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Some awful calamity is happening. The world might be ending. There's maiming and killing afoot. Cities are aflame (possibly with rock and roll). The Masses are sick, starving, and dying. Screaming and cursing, cries for mercy, the sound of society tearing itself apart. The public is crying out for aid and their leaders to guide them through this catastrophe. It's a horrific situation. And where are the leaders, the elites, and the best and the brightest during this whole quagmire? The rich and powerful with the money, influence, and the talent to help people through this chaos? Certainly not where the danger is! They've jumped ship, gotten on an aircraft and flown to a safe haven, sailed to a private island, locked themselves in a bunker, or all of the above, basically telling the rest of the world: "You're on your own, suckers." Likely to overlap with While Rome Burns or Dancing in the Ruins as the characters in question indulge in their decadent personal behavior in response to the chaos around them. Expect anyone involved in this trope to be a completely unsympathetic combination of Rich Jerk, Corrupt Corporate Executive, Upper-Class Twit, Aristocrats Are Evil, Dirty Coward, and/or President Evil and his contemporaries. If the aforementioned elites are actually responsible for the calamity they're running from in the first place, any sympathy for them should be thrown right out the window. If the world itself is crumbling, Watch the World Die can overlap, but the characters are in the group who happen to be in the upper crust and simply let the rest of the world rot to save their own skins. Or at least try to, at everyone else's expense. Can sometimes lead to Money Is Not Power, when those elites who have not managed to jump ship ahead of time try to buy or bully their way out, only to find that their former status and wealth mean absolutely nothing in the new, desperate conditions. Essentially a subtrope or at least subcategory of Screw This, I'm Outta Here, as applied to, well, social elites. Note the Rules Of Cautious Editing must apply when describing Real Life examples to avoid unnecessary Flame War disputes. For the sake of example clarity, all spoilers shall remain unmarked. |
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Project Sunflower: Late in the first story, Heart's Bloom and a number of other members of the Canterlot Elite choose to take their families and move to Starfall Isle for the sake of keeping themselves "pure" and "untainted" by what they see as a disaster — humans moving to Equestria from their native world and bringing their own ways with them, which the Elite who are leaving see as damaging to their existing society. | |
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Features in the backstory of Changeling: The Dreaming, as centuries ago the ruling class of Sidhe fled the human world for Arcadia, leaving the other fae to fend for themselves, and only returned recently. | |
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Presented for laughs The Simpsons in the third segment of "Treehouse of Horror IX", where the Y2K computer virus bug creates a world apocalypse, and a rocket ship with the most beloved celebrities is launched so they can start a new society on Mars. Homer and Bart sneak onboard another rocket, only to find that it's full of the most hated celebrities and is being fired into the Sun. | |
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In It Could Happen Here, it's mentioned in the episode "The American Refugee Crisis" that rich people would be the first to escape the Second American Civil War and the one that would have the least problems with it, being able to buy visas to still-stable European nations. | |
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In Act 2 of Into the Woods, after the giantess has set upon their castle, the royal family, along with Cinderella's stepfamily, flees the kingdom instead of staying to fight. The finale hints that their fate was, well, not pretty. | |
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RWBY: This is the catalyst for the climax of Volume 7. Ironwood wants to take the floating city of Atlas, where the privileged live, and flee Salem's incoming army, leaving the poor and working-class city of Mantle to their fates. | |
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In Remina, The Prime Minister of Japan and CEO of the Mineishi Corporation abandon Japan with their families for Remina as soon as it becomes apparent Earth will be destroyed. Naturally, this ends poorly for the lot of them. | |
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Defied in Cross Ange: Big Bad Embryo pulls the plug on Mana, triggering the eventual collapse of the World of Mana, and denies the world leaders the opportunity of leaving with him, leaving them to an ambiguous fate. | |
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Used in the swan song of the Planescape metaplot, Faction War. The module's events would be expected to heavily involve the faction leaders and established characters, all of whom have a stake in the fight and should be actively intriguing, fighting, and betraying. Since that would be complicated to write (and to run), the named characters not immediately relevant to the story "go to ground" and can't be contacted. | |
