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* ''Film/HowToLoseAGuyIn10Days'': Tweaked example. The girl is the one about to leave and the guy is the one chasing. Except the guy in this case has the sense to get his own wheels. A motorcycle, I think.

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* In ''Comicbook/EmpireState'', Sara and Jimmy have an ongoing debate over how plausible the ending of ''Sleepless in Seattle'' was. When Sara moves away and Jimmy realizes how much she meant to him, he tries to recreate the ending of the film, by writing her a letter pouring out his heart to her and asking her to meet him on the observation deck of the Empire State building. He acknowledges there's a chance he'll just fail and make a fool of himself, but he figures it's better than spending the rest of his life wondering what could have happened. [[spoiler:RealityEnsues: As closing time approaches and Sara still hasn't shown up, Jimmy phones her and discovers that Sara never received his letter, and thus has no idea that he's in New York in the first place.]]
* One issue of ''Comicbook/IncredibleHulk'' had Betty leaving on a train to be in a convent, and naturally one of Bruce's enemies shows up on his way to the station. They battle it out and Bruce sees the train leave ''just'' [[MissedHimByThatMuch as he gets there,]] and falls to the ground defeated... and then hears Betty standing behind him with a suitcase.

* Sakura's ending in the first ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'' game.

* In ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'', seen in the image above, when he returns from his stay in Ontario.

* In ''Comicbook/EmpireState'', Sara and Jimmy have an ongoing debate over how plausible the ending of ''Sleepless in Seattle'' was. When Sara moves away and Jimmy realizes how much she meant to him, he tries to recreate the ending of the film, by writing her a letter pouring out his heart to her and asking her to meet him on the observation deck of the Empire State building. He acknowledges there's a chance he'll just fail and make a fool of himself, but he figures it's better than spending the rest of his life wondering what could have happened. [[spoiler:RealityEnsues: As closing time approaches and Sara still hasn't shown up, Jimmy phones her and discovers that Sara never received his letter, and thus has no idea that he's in New York in the first place.]]

** ''Manga/NeonGenesisEvangelionAngelicDays'' plays this fairly straight, albeit gender-flipped.

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
** Hilariously sent up in the epilogue to ''Manga/ReTake''. Though it is subverted and the genders are flipped. [[spoiler: And Shinji does manage to catch up to Asuka in Germany for a happy ending though.]] Done more straightforwardly in the previous chapter, with [[spoiler:Misato chasing down a departing [[EverybodyLives Kaji]]]]... in a tank.

* Also happens in ''Amanga/{{Nisekoi}}'', though in this case the boy is taking the girl to the aeroport so she can reconnect with her mother.

Then Alice suddenly has an epiphany: she really does love Bob too much to not be with him! She loves him more than Bob, who she was going to marry instead. She loves him more than her job, or whatever other situation had cropped up that made her think she had to choose it over Bob. But ...he's about to leave because she shot him down! If she doesn't turn around and get back to him ''right this minute'' he'll be gone, she'll have missed her chance, and she'll have what might have been haunting her forever.

* Music/ChrisDaughtry has a song called "Life After You" which has a first verse that goes like this:

* The driving narrative in ''Film/BubbleBoy'' is Jimmy, the titular BubbleBoy, going from California to NiagaraFalls in order to confess his feelings for the woman he loves.

* DiscussedTrope in the S2 finale of ''Series/Fleabag''. Claire's love interest Klare is on his way to the airport en route to Finland while Fleabag and Claire are attending their father's wedding. They discuss how creepy and/or clichéd it would or wouldn't be to do this, but ultimately Fleabag convinces Claire to do it anyway.

* A dark inversion of this trope occurs in the season 5 finale of Series/BurnNotice. In this case, Michael races ''from'' the airport to try and catch up to Fiona. Ultimately, he [[DownerEnding fails to catch up to her]] [[spoiler: [[HeroicSacrifice to prevent her from giving herself up]] [[IrishBombThrower for bombing a British consulate]] [[GoneHorriblyRight and killing two guards.]]]]

* ''Webcomic/CheckPlease'' has Jack doing this as an advice of his father. He runs through campus to find [[spoiler: Bitty]], and they have a BigDamnKiss.

* Non-plane example in the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Act Your Age" with Phineas having to catch Isabella's car before she leaves town to go to college. [[spoiler: He makes it and they share their first proper BigDamnKiss.]]

* ''Film/KeepingTheFaith'', in which Rabbi Jake runs across town, tries to enter his ex-girlfriend's office, gets ejected by a security guard, enters a neighbouring office, makes placards to hold up to the windows, and finally is forced to confess his love on speakerphone with the entire office listening in. But since the ex-girlfriend is [[Series/DharmaAndGreg total hottie Jenna Elfman]], you can't blame him for putting in a bit of effort.

* Collin Raye's "Little Red Rodeo." The singer finds a DearJohnLetter from his girlfriend, who is leaving him because he can't commit. He immediately leaves to find his love with "Texas plates, candy apple red Rodeo."

** In ''Film/{{Sabrina}}'', by the time Linus realizes his love for Sabrina, she has already boarded a boat back to Paris. Linus' brother arranges for Linus to catch up to Sabrina on a tugboat.

** In ''Film/SomeLikeItHot'', when Joe and Jerry need to sail out of the country, Sugar chases them on bike, and boards the boat after they do.

* Creator/BillyWider seems to have often used this type of climax:

--->'''Sugar:''' ''(honks horn)'' Wait! Wait for Sugar!