see him grim faced on the German raider with the other prisoners as demolition charges send his ship to the bottom. Ironically he ends up going down with the raider when it's sunk at the end of the movie, but he urges the German captain to save himself, having come to respect him. | |
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This was the fate of Captain Gloval in the final episode of the first season of Robotech (his Japanese equivalent in the original Super Dimension Fortress Macross survived). | |
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Star Trek Into Darkness: Invoked Trope by Harrison; he keeps his promise to return a captive Kirk, but only because he plans to destroy the Enterprise as well, saying mockingly, "No ship should go down without her captain." Acting Captain Spock intends to do this as the Enterprise is crashing, in order to buy time for everyone else to escape, but Sulu and the rest of the bridge crew won't abandon him. |
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In Kirby Super Star, when the Meta-Knights' airship Halberd starts to go down, Captain Vul decides to Abandon Ship while Mace Knight, Axe Knight and a few others choose to stay behind to try to stop Kirby one last time. Meta Knight himself also tries to stop Kirby, although he also escapes later when Kirby does so. | |
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The finale of Future Boy Conan contains a non-vehicle example: the empire of Industria ends up sinking because of the aftereffects of the same weapons that sank most of Earth's surface two decades earlier. The scientists who'd run Industria for most of its history evacuate its remaining population beforehand, but then walk off the boat to be killed, as Dr. Lao revealed the technology they'd developed was a direct predecessor to the geomagnetic weapons. | |
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The famous "Miracle on the Hudson" was an event in 2009 when Captain Chesley Sullenberger landed his crippled Airbus A320 on the Hudson River.note For those not familiar with American geography, this is impressive because the Hudson river is a peculiarly small target. Not only is it much narrower than its volume would suggest, it is also at the bottom of massive limestone cliffs. To land his extra-wide Airbus A320, the Captain had to approach at a steep angle that most commercial pilots would find very difficult. It's also worth noting that several key instruments on the plane were damaged when this landing took place. After deploying the rafts and evacuating the passengers, Captain Sullenberger was the last off the sinking aircraft, having wandered all the way down the aisle and back to check that nobody was left on board — twice.note Interestingly, the A320 operating manual stipulates that the captain should be the last person off the aircraft — but that the first officer should be first off the aircraft, to assist the evacuation from the outside and coordinate the passengers on the ground (or water, as the case may be). This can be a little alarming for the passengers. Then when the people in his life raft were rescued by a ferry, he was the last person to climb up the ladder. He also refused to leave the Port Authority Ferry Terminal until all of his passengers could be accounted for. His actions would later be depicted in the film Sully. | |
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In Naval Ops: Warship Gunner 2, recurring antagonist Admiral Amagi goes down with his ship the last time you fight him. If you fight Captain Tsukuba, he does the same. | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. The Kraken destroys the Black Pearl with Captain Jack Sparrow handcuffed aboard. In Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Beckett stands stoic at the helm and goes down with his ship as both the Black Pearl and the redeemed Flying Dutchman captained by Will do a run-by and blast him to oblivion. |
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A few officials in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask refuse to leave Clock Town and resolve to share its fate no matter what. The Mayor remains at his desk, his wife Madame Aroma is found Drowning Her Sorrows in the bar, the Bartender refuses to leave his establishment because he's devoted his entire life to it, and the Mailman wants desperately to leave but refuses because tomorrow's delivery is still scheduled (Though you can get him permission to flee by asking him to deliver mail to Madame Aroma on Night 3, which he eagerly takes advantage of). | |
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In Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Beckett stands stoic at the helm and goes down with his ship as both the Black Pearl and the redeemed Flying Dutchman captained by Will do a run-by and blast him to oblivion. | |
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In Star Trek Beyond, Captain Kirk is the last person to eject from the ship, using an Escape Pod launched from the bridge itself, presumably with this trope in mind as they are called Kelvin pods. | |
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Doctor Who: This almost happens to Captain Jack Harkness at the end of "The Doctor Dances". He uses his ship to capture a German bomb about to kill the Doctor and Rose. Unfortunately, the bomb has already started the explosion sequence, and the only thing keeping it from exploding is a stasis field. However, the bomb is exploding slowly. Already in space, Jack orders the ship to jettison the bomb, only to receive the reply that this will cause the bomb to explode while inside the ship. Realizing it's over, he asks the ship to mix him a martini ("Ooh, too much vermouth! See if I ever come here again!) and prepares to die in just the same way he does everything else — with buckets of style. Then the Doctor shows up in the TARDIS to ruin the moment by saving the Lovable Rogue. This happens with the captain of the space cruiser liner Titanic in "Voyage of the Damned". However, in this case, the captain is the one who causes its collision with meteors, having been paid to do so to care for his family. He stays on the bridge and dies during the impact. However, the Doctor manages to save the ship (but not the girl). In "The Night of the Doctor", Cass has stayed behind to operate the teleport and get her crew off. The Doctor shows up to save her, but when she realises he is a Time Lord she elects to stay on her ship until it crashes rather than go with him. The Doctor also elects to go down with the ship rather than abandon her. |
