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* ''{{Persona 3}} [[UpdatedRerelease Portable]]'': Out of all the love interests only [[spoiler: [[MayDecemberRomance Ken Armada]]]] seems to realize that the protagonist performed a HeroicSacrifice and asks her to stay with him. Granted [[spoiler: he [[YouKilledMyFather he lost his mom]] but some of the others have missing parents and DeadLittleSisters too. Children Are Observant?]]

** Also, Natsumi said this to her brother, Fuyuki [[spoiler: who is technically Raphael]], but in this case [[spoiler: he did left behind. Tells you a lot about Raphael's preferences, I guess]].

* In [[ProfessorLayton Professor Layton and the Unwound Future]], it turns out that [[spoiler:Layton's girlfriend is alive. It was thought that she died in a time machine experiment ten years before, but the machine worked for a split second and sent her to the present day. Unfortunately, her body can't hold and she has to go back to that time, where she'll die in the explosion after all. Professor Layton begins yelling]] "I can't say good-bye to you again! You can't leave! I won't let you!"

* In [[ProfessorLatyon Professor Layton and the Unwound Future]], it turns out that [[spoiler:Layton's girlfriend is alive. It was thought that she died in a time machine experiment ten years before, but the machine worked for a split second and sent her to the present day. Unfortunately, her body can't hold and she has to go back to that time, where she'll die in the explosion after all. Professor Layton begins yelling]] "I can't say good-bye to you again! You can't leave! I won't let you!"

* In [[ProfessorLatyon Professor Layton and the Unwound Future[/i], it turns out that [[spoiler:Layton's girlfriend is alive. It was thought that she died in a time machine experiment ten years before, but the machine worked for a split second and sent her to the present day. Unfortunately, her body can't hold and she has to go back to that time, where she'll die in the explosion after all. Professor Layton begins yelling "I can't say good-bye to you again! You can't leave! I won't let you!"]]

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->'''Scarlett:''' Rhett! Rhett, where are you going?
->'''Rhett:''' I'm going to Charleston, back where I belong.
->'''Scarlett:''' Please, please take me with you!
->'''Rhett:''' No, I'm through with everything here. I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace. Do you know what I'm talking about?
->'''Scarlett:''' No! I only know that I love you.
->'''Rhett:''' That's your misfortune. ''(turns to walk down the stairs)''
->'''Scarlett:''' Oh, Rhett! ''(watches Rhett walk to the door)'' Rhett! ''(runs down the stairs after him)'' Rhett, Rhett! Rhett, Rhett... Rhett, if you go, where shall I go? What shall I do?
->'''Rhett:''' [[PrecisionFStrike Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn]].
-->-- ''{{Gone With The Wind}}''

A {{Stock Phrase}} said by one character desperate for another not to leave. Often said by a very lonely character, or maybe a young character with no one else to look after them. Said by a love interest frequently as well.

May be accompanied by a CaughtTheHeartOnHisSleeve moment. Many many variations exist, such as "Don't leave me alone again!" "Don't abandon me!" or "You can't go!"

