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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Sometimes, You Can't Fight Fate. And when things aren't going your way, it's good to know when to call the whole thing a wash and quit. After all, knowing when to just walk away is a useful skill. It may have even indirectly contributed to the creation of The Thirty-Six Stratagems as an actual list. The Fatalist is quite aware of this wisdom. The Determinator, however, is not. The Determinator will rarely know when to back down, even when it would be beneficial; as such, not knowing when to quit will frequently be presented as a flaw for this kind of character. A Determinator who refuses to back down from a hopeless battle and gets their ass kicked is a very common and easy way to show that the threats are getting bigger, and that an iron-willed resolve isn't going to work against someone who can turn them into jelly. A Combat Pragmatist would see that sort of attitude as foolhardy; he'll fight as long as he can (and fight dirty, at that), but flees if it's clear that he's going to lose. Quitting while they're ahead also sometimes happens, with the rationale usually being that they're not going to survive a prolonged fight and would be better off using a temporary advantage as an opportunity to get the hell out of there. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })This trope is known as "risk aversion" in psychology circles. As seen in the prevalence of this trope, it's often a useful evolutionary trait. It's why most people, when gambling, try to quit when they've made more money than they started with. After all, nobody ever got rich from getting a lead and then betting it all anyways. Taking this trope too far can lead to Dismotivation when they decide that since You Can't Fight Fate, why bother doing anything? The Straw Nihilist THINKS he understands this trope, but in reality wouldn't even be sitting down at the table. The same is true of The Eeyore, who has already folded before the cards are even dealt. Serial villains in general owe a large part of their Joker Immunity to making escapes at the end of the encounter to appear in another. Good exit timing makes more formidable enemies than escaping a Cardboard Prison. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Compare You Were Trying Too Hard, which is about situations where folding somehow causes you to win the pot. See also Screw This, I'm Outta Here!; Villain: Exit, Stage Left; Opt Out; I Surrender, Suckers; Graceful Loser; I Will Fight No More Forever; Run or Die; Switch-Out Move; Sensing You Are Outmatched; Tactical Withdrawal. Contrast Sunk Cost Fallacy, which this trope tries to avoid, and Surrender Backfire. Compare with Dirty Coward and contrast with Rage Quit, which are more emotion-driven while Knowing when to Fold 'Em is strategically based, even though anyone who is willing to commit atrocities because he believes he has the upper hand and stands back because of biting off more than he could chew is a Dirty Coward by default, especially if the evil that they intended to commit was petty. Also contrast with Leeroy Jenkins, who is pretty much the antithesis of this trope, and Attack! Attack! Attack!, where the character's determination blinds them to when it is time to give up. Compare and contrast the Determined Defeatist, who is a ZigZagged example, having the attitude of this trope, but who will press on anyway. Examples: |
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The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo episode "Coast-to-Ghost" focused on the gang having to recapture a vampire ghost named Rankor. At the end of the episode, Rankor is at risk of being destroyed by sunlight until Scrappy and Flim-Flam offer to save him by returning him to the Chest of Demons. Rankor accepts the offer, making him the only ghost in the series to return to the Chest of Demons willingly. | |
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In Shin Megami Tensei IV, one option during demon conversations is simply to stop the conversation. Often times this will yield better results than allowing the conversation to drag on, which could result in thing such as the demon leaving without giving you what you wanted (e.g. Macca, an item, joining you) or getting a free turn, and this being Megami Tensei, enemies getting free turns is a very bad thing. That said, ending a conversation can also lead to those things happening anyway, and it's impossible to tell when is the best time to do so, making demon conversations, especially recruitment, largely a Luck-Based Mission. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: Lord Bulbin eventually realizes that he can't beat Link. He explains he always fights for the strongest side (with the implication that Link is now that strongest side), before he hands Link a key and leaves. Particularly surprising, as Bulbin had been the definition of a Recurring Boss up until that point. | |
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In the final issue of DCeased, the infected Superman finds himself confronting the Green Lantern Corps. He sizes up his opponents and realizes he can't beat them all and decides to dive into the heart of the sun and absorb all the energy he can to kill as many lives as possible. Similarly, when Ganthet sees this, he realizes not even a Green Lantern Ring can withstand the heart of a star and decides to let Sector 2814 perish and let the infection sleep so they can get what survivors they had to a new world and rebuild. | |
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Code Geass: Paladins of Voltron: In Chapter 23, after Voltron decimates her forces effortlessly, an infuriated Cornelia orders her men to withdraw from Narita, making this the first defeat she's ever suffered. | |
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Pale: Marie Durocher's binding class, in which she releases a dangerous bound Other that threatens to kill all the students and leaves it to her apprentice to restrain it, is intended to teach this lesson: | |
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The Red Ten: After several members of the Alliance die, Orion declares that he's leaving, comparing the situation to staying in a losing card game and invoking this trope word for word. | |
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In This Immortal, the reasoning behind Conrad's leaving his identity as Konstantin Karaghiosis and the Returnist movement behind was that there comes a point when one's achieved what one could achieve and it's time to move on. Dos Santos and especially Diane, who figures out Conrad's former identity, disagree. | |
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Samurai Jack: In "The Princess and the Bounty Hunters", when the trap Princess Mira designs fails, she's the last survivor among the villains, she's hurt, and Jack is unharmed. She considers continuing the battle... but then decides against it and drops her weapon, realizing she can't win. Unlike the others, she lives. In "The Tale of X-9", X-9 says that this is why he survived longer than the other X-units, seeing as the Emotion Chip inside him gave him a sense of self-preservation that let him run when he knew he was in danger. As he explains it, "The other X-units, they didn't care. I cared." |
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This is what makes the Dynamic Duo suspicious in the Batman episode "The Greatest Mother of Them All". Not only are all the members of the Parker crime family captured before the end of the first installment of the usual two-parter, but they are all nabbed with ridiculous ease (especially the daughter, who throws her hands up as soon as Batman and Robin see her). Turns out it was too good to be true: the Parkers were not afraid of going to jail because Ma Parker had been slowly infiltrating the penitentiary with criminals disguised as guards until Warden Crichton had been the only non-corrupt person left — and Ma then had the "guards" turn on Crichton and bully him into making her the new warden. The Parkers gain total control of the prison, "breaking out" as often as they wish to commit robberies. | |
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Ranma ½: The Saotome Secret Technique, employed by the Saotome School of Anything-Goes Martial Arts, relies on speed, obfuscation, and contemplation. Or, put more plainly, run away and hide until you come up with a better plan. While introduced mostly as a joke early on, this is actually Ranma's most useful skill, as most of his fights are won less through sheer skill (Having just learned how to fight with teacups and teaspoons a few days ago), and more through outsmarting his opponents. | |
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This frequently happens on Pawn Stars to both the customers and the pawnbrokers alike when they're negotiating on a price for the customer's item. One of the parties will make a final offer when it comes to how much they'll pay or accept for the item, and then the other party has to decide whether to accept this final offer or simply break off the negotiations without making a deal. | |
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This happens to two villains in Batman: Arkham Knight: A diary belonging to Calendar Man revealed he planned to strike on Halloween, going with his usual MO, but decided otherwise when the Scarecrow struck. Bane's fate after Batman: Arkham City: detoxed himself of the Titan, decided going round three with the Batman was stupid and went back home to Santa Prisca with the much easier goal of overthrowing its corrupt government. |
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: Mina and Mils, a brother/sister duo wandering Hyrule searching for treasure among the ruins of destroyed towns, are frequently found running into various monsters that they attempt to fight against until Link comes to the rescue. But even Mina admits that conducting a similar raid on Hyrule Castle would be suicidal because of all the Guardians roaming around it. | |
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As their name suggests, the Runaways frequently follow this principle. | |
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In The Negotiations-verse, after the humans successfully fight off the ponies' Assimilation Plot and manage to lay waste to much of Equestria, kill off a large number of their armed forces, and render Princess Celestia comatose after she spent the last of her power trying to protect her ponies from a brutal aerial assault, Twilight Sparkle decides to surrender the war, with the first story in the series taking place in the immediate aftermath of the war where she needs to negotiate a peace treaty with the UN to ensure the nation's continued survival. | |
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A mark of a good officer in the Honor Harrington series is knowing when it's best to do this. A clear line is drawn between knowing when to fold 'em, knowing when you can't fold and must fight until the end, and doing the latter to avoid being seen as a coward for doing the former. A specific instance occurs in Echoes of Honor. A surprise Havenite attack catches the less than competent Rear Admiral Elvis Santino completely flat-footed. His operations officer, Andrea Jaruwalski, tries to get him to fold, surrendering the system they don't need in the face of a vastly superior force. Santino responds by relieving Jaruwalski of her position and sending her away with enough of a black spot on her record to sabotage her career, then calling up his command to meet the Havenite attack. Santino's command is mostly destroyed while Jaruwalski eventually has her career salvaged with the help of Honor Harrington herself. Conflicts with the Solarian League, in which the Manticoran forces are so much more advanced technologically they can Curb Stomp vastly more numerous Solarian forces with ease, often feature the Manticorans trying to get the Solly commanders to realize they need to do this. The success rate varies depending on how Too Dumb to Live the arrogant Solarian commanders are. |
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Winx Club: A textbook example of the dissonance between going down fighting and Knowing When To Fold Them: Timmy is threatening the Trix (pillaging a Codex from Red Fountain) with his weapon... until he realizes that the Trix are much more powerful than he is, and decides that he's better off figuring out a way to defeat them later. Tecna sees this and calls him a coward for not fighting. However, 4K simply discards this issue and replaces it with an anti-violence spell. Video. | |
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There Was Once an Avenger from Krypton: Vilgax's invasion of Arcadia is the last straw for the Kree, who decide to wash their hands of Earth and hand custodianship of the Sol system over to the Nova Empire instead. | |
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In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency, Joseph's final super special plan consists of basically making the best use of his legs. In other words, to run the hell away. He usually comes up with a better plan while he's at it. (It sees use again in the part's finale, and gets a brief Call-Back in the next part.) Even Joseph's son Josuke and grandson Jotaro do this occasionally, once again to strategize against Hopeless Boss Fight at first glance. This carries on to Giorno, Joseph's uncle, (don't ask how), as he ran away rather than face Koichi and his Echoes Act 3. |
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In Uncharted this is said by Sully, usually in reference to his old age, but more meaningfully to Nate about his often reckless adventures and need to prove himself. This becomes a major theme in Uncharted 4 due to everyone's self-destructive obsession with the treasure of Libertalia. At the climax, Nate and Nadine realize it's time to fold and get to escape with their lives. Sam has to be convinced by Nate, and leaves with a pocket full of gold coins. Rafe refuses to let go of his obsession, and gets a bag of treasure dropped on his head for his trouble. |
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In the five-part G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero story where Serpentor was created, Sergeant Slaughter — as in, the One-Man Army Blood Knight of the Joes — knows enough to surrender when surrounded, exhausted, and outnumbered, although he does warn them that while Cobra's "in the lead", they're "going into extra innings, you can count on it". (And his words are very prophetic; he throws a big Spanner in the Works a few scenes later.) | |
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In the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) episode "Notes From the Underground (Part 1)" Leonardo orders a retreat from the clearly more powerful monsters. Raphael really doesn't like running from a fight, so Leonardo tells him it's a "tactical retreat". Raphael looks at his foes for a brief second and says, "Tatical retreat, I Can Live With That..." before following the others. | |
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In the Justice League episode "Hereafter", Livewire suggests calling off the attempt to draw Superman into a trap when it becomes apparent that he's not the only hero they have to worry about. It's too late for that, though. | |
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Simon from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is an insanely badass Determinator, but is rational enough to walk away from a fight once he's exhausted every other option. This is the principal difference between him and Kamina. However, this isn't always a good thing. When Kamina and Simon were first fighting Thymilph, everyone was trying to convince them to retreat, before Simon himself points out they may need to this one time. However, Kamina (correctly) points out that they can't. If they did, they would be putting the others in danger because they'd be chased. This ends up with Simon taking advantage of a cliff to sink the Dai-Gunzan and win them the battle. | |
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In Naruto, Shikamaru shows his knowledge of this trope during the Chunin Exam arc. He fought Temari and appeared to have her beaten, then gave up at the last minute. It's because of this that he gets promoted to Chuunin. Itachi and Kisame did this twice during their attempt to capture Naruto. The first was when Guy showed up; while they had dealt with Kakashi, Asuma, and Kurenai fairly handily and probably could have dealt with Guy as well, they retreated because they figured that Guy was the first of many and they weren't equipped to fight off a bunch of jonin. The second time was against Jiraiya; the minute he showed up and made it clear that he wasn't playing, Kisame admitted that he would stomp them in a fight and they immediately abandoned the mission and fled. |
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RWBY: Before the Dawn reveals a strong connection of this trope with Run or Die: once Beacon was attacked by the huge Grimm army, Nolan decided he was better off fleeing the place. As a result, he's the Sole Survivor of his team, as the other three died in the battle, leading to strong Survivor's Guilt. | |
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In Canada's Worst Driver, two drivers (Jason from Season 3 and Mike from Season 5) gave up driving for good. Aaron from Season 7 came in ready to do so to (as it turned out, he didn't have to). In the Finnish version, the judges decided to let one contestant go, because there was absolutely nothing they could do to help him.note He was a very good driver, but incredibly reckless. He was sent to a therapist instead. In Season 4, the panel sent Donna home after learning she had a dangerous heart condition and wasn't safe to be driving. |
