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* ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin'' helps get you acquainted with most of its boss enemies by forcing Sebastian to haul ass from them in a panic while they destroy everything standing in their path.
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* ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin'' helps Before you even begin playing the actual game, you get you acquainted with most a bit of its boss enemies by forcing Sebastian expository text at the beginning of ''VideoGame/Outlast'' telling you, amongst other things, that Miles cannot physically fight back against anyone and that running and hiding are your only methods of survival.
--> "You are not a fighter; tohaul ass from them in a panic while they destroy everything standing in their path.navigate the horrors of Mount Massive and expose the truth, your only choices are to run, hide, or die."
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* In ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'', a few turns into your first fight with Enoch, the Batter will warn you that he's too powerful and urge you to flee. [[spoiler:When you do run, he begins chasing you down the hallway from his office, and the process is repeated if he catches you.]] Defeating him is technically possible, but he has 99999 HP (over eight times as much as the BonusBoss) and higher Defense and Spirit than anything else in the game[[note]]other than [[spoiler:Hugo]] and the Ballmen, but [[spoiler:Hugo]] doesn't attack and [[spoiler:you don't fight the Ballmen as the Batter]][[/note]], you get no experience/credits/items for doing so, and the game continues as though you fled.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'', a few turns into your first fight with Enoch, the Batter will warn you that he's too powerful huge, and urge you to flee. [[spoiler:When you do run, he begins chasing you down the hallway from his office, and the process is repeated if he catches you.]] Defeating him is technically possible, but he has 99999 HP (over eight times as much as the BonusBoss) [[BonusBoss Sugar]]) and higher Defense and Spirit than anything anything/anyone else in the game[[note]]other game other than [[spoiler:Hugo]] and the Ballmen, but [[spoiler:Hugo]] doesn't attack you, and [[spoiler:you [[spoiler: you don't fight the Ballmen as the Batter]][[/note]], Batter,]] you get no experience/credits/items for doing so, and the game continues as though you fled.
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* Happens on multiple occasions in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''.
** Pre-scratch Human Session Jack Noir evokes this on the session as soon as the White Queen's ring grants him the powers of a [[PhysicalGod First Guardian]] after Becquerel is prototyped. He becomes Bec Noir, a ruthless killing machine whose only soft spot is [[MoralityPet Jade Harley]]. After directly or indirectly killing the entire main human cast ([[DeathIsCheap they got better]]) along with multiple side characters (who did not) he then moved to the troll session. He destroyed every spare Aradiabot, killed all spare troll dreamselves, and blew up every planet in the session. From there, the trolls' only hope is to flee on the meteorite they were hiding in. The best future that could happen from opposing him is a [[PyrrhicVictory possible last man standing victory for Vriska]]. From there, Bec Noir has his own Run or Die with the Prototyped Peregrine Mendicant, [[VillainousCrush who he cannot bring himself to try to kill]] while she has no hesitation to do the same. For three years he chases the fleeing meteorite and runs away from the Peregrine Mendicant until they reached the Post-Scratch Human session.
** There is also Lord English, an indestructible, all-powerful time traveling demon with the power to [[DeaderThanDead kill ghosts]]. They can do little aside from run from him as he kills not only the Dreaming Dead but destroys the [[DreamLand Dream Bubbles]] themselves, along with the [[EldritchAbomination horrorterrors]] that created them.
** Pre-scratch Human Session Jack Noir evokes this on the session as soon as the White Queen's ring grants him the powers of a [[PhysicalGod First Guardian]] after Becquerel is prototyped. He becomes Bec Noir, a ruthless killing machine whose only soft spot is [[MoralityPet Jade Harley]]. After directly or indirectly killing the entire main human cast ([[DeathIsCheap they got better]]) along with multiple side characters (who did not) he then moved to the troll session. He destroyed every spare Aradiabot, killed all spare troll dreamselves, and blew up every planet in the session. From there, the trolls' only hope is to flee on the meteorite they were hiding in. The best future that could happen from opposing him is a [[PyrrhicVictory possible last man standing victory for Vriska]]. From there, Bec Noir has his own Run or Die with the Prototyped Peregrine Mendicant, [[VillainousCrush who he cannot bring himself to try to kill]] while she has no hesitation to do the same. For three years he chases the fleeing meteorite and runs away from the Peregrine Mendicant until they reached the Post-Scratch Human session.
** There is also Lord English, an indestructible, all-powerful time traveling demon with the power to [[DeaderThanDead kill ghosts]]. They can do little aside from run from him as he kills not only the Dreaming Dead but destroys the [[DreamLand Dream Bubbles]] themselves, along with the [[EldritchAbomination horrorterrors]] that created them.
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* In ''[[Film/IT1990 It (1990)'', when the Losers return to Derry as adults, Pennywise appears before each of them, warning them to get out while they can. IT explicitly states to Richie that he and the rest of the Losers are too old to stop IT now. Later, when they enter the sewers at the film's climax, IT warns them again to leave by threatening to drive them all insane.
