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Please Don't Leave Me
Scarlett: Rhett! Rhett, where are you going? Rhett: I'm going to Charleston, back where I belong. Scarlett: Please, please take me with you! Rhett: No, I'm through with everything here. I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace. Do you know what I'm talking about? Scarlett: No! I only know that I love you. Rhett: That's your misfortune. (turns to walk down the stairs) Scarlett: Oh, Rhett! (watches Rhett walk to the door) Rhett! (runs down the stairs after him) Rhett, Rhett! Rhett, Rhett... Rhett, if you go, where shall I go? What shall I do? Rhett: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
said by one character desperate for another not to leave. Often said by a very lonely character, or maybe a young character with no one else to look after them. Said by a love interest frequently as well.
May be accompanied by a
moment. Many many variations exist, such as "Don't leave me alone again!" "Don't abandon me!" or "You can't go!" May be accompanied by .
If the person being addressed has to go on alone regardless for whatever reason, expect a
moment, especially when done coldly, such as with a . This is also quite common when the person being addressed is dying, in which case this becomes . Can also be
. Alternatively, to turn this trope into an instant , just add one .
There's a third variant as well, which is less heartfelt or tragic (or more accurately, less tragic for the speaker, and even then there are ) and more disturbing—this variant is generally meant to make the speaker of the phrase seem more abusive or possessive, as detailed a bit more in the
section below. In these cases, expect a smidge more emphasis on the
part of the phrase.
Contrast with . Compare .
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In , Mayu does this to keep Kaoru from going home.
Doubles as a
in . The first time George meets
Saya, she grabs his ankle with a really adorable and helpless look on her face.
In , Sakura says this to Sasuke right before his .
In , Akito says this after Kureno's curse breaks. This happens again after Momiji's curse is lifted. This one is less hysterical than the first one.
Spike and Faye's final conversation in , before Spike goes off to fight Vicious after Julia dies, has serious elements of this. An example of . IF he did!
In , Nowaki's about to leave, thinking Hiroki doesn't want him there, when Hiroki stops him by putting his hand on the door from behind Nowaki and holding it shut.
. Holo's character is based around this. Although she tries to hide it, she's terrified of being alone.
Holo: "I don't ever want to wake up alone again! I'm tired of being alone. Being alone is cold. Being alone... is lonely."
Holo: "Solitude is an affliction as grave as death."
Lawrence experiences this midway through the anime/at end of the first book.
Afraid that Holo will leave anyway if he asks her not to (it's a long story), he instead demands that she stick around to pay for the clothes she ruined. It works.
, episode 24: Grave is about to leave Mika
permanently because his necro-rise is wearing off with no hope of getting a transfusion, and since Mika's become rather attached to him, naturally she pleads with him to not leave her alone.
Mika: Let's go far away, just the two of us! No matter how hard it gets I'll never give up! I'll survive on bread and water if I have to! I'll study hard and learn bio-mechanics and take care of you like Mr. Tokioka! (breaks into tears) So please... Grave, just don't go, oh please... don't go!
Miyuki give the tearful, desperate version to
Yuuki-whom-she-thinks-is-Memori, shortly after the real Memori gives the angry "I'll kick your ass if you try to leave, so stay here with me!" version to Yuuki. Neither speech is romantic. We think.
manga chapter 80 has this. While in the car on the way to the airport to see
his mother after three years, Tamaki grabs Haruhi's hand and says, "Please stay with me until the end," after she tells him she'll wait in the car with Kyouya.
In episode 91, Ryoga proposes to Akane after being possessed by Maomolin, the Giant Ghost Cat. The actual phrase isn't spoken until later on in the episode, when Ranma dreams of Ryoga and Akane marrying.
In the manga, Ranma thinks this when he believes that Akane is dead.
Happens again when Ranma dreams that Akane is leaving him forever. He says this to her, wondering why she's crying and telling him goodbye, before realizing that it's because he has turned into a frog.
Done for comical effect, when Ukyo tries to give Ryoga and Akane some time alone together. He's petrified of the idea, because he doesn't know what to do in that sort of situation. Cue Ryoga clinging to her, begging her not to leave him, while she whacks him with her oversized spatula.
In the manga, Ranma has an amusing
about Akane being very distressed over him leaving the Tendo household to go stay with his mother. She clings to his leg, begging him not to leave, while Ranma is equally dramatic and tells her that it's hurting him too.
Shinji says this to Asuka at one point in .
Sunao to Sora in .
Kaede attempts one of these moments with Rin in
by getting in bed next to him while naked, and trying to give him a kiss at the same time. Instead of working,
it freaks him out, causes him to leave the room, and later decide to move out of her house.
Alois to his butler Claude in the first episode of the second season of .
He also says it to his little brother Luca
when he finds him dead and to Claude in episode 8 shortly before
Claude kills him.
breakdown over Sebastian's "death" in the murder mystery arc can be considered this, although later on this is subverted, as they were just acting.
