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* In ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'', Gale and then Cielo do this with [[spoiler:Angel]] and [[spoiler:her remaining loyalists in fighter jets]] as they attempt to stop the group from going to the HAARP Facility. [[spoiler:Neither of them survives, but Gale [[TakingYouWithMe takes Angel with him]] and Cielo is able to wipe out a good chunk of the forces on his own before biting the dust.]]

* This happened in ''Film/RushHour2'' Carter tells Lee to go after Ricky Tan while he fights [[DragonLady Hu Li]].

* In ''Film/{{Predator}}'', Billy stays behind to let the rest of the team go to the chopper while he holds the eponymous Predator at bay on a bridge. In this situation, the hero knew he had no chance against the alien monster but was simply buying his allies some time.

* In the third ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' movie, ''Pokémon 3: Spell of the Unown'', Brock and Misty do this while Ash goes off to find his mom.

This happens often in anime probably because of the concept of JapaneseSpirit, which despite supposedly and nominally encouraging teamwork it paradoxically also encourages each member of the "clan" to take on their oposite counterpart [[InTheEndYouAreOnYourOwn alone]].

** In episode 337, when Urahara and Kon are faced by two reigei, he says he'll take of the reigei and for Kon to go on and complete the mission.

* Near the end of ''Anime/WolfsRain'' Tsume tells Kiba and Cheza to go on ahead while Tsume holds off the BigBad, Darcia. Kiba and Tsume exchange a Look, because they both know Darcia is much more powerful and has already killed several of their party.

* ''Manga/SoulEater'' uses when the bad guys have a headstart to [[SealedEvilInACan an evil can]]. Stein makes the plan based his unit's strengths compared to their's. As per the Description, there are two IAmYourOpponent moments.

* ''Manga/HanaukyoMaidTeam La Verite'' episode 11. As Taro, Konoe and Yashima use the elevator to go down and save Mariel, Ryuuka, Ikuyo Suzuki and Grace stay at the top to hold off the mansion's security maids. When Taro, Konoe and Yashima confront Konoe's sister, Konoe and Yashima fight her to give Taro a chance to rescue Mariel from her [[PeopleJars People Jar]].

* ''Fanfic/MyLittleMagesTheNightmaresReturn'': When the girls [[StormingTheCastle storm the castle]], they end up running into each member of Nightmare Moon's QuirkyMinibossSquad one after another; they end up peeling off one-by-one to deal with each new threat, until Twilight is the only one left to confront Nightmare Moon herself (the others catch up in time for the actual FinalBattle).

* In ''Film/SkyHigh2005'', when faced with Lash, Speed and Penny, the heroes have Will go on ahead and fight Royal Pain while Warren, Ethan and Layla stay to fight and Zach and Magenta take cover.

* ''Film/TheThreeMusketeers1973''. D'Artagnan and the three musketeers (Athos, Porthos, and Aramis) are on a mission for the queen. Along the way they're attacked by various groups sent by Cardinal Richelieu. In one encounter, while fighting a {{Mook}}, Athos orders d'Artagnan to keep going while he stays and keeps the opponent busy.

* OlderThanRadio: In ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' (1844) when d'Artagnan and his friends are in secret mission to London, the Cardinal's agents try three times to ambush or derail them in different ways. Each time one of the musketeers is left behind taking care of the enemies while the rest carry on, until at the end d'Artagnan is the only one who arrives to London.

* Done in the finale of ''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger''. First Nossan stays behind to hold of a squad of EliteMooks, then Ucchi stops to confront his personal nemesis once and for all, then Ian and Souji hold back another group of Mooks, leaving King and Amy to face the BigBad together.

* ''VideoGame/{{Arcana}}'' has your companions hold off a one encounter within the last dungeon, because there's not enough time.

* In the final route of ''VideoGame/DuelSaviorDestiny'' this goes in the order of Dahlia, Kaede, Berio, Nanashi and finally Lily and Muriel until [[spoiler:only Mia and Selbium]] are left to confront the Messiah Armor [[spoiler:that contains Taiga]].
* In ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'', Gale and then Cielo do this with [[spoiler:Angel]] and [[spoiler:her remaining loyalists in fighter jets]] as they attempt to stop the group from going to the HAARP Facility. [[spoiler:Neither of them survive, but Gale [[TakingYouWithMe takes Angel with him]] and Cielo is able to wipe out a good chunk of the forces on his own before biting the dust.]]