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* In ''[[Film/IT1990 It (1990)'', (1990)]]'', when the Losers return to Derry as adults, Pennywise appears before each of them, warning them to get out while they can. IT explicitly states to Richie that he and the rest of the Losers are too old to stop IT now. Later, when they enter the sewers at the film's climax, IT warns them again to leave by threatening to drive them all insane.
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* ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'': After Dracula finds out Lisa was taken and executed by the church, his last act of kindness is to tell her elderly neighbor who came to pay her respects to Lisa's memory, to take her family and run before he unleashes his wrath.
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* ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'': After Dracula finds out Lisa was taken arrested on trumped-up charges of witchcraft and executed by the church, executed, his last act of kindness is to tell her elderly neighbor neighbor, who came to pay her respects to Lisa's memory, to take her family and run before he unleashes his wrath.
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-->'''Dracula''': I do this last kindness in her name, she who loved you humans and cared for your ills. Take your family and leave Wallachia TONIGHT. Pack and go, and do ''not'' look back. '''''For no more do I travel as a man.'''''
-->'''Dracula''': I do this last kindness in her name, she who loved you humans and cared for your ills. Take your family and leave Wallachia TONIGHT. Pack and go, and do ''not'' look back. '''''For no more do I travel as a man.'''''
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* Steel Inquisitors from ''Literature/{{Mistborn}}''. Nigh-invincible {{Blood Knight}}s who are definitely fighting at a higher SuperWeight than TheProtagonist. There's a fight against one at the end of the first book, and they remain the single biggest threat for the rest of the trilogy. One of Kelsier's {{Establishing Character Moment}}s comes when he riles one deliberately in order to draw its attention away from Vin, though even he escapes as quickly as possible after that.
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* The Bugs in Creator/DavidWeber and Steve White's ''In Death Ground''. Given the colonies the military had to protect, [[ToServeMan running was the worst option.]]
* In some version of ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', King Finwë was the only inhabitant of Fëanor's fortress of exile who did not run for it when a hostile Melkor approached to steal the Silmarils. He is slain for his trouble, and no surprise, since Melkor is the ''most powerful being ever created by God''. Fighting him, for an Elf or a Man, is a losing proposition.
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'':
** It introduces ''several'' enemies like this in the first book alone. People don't enter the abandoned city of [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Shadow's Waiting]] unless they're forced to, because the evil that killed it is still trapped there and looking for new victims. People don't enter [[PortalNetwork the Ways]] unless they're desperate, because the magic that created them was corrupted, and now they're haunted by the Black Wind That Steals Souls. And people don't enter [[GardenOfEvil the Blight]] unless they're suicidal, because, [[EverythingTryingToKillYou well...]]
** Subverted gloriously in the fourth book. [[TheMedic Nynaeve]] finds herself unexpectedly confronted with Moghedien, one of [[QuirkyMinibossSquad the Forsaken]] and someone Nynaeve has been raised to believe is a {{Nigh Invulnerab|ility}}le evil demigod. Moghedien seems to be toying with Nynaeve, who is determined to escape knowing that she'll die when the Forsaken gets serious and turns her full strength against her - and then Nynaeve realizes that Moghedien ''is'' [[TheManBehindTheCurtain using her full strength]], she's not actually any stronger with [[FunctionalMagic the One Power]] than Nynaeve herself, and she's not toying, she's ''stalling''. Cue beatdown that ends with ''Moghedien'' being the one to run with her tail between her legs.
* In some version of ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', King Finwë was the only inhabitant of Fëanor's fortress of exile who did not run for it when a hostile Melkor approached to steal the Silmarils. He is slain for his trouble, and no surprise, since Melkor is the ''most powerful being ever created by God''. Fighting him, for an Elf or a Man, is a losing proposition.
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'':
** It introduces ''several'' enemies like this in the first book alone. People don't enter the abandoned city of [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Shadow's Waiting]] unless they're forced to, because the evil that killed it is still trapped there and looking for new victims. People don't enter [[PortalNetwork the Ways]] unless they're desperate, because the magic that created them was corrupted, and now they're haunted by the Black Wind That Steals Souls. And people don't enter [[GardenOfEvil the Blight]] unless they're suicidal, because, [[EverythingTryingToKillYou well...]]
** Subverted gloriously in the fourth book. [[TheMedic Nynaeve]] finds herself unexpectedly confronted with Moghedien, one of [[QuirkyMinibossSquad the Forsaken]] and someone Nynaeve has been raised to believe is a {{Nigh Invulnerab|ility}}le evil demigod. Moghedien seems to be toying with Nynaeve, who is determined to escape knowing that she'll die when the Forsaken gets serious and turns her full strength against her - and then Nynaeve realizes that Moghedien ''is'' [[TheManBehindTheCurtain using her full strength]], she's not actually any stronger with [[FunctionalMagic the One Power]] than Nynaeve herself, and she's not toying, she's ''stalling''. Cue beatdown that ends with ''Moghedien'' being the one to run with her tail between her legs.
