Screw This Im Outta Here / Animated Films

• Cars
  • Subverted: Lightning McQueen, who has been sentenced to community service for destroying the road in Radiator Springs, takes off for California when Mater takes his parking boot off without first hooking him up to a road-paving machine called Bessie, only to run out of gas in the middle of nowhere (his gas was siphoned while he was impounded). Defied, too, by the town gang until he finishes paving the road.
  • Played straight earlier, though, when McQueen's pit crew, led by "Not Chuck", up and quits when they get fed up with his "one-man show" attitude.
• In The Iron Giant, Agent Mansley tries to do this when he realized that his attempt to destroy the Giant was going to get himself killed as well. This gave us this hilariously great exchange:
  Mansley: You mean we're all going...?
  General: To die, Mansley. For our country.
  Mansley: Screw our country! I wanna live!
  • Earlier in the film, Dean has this reaction when he realizes Hogarth is asking him to shelter the eponymous Giant — he promptly dumps out his coffee, walks calmly into his house, and locks the door. Half an hour later, Hogarth is still trying to convince him to come out.
• Near the end of The Prince of Egypt, as the Jews are leaving, you can see several Egyptian soldiers drop their weapons and join them. And earlier, when two Egyptian guards see the Angel of Death approaching, they wisely decide to flee.
• Bartok the Bat in Anastasia, Rasputin's Minion with an F in Evil, decides to get the Hell out of Dodge before the Final Battle. Prior to this, he vainly tried to convince Rasputin to forget revenge and Anastasia and get a life. (Of course, being undead, that might not have been feasible for Rasputin.) In the end Bartok just leaves because he's savvy enough to realize that this can't end well for Rasputin. This proves to be a wise decision. He also gets a chick-bat that comes right outta nowhere. Because karma will get you laid.
• Corpse Bride (also an Ironic Echo):
  Lord Everglot: Fetch my musket!
  The Butler: Fetch your own musket. I'm off!
• In The Emperor's New Groove, Yzma's potions turn the soldiers chasing Kuzco and Pacha into various animals. As Yzma yells at them to chase the duo, one soldier states "Uh, I've been turned into a cow. Can I go home?" Uncharacteristically, Yzma politely allows him to, asking if anyone else wants to opt out as well. They choose not to.
• Ramon pulls this in Happy Feet Two. While trying to console Mumble's son, Erik, Ramon remarks "For two wild mavericks like us who cannot be tamed.....THIS! PLACE! SUCKS!!!" and then immediately declares he's going home.
• Sarge and the two other remaining green army men pull one of these in Toy Story 3 since they think they'll be the first of Andy's toys to be thrown away. Granted, Sarge justifies it by reminding the other toys that Andy has already outgrown them, but still... It also doubles as a Brick Joke, since they end up at Sunnyside Daycare.
• During Ratatouille, when Linguini reveals to his kitchen staff that he hasn't been really cooking, but controlled by Remy, they all wordlessly toss their aprons down, and quit on the spot.
• The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie:
  • SpongeBob must return King Neptune's crown from the deadly Shell City in order to save Mr. Krabs from execution. Naturally, he tries to enlist his best friends to help him.
    SpongeBob: Don't worry, Mr. Krabs. Patrick, Squidward, and I...
    Squidward: Pass. [leaves]
  • Squidward later tries to escape from Plankton's bucket helmet army, but they close in on him and force a bucket on his head (offscreen), turning him into one of the slaves.
• The Sponge Bob Movie Sponge Out Of Water: During the "food fight" between Krusty Krab and Chum Bucket, Patrick helps SpongeBob fights off Plankton's food-shooting plane and tank. But when Plankton reveals his giant robot...
  Patrick: I just remembered. I don't work for Mr. Krabs. [gives SpongeBob his helmet and runs away]
• During the climactic fight in Peter Pan, Mr. Smee is seen loading his bags into a lifeboat, knowing that Hook is just going to lose again, and is also fed up with his obsession with Peter. The other pirates join him, but only because they have fallen overboard and landed on the lifeboat.
• Shrek 2:
  • After Shrek and Fiona get off the carriage and the townspeople get shocked:
    Donkey: Uh... Why don't you guys go ahead, I'll park the car.
  • Subverted later when an argument between Shrek and King Harold escalates:
    Donkey: Uh... I gotta go to the bathroom.
    Waiter: Dinner is served!
    Donkey: Never mind. I can hold it.
  • Fiona in a heartbreaking way when she's had enough of her parent's prejudice against Shrek decides to cut her parents out of her life and return to the swamp with Shrek.
