History Main / ResignInProtest

''[[Fanfic/TheVictorsProject The Lumberjack and the Tree Elf]]'': Tutti Marble refuses to work during the 3rd Quarter Quell and reap any of the people she's spent so many years working with.
* In ''Fanfic/ThisBites'' after the SBS broadcasts the events of Enies Lobby, [[spoiler:and Robin telling the world the events of Ohara, plus Cross publishing multiple black ops events from Cipher Pol 9's operational black book]], enormous numbers of the Navy's more moral Marines start quitting in apparent disgust. Sengoku says a few days afterwards that there were "more resignations in the last twenty-four hours than the last two years beforehand."

** Head of chemistry Ian Gibbons is fired for discussing his concerns about Elizabeth with a Board members. The next day, engineer Brendan and all employees threaten to quit in protest. Ian is rehired but he is ReassignedToAntarctica.

* In ''Series/TheDropout'', designer Ana Arriola goes to work at Elizabeth Holmes's company[[note]]See ''Literature/BadBlood'' or ''Film/TheInventorOutForBloodInSiliconValley'' for a nonfiction portrayal of the Theranos scandal[[/note]], seeing something of herself in the young female CEO. At the time, she is unaware that the company's only product, a machine that runs tests with only one drop of blood, doesn't actually work. She starts catching on when she is not given the machine's dimensions so that she can do her job. She finally confronts Elizabeth when the latter runs a trial on cancer patients even though the machine doesn't work. Elizabeth dismisses her concerns by saying it was just a trial, which makes Ana quit on the spot, taking her whole design team with her.

A TokenGoodTeammate who has been serving a corrupt regime is particularly likely to do this, which may well lead to them becoming a DefectorFromDecadence. It may or may not include an InsigniaRipOffRitual, albeit perhaps without the ritual part. Also, a character may do this after they see someone who they feel UndyingLoyalty to being mistreated by their own organization. Of course, this action may be one done by a DoomedMoralVictor, as those left behind will might as well not change their ways and/or bring in a YesMan with BlindObedience who is more than willing to do the unethical acts.

A TokenGoodTeammate who has been serving a corrupt regime is particularly likely to do this, which may well lead to them becoming a DefectorFromDecadence. It may or may not include an InsigniaRipOffRitual, albeit perhaps without the ritual part. Also, a character may do this after they see someone who they feel UndyingLoyalty to being mistreated by their own organization.

* ''Literature/StarTrekExMachina:'' In the time-skip between the Original Series and The Motion Picture, Kirk got cashiered for his habit of intervening in alien cultures (well, broadly). [=McCoy=] went straight to Fleet Admiral Nogura and said that Kirk deserved better treatment, and if he did get it Bones would quit. He was quite surprised when Nogura's response was, essentially, "go ahead."

** Also in the books, Jaime recalls how [[TheCaligula King Aerys']] [[NumberTwo Hand of the King]] discovered Aerys' plot to plant [[GreekFire wildfire]] all over the capital and burn it to ash should [[TheUsurper Robert Baratheon]] defeat the loyalist forces. The man tried everything he could to talk Aerys out of the plan, and when Aerys wouldn't budge, he furiously resigned on the spot. [[ResignationsNotAccepted Aerys burned him alive in response]].

* In ''Literature/{{Jingo}},'' when Vimes is relieved from command by [[ModernMajorGeneral Lord Rust]], Carrot, Colon, and Detritus all hand in their badges. (Metaphorically in Detritus' case, because his badge is etched into his arm).