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* The Balrog from ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' is far beyond the power of the Fellowship to defeat, making running the only option. The only character who actually manages to kill it is Gandalf himself, but only because [[spoiler:he is a Maia like the Balrog, and even then he dies too (he gets better)]].
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* The Balrog from ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' is far beyond ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': Shagnasty the Skinwalker swiftly becomes this in ''Literature/TurnCoat''. Harry himself backed up by a trio of heavily armed vampires and an army of mooks with machine guns can't stop it. It takes Harry using Soulfire, on an island giving him a power boost, and backed up by a member of the Fellowship to defeat, making running White Council (the most powerful wizards in the only option. The only character who actually manages business) to kill it is Gandalf himself, but only because [[spoiler:he is a Maia like fight the Balrog, thing to a draw, and even then it's still alive. One has been killed by a wizard... who kept running until he dies too (he gets better)]].lured it into the blast zone of a ''nuclear bomb''.
* The main characters in ''Literature/EdenGreen'' are infected with an alien needle symbiote that renders them immortal. They decide to team up and use their new HealingFactor to fight the monsters invading their city. But more than one species, especially the nausea-inspiring Exes, cause them to turn tail and run screaming in the other direction.
* The [[KnightOfCerebus Osthan]] of ''Literature/TheFirstDwarfKing'' are MadeOfIndestructium {{Super Soldier}}s who [[TheDreaded inspire fear]] in their enemies. The heroes literally stand ''no'' chance against them in combat; it's made clear from the start that fighting them is suicidal. Their EstablishingCharacterMoment shows them [[MookHorrorShow ruthlessly murder more than one hundred opponents]] [[CurbStompBattle without breaking a sweat]] -- and there are only ''three'' of them!
* The tagline for the ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book "How to Kill a Monster" is "Step One: Run. Step Two: Run Faster."
* The climax of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' has Harry forced to fight a WizardDuel against the recently-resurrected BigBad Voldemort, with a squad of [[{{Mooks}} Death Eaters]] watching. Although the unforeseen ''priori incantatem'' effect is able to hold Voldy off for a while, Harry's only chance for survival is to break off the engagement and use a nearby portkey to return to Hogwarts.
* The main characters in ''Literature/EdenGreen'' are infected with an alien needle symbiote that renders them immortal. They decide to team up and use their new HealingFactor to fight the monsters invading their city. But more than one species, especially the nausea-inspiring Exes, cause them to turn tail and run screaming in the other direction.
* The [[KnightOfCerebus Osthan]] of ''Literature/TheFirstDwarfKing'' are MadeOfIndestructium {{Super Soldier}}s who [[TheDreaded inspire fear]] in their enemies. The heroes literally stand ''no'' chance against them in combat; it's made clear from the start that fighting them is suicidal. Their EstablishingCharacterMoment shows them [[MookHorrorShow ruthlessly murder more than one hundred opponents]] [[CurbStompBattle without breaking a sweat]] -- and there are only ''three'' of them!
* The tagline for the ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book "How to Kill a Monster" is "Step One: Run. Step Two: Run Faster."
* The climax of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' has Harry forced to fight a WizardDuel against the recently-resurrected BigBad Voldemort, with a squad of [[{{Mooks}} Death Eaters]] watching. Although the unforeseen ''priori incantatem'' effect is able to hold Voldy off for a while, Harry's only chance for survival is to break off the engagement and use a nearby portkey to return to Hogwarts.
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* The tagline Steel Inquisitors from ''Literature/{{Mistborn}}''. Nigh-invincible {{Blood Knight}}s who are definitely fighting at a higher SuperWeight than TheProtagonist. There's a fight against one at the end of the first book, and they remain the single biggest threat for the Literature/{{Goosebumps}} rest of the trilogy. One of Kelsier's {{Establishing Character Moment}}s comes when he riles one deliberately in order to draw its attention away from Vin, though even he escapes as quickly as possible after that.
* ''Literature/{{Starfire}}'': The Bugs in Creator/DavidWeber and Steve White's ''In Death Ground''. Given the colonies the military had to protect, [[ToServeMan running was the worst option.]]
* ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'':
** The Balrog from ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' is far beyond the power of the Fellowship to defeat, making running the only option. The only character who actually manages to kill it is Gandalf himself, but only because [[spoiler:he is a Maia like the Balrog, and even then he dies too (he gets better)]].
** In some version of ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', King Finwë was the only inhabitant of Fëanor's fortress of exile who did not run for it when a hostile Melkor approached to steal the Silmarils. He is slain for his trouble, and no surprise, since Melkor is the ''most powerful being ever created by God''. Fighting him, for an Elf or a Man, is a losing proposition.
* This occurs when Ryoka tries to make her delivery to the High Passes in ''Literature/TheWanderingInn''. She tries to fight off the goblins and Carn Wolves. But when carnivorous goats arrive and start to eat the wolves and then gargoyles arrive and start to eat the goats it becomes apparent that she is the very bottom of the food chain.
