History Main / PleaseDontLeaveMe

* Miu Iruma in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' is suggested to have abandonment issues. In her Love Suite Event with Shuichi, she tries to get Shuichi to make a baby with her so that he would remain by her side forever. When he hesitates, she concludes that he does not need her and begs him not to abandon her too.

** Played straight during [[spoiler Oogway's ascension.]]

-->'''Adam, sobbing, grabbing onto Lawrence:''' Don't leave me! No! No!

-->[[spoiler: '''Elizabeth:''' I don't know what to do, Booker, I- ''(turns around to see he's not there)'' B-Booker? Booker?! No, ''please!'' ''(falls to her knees and slams the ground with her fists)'' Please, don't just leave me here! ''BOOKER!'']]

* Trish in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' when Dante is leaving her behind after he is angry at her for betraying him over to Mundus.

* Adam to Lawrence at the end of ''Film/SawI'' as Lawrence is crawling away out of the bathroom to go get help for the two of them. Almost says it verbatim.

* In Episode 2 of the Burial at Sea DLC of ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite,'' while Elizabeth is [[spoiler: having a mental conversation with her hallucination of Booker as he tries to help her remember why she sent herself to Rapture while she was still omnipotent and what the "ace in the hole" is, she turns around to find that he's vanished. She breaks down sobbing and begs him to come back.]]

* 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': [[spoiler: Powder begs Vi not to abandon her after accidentally killing the rest of their adoptive family and that she needs her as Vi is walking away. Vi was going to return to save her from Silco but gets arrested before she can.]]

* ''Manga/NatsuyukiRendezvous'': While Atsushi was on his deathbed, Hazuki begged him not to leave her. He kept his word, and now wanders their flower shop as a ghost.

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* Belle to the Beast in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''. This is [[spoiler:right after Gaston has seemingly dealt him a fatal wound and she follows this up by telling him that she loves him. After that, he transforms and the curse is broken.]]

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* In Franchise/Terminator2JudgementDay, John Connor begs Terminator to not leave him.

** Music/ElectricLightOrchestra's [[Film/{{Xanadu}} "Don't Walk Away"]]

* In Film/Terminator2JudgementDay, John Connor begs Terminator to not leave him.

* At the end of a highly emotional case in ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', Miwako Sato tearfully begged Wataru Takagi not to leave her, which is especially meaningful since [[spoiler: her former partner and FirstLove Matsuda was murdered.]] Takagi said he wouldn't, [[spoiler: [[SecondLove and they're now together]].]]

--->[[spoiler:'''Kyo''': Wait, Tohru, wait, don't end it like this!]]

* ''Series/{{Lucifer|2016}}'': In the Season 4 finale, [[spoiler:Chloe begs Lucifer not to leave her so he can retake the throne of Hell, also confessing her love for him. It doesn't work, but he does give her a parting kiss.]]

** A heartbreaking one in Chapter 122, when [[spoiler:Kyo witnesses a badly injured Tohru after she fell from a cliff, right after he [[BreakHerHeartToSaveHim sort of rejected her love confession]]. He doesn't state this word-for-word, but the implication is the same.]]

* In ''Anime/CodeGeass'', Lelouch has a moment of this in the second season. [[spoiler:When Shirley's been shot through the stomach, she gives him a dying speech about how she'll always fall in love with him, even in the next life. Lelouch doesn't want her to go, so he tries using his {{Geas}}s to keep her alive, at one point screaming "Don't die! You can't die! ''I order you not to die!''" It doesn't work; Shirley knows she's done for, and his mind control effect does absolutely nothing.]]

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', Sakura says this to Sasuke right before his [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn]].
* In ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', Akito says this [[spoiler:after Kureno's curse breaks]]. This happens again [[spoiler:after Momiji's curse is lifted. This one is less hysterical than the first one]].

* In ''Manga/JunjouRomantica'', 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.
* ''LightNovel/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.]]

* ''Manga/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.

* Shinji says this to Asuka at one point in ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion The End of Evangelion]]''.
* Sunao to Sora in ''LightNovel/{{Sukisho}}''.