Kaoru to Kenshin in , when
he's about to leave for Kyoto. He gives her a hug and gently thanks her for all that she has done for him,
but he leaves anyway. After recovering from the ensuing , she goes after him with Yahiko.
Done without words at the start of . Hideki finds Chii in the garbage, but when she can't talk, he considers walking away from her. Before he can start, she grabs his arm and stares at him in desperation. He promptly reconsiders.
Mikael says something to that effect to
Raphael at the very end of the series when it looks like Raphael is leaving him behind. Turns out Raphael was only pretending and he eventually takes Mikael with him back to Heaven.
Also, Natsumi said this to her brother, Fuyuki
who is technically Raphael, but in this case
he did leave her behind. Tells you a lot about Raphael's preferences, I guess.
In the last episode of , Otonashi asks Kanade to stay with him. However, it turns out that she was there because she wanted to thank him for his heart donation. Massive
ensues when Kanade thanks him but Otonashi hugs her, screaming to not to say it and stay with him, but eventually she disappears, leaving Otonashi who proceeds to scream her name out loud...
In the last volume of ,
when Alucard's disappearing after absorbing Schrodinger, Integra orders him not to.
In , a couple of the Pok&mon departures fall into this category in terms of the behavior of said Pok&mon:
Ash's Charizard in the Johto episode "Charizard's Burning Ambitions" roars in anguish as Ash runs off, leaving him in the Charicific Valley to train and improve.
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 Pok& Ball underfoot in order to sever her bond and force her to leave.
really, really doesn't want Kyouko to leave her.
Roy to Riza in . Near the finale, Riza gets her throat slit, and Roy screams his lungs out at her to not die from where he's being held down by ninja old men. When the old men are finally dealt with, and Roy can reach Riza (who at this point is unconscious and near death), he begs her not to die and leave him. She is healed in the nick of time, prompting him to hug her tightly, and the fandom squealed their hearts out. The trope is even more present in the Brotherhood anime, when Roy - holding her in
style - specifically pleads, " Stay with me, Lieutenant!"
has a few.
Colonial America to England when England has to go back to Europe. America is lonely without his .
has overtones of this going the other way around, but the words aren't actually said.
, as Holy Roman Empire goes off to fight in the Napoleonic Wars. They swear they'll see one another again, but the Holy Roman Empire is defeated and dissolved by Napoleonic France. Both a CMOH and .
Italy to Germany, sometimes with no impetus at all (he's insecure like that), but most notably after Germany and Russia sign their non-aggression pact and Italy is afraid he's being replaced.
In , Sakura says this to C!Syaoran when he is about to defect from the group in the Tokyo arc.
Although the romanticism is questionable, Nagi uses this in typical
by implying that Maria and Hayate will eventually leave her (presumably for romantic relationships), and after convincing attempts are made by Hayate, she 'allows' him to continue working as her butler.
A particularly
instance of this occurs in chapter 42 of . Ushio tells her best friend Sumika that she has to move away to take care of her grandmother, eliciting a long-awaited and tearful
from Sumika as she clutches Ushio against her and begs her not to go. Ushio reciprocates . . . but says that she's sorry, insisting that she has to.
Mashiro plays with this trope towards Sorata in episode 4 of . When Sorata looks at the manga Mashiro was making, he finds out its 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.
: Ian repeatedly begs Jeremy not to leave England, comes up with a lot of conditions to prevent Jeremy from leaving.
Sandra pleading with Jeremy to stay with her also qualifies as this.
In , Haruka begs this of her mother in the , but she ends up leaving anyway. In fact Haruka falls into both "very lonely character" and " young character with no one else to look after them" categories—at the point she said this, she was a child who was socially shunned due to her
does this canonically and non-canonically. The canonical examples comes after the horrible Eclipse, when Guts has a dream where the
Band of the Hawk are riding off into the distance, leaving Guts behind. It symbolically represented their deaths during the Eclipse. The non-canonical example comes in the Sega Dreamcast video game Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage, when
Casca becomes sane from the effects of the mandragora plant, which makes normal people crazy but crazy people normal. However, despite Guts' efforts at keeping Casca conscious, the effect begins to wear off and Guts and Casca only have a few moments together before she becomes insane again. All Guts can do is cradle her, crying, ""
Carla Jaegar's last words are a plea to not be left alone, which she keeps as quiet as possible so her children, , won't hear and try to come back.
Mareyo Oomaeda tells this to her older brother
Marechiyo in 548.
In , when Kiku and Ryuuji pretty much run away to Tokyo, their mother Chiyo begs them not to go. As the kids hae already boarded their train, they can't return so they promise to come back for her later. Chiyo watches them leave and promises "!"
In , Chizu does not take the news that
Ryu is going away to university very well, and begs him not to go at one point
At the end of a highly emotional case in , Miwako Sato tearfully begged Wataru Takagi not to leave her, which is specially meaningful since
her former partner and
Matsuda was murdered. Takagi said he wouldn't,
Tsukiyama tries to prevent Kaneki from essentially going on a suicide mission and breaks down crying when he fails begging him "For dear life Kaneki. Would you please not go?"