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'':
** It introduces ''several'' enemies like this in the first book"How alone. People don't enter the abandoned city of [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Shadow's Waiting]] unless they're forced to, because the evil that killed it is still trapped there and looking for new victims. People don't enter [[PortalNetwork the Ways]] unless they're desperate, because the magic that created them was corrupted, and now they're haunted by the Black Wind That Steals Souls. And people don't enter [[GardenOfEvil the Blight]] unless they're suicidal, because, [[EverythingTryingToKillYou well...]]
** Subverted gloriously in the fourth book. [[TheMedic Nynaeve]] finds herself unexpectedly confronted with Moghedien, one of [[QuirkyMinibossSquad the Forsaken]] and someone Nynaeve has been raised toKill a Monster" believe is "Step One: Run. Step Two: Run Faster."a {{Nigh Invulnerab|ility}}le evil demigod. Moghedien seems to be toying with Nynaeve, who is determined to escape knowing that she'll die when the Forsaken gets serious and turns her full strength against her - and then Nynaeve realizes that Moghedien ''is'' [[TheManBehindTheCurtain using her full strength]], she's not actually any stronger with [[FunctionalMagic the One Power]] than Nynaeve herself, and she's not toying, she's ''stalling''. Cue beatdown that ends with ''Moghedien'' being the one to run with her tail between her legs.
* ''Literature/{{Starfire}}'': The Bugs in Creator/DavidWeber and Steve White's ''In Death Ground''. Given the colonies the military had to protect, [[ToServeMan running was the worst option.]]
* ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'':
** The Balrog from ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' is far beyond the power of the Fellowship to defeat, making running the only option. The only character who actually manages to kill it is Gandalf himself, but only because [[spoiler:he is a Maia like the Balrog, and even then he dies too (he gets better)]].
** In some version of ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', King Finwë was the only inhabitant of Fëanor's fortress of exile who did not run for it when a hostile Melkor approached to steal the Silmarils. He is slain for his trouble, and no surprise, since Melkor is the ''most powerful being ever created by God''. Fighting him, for an Elf or a Man, is a losing proposition.
* This occurs when Ryoka tries to make her delivery to the High Passes in ''Literature/TheWanderingInn''. She tries to fight off the goblins and Carn Wolves. But when carnivorous goats arrive and start to eat the wolves and then gargoyles arrive and start to eat the goats it becomes apparent that she is the very bottom of the food chain.
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'':
** It introduces ''several'' enemies like this in the first book
** Subverted gloriously in the fourth book. [[TheMedic Nynaeve]] finds herself unexpectedly confronted with Moghedien, one of [[QuirkyMinibossSquad the Forsaken]] and someone Nynaeve has been raised to
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* The [[KnightOfCerebus Osthan]] of ''Literature/TheFirstDwarfKing'' are MadeOfIndestructium {{Super Soldier}}s who [[TheDreaded inspire fear]] in their enemies. The heroes literally stand ''no'' chance against them in combat; it's made clear from the start that fighting them is suicidal. Their EstablishingCharacterMoment shows them [[MookHorrorShow ruthlessly murder more than one hundred opponents]] [[CurbStompBattle without breaking a sweat]] -- and there are only ''three'' of them!
* The main characters in ''Literature/EdenGreen'' are infected with an alien needle symbiote that renders them immortal. They decide to team up and use their new HealingFactor to fight the monsters invading their city. But more than one species, especially the nausea-inspiring Exes, cause them to turn tail and run screaming in the other direction.
* Shagnasty the Skinwalker swiftly becomes this in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''. Harry himself backed up by a trio of heavily armed vampires and an army of mooks with machine guns can't stop it. It takes Harry using Soulfire, on an island giving him a power boost, and backed up by a member of the White Council (the most powerful wizards in the business) to fight the thing to a draw, and even then it's still alive. One has been killed by a wizard... who kept running until he lured it into the blast zone of a ''nuclear bomb''.
* This occurs when Ryoka tries to make her delivery to the High Passes in ''Literature/TheWanderingInn''. She tries to fight off the goblins and Carn Wolves. But when carnivorous goats arrive and start to eat the wolves and then gargoyles arrive and start to eat the goats it becomes apparent that she is the very bottom of the food chain.
* The climax of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' has Harry forced to fight a WizardDuel against the recently-resurrected BigBad Voldemort, with a squad of [[{{Mooks}} Death Eaters]] watching. Although the unforeseen ''priori incantatem'' effect is able to hold Voldy off for a while, Harry's only chance for survival is to break off the engagement and use a nearby portkey to return to Hogwarts.
* The main characters in ''Literature/EdenGreen'' are infected with an alien needle symbiote that renders them immortal. They decide to team up and use their new HealingFactor to fight the monsters invading their city. But more than one species, especially the nausea-inspiring Exes, cause them to turn tail and run screaming in the other direction.
