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** The HUD for tanks and hovercraft in ''Living Legends'' flashes the warning "[[http://www.mechlivinglegends.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/mwll-tankhud-concept01.jpg PROCEED TO EMERGENCY ESCAPE HATCHES]]" and "BAIL OUT", when critically damaged and when the fusion reactor is breached. The Chevalier tank will also sound off a klaxon warning when the warnings appear. [=BattleMechs=] flash "EJECT" warnings on either side of the crosshairs when crippled.

* This is done in dialogue in ''Film/ANewHope'', when the other pilots tell Porkins to eject. He mistakenly thinks he can still pull out and dies by crashing into the Death Star.
* Notably, [[Franchise/StarWars Imperial TIE pilots]] are not given this option in the standard model.

* ''WebVideo/KeyOfAwesome'': In "Space Girl: Abandon Ship!", Space Girl's RetroRocket is damaged by a FlyingSaucer. Unfortunately her Ship's Computer has [[PersonalityChip abandonment issues]].

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* Seen at least twice in 80s action film ''Film/IronEagle''.

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--> Mechwarrior 4: Shadow Cat vs missile launchers. She just took them out, then she sees the missiles coming. The commander tells her to eject. She doesn't make it.
--> Mechwarrior Online promo: Warhammer vs. Atlas. In a close match, the Warhammer loses. The mech computer advises ejection, and the pilot complies. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for him, where the first two got to eject inside armored cockpit modules, he got the standard seat-only ride. This doesn't help when his 'mech explodes directly beneath him, and the fireball rises to meet him.]]

* ''{{Titanfall}}'' has your [[HumongousMecha Titan's]] computer say this to you when your Titan takes critical damage or you just decide to eject on your own. In ''VideoGame/{{Titanfall 2}}'', the voice advises you to either eject or get [[HealingPotion a battery]] when heavily damaged, and [[FreezeFrameBonus for an instant while you eject]] the screen displays often bizarre messages, usually [[ShoutOut quotes from other works of fiction]].
* In ''F-16 Fighter'', a simulator for the UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem in which [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin you pilot a F-16 fighter plane]], when you run out of fuel or are shot down by enemy gunfire (not missiles), the screen with turn red complete with an alarm klaxon and the "Eject" button illuminated in red too[[note]]And your plane will be uncontrollable and will fall to the ground as a rock, even if it's going at Mach-2[[/note]].

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* Parodied in the ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' fan animation [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqSyibSPq5w Turbulence]].

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* WebVideo/KeyOfAwesome. In "Space Girl: Abandon Ship!", Space Girl's RetroRocket is damaged by a FlyingSaucer. Unfortunately her Ship's Computer has [[PersonalityChip abandonment issues]].
-->'''Mission Control:''' Abandon ship, Space Girl! Abandon ship!
-->'''Space Girl:''' Computer, eject! Eject! ''(nothing happens)'' Eject!
-->'''Ship's Computer:''' So that's it? You've only [[LesYay just started going down]] and you ''already'' want to bail?


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* On military aircraft with more than one seat the commanding officer will in fact yell "eject" thrice to the other crew member(s) to order them to bail out. This ensures that no single utterance of the order - possibly spoken completely out of context - will result in unnecessary (and expensive) ejections, as well as to ensure the rest of the crew ''will'' eject, no matter what, if they do hear the repeated order. See [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2zB7Z-b6Kc#t=0m46s here]].

* Parodied in ''Film/SupermanReturns'' - Superman saves the crashing jumbo jet after freeing the space shuttle it was carrying, and brings the jet down in the middle of a football stadium. After it has safely touched down, we see the pilots dazed in the cockpit, as a mechanical voice warns them to "fly up...fly up...fly up..."[note:The aural warning systems used in modern civil and military aircraft actually provide spoken warnings for a long list of flight conditions. In the cockpit camera videos of a couple fighters that had landing problems and ended up with the pilot punching out as the plane slid to a halt beyond the end of the runway, the TCAS/GPWS/TAWS systems keep babbling about terrain and equipment warnings to an empty cockpit. Given the situation shown in the film, there would be no fewer than a half-dozen warnings being repeated in a list, as well as a cacophony of warning horns and chimes.]
** This device actually [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_proximity_warning_system exists]]. It is a radio altimeter that sounds a klaxon in a variety of situations such as excessive height loss rate and terrain proximity (the well known ''TERRAIN! PULL UP!'' warning). It would probably be going berserk in this situation.

* Parodied in ''Film/SupermanReturns'' - Superman saves the crashing jumbo jet after freeing the space shuttle it was carrying, and brings the jet down in the middle of a football stadium. After it has safely touched down, we see the pilots dazed in the cockpit, as a mechanical voice warns them to "fly up...fly up...fly up..."