* ''Manga/BlackButler'':
** Alois to his butler Claude in the first episode of the second season of ''Manga/BlackButler''.
** 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]].
** Ciel's [[spoiler: breakdown over Sebastian's "death" in the murder mystery arc]] can be considered this, although later on, this is [[spoiler:subverted, as they were just acting]].
* Kaoru to Kenshin in ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'', when [[spoiler: he's about to leave for Kyoto.]] He gives her a hug and gently thanks her for all that she has done for him, [[spoiler: but he leaves anyway. After recovering from the ensuing HeroicBSOD, she goes after him with Yahiko.]]
* Done without words at the ''start'' of ''Manga/{{Chobits}}''. Hideki finds Chii in the garbage, but when she can't talk, he considers walking away from her. Before he can start, she grabs his arm and stares at him in desperation. He promptly reconsiders.
* ''Anime/ImGonnaBeAnAngel'':
** Mikael says something to that effect to [[spoiler: Raphael at the very end of the series when it looks like Raphael is leaving him behind. Turns out Raphael was only pretending and he eventually takes Mikael with him back to Heaven]].
** Also, Natsumi said this to her brother, Fuyuki [[spoiler: who is technically Raphael]], but in this case [[spoiler: he did leave her behind. Tells you a lot about Raphael's preferences, I guess]].
* In the last episode of ''Anime/AngelBeats'', [[spoiler:Otonashi asks Kanade to stay with him. However, it turns out that she was there because she wanted to thank him for his heart donation.]] Massive TearJerker ensues when [[spoiler:Kanade thanks him but Otonashi hugs her, screaming to not to say it and stay with him, but eventually she disappears, leaving Otonashi who proceeds to scream her name out loud]]...
* In the last volume of ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', [[spoiler: when Alucard's disappearing after absorbing Schrodinger, Integra orders him not to. [[{{Tearjerker}} It doesn't work.]]]]
* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', a couple of the Pokémon departures fall into this category in terms of the behavior of said Pokémon:
** Team Rocket's Arbok and Weezing were a total wreck when forced to leave their trainers with a group of other Pokemon to get away from a poacher.
** Jessie's Dustox in the Sinnoh episode "Crossing Paths" fell in love with a Shiny Dustox. But when it was time for them to leave to participate in a breeding migration with other Dustox, Jessie's Dustox tried to remain with Jessie, not wanting to leave her. Jessie had to resort to crushing her Poké Ball underfoot in order to sever her bond and force her to leave.
* Yuma of ''Manga/PuellaMagiOrikoMagica'' really, really doesn't want Kyouko to leave her.
* Roy to Riza in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. [[spoiler:Near the finale, Riza gets her throat slit, and Roy screams his lungs out at her to not die from where he's being held down by ninja old men. When the old men are finally dealt with, and Roy can reach Riza (who at this point is unconscious and near death), he begs her not to die and leave him. She is healed in the nick of time, prompting him to hug her tightly, and the fandom squealed their hearts out.]] The trope is even more present in the ''Brotherhood'' anime, when [[spoiler:Roy - holding her in PietaPlagiarism style - specifically pleads, "[[HowDareYouDieOnMe Don't you dare die!]] ''Stay with me,'' Lieutenant!"]]
* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' has a few.
** Colonial America to England when England has to go back to Europe. America is lonely without his BigBrotherMentor. UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution has overtones of this going the other way around, but the words aren't actually said.
** [[PuppyLove Chibitalia to the Holy Roman Empire]], as Holy Roman Empire goes off to fight in the Napoleonic Wars. They swear they'll see one another again, but the Holy Roman Empire is defeated and dissolved by Napoleonic France. Both a CMOH and TearJerker.
** Italy to Germany, sometimes with no impetus at all (he's insecure like that), but most notably after Germany and Russia sign their non-aggression pact and Italy is afraid he's being replaced.

* Although the romanticism is questionable, Nagi uses this in typical {{tsundere}} method in ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' by implying that Maria and Hayate will eventually leave her (presumably for romantic relationships), and after convincing attempts are made by Hayate, she 'allows' him to continue working as her butler.