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In the initial days of the Blitz, the government evacuated large numbers of civilians from London and several industrial cities to the countryside, expecting apocalyptic numbers of civilian casualties if they stayed; eventually they decided that they were overestimating the amount of destruction the Luftwaffe could cause, and ordered the civilians to return to the cities; several of the wealthier ones, however, decided that they preferred to stay in the country, and as long as they could afford it, hotels and converted "guest houses" were happy to let them do so, and to let them pretend that they were simply on an extended holiday or engaged in some kind of war-related work. These places acquired the derisive nickname "funk holes", and one features prominently in the episode of the same name of Foyle's War. | |
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The Victors Project: The spinoff Arrow has an unpremeditated version of this where said elites come across as less despicable than the people they were bribing. The gangs that control District 6 seize all of the trains to flee District as it descends into anarchy in the first waves of rebellion and retaliatory bombings, handing over seats to "prosperous citizens who hand over everything they own for a chance to escape the rains of fire," while running down others in their path. It is unclear whether any of them make it; only one train is specifically mentioned as being destroyed and this was one filled with fleeing gang members. | |
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Love, Death & Robots: In "Three Robots: Exit Strategies", the three droids examine pre-apocalyptic settlements from various social classes. While regular rich people and world leaders resorted to self-sustaining pockets in the ocean and in mountainside bunkers, the 0.01% not only attempted to make a break for Mars but torched the masses who tried to come with them. To rub it in, cats, but not humans, make up the Martian society seen at the end. | |
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Gundam Inverted in the original Mobile Suit Gundam: As the world suffers from overpopulation and resultant environmental collapse, the elites force others to jump ship. By 0079 (79 years after the space colonies reached a population of 40 million, by which point half of humanity has joined them) anyone born on Earth, regardless of class, are jeered at as "Earth elites" and are the subjects of resentment by the colonists — often murderously so. Played straight in Mobile Fighter G Gundam: The powerful and wealthy from each country moved to space on colonies named after their nation but with a "neo" prefix (so the Japanese colony is "Neo Japan") and those unable to go into space have to suffer poverty and being collateral as the colonies send Gundams to fight Combat by Champion every four years to determine who controls the world's government. Most of the wealthiest people in Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury have gone to space, whereas the Earth is suffering constant wars, economic depression, and food shortages. Worse than just abandoning the Earth, the "Spacians" became a Foreign Ruling Class forcing "Earthians" into constant wars that they will profit off of. |
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All Assorted Animorphs AUs: At one point during "What if there was a zombie apocalypse?", it's mentioned that wealthy elites are buying their way off-world as fast as they can to escape the zombie plague. | |
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Most of the wealthiest people in Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury have gone to space, whereas the Earth is suffering constant wars, economic depression, and food shortages. Worse than just abandoning the Earth, the "Spacians" became a Foreign Ruling Class forcing "Earthians" into constant wars that they will profit off of. | |
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Played for satire in The Boondocks episode "The Fried Chicken Flu", when a viral pandemic spreads around the world and (seemingly) causes great sociopolitical chaos. In response, US President Barack Obama makes an Emergency Presidential Address to calm down the American public, preaching to show compassion and help out their communities, only to reveal that he and his family have gone underground to live in the fully-stocked White House bunker, and have essentially let the rest of America rot. | |
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In One Piece: Wapol pulled this when serving as King of the Drum Kingdom when the Blackbeard Pirates arrived. Despite his arrogance, when he learned how strong Blackbeard's crew was, Wapol took his army and ran rather than fight them, leaving his country defenseless. As told by Trafagar Law's backstory, the royal family and high-ranked nobles managed to escape from Flevance with assistance of the World Government just before the Amber Lead Syndrome crisis went really bad and the entire country was quarantined by force. These included the people who most actively sought out the Amber Lead. Of course. |