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Invoked in Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR- for Dizzy's Instant-Kill Attack: one of Dizzy's sentient wings, Necro, attempts to kill the opponent with a powerful blast. Dizzy manages to push Necro enough so the attack barely misses, but the resulting explosion and mushroom cloud behind the opponent causes them to give up. Instead of the screen reading "DESTROYED" like with other Instant-Kill Attacks, the screen reads "SURRENDERED". | |
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In Archipelago, after certain events during the Final Battle Steller comes out with this observation: | |
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After being painfully reminded that they Alpha Betas have them beat in raw strength during the Tug-of-War event in Revenge of the Nerds, the Tri-lambs start the second round by simply letting go of the rope. Their defeat was inevitable, but this way they dropped the Jocks in the dust. | |
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Reed Richards once contacted an alien invasion fleet right before they were about to attack Earth. In the middle of introducing himself, the aliens realized who he was (the supergenius leader of the group that has foiled other alien invasions and Galactus himself) and wisely got the hell away from Earth. | |
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In A More Personal Union, when the Grande Alliance invades Portugal as a backdoor into Spain, King Sebastian almost immediately surrenders, knowing that his vastly outnumbered and outmatched forces don't stand a chance. | |
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Discussed by Reinhard von Lohengramm in Legend of Galactic Heroes, where he told his attendant that first-rate commanders are commanders who at least knows when to retreat, although he himself never needed to retreat, since he always enters the battlefield with overwhelming advantages (except in one occasion). | |
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Moby-Dick: Captain Boomer lost his arm to Moby Dick, but unlike Ahab is smart enough to realize going for round two isn't a good idea and just moved on. | |
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As revealed in Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’, for all of his arrogance and smugness, even Frieza knew better than to cross Beerus and Majin Buu. Discovering that Goku beat Buu fuels his decision to train in preparation for their rematch, and even after unlocking his Golden Super Mode, Frieza dreads Beerus to the point of shamelessly kneeling and groveling before him. | |
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In The Seven Deadly Sins, Princess Elizabeth fleeing the capital to seek help after her father's murder is portrayed as both the smart and right thing to do. Especially since she had no hope in hell of defeating his usurpers or bringing them to justice legally (they were that high up in Liones' hierarchy). | |
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Conviction (SRPG): If Grace, the boss of chapter 19A, is reduced to 1 HP, he will insist on fighting to the end, but one of his subordinates will force him to retreat for his own safety. | |
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In "The Girl of No Tomorrow", the sorceress Selena joins the Fatal Five to take Supergirl down. She and Magog raid a government building where the Girl of Steel is resting, but they're curbstomped by an ally of Supergirl's. Selena judges it's time to cut her losses and teleports away. | |
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Phase, of the Whateley Universe, handles power mimic Counterpoint by avoiding fighting him, so the power mimic doesn't get Phase's powers. It turns out in another book that Phase does have a way of fighting a power mimic, but it's lethal. | |
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Deconstructed in The Greatest Generation. In of itself, Admiral Shimada having his damaged and fatigued forces retreat from the oncoming Abyssal juggernaut they had no chance of defeating should have been a wise idea. However, political realities intruded in the form of Morton's Fork: With the sheer forces arrayed against him, the civilians were going to take a rusty spiked dildo in the butt sooner or later whatever he did. He could have his forces stand, fight and die in the vain hope that they can make a difference when an earlier force in optimal condition had failed, or retreat and preserve his strength. Admiral Shimada chose to put The Men First and, because he didn't send his subordinates out to banzai charge and die in a Senseless Sacrifice like a good soldier, ended up vilified In-Universe and out. | |
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Spirit of the Century: A Gambling stunt is named after this. It allows the gambler's player to ask the GM to make an NPC's roll in advance and secret, then reveal whether the result was above or below the gambler's base skill; only after that does the player decide whether to opt into that particular game or bow out. | |
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The Karma of Lies: After Hawkmoth's Secret Identity is exposed during his Final Battle with Ladybug, along with Marinette herself getting unmasked, Lila realizes that she needs to cut her losses and get out of Paris as soon as possible. This contrasts sharply with Adrien, who ignores all warnings he recieves from Plagg about the coming karmic backlash, refusing to believe that he's in any danger from his Karma Houdini Warranty running out. | |
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Zim the Warlord: Irken Reversion: When he learns that humans are experimenting with Childergy, Zim doesn't even try to stop it, noting that since they've discovered its existence, they're bound to eventually hit the critical mass moment regardless of what he does. So he decides to just let it happen, and prepares to evacuate from the planet if it results in a World-Wrecking Wave. | |
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The sequel has Ash Williams, who doesn't believe in the "no-win" scenario, but does believe in the "probably-not-going-to-win" scenario, and will fold in such a scenario. | |
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Iron Man 3: One mook realizes that laying down his life for a bunch of weirdos with superpowers isn't worth it. Rhodes jumps out of the overheating Iron Patriot suit and proceeds to drop-kick Savin. Then Killian shoots a stream of fire at him from his mouth. Rhodey evades, but he is immediately aware that he can't win that fight. |
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Unstable Sale centers around Apple Bloom's contemplation of this trope, as she realizes that three years of crusading for her cutie mark has just made everypony else in town hate her. | |
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Master Vile in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. He actually realized fairly quickly that he wasn't going to beat the Power Rangers, and he'd be better off cutting his losses and going home to his galaxy, where evil always wins. Despite this, he actually fared impressively well against the Power Rangers. His first monster had them on the ropes for three episodes until they figured out its weakness, his second monster required the use of a never-before-seen ultrazord configuration to defeat, and his third plan involved a self-destructing time reversal device that didn't have the same pitfalls as Zedd's attempt, which required a long 10 episode arc to fix, and Vile actually left only two episodes into that arc. | |
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Learning To Be Human: After the Path to Victory shard tells him that the Entities' goal of an infinite food source and infinite replication is impossible given the known laws of physics, the Entity Abbadon (who'd created an amnesiac avatar that he recently reintegrated himself with), has a Heel Realization and finds a new solution to said goal. Specifically, giving up on it and dedicating his life to doing something more sensible. | |
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In A Teacher's Glory, Team 7 decides to get Naruto medical attention after he's badly injured in the Forest of Death rather than try to continue the exam. It helps they all realize there would be plenty of promotion opportunities in the future. | |
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New Game Plus: After Luffy one-shots one of the Alvida Pirates in an absurdly effective way, the two who witnessed it wisely decide to skedaddle. Sham and Buchi, after witnessing the fantastic Curb-Stomp Battle that decimates their crew in seconds, promptly throw themselves at Zoro’s feet and surrender. |
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Dreamscape: Despite his cocky attitude, Ethan knows when he's outmatched. | |
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In Homestuck, Tavros suggests to Vriska — after the two have died and gone to the afterlife — that they give up and accept their status as minor characters. | |
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The Tim Tebow CFL Chronicles: The Ottawa REDBLACKS are getting their asses whupped by the Toronto Argonauts in a million-yard game of Canadian football. When the Argonauts trick the REDBLACKS into getting stranded inside Manicougan Crater, the REDBLACKS unknowingly give their opponents a several-day lead before they realize what happened. At that point, the REDBLACKS decide enough is enough, forfeit the game, and go home. | |
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Resident Evil Abridged: Played for laughs by having the Mystery Gang make a cameo appearance at the Spencer Mansion to investigate the recent rash of homicides there. That changes the moment Daphne finds the Nemesis hiding in the closet. The gang immediately calls it quits and hauls ass. | |
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The World Government functionally gives up on trying to capture Vivi in Shinobi of the High Seas by the Time Skip as her connection to the Straw Hat Pirates isn't worth tangling with her captain (Naruto) who has escaped Kizaru twice, fought Aokiji to a draw, and killed Akainu. | |
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In Itachi, Is That a Baby?, Snape gives up on punishing Harry when he realizes Harry won't get in trouble since everything he does is either A) Legally self-defense, or B) Impossible to prove he did it. | |
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The Order of the Stick — A recurring theme: Hinjo gets the Aesop — delivered using this exact phrase. His city has fallen, and he'd rather stand and go down fighting, but, as the leader of the city, he could better serve his people by surviving and retaking the city later. In Start of Darkness, this is the difference between Redcloak and Right-Eye. While The Sunk Cost Fallacy continues with Redcloak, his brother Right-Eye decided early on that relying on Xykon's support in the Plan, and soon the Plan itself, wasn't worth the deaths caused. He even went as far as to renounce the Plan and the Dark One himself, calling the goblin deity a "Petty, spiteful god." Xykon has also learned this. When he is killed by Roy, he orders Redcloak and the Monster in the Darkness to retreat with his Soul Jar, rather than try to recapture Dorukan's dungeon. The reason is that there are other gates he can find that presumably don't require a person with a good alignment to activate them. Vaarsuvius runs out of spells during the battle for Azure City, and instead of fighting, opts to turn invisible and retreat to the ship. Though it was the only practical option for a Squishy Wizard, Vaarsuvius considers it My Greatest Failure and is haunted by the soldiers who made a Last Stand instead. Haley names this trope again when she is asked by Roy whether or not he should destroy the second to last Gate, with not one but two stronger enemy groups closing in on their position. After learning how many spells Vaarsuvius has remaining, and comparing it with her remaining supply of Power Points, Laurin blinks out of the battle. For all the problems his ego and plans cause him, Nale is at least smart enough to realize when a scheme has gone south and make his retreat — or tries to, anyway. Redcloak casually murders a hobgoblin with a mid-to-high level spell after said hobgoblin explains that by vanquishing the Supreme Leader in battle, he can skip a long, painful and humiliating initiation ritual to join the hobgoblin tribe so he can eventually take it over, and just take it over right there. When Xykon asks if the guy Redcloak just killed was the Supreme Leader, the actual Supreme Leader (as noted by his assorted bling of Supreme Leadership), says that yes. Yes, he was. |
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Captain Marvel: After witnessing Carol single-handedly neutralize his Orbital Bombardment, annihilate his entire fighter screen and destroy an entire battlecruiser simply by flying through it, Ronan wisely decides to order the rest of his fleet to jump the hell away from Earth orbit. Yon-Rogg's attempt to convince Carol to fight without her powers just gets him blasted several meters into the rubble behind him. He understands he's far outclassed, so when Carol extends her hand, he wisely takes it. |
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In My Huntsman Academia, Sun stops and try to reason with Team MNVW and Team RSBR after noticing Izuku, Katsuki, and Ruby closing in on him with Pyrrha close behind. | |
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The protagonist of Melody often has to judge how far to push a joke so as to appear fun but not pervy, or when to stop checking out a hot girl. | |
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Jingo appears to feature this, with Vetinari surrendering to Klatchian forces and giving them huge advantages in exchange for letting them all go home, with the treaty to be signed on the island of Leshp. A week or so later, as Vetinari is on trial for treason, he innocuously asks what treaty they're talking about, since it needed to be signed on Leshp, which has just sunk back under the ocean. | |
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A Certain Scientific Railgun: Gunha Sogiita, one of the most Hot-Blooded, Idiot Heroes of all time, ran away when he was confronted by the Tokiwadai Dorm Supervisor. What makes it funny is that the Dorm Supervisor is a Badass Normal, while Gunha once refused to run away from Ollerus, a near Physical God. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas has this as the central theme in the Dead Money expansion. Everyone has an obsession that drives them to the Sierra Madre, and only in letting go do they find relief. Christine's sole goal is to kill Elijah for what he did to her and The Brotherhood of Steel. Dean Domino has been trying to break into the Sierra Madre for over two centuries. Dog and God just want to control the body that both personalities inhabit. Elijah wants all the technology in the Sierra Madre Vault to rebuild and rule the wasteland. (You have the option of granting his wish — by permanently sealing him in the vault.) Even The Courier can run into this, as the Vault is filled with ammo, arms, armor, and gold ingots worth a fortune; but taking too much will slow you down so that you can barely move — while the timer on your explosive collar ticks down. |
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The Price Is Right has several games where contestants can keep risking their luck for a bigger payout or stop and walk with what they won. There have been many times where the audience pleads with the contestant to stop, only for the contestant to keep going and lose everything. Other times there will be contestants that will listen and quit early to keep what they won. | |
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The bad guys of The Death of Princess Luna turn out to be four delusional stallions who are utterly convinced that killing Princess Luna is the right thing to do in order to end "Nightmare Moon" once and for all. After they're foiled and taken into custody, nearly all of them refuse to say anything despite the evidence against them, but Comet Tail confesses everything about their conspiracy and even identifies the one member who wasn't caught with the others. This earns him the lightest prison sentence. | |
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Garak tells it to Bashir during a James Bond simulation on the holodeck, reinforcing his status as a Magnificent Bastard. | |
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Both Sam and Fuzzy from Sam & Fuzzy take much of the strip learning their limits on when things are out of their hands or they need to let go. At the end of the climax of "Brain Damage" Sam rejects The Last Temptation when he realizes that even if Brain were to give him the power he wants to reshape the world and save everyone (a mighty big 'if'), he still probably wouldn't be the right person to do the job, and Fuzzy realizes that even if Brain were to restore his lost memories (an even mightier 'if'), his past and identity as Eric is still gone, and being Fuzzy is all that's important to him. | |
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While Robin Tim Drake is unquestionably tenacious, he knows when to pull back from a situation to approach it from another angle, or give up on a case permanently, as he did when a gun runner he was following had the bad luck of being chosen by an Eldritch Abomination as its newest anchor for a human form. | |