Mutsuki realizes he has feelings for Sasaki as a result of jealousy and stabs Uta who disguised himself as Sasaki while demanding that he never leave him again.
When Kanou dies in episode 14 Ririka has this reaction.
When Ririka
herself Seiya and Dewey both cry for her not to do it.
: Angelica begs her long-lost grandfather not to die when he starts succumbing to an unspecified illness, .
: In Volume 8, when Tatsuya is about to leave to take on the invading army, Miyuki says this to him. She's initially reluctant, , but decides that his safety is more important. Tatsuya still heads out, though.
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Issue Seven of the third
has a . Jamie, having vanished for a year, has his family not exactly accepting of him, and so he
what's happened, eventually reliving a moment when he cries out "Don't let me die alone!". Which is when they go to him.
In the seventh issue of , as her cousin Golden Age
cries out "please, don't leave me alone".
Power Girl: No. Don't leave me alone, Kal. Please, don't leave me alone again.
Issue Eleven of
by Sam Kieth. Julie and Maxx are sitting on a rooftop, where Julie is struggling to find the words to explain to him why she has to move away, with little success. While Maxx stares stoically off into the distance, The sky around him is literally comprised entirely of the words "please please please please...don't leave."
is trapped in a lab device that will,
as far as he knows, kill him in a few seconds when it switches on, he breaks down and begs Janey Slater not to leave him. She does, though - she says that she can't stand to watch.
At the end of Innocence Lost,
kills her mother in a chemically-induced berserker rage, just as they destroy and escape the Facility that bred her. As Sarah Kinney dies and tells Laura that she loves her, for a moment she stops being a weapon and is just a little girl again,
Again, in All-New Wolverine #7. In a flashback, Laura begs this of
when he rides off after leaving her at the Xavier School, claiming that it's the best and safest place for her to be, and that he can't offer her the sort of family life she wants. Later, Gabby says the same thing about Laura's intentions to send her away to find somewhere safe for her to live a normal life. It triggers Laura's memories of Logan, and twists the knife even further about the guilt she's feeling about the entire situation.
Eventually she decides otherwise, in part for that very reason.
: Shouted by
on the Deathworld by a . His friends say "screw that!" because he's too big to carry.
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: One of the promises Asuka asked from Shinji was: Never leaving her.
Asuka: Can you promise me you?ll always be there, Shinji? Promise me you?ll never leave me again?
Pichi says this
to an unconcious and near death Pikachu after he risked his life to save her from an Ursaring. It really hits home with her because she feels
Pichi continued to weep, and she whispered into Pikachu?s ear, knowing he could not hear her, "&Please be all right. Please?you have to be okay! I?I want us to be friends forever?I want Faith to meet you?I?I?m in love with you?&"
In , Derpy, in probably the biggest
in the whole story says this in chapter 15 to
Carrot Top while gagging on tears:
Carrot... Please... Please, don?t die... Don?t leave me... Don?t leave me all alone!
: This happened several times:
In chapter 5 Asuka asks Shinji if he promises he will not leave her and their unborn child:
Asuka: [softly, in Shinji's ear] Shinji? Shinji: [softly, in Asuka's ear] What is it? Asuka: You'd never leave us, would you? Short pause. Shinji: I promise you, right here and now, that I'll NEVER leave you two...
In chapter 9 Shinji said this line to Asuka when he thought she was dying.
Shinji: [tears coming] Stay with me, Asuka! Fight it! Stay alive! Please, don't leave me...!
In chapter 5 Misato asks Kaji if he promises not leaving her:
Kaji: Tssss... no.... nothing on earth could make me leave you alone. Misato: Y-you won't l-leave me? You promise? Even if I'm a slut? Kaji: No. You're wrong. I could never love a slut. And I love you, Mit-chan.
: In chapter 23 Shinji to Asuka are resting in his room, wondering if they would be killed by the latest
in the next battle. Shinji kissed Asuka and begged her never leaving him:
Asuka: Shinji, love you. Shinji: I love you too, Asuka. Don't ever leave me. Please. Asuka: I won't, [...] Never.
novel, young Empath cries this out when Papa Smurf finds him standing alone in the village in a crying trance, which, as it turns out, is Empath reliving the moment when his father, Papa Smurf, left him in Psychelia as an infant.
: In chapter 13 Asuka ran away and Shinji followed her to plead her to not leave him.
: In chapter 2, after an awful nightmare Asuka clings to Shinji and whispers: "Don't ever leave me..."
She hugged him fiercely and whispered, "Don't ever leave me..." "I've always been yours."
: In chapter 11 (original version) Shinji is trying to burst in Leliel's illusion to save Asuka from being . When he tries talk Asuka into lowering her mental shields and letting him into she replies that he will just leave her. Shinji assures that he will not do, and she asks him if he promises (what he does).
Shinji: Asuka, listen to me. I can't get through the doors unless you let me. It's trying to keep me out. Asuka: [sobbing] Why should I bother, [...] You'll just leave me. Everyone leaves me. Shinji: I won't. Asuka: You promise? Shinji: I promise.