* Mashiro plays with this trope towards Sorata in episode 4 of ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou''. When Sorata looks at the manga Mashiro was making, he finds out it's about his situation with her, except with the gender roles reversed. The editor tells him that the ending where the girl leaves is depressing, and suggested Mashiro revise it. When he goes to her room later, he finds her napping after working on a revised ending, where the girl decides that she wants to stay, and he begins to realize that he doesn't want to leave Sakura Hall after all.
* ''Manga/ACruelGodReigns'': Ian repeatedly begs Jeremy not to leave England, comes up with a lot of conditions to prevent Jeremy from leaving.
** Sandra pleading with Jeremy to stay with her also qualifies as this.
* In ''Manga/KotouraSan'', Haruka begs this of her mother in the [[DownerBeginning first episode]], but she ends up leaving anyway. In fact, Haruka falls into both "very lonely character" and " young character with no one else to look after them" categories -- at the point she said this, she was a child who was socially shunned due to her [[{{telepathy}} telepathic]] powers.
* The English dub of the 2003 ''Anime/AstroBoy'' series has Dr. Tenma utter this after Astro's [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]]. It's heartbreaking because he really believes [[ReplacementGoldfish Astro]] is his [[LivingEmotionalCrutch dead son]], and perfectly summarizes how both lonely and delusional he is.
-->"Tobio...I have already lost you once before. Please don’t leave me again..."
* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' does this canonically and non-canonically. The canonical examples come after the horrible Eclipse, when Guts has a dream where the [[spoiler: Band of the Hawk are riding off into the distance, leaving Guts behind. It symbolically represented their deaths during the Eclipse.]] The non-canonical example comes in the Sega Dreamcast video game ''Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage'', when [[spoiler: Casca becomes sane from the effects of the mandragora plant, which makes normal people crazy but crazy people normal. However, despite Guts' efforts at keeping Casca conscious, the effect begins to wear off and Guts and Casca only have a few moments together before she becomes insane again. All Guts can do is cradle her, crying, "[[TearJerker My love... come back.]]"]]
* In ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', [[spoiler: Carla Jaegar]]'s last words are a plea to not be left alone, which she keeps as quiet as possible so her children, [[IWillOnlySlowYouDown whom she'd just been demanding to flee without her]], won't hear and try to come back to the Titan that's about to eat her.
** When the Female Titan rips Eren out of his Titan and carries him in her mouth Mikasa is seen watching horrified and whispering tearfully “Wait...Eren...Don’t go...” before putting on a determined glare and chasing after them, hellbent on getting Eren back.
* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', [[spoiler: Mareyo Oomaeda]] tells this to her older brother [[spoiler: Marechiyo]] in 548.
* In ''Manga/RingNiKakero'', when Kiku and Ryuuji pretty much run away to Tokyo, their mother Chiyo begs them not to go. As the kids have already boarded their train, they can't return so they promise to come back for her later. Chiyo watches them leave and promises "IWillWaitForYou!"
* In ''Manga/KimiNiTodoke'', Chizu does ''not'' take the news that [[spoiler: Ryu is going away to university]] very well, and begs him not to go at one point [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy (although she quickly rights herself, not wanting to hold him back).]]
* At the end of a highly emotional case in ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', Miwako Sato tearfully begged Wataru Takagi not to leave her, which is especially meaningful since [[spoiler: her former partner and FirstLove Matsuda was murdered.]] Takagi said he wouldn't, [[spoiler: [[SecondLove and they're now together]].]]
* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' Tsukiyama tries to prevent Kaneki from essentially going on a suicide mission and breaks down crying when he fails, begging him "For dear life Kaneki. Would you please not go?"
** Mutsuki realizes he has feelings for Sasaki as a result of jealousy and stabs Uta who disguised himself as Sasaki while demanding that he never leave him again.
* ''Manga/NurseAngelRirikaSOS'':
** When [[spoiler:Kanou]] dies in episode 14 Ririka has this reaction.
** When [[spoiler:Ririka [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices]] herself]] Seiya and [[spoiler:Dewey]] both cry for [[spoiler:her]] not to do it.
* In Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets, [[spoiler:after [[WhenYouComingHomeDad her father Maruo informs her that he wont be coming home yet again]], along with her mother being dead and her sister Ichika seemingly leaving, Nino begs Fuutarou not to leave her, fearing that everyone else will eventually leave as well. And this is after he decides to leave after [[{{Tsundere}} her push-pull technique]] [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere backfires.]]]]
* ''Manga/{{Superior}}'': Angelica begs her long-lost grandfather not to die when he starts succumbing to an unspecified illness, [[spoiler:[[MoodWhiplash until it turns out that he was merely suffering from a minor pollen allergy]].]]
* ''LightNovel/TheIrregularAtMagicHighSchool'': In Volume 8, when Tatsuya is about to leave to [[spoiler:take on the invading army]], Miyuki says this to him. She's initially reluctant, [[GenreSavvy thinking that it sounds too much like what a lover would say]], but decides that his safety is more important. Tatsuya still heads out, though.
* A NightmareFuel variant in ''Anime/NowAndThenHereAndThere'': In his debut episode, [[BigBad King Hamdo]], after strangling his RightHandCat and beating the protagonist for not giving in to his pointless interrogation, [[PsychopathicManchild throws a childish temper tantrum]] and desperately begs his [[TheDragon second-in-command]] Lady Abelia to never betray him as he thinks that everyone in the world is against him.
* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': When Yayo and Lu [[MistakenForRomance assume Reo would hook up with Soga]], they tell Matsuri that would keep other girls like [[GenderBender "her"]] from talking to Soga casually. As Soga had become Matsuri's LivingEmotionalCrutch, he desperately chases after him, begging that they stay friends either way. Whether because of Soga and Reo's actual disinterest in each other, or pointing out Matsuri was being ridiculous in the first place, they're shown talking again afterward.
-->''Even if you get a girlfriend, I want us to stay friends, so we can talk about anything with each other!''

* At the end of ''Innocence Lost'', ComicBook/{{X 23}} kills her mother in a chemically-induced berserker rage, just as they destroy and escape the Facility that bred her. As Sarah Kinney dies and tells Laura that she loves her, for a moment she stops being a weapon and is just a little girl again, [[TearJerker hopelessly begging, "please don't leave me."]]
** Again, in ''All-New Wolverine #7''. In a flashback, Laura begs this of Comicbook/{{Wolverine}} when he rides off after leaving her at the Xavier School, claiming that it's the best and safest place for her to be and that he can't offer her the sort of family life she wants. Later, Gabby says the same thing about Laura's intentions to send ''her'' away to find somewhere safe for her to live a normal life. It triggers Laura's memories of Logan, and twists the knife even further about the guilt she's feeling about the entire situation. [[spoiler: Eventually she decides otherwise, in part for that very reason.]]
* At the end of "Get Mystique", Raven, grievously wounded by Wolverine, begs him not to walk away without finishing her off. He ignores her, and walks away, leaving her to expire slowly and painfully, screaming and cursing at him (don't worry, she gets better).

* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': When Hulk thought that Betty was getting away in a military transport plane, he got nuts and yelled "DON'T LEAVE BANNER ALONE AGAIN"

* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11989539/1/Hakkōna Hakkōna]]'': Feliciano said this word-for-word to Kiku.
-->"Please don't leave me! Don't leave me all alone! PLEASE!"
* ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'': One of the promises Asuka asked from Shinji was: Never leaving her.
-->'''Asuka''': Can you promise me you’ll always be there, Shinji? Promise me you’ll never leave me again?
* In ''Fanfic/APikachuInLove'' Pichi says this [[spoiler: to an unconscious and near death Pikachu after he risked his life to save her from an Ursaring. It really hits home with her because she feels [[ItsAllMyFault it was her wacky and carefree antics that caused this to happen in the first place.]]]]
--> [[spoiler: ''Pichi continued to weep, and she whispered into Pikachu’s ear, knowing he could not hear her, "<Please be all right. Please...you have to be okay! I…I want us to be friends forever…I want Faith to meet you…I…I’m in love with you…>"'']]

* ''Fanfic/ScarTissue'': Asuka is frightened of hurting Shinji again so in a scene she asks him if he wants her going away. Shinji pleaded her staying with him. This is because after events of the series and Third Impact [[LivingEmotionalCrutch they had become so codependent that they would never want to be apart from each other]].
* ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'': Inverted and after played straight in chapter 4. Asuka does not want to be alone, but she feels that she needs to push Shinji away so she yells at him: "HATE ME! LEAVE ME! KILL ME!". When he refuses, her resolution crumbles down, so she hugs him and asks him if he promises not leaving her.

* In ''Brilliancy'', the second installment of the ''Fanfic/ElementalChessTrilogy'', [[spoiler:Riza]] is kidnapped and possibly dead. [[spoiler:After she is recovered alive, her commanding officer/husband issues this literally as an order: "Never leave me again."]]
* In ''Fanfic/FamilyTies'' England gets drunk in a bid to recover from Scotland and Northern Ireland leaving the Union and winds up at Wales's house at three in the morning. Once he's let in he clings onto Wales and says:
-->“Don’t leave me too.” Mumbled England. Wales stopped struggling. The shorter blonde held on tighter, taking the silence as a rejection. “Please, don’t leave me all alone.”
* In the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfic "Fire Burns," Katherine is sick and on the verge of death, as well as having constant nightmares. When Severus is visiting, there is the following exchange:
--> '''Katherine:''' Don't leave me...(falls asleep)
--> '''Severus:''' I won't. And don't even think about leaving me.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddparents'' story, ''Fanfic/NeverHadAFriendLikeMe'', [[spoiler: Amanda]] starts pleading desperately when [[spoiler: Norm]] is dying.
--> [[spoiler:'''Amanda''']]: "[[spoiler: Norm]], [[PleaseWakeUp wake up]]. Please. You need to listen to me. Don't do this. Just… just stay with… [[spoiler: Norm]], don't give up. Please. I need you to do this for me."
* In the 11th chapter of Bearquarter's Toy Story 2, Mabel and Sherman share a tearful argument before Jimmy delivers a [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheReasonYouSuckSpeech reminder of what Sherman went through to get him and Jimmy reunited]] with Trent Cooper.
--> '''Mabel:''' That's it?! We finally found you, and this is how you repay us? You don’t want to come back home with us?
--> '''Sherman:''' Mabel, you don’t understand what I’m up against! What I’ve been through! When I first met these guys, they told me everything, about toys and kids. And they were right. Kids are meant to grow up, and there's nothing we can do about it!
--> '''Mabel:''' How could you say such a thing? Toys are meant to make children happy! You thought him that. And yet...''(points at Sherman)''...it looked like you forgot. Are you turning your back on Trent like he’s nothing? On us?" ''(She pointed to herself, her voice laced with a hint of anguish)'' On me?
--> '''Sherman:''' Well, what about you? What if what happened to me, might happen to you? Trent’s already outgrown me the moment he ripped my arm. I realize, now, that what you told me a few days ago got off on the wrong foot. Goten was right about him, about me. Trent doesn’t care about me anymore.
--> '''Mabel:''' There are OTHERS who care about you too, Sherman! You have us! You can’t go wasting your life in a museum if you still have a family who misses you, who needs you, who CARES for you! ''(Mabel softened up a bit and put her hands around Sherman’s cheeks, trying her best to get through to him, to make him understand.)'' Please, Sherman. We’re doing this because we care. Because we love you.
--> '''Sherman:''' ''(as he pushes away Mabel's hands)'' I cant.....
* In ''Fanfic/SayItThrice'', [[Film/{{Beetlejuice}} Lydia]] invokes this during her IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight with Betelgeuse. She points out that, owing to the circumstances which have brought them to this point, she's lost too many loved ones already and she can't bear the thought of losing her best friend too. [[spoiler:It works.]]

* Combined with PleaseWakeUp in ''Fanfic/HeatedStormYieldsAWildHorsesHeart'' when Ranma is thrown into a wall during his and Nabiki's match against Azusa and Mikado. After taking the hit to protect Nabiki, she begs Ranma "Don't leave me alone! ...not like mom". Thankfully, Ranma is merely unconscious and wakes up shortly.

