History GondorCallsForAid / LiveActionTV

* Expanding on the beginning of ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'', the ''[[Film/GokaigerGoseigerSuperSentai199HeroGreatBattle 199 Heroes]]'' movie reveals that the [[Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger Goseigers]] are at first overwhelmed in battle by the Zangyack Empire's military might, which prompts the arrival of all previous SuperSentai to help fight off the invasion.

* Once Morgana takes over Camelot at the end of season three of ''Series/{{Merlin}}'', Merlin writes to Lancelot, asking for his assistance. Lancelot arrives just in time, with Percival in tow, to save the company from a band of immortal soldiers by causing a rockslide.

-->'''Joan''': [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, how can I help you]]?

** Jon Snow and Sansa Stark do this in season 6, hoping to rescue their youngest brother and liberate the North from Bolton rule. Callimg on wildings and noble alike. Most don't answer, and the ones that do aren't sold on loyalty (or gratitude in the free folks' case) alone, and rather there being a zombie apocalypse on the way.

* In the finale of the fourth series of the new ''Series/DoctorWho'', Harriet Jones, the morally ambiguous former Prime Minister ([[RunningGag Yes, we know who she is.]]), finds she needs to call on the Doctor despite the fact he's the one who deposed her. She even sacrifices her own life to serve as a distraction for the Daleks so the call for aid can get through. However unlike other examples it is more obvious the Doctor's companions will help.

** In "The Wedding of River Song" there's an especially touching one when [[spoiler:River explains they've constructed a distress beacon to broadcast "The Doctor is dying. Please, please help." and the Doctor comments "That would mean nothing to anyone." To which River replies ]]

* Part One of the Series Finale of ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' ends with Adama putting out one of these for [[spoiler: the mission to rescue Hera from Cavil's Cylons. Every character we know from the fleet is called upon to help with the mission if they so choose, including those Marines that were imprisoned after supporting the mutiny against Adama earlier in the season.]]

* Once Morgana takes over Camelot at the end of season three of ''Series/{{Merlin}}'', Merlin writes to Lancelot, asking for his assistence. Lancelot arrives just in time, with Percival in tow, to save the company from a band of immortal soldiers by causing a rockslide.

** The three-part ending of ''Series/UltramanMebius'' both subverts it and then promptly plays it straight. When the alien Empera-seijin sends his army down to Earth to wear down the heroes, eventually rendering the hero near comatose and destroying most of their weapons and super-vehicles, the heroes get the aid of their various allies they've made over the season. Only to have it amount to nothing as Empera arrives and kicks the crap out of them with a few flicks of his wrist--eventually killing TheLancer and EnsembleDarkHorse before killing the hero in a single blow. A few of them get better, and get a true GondorCallsForAid from the Ultra-Brothers and a few of the slain are NotQuiteDead, and the world is saved.
** ''Series/UltramanGaia'' also gets one, though its far more effective. All of Earth's monster awaken to fight [[BigBad Zogu's]] (aka [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Root Of Destruction]]) army after Gaia and Agul are defeated, the military ultimately helping them. In the end, they lend some of their energy to Gaia and Agul to revive and super charge them, allowing them to put an end to Zogu once and for all.

* Invoked ''and'' subverted in ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' when a combined Federation and Klingon fleet about to face an overwhelming force of Dominion and Cardassian warships en route to the Bajoran system aiming to retake Deep Space 9 as the first act of their new alliance are unexpectedly joined by Romulan warbirds decloaking and announcing they are there to assist. The subversion comes when it turns out the enemy fleet was a hoax: The whole thing had been a Dominion plan to gather those opposing them together and then destroy the whole system with a bomb planted by a mole. (It fails.)

* Series Three of ''Series/BlakesSeven'' ends with the crew of the Liberator calling on [[spoiler:the Federation]] to defend against [[spoiler:the Andromedan spacefleet]] -- and [[YouShallNotPass defending the pass on their own]] until help can arrive. The relationship between the allies was... not nice, shall we say?

* Invoked ''and'' subverted in ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' when a combined Federation, Klingon and Cardassian fleet about to face an overwhelming force of Dominion warships emerging from the Bajoran wormhole are unexpectedly joined by Romulan warbirds decloaking and announcing they are there to assist. The subversion comes when the Cardassians abruptly peel off and join the Dominion fleet as it proceeds to Cardassia, with Gul Dukat announces Cardassia has allied with them.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'''s "Graduation" episode. Also "Chosen," but on a more epic scale.

* ''MyNameIsEarl'', "Camdenites": Earl rounds up just about everyone he's ever helped with his list to help him right Joy and Darnell's trailer.

