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When on a dangerous assignment, The Team is hoping for backup. Maybe they were promised support from the start, maybe they're calling about an emergency, or maybe circumstances have changed. No matter what, they think they can get help—but instead, they get nothing. If they're lucky, they just need to do something to let the cavalry arrive. Disable the Anti-Air guns, remove the Immortality Inducer, or even find legal evidence so that the cops can get involved. More likely, they'll have to finish everything themselves. Outside of the military, common situations include stranded survivors. The character may realize they've been caught in a Uriah Gambit. See also The Cavalry Arrives Late. Examples |
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Highschool of the Dead: When the protagonists get to a shopping mall, they find patrol officer Asami Nakaoka, who tells them that her superior officer had left the mall in order to go find help for the survivors holed up there. Unfortunately, the zombies got to her first, as her zombified self is seen shambling around with the rest of them. Because of this, all the survivors have to get out of there themselves, with no help of any kind coming to save them. | |
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The Witcher (2019): In the first episode, Queen Calanthe asks where their ships from Skellige are. She is informed that a storm delayed them, and they're going to be far too late to help with the battle they're about to lose. In a later episode, it's revealed that Nilfgaard's head mage summoned the storm on purpose, and the fleet was destroyed. | |
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In Les Misérables, the student revolutionaries know they can't prevail by themselves, but are counting on their actions inspiring others to join the fight. As the siege on their barricade drags on, it becomes increasingly apparent that they're on their own. They refuse to surrender, and are eventually overwhelmed. | |
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown: One achievement is called "Ain't No Cavalry Comin'". You get it for having at least one soldier participate in every single combat engagement against the aliens for the entire campaign. In other words, those who started the fight against the aliens have to finish it, without anyone relieving them. | |
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The Illustrated Star Wars Universe: In the Dagobah chapter, Halka Four-Den's survey team was deposited on the planet by drop-ship and told to conduct as much research as possible until the Republic sent a shop to retrieve them, with the promise that a rescue ship would be ready if an emergency broadcast was sent. Unfortunately, Halka Four-Den had the rotten luck of setting out on this mission at the exact time the Republic's corruption started spiraling out of control, so her mission was completely forgotten about in the Vast Bureaucracy and her emergency broadcast went unanswered - leaving Halka and her surviving team-members struggling to contend with the increasingly aggressive swamp while they try to reach literally anyone for help. | |
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In Undertale, a big recurring theme is characters crying out for help only to be met with the same message... | |
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Schlock Mercenary: In the final book, Petey sends the Toughs to Andromeda in one small ship to disable the weapon that is preventing him from sending more. Captain Andreyasn points out (after he is already stranded in Andromeda with everyone else) that it is extremely unlikely that they can kill a planet-sized superweapon with one little ship. | |
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Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun: A villainous example in the GDI campaign, when General Vega's base is being stormed by GDI forces and he pleads with Kane for reinforcements. Kane instead has both excommunicated him from the Brotherhood and ordered a nuclear missile strike on Vega's base to show his displeasure. | |
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August 1914: This happens a lot in the latter stages of the Battle of Tannenberg, as Second Army falls apart, mainly due to the sheer cowardice of most of the Russian generals. Late in the story, tens of thousands of Russian soldiers are trapped in a German encirclement. General Nechvolodov, one of the few competent Russian generals, enters the outskirts of Willenberg. There are hardly any Germans in his way and all he needs is some support from divisional headquarters to push on another mile or so, open up a link to the Russians inside the encirclement, and allow thousands to escape. But instead he gets a telegram from his gutless commanders telling him to withdraw. | |
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Aliens: After the Colonial Marines have their first battle with the xenomorphs, the hope of rescue is raised and immediately dashed. | |
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Far Cry 5: The memorable opening scene has the main antagonist utter a similar phrase. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: A factor that adds despair to the defence of Minas Tirith is when the heads of the dispatch riders sent to beg help from Rohan are among those catapulted back into the city: the messengers were intercepted and killed and therefore did not - apparently - carry the message to King Theoden. note In reality they did; Theoden received them graciously and said he would lead his army to Gondor - but only after dealing with the pressing threat from Saruman. The messengers were captured and killed on their return journey. | |
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Animorphs: For most of the series, the Animorphs are waging a guerilla war against the Yeerks to buy time until the Andalites arrive. When they get in touch with the Andalites, they are informed that Earth is a low priority, and they'll have to finish the war by themselves. When the war is over, the Animorphs call again for some minor last-minute help. The Andalite military again denies them, until Marco points out that the conversation is being broadcast live to the Andalite civilians, and they're not going to appreciate hearing that the war is going to continue because the military was too stubborn to take an excellent deal. Jake then passive-aggressively "thanks" the Andalites for all their help in such a way that the military is basically forced to help them, or else admit that they've been ignoring them this entire time. | |
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In Metal Gear Solid, when Snake has been captured and is about to face some Cold-Blooded Torture, he gets this as a threat from Revolver Ocelot: | |
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Dawn of the Dead (2004): The survivors of the Zombie Apocalypse take shelter in a mall and hold out in hope of rescue. This hope begins to fade after a helicopter spotted overhead completely ignores them, and then the rest of the world falls completely silent. At that point, as far as they're aware, they're the last living people on Earth. | |
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In Star Wars Rebels Season Four, Rebel high command makes it very clear to Ezra and the crew of the 'Ghost' that if they return to Lothal to fight the Imperial occupation there, they're going to be on their own. It takes an impassioned speech from Hera to get them to agree to one sortie on the TIE defender factories and after that fails there are no repeat attempts. | |
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3: The final Allied mission against the Empire involves weathering Imperial assaults while waiting for the Soviet navy to arrive. The Soviets keep sending messages that they're on the way, but once the timer runs out say they can't come after all. Allied command is only half surprised at the betrayal. | |
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Subverted in The Martian. Marooned astronaut Mark Watney has every reason to think this trope is in effect, as his colleagues believe him to be dead and the outpost's radio dish is under a foot of sand somewhere within a radius of several kilometres, and the first act of the story is concerned with finding some way to call for help. Unbeknown to him, however, Mission Control sent a survey satellite to find out what state the outpost was in a few days after the accident and immediately realised what had happened. | |
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Quake IV: During the mission to destroy the Tetranode, a couple of soldiers talk about how deep in enemy territory they are, and when Private Strauss asks if it means reinforcements will take several minutes to arrive, Morris clarifies that it means the will get no backup at all. It goes without saying that everything eventually goes pear-shaped! | |
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Firefly: In the prologue, Mal has a newly-minted lieutenant call for help, and they seemingly arrive. He soon realizes that the descending ships are actually the enemy, and his high command has surrendered. | |
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