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* ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' begins this way as well. Given how the first {{film}} started, this seems to be a theme.

* In ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'', the Terran Battlecruiser utters this when he is attacked.

* ''VideoGame/{{Subnautica}}'' begins with this, as the entire reason the player character is stranded on an alien world is that the spaceship he's been travelling on, ''Aurora'', suffered catastrophic damage, forcing people to evacuate in the escape pods. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:his is the only pod that survives the crash.]]

* In ''Film/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', Commander Rourke gives this order when their submarine the ''Ulysses'' is attacked and destroyed by a mechanical leviathan guarding the entrance to Atlantis. Several of the ejected escape pods are destroyed by the leviathan, leaving only a handful of survivors.

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*** Near the end, [[spoiler:the ''Defiant'' itself, along with all but one ship from the allied fleet,]] gets taken out [[TheWorfEffect to demonstrate the Breen as being a credible threat]].

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars "The Waters of Mars"]], the crew of Bowie Base One make a valiant effort to do this when the base is overrun by people infected with MurderWater. Unfortunately, the pilot of the escape shuttle has to blow it up when he is infected as well, leaving them stranded. Almost.
* Everyone but Mal leaves ''Serenity'' in ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' “Out of Gas” when an explosion leaves the ship dead. Fortunately Mal manages to thwart would-be killers who offer a replacement part only to shoot him and the power is restored. Zoe, who was injured in the blast, wakes up and orders the shuttles to turn back and they return just in time to save Mal.

* ''Manga/OnePiece,'' when [[spoiler:the Going Merry]] went down.

** "Babylon Squared" takes place aboard the space station Babylon Four, which had been lost (as in, physically misplaced, as in, a five mile long space station just disappeared in a instant for no known explanation) years previously. The station reappears, just long enough for the crew of Babylon Five to effect an evacuation. As the station is about to disappear again, the remaining crew members (and the personnel from Babylon Five who came to retrieve them) make a hasty retreat to cram onto the remaining shuttles.[[note]] Incidentally, the GoingDownWithTheShip trope is discussed and dismissed: Commander Sinclair is most definitely ''not'' Babylon Four's commander, and the officer who ''was'' in charge of the station had every intention of leaving as soon [[TheMenFirst as the personnel under his command had been evacuated.]][[/note]]

** In "A Voice in the Wilderness", the station is at risk of being destroyed by the planet below [[EarthShatteringKaboom blowing itself to pieces.]] Sinclair asks Garibaldi to make sure that [[TheLancer Ivanova]] makes it onto an escape ship, even if Garibaldi has to [[PercussivePrevention knock her out and bodily toss her in]].

** In "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVDemonsAndAngels Demons and Angels]]", the ship has a major overload after a problem with a matter replicator, once they've escaped the ship it blows up only to leave two copies in its place, a high version and a low version. Once they work out a way to replicate the original they must then get out of the new "low" Red Dwarf before it disappears.
** In "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIIIOnlyTheGood Only the Good...]]" the entire resurrected crew of Red Dwarf abandon ship when a genetically engineered virus begins eating the ship from the inside out.

** In the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "Ethon", the ''Prometheus'', Earth's first starship and primary spacecraft for the preceding three seasons, is badly crippled in battle against an Ori satellite superweapon. Lacking the necessary time to repair the ship, Col. Pendergast orders a full evacuation minutes before [[spoiler: the ship is destroyed in the next attack]].

* Just as it happens fairly often in the {{film}}s, this {{trope}} also plays out surprisingly often in the various ''Franchise/StarTrek'' series:

** In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E18CauseAndEffect Cause And Effect]]," the ColdOpen starts with [[TheCaptain Picard]] yelling "[[OhCrap All hands abandon ship!]] [[KilledMidSentence Repeat, all hands abandon-]]" just before the ''[[CoolStarship Enterprise]]'' explodes. We then go through variations of this same scenario [[GroundhogDayLoop several more times]].

** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' actually begins this way. The first scene of the series is a prologue, showing the starship ''Saratoga'' serving as part of a Starfleet task force assembled to stop the Borg at Wolf 359. After the ''Saratoga'' is knocked out of the fight by a [[OneHitPointWonder single hit]] from the Borg Cube, the rest of the scene is the panicked crew and passengers abandoning the crippled and burning ship, with the main protagonist Benjamin Sisko being forced to leave behind his (already deceased) wife to get his son to safety.
*** The episode "Valiant" ends with this happening to the titular warship after an ill-fated attack on a Dominion warship. Only one EscapePod escapes with three survivors.