* Shagnasty the Skinwalker swiftly becomes this in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''. Harry himself backed up by a trio of heavily armed vampires and an army of mooks with machine guns can't stop it. It takes Harry using Soulfire, on an island giving him a power boost, and backed up by a member of the White Council (the most powerful wizards in the business) to fight the thing to a draw, and even then it's still alive. One has been killed by a wizard... who kept running until he lured it into the blast zone of a ''nuclear bomb''.
* This occurs when Ryoka tries to make her delivery to the High Passes in ''Literature/TheWanderingInn''. She tries to fight off the goblins and Carn Wolves. But when carnivorous goats arrive and start to eat the wolves and then gargoyles arrive and start to eat the goats it becomes apparent that she is the very bottom of the food chain.
* The climax of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' has Harry forced to fight a WizardDuel against the recently-resurrected BigBad Voldemort, with a squad of [[{{Mooks}} Death Eaters]] watching. Although the unforeseen ''priori incantatem'' effect is able to hold Voldy off for a while, Harry's only chance for survival is to break off the engagement and use a nearby portkey to return to Hogwarts.
** [[Recap/DoctorWho2019NYSResolution "Resolution"]]: Soldiers confront an "unknown drone" detected flying through restricted airspace. After the "drone", a [[spoiler:Dalek recon scout in ImprovisedArmour]], [[NoSell No-Sells]] all of the soldiers' small-arms fire and reveals it has rockets, the soldier in charge orders his troops to run for it.
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* Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac: At act I, [[GiftedlyBad Actor Montfleury]], who has dared defy Cyrano's prohibition to act, makes his choice after [[SociopathicHero Cadet]] [[{{Jerkass}} Cyrano]] claps a third time: He runs for his life. Later, The Bore also makes his choice, when after bothering Cyrano too much, he literally kicks his ass. It was the correct choice for both of them.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': In the season 2 premiere, [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsTheSiegeOfLothal "The Siege of Lothal"]], our heroes have their first run-in with Darth Vader. After throwing everything they have at him without slowing him down, they realize that their only chance to survive is to run like hell.
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** Earlier in "Becoming Part 1" vampires attack the gang in the library and Cordelia immediately runs away. When she returns in the next episode she jokes about how far away she got before realising nobody was actually chasing ''her''. Buffy tells her running was the right thing to do anyway.
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* The ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' DLC Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage features a sidemission that partially subverts this. It requires you to allow a fiery badass skag to chase you in a rough circle across the map as exercise. You can kill it as easily as any other badass skag (which may not be that easy depending on the difficulty mode), but that will piss off Tina, its owner, and fail the mission, requiring you to start it over.
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* The ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' DLC Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage features a sidemission that partially subverts this. It requires you to allow a fiery badass skag to chase you in a rough circle across the map as exercise. You can kill it as easily as any other badass skag (which may not be that easy depending on the difficulty mode), but that will piss off Tina, its owner, and fail the mission, requiring you to start it over. The mission objectives for each waypoint humorously play this straight.
-->''FOR THE LOVE OF TORGUE, RUN FASTER!!''
-->''FOR THE LOVE OF TORGUE, RUN FASTER!!''
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* Marion and Cassie keep getting into these kind of situations in ''WesternAnimation/BountyHamster'', often, although not always, a result of Marion's BerserkButton being pressed.
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'''Marion:''' Run is good.\\
'''Cassie:''' I recommend it!
-->'''Cassie:''' RUN!\\
'''Marion:''' Run is good.\\
'''Cassie:''' I recommend it!
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* In ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', during the episode "Alone in the Woods", the team is forced to run when face with [[EmotionBomb the Apathy]], a type of Grimm that drains the will to live from anyone in proximity. The team is normally able to take on towering monsters and hordes of Grimm, but the Apathy's collective numbers and their screams make it impossible for them to even lift their weapons.
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* In ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', during the episode "Alone in the Woods", the team is forced to run when face with [[EmotionBomb the Apathy]], a type of Grimm that drains the will to live from anyone in proximity. The team is normally able to take on towering monsters and hordes of Grimm, but the Apathy's collective numbers and their screams make it impossible for them to even lift their weapons.
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* In ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'', this is the situation that [[TheCaptain Captain Kirk]] finds himself in when he faces off against the USS ''Vengeance'', a ''[[TheDreadedDreadnought Dreadnought]]''-class warship commanded by InsaneAdmiral Marcus, and decides to [[HyperspeedEscape book it into warp]] rather than face a CurbStompBattle. Unfortunately for him and the ''Enterprise'', the ''Vengeance'' quickly proves itself capable of [[HyperspeedAmbush catching up to other ships at warp]], and the ''Enterprise'' soon gets the crap beaten out of her.
