Not to be confused with
Dodge the Bullet. A character, either by coming to his/her senses at the last possible moment (or sometimes by pure dumb luck), manages to evade what would have otherwise been certain doom. Perhaps one of the
Big Bad's Mooks decided to say
Screw This, I'm Outta Here at the best possible moment (i.e., one scene just before his former boss and comrades get whacked by the hero and his party
and the evil lair comes crumbling down), or maybe a businessman misses his flight only to hear minutes later that
the plane he would've been on crashed and burned, leaving no survivors.
Examples:
- The sheriff in the infamous Bee-Movie Invasion Of The Bee Girls proves he's the one male in town who's not Too Dumb to Live by declining an offer of sex from a local widow who had just recently had the "royal jelly treatment."
- In The Wraith, Rughead quits the gang upon realizing who it is that's after them and why. He is just leaving the warehouse hideout/chop-shop when the killer car kamikazes it, blowing Skank, Gutterboy, and their new car to kingdom come in the process.
- In Final Fantasy VIII, Biggs and Wedge form a (rather small) Goldfish Poop Gang that fights you on several occasions throughout the game... but towards the end, they basically just decide that The Empire is a lost cause, and walk away from their duty of guarding the Boss Chamber, shortly before you get there and get ready to kick ass. Considering that the gigantic floating base you are aboard crashes into the sea shortly after you defeat the Load-Bearing Boss, they really did choose a very good time to quit...
