History Main / PleaseDontLeaveMe

* In the last volume of ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', [[spoiler: when Alucard's disappearing after absorbing Schrodinger, Integra orders him not to. [[{{Tearjerker}} It doesn't work.]]]]

* A platonic example in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' occurs halfway through the game, from Raiden to [[BigBrotherMentor Solid Snake]].

* In the final scene of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', Po says this to [[spoiler:Shifu]] when he thinks that he's succumbing to [[spoiler:MentorOccupationalHazard]]. HilarityEnsues.
-->'''Po:''' Don't die, [[spoiler:Shifu]], don't die...
-->'''[[spoiler:Shifu]]''' I'm not dying, you idiot! ({{beat}}) [[spoiler:Dragon... Warrior...]]

--> '''Shifu:''' [[spoiler:Master! You can't leave me!]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei's red panda spirit is practically bawling its eyes out as Mei goes through the red moon ritual to banish it into a talisman. This forces her to rethink and relive all of the happy moments it has brought her and her friends. Mei refuses to separate from it, acknowledging that the red panda is part of her.

* ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'': At the end of the second trial, the students have deduced the killer is [[spoiler:Peko]], who killed Mahiru on behalf of [[spoiler:Fuyuhiko, as she's been bodyguard, companion, and assassin since they were children and raised to see herself as merely his tool]]. As she prepares to go to her execution, [[spoiler:Fuyuhiko finally reveals that he never wanted a tool and just wanted ''her'', before breaking down with this]]:
-->[[spoiler:'''Fuyuhiko''']]: Please don't go, [[spoiler:Peko]]! I need you! ''Don't leave me!''

-->"Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer – I repeat it till my tongue stiffens – Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you – haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!"

* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': After [[ItMakesSenseInContext pretending he and Monica had got divorced]], [[HappilyMarried Chandler]] says this to her.

-->'''Dory:''' No. No, you can't...Stop! Please don't go away. Please? No one's ever stuck with me for so long before. And if you leave...if you leave...I just, I remember things better with you. I do, look; P...Sherman, forty...two...forty-two...I remember it, I do. It's there, I know it is, because when I look at you, I can feel it. When I look at you...I'm home. Please, I don't want that to go away. I don't want to forget.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Heavily deconstructed with Charlotte "Big Mom" Linlin. When she as an orphan, she was party of an orphanage under the care of Mother Caramel. When Mother Caramel and the other orphans disappeared on the day of her sixth birthday [[spoiler:with the heavy implication being that she ''ate'' them]], she was left depressed and hurt at the belief that they abandoned her, which would help shape her into the tyrannical ruler she would grow up to be, as she would ''kill'' anyone who ever tried to leave Totland.

* In ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', John Connor begs the Terminator to not leave him.
** Earlier in the film, Sarah asks her hallucination of [[TheLostLenore Kyle]] to stay with her. Particularly tragic since he's already dead, and this is the only way she can see him.

* In a C.S. Friedman novel, the protagonist, a young woman orphaned and homeless because of war, becomes the mistress of a soldier who is very much in love with her but whom she doesn't love at all, though she is deeply grateful for his kindness and protection. As he lies dying, she engages in a bit of method-acting, remembering how much she loved her mother and how desperately she misses her, and with all that emotion in her voice cries out: 'I love you, don't leave me!'.

* In ''Wuthering Heights'', Heathcliff begs this of Cathy, oddly enough, after she is already dead.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E17Passion Passion]]", after Angelus murders his LoveInterest Jenny Calender, Buffy's Watcher goes on a SuicideMission to kill Angelus, only to be saved at the last minute by Buffy. Giles rages at her that this wasn't her fight; Buffy slugs him, then gives Giles a CooldownHug, crying and saying "You can't leave me. I can't do this alone."

* ''Series/CriminalMinds'': The [=UnSub=] of "The Uncanny Valley" says it to [[spoiler:a victim that's trying to escape]].

* All over the place in the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' saga.

* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', a couple of the Pokémon departures fall into this category in terms of the behavior of said Pokémon:
** Team Rocket's Arbok and Weezing were a total wreck when forced to leave their trainers with a group of other Pokemon to get away from a poacher.
** Jessie's Dustox in the Sinnoh episode "Crossing Paths" fell in love with a Shiny Dustox. But when it was time for them to leave to participate in a breeding migration with other Dustox, Jessie's Dustox tried to remain with Jessie, not wanting to leave her. Jessie had to resort to crushing her Poké Ball underfoot in order to sever her bond and force her to leave.

* ''Literature/{{Hurog}}'': When Oreg is separated from Ward (to whom he is bound as a slave by ancient magic), he suffers so horribly that, once reunited, he clings to Ward's leg and begs him never to leave him again. There is some amount of FridgeHorror, as his suffering when spending too much time too far away from his "owner" is likely an ''intentional'' side-effect of the magic that binds him.

* ''Film/AFaceInTheCrowd'' ended with Lonesome Rhodes screaming "Don't leave me, Marcia," even after his BeleagueredAssistant had admitted she'd been the one to sabotage his career, over frustration with his raging ego, and told him to never call her again.

* In the 11th chapter of Bearquarter's Toy Story 2, Mabel and Sherman share a tearful argument before Jimmy delivers a [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheReasonYouSuckSpeech reminder of what Sherman went through to get him and Jimmy reunited]] with Trent Cooper.

* In Chapter 53 of ''Manga/MyCluelessFirstFriend'', a sick and feverish [[FriendlessBackground Nishimura]] is being visited by her friends, and, thinking its a dream, [[CaughtTheHeartOnHisSleeve grabs Takada's sleeve]] when he tries to leave, telling him she'll be lonely and begging him to stay in front of their friends. Cue [[LuminescentBlush furious blushing from all present]]. Naturally, Nishimura is extremely embarrassed the next day when she realizes it wasn't a dream.

* In Chapter 53 of ''Manga/MyCluelessFirstFriend'', a sick and feverish [[FriendlessBackground Nishimura]] is being visited by her friends, and [[CaughtTheHeartOnHisSleeve grabs Takada's arm]] when he tries to go, telling him she'll be lonely and begging him to stay in front of their friends. Cue [[LuminescentBlush]] from Takada. Naturally, Nishimura is extremely embarassed the next day when she realizes it wasn't a dream.

* ''LightNovel/TheIrregularAtMagicHighSchool'': In Volume 8, when Tatsuya is about to leave to [[spoiler:take on the invading army]], Miyuki says this to him. She's initially reluctant, [[GenreSavvy thinking that it sounds too much like what a lover would say]], but decides that his safety is more important. Tatsuya still heads out, though.

* Mashiro plays with this trope towards Sorata in episode 4 of ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou''. When Sorata looks at the manga Mashiro was making, he finds out it's about his situation with her, except with the gender roles reversed. The editor tells him that the ending where the girl leaves is depressing, and suggested Mashiro revise it. When he goes to her room later, he finds her napping after working on a revised ending, where the girl decides that she wants to stay, and he begins to realize that he doesn't want to leave Sakura Hall after all.

%%* Sunao to Sora in ''LightNovel/{{Sukisho}}''.