* A strange corporate example occurs at the end of Season 3 of ''MadMen''. When Sterling Cooper's British overlords at Putnam Powell & Lowe decide to sell the firm to [=McCann=] Erickson, Roger Sterling, Bert Cooper, and Don Draper instantly realize that they (and Don's creative talent) would be sidelined at [=McCann=]'s "sausage factory" of an ad agency. As a result, they rally a number of people to start a new firm: they get Lane Pryce -- who had had something of a strained relationship with them as PPL's representative in New York -- to fire them all in exchange for making him a partner in the new firm; they pull in Pete Campbell, whom Don still regards as too ambitious for his own good, to get his account skills and contacts at the lucrative Richardson-Vicks account; they get Peggy Olson, whom Don had recently insulted, to join as head of Creative; they get Harry Crane, the only man in the office smart enough to see the potential for having a TV division, as head of Media; and finally, they bring in the formerly-exiled Joan Harris as office manager, who scrounges up materials and people for the agency. And then, in a Midtown hotel room:

* Part One of the Series Finale of ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' ends with Adama putting out one of these for [[spoiler: the mission to rescue Hera from Cavil's Cylons. Every character we know from the fleet is called upon to help with the mission if they so choose, including those Marines that were imprisoned after supporting the mutiny against Adama earlier in the season.]]

* Subverted in ''Series/RobinHood'': In the finale Robin and the gang are under siege at Nottingham Castle and they manage to sneak one of their people out in order to fetch [[RichardTheLionHeart King Richard's]] army who are rumoured to have landed back in England. However, the Sheriff soon informs them that Richard is in fact held hostage in Austria and no help is coming.

* In the finale of the fourth series of the new ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[spoiler:Harriet Jones, the morally ambiguous former Prime Minister ([[RunningGag Yes, we know who she is.]]), finds she needs to call on the Doctor despite the fact he's the one who deposed her. She even sacrifices her own life to serve as a distraction for the Daleks so the call for aid can get through.]]

* One season finale for ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}'' had the Tau'ri, Free Jaffa Nation, Asgard, and Lucian Alliance (the last only agreeing to help after Teal'c beats the crap out of the leader's guards and points a gun at his forehead) band together to stop the Ori from gaining a foothold in their galaxy. In a rather shocking case of TheWorfEffect, the Ori outright slaughter the Milky Way alliance.

* The movie ''[[KamenRiderOOO Let's Go Kamen Rider]]''. Faced with the Great Colossus that was stated to be unstoppable until it's [[OmnicidalManiac destroyed everything]], ALL of the Riders (whether a hero, villain, or neutral) from the series' 40-year history appear, in order to help finish off the Colossus with the [[CombinedEnergyAttack All Rider Break]]. If anyone's counting, that would be '''90''' Kamen Riders, more or less.

* The Three Part Ending of ''{{Ultraman}} Mebius'' both subverts it and then promptly plays it straight. When the alien Empera-seijin sends his army down to Earth to wear down the heroes, eventually rendering the hero near comatose and destroying most of their weapons and super-vehicles, the heroes get the aid of their various allies they've made over the season. Only to have it amount to nothing as Empera arrives and kicks the crap out of them with a few flicks of his wrist--eventually killing TheLancer and EnsembleDarkHorse before killing the hero in a single blow. A few of them get better, and get a true GondorCallsForAid from the Ultra-Brothers and a few of the slain are NotQuiteDead, and the world is saved.
** ''Ultraman Gaia'' also gets one, though its far more effective. All of Earth's monster awaken to fight [[BigBad Zogu's]] (aka [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Root Of Destruction]]) army after Gaia and Agul are defeated, the military ultimately helping them. In the end, they lend some of their energy to Gaia and Agul to revive and super charge them, allowing them to put an end to Zogu once and for all.

* In ''StargateContinuum'', SG-1 (in F-15s) are attacked by gliders. They are saved by a squadron of Russian [=MiGs=], possibly one of the few cases in Western fiction where incoming [=MiGs=] are a good thing.

--> '''River''' The sky is full of a million million voices, saying, "Yes of course. We'll help." You've touched so many lives, saved so many people. Did you think when you're time came you'd really have to do more than just ask?

* Expanding on the beginning of ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'', the ''[[Recap/GokaigerGoseigerSuperSentai199HeroGreatBattle 199 Heroes]]'' movie reveals that the [[TensouSentaiGoseiger Goseigers]] are at first overwhelmed in battle by the Zangyack Empire's military might, which prompts the arrival of all previous SuperSentai to help fight off the invasion.

* In {{Iron Sky}}, the US space ship is severely outgunned by the Nazi {{Cool Airship}}s and desperately calls for reinforcements - promptly provided by [[spoiler: everyone but Finland, who have opted for not violating space armament treaties]].

* An inversion for the series finale of ''{{Seinfeld}}.'' When the four main characters are put on trial for violating the Good Samaritan Law, a long list of significant characters from the show's entire run are called as witnesses... for the prosecution.