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* Steel Inquisitors from ''Literature/{{Mistborn}}''. Nigh-invincible {{Blood Knight}}s who are definitely fighting at a higher SuperWeight than TheProtagonist. The fight against one at the end of the first book is a CrowningMomentOfAwesome, and they remain the single biggest threat for the rest of the trilogy. One of Kelsier's {{Establishing Character Moment}}s comes when he riles one deliberately in order to draw its attention away from Vin, though even he escapes as quickly as possible after that.
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* Steel Inquisitors from ''Literature/{{Mistborn}}''. Nigh-invincible {{Blood Knight}}s who are definitely fighting at a higher SuperWeight than TheProtagonist. The There's a fight against one at the end of the first book is a CrowningMomentOfAwesome, book, and they remain the single biggest threat for the rest of the trilogy. One of Kelsier's {{Establishing Character Moment}}s comes when he riles one deliberately in order to draw its attention away from Vin, though even he escapes as quickly as possible after that.
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* DoubleSubversion in ''Webcomic/AnotherGamingComic'', during a Matrix-pastiche arc. The Agents are hyped up as unkillable, unstoppable monsters who, if you do somehow manage to kill them once, will just come back again. Since the heroes are highly talented power gamers, their first encounter with an Agent results in the agent getting one (high-damage) hit in and then getting [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome vaporized.]] The heroes then proceed to run away very quickly before he respawns, [[ConversationalTroping explaining it]] to [[TheLoonie Nuclear Dan]] as they go.
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* DoubleSubversion in ''Webcomic/AnotherGamingComic'', during a Matrix-pastiche arc. The Agents are hyped up as unkillable, unstoppable monsters who, if you do somehow manage to kill them once, will just come back again. Since the heroes are highly talented power gamers, their first encounter with an Agent results in the agent getting one (high-damage) hit in and then getting [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome vaporized.]] vaporized. The heroes then proceed to run away very quickly before he respawns, [[ConversationalTroping explaining it]] to [[TheLoonie Nuclear Dan]] as they go.
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* In ''Videogame/Fallout4'', during an early mission for the Railroad, Deacon gives the player this advice regarding Coursers, elite model [[KillerRobot synths]]. Generation 1 and 2 synths are obviously-mechanical (though [[EverythingIsAnIPodInTheFuture sleek, white, and rounded]] as opposed to the RetroFuture look of other robots) and are deployed as MechaMooks, while gen 3 models are indistinguishable from humans and used to gather intelligence in the wasteland. Coursers are gen 3s that are programmed purely for combat -- basically making them an {{Expy}} for Franchise/{{Terminator}}s.
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* In ''Videogame/Fallout4'', during an early mission for the Railroad, Deacon gives the player this advice regarding Coursers, elite model [[KillerRobot synths]]. Generation 1 and 2 synths are obviously-mechanical (though [[EverythingIsAnIPodInTheFuture sleek, white, and rounded]] as opposed to the RetroFuture look of other robots) and are deployed as MechaMooks, while gen 3 models are indistinguishable from humans and used to gather intelligence in the wasteland. Coursers are gen 3s that are programmed purely for combat -- basically making them an {{Expy}} for Franchise/{{Terminator}}s.Franchise/{{Terminator}}s -- and they are every free synth's worst nightmare, charged with hunting them down and taking them back to be "retained" by the Institute.
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* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' opens with the player in Helgen as it's attacked by a dragon. There's no hope of fighting it, since being a condemned (possible) criminal, you have no weapons, magic, or armor, your hands are bound so you cannot use the weapons of those who die against the dragon, and it's invincible anyway. And if you stay in the open long enough, it'll kill everything else then notice and come after you.
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* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' opens with the player in Helgen as it's attacked by a dragon. There's no hope of fighting it, since being a condemned (possible) criminal, you have no weapons, magic, or armor, your hands are bound so you cannot use the weapons of those who die against the dragon, and it's invincible anyway. And if you stay in the open long enough, it'll kill everything else then notice and come after you. [[spoiler:Said dragon turns out to be none other than Alduin, the BigBad himself, and he had come to Helgen to kill you specifically]].
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* ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheInkMachine'': You had better run away from "Bendy." In Chapter 1, you're safe because he's behind something that is boarded up (though considering his strength and his teleportation abilities, it's unclear why he doesn't chase you). You still have to run away because the entire studio is being flooded, which is possibly Bendy's doing anyway. In Chapter 2, Sammy Lawrence summons him. [[spoiler: As you're trying to escape, he shows up in a jump scare by using a pool of ink to teleport directly in front of you]]. In Chapter 3, he will teleport around the levels you're [[FetchQuest doing "Alice's" errands]] on and you need to hide. Even if you manage to unlock the tommy gun, there's no damage it can deal him. In Chapter 4, he doesn't come after you, but a fight between him and the Projectionist shows what happens to ''strong'' characters who don't run or hide from "Bendy."