* Parodied in the WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball episode "The Club". When a club of nerds threatens to upload an embarrassing video of Gumball if he won't join their club, the Wattersons set out to stop them. Obstacles come up that are each perfectly suited to be handled by each member of the family, until only Gumball is left to confront the leaders of the nerd club.

* ''Anime/HanaukyoMaidTai La Verite'' episode 11. As Taro, Konoe and Yashima use the elevator to go down and save Mariel, Ryuuka, Ikuyo Suzuki and Grace stay at the top to hold off the mansion's security maids. When Taro, Konoe and Yashima confront Konoe's sister, Konoe and Yashima fight her to give Taro a chance to rescue Mariel from her [[PeopleJars People Jar]].

* ''Film/ThePhantomMenace:''This trope is how Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi react to Darth Maul during the liberation of Naboo.

* Thor and some allies are escaping from Hel with some unjustly trapped souls. The minions of Hel are rapidly approaching, and Thor decides to stay behind to buy time for everyone else to escape. Balder points out that Thor will surely perish if he does this, and Thor responds that he ''might'' not die, and no one else can possibly hold them off long enough. Then [[spoiler:Skurge]] turns it into [[YouShallNotPass/ComicBooks You Shall Not Pass]] instead.

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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' anime

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* This has happened in FanFic/TheTaintedGrimoire. When [[spoiler: Crow]] appears while Clan Gully and their comrades is trying to rescue [[spoiler: Baron Beltorey and Cid]], Luso takes him on alone and the rest of his group moves on.
* Happens in the Pokemon fanfic BloodInTheWater: All of the 'Dex Holders appear as TheCavalry, but then it is revealed that [[TheStarscream Franz]] has sent the remaining Elite Four members and the hypnotized Gym Leaders after the protagonists. This changes the possible outcome of the scenario entirely, as now the inexperienced Trainers are the only ones left to face the BigBad. As the three protagonists leave, the audience is greeted with this badass scene:
-->Blue: *draws a Pokeball from her pocket* Do you think they'll be okay?
-->Green: They're decent enough trainers. *enlarges a Pokeball in his hand*
-->Gold: Not as good as us though, right? *grins*
-->Silver: *scoffs*
-->Red: *silently staring at the approaching enemy*
-->Green: Go! *all Dex Holders throw their Pokeballs simultaneously*

* ''FanFic/MyLittleMagesTheNightmaresReturn'': When the girls [[StormingTheCastle storm the castle]], they end up running into each member of Nightmare Moon's QuirkyMinibossSquad one after another; they end up peeling off one-by-one to deal with each new threat, until Twilight is the only one left to confront Nightmare Moon herself (the others catch up in time for the actual FinalBattle).
* ''FanFic/QueenOfAllOni'': During [[OperationBlank Operation Steel Lightning]], Jackie, Viper, and Tohru keep [[TheBrute Ozeki]] busy while Uncle goes after [[VillainProtagonist Jade]] to stop her from stealing the other masks from the Vault.

* ''FanFic/JewelOfDarkness'': When the Titans are trying to intercept Midnight's Chronoton Detonator, they're attacked by [[PsychoForHire Guerra]], and Robin tells the others to go on while he fights him. [[spoiler: Which is [[BatmanGambit exactly what Midnight wants]].]]

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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek 2}}'', Puss in Boots stays behind to fight off the guards while Shrek runs to save Fiona, also falling into YouShallNotPass territory.

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* [[http://noneedforbushido.com/2009/comic/359/ NoNeedForBushido]] has an instance of this... done by a random enemy mook, with predictable results.

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* Used in ''WesternAnimation/PrydeOfTheXMen''.
** What's funny is that Magneto actually has enough minions to keep all the X-Men from him, as Nightcrawler ends up the final X-Man and finds Blob waiting for him. Nightcrawler simply teleports around him and makes a game attempt to stop Magneto by himself.