: Asuka is frightened of hurting Shinji again so in a scene she asks him if he wants her going away. Shinji pleaded her staying with him. This is because after events of the series and Third Impact .
: Inverted and after played straight in chapter 4. Asuka does not want to be alone, but she feels that she needs to push Shinji away so she yells at him: "HATE ME! LEAVE ME! KILL ME!". When he refuses, her resolution crumbles down, so she hugs him and asks him if he promises not leaving her.
Asuka says this to Shinji several times.
Keiko says this to her guardians Miko and Nakajima in chapter 10 when Miko berates herself for being ?to her eyes- a bad caretaker:
"Please? don't leave me."
: In the middle of a nightmare, Shinji hears Asuka begging him not to leave her as she sinks into a volcano.
Please, I don't want to die Shinji! Please don't leave me Shinji! I don't want to die! Help me Shinji! Please, HELP ME! Please?please don't let me die? Shinji? Sh—
In chapter 11 of
Shinji tells Kaoru those words after having a terrible nightmare.
Shinji: "Don't leave me alone. Please... I'm scared... I don't want to be alone...
In Brilliancy, the second installment of the , Riza is kidnapped and possibly dead. After she is recovered alive, her commanding officer/husband issues this literally as an order: "Never leave me again."
England gets drunk in a bid to recover from Scotland and Northern Ireland leaving the Union and winds up at Wales's house at three in the morning. Once he's let in he clings onto Wales and says:
?Don?t leave me too.? Mumbled England. Wales stopped struggling. The shorter blonde held on tighter, taking the silence as a rejection. ?Please, don?t leave me all alone.?
fanfic "Fire Burns," Katherine is sick and on the verge of death, as well as having constant nightmares. When Severus is visiting, there is the following exchange:
Katherine: Don't leave me...(falls asleep)
Severus: I won't. And don't even think about leaving me.
Amanda starts pleading desperately when
Norm is dying.
Amanda: " Norm, . Please. You need to listen to me. Don't do this. Just? just stay with?
Norm, don't give up. Please. I need you to do this for me."
In the 11th chapter of Bearquarter's Toy Story 2, Mabel and Sherman share a tearful argument before Jimmy delivers a
with Trent Cooper.
Mabel: That's it?! We finally found you, and this is how you repay us? You don?t want to come back home with us?
Sherman: Mabel, you don?t understand what I?m up against! What I?ve been through! When I first met these guys, they told me everything, about toys and kids. And they were right. Kids are meant to grow up, and there's nothing we can do about it!
Mabel: How could you say such a thing? Toys are meant to make children happy! You thought him that. And yet...(points at Sherman)...it looked like you forgot. Are you turning your back on Trent like he?s nothing? On us?" (She pointed to herself, her voice laced with a hint of anguish) On me?
Sherman: Well, what about you? What if what happened to me, might happen to you? Trent?s already outgrown me the moment he ripped my arm. I realize, now, that what you told me a few days ago got off on the wrong foot. Goten was right about him, about me. Trent doesn?t care about me anymore.
Mabel: There are OTHERS who care about you too, Sherman! You have us! You can?t go wasting your life in a museum if you still have a family who misses you, who needs you, who CARES for you! (Mabel softened up a bit and put her hands around Sherman?s cheeks, trying her best to get through to him, to make him understand.) Please, Sherman. We?re doing this because we care. Because we love you.
Sherman: (as he pushes away Mabel's hands) I cant.....
invokes this during her
with Betelgeuse. She points out that, owing to the circumstances which have brought them to this point, she's lost too many loved ones already and she can't bear the thought of losing her best friend too. It works.
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Dory to Marlin in .
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, 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.
version, after Coraline narrowly defeats the Other Mother. Doubles as —the Other Mother wanted to eat Coraline. She may well end up starving to death without her.
The Other Mother: (as Coraline escapes the Other World for good) AAAAAAHHH! DON'T LEAVE ME! DON'T LEAVE ME! I'LL DIE WITHOUT YOU!!!
Belle to the Beast in Disney's . This is right after Gaston has seemingly dealt him a fatal wound and she follows this up by telling him that she loves him. After that, he transforms and the curse is broken.
after Eugene has cut her hair and is dying of a stab wound, Rapunzel begs him not to leave her.
In line with the
example below,
convinces Rapunzel to stay in the tower with her by claiming she's too weak and naive to handle the world by herself. Gothel even follows it up by claiming how heartbroken she'd be if any misfortune were to befall Rapunzel if she went out on her own.
In the final scene of , Po says this to Shifu when he thinks that he's succumbing to . .
Po: Don't die Shifu, don't die...
Shifu I'M NOT DYING, YOU IDIOT! () Dragon... Warrior...
At the conclusion of , Vanellope hugs Ralph, and with tears in her eyes, tells Ralph he could stay in her castle with his own wing where he'd be appreciated as he wasn't in his own game.
In , Crysta says this to her mentor, Magi, who is about to essentially die.