* The ejection procedure is shown in quite a bit of detail in the first ''Film/BehindEnemyLines'' film, even showing how the crew's legs are automatically drawn back towards their seats to avoid getting caught on any instrumentation when the rockets fire.

* Parodied in the ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' animation [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqSyibSPq5w Turbulence]].
--> '''Flight Computer''': Pull Up. Pull Up. Pull Up Dumbass.

* BillEngvall tells the tale of how he got to fly with the Thunderbirds, which is the U.S. Air Force's demonstration team. Bill admittedly has a bout of AttentionDeficitOohShiny while being briefed for the flight. His spell is broken when the instructor pilot says, "Okay Bill, when you hear your pilot say ''eject, eject, eject...''"

* ''{{Titanfall}}'' has your [[HumongousMecha Titan's]] computer say this to you when your Titan takes critical damage or you just decide to eject on your own. In ''VideoGame/{{Titanfal; 2}}'', the voice advises you to either eject or get [[HealingPotion a battery]] when heavily damaged, and [[FreezeFrameBonus for an instant while you eject]] the screen displays often bizarre messages, usually [[ShoutOut quotes from other works of fiction]].

* ''{{Titanfall}}'' has your [[HumongousMecha Titan's]] computer say this to you when your Titan takes critical damage or you just decide to eject on your own. In ''VideoGame/{{Titanfal 2}}'', the voice advises you to either eject or get [[HealingPotion a battery]] when heavily damaged, and [[FreezeFrameBonus for an instant while you eject]] the screen displays often bizarre messages, usually [[ShoutOut quotes from other works of fiction]].

* ''{{Titanfall}}'' has your [[HumongousMecha Titan's]] computer say this to you when your Titan takes critical damage or you just decide to eject on your own.

* Overly expensive videogame ''SteelBattalion'' combined this with a {{Roguelike}} twist. If you didn't eject in time and died with your mech, your game data was erased.

--> MechCommander 1: The [[GlassCannon Hunchback]] finds itself on the wrong end of a [[LightningBruiser Mad Cat's]] long range missiles and ER Large Lasers. With smoke rising in the cockpit and alarms sounding, the pilot gives the triple call over the comm as he straps down and hits the lever.
--> Mechwarrior 3: Mad Cat vs. [[MightyGlacier Atlas]]. Atlas [[CurbStompBattle winning handily]] (despite missing an arm already) -but too close to survive the resulting core breach. Seeing the characteristic flash, the Atlas pilot ejects.

** The HUD for tanks and hovercraft in ''Living Legends'' flashes the warning "[[http://www.mechlivinglegends.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/mwll-tankhud-concept01.jpg PROCEED TO EMERGENCY ESCAPE HATCHES]]" and "BAIL OUT", when critically damaged and when the fusion reactor is breached. The Chevalier tank will also sound off a klaxon warning when the warnings appear.

* Another dialogue example in ''Film/BuckarooBanzai''. During the jet car test one of the mission controllers tells Buckaroo to eject.

** One might wonder how ejecting themselves into space might help anyone.
*** According to the [[AllThereInTheManual manual]], their flight suits contain a force field system to keep in atmosphere. In battles that include other ships besides fighters, there's usually a shuttle flying around scooping pilots out of the sky. TIE Fighter pilots on the other hand have to wear a full spacesuit, since their fighter doesn't have any built-in life support, so if theirs is a model upgraded with an ejection seat (or in the rare instances when it's disabled but they have enough time to simply pop the hatch and climb out) they can theoretically survive much longer before being rescued.
**** This would still be of limited use when ejecting over an enemy vessel (such as the Death Star) that your partners are in the process of trying to blow up.

* Another dialogue example in ''BuckarooBanzai''. During the jet car test one of the mission controllers tells Buckaroo to eject.

* In ''[[Videogame/{{Elite}} Elite Dangerous]]'', the ship's computer will repeat "Eject" three times as the ship is blowing up from critical damage.

* In ''[[Videogame/{{Elite}} Elite Dangerous]]'', the ship's computer will repeat "Eject" three times as the ship is blowing up from critical damage. There's no EjectionSeat or [[ArmoredCoffins a way to exit the ship, however]].

** Since it's a series about pilots, this happens very often in the XWingSeries. [[CaptainCrash Hobbie Klivian]] in particular gets it a lot.

--> Mechwarrior 5: Warhammer vs. Atlas. In a close match, the Warhammer loses. The mech computer advises ejection, and the pilot complies. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for him, where the first two got to eject inside armored cockpit modules, he got the standard seat-only ride. This doesn't help when his 'mech explodes directly beneath him, and the fireball rises to meet him.]]