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Critical Role: Exandria Unlimited Calamity: As the Calamity truly begins, the party receives an order from the leading Ring of Gold: to send skyships to the top of Avalir and evacuate the upper class along with their possessions. Nydas point-blank refuses to do this and commands his skyships to evacuate the children from the local sorcerer's academy instead, and Loquatius similarly defies orders by broadcasting an Epic Hail telling the people of Avalir and Cathmoira that the Ring of Gold have ordered every government official to go down with the ship to allow as many civilians as possible to escape. | |
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Presented in Futurama episode "The Deep South" where it's revealed that the city of Atlanta, Georgia became an island and eventually sank from over-development. As the city sank, its "gods of our legends" evacuated, including Ted Turner, Hank Aaron, Jeff Foxworthy, "the guy who invented Coca-Cola" and "The Magician". Oh, and Jane Fonda was there, too. Leaving the rest of the city population to sink and mutate into fish people. | |
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It's a running gag in Welcome to Night Vale that the City Council hits the bricks as soon as serious trouble starts, generally going on an extremely coincidental vacation. This is despite the City Council being initially composed of a multi-body Eldritch Abomination that probably has a better chance of survival than any of the city's human inhabitants. | |
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A Different Weasel Makes A Difference: While most elites stand their ground during the invasion of the White Walkers, Lord Torrent of Littlesister and his family try to abandon their lands and vassals "without a care in the world." Unfortunately for the family, a Manderly warship stops them as they try to sail to the comparatively safer Riverlands. The male members of the family are escorted back to the Three Sisters islands and placed in a particularly dangerous beachhead position to meet the approaching zombies. | |
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Some More News devoted part of an episode to discussing this trope and some hypothetical scenarios in the context of the 2020 Coronavirus outbreak. | |
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In FLCL Alternative, when Medical Mechanica start up their plan to flatten the Earth with their irons many of the rich and powerful board rockets to flee to Mars while leaving the planet to its fate. This includes the smug Japanese Prime Minister occasionally seen through the series and Pets whose family is revealed to be wealthy, forcing her to leave her friends behind, especially after a bad argument with Kana that they sadly never resolve before her departure. | |
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Inverted in the original Mobile Suit Gundam: As the world suffers from overpopulation and resultant environmental collapse, the elites force others to jump ship. By 0079 (79 years after the space colonies reached a population of 40 million, by which point half of humanity has joined them) anyone born on Earth, regardless of class, are jeered at as "Earth elites" and are the subjects of resentment by the colonists — often murderously so. | |
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Code Prime: Near the end of R2 - Revolution, when Starscream announces his intention to just completely destroy Earth rather than continue to try and subjugate it, the captive Brittanian royals being held prisoner by the Decepticons immediately swear loyalty in exchange for being spared and offered a ride off planet when the Cons leave. According to a derisive Schneizel, many of them have deluded themselves into believing that they can repopulate humanity through incest, ignoring the many problems that such a small gene pool would create. And unfortunately for them, they never even get that far, as Megatron responds to Starscream's attempted coup by unleashing a synthetic Rust Plague, which consumes not just Starscream but also all of the Britannians as well. | |
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Played straight in Mobile Fighter G Gundam: The powerful and wealthy from each country moved to space on colonies named after their nation but with a "neo" prefix (so the Japanese colony is "Neo Japan") and those unable to go into space have to suffer poverty and being collateral as the colonies send Gundams to fight Combat by Champion every four years to determine who controls the world's government. | |
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Voltes V: When the slaves of Boazania rebel (this time aided by Big Falcon and Voltes V) and manage to overtake most of the planet, the nobles desert en masse as Emperor Zambajil desperately tries to consolidate his power. Prince Heinel curses the nobles for fleeing and vows to cut down all traitors, coming to defend the castle. When Katherine is shot defending him, Heinel is broken and goes One-Winged Angel through Godol. | |
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