In the little-known film , Tim says this to the Cat Shepherd after the latter .
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. See the title quote.
Randal to Dante in .
Mr. Orange to Mr. White in .
Gong-gil pretty desperately to Jaeng-sang in .
Adam to Lawrence at the end of .
Elinor to Marianne in , when the latter is dying of a fever.
Robert to Giselle in , in what is almost certainly a
to the aforementioned .
John to Elizabeth in
just after she walks out.
ended with Lonesome Rhodes screaming "Don't leave me, Marcia," even after his
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.
The Israeli film , when Moshe runs after his wife, begging her not to leave him.
Twice in :
Padme's pleads with her bodyguard (who has been posing as her) not to die on her in the opening scene.
Anakin finding his mother, who was captured and tortured by the Tusken Raiders, and cries for her to stay with him. She's only able to smile in happiness at getting to see him one last time before .
Inverted in : as he's dying, Anakin/Vader tells Luke to leave him (which Luke initially refuses to do).
: During the flashback, a young Rey is seen begging whoever left her on Jakku (presumably her family) to come back as they're leaving on a ship.
She also begs Finn, her first real friend, not to abandon the fight against the First Order, to no avail.
: Rodmilla does one of these to Auguste as he lays dying of a heart attack, but it's more selfish than loving, since she's wailing that he "cannot leave [her] here" while basically ignoring his heartbroken young daughter after he does die, Rodmilla proceeds to be horrible to Danielle for the next ten years.
In , Shannon says this to Joseph, after
Shannon: Joseph. Joseph, please. Please don't leave me. Please don't leave me alone...
An especially wrenching version in the film , where the female lead tearfully screams at her husband, who's dying from the wounds sustained in a shark attack, to "hang on! Don't you leave me out all by myself!"
Sadly, it proves useless. He dies and the heartbroken woman finally gives up hope of rescue and kills herself.
In , Sam, cradling Frodo's unconscious body, begs him, ""
Also, near the end of the film when the hobbits are gathered at the shore, and Frodo must say goodbye to Sam. This also counts as a , when Sam realises Frodo intends to leave and not come back.
Frodo: We set out to save the Shire, Sam. And it has been saved. But not for me.
Sam: You don't mean that. You can't leave.
John Reed to Louise Bryant in Reds.
In , Jenny begs Perry not to leave her when she's trapped under some rubble as the deadly shockwaves from the Kryptonian World Engine get closer and closer. Perry abandons his chance at escape to stay with her and keep her calm.
Towards the end of , Toni is close enough to a team of rescuers to be able to talk to them, but there's some very hard-to-pass terrain between them, it's getting dark and very cold, and it's not safe for them to stay. He's freezing to death and it's unclear whether he'll make it until the next morning, when they promise to come back. He begs them
his girlfriend ends up spending the night out there with him, although she can't do anything to help.
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Clark and the women in his life (, , and ) do this. . Whenever one of them get one of their
deaths or near-deaths, trust the other to exclaim this.
In "Reckoning", this happens with
Clark and Martha saying this to Jonathan after his heart attack.
"Phantom", Chloe to Lois as the latter dies. She gets better.
In , Hardison has been captured, and buried alive. Parker is holding up pretty well, but as things heat up, she begins to lose it.
"Don't leave me, "
In : , Justin loses his memory, resulting in Alex desperately begging him not to leave her, .
's recurring villain coaxes one of these out of the Doctor:
Master: [Do you think I would want to] spend the rest of my life, imprisoned with you!?
Doctor: You've got to, come on. It can't end like this. You and me, all the things we've done? Axxons, remember the Axxons? And the Daleks.
Master: How about that?
Done again in "The Angels Take Manhattan," when the Doctor breaks down and full-out begs Amy not to let an Angel touch her and send her back in time to Rory in a section of spacetime that the TARDIS can't go to without ripping a hole in the universe. She refuses him. The fact that it's played as being incredibly pathetic and selfish on the Doctor's part makes his utterly honest, tear-choked "I will never see you again!" and his shriek of anguish as he falls face-down on the ground in grief when Amy vanishes even more heartbreaking.
Clara tries her best to stay composed while the Eleventh's reaching his very end, but when he begins regenerating, she breaks down into tears and begs him in a hushed voice to not change.
During the first two seasons of , Allen Anderson was usually the addled tag-along chum. In season three's "Divorce Anderson Style," Allen is consigned to moving away with his mom to another city. As he says his goodbyes, Henry, Mrs. Garrett and Cherie hold up just fine. Punky is another story: when Allen gets to her, she loses it. As Allen leaves, Punky collapses into Cherie's arms, crying her eyes out.
says this to her.
Chandler: "You know what the worst part was? I got to see what my life would be like without you...please promise that you will never leave me, that we will grow old together, and be with each other for the rest of our lives."
Monica: "I promise."
One that didn't work out so well was when he changed his mind about telling Janice she should break up with him to go back to her husband. He ends clinging to her leg in the middle of the coffee house and begging her not to leave. It's both sad and pathetically funny.