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Star Wars: Lost Stars: Ciena tries to do this after the Rebels board her Star Destroyer and have sabotaged it's self-destruct mechanism in hopes of taking the vessel. She's required to prevent this, and knows that doing so while surviving would never be justified in the Empire's eyes (i.e. she'd be shot). Flying it into Jakku below will accomplish this, plus be a means of suicide, as she's in despair over serving a government she knows is evil but feels duty-bound not to betray. Thane prevents her from doing so. | |
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In the final episode of Blake's 7, "Blake", Scorpio is shot down by gunships while Running the Blockade and is Coming in Hot. The crew teleport out but Tarrant stays on the controls because if he releases them, Scorpio will flip over and break up before they can reach the teleport pad. When Avon hesitates (ever since his arrival on the series, Tarrant and Avon are involved in a running dispute over who should be The Captain), Tarrant points out that he's the only one with the skill to pilot the crashing spaceship, as it's already passed beyond the Master Computer's ability to do so. Tarrant survives the crash, only to get killed along with everyone else in the climatic final scene. | |
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Star Wars Rebels: Inverted in "Stealth Strike" — when the Imperial Interdictor and her escort cruisers are destroyed, Admiral Brom Titus is the only confirmed survivor. In "Family Reunion -- and Farewell", Governor Pryce chooses to remain aboard the flying Imperial dome rather than escape, calmly looking out over the city with a look of pure fury and hatred on her face seconds before the dome explodes. |
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TRON 2.0 played it straight with I-No, the old Tower Guardian who chose to de-rez with the server. However, it's discussed, then averted with Alan and Jet when it comes to them crashing the F-Con server. | |
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The Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch "World War 1" has a ship captain announcing "women and children first!", then we see that the captain and crew are all dressed as women and children... and other costumes, which forces the captain to change the announcement to "women, children, Red Indians, spacemen, and a sort of idealized version of complete Renaissance Men first!" | |
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In Poptropica's SOS Island, the captain decides to go down with the sinking ship. Fortunately, you manage to convince him to leave at the end, after navigating through the mostly waterlogged ship. | |
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In The Horror at MS Aurora, this is what Daniel chooses to do if Kirk kept him alive to this point. | |
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In Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Admiral Bucock and his captain, as well as many others during the Battle of Mar-Ardetta. | |
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A lighthearted subversion happens in The Adventures Of Captain Wrongel, when Captain Wrongel rescues a Norwegian ship. The Norwegian captain is ready to go down with the ship or be the last to leave, but the rescue occurs a) during a storm at night, meaning in pitch-black darkness, b) from above (It Makes Sense in Context), so Wrongel's first mate, as he pulls the sailors off the deck, accidentally grabs the captain first. The captain isn't happy and Vrungel also feels awkward, but since the entire crew ultimately gets saved, nobody bothers with the matter for long. | |
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All Hands! has Captain Harcourt ramming his dying ship into his opponent. He gets bonus points for being at the helm. | |
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In Peter Pan: Return to NeverLand, when a giant octopus is about to sink Captain Hook's ship, he begs Peter Pan to save him from drowning, to which Peter Pan mockingly answers: "You know the rules, Hook! A good captain always goes down with his ship!". Captain Hook's reply? "I DON'T WANNA BE A GOOD CAPTAIN!". | |
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In Star Trek: Generations, Picard and Riker are the last ones to leave the wreck of the Enterprise-D. | |
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Battlestar Galactica (2003): Lee Adama, Commander of the Pegasus, is the last to leave the ship (and says the customary good-bye) before it takes off on a collision course with the Cylon Baseships. Also in Season 4, Adama is the last to leave the Galactica, except for Sam who is now more part of the ship than part of the crew. | |
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DSBT InsaniT: Duck does this with the toy pirate ship in 'Store Story', intending to take Balloon down with him. | |
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Peter Schilling referenced the Titanic in "Terra Titanic". | |
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In Stargate Atlantis, in "The Last Man", an alternate reality Carter rams a Wraith Hiveship with the Phoenix, a much smaller 304 Battlecruiser. The Phoenix not only destroys the Hiveship, but two more are destroyed when they get caught in the blast of the first. It is unknown whether Carter meant to go down with the ship, or whether she intended to beam down to the planet below but couldn't because the transporters were knocked out. It may be relevant, however, that yet another alternate reality Carter blew herself and the Jaffa who'd just captured her "straight to hell" with a grenade. |