* Dory to Marlin in ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo''.
-->'''Dory:''' No. No, you can't...Stop! Please don't go away. Please? No one's ever stuck with me for so long before. And if you leave...if you leave...I just, I remember things better with you. I do, look; P...Sherman, forty...two...forty-two...I remember it, I do. It's there, I know it is, because when I look at you, I can feel it. When I look at you...I'm home. Please, I don't want that to go away. I don't want to forget.

* Belle to the Beast in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''. This is [[spoiler:right after Gaston has seemingly dealt him a fatal wound and she follows this up by telling him that she loves him. After that, he transforms and the curse is broken.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', [[spoiler: after Eugene has cut her hair and is dying of a stab wound, Rapunzel begs him not to leave her.]]
** In line with the RealLife example below, [[MyBelovedSmother Mother]] [[AbusiveParent Gothel]] convinces Rapunzel to stay in the tower with her by claiming she's too weak and naive to handle the world by herself. Gothel even follows it up by claiming how heartbroken she'd be if any misfortune were to befall Rapunzel if she went out on her own.

* At the conclusion of ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', Vanellope hugs Ralph, and with tears in her eyes, tells Ralph he could stay in her castle with his own wing where he'd be appreciated as he wasn't in his own game.
* In ''WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest'', Crysta says this to [[spoiler:her mentor, Magi, who is about to essentially die]].

* Roo begs this to Tigger teary-eyed during the climax of ''WesternAnimation/TheTiggerMovie'', after Tigger attempted to leave the Hundred Acre Wood to pursue his family.
* Megatron, critically injured after his battle with Optimus Prime in ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'', is mocked and kicked by Starscream who orders the Decepticons to leave without him. Megatron begs Soundwave not to abandon him [[UndyingLoyalty who obliges and carries him along with the others]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'': When Mufasa's spirit appears to Simba, telling him to remember who he is and go back to reclaim his rightful place as king, Simba chases after him while he's disappearing, begging him to not to leave him. However, Mufasa's words finally sink into Simba's mind and he decides to go back.

* ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'' ends with one, quoted atop this page. And many people sympathized with Rhett, given dealing with Scarlett is a pain.

%%* Mr. Orange to Mr. White in ''Film/ReservoirDogs''.
* Adam to Lawrence at the end of ''Film/SawI'' as Lawrence is crawling away out of the bathroom to go get help for the two of them. Almost says it verbatim.
-->'''Adam, sobbing, grabbing onto Lawrence:''' Don't leave me! No! No!
* Gong-gil pretty desperately to Jaeng-sang in ''Film/TheKingAndTheClown''.
* Elinor to Marianne in ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility'', when the latter is dying of a fever.

* John to Elizabeth in ''Film/NineAndAHalfWeeks'' just after she walks out.

* The Israeli film ''Film/{{Ushpizin}}'', when Moshe runs after his wife, begging her not to leave him.
* ''Franchise/StarWars''
** Twice in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'':
*** Padme's pleads with her bodyguard (who has been posing as her) not to die on her in the opening scene.
*** Anakin finding his mother, who was captured and tortured by the Tusken Raiders, and cries for her to stay with him. She's only able to smile in happiness at getting to see him one last time before [[DiedInYourArmsTonight dying as he cradles her]].
** Inverted in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'': as he's dying, Anakin/Vader ''tells'' Luke to leave him (which Luke initially refuses to do).
** ''Film/TheForceAwakens'': During the flashback, a young Rey is seen begging whoever left her on Jakku (presumably her family) to come back as they're leaving on a ship. [[spoiler:She also begs Finn, her first real friend, not to abandon the fight against the First Order, to no avail.]]
* ''Film/EverAfter'': Rodmilla does one of these to Auguste as he lays dying of a heart attack, but it's more selfish than loving since she's wailing that he "cannot leave [her] here" while basically ignoring his heartbroken young daughter kneeling beside him; after he does die, Rodmilla proceeds to be horrible to Danielle for the next ten years.

* An especially wrenching version in the film ''Film/OpenWater'', where the female lead tearfully screams at her husband, who's dying from the wounds sustained in a shark attack, to "hang on! Don't you leave me out all by myself!" [[spoiler: Sadly, it proves useless. He dies and the heartbroken woman finally gives up hope of rescue and kills herself]].
* In ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]'', Sam, cradling Frodo's unconscious body, begs him, "[[Tearjerker/TheLordOfTheRings Don't leave me here alone. Don't go where I can't follow.]]" [[note]]That's canon, by the way, and fans of the book deeply appreciated that Jackson understood why it must be included.[[/note]]
** Also, near the end of the film when the hobbits are gathered at the shore, and Frodo must say goodbye to Sam. This also counts as a TearJerker, when Sam realises Frodo intends to leave and not come back.
--->'''Frodo:''' We set out to save the Shire, Sam. And it has been saved. But not for me.\\
'''Sam:''' You don't mean that. You can't leave.
* John Reed to Louise Bryant in ''Film/{{Reds}}''.

* Towards the end of ''Film/NorthFace'', Toni is close enough to a team of rescuers to be able to talk to them, but there's some very hard-to-pass terrain between them, it's getting dark and very cold, and it's not safe for them to stay. He's freezing to death and it's unclear whether he'll make it until the next morning when they promise to come back. He begs them to stay and help him; his girlfriend ends up spending the night out there with him, although she can't do anything to help.