House does this to Cuddy in the episode "Bombshells." It's
Amber in the season four finale. It's even more of a .
House to Wilson when Wilson
decides to give up a part of his liver for a patient. "If you die, I'm alone."
: The UnSub of "The Uncanny Valley" says it to a victim that's trying to escape. It manages to be both a
and the stuff of nightmares.
: Children of Earth.
Jack: Ianto? Ianto? Don't leave me, please. .
Claire more than once in season 6 of .
An episode of
that added much fuel to the
fire had Xena screaming, "Don't you leave me!" while trying to resuscitate a not-breathing Gabrielle.
Effectively said by Dean in
when his brother is dying in his arms at the end of the first part of season two's two-part finale.
Bolivia features a terrifying drive along the cliff-filled Death Road. Afraid of heights and stuck with a car with no headlights, presenter James May begs this, word for word, of his
Richard Hammond, whose car does have functioning lights. In a , Hammond remains.
Branson to Sybil in .
In , Tracy Quartermaine is talking to her father who is dying, and says "Please, don't go!"
. After Angelus murders his
Jenny Calender, Buffy's Watcher goes on a
to kill Angelus, only to be saved at the last minute by Buffy. Giles rages at her that this wasn' Buffy slugs him, then gives Giles a , crying and saying "You can't leave me. I can't do this alone."
And again when Giles leaves Buffy after realising he's a
In spinoff , Wesley
and begs her to hold on. When
she dies, he is so distraught that all he can choke out is a repeated "Please."
In the season 3 finale of The OC, when Marissa and Ryan get in a car accident, a dying Marissa begs Ryan to stay when he says he needs to go get help. This leads to .
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: When Jerin goes off to get married, his littlest sister says she doesn't want him to leave, just like their father did. (The father died not long ago). Cue crying by every kid under five in the family. He eventually comforts them by suggesting they bake a cake, and clarifying that he will come and visit them.
: When Oreg is separated from Ward (to whom he is bound as 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 , 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.
Brekke, in the second
novel, pleads with F'nor to not die after he is severely injured during a dangerous scouting mission to the Red Star. Her anguish is so amplified by dragon minds that pretty nearly the entire planet hears it and gives F'nor and his dragon the willpower to teleport back home.
Brekke: Don't leave me alone!
series, Chloe has an unvoiced one when
admits that he often believes that he should leave , because he endangers them due to . (Not because he might hurt them, but because staying
Chloe: I need you. I didn't say that, of course. How could I, without it sounding weird? But I felt it, heart hammering against my ribs, and it wasn't some romantic I can't bear to be without you nonsense. It was something deeper, more desperate.
When I thought of Derek leaving, the ground seemed to slide under my feet. I needed something to hold on to, something solid and real when everything around me was changing so fast. Even if there were times when I thought it would be easier without Derek there, ready to tear a strip off me at every misstep, in some ways I relied on that—someone to keep me thinking, keep me striving to do better, keep me from burying my head and praying that it all worked out.
All over the place in the
Scout, in Yoda: , was grudgingly taken on as a Padawan by a Jedi who didn't want to like her, since he thought she'd wind up killed. Her previous Master, just before she became his padawan, had been killed in the Clone Wars, and this one was mortally wounded in an ambush.
He was smiling. She didn't think she'd . Tears welled up inside Scout. "Don't try to talk. It will be all right, Master. Master Yoda will be here soon to take care of you." Tears dropped from her eyes onto his shattered chest. There was a long hitch in his breathing. His eyes closed. "Master Maruk? Master Maruk! Don't go," Scout cried. "Don't leave me!" His eyes opened, and he smiled again. "Never...," he whispered. "... my Padawan." His eyes closed, and he was gone.
: The Two Towers, from Sam to Frodo: ""
Also when Clove takes a fatal blow to the head with a rock and Cato begs her to stay with him.
Karl Oskar does this with Kristina in . Twice. First when she's sick with scurvy on the journey across the Atlantic, then again when she's sick after a miscarriage.
In , the titular hero, Tan Hadron, has been betrayed by the woman he (supposedly) loves. He realizes that while he can cope with that, he could never survive betrayal by his 'friend' Tavia and begs her never to leave him.
"Swear you will never leave me, I cannot live without you!" (but they're just good friends and comrades - right).
It's not said out loud on-page in , but as Miranda progresses much faster through changes, and is more subject to
than her friend Semi, it weighs very heavily on Semi's mind, and she often thinks of Miranda as leaving her behind.
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!'.
"I was in time. He heard me."
In Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff begs this of Cathy, oddly enough, after she is already dead.
"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 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!"
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's "Return to the Praesidium of Ys" has one where the narrator tells his love interest to stay with him. To put it on perspective, he is Zurra, a demonic demigod responsible for the destruction of entire civilizations, lord of the denizens of the Black Galaxy and a being capable to stand his ground against some of the major powers of Bal-Sagoth-verse, yet by the end of the song his tone is one of someone begging the Sylph he is in love with
Return with me beyond the stars, rule with me a thousand worlds.