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Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters: Servantis, Phobos' Token Good Teammate, ultimately decides to throw in the towel when Torus Filney is overrun by the Rebellion, telling Lothar to take his men and flee, while he stays behind to surrender. When it becomes clear that Tracker is going to kill him if they keep fighting, Ikki surrenders to the Chans and Guardians, knowing they'll just remove his mask from Hak Foo and disembody him. When the Guardians and Jade attack Cavigor to rescue Elyon's parents, they accidentally provide an opening for Drago to stop playing along and escape. As a contingency to make sure he can get away, he magically weakens the prison's foundations to the point that they'll collapse, and states that he's perfectly willing to let it fall on him if it means killing the Guardians and prison guards too. Realizing that he's not bluffing, the Guardians flee (knowing that they can track him down later), as does Warden Callisto, who grabs the Shapeshifter children in his care and runs to safety, realizing that there's no point in doing his job if the prison won't exist much longer. After Phobos is defeated at the end of Season 1, the Guard all lay down their weapons and surrender to the Rebellion. |
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At the beginning of Dragon Age: Origins, the heroes make a battle plan where King Cailan will lure the Darkspawn into a trap, you and Alistair will light a signal fire, and Teryn Loghain will outflank the Darkspawn. However, when you actually light the fire, Loghain abandons you. It's heavily debated both in-universe and out whether this trope was legitimately in play (the front line was already breaking down and it was too late to save Cailan) or whether it was a Betrayal by Inaction. | |
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In a Dragon Ball Z Abridged short, Yusuke Urameshi and Kuwabara decide to challenge Perfect Cell, showing off their incredible (still early canon) powers. Cell stops them and asks if they can disintegrate entire planets with them. They wisely pack up and leave. Earlier on, during Tien's Kikoho barrage against Semi-Perfect Cell, Yamcha notes how useless he feels, and Master Roshi directly quotes the Trope Namer. |
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The "Unknown Enemy" of Mobile Suit Gundam AGE don't bother fighting battles they know they can't win. Only once has an entire UE attack force been wiped out in the course of a battle, and that's because they were blindsided by two extremely powerful mobile suits they had no way of predicting. In every other case, they've retreated the moment the battle started going against them. This stops happening past the first season though... perhaps the vanguard force was more elite than the main army. | |
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Girls Bravo: Kirie had a crush on her next door neighbor (and classmate), Yukinari. In Episode 4, she tried to get closer to him by preparing a special box bento, in hopes of going on a lunch date with him. Except it failed due to a series of unforeseen events and, with Lisa now entering the picture along with Miharu, Kirie decided it was no longer worth it and quit. From the fifth episode onwards, she settles for just being friends with him. | |
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In Batman Beyond, Jerk Jock Nelson is bullying Willy Watt. When Terry steps up to defend him (Nelson has witnessed Terry kicking the asses of a Jokerz gang), Nelson considers it for a moment and backs down. | |
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Serenity: Leaves on the Wind: In Serenity the Operative was a fighter bordering on God-Mode Sue: both times he went up against Mal directly, Mal only won by luck. So you know it's bad when the Operative, post-Heel–Face Turn, sees his fellow operative Kalista and immediately surrenders. Turned on its head a page later when Serenity arrives with a cargo bay full of browncoats. Kalista apparently decides the rebels will win by sheer numbers even against her and promptly high-tails it. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Loki won't fight if he can't win: In Thor, Loki sees that they are outnumbered by the Frost Giants and urges his brother to back down from the fight. In The Avengers, Loki subverts a certain other trope by choosing not to go for seconds on beatings and surrendering to the Avengers after losing his army. Considering how fighting Hulk had gone, surrendering and asking for a drink was the smart thing to do when Hulk was backed up by the rest of the group. In Thor: Ragnarok, after Hela demonstrates her power by destroying Thor's hammer, Loki immediately opts for a retreat with the Bifrost. Inverted in Avengers: Infinity War, where he would stand up to Thanos no matter what, with a fatal result. Iron Man 3: One mook realizes that laying down his life for a bunch of weirdos with superpowers isn't worth it. Rhodes jumps out of the overheating Iron Patriot suit and proceeds to drop-kick Savin. Then Killian shoots a stream of fire at him from his mouth. Rhodey evades, but he is immediately aware that he can't win that fight. Captain Marvel: After witnessing Carol single-handedly neutralize his Orbital Bombardment, annihilate his entire fighter screen and destroy an entire battlecruiser simply by flying through it, Ronan wisely decides to order the rest of his fleet to jump the hell away from Earth orbit. Yon-Rogg's attempt to convince Carol to fight without her powers just gets him blasted several meters into the rubble behind him. He understands he's far outclassed, so when Carol extends her hand, he wisely takes it. |
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Grrl Power: Minor supervillain Barberian, faced with the prospect of having to take on Jiggawatt and Dabbler, protests that he's a hairdresser, and is only even at the superbrawl because he got dragged along by his friends. When Dabbler points out that he could surrender, he immediately does so, deeply relieved to get out of the fight without injury. | |
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In Thor: Ragnarok, after Hela demonstrates her power by destroying Thor's hammer, Loki immediately opts for a retreat with the Bifrost. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Most high-level monsters, especially Lower Planar leaders. Take pit fiends, for instance, high-up leaders among devils. Most information about them says their fortresses always have several escape routes that they don't hesitate to take if a fight somehow turns against them. In fact, one source says that their fortresses always have a few "fake escape routes" along with the real ones. The fake escape routes are more obvious, and an enemy is more likely to try to set up an ambush at one of them while the Pit Fiend uses the real, well-hidden escape route. | |
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Spyro: Shadow Legacy: In Spyro's final fight with the Sorceror, the Sorceror uses the last of his power to escape when he realizes he's losing. | |
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In Pokémon: Kyurem vs. The Sword of Justice, Keldeo yields his rematch after protecting Ash and his friends from a stray attack made him too injured to continue. Kyurem and the other Swords of Justice praise him for his good judgment. | |
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Marco and the Galaxy Dragon: Haqua is initially cold and confident the first time she attacks Marco for the Lizard Stone, but when Arco shapeshifts into her true Galaxy Dragon form, that confidence evaporates and she beats a hasty retreat. She doesn’t try to steal the Stone again until a situation arises where Arco is out of commission and can’t come to Marco’s aid. | |
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In The Black Swordsman story arc of Berserk, after Guts's ally Vargas has been captured by the Count's men and about to be executed, Puck asks why Guts isn't going in and rescuing him. The guy who once slew 100 warriors in one sitting, tells Puck to screw off since there's about 50 guards in the area lying in wait for him and he's not going to risk fighting so many for a weakling. Instead Guts just witnesses Vargas's execution, leaving Puck to attempt a rescue alone and fail. | |
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A continuing theme in Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld series is that sometimes you have to abandon an ambition in order to achieve other ambitions and/or live a fulfilling life. The main character of "Bitten", the first book, spends her character development deciding which of her conflicting desires to pursue and which to abandon. In later books, the trope is more subtle, but still reoccurs often. | |
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Wonder Woman (2017): Steve Trevor watches a titanic battle between actual gods and decides to stay out of it, instead concentrating on the threat he can stop, a plane full of chemical gas. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender does this a lot: The Gaang convince La Résistance after Omashu fell that living to fight another day would be better, and they help get the civilians out of the town. Omashu itself fell so quickly because its King Bumi surrendered immediately, figuring they were in no position to accomplish anything by fighting back. He even willingly remained in a prison he could break out of until he thought the time was right. When that moment comes ("An eclipse. That'll do it. ") he sure as hell seized upon it. When the invasion during the eclipse fails, the troops decide that Aang and his friends should flee with Appa, while the rest of them surrender instead of fighting a battle that has become impossible to win. Same goes for the Firelord himself, who knows that an invasion is planned and that he and his guards will be severely weakened during the eclipse. So he decides to not be in his throne room. And not in his secret bunker either. Instead he hides in a second secret bunker and sits the whole thing out. When Aang comes to the conclusion that he won't be able to fully master his abilities before the day of the comet, he decides to let the enemies use their trump card and sit it out. But it turns out he doesn't have the luxury. |
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Bane's fate after Batman: Arkham City: detoxed himself of the Titan, decided going round three with the Batman was stupid and went back home to Santa Prisca with the much easier goal of overthrowing its corrupt government. | |
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Hellsister Trilogy: At the end of "The Apokolips Agenda", Darkseid's scheme revolving around the Anti-Life Equation has failed and he is apparently obliterated by Orion. In reality, Darkseid transferred his conscience to a spare body, cloned beforehand in the event that he was defeated, and he decides he'll spend the next hundreds of years sleeping, recovering his strength and scheming while time and old age look after his fooled enemies. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Garak tells it to Bashir during a James Bond simulation on the holodeck, reinforcing his status as a Magnificent Bastard. Starfleet abandoning the Deep Space Nine station. Likewise when the Dominion abandoned the station. Shortly before the events of the show, the Cardassian Empire took this tack with their occupation of Bajor. A tenacious La Résistance combined with mounting political pressure back home made the planet too hot to hold. Despite being Kung-Fu Jesus for a Proud Warrior Race, Kahless himself had this as one of his sayings: "Destroying an empire to win a war is no victory, and ending a battle to save an empire is no defeat." |
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Discussed in Arthur's Spelling Bee episode when the class genius is studying for the competition. | |
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A meta example: In a performance of The Pirates of Penzance, the audience called for no fewer than '' three encores'' for the song "With Catlike Tread". An exhausted Jon English finally begged the audience to stop and let them get on with the rest of the operetta. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: Lord Bulbin eventually realizes that he can't beat Link. He explains he always fights for the strongest side (with the implication that Link is now that strongest side), before he hands Link a key and leaves. Particularly surprising, as Bulbin had been the definition of a Recurring Boss up until that point. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: Mina and Mils, a brother/sister duo wandering Hyrule searching for treasure among the ruins of destroyed towns, are frequently found running into various monsters that they attempt to fight against until Link comes to the rescue. But even Mina admits that conducting a similar raid on Hyrule Castle would be suicidal because of all the Guardians roaming around it. |
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The smarter villains in the Expanded Universe have this as part of their modus operandi. Zsinj in Solo Command even mentions avoiding "throwing good money after bad" when invoking this trope. The novel The Bacta War has a variant. When told that his defeat is now inevitable by Wedge Antilles, the commander of the Lusankya refuses to give in, and decides to Colony Drop his ship on a nearby planet as a final fuck you to the New Republic. One of his bridge officers then shoots him, takes command, and declares that he's willing to surrender if the Republic fleet is willing to tow the wreck of his ship into a higher orbit so that it won't crash of its own accord. |
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A possible Aesop in the classic play, Death of a Salesman, where Willy Loman is told in so many words that he should give up his misguided dream of being a popular salesman and find a better life. This is further reinforced by the fact that the play makes it obvious he would have been far more happy and successful as a construction tradesman. | |
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In Noob, two of the members of the titular guild occasionally just plain bail out of fights they think can't be won. While Gaea tends to do it as part of her Dirty Coward and The Scrooge behaviour, it tends to be depicted as this trope when Only Sane Woman Ivy is the one who does it. | |
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Poker Night at the Inventory: Parodied in the first game. When The Heavy is knocked out of the tournament, he will occasionally reference a well-known song from his homeland: "You must know when to hold on to your cards, and you must know when to burn them in fire. Because if you lose, you bring insufferable shame to Republic, and are sent to a work camp in forest." The sequel has Ash Williams, who doesn't believe in the "no-win" scenario, but does believe in the "probably-not-going-to-win" scenario, and will fold in such a scenario. |
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Service with a Smile: Jaune is ashamed that when four men broke into his cafe and beat and robbed him, all he could do was beg for them to stop. Upon hearing this, the Malachite twins explain that in his situation, all he could do was fight, give up, or do nothing. Alone, unarmed, and with no experience, he couldn't hope to fight against four armed men. Doing nothing, aka stoically taking the beating, would tell them they hadn't beaten him enough. The only viable option was to give up and let them know he was giving up. Cafe Prime eventually settles out of court with Jaune, offering half a million lien as reperation and firing Alexander Sterling who started the whole mess. |
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Castle: When Prince Davith's tunnel burning plan fails and he learns that reinforcements from King Edward are coming in, he knows he's screwed if he presses on, and so orders his troops to fall back. | |
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Gwent: The Witcher Card Game: An important skill is knowing when to stop playing cards and when to allow your opponent to win the current round so you have enough strength remaining to win the game. There are multiple cards that can get you an advantage should you lose the round: Ciri is not very impressive by herself, having 4 strength while taking up a large amount of precious deckbuilding provisions. However, should you lose the round in which you played her, she returns to your hand instead of going to the graveyard. 4 strength might not be much, but the value she poses as an additional card to play makes her ability powerful. It's also useful to try making your opponent fail to use this trope by deliberately baiting out more of their cards with cards that you can afford to use. |
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In X-Men: Days of Future Past, Erik makes it clear that he's not willing to take on Charles without his protective helmet; he knows that he stands no chance against the telepath in a straight fight. When he loses his helmet at the end of the film, he retreats. | |
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The Steven Universe episode "Space Race" is based around this. Steven and his dad build a "spaceship" together (really a soapbox racer), and his dad warns Steven that he shouldn't be afraid to get out of dodge if something's going wrong. Sure enough, the soapbox racer crashes but Steven is spared injury by jumping clear. Later, Pearl gets it into her head to build an actual, functioning spaceship out of scrap and takes Steven on its maiden voyage. Pearl is desperate to return to space after centuries of being stuck on Earth, to the point of refusing to bail out even as the spaceship disintegrates around them both, and it takes Steven's pleading to convince her to eject mere seconds before the ship explodes. | |