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* In 1981, Alain de Boissieu resigned his charge of Grand Chancelier of the Legion d'honneur because he couldn't stand to swear allegiance to Francois Mitterand, who had described, in a book published on 1962, his father-in-law UsefulNotes/CharlesDeGaulle as a dictator.
* During the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who was appointed to investigate the Watergate scandal and had subpoenaed Nixon's secret recordings of White House conversations. Richardson resigned immediately instead. Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus did the same when he was given the order. The next man, Robert Bork, considered resigning also, but instead backed down and fired Cox.
* In 1939, the Daughters of the American Revolution, a prestigious group consisting of women who could trace their lineage to the Revolutionary War or earlier, refused to allow celebrated singer Marian Anderson to perform at Constitution Hall, their headquarters in Washington, D.C., [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero just because she was black]] (the D.A.R. had a strict "no African-American artists" policy due to black protests over segregated seating in Constitution Hall). When Eleanor Roosevelt, who was then First Lady of the United States, heard, she ''very'' publicly resigned her D.A.R. membership (along with thousands of other members) and, in a brilliant example of StartMyOwn, got her husband UsefulNotes/{{Franklin Delano|Roosevelt}} and Walter White, the executive secretary of the NAACP at the time, to help organize a giant open-air concert for Anderson on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial instead. Over 75,000 people of all races showed up in person, while millions more listened on the radio. Read more about it (and the actual letter itself) [[https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/american_originals/eleanor.html here]].
* In 1943, Senator Alben Barkley resigned as Senate Majority Leader after having a major break with President Franklin Roosevelt over Roosevelt's veto of a revenue bill. Barkley was unanimously reelected to the post by his fellow Democratic senators and Congress proceeded to override Roosevelt's veto.
* Multiple U.S. Secretaries of State have resigned after breaking with their chief executive. Lewis Cass resigned in 1860 over James Buchanan's inaction in the face of the Southern secessionism, William Jennings Bryan in 1915 resigned when Woodrow Wilson became more hardline towards Imperial Germany, and Cryus Vance resigned in 1980 after President Carter authorized a botched military operation to rescue the American hostages in Iran.
* Some British officers "broke their swords" (resigned in protest) after the American Revolution, when the British agreed that black slaves who had been promised their freedom if they fought for the British would be returned to slavery by the Americans. Not that the British had any objections to slavery in general; just that they had [[IGaveMyWord given their words]] as gentlemen to these slaves in particular.
* After the 2021 U.S. Capitol storming[[note]]in which a far-right mob of Trump supporters violently attempted to stop Congress from formalizing Biden's victory, leading to many describing it [[TheCoup as an attempted self-coup]]. Before this, Trump [[SoreLoser baselessly cried foul]] and filed over 70 {{frivolous lawsuit}}s in an attempt to invalidate the 2020 results. Usually, January 6 is the date where Congress approves the election result for the President every 4 years. Although there were past instances of objections made to a certain state's electoral count, these were shot down. None of the objections made in the 2020 Electoral College ceremony went ahead as there wasn't enough support[[/note]], some of President UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's cabinet quit in protest even though their terms were to end on January 20, feeling that he was incapable of leading the country while the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic raged on. Others (most notably VP Mike Pence, who remains estranged with Trump as rioters threatened his life when he ignored Trump's request to invalidate the results; Pence ultimately chose to attend Biden's inauguration while Trump was a no-show, having quietly left earlier in the morning to his resort at Palm Beach) stayed to ensure a smooth transition to the incoming Biden administration, fearing that Trump could install cronies who would do his bidding and incite more chaos.
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* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'': When the Acorn Council votes to banish NICOLE from New Mobotropolis because "[[ConvictedByPublicOpinion it's what the people want]]", Rotor is so disgusted and upset that he resigns from his seat on the spot.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan2099'': This trope is part of Miguel O'Hara's SuperHeroOrigin story. He was originally the head geneticist of Alchemax, with their focus being genetic modification to create {{Corporate Samurai}}s. At one point his [[CorruptCorporateExecutive superiors]] forced him to experiment on a human subject, despite Miguel's protests that they weren't ready yet. As a result, the man was transformed into a monster and Miguel was forced to have him killed. However, his boss called the experiment a success, making Miguel try to quit on moral grounds.
* ''ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}'': DependingOnTheWriter, this is one of the more common explanations given for how Dick Grayson transitioned from ComicBook/{{Robin}} to Nightwing. In such versions, he walks out because he got fed up with being treated as a subordinate to Franchise/{{Batman}}, or because Batman gave him some sort of order he refused to follow, or because he learns about an illicit affair between Batman and his girlfriend, Barbara Gordon (aka ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}).