's "Please Don't Leave Me". Goes straight to
if you watch the music video or listen closely.
You're my perfect little punching bag.
"Don't Ever Leave Me" from the musical Sweet Adeline.
's "Constant Knot" and "Weightless".
Dusty Springfield's "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" is a song about a woman begging her beloved to stay with her, they don't have to admit their love for each other, because just being with her is enough. The fact that Dusty was a bisexual seems to add an extra layer of potential sadness to the song.
In , by Eric Lane Barnes, the song "A Humming Bird" is about a man desperately pleading for his dying lover to cheer up and get well again, because he doesn't know how he could possibly live without him.
's "Ne Me Quitte Pas."note&
's "Don't Leave Me Now."
has a much darker song also called "Don't Leave Me Now," in which the narrator begs his wife to stay with him because he's dependent on abusing her.
Get Set Go has the song "Please Destroy Me", where the narrator makes a long list of things they will allow the lover to do ("choke me, bleed me" and "murder everything I am" among others) just so long as the lover will stay with him.
The subject of Ane Brun's "Don't Leave" requests this of the narrator, who assures the subject that this was never their intention.
's "Don't walk away."
Jade'snote& .
"Mother" by John Lennon, which has him wailing "mama don't go, daddy come home" at the end.
has a song
where the chorus is this trope said a different way.
's "If You Leave Me Now".
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includes a particularly cathartic and pathetic one from Rose in the finale.
In , in the
of Ben breaking up with Sally,
says, "Don't leave me, Ben. I'll kill myself, I'll die!" Ben doesn't take her suicide threat seriously at the time.
Frank Wildhorn's Dracula has this in the song number
where the titular vampire pleads with Mina for her not to go to Jonathan and instead stay with him.
says this to
during "Say No to This" when he confronts her after her husband James reveals that he knows about (and most likely ) their affair and blackmails Hamilton into giving him money.
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2, Mayu says this to Mio when she is locked in the repentance cell. She will also say it if Mio runs too far ahead of her.
In , Ethan tearfully uses a variation of this when his attempt at CPR on his son seems to fail.
Many comedic examples from .
uses the phrase: "Please don't go! The drones need you! They look up to you!"
Similarly, although somewhat more meta, the final confirmation for canceling a
subscription is accompanied by a picture of an orc with a tear rolling down its face, while the form chides you for "making the peons cry".
has Calliope using this on Kratos, when he's forced to leave her forever in order to become the Ghost of Sparta again so he can defeat Persephone. The game even twists the knife by making his pushing her away into a button-mashing minigame!
Visas' dialogue if you walk away after her possible
during the duel with Nihilus in .
In , one of the female splicers (the young one in the cocktail dress, not the old one or the one with the coral on her face) shouts, "Wait! Don't goooooo-o-o-o!!" if you try to run from a fight.
The end of : Episode Two where Eli is killed. Alyx cries over his body and says "Don't leave me...".
This is inverted in
Isaac in a bid to save Ellie, activates the ship that she was investigating so she could get to safety, as Isaac admits that he just wants her to live and where they were would likely end in their deaths. Ellie tearfully responds:
Ellie:"...You bastard...."
In , Krile says this to her grandfather Galuf or rather, his spirit after his .
In , it turns out that Layton's girlfriend is alive. It was thought that she died in a time machine experiment ten years before, but the machine worked for a split second and sent her to the present day. Unfortunately, her body can't hold and she has to go back to that time, where she'll die in the explosion after all. Professor Layton begins yelling "I don't want to say goodbye again! I can't! I won't!" It's easily the biggest
in the entire series.
In , this is the usual course of action in the . The pendant pulls Sayori away from her chosen man, and leaves them both crying for the other to not leave.
you can pick a love interest to spend your last moments with. Out of all the love interests only
seems to realize that the protagonist performed a
and asks her to stay with him. Granted
but some of the others have missing parents and Dead Little Sisters too. Children Are Observant? Actually yes.
reminds us that
sometimes represents clarity and that is Ken's arcana.
says this sentence almost word for word in her Ending:
"Don't go... I don't want to lose you...
I don't want money nor fame anymore... I just don't want to lose you...
, but I'd wish to stay by your side... Please... Don't abandon me..."
In , after you free Kaguya from the prison, she says that she feels that she must go to the bamboo field in Sasa Sanctuary, as though being driven by an unseen force. When she gets there, she meets her adoptive grandfather, Mr. Bamboo. She says that it would have been better if they didn't meet before she left, and you help her unearth a rocket. Mr. Bamboo reveals that he always knew the rocket was there, but it quickly turns into a desperate plea for his precious granddaughter to not leave him alone. When she leaves, the rocket becomes a , and a
escapes Mr. Bamboo's eyes...
Odd example in
in one of the ferris wheel cutscenes, the girl you're riding with goes over to your side and desperately wants you to hold her until it's over. Afraid of heights, or...