* ''Film/{{Interstellar}}'' has a variant where [[spoiler:Cooper sees into the past and sees when he said goodbye to his daughter Murphy. [[HeroicBSOD Having endured a lot throughout the movie including learning that his children have come to hate him]], Cooper begs Murphy to not let him leave, but being outside of space-time, she can't hear him.]]
* ''Film/LethalWeapon3'' has a platonic example. For the first two-thirds of the movie, Murtaugh has had nothing but good-natured ribbing from his partner Riggs about his imminent retirement. When Riggs tries to snap him out of his HeroicBSOD after [[spoiler:he shoots a teenager in the line of duty]], however, tempers run high and Riggs' real fears emerge:
-->'''Riggs:''' After all the shit we've been through, don't you get it? Don't you get it? When you retire, you're not just retiring you, you're retiring us! You're retiring us!
-->'''Murtaugh:''' That's not my problem!
-->'''Riggs:''' Yes it is!
-->'''Murtaugh:''' That's not my problem!
-->'''Riggs:''' [[HeterosexualLifePartners You're the only family I've got!]] I've got three beautiful kids, I love them, they're yours! Trish does my laundry! I live in your icebox! I live in your life! [[ArmorPiercingQuestion What am I gonna do? What am I supposed to do?]]
* In ''Film/WhoeverSlewAuntieRoo'', Aunt Roo screams and begs Katy and Christopher not to leave her alone, saying everyone has abandoned her, as [[spoiler:the two flee the burning house with Aunt Roo locked in a supply room]].

* ''Literature/{{Hurog}}'': When Oreg is separated from Ward (to whom he is bound as a slave by ancient magic), he suffers so horribly that, once reunited, he clings to Ward's leg and begs him never to leave him again. There is some amount of FridgeHorror, as his suffering when spending too much time too far away from his "owner" is likely an ''intentional'' side-effect of the magic that binds him.
* Brekke, in the second ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern'' novel, pleads with F'nor to not die after he is severely injured during a dangerous scouting mission to the Red Star. Her anguish is so amplified by dragon minds that pretty nearly the entire planet hears it and gives F'nor and his dragon the willpower to teleport back home.
--> '''Brekke:''' ''Don't leave me alone!''

* All over the place in the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' saga.

* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings: The Two Towers'', from Sam to Frodo: "[[TearJerker Don't go! Don't go where I can't follow!]]"

* Karl Oskar does this with Kristina in ''Literature/TheEmigrants''. Twice. First when she's sick with scurvy on the journey across the Atlantic, then again when she's sick after a miscarriage. [[spoiler: It only works once]].
* In ''[[Literature/JohnCarterOfMars A Fightingman of Mars]]'', the titular hero, Tan Hadron, has been betrayed by the woman he (supposedly) loves. He realizes that while he can cope with that, he could never survive betrayal by his 'friend' Tavia and begs her never to leave him.
-->"Swear you will never leave me, I cannot live without you!" (but they're just good friends and comrades - right).
* It's not said out loud on-page in ''Literature/DrFranklinsIsland'', but as Miranda progresses much faster through changes, and is more subject to TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody than her friend Semi, it weighs very heavily on Semi's mind, and she often thinks of Miranda as leaving her behind.
* In a C.S. Friedman novel, the protagonist, a young woman orphaned and homeless because of war, becomes the mistress of a soldier who is very much in love with her but whom she doesn't love at all, though she is deeply grateful for his kindness and protection. As he lies dying, she engages in a bit of method-acting, remembering how much she loved her mother and how desperately she misses her, and with all that emotion in her voice cries out: 'I love you, don't leave me!'.
-->"I was in time. He heard me."

* ''Literature/CradleSeries'': The primary thing that gets Yerin worked up is the thought of people leaving her, for whatever reason. Her family was slaughtered when she was a child, she was adopted by the Sword Sage, and then he died at about the time the story started. Despite her complaints, she quickly latches onto Lindon, and gets very anxious several times in the early books when it looks like he might leave her. He never does, but when they get [[NeverSplitTheParty separated]] in ''Ghostwater'', they both have a lot of trouble being apart for a few weeks. They hadn't been apart for more than a day or two since they had met, so they constantly worry about each other.

* Music/{{Pink}}'s "Please Don't Leave Me". Goes straight to NightmareFuel if you watch the music video or listen closely.
-->''You're my perfect little punching bag.''
* "Don't Ever Leave Me" from the musical ''Sweet Adeline''.

* Music/{{Supertramp}}'s "Don't Leave Me Now."
* Music/PinkFloyd has a much darker song also called "Don't Leave Me Now," in which the narrator begs his wife to stay with him because he's dependent on abusing her.
* Get Set Go has the song "Please Destroy Me", where the narrator makes a long list of things they will allow the lover to do ("choke me, bleed me" and "murder everything I am" among others) just so long as the lover will stay with him.
* The subject of Ane Brun's "Don't Leave" requests this of the narrator, who assures the subject that this was never their intention.

