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* The ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse'' short "[[WesternAnimation/MickeysGoodDeed Mickey's Good Deed]]" has two

* Olivier Mira Armstrong does this to her family in the manga and ''Brotherhood'' anime of ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist''. She travels from Fort Briggs, in the frigid north, to the family mansion in Central City and demands that her father retire and name her head of the family. She further bullies him into taking his wife and younger daughters on an extended visit to the distant country of Xing. As Olivier's brother Alex later realizes, she knows that terrible things are about to happen in their home country of Amestris, and wants her family as far away from it as possible.

* During the first arc of ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' anime, Ash tries to pull this on Pikachu because he thinks Pikachu'll be much happier with other Pikachu than he would be travelling around with him. Pikachu has none of it and chases after Ash. This happens again when he lets Charizard train in Charicific Valley -- while it remains extremely loyal to his trainer, Charizard does stay there with occasional guest appearances until Black and White has him back as a reserve at Professor Oak's lab.

* Ace attempts to do this for Luffy in ''Manga/OnePiece'' [[spoiler:as Luffy plunges headfirst into the battle at Marineford and is attacked on all sides by the [[PsychoForHire Seven Warlords of the Sea]] and [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Marine officers]] in an attempt to [[RescueArc rescue Ace from his execution]]. Ace shouts for Luffy to go away, stating that they have their own crews and Luffy is under no obligation to rescue him. He even states that it would be "humiliating" to be saved by a "weakling" like Luffy, all the while silently begging for Luffy not to involve himself in Ace's mistake. [[IdiotHero Luffy]] of course just ignores this and shouts that he's Ace's little brother and promises to save Ace even if it killed him. Awww!]]

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': Using his camouflage gear, Terry (aka Batman) goes into a station monitored by laser shooting cameras. He ends up compromising his position when he tries to shoo a curious cat away from the building. Also reinforces his position as a hero.

* ''Film/{{War}}'': Surprisingly, the BigBad gets to do this. Yakuza boss Yonagawa is an awful excuse for a person and WouldHurtAChild. However, he does care about his [[DaddysLittleVillain loyal daughter and lieutenant Kira]], and makes an excuse to send her back to Japan, out of harm's way, before his final confrontation with Rogue.

* In the ''Manga/StrikeWitches'' episode "[[StrikeWitchesEp4Thanks Thanks]]", Gertrud Barkhorn attempts to shoo Yoshika Miyafuji when the former gets injured, given how much her sister Christiane suffered. Yoshika disagrees.

** Sanji has a BreakHisHeartToSaveHim act with the Straw Hats in the Whole Cake Island arc, which works with Nami (hypocritical as it is) but doesn't do anything against Luffy. A bit justified, since staying by his side would invoke the wrath of one of the [[EliteFour Four Emperors]].

* During the first arc of the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, Ash tries to pull this on Pikachu because he thinks Pikachu'll be much happier with other Pikachu than he would be travelling around with him. Pikachu has none of it and chases after Ash. This happens again when he lets Charizard train in Charicific Valley -- while it remains extremely loyal to his trainer, Charizard does stay there with occasional guest appearances until Black and White has him back as a reserve at Professor Oak's lab.

* During the first arc of the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, Ash tries to pull this on Pikachu because he thinks Pikachu'll be much happier with other Pikachu than he would be travelling around with him. Pikachu has none of it and chases after Ash.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIllusionist'' [[spoiler:the titular character decides to give up being a magician and abandons his faithful rabbit on a hillside, where there are a lot of similar looking rabbits. The rabbit looks at his leave in confusion, having no idea what to do]].

--> ''Suddenly a shadow fell across his path. Moreno turned, then stiffened. The murderer stood there, ten feet away. Nothing was said. "Boys," said Moreno, his voice suddenly lifeless. "Go down to the courtyard." [[WouldHurtAChild He saw the murderer shift.]] "[[PrivacyByDistraction Go look at the cannonballs]]." Armando and Felipe scampered off. Moreno remained where he was. He knew quite well he was looking at death.''