• Done twice in The Rugrats Movie. After Tommy's preoccupation with trying to protect his baby brother Dil pushes their buttons one too many times, Phil and Lil decide to leave Tommy and Dil in the woods, Chuckie coming along for the same reasons. Granted, it was Phil and Lil's fault in the first place they were stuck out there and karma does bite them back. The second time is Tommy's Heroic Breakdown where he decides to just leave Dil with the monkeys after his buttons are pushed. Thankfully, he reconsiders.
• In Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket is more than a little pissed off to see Pinocchio smoking and playing pool on Pleasure Island with Lampwick, who then starts laughing at the cricket's expense:
  Jiminy: Go on, laugh, make a jackass of yourself! I'm through! This is the end! [storms off in a huff]
  Pinocchio: But Jiminy, Lampwick says a guy only lives once.
  Jiminy: Lampwick, hmph!
  Lampwick: Come on, come on! Let him go.
• In Beauty and the Beast
  • Belle goes against the Beast's orders and enters the west wing, where the Beast's room is. When he catches her near his enchanted rose, the Beast rages at her. She decides that in spite of her promise, she's not willing to stay at the castle any longer. Fortunately, the Beast makes it up to her after saving her from a wolf pack.
  Belle: (angrily) Promise or no promise, I can't stay here for another minute!!
  • Later, when Gaston and LeFou come to collect Maurice (who, unfortunately for them, has just left to find the castle and rescue Belle) to take him to the asylum. LeFou tries to duck out, but Gaston orders him to stand watch, believing Belle and her father will come back eventually.
  Gaston: Belle! Maurice!
  LeFou: Oh, well. Guess it's not gonna work after all.
  (tries to leave, but Gaston grabs him)
  Gaston: They have to come back sometime. And when they do, we'll be ready for them. LeFou. (tosses him into a snowdrift by the front porch) Don't move from that spot until Belle and her father come home.
  LeFou: But...but I...aw, nuts!
• Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman gives us the smartest mook ever: after spotting Batman rummaging around in a room (who gives him a rather displeased look), he quietly leaves the room and won't admit to seeing anything out of place when his buddy asks.
• The LEGO Movie: Abraham Lincoln's reaction when Emmet fails his inspirational speech.
  Lincoln: A house divided against itself would be better than this! [flies away on his rocket chair]
• Disney's The Return of Jafar, the sequel to Aladdin, turns this into a whole musical number, "I'm Looking Out For Me", when Iago finally gets fed up with Jafar bossing him around.
  • Iago tried to do this in the original Aladdin when Jafar has been turned into a genie and is getting sucked into a lamp. Iago ends up being sucked into the lamp with Jafar, which leads to his more successful attempt in The Return of Jafar.
• In The Lion King (1994), Zazu says this in part of "I Just Can't Wait To Be King" as he's getting quite tired of Simba's childish behavior. Of course, he doesn't follow through with it.
  "If this is where the monarchy is heading,
  count me out!
  Out of service, out of Africa,
  I wouldn't hang about!"
  • The better example is with the hyenas. Some of them walk out on Scar after he betrays them, though not before killing and eating him!
• In Hercules:
  • Phil does this when the Hydra first emerges, hiding behind a rock, leaving Hercules to fight alone. After the monster grows three more heads, Hercules initially runs before Pegasus picks him up to resume the battle.
  • Phil walks out on Hercules after the latter refuses to believe the former about Meg working for Hades.
  • Also, the Titans attempted to walk out on Hades' scheme to take over Mt. Olympus as soon as Hercules frees Zeus from their imprisonment. Hercules is able to blow them up before they could leave alive.
• A few examples in Inside Out
  • When initially confronted with broccoli pizza.
    Disgust: That's it! I'm done! (Walks away from the console.)
  • After a failure of a day trying to keep Riley functioning without Joy or Sadness, Fear attempts to leave via the memory tube. It doesn't go as planned.
    Fear: Sure, it's the coward's way out, but this coward's gonna survive! (activates the memory tube, only for it to clog with him and all of that day's memory orbs, ultimately spitting everything out.)
    Disgust: Emotions can't quit, genius.
  • In the accompanying short Riley's First Date?, when Mrs. Anderson tries to probe Riley with "cool words the kids say."
    Disgust: Ugh, this is just embarrassing! (leaves the console) I can't! I c-can't!
• In Astro Boy, President Stone fails to learn from experience and places the Red Core into a robot and activates it. One of his soldiers immediately runs away when the robot doesn't obey Stone's first command.
• In Kung Fu Panda, Po actually feels terrified and runs away from the Jade Palace when he hears of Tai Lung's escape from prison. This is justified because he lacked any real training experience at the time.
• In Winnie the Pooh (2011), once it become clear that Owl had made a mistake with the note Christopher Robin left, he promptly runs away.