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Of course, none of this will keep our heroes from fighting it sooner or later. If encountered early in the story, it may require a HeroicSacrifice from one character to allow the rest to escape. If the sacrificial character is wounded, he may insist that IWillOnlySlowYouDown; either way, expect him to tell the enemy that YouShallNotPass before making his LastStand. If no sacrificial characters are available, then [[BigDamnHeroes someone may show up unexpectedly]] and tell the heroes to ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive. If the foe isn't fought until later in the story, it will probably be after the heroes have discovered its AchillesHeel, or somehow dramatically increased their PowerLevel (through a SuperMode, DangerousForbiddenTechnique, or whatever), and it will ''still'' be a difficult fight. If it's fought both early and late, then the latter fight will be a HeroicRematch.
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Of course, none of this will keep our heroes from fighting it sooner or later. If encountered early in the story, it may require a HeroicSacrifice from one character to allow the rest to escape. If the sacrificial character is wounded, he may insist that IWillOnlySlowYouDown; either way, expect him to tell the enemy that YouShallNotPass before making his LastStand. If no sacrificial characters are available, then [[BigDamnHeroes someone may show up unexpectedly]] and tell the heroes to ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive. If the foe isn't fought until later in the story, it will probably be after the heroes have discovered its AchillesHeel, or somehow dramatically increased their PowerLevel PowerLevels (through a SuperMode, DangerousForbiddenTechnique, or whatever), and it will ''still'' be a difficult fight. If it's fought both early and late, then the latter fight will be a HeroicRematch.
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* The [[KnightOfCerebus Osthan]] of ''Literature/TheFirstDwarfKing'' are MadeOfIndestructium SuperSoldiers who [[TheDreaded inspire fear]] in their enemies. The heroes literally stand ''no'' chance against them in combat; it's made clear from the start that fighting them is suicidal. Their EstablishingCharacterMoment shows them [[MookHorrorShow ruthlessly murder more than one hundred opponents]] [[CurbStompBattle without breaking a sweat]] -- and there are only ''three'' of them!
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* The [[KnightOfCerebus Osthan]] of ''Literature/TheFirstDwarfKing'' are MadeOfIndestructium SuperSoldiers {{Super Soldier}}s who [[TheDreaded inspire fear]] in their enemies. The heroes literally stand ''no'' chance against them in combat; it's made clear from the start that fighting them is suicidal. Their EstablishingCharacterMoment shows them [[MookHorrorShow ruthlessly murder more than one hundred opponents]] [[CurbStompBattle without breaking a sweat]] -- and there are only ''three'' of them!
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* This occurs when Ryoka tries to make her delivery to the High Passes in {{Literature/The Wandering Inn}}. She tries to fight off the goblins and Carn Wolves. But when carnivorous goats arrive and start to eat the wolves and then gargoyles arrive and start to eat the goats it becomes apparent that she is the very bottom of the food chain.
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* This occurs when Ryoka tries to make her delivery to the High Passes in {{Literature/The Wandering Inn}}.''Literature/TheWanderingInn''. She tries to fight off the goblins and Carn Wolves. But when carnivorous goats arrive and start to eat the wolves and then gargoyles arrive and start to eat the goats it becomes apparent that she is the very bottom of the food chain.
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** ''VideoGame/SilentHillDownpour'' channels the Otherworld Chases of Shattered Memories with the Void chases; When it appears you pull a 180 and run, throwing anything you can in its path to slow it down.
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** ''VideoGame/SilentHillDownpour'' channels the Otherworld Chases of Shattered Memories with the Void chases; When when it appears you pull a 180 and run, throwing anything you can in its path to slow it down.
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* True to the film series, the video game adaptation of ''VideoGame/TerminatorSalvation'' treats the T-600 series like this, especially the first few times you run into them. They're insanely durable, have [[GatlingGood mini-]][[MoreDakka guns]] as their default weapons, and just ''keep coming''. If you try and stay and fight the first time just ''one'' shows up, it ''will'' kill you. Later battles are only possible to win because you have lots of cover, [[StuffBlowingUp explosives]], and [[MoreDakka gun emplacements of your own]].
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* True to the film series, the video game adaptation of ''VideoGame/TerminatorSalvation'' ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'' treats the T-600 series like this, especially the first few times you run into them. They're insanely durable, have [[GatlingGood mini-]][[MoreDakka guns]] as their default weapons, and just ''keep coming''. If you try and stay and fight the first time just ''one'' shows up, it ''will'' kill you. Later battles are only possible to win because you have lots of cover, [[StuffBlowingUp explosives]], and [[MoreDakka gun emplacements of your own]].
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* ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'': If you see Lu Bu, run away. Players new to the series will be doubtlessly be cut down as though they were a mook. He is the most powerful character in the series, and once he shows up, your only hope of survival is running away and completing the mission objective before he catches up.
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* ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'': If you see Lu Bu, run away. Players new to the series will be doubtlessly be cut down as though they were a mook. He is the most powerful character in the series, and once he shows up, your only hope of survival is running away and completing the mission objective before he catches up.