** Franchise/SpiderMan quits after learning that the Pro-Reg side is locking up ''fellow superheroes'' in a prison within ''The Negative Zone'' -- a dimension that is stated to instill feelings of anguish, fear, and dread within human beings - and treating them as legal non-people.

* Steve Rogers surrendered his role as ComicBook/CaptainAmerica (for the second time) when the US government declared he technically owed them back pay for the decades since World War II. He was afraid they would recommission him as an agent working directly for them and order him to do things that go against the ideals of America, which Rogers honors more than any administration or government bureaucracy.

* In ''Film/InTheLoop'', several figures in both the United States and United Kingdom governments are prepared to do this if their governments proceed to go to war based on a sketchy source that is supposedly supplying them with covert information but they strongly suspect to be false. [[spoiler:In the end only Karen Clarke (an Assistant Secretary of State for the US government) actually goes through with it, robbing the gesture of the meaning it would have had if they had all done it together. General Miller backs off at the last minute, rationalizing his decision by saying he'll be better able to help the soldiers under his command by remaining, and Simon is preemptively fired from his position in the UK Government and not allowed to even make a statement by resigning in protest.]]
* In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', as the manhunt to find the Joker becomes increasingly desperate and [[GodzillaThreshold the stakes get higher and higher]], Batman reveals that he created a device that will allow him to spy on every cell phone in Gotham. When he reveals this to Lucius Fox, Fox is shocked and horrified by the ethical issues it raises. Then Batman reveals that he has given control of the device to Fox because he doesn't trust himself with the potential slippery slope of using it. Given the threat posed by the Joker, Fox agrees to use the device one time, but also resigns as CEO of Wayne Enterprises, saying "As long as this machine is at Wayne Enterprises, I won't be." After the Joker is caught, the device is destroyed, and Fox returns to his position as CEO.
* In ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'', Scotty refuses to allow experimental torpedoes to be loaded onto the ''Enterprise'' until he's seen the specs and had a chance to examine them thoroughly. He and Kirk argue about it until Kirk [[ThatsAnOrder pulls rank]] and orders Scotty to accept them without question, at which point Scotty says he has no choice but to resign.

* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', when Cornelius Fudge installs [[TyrantTakesTheHelm Dolores Umbridge]] to take over for Dumbledore at Hogwarts after forcing Dumbledore out, Griselda Marchbanks and several other figures from the Ministry of Magic resign to protest Fudge's actions. Fudge proceeds to expand the Ministry's smear campaign to include her and the others too.
* In the Literature/AlexRider novel ''Scorpia'', Max Grendel plans to retire from Scorpia's board of leadership because he's [[EvenEvilHasStandards disturbed by their plans to develop a superweapon]] [[WouldHurtAChild specifically for the purpose of killing schoolchildren]]. Unfortunately for him, Scorpia has a ResignationsNotAccepted policy, [[spoiler:and the briefcase his colleagues get him as a retirement gift is filled with scorpions that sting him to death when it's opened]].
* In ''Literature/{{Jingo}},'' when Vimes is relieved from command by [[ModernMajorGeneral Lord Rust]], Carrot, Colon, and Detritus all hand in their badges. (Metaphorically in Detritus' case, because his badge is etched into his arm).
* In ''Literature/DarknessSeries'' when the King of Zuwayzin cuts a deal to hand over refugee Algarvians to the [[TheCaligula Mad King Swemmel]] of Unkerlant towards the end of the series, Hajjaj, the [[HonestAdvisor Chief Advisor]] to the King of Zuwayzin resigns in protest. It should be noted that threatening this has been a recurring tactic he uses whenever he feels his young King is about to do something too unconscionable, and it usually works, but this time the King has no choice and the Advisor has no choice but to follow through.