• The Sword in the Stone: "BLOW ME TO BERMUDA!!!"
• In Robin Hood (1973), the titular hero, Maid Marian, Friar Tuck and Little John all leave the archery tournament when a pillar holding two elephant guards collapses.
• Madagascar: The plot is kicked off when Marty, tired and bored of being an average zoo zebra, leaves Central Park Zoo to experience a day in the wild. Alex the lion, Melman the giraffe, Gloria the hippopotamus and the chimps leave later to find him and fling poop at Tom Wolfe respectively. Unfortunately for the animals, their actions lead to the NYPD being called and tranquillizing them, and they are shipped off to Africa as a result of the bad publicity the Zoo now faces.
• Alice in Wonderland: Alice leaves the unbirthday party after the White Rabbit gets kicked out. This proves to be a bad decision when she gets lost in Tulgey Wood and encounters strange looking animals such as momeraths, a broom dog, an accordion owl and instrument frogs.
• Pocahontas: Meeko has a habit of doing this, especially when being chased by Percy. Also, Ben and Lon when Indians attack the camp.
• Piglet's Big Movie: Rabbit, Pooh, Tigger and Eeyore when the bees break out of the fake hive.
• The Lion King 1 ½: Timon and Pumbaa, during the Be Prepared scene, when they first see the goosestepping hyenas.
• Horton Hears a Who! (2008): Morton, when Kangaroo rallies the jungle animals to attack Horton.
• My Little Pony: The Movie (2017) has Grubber leaving the throne room when Tempest Shadow talks to the Storm King.
• Flounder and Ariel do this in the middle of the Under the Sea song in The Little Mermaid.
• All of the grasshoppers (except for Hopper) in A Bug's Life do this when the ants, whom they have bullied and intimidated for so long, finally stood up against them.
  Hopper: Where are you going? They're just ants!
• Osmosis Jones: Played for Laughs when the virus Thrax stumbles into Frank's Subconscious Room where he's bombarded with imagery of Frank' bad memories. He's weirded out at first, then becoming increasingly unnerved, before running out in a panic.
  Thrax: Phew! This cat was sick before I even got here.
• The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part: President Business responds to the DUPLO Aliens invading Bricksburg by going golfing and leaving the heroes to fend for themselves. It becomes a Brick Joke when he returns at the end, after the main conflict of the movie has been resolved.
• Zeebad attempts this in The Magic Roundabout (2005) when he sees that his icy magic is being undone and thawed by the magic of the diamonds in the Magic Roundabout, but the magic grabs hold of him and pull him into the roundabout, back into his prison that he escaped from in the beginning.
• Zootopia has a subverted example where Bellweather, the Assistant Mayor-turned-Big Bad, attempts to flee upon her realisation that Judy had called the cops. The subversion comes when Bellweather turns around... and then she sees the cops closing in on her.
• In Injustice (2021), the Justice League is talking about Superman's descent into tyranny. Aquaman and Captain Atom tells Wonder Woman that Atlantis nor the Pentagon would never bend to such wills when Plastic Man points out something: what happens to the criminals as it took a number of chances to get on the straight and narrow. When Wonder Woman tells him that the punishment would fit the crime, Aquaman decides that that's enough and quits the League, others following him.
• Wreck-It Ralph: Ralph leaves his game to win a medal when Gene told him that he'll have to win one to gain their respect. This causes the game to be Out of Order, and thus Felix sets off to find him.
• Brave: When Elinor destroys her bow during their argument, Merida has no choice but to flee the castle to make a deal with the Witch.
• In Turning Red, the members of 4*Town consider doing this in the climax but are presumably convinced not to by Mei's friends.
• In The Jungle Book (1967), Bagheera does this twice with Mowgli after getting fed up with his stubbornness when he refuses to go to the Man Village. But both times, he returned out of worry and regret of leaving him alone.
  • The first time is when Bagheera tries to drag Mowgli to the Man Village by force only to accidentally fall into the river. After abandoning Mowgli to fend for himself, he immediately darts back once he hears Baloo's loud roar in the distance.
  • The second time he leaves Mowgli is when he hangs out with Baloo during the Bare Necessities song. When he hears Baloo calling out his name after Mowgli is abducted by the monkeys, Bagheera quickly returns in time to learn that Mowgli was taken to the Ancient Ruins.
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: After Miles refuses to accept his father's upcoming death and vows to return to his home-world to prevent it, Miguel O'Hara sends all of the other Spider-Mans to pursue him. It is at this point that Spider-Punk decides that he's had enough of this and jumps into a portal. Thankfully, he is seen at the very end of the movie, where Spider-Punk has joined Spider-Gwen and friends on their quest to rescue Miles.

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