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In XCOM: Long War, unlike in vanilla XCOM: Enemy Unknown, not every mission is expected to be winnable; every now and then you will encounter missions that are just too tough and it's preferable to abort rather than risk a Total Party Kill or, possibly worse, a Pyrrhic Victory where you clear the mission but at the cost of wounded soldiers losing valuable Will and other stats. Fortunately, the new ability to retake countries back into the Council fold makes panic increase for doing so less punishing than in vanilla. | |
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In WarGames, Dr. Stephen Falken tells David and Jennifer that despite his best efforts, the AI Joshua, though extremely intelligent, never about learned this trope. By the end, it finally understands. | |
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In Mass Effect, quite a few instances where you avoid a fight via a Renegade or Paragon dialog choice are all about reminding the NPC of this trope, usually by reminding them of all the other people who were more dangerous than they are that you've already killed. From Mass Effect: Andromeda, a character in a minor quest gets by using an EMP to disable any passing vehicle that catches his fancy, before killing the owner and stripping the vehicle for parts. Then Ryder comes by. He disables the Nomad, then realises he's severely outmatched, calls Ryder up and gives them the parts needed to restore their car. If Ryder decides he can't be allowed to continue, he'll still try and attack them. |
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When Chrono and Rosete of Chrono Crusade are ambushed by an enemy, Chrono tells Rosette urgently that they have to retreat. Rosette — being a Determinator — argues with him, shouting "Why are you saying we should give up?!" She then grabs his arm as he tries to take her away. This distracts him and gives their opponent a chance to shoot at Chrono, nearly killing him. Things only go downhill from there. | |
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Violet Evergarden: Violet encounters a small squad of soldiers, and the leader recognizes her as the Maiden of the Battlefield. Despite being a warmongering asshole murdering his own countrymen because he thinks they're "weak" for choosing peace, he gives up and walks away without the slightest sign of embarrassment. | |
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Final Fantasy VII Remake: In the mission "Malicious Goons", three of Don Corneo's mooks sic a Tonberry on the heroes. When they manage to kill it, they immediately surrender. | |
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Deal or No Deal is a big example of knowing when it is a good time to stop and take the banker's offer. Far too often there will be contestants that will keep turning down offers and keep playing, even if they knock off every big prize amount on the board. This is a common fallacy (called the Sunk Cost Fallacy) in that people believe if they already gone this far, they might as well keep going to the end and try to get the big prize no matter how much they have lost. Once in a while, you will see players that wise up and cut their losses by taking the money that is offered instead of pushing their luck. | |
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As Bentley of Sly Cooper puts it, "look, there's no shame in running from a fight. Keeps you alive!" | |
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Starfire's Revenge: When Starfire decides to run away while Supergirl is beating her mooks down, her minion Dr. Kangle agrees a retreat is the smart strategy: | |
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Magick Chicks: Faith and Tiffany may be two of the toughest girls at Artemis Academy, but even they know when it's best to call it quits and hightail it. Such as the time Faith had been left weakened by an indirect attack, from Hecate, who had also enslaved Sveltvana and Veronique to kill them. | |
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In the Star Trek Expanded Universe novel Kobayashi Maru, this is essentially Sulu's resolution. He decides the whole thing is a trap and elects not to enter the Neutral Zone. | |
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God gives the title character an epic put down in the last issue of the Lucifer series, using the tale of Buddha and the Monkey King to illustrate the foolishness of fighting someone that you could never conceivably defeat. Lucifer counters that he lost with pride at least, the validity of which is up to the readers to decide. | |
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Its sequel series Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V also has this in the case of Yuzu Hiragi because she knows she can't beat Yuri, she opted to run away and wait until the Battle Royale is over. She was nearly caught, but credit is where it dues. | |
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Transformers: Prime gives us Silas, head of the terrorist organization M.E.C.H. He's made no secret his desire to obtain Cybertronian tech for his own ends. However, if it looks as if the tide of battle is turning against him, he has no problem ordering a strategic withdrawal, happy to use what information he's gleaned for the next encounter. It's notable that Optimus Prime compares him to Megatron. | |
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The Thrawn Trilogy, Thrawn knows when a battle has been lost and, unlike most Imperial commanders, withdraws without wasting his men — sure, he's got reserves, but why spend them without a need? Pellaeon, back during the Battle of Endor, had found himself to be the highest-ranked survivor and had ordered the retreat. | |
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Kefka in Final Fantasy VI is rarely willing to continue fighting through a single attack unless it behooves him to keep fighting, and when it's clear he can't win a fight he'll retreat with some childish threats. If not fighting at all is an option, he'll opt for that and instead rely on hiding behind henchmen or poisoning water supplies. Since he's actually not very powerful, unlike most major villains from the series, it's probably the only reason he survives long enough to become very powerful from abusing Magicite, Espers, and the Warring Triad. Once he has his God-tier power and has destroyed and conquered the world, he's naturally no longer willing to run and will fight to the bitter end. | |
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Girl Genius: Several people suggest giving up during the Mechanicsburg battle (one of which provides the page image here). Agatha gives a pretty good breakdown for why she can't afford to fold here (which boils down to the fact that she doesn't have a fallback position, so if she folds today, she folds for keeps). In the Paris arc: Once Colette has taken control of Paris, Terebithia advises the Queen of the Dawn to get while the getting's good. Her plans failed, but "took two Storm Kings, two Masters of Paris, and a Heterodyne to slow [her] down", so she shouldn't feel too bad about it. |
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In The Transporter, Frank suggests he and Lai simply disappear after the villains blew up his house in an attempt to kill them. As Frank puts it, they're thought to be dead and it's not worth it to hunt down the perpetrators for revenge. | |
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In Ashes of the Past, after Ash navigates through his gym with the Aura Sight, is able to seemingly see through everything he can do, and has multiple powerful pokemon, who in the case of Charizard have set up a Flare Blitz that can burn off poison attacks... the gym leader Koga concedes and gives Ash the Soul Badge without any further fighting, deciding that Ash has all of the advantages whereas he has almost none. This also has the pleasant side-effect of leaving his gym mostly undamaged (a Running Gag is that Ash tends to heavily damage the gyms he fights in). | |
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Count Yorga, near the end, Micheal is ambushed by two of Yorga's brides (one of whom is a turned friend, Erica). He manages to hold his ground by swinging his stake stick at them and threatens to impale them. While Erica stays where she is, her fellow bride figures he isn't worth losing her undead existence over and flees the room. | |
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This trope is one of the core underlying themes of Eyes Wide Shut. After stumbling across the existence of the Masquerade, the realization that they seem to be up to some shady stuff, and may have been responsible for murdering a woman who knew too much, he ultimately decides that pursuing the truth would probably go poorly for everyone involved. | |
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: Violet realizes that their climb to the ascending hot air balloon in The Vile Village is dangerous and forces her siblings back to the ground so they won't get hurt, even though the Quagmires are on the balloon and it is designed never to return to ground. | |
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During the Hand of Thrawn duology, Pellaeon was the one to look at his Imperial Remnant and decide to make peace with the New Republic, ending the war. | |
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Animorphs: At the end of the final battle, after it becomes clear that Tom plans to kill Visser One using his own personal Blade ship, the visser essentially surrenders to the kids once they arrive on the bridge. Once the Controllers on-board the Pool ship realize what has happened, they surrender to the kids in exchange for amnesty and a chance to acquire the morphing power (to permanently morph animals and move away from parasitism). The surrendered Yeerks got off quite well, all things considered. In The Capture this is revealed to be a major tenet of Yeerk psychology: Yeerks will give up when the odds don't favor them rather that fight against impossible odds as humans do. This semi-defeatist mindset is presented to explain away the Bond Villain Stupidity of Jake's Yeerk, but later books are consistent with this, as it comes up again in Visser and The Answer. |
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The Wizard of Oz, when the Wizard points out to the Cowardly Lion that he's confusing cowardice with wisdom — running away from a situation that's clearly going to get you harmed or killed is obviously the smart thing to do. | |
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Star Wars Resistance: In "No Escape, Part II", upon realizing that they're losing control of the Colossus, Agent Tierny and Commander Pyre decide to leave and call in reinforcements to destroy the station, rather than try and take it back. | |
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The Heart Trilogy: In the first chapter of Heart of Ashes, Fankil resurrects Kathryn, only for her to start screaming due to her broken mind. He has only enough time to cast a sleeping spell on her before he's attacked by a merchant caravan that's alerted by the woman's screaming and find him sitting above her. Drained by the resurrection spell, Fankil knows he's too weakened to take on the men and flees to claim Kathryn another day. In the 13th chapter of Heart of the Inferno, Urgost fights with Smaug, losing one of his fingers to the bigger dragon's teeth before being pinned down. After Urgost realizes that Smaug isn't dead after all, he looks at his stump and surrenders, saying that he has no desire to make the line of Ancalagon the Black his enemy. |
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Cars 3: Lightning McQueen tries his best to keep racing despite all the cars being replaced by upgraded models (in an ironic parallel to what happened with Hudson Hornet from the first movie). Despite training and improving his skills, he ultimately realizes that he can't beat Jackson Storm straight up and that his trainer, Cruz Ramirez, who actually has wanted to race for awhile, is more than capable and worthy of taking his place, with him becoming her coach. | |
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King Vegeta surrendered to Frieza and allowed the Saiyan race to become his servants, knowing that they didn't stand a chance against him, but was patiently biding his time to try to stab him in the back. His son Vegeta similarly feigned loyalty to the tyrant instead of trying to fight him right away. Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods revealed that King Vegeta similarly bent the knee to Beerus The God of Destruction. | |
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: When Diana slams through the wall of the Saturnian throne room, and the Emperor has no hostages to use against her, he has his guards and soldiers stand down and agrees to work out a peaceable treaty with the US, stop abducting people and return all human slaves to earth. | |
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Showing that he is the kind of villain who actually learns from his mistakes, Archibald Ironfist of Heroes of Might and Magic and Might and Magic does not wait to be deposed a second time (he managed to rise to the throne of Deyja in the aftermath of the Restoration War) in Might & Magic VII: realizing that his Dragon with an Agenda (Kastore) seems liable to usurp power, Archibald uses the time of power he still has left to set up a place to evacuate to with his most loyal followers (under the guise of acquiring valuable resources, and with defences that would keep him safe ready to be re-activated). When Kastore makes his move, Archibald gets out and so can continue to scheme in safety, unlike the last time. AI opponents generally know when they're outmatched, and will not initiate battle against a hero with a superior army under most circumstances. If challenged, they will often fire off their strongest spell and retreat once they know they are outmatched (surrender, however, does not seem to be an option the AI players are able to use). The only exception to the first rule is when they are down to their last town, in which case they will be eliminated from the game unless they capture another within seven days. |
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In the New Deal Coalition Retained timeline, a counterrevolution in the early 60s splits Cuba between a democratic east and a Communist west. The latter gets by on Soviet support until the 80s, when an intense pro-democracy uprising breaks out; seeing that the West Cuban government doesn't have a chance of putting it down, the Soviets pull all support and shift focus to more stable allies elsewhere in Latin America, leaving West Cuba to collapse and rejoin with the East. At the start of World War III, the Soviets invade and occupy Iceland in order to gain naval dominance of the Atlantic, but upon doing so leave only a relatively small force to hold the island. Thus, when the Allies counter-invade to liberate the country later in the war, they quickly overwhelm the Soviets. Seeing that victory is impossible, and refusing to follow Moscow's orders to fight to the last man, the Soviet commanding general surrenders his forces in total. |
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In the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX fanfic The Ultimate School Duels, Hassleberry folds against the OC Backfire in their duel when he realized he had no way he could win against his supreme monster. However, it was due to this action of Knowing When to Fold 'em that ultimately got him the position they both were dueling for. | |
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Spider-Man is a Determinator of the highest caliber. When he first encounters the Juggernaut in Amazing Spider-Man Issue 229, he launches repeated attacks in futile attempt to slow the villain down. In the follow-up issue, Spidey becomes so desperate he starts using attacks that would cripple or kill even the hardiest of his usual enemies, culminating in him ramming a fully-loaded fuel truck right into Juggernaut and being shocked the guy was still standing. In a later encounter, Juggernaut bluntly tells Spider-Man he's just going into the city to secure an item for his employer, and warns Spidey that if he tries to stop him, then Juggernaut fully intends to do as much damage to the city as he can. Spider-Man agrees to step aside and let him proceed, and when called out on it replies that he isn't anywhere near strong enough to fight someone like Juggernaut, and he isn't willing to risk the lives of innocent people out of pride. | |
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Becoming A True Invader: During the Final Battle, the Employer decides to flee to another dimension after his armies are destroyed on Irk and start over. But since he's possessing Zim's body at the time, Gaz refuses to let him. | |
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The episode of Malcolm in the Middle where Reese gets driving lessons. The A-plot involves Reese's annoying co-student not letting him have any time behind the wheel — and when he finally gets his chance, someone rear-ends him by mistake. He assumes he caused the crash, panics, and ends up being followed by the police. The B-plot consists of Francis coming up with increasingly paper-thin excuses to get himself out of trouble. When Reese calls Francis for advice, Francis at first encourages him to keep looking for a way out — then, as everyone he's lied to marches into the room, he admits that sometimes the best you can do is end things "with class". This inspires Reese to return to the driving school, complete the obstacle course flawlessly, and then give himself up. | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, roughly three hundred of years before the start of the series, King Torrhen of House Stark took enough time to raise his army (the North is huge) that got a good look at how Aegon Targaryen was curb-stomping all the Andal and Ironborn kingdoms to the south of his, and wisely bent the knee as soon as Aegon the Conqueror turned his attention towards the North's army. | |