* ''Series/KamenRiderZeroOne'': For about 2/3 of the show, Yua Yaiba (Kamen Rider Valkyrie) had been the right-hand woman of Gai Amatsu, the CorruptCorporateExecutive running ZAIA Industries. She did all kinds of underhanded acts, partly in an attempt to mitigate it whenever she could but mostly because [[ShockCollar he can force her obedience via a chip implanted in her head]]. After finally getting pushed too far (and figuring out how to disable the chip), Yua teams up with the heroic Kamen Riders to kick Amatsu's ass, then hands in her resignation: [[MegatonPunch a right hook to the chin]], complete with the kind of graphic effects that are normally reserved for the Riders' {{Finishing Move}}s.
* ''Series/TheExpanse'':
** In the second season, [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Admiral Souther]] refuses to go along with orders that have a dangerously high chance of turning the SpaceColdWar between Earth and [[ColonizedSolarSystem Mars]] into an open, shooting war. When [[{{Warhawk}} Undersecretary Errenwright]] and [[PuppetKing Secretary General Sorrento Gillis]] press him on the matter, he promptly resigns his position as commander of the fleet on the spot, complete with ripping off his insignia and tossing it on the table. InternalReformist Avasarala [[DeconstructedTrope points out the consequence of this]]; the [[InsaneAdmiral incredibly insane]] [[GeneralRipper Admiral Nguyen]] (who has no problem with following the orders of or egging on the other hardliners in the government) is appointed to replace him, leaving no moderating voice in Earth's High Command.
** The Season 4 episode "[[Recap/TheExpanseS04E08TheOneEyedMan The One-Eyed Man]]" features two of these coming quite close together: first, a UN Marine General tenders his resignation due to a raid that went wrong from the previous episode. He feels that Avasarala took a needless risk in choosing to order the raid and put the lives of the marines and civilians in danger in order to help her political career, and he doesn't want to be part of that anymore. Meanwhile Drummer, after years of being Fred Johnson's [[NumberTwo right-hand woman]], decides to quit because she doesn't like the direction he's pushing the Belt, which she feels emphasizes cooperation with the Inner Planets over the good of actual Belters.
** Taken to a new level in the fifth season. In the wake of [[ColonyDrop a horrifying terrorist attack]] that causes crippling damage to Earth, the new Secretary General appointed due to [[spoiler:Gao's death]] orders a military strike that harms many innocent Belter civilians and can't be talked out of further such attacks despite both logical and emotional pleas from Avasarala. As a result first Avasarala and then more than half his Cabinet furiously resign on the spot, triggering a vote of no confidence that removes him from power. [[spoiler:Avasarala, who was both the first and strongest objector to these indiscriminate military attacks and was the first to resign, is asked to take the position of Secretary General once again.]]
* ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'': After Mara gets expelled for writing an accusatory article on Vera, Miss Andrews, who ''asked'' Mara to write the article in the first place, decided it would be best for her to quit teaching at the school. She couldn't stand working there anymore with Victor running the place, especially after the mess that had occurred the year before [[note]]A student was pulled from the school with no warning, another student was kidnapped and Victor had refused to help her, and all the students nearly died, because of her and the other teachers' efforts to become immortal[[/note]], and especially couldn't allow Mr.Sweet to get away with expelling Mara. Mr.Sweet attempted to pull the ResignationsNotAccepted card, but she still ended up leaving.

* In the opening titles of each episode of ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'', we see Number 6 angrily resigning from his job at an intelligence agency.

** In season 1, when Ben Urich tries to write an article that exposes Wilson Fisk's corruption, his editor stops him because he buys into [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Fisk's reputation as the saviour of Hell's Kitchen]]. Urich quits on the spot before Ellison gets a chance to fire him.
** In season 2, Claire Temple quits her job as a nurse in Metro General because the hospital tried to cover up the murder of one of the nurses, along with a few others.

* ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'': If you find one of the collectible backpacks, you'll find an article that blames Spider-Man for the death of a bunch of police officers that were killed by Electro, published by the ''Bugle''. It was this article that made Peter quit his job, as he got tired of selling pictures to a paper that painted him as a criminal.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffct1:'' In conversation about his C-Sec days, Garrus mentions he nearly did this when a mad doctor was allowed to go free.