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* In ''Literature/NESGodzillaCreepypasta'', at the end of each of the game's worlds, instead of the military base present in the original game, there's what seems to be a red tribal mask. The level inside is just a burning background and the word "RUN". And when [[EldritchAbomination the red monster who is bigger than freaking Godzilla appears]], then you know why. As the game progresses, the chase has new elements, including an underwater level for Anguirus and a flying level for Mothra, but the Hellbeast changes forms as well.
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* ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.3.A.R]] features the appropriately named multiplayer mode [[PrecisionFStrike "Fucking Run"]], in which you must... well... run to escape a supernatural Wall of Death and reach safe zones. Fans and critics alike praised the mode for being downright ''intense''.
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* ''Fanfic/BecomingLifprasir'': Having been completely caught off-guard by the Red Death, the Hooligans are forced to make a TacticalWithdrawal while Cattongue/Hiccup and his dragon riders fend it off.
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* In ''ComicBook/RedRobin'' Tam Fox notes that these are her only options when the Council of Spiders shows up and starts brutally murdering the League of Assassins ninjas she's being held by. Luckily for her Tim figures out he needs to get back to her location and he manages to bring the cave down on the attacker's heads.
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* ''Fanfic/{{Traveler}}'': If someone happens across a [[PhysicalGod Legendary]], the answer is almost always to simply run like hell. Even though most aren't actively malevolent, they're so ungodly powerful that fighting them simply isn't an option.
** During the Ice Time (a time when every water and ice type in the Seafoam Islands is empowered), Ash barely defeats a Dewgong only to come across four others with pups, marking them as mothers. Ash doesn't even try to fight and simply flees as fast as possible. He later passes on the same advice to Gary when the latter decides to train there.
** During the Ice Time (a time when every water and ice type in the Seafoam Islands is empowered), Ash barely defeats a Dewgong only to come across four others with pups, marking them as mothers. Ash doesn't even try to fight and simply flees as fast as possible. He later passes on the same advice to Gary when the latter decides to train there.
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* ''VideoGame/LetItDie'': If you stay on any floor too long, the Jackal Gang will arrive - each one is ''Level 200'' and has a corresponding fully-upgraded set of gear to match. They become killable if you can get close enough to their level - until you reach floor 42 and they skyrocket to '''Level 300'''.
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* The climax of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' has Harry forced to fight a WizardDuel against the recently-resurrected BigBad Voldemort, with a squad of [[{{Mooks}} Death Eaters]] watching. Although the unforeseen ''priori incantatem'' effect is able to hold Voldy off for a while, Harry's only chance for survival is to break off the engagement and use a nearby portkey to return to Hogwarts.
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* ''Utøya 22. juli'', a reenactment of the Breivik Massacre (which happened [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin on the island Utøya on 22. July 2011]]) from the perspective of the victims. Said victims, being unarmed and mentally unprepared for a terrorist assault, can't do anything against the terrorist who can rapidly hit them at large distances (> 20 meters), and is protected by a helmet and a bulletproof vest, making stones useless. This is exacerbated by the fact that people attending the Utøya camp were mostly nonaggressive. They can only run.
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* ''Utøya 22. juli'', ''Utoya22Juli'', a reenactment of the Breivik Massacre (which happened [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin on the island Utøya on 22. July 2011]]) from the perspective of the victims. Said victims, being unarmed and mentally unprepared for a terrorist assault, can't do anything against the terrorist who can rapidly hit them at large distances (> 20 meters), and is protected by a helmet and a bulletproof vest, making stones useless. This is exacerbated by the fact that people attending the Utøya camp were mostly nonaggressive. They can only run.
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* ''Utøya 22. juli'', a reenactment of the Breivik Massacre (which happened [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin on the island Utøya on 22. July 2011]]) from the perspective of the victims. Said victims, being unarmed and mentally unprepared for a terrorist assault, can't do anything against the terrorist who can rapidly hit them at large distances (> 20 meters), and is protected by a helmet and a bulletproof vest, making stones useless. This is exacerbated by the fact that people attending the Utøya camp were mostly nonaggressive. They can only run.
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** One of the Doctor's catchphrases is some variation on "When I say Run, run.... RUN!".
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* If you happen to come across Chester, a ventriloquist dummy dressed up in a business suit in ''VideoGame/EmilyWantsToPlay'', the first thing you have to do is to run to the next room before he catches you
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* In ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot'', [[BookEnds levels 1-1 and 6-8 both end with Kirby getting chased down by a mechanized Whispy Woods]], and you have to flee to safety to the left. [[spoiler:If you defy the trope to stand and fight, he's actually killable; he drops the first Gold Sticker in 1-1 and the final Code Cube in 6-8.]]
* In ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot'', [[BookEnds levels 1-1 and 6-8 both end with Kirby getting chased down by a mechanized Whispy Woods]], and you have to flee to safety to the left. [[spoiler:If you defy the trope to stand and fight, he's actually killable; he drops the first Gold Sticker in 1-1 and the final Code Cube in 6-8.]]