If the person being addressed has to go on alone regardless for whatever reason, expect a TearJerker moment, especially when done coldly, such as with a LittleNo. This is also quite common when the person being addressed is dying, in which case this becomes HowDareYouDieOnMe. Can also be [[StayWithMeUntilIDie a plea to prevent]] DyingAlone. To turn this trope into an instant CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, just add one YouAreNotAlone.
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[[folder: {{Anime}} and {{Manga}}]]
* [[{{Naruto}} Sakura to Sasuke]] right before his [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn]].
* In ''FruitsBasket'', Akito says this [[spoiler:after Kureno's curse breaks]].
* Spike and Faye's final conversation in ''CowboyBebop'', before Spike [[spoiler:goes off to fight Vicious after Julia dies]], has serious elements of this. An example of {{How Dare You Die on Me}}.
* In ''JunjoRomantica'', Nowaki's about to leave, thinking Hiroki doesn't want him there, when Hiroki stops him by putting his hand on the door from behind Nowaki and holding it shut.
* ''SpiceAndWolf''. Holo's character is based around this. Although she tries to hide it, she's terrified of being alone.
-->'''Holo''': "I don't ever want to wake up alone again! I'm tired of being alone. Being alone is cold. Being alone... is lonely."
-->'''Holo''': "Solitude is an affliction as grave as death."
** Lawrence experiences this midway through the anime/at end of the first book. [[spoiler: Afraid that Holo will leave anyway if he asks her not to (it's a long story), he instead demands that she stick around to pay for the clothes she ruined. It works.]]
* ''{{Gungrave}}'', episode 24: Grave is about to leave Mika [[spoiler: permanently because his necro-rise is wearing off with no hope of getting a transfusion]], and since Mika's become rather attached to him, naturally she pleads with him to not leave her alone.
-->'''Mika''': Let's go far away, just the two of us! No matter how hard it gets I'll never give up! I'll survive on bread and water if I have to! I'll study hard and learn bio-mechanics and take care of you like Mr. Tokioka! * breaks into tears* So please...Grave, just don't go, oh please...don't go!
* ''GameXRush'' has [[spoiler: Miyuki]] give the tearful, desperate version to [[spoiler: Yuuki-whom-she-thinks-is-Memori, shortly after the ''real'' Memori gives the angry "I'll kick your ass if you try to leave, so stay here with me!" version to Yuuki]]. Neither speech is romantic. We think.
* ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' manga chapter 80 has this. While in the car on the way to the airport to see [[spoiler: his mother after three years,]] Tamaki grabs Haruhi's hand and says, "Please stay with me until the end," after she tells him she'll wait in the car with Kyouya.
* In episode 91 of [[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]], Ryoga proposes to Akane, after being possessed by Maomolin, the Giant Ghost Cat. The actual phrase isn't spoken until later on in the episode, when Ranma dreams of Ryoga and Akane marrying.
-->'''Ranma''': A- A- Akane! ''Please, don't leave me...'' 
* Shinji says this to Asuka at one point in ''TheEndOfEvangelion''.
* Sunao to Sora in ''{{Sukisho}}''.
* Alois to his butler Claude in the first episode of the second season of ''{{Kuroshitsuji}}''.
** He also says it to his little brother Luca [[spoiler: when he finds him dead]] and to Claude in episode 8 shortly before [[spoiler: Claude kills him]].
* Kaoru to Kenshin in ''RurouniKenshin'', when [[spoiler: he's about to leave for Kyoto.]]
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[[folder: Comic Books]]
* Issue Seven of the third BlueBeetle has a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming. Jamie, having vanished for a year, has his family not exactly accepting of him, and so he [[http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/2166739.html explains]] what's happened, eventually reliving a moment when he cries out "Don't let me die alone!". Which is when they go to him.
* Issue Eleven of The Maxx by Sam Kieth. Julie and Maxx are sitting on a rooftop, where Julie is struggling to find the words to explain to him why she has to move away, with little success. While Maxx stares stoically off into the distance, The sky around him is literally comprised entirely of the words "please please please please...don't leave."
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[[folder: {{Film}}]]
* Dory to Marlin in ''{{Finding Nemo}}''.
* ''{{Gone With The Wind}}''. See the title quote.
* ''{{Coraline}}'' had a [[NightmareFuel nightmarish]] version.
* Randal to Dante in ''{{Clerks II}}''.
* Mr. Orange to Mr. White in ''ReservoirDogs''.
* Gong-gil pretty desperately to Jaeng-sang in ''TheKingAndTheClown''.
* Elinor to Marianne in ''SenseAndSensibility''.
* Belle to the Beast in Disney's ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast''.
* ''9 1/2 Weeks'' just after she walks out.
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[[folder: LiveActionTV]]
* In ''WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'':TheMovie, Justin loses his memory, resulting in Alex desperately begging him not to leave her, [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming after she starts crying and telling him that he is everything that she has ever wanted to be]].
* During the first two seasons of PunkyBrewster, Allen Anderson was usually the addled tag-along chum. In season three's "Divorce Anderson Style," Allen is consigned to moving away with his mom to another city. As he says his goodbyes, Henry, Mrs. Garrett and Cherie hold up just fine. Punky is another story: when Allen gets to her, she loses it. As Allen leaves, Punky collapses into Cherie's arms, crying her eyes out.
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[[folder: Literature]]
* Brekke, in the second {{Pern}} novel, pleads with F'nor not to undertake his potentially suicidal mission to the Red Star. Her anguish is so amplified by dragon minds that pretty nearly the entire planet hears it.
--> '''Brekke:''' ''Don't leave me alone!''