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One Piece: In an early story where Sanji is introduced, the armored pirate "Foul Play" Don Krieg (who's as rotten as his title implies) barges onto the restaurant-ship demanding food for his crew of fifty men. Several of the staff try to drive him off, but are curb-stomped quickly. Eventually, Zeff decides to do the smart thing, and simply give him what he wants, bringing out the food and telling him sternly to take it and go. (Unfortunately, this makes it worse, as Don Krieg recognizes Zeff as the former captain of the Cook Pirates, and now wants to stay around for a different reason.) In the same story arc as the one where Sanji is introduced, Dracule "Hawkeye" Mihawk, the greatest swordsman in the world, shows up pursuing Krieg due to boredom. Later on, Mihawk has fought and beaten Roronoa Zoro, Luffy's crewmate, and been impressed by his spirit. When Krieg tries to attack Hawkeye again (ignoring how the last time his crew fought Hawkeye it cost him his entire fleet save one ship), Krieg's men start begging him to just let Hawkeye leave unmolested. Luffy decides to order his crew to focus only on running away when facing Admiral Kizaru, Sentoumaru and Bartholomew Kuma, after having already exhausted themselves beating one of the latter mere moments earlier. Although not their first defeat, this is the first time they've ever run away from a fight. It doesn't work. By God, it does not work. Akainu also demonstrated this at Marineford. After a lengthy battle against Whitebeard that resulted in huge casualties on both sides and very nearly destroyed Marineford, Akainu was still totally prepared to mop up what was left. When Shanks and his crew showed up, he pulled a 180 and opted to back off and call it a wrap rather than deal with someone on par with the dude who just crippled them in the first place. Post-timeskip, he displays another moment of restraint when he absolutely refuses to touch the Wano Country, stating that between Kaido and Big Mom's alliance, the amount of serious heavy hitters in the Wano Country in general, and the abolition of the Shichibukai system and current struggles with former members of the latter, the Marines don't have enough resources to take on that many serious heavy hitters and not get stomped into the ground. Blackbeard, after gaining Whitebeard's Devil Fruit abilities, opted to quit while he was ahead and get the hell out of there. Sure, he may have just gained an enormous power boost, but considering that he had very nearly been killed by an enraged Whitebeard moments before and was going to have to deal with the likes of Sengoku, the Admirals, the Warlords, and tons of other major-league hitters with something that he had no experience with using if he pressed the attack, he was very smart to take the safe road. Doflamingo also demonstrated this after Kuzan showed up at Punk Hazard and stopped him from killing Smoker. Yeah, he probably could have done okay against him. That wasn't the point, however; he came to Punk Hazard to clean up a mess and eliminate key witnesses to activities that he didn't want the World Government to know about, not fight a pissed off ex-Admiral, and he already had enough on his plate as is and didn't need anything else that could add to it. When Kaido drops in on Captain Kid, Killer, Apoo, and Hawkin's pirate alliance, because Apoo was already under Kaido's fold and tricked the others, Hawkin gave up without a fight because he saw, using his clairvoyance, that there was a zero percent chance they could get away or defeat Kaido. Kidd and Killer refused to submit and, as predicted, were thoroughly thrashed. |
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An ep of Ojamajo Doremi has perennial athlete Aiko give up her spot to Hazuki in a swim relay. Despite Hazuki taking the lead, she cramps in the homestretch. | |
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Sisterhood series by Fern Michaels: Owen Orzell in Home Free knew that he had no chance of winning once the Vigilantes caught him. As bonus points, he reveals that he gambles, tries to be very careful not to get addicted, and so he would clearly understand this trope very well. | |
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Fire & Blood: Happens a lot during Aegon's Conquest, especially once word of what the dragons can do gets around. The last Stark king is forever remembered as "The King Who Knelt", but not a single Northerner gets toasted by Aegon's dragons. Surrendering also meant that the Starks got to keep their rule of the North (albeit as "Lord Paramount" instead of King), this allowed the North to go through less cultural upheaval than the other kingdoms. Pretty fair price to pay, all told. Happens to Aegon himself a little later on, though, with Dorne. His attempts to conquer it go nowhere, and his beloved sister-wife goes missing. Eventually Dorne sends a letter to him. Whatever the contents, he immediately stops trying to burn them down immediately, and an uneasy peace is brokered between Dorne and the rest of Westeros. During the Dance of the Dragons, Queen Rhaenyra takes King's Landing, and has Queen Allicent brought to her in chains. Allicent suggests if Rhae wants a crown, when she was her father's named choice of heir, then they could split Westeros in two (Allicent's kids get the "good" parts, obviously). Rhaenyra offers another choice — give up or die. Allicent chooses to give up. Not knowing when to do this causes the death of Aegon II. Having killed Rhaenyra and taken the crown, his army is depleted and losing, and whatever loyalists he has can't get there in time. Some of his councilors suggest surrendering, and hoping Rhaenyra's son Aegon will let him join the Night's Watch. According to the records, Aegon II was giving it serious consideration... until his mother, Queen Allicent speaks up and suggests that he instead start cutting young Aegon to pieces as a warning. Aegon II decides that's a fantastic idea, but before he can do it, catches a sudden case of dead, because his councilors have gotten so fed up of the whole mess, and poison him themselves. During the regency of Aegon III, Baela Targaryen proves to be a handful for the regents. When they're worried about the line of succession (since Aegon is quite young, and there's a Decadent Court around, and no other male heirs they know of), they think maybe it's time to marry Baela off. She rejects their first choice of husband, and is locked up. The next morning, it turns out she's escaped, and by the time they find her, she's already married her cousin, Alyn Velaryon. At this point, the regents throw up their hands and decide it's best just to act like that was the plan all along. |
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Long Road to Friendship: Twilight Sparkle concedes a chess match when it's clear that Sunset Shimmer is going to win. This makes Sunset even more angry at Twilight, since Sunset wanted to "crush" her. | |
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Alpha and Omega: Having seen the attempts to stop the Temple from being rebuilt backfire, the Grand Mufti calls off further attempts, reasoning that, for whatever reason, Allah intends for the project to go forward. | |
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In Meredith Ann Pierce's The Firebringer Trilogy, the greatest and most legendary figure in the history of the unicorns is the princess Halla. Four hundred years before the events of the books Halla's people's lands were invaded by wyverns, first in secret, then in open warfare. When it becomes clear that the wyverns are too dangerous to continue fighting (they have poisonous stings and what amounts to armor under the skin), Halla orders the unicorns to withdraw and leave their lands to the wyverns until the time comes that the unicorns are capable of meeting them in more evenly matched combat. The main character of the Trilogy's been raised on her story all his life, but still can't quite stomach the part of the legend where Halla orders the retreat for the sake of survival. | |
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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? thrives on this trope. Contestants have to keep playing if they want to win a bigger cash prize, but getting a question wrong will end the game and reduce their winnings to the last threshold they passed, which can be a lot of money lost if the contestant advanced very far. Many contestants that were in a tight spot knew the risks were too high and simply ended the game early to keep what they won. | |
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Komato Assassins in Iji are the only non-robot enemies the player can "kill" without it getting added to their kill count, because instead of dying, Assassins just throw in the towel and teleport away. | |
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Code Geass — One of Lelouch Lamperouge's flaws is his inability to back down. This stems from a personal variation on the Sunk Cost Fallacy: if he doesn't achieve his goals, then all the people who died aiding him will have their deaths rendered meaningless. That, and he simply refuses to accept defeat. He plays it straight during the Battle of Narita by ordering a retreat after Kallen loses her Radiant Surger Wave claw in a Diabolus ex Machina. He knows full well that in spite of his side's tactical advantage this battle, continuing would be a war of attrition. Exactly one season later, Schneizel himself orders a retreat, only in this case on account of Zero inciting a rebellion in China via publicly exposing the eunuchs' plans, knowing that the eunuchs are nothing without the support of the public. Also, while Lelouch hates backing down once a battle has started, he also recognises that he is hopelessly outmatched in terms of brute strength, so generally prefers to use guerilla tactics. In addition to the Battle of Narita, there are a few other times when he doesn't continue to press his advantage because it would become a war of attrition, and his battles often end with him ordering his forces to use various pre-planned escape routes, showing that he does fully appreciate the necessity of retreating, even if he hates doing it. |
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Averted and lampshaded in VR Troopers: an unusually tough Monster of the Week named Graybot who disguised himself as a human to gain their trust before betraying them is winning against Ryan Steele. Eventually, Ryan uses the lightning hand command, which generally kills bots, (those who survive it are damaged or weakened and will often retreat to make repairs). Graybot, however, doesn't and continues to battle despite his injuries, Ryan points out that Graybot doesn't know when to quit. Rather than listen to his foe's advice and retreat to the Virtual Dungeon for repairs, he keeps fighting until he eventually wears himself, overheats, collapses from exhaustion, and explodes. Essentially, his own pride prevented him from having a chance at a rematch with Ryan. | |
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The Bible: In the Book of Jeremiah, the titular prophet, who was living in the last years of the kingdom of Judah's existence that ended with the Babylonian invasion, advises its final king Zedekiah to submit unto the Babylonians so that Jerusalem would be spared and all its remaining citizens would not have to be taken into exile, since God was not going to halt pouring out His wrath upon His people. For this, he was considered The Quisling and thus his advice went unheeded, as after a long siege upon Jerusalem King Zedekiah tried to make an escape, but was captured by the Babylonians and brought to Riblah where King Nebuchanezzar passed sentence on him, and the city of Jerusalem was destroyed along with its Temple, and most of its remaining citizens (except the poorest of the land) were taken into captivity. | |
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one day at a time: Played for Laughs. Jason Todd made every attempt to try and prevent his children, aka his Robins, from becoming vigilantes. Carrie Kelley simply ignored him and then saved his life, while Helena Wayne and Terry McGinnis tormented him via annoying music and vandalism respectively into training them. After his youngest son Matthew McGinnis managed to repel a home invasion when he was seven, Jason didn't even bother trying to fight him when he said he was going to be his next Robin and agreed to train him when he was older rather easily. | |
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In Magic: The Gathering, any player may concede the game at any time, often due to the belief that one will soon or ultimately lose. This can happen during competitive tournament play, when a player may forfeit so he or she can play other games during his or her match in the time allotted. This rule even trumps cards whose ability prevents a player from winning or losing in a given situation (such as Abyssal Persecutor or Angel's Grace). | |
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Portal 2: GLaDOS decides that she is so sick of Chell that she doesn't want to kill her anymore, just get her out of her life. So she grants Chell her freedom in the hope that she never comes back. | |
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In many video games based on the Yu-Gi-Oh! series, if you catch the CPU opponent in a Yata-Garasu lock, they'll throw in the towel and spare you the bother of pecking them to death. | |
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In Shaman Blues, when the Old Ones see Vulture basically blow the afterlife's door wide open to rescue Witkacy, they wisely decide to give up on attempting to claim their "prize" and retreat. | |
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One of the more valuable lessons to learn in Darkest Dungeon is when to abandon a failing run and preserve your heroes for a later mission. They'll take some stress, but they'll survive, and if the run was going badly they were probably going to need some quality time in the temple or the tavern anyway. | |
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In Origin Story, after Alex Harris defeats all of the other Avengers, SHIELD and Big Bertha listen to Alex's pleas to simply let her leave. | |
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Teen Titans: During Dr. Light's first scuffle with the Titans, Raven pulls him into her cloak and shows him something that absolutely traumatizes him. During his second encounter, he surrenders immediately after Raven puts on a scary face. | |
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For the Glory of Irk: At the end of the Final Battle, with Control Brain IX destroyed and the Syndicate arriving to back up the Irken Resistance, the remaining Control Brain leaders of The Conspiracy surrender. | |
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Wangan Midnight has Tatsuya Shima, the driver of the legendary "Blackbird". Despite being one of the best race drivers on the Wangan expressway, he will pull out of a race if he feels that his vehicle is in danger of a breakdown. | |
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Ingrid Michaelson's "Once Was Love" is about a couple breaking up when they realize they don't feel love for each other and that isn't going to change. | |
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The Twelve Tasks of Asterix: After the last task is fulfilled, Julius Caesar is so afraid of what the Gauls will do to him if he doesn't keep his word he gives them full control of Rome as promised. | |
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Duncan and Charlie in Mystery Team when they decide that they're in over their heads and that they need to grow up and stop acting like kids. | |
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Many a time on Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon Ramsay has threatened to leave when an owner acts up. But in the infamous Amy's Baking Company episode, Gordon meets a pair of owners who steal tips from their staff, insult and scream at customers and are in complete denial over their horrible food. Realizing there's absolutely no way these two nutjobs are going to listen to him, Gordon, for the only time in the series, throws up his hands and quits as this place is beyond saving. | |
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Game of Thrones: In "The Laws of Gods and Men", Yara Greyjoy aborts her mission to rescue Theon when she realizes how utterly broken he is, saying her brother is "dead". In "The Children", Mance surrenders when Stannis' army arrives at the Wall. He knows he can't beat Stannis' forces, and he doesn't want to see his people slaughtered. In the History and Lore segments, House Tyrell is said to have risen to power in the wake of Aegon's Conquest by agreeing to surrender. They also agreed to surrender without a fight after the sack of King's Landing at the end of Robert's Rebellion. The King in the North Torrhen Stark did likewise to spare his army the same fate as the combined Lannister/Gardener army at the Field of Fire, which had 4000 men burned alive by Aegon's dragons. Henceforth Torrhen was known as the king who knelt. Bronn, ever the pragmatic mercenary, knows that being selective about which fights to pick keeps his chances of death low. During a fight with a Dothraki screamer, his bag of Golden Dragons spills onto the floor. He gives it a longing look... before giving it up for lost and focusing his efforts on dispatching the Dothraki. He has no shame admitting to Tyrion Lannister he is afraid of the Mountain and decides unless Tyrion can offer a better deal he is not risking a fight with him. He emphatically informs his employer Jaime Lannister that "dragons are where our partnership ends." Having seen one of the beasts in action, he knows perfectly well that that confrontation would likely leave him incinerated. In "High Sparrow", after beating his rival Alliser Thorne to the position of Lord Commander, Jon Snow graciously promotes him to a key command position. However, Thorne's key ally Janos Slynt refuses a direct order immediately afterward, prompting Snow to order his execution. Thorne stands to block the guards for a moment, clearly thinking about defending Janos, but ultimately decides he has more to lose than gain and steps aside. |
