History Main / InItsHourOfNeed

He may, on the other hand, [[MoreHeroThanThou have his heir sent off, by force if needed]]. Can lead to AChildShallLeadThem.

* In BenCounter's {{Warhammer 40000}} SoulDrinkers novel ''Hellforged'', Queen Dyrmida's attitude.

** Except this may have less do with personal courage and conviction than the fact that he was delusional nutcase. Also, he wasn't there "in" Libya's Hour of Need. He was the ''cause'' of Libya's Hour of Need.

** Except this may have less do with personal courage and conviction than the fact that he was delusional nutcase.

** GeorgeOrwell, as a consequence, had a scene in ''Animal Farm'' where everyone was frightened by an explosion, ducking in fear, and decided to ensure that Napoleon had been there and stood firm because with all his faults, Stalin's courage could not be impugned.
** Some historians have even pegged Stalin's decision to stay as the key turning point of World War II, the moment when any chance of a Nazi triumph ended. Had Moscow fallen, it's much more likely that the rest of the Soviet Union would have followed...and Japan might have seen it as enough of a sign of weakness that the advocates of the western strategy (war against the Soviets) might have won out against the advocates of the ultimately disastrous eastern strategy (war against America).

* TruthInTelevision: Stalin did not leave Moscow when it was besieged by Nazis. He was right; the city did not fall, but if he ran away, the defenders would be demoralized and the city lost.

** YMMV on that one, you could also read it as the doomed last stand of a [[ItsAllAboutMe blinkered]] tyrant who [[WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis could have avoided his fate]] if he'd [[KnowWhenToFoldEm known when to fold 'em]].

* After the constant invasions and disasters that have plagued Britain on Christmas in the [[Series/DoctorWho Whoniverse]], the only people staying in London during "Voyage Of The Damned" are The Queen and Wilfred Mott ([[{{ChekhovsGunman}} who'd turn out to be very important later on]]).

* MuhammarGaddafi kept his promise that he would not leave Lybia and his loyalists, and would stay and fight until either he won or died trying. Considering who [[NATO he fought against]], and how long he was able to hold them off, it is something that just deserves respect, whatever if you supported him or not.

->--'''[[TheHouseOfWindsor Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother]]'''

->''"The children cannot go without me, and I will not go without the King, and the King will never leave his country."''

* In TomClancy's ''The Bear and the Dragon'', President Jack Ryan is given the chance to leave Washington when the Chinese launch a Pyhrric nuclear strike (the one missile left after a commando raid takes out the others). He instead elects to stay aboard a nearby naval vessel that [[ContrivedCoincidence happens to have]] a special battery of [=SAMs=] capable of intercepting an ICBM, knowing that if it fails he'll die along with the city. His Secret Service detail is not amused.

* In TomClancy's ''The Bear and the Dragon'', President Jack Ryan is given the chance to leave Washington when the Chinese launch a Pyhrric nuclear strike (the one missile left after a commando raid takes out the others). He instead elects to stay aboard a nearby naval vessel that [[ContrivedCoincidence happens to have]] a special battery of [=SAMs=] capable of intercepting an ICBM, knowing that if it fails he'll die along with the city. His Secret Service detail is [[{{Understatement}} not amused]].

*** {{Winston Churchill}} likewise stayed in London during {{the Blitz}}. However, he was very concerned for the safety of King George VI as the king decided to stay in Buckingham Palace, and the best of the Luftwaffe had maps telling them where to bomb it. He was actually very close to invoking his executive powers and having George forcibly taken from Buckingham Palace to the Cabinet War Rooms.

** The Queen Mother, on the bombing of Buckingham Palace: "Finally. Now I can look the East End in the face."[[hottip: The East End was the most heavily targeted area during the Blitz, and was also the poorest and most heavily populated part of London as well.]]

** The Queen Mother, on the bombing of Buckingham Palace: "Finally. Now I can look the East End in the face." The East End was the hardest-hit area of London during the Blitz.

* After the constant invasions and disasters that have plagued Britain on Christmas in the [[{{DoctorWho}} Whoniverse]], the only people staying in London during "Voyage Of The Damned" are The Queen and Wilfred Mott ([[{{ChekhovsGunman}} who'd turn out to be very important later on]]).

* In TomClancy's ''The Bear and the Dragon'' (the novel, not the film), President Jack Ryan is given the chance to leave Washington when the Chinese launch a Pyhrric nuclear strike (the one missile left after a commando raid takes out the others). He instead elects to stay aboard a nearby naval vessel that [[ContrivedCoincidence happens to have]] a special battery of [=SAMs=] capable of intercepting an ICBM, knowing that if it fails he'll die along with the city. His Secret Service detail is [[{{Understatement}} not amused]].

*** {{Winston Churchill}} likewise stayed in London during {{the Blitz}}. He was actually very close to invoking his executive powers and having George forcibly taken from Buckingham Palace to the Cabinet War Rooms.

*** {{Winston Churchill}} likewise stayed in London during {{the Blitz}}.

* King George VI was repeatedly urged, during World War II, to leave Britain and seek the relative safety in another part of the British Empire, such as Canada. He refused. Queen Elizabeth was asked why they did not at least send the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret away for their safety, and she replied, "The children cannot go without me, and I will not go without the King, and the King will never leave his country." The royal family's determination to remain throughout the war earned them the lasting affection of their people.

** I’m glad we’ve been bombed. It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face. The Queen Mother