* "Mother" by John Lennon, which has him wailing "mama don't go, daddy come home" at the end.
* Music/VNVNation has a song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVf2EeTMNJo "Illusion"]] where the chorus is this trope said a different way.
* Music/{{Chicago}}'s "If You Leave Me Now".
* Music/MadelineHarperGuest's "Not Ready" has this as a main theme, possibly with shades of HowDareYouDieOnMe or StayWithMeUntilIDie mixed in, depending on how you interpret it.
* Music/{{Radiohead}} has the fan-favorite "True Love Waits", which went unreleased for over 20 years, and which includes the repeated line "Just don't leave/Don't leave". The original version of the song on acoustic guitar is a bittersweet song about finding love and wanting to hold on to it, written shortly after frontman Thom Yorke entered a relationship with Rachel Owen; the song finally got a studio version on 2016's ''Music/AMoonShapedPool'', [[RealLifeWritesThePlot just after the end of Yorke's 23-year relationship with Owen]], as a mournful-sounding piano ballad reflecting sadly on love lost.
* The song "Ikanaide" by Sohta featuring the Vocaloid Kaai Yuki, whose title translates to "don't go" from Japanese, is about someone who pretends that they aren't bothered by a loved one going away on a trip/moving, but who internally wants to beg her not to go.
* Hitoshizuku-P's song "Sunflowers of Parting Regrets," sung by Kagamine Rin and Kagamine Len, is about a brother and a sister living in Japan during World War II. Though the siblings wanted to go through life together, watching the sunflowers in their garden grow, the brother is drafted into the army, to the sister's dismay, [[spoiler:which is understandable given that their father's death in battle led to their mother's suicide when they were children]]. As her brother is boarding the train to join his brothers-in-arms, the sister grabs his sleeve and tearfully begs him not to go. He pulls her hand away, saying that in going to war he is protecting her, and asks that she give him a smile as a parting gift. She refuses, not wanting to reward him for causing her so much grief. [[spoiler:The final picture in the video, which depicts the sister as an adult holding three sunflowers, seems to imply that her brother never returned, as the three flowers seem to represent the three people she lost.]]

* In ''VideoGame/FatalFrameIICrimsonButterfly'', Mayu says this to Mio when she is locked in the repentance cell. She will also say it if Mio runs too far ahead of her.
* In ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'', Ethan tearfully uses a variation of this [[spoiler:when his attempt at CPR on his son seems to fail.]]
* Many comedic examples from GuiltBasedGaming. ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'' uses the phrase: "Please don't go! The drones need you! They look up to you!"
** Similarly, although somewhat more meta, the final confirmation for canceling a ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' subscription is accompanied by a picture of an orc with a tear rolling down its face, while the form chides you for "making the peons cry".
* ''VideoGame/GodOfWarChainsOfOlympus'' 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 ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''.

* The end of ''VideoGame/HalfLife2: Episode Two'' [[spoiler:where Eli is killed. Alyx cries over his body and says "Don't leave me..."]]

* In ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheUnwoundFuture'', 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 don't want to say goodbye again! I can't! I ''won't!''" It's easily the biggest TearJerker in the entire series.
* In ''VisualNovel/YoJinBo'', this is the usual course of action in the [[MultipleEndings Bad endings]]. The pendant pulls Sayori away from her chosen man and leaves them both crying for the other to not leave.
* ''VideoGame/Persona3 [[UpdatedRerelease Portable]]'': In a NewGamePlus you can pick a love interest to spend your last moments with. Out of all the love interests, only [[spoiler: [[MayDecemberRomance Ken Amada]]]] seems to realize that the protagonist performed a HeroicSacrifice and asks her to stay with him. Granted [[spoiler: [[YouKilledMyFather he lost his mom]] but some of the others have missing parents and Dead Little Sisters too. Children Are Observant? Actually yes. FridgeBrilliance reminds us that [[TarotMotifs Justice]] sometimes represents clarity and that is Ken's arcana.]]
* In ''VideoGame/MitsumeteKnight'', [[spoiler: [[RichBitch Linda]]]] says this sentence almost word for word in her Ending:
--> "Don't go... I don't want to lose you... [[spoiler: I don't want money nor fame anymore...]] I just don't want to lose you... [[spoiler: [[AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted All I am now is a woman without merit who has fallen in poverty]], but]] I'd wish to stay by your side... Please... Don't abandon me..."
* In ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'', after you free Kaguya from the prison, she says that she feels that she must go to the bamboo field in Sasa Sanctuary, as though being driven by an unseen force. When she gets there, she meets her adoptive grandfather, Mr. Bamboo. She says that it would have been better if they didn't meet before she left, and you help her unearth a rocket. Mr. Bamboo reveals that he always knew the rocket was there, but it quickly turns into a desperate plea for his precious granddaughter to not leave him alone. When she leaves, the rocket becomes a TwinkleInTheSky, and a SingleTear escapes Mr. Bamboo's eyes... [[TearJerker which is a hell of a lot less than what will come out of yours.]]
* Odd example in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' in one of the Ferris wheel cutscenes, the girl you're riding with goes over to your side and desperately wants you to hold her until it's over. Afraid of heights, or...
* Chie says this almost verbatim towards the end of ''VideoGame/Persona4'' when [[spoiler:you've died and are getting encouragement from every character with whom you've maxed out your Social Link.]]
* In ''VideoGame/FableII'' when you are about the leave the "perfect world" your sister Rose begs you not to leave. "Don't go! I don't want to be on my own again." Then she gives out a [[BigNo "Noooooo!"]]
* ''VisualNovel/Ever17'': In [[spoiler:Tsugumi's]] Good Ending, [[spoiler:Tsugumi says this to Takeshi as he's pulling off his HeroicSacrifice. Made even more potent by the fact that Tsugumi's always insisted on being alone up until now.]]
* Albedo from ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}''. When he first finds out that his brothers aren't immortal like he is, he breaks down crying, begging Rubedo not to die and leave him alone.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' has [[WrenchWench Tali]] (if romanced) tearfully begging a male Shepard [[TearJerker in the most heart-breaking voice]] ''[[TearJerker ever]]'' [[spoiler:to let her come with him as he airlifts her off Earth]].
** [[FriendlySniper Garrus]] and [[HotScientist Liara]] do it too. [[TearJerker It's just as depressing]].
** Kaidan uses the trope almost word for word: "Don't leave me behind."
* Ike says this to [[spoiler:his father]] in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'' after witnessing the latter's fatal battle with [[spoiler:the Black Knight]].