* Happens in the Pokemon fanfic BloodInTheWater: All of the 'Dex Holders appear as TheCalvalry, but then it is revealed that [[TheStarscream Franz]] has sent the remaining Elite Four members and the hypnotized Gym Leaders after the protagonists. This changes the possible outcome of the scenario entirely, as now the inexperienced Trainers are the only ones left to face the BigBad. As the three protagonists leave, the audience is greeted with this badass scene:

* Thor and some allies are escaping from Hel with some unjustly trapped souls. The minions of Hel are rapidly approaching, and Thor decides to stay behind to buy time for everyone else to escape. Balder points out that Thor will surely perish if he does this, and Thor responds that he ''might'' not die, and no one else can possibly hold them off long enough. Then [[spoiler:Skurge]] turns it into [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/YouShallNotPass/ComicBooks You Shall Not Pass]] instead.

* In ''VideoGame/OnimushaDawnOfDreams'' game, the four characters storm the DefinitelyFinalDungeon. After some initial skirmishing, each character finds an arch-enemy and stays behind to fight him, leaving the main PlayerCharacter to carry on alone.

* In the last ''VideoGame/{{Onimusha}}'' game, the four characters storm the DefinitelyFinalDungeon. After some initial skirmishing, each character finds an arch-enemy and stays behind to fight him, leaving the main PlayerCharacter to carry on alone.

Contrast with LeaveHimToMe and YouShallNotPass. Usually leads to massive amounts of IAmYourOpponent. May overlap with TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou.

* Used in ''Pryde of the Franchise/XMen''.

** Played with in the Kyoto arc; [[TheShinsengumi Saito]] tells [[TheHero Kenshin]] and [[TheLancer Sano]] to go on ahead while he takes care of [[SuperSenses Usui]] of the Juppongatana. When Usui comments that Saito is being nice to Kenshin, Saito explains that he only did it to make sure [[ThouShaltNotKill Kenshin]] was out of the room so that Saito could kill Usui.

* In ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga]], Gale and then Cielo do this with [[spoiler:Angel]] and [[spoiler:her remaining loyalists in fighter jets]] as they attempt to stop the group from going to the HAARP Facility. [[spoiler:Neither of them survive, but Gale [[TakingYouWithMe takes Angel with him]] and Cielo is able to wipe out a good chunk of the forces on his own before biting the dust.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}: Miguel and his entire dead family--ItMakesSenseInContext-- arrive to confront the villain. He recognizes who they are and that they outnumber him; he flees, calling for his security {{Mooks}}. Papa Julio, boxing like a prizefighter, takes out the first couple. Oscar and Felipe work together to take out the next few, so Miguel and his remaining relatives can give chase. It is [[spoiler: Imelda who faces off against the bad guy alone as she ends up on his stage]] leaving Miguel and the remaining family members to watch helplessly.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}: Miguel and his dead family
--ItMakesSenseInContext-- arrive to confront the villain. He recognizes who they are and that they outnumber him; he flees, calling for his security {Mooks}. Papa Julio, boxing like a prizefighter, takes out the first couple. Oscar and Felipe work together to take out the next few, so Miguel and his remaining relatives can give chase. It is [[spoiler: Imelda who faces off against the bad guy alone as she ends up on his stage]] leaving Miguel and the remaining family members to watch helplessly.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{Coco}: Miguel and his dead family -
-ItMakesSenseInContext-- arrive to confront the villain. He recognizes who they are and that they outnumber him; he flees, calling for his security {Mooks}. Papa Julio, boxing like a prizefighter, takes out the first couple. Oscar and Felipe work together to take out the next few, so Miguel and his remaining relatives can give chase. It is [[spoiler: Imelda who faces off against the bad guy alone as she ends up on his stage]] leaving Miguel and the remaining family members to watch helplessly.

** Both the series and the movie play with this, each larger mecha taking the brunt of an attack which allows the smaller mecha piloting it to advance. Viral and Lagann also get one in via [[FastballSpecial]].