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Forged in Fire: This is a very common trait for the contestants, who know when it's a good time to abandon the metal they were working on and start over. | |
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In Thor, Loki sees that they are outnumbered by the Frost Giants and urges his brother to back down from the fight. | |
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Contact at Kobol: Arguably the Tau'ri's entire strategy is to force the Colonials into one of these. Libran gets there first. | |
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In Dracula: Ruler of the Night, the hunters go to Carfax Abby in hopes of killing Dracula. But soon find themselves facing not only him, but his vampire brides and a newly turned Lucy Westerna. Realizing they can't take all of them at the current especially when it's revealed that Minerva Westerna, Lucy's mother, whom they thought was being held hostage, has likewise become one of Dracula's brides, they wisely flee. | |
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In Chapter 206 of Fairy Tail, Natsu, of all people, surrenders after realizing just how great the gap between him and Gildarts really is. Good thing it was a Secret Test of Character meant to test Natsu's judgment, and he passed. In the Grand Magic Games, the free-for-all event on the start of the second day has the participants race across a series of carts, an event that Dragon Slayers, who are susceptible to motion sickness, don't stand a chance of winning. The event awards points based on how well the participants do, with 10 points for the winner and 0 for the one in last place, so the Dragon Slayers could, at most, hope for sixth place and two points. Sting, who's competing for Saber Tooth(which is in the lead at the moment), decides it isn't worth the humiliation, and drops out after a brief conversation with his rivals Natsu and Gajeel (whose teams are at the back of the pack), whereas Natsu barely passes Gajeel to get sixth place. Sting ends up coming to regret this decision after Natsu defeats him and Rogue, resulting in Natsu's team pulling one point ahead of Saber Tooth. In the end, Sting surrenders rather than fight the five members of Fairy Tail's combined team, even though he's uninjured and they're on their last legs, since he's come to realize how determiend they are. After the Time Skip, Natsu fights Orochi's Fin alongside Lamia Scale, and easily defeats Bluenote Stinger. After he wins, the rest of Orochi's Fin surrenders on the spot, knowing they don't stand a chance against the one who defeated their strongest fighter. |
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Granblue Fantasy: During the Silverwind Stretch arc, Io, Eugen and Rosetta are saved from an avalanche by Orchid while everyone else was caught in the avalanche and separated. With Orchid exhausted from the effort, soldiers quickly moving in to surround them, and the cold weather not getting better, Eugen decides the best course of action is to surrender. | |
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Rodan in Godzilla: King of the Monsters has this attitude (combined with I Fight for the Strongest Side!). After being defeated in a Curb-Stomp Battle with King Ghidorah, he submits himself as The Dragon at his side. After Ghidorah is killed by Godzilla, Rodan challenges Godzilla for position as Alpha Titan, but is immediately cowed after Godzilla gives him a look. | |
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Joe Buck does this with his dream of being a "hustler" in the final scene of Midnight Cowboy. On the way to Miami, he disposes of his cowboy outfits and later admits to his friend Ratso that his experience in New York taught him that he was never cut out to be a man-whore (at least not a successful one), and resolves to find honest work as soon as they arrive. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: The smarter characters think like this. Unfortunately, that's not the kind of thinking encouraged by the Dark Gods/the Warboss/the Commissariat, and in fact doing the smart thing like pulling back in front of superior numbers only gets you eaten by daemons/krumped flat/in front of a firing squad. However, a number of factions are noted to make regular use of this strategy. The most successful Ork warbosses are from the Blood Axes clan, who are viewed as cowardly gits by other Orks for their tendency to retreat when the odds are against them; the Axes themselves just say fleeing means you can fight again next time, so it doesn't count as losing. The Tau tend to see everything in terms of cost/benefit analysis for their civilization as a whole, and will readily retreat and give ground when they judge a fight's cost to not be worth its potential gains. For instance, they may concede entire frontier worlds to Imperial advances, reasoning that, if the humans are willing to enter expensive meatgrinder wars for a few strategically worthless balls of mud, then they're welcome to keep them, and the the Tau can send their resources to deal with more important matters until the Imperium's watch eventually slackens and the Tau can come back and claim their old objectives for a much smaller cost (especially since they use diplomacy and actually improve the living standard for the humans who join them). To the Imperium, who bitterly holds onto even the most unproductive human worlds to the last as a matter of honor, this philosophy comes across as extremely perplexing. The Tau view "glorious last stands" as evidence that a commander was particularly unsuited for the job if he managed to get himself stuck in one in the first place instead of falling back. The Eldar and Dark Eldar, who have very low number and very low birth rates compared to everyone else, cannot absorb much in the way of casualties. Consequently, they will retreat from battles that start to go against them, as few objectives are worth enough to them to justify losing even more of their already dwindling numbers in fights they seem increasingly unlikely to win anyway. The Night Lords have a particular line in this, to the point where even the more sympathetic Night Lords champions view fair fights as inherently biased against them. When the Night Lords are in a disadvantaged position, they tend to disappear rather than fighting to the last. |
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Pokémon: It is stated on numerous occasions that it is a trainer's duty to end the battle if there is any serious danger to their Pokémon (the first battles with Brock, Sabrina, and Blaine all ended in this fashion). However, this is pretty much a Broken Aesop as Ash will determinate himself through anything, even winning one badge when Pryce forfeited despite Ash ignoring the option to do the same earlier.note It should be noted however, this is less a broken aesop, and more of the "difference between TV show and games" Running Gag. In the games, the player doesn't have this option when fighting against other trainers (especially gym leaders). The player must see each battle to the end, just like any other RPG boss fight. Ash was also berated for making his Treecko continue to fight Brawly's Hariyama despite Treecko having no chance to win.note Which again, would have to happen in the games. It didn't help that he was almost ready to give up before, but Treecko got up anyway. Ash was pretty pissed at himself for making that decision to continue after he lost. We do run into the problem that Ash's Pokémon take after his personality; they all hate to give up.note Which isn't a bad thing, since perseverance does result in victory sometimes. The Team Rocket trio did this for a good portion of the Unova arc. When things start going too far south, they get the heck of there instead of fighting until they're sent blasting off. It's worked much better for them. They do it again near the end of the XY series, where the twerps' Pokemon have become so overpowered even they lampshade they don't stand a chance anymore, working in the background until the twerps disband to other regions and Ash is vulnerable again. Also came back to haunt Ash during his first full battle with Paul. Ash was once going to withdraw Buizel, since it had taken massive damage from Paul's Ax-Crazy Ursaring. This would have been the logical thing to do, but Buizel gives Ash the thumbs up, signaling it can still fight. Ash leaves Buizel in...and it gets massacred. Ash was called out on this by Paul's brother Reggie who stated that Buizel was eliminated due to poor judgment by Ash.note This happens a lot in the anime. Moral: The trainer is responsible for knowing when a Pokemon should be switched out, and relying simply on faith in your Pokemon doesn't cut it when the odds are stacked against you.note Except when it does. Paul does know when to cut his losses, at least when his emotions aren't getting the better of him. After Cynthia completely annihilates Paul's Pokemon, he decides to concede the battle after seeing there is a massive difference in skill and power.note You know, in order to further prove this point. Cynthia is the most powerful trainer in the Sinnoh region, so there's no shame in losing to her at all.note Except when there is... In Pokémon: Kyurem vs. The Sword of Justice, Keldeo yields his rematch after protecting Ash and his friends from a stray attack made him too injured to continue. Kyurem and the other Swords of Justice praise him for his good judgment. Another early Kanto arc example is in "The Punchy Pokemon", where Anthony convinces Brock to throw in the towel when it's clear Geodude vs. Hitmonlee is a mismatch. Anthony himself does the same when his daughter Rebecca nearly gets herself seriously injured protecting his defenseless Hitmonchan. |
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In the Left Behind book Glorious Appearing, a good deal of the Global Community armed forces not situated in the Holy Land at the time of the battle of Armageddon, who realize that they are without any resources coming from New Babylon to make sure they're paid (all because said city is destroyed), decide that they might as well quit even though they face a court martial for doing so. | |
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A Prize for Three Empires: When the Avengers, the X-Men, the Starjammers and a Shi'ar warship storm their hideout after Carol Danvers has defeated the Kree champion, the Supreme Intelligence acknowledges it has been beaten and teleports away. | |
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In Batman (1989), after rescuing Vicki Vale from the museum, Batman fights the Joker's goons, beating the crud out of all of them until only the villain's second-in-command Bob is left standing. Batman makes a taunting gesture towards Bob; Bob decides against it, drops his knife and high-tails it out. | |
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Parodied in the first game. When The Heavy is knocked out of the tournament, he will occasionally reference a well-known song from his homeland: "You must know when to hold on to your cards, and you must know when to burn them in fire. Because if you lose, you bring insufferable shame to Republic, and are sent to a work camp in forest." | |
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Shatterheart: R!Syaoran decides to run away instead of fighting the gang attacking him as he's outnumbered from 4 to 1 and the gang wants to pick a fight and won't listen to reason. Kurogane tells him he picked the right choice. | |
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The Hunt for Red October. The Soviet admiral orders the fleet to avoid harassing the Americans after a heavy cruiser is subjected to a mock attack. He knows the Soviet navy is wasting time that is needed to find the Red October and will be destroyed if the Americans decide to attack for real. The American admiral later says: "they make the first move, we up the ante, they just plain fold." | |
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In Mystery Skulls Animated Shiromori is willing to challenge Lewis to a fight after he punches her head off... until she looks from his flaming hand to her scissors. It is unclear if she fled due to feeling outmatched, or whether she felt the flower that would lead to Mystery would be damaged, losing his trail. The way she looks at the flower just before escaping seems to imply the latter, though. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "The Crystal Empire", Twilight Sparkle is explicitly ordered by Princess Celestia to save the day herself this time without relying on any of her friends, as part of her training. She holds to the restriction for a while.... but once she's caught by an enemy trap and it becomes obvious that she can't free herself in time to stop the villain, she immediately has Spike pick up where she left off. Celestia praises her later for recognizing the severity of the situation and the need to adapt. "To Where and Back Again", the Season 6 finale, has one for Queen Chrysalis when she emerges from the rubble of her destroyed Power Nullifier throne ready to kick pony tail — only to realize that she is alone against the Mane Six, all known alicorns, the Spirit of Chaos, one of the most powerful unicorns in all off Equestria, the newly appointed changeling king and the entirety of her former army. Rather than fight what would have been a very short and very one-sided Curb-Stomp Battle, she vows revenge and flees into the wilderness. |
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Doctor Who: Most of the time, "Run Away" is the initial tactic while trying to figure out their plan of defeating the enemy of the week. The Doctor has been known to give this option to aliens as well, politely informing them just who they are dealing with. "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead": The microscopic Vashta Nerada stop their assault on the Doctor and his companions and allow him to free all the people saved in the computer and leave with two sentences. "A Good Man Goes to War": The Doctor invokes this as his form of Cruel Mercy to the Colonel leading the army of the Silence at Demons Run. The Doctor wants him to give the order "Run Away", so that for the rest of his life, those infamous words will haunt him and people will mock him for being "Colonel Runaway". "Extremis": The Doctor again convinces someone to run away by asking them to look him up. In the Fatality Index, under "cause of death", which reveals "a truly remarkable record" that overwhelms the display device. The executioner holding it runs off with, "Have a nice day, then." |
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Corruption of Laetitia: If the party is overleveled against a non-boss foe, that foe has a chance of running away. This effectively serves as Anti-Grinding to prevent them from getting overleveled for the next story boss, since foes won't give EXP if they flee. | |
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In an episode of Digimon Adventure 02, TK successfully convinces all but one of the Digi-Destined group to make a strategic withdrawal. Subverted when Davis, the one who isn't convinced, succeeds despite ignoring the logic, but only through pure dumb luck. | |
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Asterix: Both Romans and Pirates give up fighting at some point. The pirates are infamous for sinking their own ship once they realise there are Gauls on the other vessel and they can't run away fast enough. Even more noteworthy is Julius Caesar's use of this trope, because he isn't acting like a snivelling coward and it isn't played for laughs. Au contraire, he often appears at the end of a story, granting amnesty to Asterix and Obelix and even doing a few favours... because they have already fought through tooth and nail and the only way to save face and avoid a humiliating defeat, is acting in acceptance. Asterix usually plays along because it would complicate matters a little otherwise. |
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In the epilogue of Child of the Storm, Wisdom reveals that the Prime Minister is planning to resign with dignity as soon as the cleanup from the Final Battle is done, rather than stick around for an election he's bound to lose because of all the stuff that happened on his watch. In the necromancy half of the sequel's Bloody Hell arc, Cowl pulls a Villain: Exit, Stage Left as soon as it becomes apparent that pulling off the Darkhallow (an ascension ritual) is no longer on the cards and the alternative is sticking around to fight Wanda Maximoff, Harry Dresden, several White Council Wardens, and Magneto. |
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The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby's Fatal Flaw and the downside of his own great capacity for Hope is his inability to move on. He continues to cling to the hope that Daisy will one day be with him so that he can have the Happy Ending he had wanted for so long. It doesn't happen. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny: Knowing when he no longer has anything to gain by continuing to fight is one of the things that makes Neo Roanoke one of the most effective tacticians. Of his subordinates, Sting Oakley is the only one of the Extended trio to follow Neo's example. Auel and Stella will fight to the end, but Sting is smart enough to know when the battle is going against them, and typically bails soon afterwards, taking the other two with him. |