* Trish in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' when Dante is leaving her behind after he is angry at her for betraying him over to Mundus.

* This becomes a major plot point in ''VideoGame/ToTheMoon'' as Johnny struggles to come to terms with his wife's death. Most notably seen when Johnny pours his heart out to Isabelle.

* There is a slightly skewed version in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' if the player character romances Cullen. There is a conversation shortly before the final battle in which Cullen acknowledges that she ''has'' to leave him - to fight the BigBad. What he can't accept is the idea that she might not return.
** Played more straight in the Solas romance, because despite her protests and declarations of love, there is no way for the player character to prevent him from [[spoiler:breaking off the romance before the endgame, and leaving as soon as the BigBad is defeated. It isn't because he doesn't love her - it's because he's really the Dread Wolf Fen'Harel.]]
* Used in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' on the pacifist route. [[spoiler: The final boss is Flowey's true identity: Asriel Dreemurr. Asriel and the first fallen human died together as children.]] After being reborn as [[spoiler:the sociopathic Flowey, Asriel]] associates the player character, the latest fallen human, with his best friend. He aims to keep killing and reviving them over and over again so that they can "play" together forever. As you wear him down, he starts [[BerserkerTears crying his eyes out]] and begs you not to leave him again. Once his soul is soothed, [[spoiler: Asriel apologizes and realizes that he was projecting his best friend onto the protagonist, even though they are completely different people. He gives up the souls he stole and accepts becoming Flowey again.]]
* At the end of ''Videogame/AHatInTime'', just as the Hat Kid is about to leave, she finds [[spoiler:all the characters she's met throughout the game hanging onto her spaceship, begging her to stay for more adventures. She pushes them off with a broom and quietly sheds a tear before leaving]].
* In the Helios ending of ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', [[spoiler:the last we see of [[BigBad Bob Page]] is him still plugged into the device he's planning to use [[FusionDance to integrate with Helios]], unable to escape it and asking Helios (who has already decided to integrate with JC instead) not to leave him.]]
* ''VideoGame/SakuraWars2019'' features a flashback to the time the combat revues of old performed a HeroicSacrifice to seal away the Archdemon. Sumire Kanzaki, a member of the original Imperial Combat Revue, could not join them since she was no longer able to pilot her MiniMecha, leaving her powerless to do anything but reach out to her friends as they sealed themselves away along with the Archdemon and plead with them not to leave her behind.
* One of Ashe's possible responses to Tryndamere dying in ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra'', tearfully begging him to come back.

%%* Deconstructed by ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'' [[https://www.oglaf.com/yeahbye/ here]].

* WesternAnimation/BugsBunny does this in "WesternAnimation/AWildHare" during his "death" scene, which makes Elmer Fudd wallow in self-pity after Bugs "dies."
* In the ''WesternAnimation/OscarsOasis'' episode Lost, Harchi does this to Oscar when he gets separated from his friends.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', we have Betty's heartbroken reaction as [[spoiler:her fiancee, Simon Petrikov (who would later become the Ice King) goes insane due to the influence of [[ArtifactOfDoom the crown he's wearing]]]]:
-->'''Betty:''' [[spoiler:Simon]]...[[TearJerker don't leave me like this...]]
* PlayedForLaughs in the ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' episode "God Rest Ye Merry Gentle-Mannequins". After Bob tells the unstable-but-harmless vagrant they've invited into their home for Christmas that [[InnocentlyInsensitive the woman he loves (who is a mannequin) is "probably in a dump somewhere"]], the man runs from the room in tears. Linda is pissed at Bob for ruining the man's Christmas and angrily orders the kids out of the room, which Bob asks them not to do. This goes back and forth with Bob getting more desperate for them to stay, culminating in him shrieking "Don't leave me!", probably because he figured Linda wouldn't kill him in front of the kids.
* ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'': In "Home Sweet Homing Pigeon," Dick Dastardly uses this along with CrocodileTears to keep Klunk, Zilly and Muttley from leaving him as their discharges have come in.