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Alta Mar: No matter the disaster, no matter the number of times he's had his authority stripped and returned, Captain Santiago will not abandon ship. By the end of Season 3, every character who had captained the Barbara Braganza went down with the ship. | |
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In Infinite Space, Captain Vilchjo Valso refuses to abandon his ship when the player character encounters him as part of a Lugovalian fleet in the second half of the game. A number of other characters die when their ships go down, but he's the only one to go deliberately. | |
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In Firefly when Serenity is crippled Mal sends the rest of the crew off in the shuttles and stays on board. He claims this is because someone might hear their distress signal, but Inara at least assumes that he's doing this. In the end the crew, who had little better chances of survival in the shuttles in any case, come back to join him. | |
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Played with in Spaceballs. When Dark Helmet, Colonel Sandurz and President Skroob are standing in front of the last escape pod, President Skroob says: "Well boys, it's a very lovely ship. I think you should go down with it." This doesn't pan out, as the bear from the onboard zoo steals the pod. | |
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During the Hey Arnold! episode, "The Flood", Principal Wartz states that he would remain and go down with his school. It is unknown if this was sarcasm for forgetting about him, or he really meant it. | |
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In The Perfect Storm, this happens with Captain Billy Tyne, when the Andrea Gail is capsized by a giant wave the crew had tried to drive over. Most of the crew are trapped in the lower deck, and have no choice but to go down with the ship. Tyne and Bobby are able to escape, but only Bobby gets out but drowns sometime later, while Tyne remains behind and goes down. Of course, seeing as there were no survivors among the crew of the real-life Andrea Gail, this is all conjecture. | |
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Subverted by the Battlecruiser Captain in StarCraft II. One of his (joke) quotes is "We're going down. Stay with the ship. I'm out!". Not taking heavy damage or close to death. Just as soon as they're hit. | |
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Played very straight by Captain Jack Aubrey of the Aubrey-Maturin saga. In the book "Desolation Island", the HMS Leopard springs a very large leak and is in danger of sinking. Captain Aubrey lets the men bring out the boats and gives his First Lieutenant dispatches for the authorities, while he himself prepares to go down with the ship. The situation eventually improves, thankfully. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager: In the climatic scene of the Two-Part Episode "Year of Hell", Captain Janeway remains on board Voyager for a ramming Suicide Attack. Thanks to a temporal Reset Button, she fares better than Decker did. Janeway lampshades the trope in "Dark Frontier" as one of the "three rules of being a Starfleet captain" (the others being always keep your shirt tucked in and never abandon a member of your crew). | |
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Assassin's Creed III: Templar Nicholas Biddle asks to go down with the Randolph after you disable it. Connor accepts, but blows up the magazine to ensure that it actually sinks. | |
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Very much defied by General Grievous in Revenge of the Sith. Not only does he abandon the rapidly-disintegrating Invisible Hand, he also launches every Escape Pod in the process, making damn sure that he's the only one who escapes. | |
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Vexxarr gives an interesting reason for this practice, after the newly appointed captain realizes how badly the crew of his new command sucks. | |
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Babylon 5: Discussed in the episode "Babylon Squared". The last remaining crew members of Babylon 4 are being evacuated before the it gets drawn back into a Negative Space Wedgie. As it is unclear if Babylon 4 will survive the transition, Commander Sinclair compares it to a great old ship sinking. Garibaldi reminds his commander that he is emphatically not The Captain there and he is not going down with the ship. (This foreshadows the fact that his future self is also on Babylon 4, and was in fact part of the team that will have caused the Negative Space Wedgie in the first place.) Sinclair and Garibaldi are the last ones off the station. Shortly before that, in the same episode, the man who is in command there had just taken off to get to the shuttles himself, but only after seeing the rest of his crew off and imploring Sinclair and Garibaldi to get going rather than staying behind to try and save Zathras, who had appeared shortly before all of their problems began. |
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A variant in the pilot episode of Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers. Eliza orders the escape pod with her children to blast off, stranding her on the captured ship. While her kids make it to safety and the Ambadassador family friends manage to rescue her husband, this left her to face a Fate Worse than Death. | |
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Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Though in this case it was more due to the ship being sunk in a matter of seconds with no time for anybody to even think of abandoning ship. |
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