* A downplayed version shows up in the Backstory of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' with Professor Gast Faramis. Gast was [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom the guy who set things in motion for the FF7 verse]]; he was the one who discovered Jenova, misidentified her [[note]](or rather ''It'')[[/note]] as an Ancient, and kick-started the Jenova Project (which created Sephiroth, SOLDIER, and many other problems). However, unlike the sadistic Hojo, Gast had his limits. When he realized that Jenova was not an Ancient, but something ''much'' worse, he tried to back off so he and his team could figure out what the hell they were actually dealing with. Unfortunately, the Project had gained its own momentum and there was nothing Gast could do about it. He quit Shinra a short time later, sensing that the only way he'd get some real answers was to continue his investigations on his own.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode ''Prototype'', [[ComicBook/{{Steel}} John Henry Irons]] designs a suit of PoweredArmor that Lex Corp plans to supply the police, but Irons protests that the product is being rushed and in particular the neural interface for the suit hasn't been fully tested. After Luthor ignores his warnings and insists on starting production on the suit immediately, Irons resigns on the spot.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' sees Hank hire a seemingly-bright young man who turns out to be an incompetent drug addict, and then finds he can't fire the idiot because his addiction is considered a disability, and the company is just large enough to be subject to the Americans With Disabilities Act, forcing them to accommodate the addict. Finally, Hank gets fed up and quits in protest, making the company just small enough that they are no longer subject to the ADA, allowing his boss to fire the addict.

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Compare and contrast with TurnInYourBadge, ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight and ScrewThisImOuttaHere The person resigning may be hit with ResignationsNotAccepted in response. There's some overlap with TheLastDJ, who values their integrity and doing what's right over their job prospects and rising in rank, and is willing to defy their bosses over it, and RageWithinTheMachine, when someone begins doubting the organization they're a part of and first begins rebelling against it. (Or at least contemplating doing so.) An inverse is the InternalReformist, who decided to try to stay within the system and attempt to guide it to better things or reform it that way.

* During Creator/MarvelComics' ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' story, many characters on the Pro-Registration side of the conflict eventually wound up quitting or defecting out of disgust. In particular:
** Franchise/SpiderMan quits after learning that the Pro-Reg side is locking up ''fellow superheroes'' in a prison within ''The Negative Zone'' -- a dimension that is stated to instill feelings of anguish, fear, and dread within human beings.
** ComicBook/InvisibleWoman quit after learning that her husband and the other scientists of the Pro-Reg side had created a clone of [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] and set it loose against their friends-turned-opponents, resulting in the death of Black Goliath.
* Steve Rogers surrendered his role as Franchise/CaptainAmerica (for the second time) when the US government, after giving him his back pay for the decades since World War II, recommissioned him as an agent working directly for them and ordered him to do things that go against the ideals of America, which Rogers honors more than any administration or government bureaucracy.

--> '''Illusive Man:''' "I gave you an ''order'', Miranda!"
--> '''Miranda:''' "I noticed. Consider this my resignation."

Compare and contrast with TurnInYourBadge, ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight and ScrewThisImOutOfHere The person resigning may be hit with ResignationsNotAccepted in response. There's some overlap with TheLastDJ, who values their integrity and doing what's right over their job prospects and rising in rank, and is willing to defy their bosses over it, and RageWithinTheMachine, when someone begins doubting the organization they're a part of and first begins rebelling against it. (Or at least contemplating doing so.) An inverse is the InternalReformist, who decided to try to stay within the system and attempt to guide it to better things or reform it that way.

** During the Water 7 arc, Usopp quits the Straw Hats after learning that they plan to get another ship because the ''Going Merry'' won't be able to sail any further, and Usopp is very attached to the ship since it was a present from his friend Kaya. This is also a PoorCommunicationKills issue as Luffy was likewise troubled after hearing the news and [[BadNewsInAGoodWay was trying to put on a cheerful facade when he broke the news to Usopp]], who took it the wrong way and triggered an argument. Though after the events of this and the Enies Lobby arc, Usopp apologizes and re-joins the crew later on.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode ''Prototype'', [[{{ComicBook/Steel}} John Henry Irons]] designs a suit of PoweredArmor that Lex Corp plans to supply the police, but Irons protests that the product is being rushed and in particular the neural interface for the suit hasn't been fully tested. After Luthor ignores his warnings and insists on starting production on the suit immediately, Irons resigns on the spot.