* In ''[[Fanfic/Gensokyo20XX Gensokyo 20XXI]]'', as they are being captured, Yukari attempts to get Ran (with babies in her arms) to run away, so she won't be captured but Ran, being so loyal and having no desire to leave her behind, refuses. Earlier, in 20XX, Yukari placed Reimu and Chen in Ran's arms, severed the shikigami contract, and told Ran, "Right now, I need you all to be brave and, Ran, take care of Reimu and Chen. When I gap you, I need you all to run and don't ever look or come back." before gapping them away. Later on in 20XX, Reimu does this with Ran and Chen and, after awhile of going back and forth, she managed to convince them to leave her behind in Gensokyo and flee to Tokyo. She does end up joining them later though.
* In ''[[Fanfic/PokemonBlackandWhiteTaleofaLegend Pokemon Black & White: Tale of a Legend]]'', Hugh listens to Team Plasma's lies and releases Grunge the Garbodor, thinking it'll improve the Pokémon's life by leaps and bounds.
* ''Fanfic/ProdigalSon'': After freeing the Deadly Nadder from a netting of ropes, it continues to follow Astrid around, having bonded with her from the experience [[LeaveMeAlone whether she likes it or not.]]
* In one of the special chapters for ''Fanfic/{{Wonderland}}'', after seeing the servant girl, Lucy, endure at least two years of abuse from his mother, Gray, along with [[spoiler: her imprisoned brother]], plan to help her escape after one of the beatings left her bleeding. Their plans gets thrown out the window when Gray sees that his mother is so angry that she will likely kill Lucy in a fit of rage. He quickly finds the girl and pulls her to the entrance and tells her to run. She hugs him thanking him for his kindness before hightailing it out of there.

->"''But in my heart's a memory, and there, you'll always be.''"

* WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog: After freezing Captain Hammer with his Death Ray, Dr. Horrible tries to get a cowering Penny to flee the room as he does not want her to see him like this, and possibly to keep her out of harm's way. She's too terrified to comply, which has tragic consequences: Hammer, whose paralysis has worn off due to Horrible's failure to finish him, destroys the ray, which explodes and results in the death of Horrible's LoveInterest and MoralityChain.

[[PuppyDogEyes Don't look at me like that, Tropey!]] You know [[DeathByNewberyMedal what'll happen if we keep you]]! Go on, get out of here! It's for your own good, dang it! Shoo! I gotta leave you behind, and there ain't two ways about it! Go!

%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* Sakaki does this with Maaya, a wild Iriomote ''cat'', in the episode of ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' in which she first encounters him. [[spoiler:He comes back.]]

* A possible example occurs in ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'' where Yuuichi remembers caring for (and becoming quite attached to) a fox that had broken its leg, but once healed he has to take it back in the wild because he has to leave town. Needless to say, both parties are quite distraught. [[spoiler:The fox finds Yuuichi upon his return as the human girl, Makoto. Her feeling of loss at their parting is why she is so beset by irrational anger at him.]]

* A human example in ''Anime/{{Godannar}}''. [[LittleMissBadass Lou]] was just about ready to defend her [[DoomedHometown base]] alongside her father... who suddenly set her mecha to launch to Earth, abandoning him to die in a hopeless fight. He still have time to say about the things listed in this trope, much to her dismay.

* Sakaki does this with Maaya, a wild Iriomote ''cat'', in the episode of ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' in which she first encounters him. [[spoiler:He comes back.]]
* Another human example in ''Anime/{{Godannar}}''. [[LittleMissBadass Lou]] was just about ready to defend her [[DoomedHometown base]] alongside her father... who suddenly set her mecha to launch to Earth, abandoning him to die in a hopeless fight. He still have time to say about the things listed in this trope, much to her dismay.