* In the ''DarkestPowers'' series, Chloe has an unvoiced one when [[JerkAssWoobie Derek]] admits that he often believes that he should leave [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits the group]], because he endangers them due to [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent being a werewolf]]. (Not because he might hurt them, but because staying [[ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies puts them in the line of fire]] of [[FantasticRacism the numerous people trying to kill]] ''him''.)
--> '''Chloe:''' ''I need you.'' I didn't say that, of course. How could I, without it sounding weird? But I felt it, heart hammering against my ribs, and it wasn't some romantic ''I can't bear to be without you'' nonsense. It was something deeper, more desperate.
-->          When I thought of Derek leaving, the ground seemed to slide under my feet. I needed something to hold on to, something solid and real when everything around me was changing so fast. Even if there were times when I thought it would be easier without Derek there, ready to tear a strip off me at every misstep, in some ways I relied on that--someone to keep me thinking, keep me striving to do better, keep me from burying my head and praying that it all worked out.
* All over the place in the Twilight saga.
* Scout, in Yoda: DarkRendezvous, was grudgingly taken on as a Padawan by a Jedi who didn't want to like her, since he thought she'd wind up killed. Her previous Master had been killed in the Clone Wars, and this one was mortally wounded in an ambush.
--> He was smiling. She didn't think she'd [[SternTeacher ever seen him smile before]]. Tears welled up inside Scout. "Don't try to talk. It will be all right, Master. Master Yoda will be here soon to take care of you." Tears dropped from her eyes onto his shattered chest. There was a long hitch in his breathing. His eyes closed. "Master Maruk? Master Maruk! Don't go," Scout cried. "Don't leave me!"
--> His eyes opened, and he smiled again. "Never...," he whispered. "... my Padawan."
--> His eyes closed, and he was gone.
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[[folder: {{Music}}]]
* {{Pink}}'s "Don't Leave Me". Goes straight to NightmareFuel if you watch the music video or listen closely.
-->''You're my perfect little punching bag.''
** YMMV on that one. It also could be serious levels of TearJerker.
* "Don't Ever Leave Me" from the musical ''Sweet Adeline''.
* DustySpringfield's ''You Don't Have to Say You Love Me'' is a song about a woman begging her beloved to stay with her, they don't have to admit their love for each other, because just being with her is enough. The fact that Dusty was a bisexual seems to add an extra layer of potential sadness to the song.
* In FairyTales, by Eric Lane Barnes, the song "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEtsdazAlew A Humming Bird]]" is about a man desperately pleading for his dying lover to cheer up and get well again, because he doesn't know how he could possibly live without him.
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[[folder: VideoGames]]
* Many comedic examples from GuiltBasedGaming. ''SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'' uses the phrase: "Please don't go! The drones need you! They look up to you!"
* ''[[GodOfWar God of War: Chains of Olympus]]'' has [[spoiler:Calliope using this on Kratos, when he's forced to leave her forever in order to become the Ghost of Sparta again so he can defeat Persephone]]. The game even twists the knife by [[spoiler:making his pushing her away into a button-mashing minigame]]!
* [[spoiler:Visas']] dialogue if you walk away after her possible HeroicSacrifice during the duel with Nihilus in KnightOfTheOldRepublic 2
* In BioShock, one of the female splicers (the young one in the cocktail dress, not the old one or the one with the coral on her face) shouts, "Wait! Don't goooooo-o-o-o!!" if you try to run from a fight.
* The end of [[spoiler:Half-Life 2: Episode Two, where Eli is killed. Alyx cries over his body and says "Don't leave me..."]].
* In FinalFantasyV, Krile says this to her grandfather Galuf [[spoiler:or rather, his spirit after his HeroicSacrifice]].
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[[folder: RealLife]]
* As Alexander Graham Bell lay dying, his wife signed, "Please don't leave me." Bell signed the word "No" and died.
* Supposedly, "Please don't leave me" were Chris Farley's last words to a prostitute that was with him during his fatal drug overdose.
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If the person being addressed has to go on alone regardless for whatever reason, expect a TearJerker moment, especially when done coldly, such as with a LittleNo. This is also quite common when the person being addressed is dying, in which case this becomes HowDareYouDieOnMe. Can also be a plea to prevent DyingAlone. To turn this trope into an instant CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, just add one YouAreNotAlone.

If the person being addressed has to go on alone regardless for whatever reason, expect a TearJerker moment. This is also quite common when the person being addressed is dying, in which case this becomes HowDareYouDieOnMe. Can also be a plea to prevent DyingAlone. To turn this trope into an instant CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, just add one YouAreNotAlone.

* Kaoru to Kenshin in RurouniKenshin, when [[spoiler: he's about to leave for Kyoto]]

** YMMV on that one. It also could be serious levels of Tear Jerker.

* In FairyTales, by Eric Lane Barnes, the song "A Humming Bird" is about a man desperately pleading for his dying lover to cheer up and get well again, because he doesn't know how he could possibly live without him.

* During the first two seasons of PunkyBrewster, Allen Anderson was usually the addled tag-along chum. In season three's "Divorce Anderson Style," Allen is consigned to moving away with his mom to another city. As he says his goodbyes, Henry, Mrs. Garrett and Cherie hold up just fine. When he gets to Punky, she loses it. As Allen leaves, Punky collapses into Cherie's arms, crying her eyes out.

->''{{Gone With The Wind}}''