* After the 2021 U.S. Capitol storming[[note]]in which a far-right mob violently attempted to stop Congress from approving UsefulNotes/JoeBiden's victory. Before this, Trump [[SoreLoser baselessly cried foul]] and filed over 70 {{frivolous lawsuit}}s against the swing states he lost in an unprecedented effort to flip the 2020 results. Usually, January 6 is the date where Congress approves the election results for the President every 4 years. Although there were past instances of objections made to a certain state's electoral count, these were mostly rejected. None of the objections made by several GOP congresspersons in the 2020 Electoral College proceedings went ahead as there weren't enough votes[[/note]], while some of President UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's cabinet resigned ''en masse'' even though their terms were to end on January 20, others chose to ResignInProtest, feeling that he was incapable of leading the country while the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic raged on. Still others stayed to ensure a smooth transition to the incoming Biden administration, fearing that Trump could install cronies who would do his bidding and incite more chaos.

** In the second season, [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Admiral Souther]] refuses to go along with orders that have a dangerously high chance of turning the SpaceColdWar between Earth and [[ColonizedSolarSystem Mars]] into an open, shooting war. When [[{{Warhawk}} Undersecretary Errenwright]] and [[PuppetKing Secretary General Sorrento Gillis]] press him on the matter, he promptly resigns his position as commander of the fleet on the spot, complete with ripping off his insignia and tossing it on the table. InternalReformist Avasarala [[DeconstructedTrope points out the consequence of this]]; the [[InsaneAdmiral incredibly insane]] [[GeneralRipper Admiral Nguyen]] (who has no problem with following the orders of or even egging on the other hardliners in the government) is appointed to replace him, leaving no moderating voice in Earth's High Command.

** Taken to a new level in the fifth season. When the new Secretary General appointed after [[spoiler:Gao's death]] orders a military strike that harms many Belter civilians and can't be talked out of further such attacks despite both logical and emotional pleas from [[spoiler:Avasarala]], more than half his Cabinet furiously resign on the spot, and [[spoiler:Avasarala]], who objected the longest and hardest against his actions, is asked to replace him following a vote of no confidence.

* ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'': If you find one of the collectible backpacks, you'll find an article that blames Spider-Man for the death of a bunch of police officers that were killed by Electro, published by the Bugle. It was this article that made Peter quit his job, as he got tired of selling pictures to a paper that painted him as a criminal.

--> '''Technician''': I... [[PrecisionFStrike Goddammit]], you know what!? How about you take your facial recognition and ''SHOVE IT!'' Because I'm not working in this DEATH TRAP anymore, '''''STARTING RIGHT NOW!'''''

*** Also the reason Fleet Admiral was an open position in the first place. Sengoku chose to quit when he learned that the World Government had chosen to cover up the break out of Impel Down's Level 6 prisoners instead of issuing Wanted posters for them, putting the public in greater danger. Sengoku didn't fully quit the Marines however, only resigning from the Fleet Admiral position.

* Some British officers "broke their swords" (resigned in protest) after the American Revolution, when the British agreed that black slaves who had been promised their freedom if they fought for the British would be returned to slavery by the Americans. Not that the British had any objections to slavery in general; just that they had given their words as gentlemen to these slaves in particular.

* A downplayed version shows up in the Backstory of VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII with Professor Gast Faramis. Gast was [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom the guy who set things in motion for the FF7 verse]]; he was the one who discovered Jenova, misidentified her [[note]](or rather ''It'')[[/note]] as an Ancient, and kick-started the Jenova Project (which created Sephiroth, SOLDIER, and many other problems). However, unlike the sadistic Hojo, Gast had his limits. When he realized that Jenova was not an Ancient, but something ''much'' worse, he tried to back off so he and his team could figure out what the hell they were actually dealing with. Unfortunately, the Project had gained its own momentum and there was nothing Gast could do about it. He quit Shinra a short time later, sensing that the only way he'd get some real answers was to continue his investigations on his own.