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Deconstructed in Hunter × Hunter with Killua, whose first instinct when he's certain he's facing a more powerful opponent is to run. Unfortunately, this proves to be more of a hindrance a lot of the time, as running isn't always an option, and with his tendency to underestimate himself, it ends up holding him back from going all-out. This provides a hilarious moment when he and Gon are trapped in a room by Nobunaga. With Nobunaga blocking the only way out of the room and being far too strong for the two of them to fight, they suddenly rush him...only to break down the walls of the room and flee. When Nobunaga runs out to look for them, Killua declares that they'll come out to face him...only to take Gon and flee the building while Nobunaga waits for them to show themselves. It's later subverted when it turns out this behavior is actually manipulation from his older brother Illumi, who is overbearingly protective of him. To ensure he never fights opponents stronger than himself, he planted a mind-controlling needle in his forehead that puts that instinct in his mind. Once Killua figures this out, he immediately removes the needle, and along with it, the crippling desire to run. | |
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The Games We Play explores this with Jaune's maternal grandma Jeanne Roma. She calls him out on his Determinator tendencies making him press on and getting into situations that nearly kill him, and has herself had a history of retreating from unwinnable battles. However, it also deconstructs the trope — said unwinnable battles involved defending civilians from the predations of the Creatures of Grimm, and the reader is forced to ask himself what kind of cold, calculating person would be willing to throw defenceless innocents to the wolves to protect herself, even if under the nebulous desire of wanting to avoid a Senseless Sacrifice to fight another day. Add in the strong implications that Jeanne's involved in shady business... | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yugi and his grandpa Solomon both did this. It turned out to be a Generation Xerox battle. Yugi's grandpa conceded a duel (water was at stake; they were stranded in Egypt) because his friend was in more need of the water. Years later, Yugi duels the other guy's granddaughter who had a related grudge. The duel went pretty much the way the old duel went, to the point that Yugi concedes at the exact same point: just before drawing the Game-Breaker. In Yugi's case, winning wouldn't have settled the grudge, and when the gentlemen revealed just what Yugi had done, the granddaughter finally realizes Yugi hadn't been acting selfish at all (which she had been believing the whole time). In Yugi and Mai's match during the Duelist Kingdom finals, when Yugi manages to summon Black Luster Soldier, Mai surrenders immediately, because it just destroyed her most powerful monster and she doesn't have anything else in her deck that can come close to beating it. |
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In The Avengers, Loki subverts a certain other trope by choosing not to go for seconds on beatings and surrendering to the Avengers after losing his army. Considering how fighting Hulk had gone, surrendering and asking for a drink was the smart thing to do when Hulk was backed up by the rest of the group. | |
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White Rain: He may be an Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy, but when trying to stop Rina's kidnapping, Yukio quickly decides that it's better for a genin like him to retreat and get backup rather than try to take on four Grass jonin at once. | |
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The Thief and the Cobbler: At the end of the original workprint, Tack and the Thief briefly get into a fight over the Three Golden Balls; just as the Thief has Tack and the balls cornered, he, having been through all sorts of hell over the balls throughout the film, finally decides the balls are more trouble than they're worth and lets Tack have them, walking off in a huff. | |
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The Dresden Files: A game mechanic. When faced with a losing battle, either side can offer a concession, meaning they still lose the fight, and therefore suffer some kind of setback, but they choose how and lose on their terms. This is handy for player and GM alike, to keep characters alive — perhaps the heroic wizard simply gets knocked for a loop while the villainous sorcerer makes off with the MacGuffin, rather than risking the next attack which will probably kill the wizard instead. Notable in that there is a distinction between the players conceding and the characters conceding, and that the negotiations are all out of character. So just because Jim B. offered a concession to keep Harry from having his head bitten off doesn't mean Harry broke character by giving up. | |
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Dragon Ball: In the first Tournament Arc, after regrowing his tail, Goku tests his power by demolishing a brick wall with a single punch. Seeing this, his opponent Giran pulls out a white flag and forfeits. King Vegeta surrendered to Frieza and allowed the Saiyan race to become his servants, knowing that they didn't stand a chance against him, but was patiently biding his time to try to stab him in the back. His son Vegeta similarly feigned loyalty to the tyrant instead of trying to fight him right away. Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods revealed that King Vegeta similarly bent the knee to Beerus The God of Destruction. Goku surrenders the fight against Beerus after barely managing to stop a powerful energy ball he threw towards Earth. Exhausted and unable to match his power, Goku concedes defeat to Beerus instead of trying to continue fighting like most of his other battles. Beerus spares the Earth partly for this reason. During her "fight" with Spopovich. Videl realizes she's way out of her league and allows herself to be thrown out of the ring; however, Spopovich grabs her in mid-air and tosses her right back in so he can continue beating her senseless. As revealed in Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’, for all of his arrogance and smugness, even Frieza knew better than to cross Beerus and Majin Buu. Discovering that Goku beat Buu fuels his decision to train in preparation for their rematch, and even after unlocking his Golden Super Mode, Frieza dreads Beerus to the point of shamelessly kneeling and groveling before him. |
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Superman: All-Star Superman: This is Superman's answer to the riddle of the Ultra-Sphinx (which doesn't solve the paradox at all.) In "The Girl of No Tomorrow", the sorceress Selena joins the Fatal Five to take Supergirl down. She and Magog raid a government building where the Girl of Steel is resting, but they're curbstomped by an ally of Supergirl's. Selena judges it's time to cut her losses and teleports away. Starfire's Revenge: When Starfire decides to run away while Supergirl is beating her mooks down, her minion Dr. Kangle agrees a retreat is the smart strategy: In The Supergirl From Krypton 2004, Darkseid decides his scheme to kidnap and brainwash Kara Zor-El into becoming his slave is not worth the trouble after Wonder Woman has defeated his Furies, Superman has knocked Kara out and Batman has reprogrammed his Hellspore bombs to blow Apokolips up. Darkseid calmly snorts and tells the heroes to take Kara and get out of his planet. |
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Art of Fighting 2: Geese learned a painful lesson, courtesy of Ryo Sakazaki, when they fought each other during the finals of the very first King of Fighters tournament. Ryo was out for revenge and handed Geese's ass to him on a silver platter. But just as he'd been about to deliver the coup de grace (i.e. the Haoh Shoko Ken), Geese chose to forfeit and hauled ass. | |
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Second Wind: In Chapter 35, when he sees that Onigumo and Doberman have both been defeated, Momonga is smart enough to stop fighting, grab them, and skedaddle. CP9 decide to simply leave when the Straw Hats, who'd been fighting them to a draw, are joined by Luffy and Zoro who are leagues ahead of the rest of the crew. |
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This comes up in Battlestar Galactica (1978), too. Commander Cain (Lloyd Bridges) is in command of the other surviving Battlestar, the Pegasus, and wants to launch an offensive. Cain is brilliant, but wrong; as Adama (Lorne Greene) points out, two Battlestars, encumbered by a refugee fleet that is essentially defenseless and that houses the last survivors of their people, can't win a war against the Cylon Empire. They must run or die, and Cain eventually realizes that Adama is right. | |
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Battlestar Galactica (2003): Practically a catchphrase of Commander Adama. In the miniseries pilot Roslin convinces Adama that retaking The Colonies is hopeless, and their best hope is to escort humanity's survivors somewhere safe from the Cylons. In You Can't Go Home Again, Adama is forced to concede that the search and rescue mission for Starbuck is hopeless. And in Lay Down Your Burdens, Lee makes the point that two ships with skeleton crews cannot hope to hold off a Cylon invasion fleet, so their best chance is to escape with what they can at the moment and come back when they have a clear plan and better odds. The reason Tom Zarek was such a thorn in Roslin and Adama's side for all four seasons, is that he recognized when he shouldn't overextend himself, and was simply smart enough to quit while he was relatively ahead. For example he wanted to assassinate Roslin outside the Tomb of Athena, but once Commander Adama and his men showed up he realized it was too risky and simply dropped the plan. One of Zarek's goons even urges that they go through with it anyway, but Zarek cites this trope... the goon tries on his own initiative, and gets killed. |
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In Spore, if you've captured all but one city in the civilization stage and don't take the last city right away, they'll usually just surrender. | |
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In Deadpool (2016), Ajax and Angel Dust enter Weasel's bar and try to threaten him for information on Deadpool. At that moment, however, everyone else in the bar draw their guns and level them at the two. Ajax realizes he's badly outmatched and chooses to leave (though not without stealing Weasel's photo of Wade and Vanessa on his way out). | |
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In Marvel Adventures Bullseye demonstrates that he knows not to punch above his weight class. | |
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In the climax of Stand by Me, Jerkass bully Ace realizes that Gordie fully intends to follow through on his threat to shoot Ace if he gets any closer to the dead body. Ace backs down and leaves, but vows revenge on the four boys. | |
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In The Book of Life, Chato orders a tactical retreat when he finds out Joaquin has the Medal of Everlasting Life, knowing full well that he simply can't win, and informs Chakal. Later, he orders a hasty retreat due to circumstances. | |
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Jaune Arc, Lord of Hunger: When Jaune encounters an Alpha Beowolf at the start of the story, he doesn't even bother trying to fight it and runs as fast as his legs can carry him. He knows that without any training, he stands no chance of defeating a regular Beowolf, let alone an Alpha like the one he's facing. After witnessing Darth Nihilus curb-stomp a dozen Huntsmen at once and No-Sell her illusions, Neo decides that it's hopeless trying to fight him and wisely chooses to run the second she has the chance. Seeing as how Cinder winds up dead not long after picking a fight with Nihilus, Neo made the right call. In the middle of Winter and Adam's duel in "Vengeance", Winter catches sight of Darth Nihilus walking towards her position from behind Adam. Knowing that she is no match for him, she breaks off her duel with Adam and flees on the back of one of her Grimm summons. However, Adam doesn't get the message and tries to attack Nihilus with predictable results. |
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Most fighters in Kengan Ashura avert this, as they refuse to concede and fight until incapacitated — or even until death — in any fight, regardless of opponent or conditions. However, Muteba Gizenga, being a mercenary first and foremost, notably concedes in his battle against Wakatsuki, after he is hit with the Blast Core as he judges that further combat would affect his long-term career as a mercenary. | |
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A general rule in Pokémon Reset Bloodlines is that a good trainer knows when to give up for their Pokémon's sake, instead of letting them get pointlessly injured. | |
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Sandokan: The titular character will try and avoid a battle he can't win, and retreat when he gets his ass kicked, if only to return in force and take revenge. | |
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Ages of Shadow: As King Cheherazad starts decimating the forces of the Himinate, Jade orders her remaining minions to flee, so that the Shadow Walkers may survive and rebuild after the dust settles. | |
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Atlas Shrugged examines this trope with Dagny's obstinate refusal to abandon Taggart Transcontinental as a lost cause, despite all the evidence of its decline and predictions of its imminent demise (which turn out to be true). Dagny is eventually convinced to leave it all behind, but Eddie Willers never learns to leave the dying railroad/dying world and presumably dies with it. | |
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All-Star Superman: This is Superman's answer to the riddle of the Ultra-Sphinx (which doesn't solve the paradox at all.) | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog/Mega Man: Worlds Collide: After they've been beaten by Super Sonic and Super Armor Mega Man, Dr. Wily accepts defeat and patiently waits for the heroes to use Chaos Control to undo the Super Genesis Wave. Eggman, however, is not so restrained and opts for a Last Villain Stand against Sonic. | |
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White Sand: Aggressively defied by Kenton, who's told multiple times that it's high time he gave up, but continues to stride forward to the point of bull-headed stubborness. | |
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The New Adventures of Superman: In "The Warlock's Revenge", the Warlock wants to borrow his sister's magical ruby to use its powers to exact revenge on Superman but she refuses because she's sure that the Warlock will fail again and Superman will destroy the ruby. The Warlock just takes the ruby by force and it leads to Superman eventually proving her right. | |
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In Stellaris, many of more dark and fantastical events offer this as an option. When dealing with such insanities as a dimension of pure suffering, the terrible revelations that led to the extinction of a precursor race, or a black hole writing love bad poetry, there's inevitably an option to the tune of "destroy the data, cordon off the area, and Let Us Never Speak of This Again". | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Some of the smarter monsters who know who Buffy is usually skaddle upon either seeing her, or at the least, seeing some of their fellow monsters get killed. "School Hard": A newly turned vampire named Sheila Martini tried to ambush Buffy from behind, only to be thwarted by a timely warning from Giles. After seeing Buffy kill a fellow vampire, Sheila wisely turns tail. She just lost her humanity to Drusilla, so likely getting killed again didn't appeal to her. In another ep, Buffy and Willow are at a graveyard waiting for a newly turned vampire to climb out of his grave. They get to talking, not noticing said vampire doing exactly that. The vampire is about to attack them... until he notices the stakes near Buffy. Realizing she's the slayer, the vampire quietly leaves the area before he's noticed. Buffy makes her way into a den of vampires. They're about to attack her when one of the vamps recognizes her and yells out "Slayer!". To which the whole room clears out. |
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How The Iron Sheik won his WWF World Heavyweight Championship from Bob Backlund, trapping Backlund — who came into the match with an (Kayfabe) injured back — in his dreaded Camel Clutch and pulling severely. Backlund refused to submit, but, fearing for his well being, manager Arnold Skaaland threw a towel into the ring, asking the match be stopped. (This, of course, set up the Iron Shiek to lose his title to newcomer Hulk Hogan.) Things came full circle in 1994 when Backlund — having returned to the WWF as an embittered heel — regained the WWF World Heavyweight Championship from Bret Hart, after trapping him in his crossface chicken wing for several minutes, Hart refusing to submit and Hart's mother, Helen, throwing in the towel, convinced to do so by Hart's younger brother, Owen (who was, unknown to everybody, feigning concern). Days later, Backlund lost the title again ... and he didn't lose it because someone threw in the towel. | |
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Rise of Empires: Ottoman: The historians in the series speculate why Giustiniani left the battle during the siege's final hours. Most likely, he didn't think victory was possible anymore and he was already wounded anyway. He's also a mercenary, not a Roman citizen, so there's no real point to him continuing to fight if his employers won't be there to pay him. | |
