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* ''Film/Titanic1997'': Played with in the case of Bruce Ismay, who only gets into a boat after making sure everyone in the area gets on before him, but still sneaks in at the least second when the officer is distracted.
** Played straight in the case of Cal, who goes as far as to try and bribe an officer and using a little girl as a ticket into a boat.
** The deleted scenes show an officer finding a young man disguised as a woman in his lifeboat.

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* ''Film/Titanic1997'': Played with in the case of J. Bruce Ismay, who only gets into a boat lifeboat after making sure everyone in the area gets on before him, but still sneaks in at the least second when the officer is distracted.
** Played straight in the case of Cal, who goes as far as to try and bribe an officer First Officer Murdoch and using a little girl as a ticket into a boat.
one of the last lifeboats as the ship sinks.
** The deleted scenes show an officer Fifth Officer Lowe finding a young man disguised as a woman in his lifeboat.
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* ''Film/HighNoon'' applies this to an ''entire town'' as nobody is willing to help the Marshal fight a small gang of criminals.

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* ''Film/HighNoon'' applies this to an ''entire town'' as nobody is willing to help the Marshal fight a small gang of criminals. [[spoiler:The marshal survives, but throws his sheriff's badge into the dirt in disgust and leaves for good once the fight's over.]]
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* Lurk from ''Film/UpTheFront'', is one, just as his ancestors were until he is hypnotised by the Great Vincento to want to save England.
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* In ''Film/AreYouBeingServed'', Carlos only decides to help the Spanish revolutionaries after Cesar threatens him with a gun:
-->'''Cesar''': You make up your mind, Carlos. [[WithUsOrAgainstUs You are with them, or you are with us]].
-->'''Carlos''': Is that loaded?
-->'''Cesar''': Of course.
-->'''Carlos''': I am with us.
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* ''Film/AlphaDog'':
** Johnny presents himself as a FakeUltimateHero, but he hides when Jake breaks into his house despite being armed, refuses to de-escalate the kidnapping because he's afraid of prison, and becomes a NervousWreck when the police takes down his gang and has multiple off-screen freak-outs as he gets more paranoid that he will be caught.
** Elvis gets more confident when given the order to [[spoiler: kill Zack]], but when the murder is discovered he starts panicking and begging for help.
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* ''Franchise/TheEvilDead'': Scotty initially appears to be a badass and the ideal hero, holding his own against the deadites while Ash is left paralyzed in fear. However, when he's forced to chop up his girlfriend Shelly with an axe after she's possessed, he promptly abandons Ash and an injured Linda to save himself, explicitly telling Ash that he doesn't care what happens to the latter. He pays for it when deadite-possessed trees rip him to shreds.

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* ''Franchise/TheEvilDead'': ''Franchise/EvilDead'': Scotty initially appears to be a badass and the ideal hero, holding his own against the deadites while Ash is left paralyzed in fear. However, when he's forced to chop up his girlfriend Shelly with an axe after she's possessed, he promptly abandons Ash and an injured Linda to save himself, explicitly telling Ash that he doesn't care what happens to the latter. He pays for it when deadite-possessed trees rip him to shreds.
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* ''Film/TwoHeadedSharkAttack'': Cole never hesitates to put distance between himself and the shark, even when it means putting his friends in worse danger than they were before (like driving off in a boat that someone else was going to use to escape danger).

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* ''Film/Titanic1997'': Played with in the case of Bruce Ismay, who only gets into a boat after making sure everyone in the area gets on before him, but still sneaks in at the least second when the officer is distracted. Played straight in the case of Cal, who goes as far as to try and bribe an officer and using a little girl as a ticket into a boat.

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* ''Film/Titanic1997'': Played with in the case of Bruce Ismay, who only gets into a boat after making sure everyone in the area gets on before him, but still sneaks in at the least second when the officer is distracted. distracted.
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Played straight in the case of Cal, who goes as far as to try and bribe an officer and using a little girl as a ticket into a boat.boat.
** The deleted scenes show an officer finding a young man disguised as a woman in his lifeboat.
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** In that vein, ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' (particularly ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'') does a good job of establishing Darth Vader as a self-pitiful coward.
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** In that vein, the [[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]] (particularly VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed) does a good job of establishing Darth Vader as a self-pitiful coward.

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** In that vein, the [[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]] ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' (particularly VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed) ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'') does a good job of establishing Darth Vader as a self-pitiful coward.



* ''Film/{{Titanic1997}}'': Played with, in the case of Bruce Ismay, who only gets into a boat after making sure everyone in the area gets on before him, but still sneaks in at the least second when the officer is distracted. Played straight in the case of Cal, who goes as far as to try and bribe an officer and using a little girl as a ticket into a boat.

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* ''Film/{{Titanic1997}}'': ''Film/Titanic1997'': Played with, with in the case of Bruce Ismay, who only gets into a boat after making sure everyone in the area gets on before him, but still sneaks in at the least second when the officer is distracted. Played straight in the case of Cal, who goes as far as to try and bribe an officer and using a little girl as a ticket into a boat.

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* ''Franchise/Fridaythe13th":

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* ''Film/JohnWick'': Iosef Tarasov portrays himself as a tough guy, but when he finds himself being pursued by [[RetiredBadass John Wick]], he proves to have feet of clay. Particularly in the fight at the Red Circle, where he grabs a nearby girl to shield himself when John has him in his sights.
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I think the original reason for this entry getting removed is still pretty valid. If anything, Savant was more or less an Audience Surrogate in that scene.


** ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'' gives us Savant, a vigilante in Belle Reve who's introduced as an AudienceSurrogate. When the team was ambushed by the Coto Maltese army in the film's opening, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath killing most of them in cruel ways]], Savant screams in terror and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere tries to swim off the island]], only to be killed by Waller activating his [[ExplosiveLeash explosive implant.]]

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** ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'' gives us Savant, a vigilante in Belle Reve gradually [[VillainousBreakdown whittles the Thinker down to this]], who's introduced as an AudienceSurrogate. When the team was ambushed by the Coto Maltese army in the film's opening, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath killing most of them in cruel ways]], Savant screams in terror and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere tries to swim off the island]], only ironically normally known to be killed by an AbsentMindedProfessor with a penchant for [[ButForMeItWasTuesday abducting an infinite amount of metahuman bodies]]. After experimenting on Starro for ''three decades'', knowingly torturing (and potentially raping) it, he does everything in his power to stop it from retaliating, including immediately spilling the beans to Flag about Amanda Waller activating sending them to cover up Project Starfish, backing away from Task Force X when it becomes clear that they know about the explosives placed on Jotunheim, and finally begging Starro for mercy for the entire tenure of his [[ExplosiveLeash explosive implant.]] capture by it, [[spoiler:which lasts about 15 seconds before he's smashed to bits]].

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