*** "Dreadnought": Janeway orders the crew to abandon ''Voyager'' just before trying to use the ship in a HeroicSacrifice to stop a superweapon (by ramming) from destroying an innocent planet. Fortunately, it ends up not being necessary.
*** "Year of Hell": In the {{cliffhanger}} ending of Part One, everyone minus Janeway and her senior staff is ordered to abandon the severely damaged ''Voyager''.
*** "The Haunting of Deck Twelve": A non-corporeal alien takes control of ''Voyager'', forcing the crew to abandon her until Janeway can reason with the alien.
*** "Workforce": ''Voyager'' hits a radiation mine, forcing everyone to leave--except for the Emergency Medical Hologram who is immune to radiation. Turns out the mine was laid by SalvagePirates whom are eager to get their hands on the ship. Fortunately the CrewOfOne can serve as an Emergency Command Hologram when required.
** The ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' TwoPartEpisode "In a Mirror, Darkly" has the MirrorUniverse crew abandon ''Enterprise'' during a battle, [[GoingDownWithTheShip except for Captain Forrest]]. They continue Part Two in the spacecraft they'd been sent to capture.

*** In ''Mass Effect 3: [[{{DLC}} Omega]]'', Aria's plan to attack the eponymous station involves sneaking very close to it in [[FalseFlagOperation a captured Cerberus warship]] and then wreaking havoc on the defenders. When the stations' defense grid proves too powerful, her backup plan is to evacuate the ship, re-using the escape pods as ''boarding'' pods to continue the attack.

* ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'' the Terran Battlecruiser utters this when he gets attacked.

** In the prologue, after [[https://www.well-of-souls.com/outsider/outsider011.html Jardin and Ellen report in]] about ''Bellarmine'' being crippled, their superior in the damage control team decides to give an abandon ship order. However, this is for naught when the next strike blows up ''Bellarmine''[='s=] aft section, throwing Jardin out into space and killing the rest of the crew.
** Near the end of ch. 1, one of the captains in the [[SpaceElves Loroi]] strike group asks the overall commander for permission to give an abandon ship order for a vessel in her division that's dead in space from battle damage; the request is granted.

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** ''Film/Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl: A British naval officer, who just had Captain Jack Sparrow hijack his ship from him, yells this to his crew after he realizes the ''Dauntless'', with its rudder disabled, rams into their little lifeboat. The men dive into the water, but the lifeboat is smashed to pieces.

* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'': With the ''Endeavour'' coming under heavy fire from both the ''Black Pearl'' and the ''Flying Dutchman'', Lieutenant Groves gives this order to the East India Company crew when Lord Beckett is [[VillainousBSOD too consumed by his unexpected defeat]] to co-ordinate a counterattack.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E09CrisisPoint Crisis Point]]", Mariner (temporarily in command while Freeman is in Sickbay) orders the crew to the {{Escape Pod}}s when three more Pakled ships warp in and start trying to tear the ship apart. Luckily, the Titan comes to the rescue moments later, invalidating the need.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E09CrisisPoint Crisis Point]]", Mariner (temporarily in command while Freeman is in Sickbay) orders the crew to the EscapePods when three more Pakled ships warp in and start trying to tear the ship apart. Luckily, the Titan comes to the rescue moments later, invalidating the need.

* The Titanic episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' naturally used this {{trope}}. Bender also attempts to get everyone to do this in "Parasites Lost", uttering the phrase a few times and having to be restrained. Also, the miniature ship does wind up abandoned after the end of the journey.

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** In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Cause And Effect," the ColdOpen starts with [[TheCaptain Picard]] yelling "[[OhCrap All hands abandon ship!]] [[KilledMidSentence Repeat, all hands abandon-]]" just before the ''[[CoolStarship Enterprise]]'' explodes. We then go through variations of this same scenario [[GroundhogDayLoop several more times]].
*** "The Battle" shows that Picard was forced to do this with his old ship, the ''Stargazer'', after a battle with the Ferengi.
*** A few episodes later, "11001001", has an interesting variant. A group of aliens have simulated a warp core failure on the ''Enterprise'' while it is in spacedock and the ship needs to be evacuated as they don't know it's fake. However, as Riker and Picard are distracted by something in the Holodeck, it falls to the next in command, Data, to make the call to evacuate the ship.