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In the 2019 series of The Demon Headmaster, the Headmaster is ordered to abandon his plans by the original Headmaster, as there is no way to implement their agenda after Lizzie Warren and her gang have exposed his plans on live television and Dinah has contacted her associates at MI6. | |
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In chess, there is resignation, or "I realize I'm going to lose no matter what I do at this point, so let's just end this now." This isn't mandatory, but it's considered good etiquette over dragging out an impending defeat; at professional levels, resignations are far more common than playing all the way to checkmate. | |
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In Convergence: The Flash #2, the Tangent Superman willingly chooses to surrender to the Earth-One era Barry Allen after he sees through Barry's future and the impact he has on the Multiverse such as the Crisis on Infinite Earths. He realizes that if he eliminates Barry, he will doom the Multiverse and all of continuity. | |
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The children's book Nuddy Ned has the title character decide to run around naked in public, with his parents desperately trying to get their son to put clothes on. In the end, they concede that they can't get their son to change his opinion on nudity and even start joining him in running around naked. | |
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An important skill in poker. (In fact, that's what the Kenny Rogers song is about.) | |
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This trope may be the single great reason Ciaphas Cain has survived as long as he has: in a universe where pretty much everything wants to eat your face and your enemies are without number, he is fully capable of recognizing when it's time to get the hell out of Dodge. Two incidents in particular are noteworthy. In both Caves of Ice and Cain's Last Stand, Cain is going head-to-head with the enemies of the Imperium in a desperate defensive battle... right up until he finds out that the Necrons have entered the fray, at which point he immediately and completely retreats. Even the Inquisition representative who debriefs him admits that he just would've gotten the entire regiment killed if he'd tried to hold his ground. | |
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Strange Days: When Mace tries to slip into Gant's party, his three goons confront her. She pummels two of them, so the third simply says, "Enjoy the party!" | |
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Goblins — When facing down Mr. Fingers, Dies Horribly is perhaps better equipped to make a strategic determination than Grem. | |
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In The Bridge, Xenilla and Mothra realized that Princess Celestia's power dwarfed all the kaiju present. They managed to convince their teammates to surrender (except for Destroyah, who only stopped when The Cutie Mark Crusaders begged her to stop), as it was a fight they could not win. | |
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Paperinik New Adventures: A couple of criminal droids realize it's not worth trying to defend their boss from the hero. Subverted since Paperinik still stops them. Also Colonel Neopard — in his words "The mercenary that knows when to quit is good for another mission!" Subverted again, as he planted a bomb to destroy his target anyway. He had a contract and a reputation, after all... As soon as they realized her power, whenever the Evronians encounter Xadhoom (a Physical Goddess bent on killing them) they would try and run away unless they had a trap for her. Always subverted because she's not only too powerful to fight, but also faster than them. Also the Raider knows when it's a good time to retreat. This and his Time Machine is what makes him really dangerous: as powerful as he is he can be defeated, but the moment the tide turns against him he'll run and, if possible, alter some event before the fight to gain the advantage. Duckburg's normal criminals know better than to fight or run when Paperinik catches them. This is a hold-over from the "classic" Paperinik stories, where Paperinik has crushed and humiliated enough of them that they'll just grab the evidence and give themselves up to the police when he shows up. |
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Durarara!!: Several people do this when confronted with Shizuo Heiwajima, the most ridiculously overpowered human being alive. In fact, it's remarkable how many people don't run when they see him; the city is filled with Too Dumb to Live people who either assume his reputation is exaggerated or fail to identify him until it's too late. Kasane Kujiragi, one of the most powerful characters in the series, who is both a Dhampyr and an undisputed master of Saika, immediately drops her plans and walks away when Shizuo shows up. | |
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Hey Arnold! plays this card a few times: "Phoebe Takes the Fall" has Helga making Phoebe throw the qualifier for a citywide academic bowl so she can get a chance to one-up her much-accomplished sister for once. After long and hard studying, mostly with Phoebe, she has a nightmare where Arnold confronts her during the quiz to ask her why she's competing instead of Phoebe. She lampshades the dream before dismissing it... but ends up feeling guilty for nipping Phoebe's chances in the bud and has Phoebe compete anyway. Despite being training-free, Phoebe wins, and on the very same question Helga's sister had missed, too. When in a non-stop contest against his wife, Coach Jack states he first got to date his now wife by forfeiting the game and letting her win. He later does this at the end of the episode and they get back together. It repairs their relationship, but his wife still calls him out on letting her win and demands a proper rematch, which he accepts. |
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Santino Marella once faced off against Triple H and John Cena in a battle royale at a house show. After literally bouncing off of the two men when he attempted to clothesline them both, he conceded the match, grabbed himself by the trunks, and threw himself out of the ring. Big Show could be seen visibly laughing in one corner of the ring. | |
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This is a part of what has always made Doctor Doom such a capable antagonist. Unlike most supervillains, Doom can recognise when the plan has gone south and it's time to leave. Yeah, Reed Richards is still alive, and you don't have what you came here for. It doesn't matter. It's time to go. Long before he had his diplomatic immunity, Doom regularly got away by having planned his escape in advance, and leaving the minute he was in danger of being surrounded. In one instance, he fights the Fantastic Four tooth and nail trying to get to Mjolnir and claim it, eventually beating them, grasping the handle and, predictably, being unable to budge it. Rather than rage at his failure or try to take it out on anyone nearby, he simply shrugs and goes home. In another notable example, Doom and the Avengers just concluded an Enemy Mine against Attuma, but Doom being Doom steals the machine Attuma had been using in preparation for one of his plots. The Avengers pursue and fight him, but the Vision chooses to sneak in and destroy the machine rather than risk it being used by anyone. Doom immediately realises what has happened and curses the Vision, but then simply flies away rather than continue a pointless battle. The Avengers briefly debate continuing the pursuit, but also decide that continued conflict is pointless. |
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In Footrot Flats, the Dog is trying to watch the farm while his owner is away, leading to many What Would X Do? questions. When a situation involving many, many stinging insects arises, it turns out Wal would...hide in the outhouse with the newspaper until they go away. | |
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From Mass Effect: Andromeda, a character in a minor quest gets by using an EMP to disable any passing vehicle that catches his fancy, before killing the owner and stripping the vehicle for parts. Then Ryder comes by. He disables the Nomad, then realises he's severely outmatched, calls Ryder up and gives them the parts needed to restore their car. If Ryder decides he can't be allowed to continue, he'll still try and attack them. | |
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Knowing when to fold is an important part of Gwent in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: since under most circumstances the players don't draw cards, it's important to when to concede one of the three rounds and hope for a better outcome in the next one, rather than throw all your cards at a situation and then get stomped in the proceeding rounds because your hand's run dry. | |
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Event Horizon: After viewing a recording of what happened to the title spaceship's crew, the captain turns it off and, in the most deadpan tone imaginable, announces to the rest of the crew, "We're leaving." Unfortunately, circumstances (namely the Event Horizon herself) interrupt. | |
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In Star Trek: Voyager Season 2 episode "Twisted", a strange energy field begins to overtake the ship, causing crucial systems to fail and the layout of the ship to warp. Crew members who come into contact with the field become delirious. After their efforts to prevent the energy field from expanding only make things worse, Tuvok recommends giving up and seeing what happens. Eventually, the field disperses, everything is returned to normal and the crew find a massive amount of data in their computers — evidence that the energy field was just trying to communicate. | |
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Breaking Bad: Saul Goodman is one morally dubious character who knows exactly how this song goes. He knows when to beg for his life. He knows when to negotiate while holding his ground. He knows when to seemingly give most of that ground up without actually giving anything of real value... and he knows exactly when to drop everything and get the hell out of Dodge. As a result, he's the closest to a Karma Houdini the show has when it comes to core characters. Late in the series, Mike Ehrmantraut decides that working with Walt is far too risky: the DEA had seized the hush money for his associates and the trust fund he set aside for his granddaughter, and he is being watched very closely by the authorities. As a result, he decides to call it quits and sell out his share of Walt's business. Unfortunately, he wouldn't be able to get away with it like Saul does: he is forced to flee without saying goodbye to his family, shot by Walt not long after, and has his body destroyed in acid. |
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The majority of the characters in Sekirei are members of a Proud Warrior Race, and enjoy a good fight. This makes AntiVillains Mutsu and Akitsu noteworthy for their willingness to run from a fight. Unlike other Sekirei that flee because they're hopelessly outmatched, both are established as being among the most powerful fighters. Instead, they're simply pragmatic enough to see when a situation is unfavorable or a waste of time and too busy keeping their master safe. | |
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Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman: As he is wont to do, Batman thrashes one of his suspect's bodyguards early in the story. When that bodyguard later finds Batman going through said suspect's room, he decides to practice the better part of valor. | |
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In Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Optimus Prime is brought Back from the Dead, destroys the Sun Harvester, and delivers a major Curb-Stomp Battle to The Fallen. Megatron and Starscream, after seeing this, decide to cut their losses for the time being and leave while they're unnoticed. As Starscream puts it... | |
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In The Lion Guard, the Villain of the Week will often give up when facing too much opposition from the Lion Guard, saying no prey is worth that much effort, even if they acted like a Super-Persistent Predator earlier in the episode. | |
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Seen often in matches between William Regal and Chris Benoit. When Benoit went for the Crossface, Regal would try to block the arm and resist as much as possible, but the moment it was locked in, Regal would tap out to avoid prolonged punishment. | |
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Early on in Eyeshield 21, Monta learns that it's okay to give up playing baseball because he's just bad at it and find a sport he can be good at instead. Forfeiting the match against the Hakushuu Dinosaurs is also the reason Taiyo Sphinx quarterback Kiminari Harao is still walking properly; If he had kept the game going, the Dinosaurs' monstrous Rikiya Gaou would've definitely crippled him. The Sphinx had no other option but to forfeit as they had no linemen left. In a literal gambling example, Hiruma folds in a poker game against Clifford when he realizes that Clifford has the winning hand (hopefully this isn't foreshadowing.) This was played as a win on Hiruma's part though, since the real game was a bluff-off between himself and Clifford. Clifford had the better hand and was not happy that Hiruma folded before he could show that he had won. |
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In Electra, the main character is told by every character but Orestes to give up her mourning, to behave meekly and submit to the will of stronger people because she is only digging a deeper grave for herself. Instead, by the end of the play she becomes determined to kill her step-father herself rather than accept death with no hope of salvation. | |
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Iditarod: The Toughest Race on Earth shows how important this is to sled-dog mushing. For the mushers, good judgment about this is essential — if mushers push their team too hard, they risk getting stranded in the Alaska wilderness. And, to mushers worth their salt, risking the life and health of their dogs is not worth any race. | |
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Friends: Ross refuses to pay extra to have his new couch delivered, calling it a scam. After he and his friends destroy the couch trying to get it up to his apartment, he brings it back to the store and tries to return it. In one Thanksgiving episode Ross fails at a game of listing as many of the States as possible in one minute. He declares that he can get them all before dinner, and doesn't get any food until he's done. By 3AM he's so hungry he decides he no longer cares that his list is still one short and tucks into the leftovers. |
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Thunderball: after the battle at the end, the SPECTRE henchmen actually surrender and are taken into custody by the US Coast Guard. | |
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The Reaping of Hatsune Miku: The Reaper's Game consists of seven missions for the Players to complete, with the final mission being the defeat or erasure of the Game Master. The distinction is important: several characters at various points in the series observe that if the mission is to defeat the Game Master, then the Game Master can admit defeat, allowing the Players to complete their mission and letting the Reaper live (kinda). Sadly, few Game Masters do end up admitting defeat. | |
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Used occasionally in the Jumanji animated series. In one instance, the main characters met a man who was trapped in the game and couldn't escape until he accepted the fact that he was stuck there forever ("Try as you might to escape your fate/You'll never pass through the gateless gate"). Once he gave up on getting free, he was freed. The kids once got a similar clue ("There's one way out, the price you know/Save yourselves and let it go"), which they solved when they chose not to obey it. | |
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Transformers: In Infiltration, the Earth Based Infiltration team renege against Megaton, with Starscream discovering Ore-13 which can empower them greatly. After Megatron curbstomps Skywarp and Blitzwing, Starscream tests the formula and sends an empowered Thundercracker, Astrotrain, Runabout and Runamuck against Megatron. Megatron calmly tells them to stand down, or he will kill all of them. The four immediately lower their weapons. The threat was not hollow, as even the empowered Starscream can't stand up to Megatron. Simply having the presence of mind to recognize when to back down is considered a strength among many Micromasters in Transformers Generation One; Swindler of the Race Car patrol knows when he's beat. Detour of the Sports Car patrol is a bit of a coward, but can tell when the other shoe's about to drop, too. |
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The Ruins of an American Party System: In the late 40s, infighting amongst the Commonwealth Party causes the right wing factions to defect to the American Party. Despite this, Lyndon Johnson thinks he can salvage the party... until Commonwealth founder Huey Long is arrested on multiple corruption charges, tainting the image of the party as a whole. Seeing the writing on the wall, Johnson promptly jumps ship, abandoning the party altogether. | |
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