Chie says this almost verbatim towards the end of
when you've died and are getting encouragement from every character with whom you've maxed out your Social Link.
when you are about the leave the "perfect world" your sister Rose begs you not to leave. "Don't go! I don't want to be on my own again." The heartwrenching
she gives out as you do leave almost makes you cry.
In Tsugumi's Good Ending in , Tsugumi says this to Takeshi as he's pulling off his . Made even more potent by the fact that Tsugumi's always insisted on being alone up until now.
Albedo from . When he first finds out that his brothers aren't immortal like he is, he breaks down crying, begging Rubedo not to die and leave him alone.
(if romanced) tearfully begging a male Shepard
to let her come with him as he airlifts her off Earth.
do it too. .
Kaidan uses the trope almost word for word: "Don't leave me behind."
Ike says this to
his father in :
after witnessing the latter's fatal battle with
the Black Knight.
tells this to
in their supports, after he explains his
to her and few later he begs her not to leave him alone.
Henry: "Geez, Panne. What WILL convince you to let me stick around? You remind me of
the fuzzy animals that raised me, and they all died, and now I... Come on, Panne. Please don't abandon me like
my parents did. I'll do anything you want. A-n-y-t-h-i-n-g! Enemies? Gone! Rivals? Kaput!"
Also present in some of Noire's talks, specially the event tile one with
her neglectful mother Tharja, her
and her death quote
in The Future Past DLC..
Tharja): "In the future, you
used me as a guinea pig. You
subjected me to all kinds of nasty curses on a day-to-day basis! But when it mattered, you used your magic to
sacrifice yourself and...save me. But try to leave me again, and I?ll hex you
back a hundredfold!"
Noire (in her Confession): "You fill me with the strength that I never thought I would have. Please stay with me always."
Noire (as her
in The Future Past): " Father, Mother... Come for me... I d-don't want to die...alone."
's general supports with her mother have her asking for hugs and for the chance to smell her mom's scent. It's related to this trope, since
the Future Children of this game were raised in
and could only see their war-bound par in Velouria's case, she has missed her "Mama" terribly and is trying to remember her via being physically closer.
"Mom... Don't ever go anywhere... I want to stay with you...forever..."
Niles, despite being a sadistic , does not take abandonment well
due to the incident in his past in which his gang left him for dead when a heist went wrong. If he marries an Avatar of either gender, in the original Japanese he'll plead with them to stay by his side and hold his hand while he sleeps.
when Dante is leaving her behind after he is angry at her for betraying him over to Mundus.
: Never quite said word for word, but effectively said a few times by Riki. Most notably, when it's suggested that Rin transfer to another school for a while, he abandons all reason and demands that she stay back, because he cannot accept her leaving. In her full route, he accepts her leaving, but only very reluctantly. And when Kyousuke begins to leave forever, Riki demands he stay because he doesn't care about anything else but staying with Kyousuke forever. However, rather than try to convince Riki it's the right thing like he's done at many points until now, here Kyousuke admits he doesn't want to leave just as much as Riki doesn't want him to go, and he's extremely upset and despises that he has to go, but he has no choice. It's eventually revealed that this abandonment complex of Riki's stems from his parents dying when he was young. Since they suddenly left him, he's always been terrified that his friends will as well.
This becomes a major plot point in
as Johnny struggles to come to terms with his wife's death. Most notably seen when Johnny pours his heart out to Isabelle.
A platonic example in
occurs halfway through the game, from Raiden to .
There is a slightly skewed version in , if the player character romances Cullen. There is a conversation shortly before the final battle in which Cullen acknowledges that she has to leave him - to fight the . What he can't accept is the idea that she might not return.
Played more straight in the Solas romance, because despite her protests and declarations of love, there is no way for the player character to prevent him from breaking off the romance before the endgame, and leaving as soon as the
is defeated. It isn't because he doesn't love her - it's because he's really the Dread Wolf Fen'Harel.
in the most heartbreaking way possible on the pacifist route.
The final boss is Asriel Dreemurr, which is Flowey's true form. Asriel lost his best friend when he was a kid and Asriel himself was killed by humans after that. After being reborn as the sociopathic Flowey, Asriel still retained his memories of his best friend, which the main protagonist looks eerily similar to and Asriel aims to keep killing and reviving him over and over again so that he won't leave him and the two of them could "play" forever. During the fight against Asriel as you wear him down, he starts crying his eyes out via
and begs you not to leave him again while he uses an unavoidable attack that . Once his soul is soothed, Asriel apologizes and realizes that he was projecting his best friend onto the protagonist, even though the two kids are completely different people. Asriel gives up the souls he stolen and accepts his fate of eventually becoming Flowey again.
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is terrified of Mike leaving her forever, and reacts poorly when she thinks,
after Mike has rejected her, that Paulo wants nothing to do with her as well.
: Tuuri and Onni share a heartwrenching mutual moment of this on one of the first pages. Tuuri, who is going on an expedition into the Silent World with their cousin Lalli, pleads to Onni to join them because she doesn't want to leave her big brother behind alone. Onni, who
hates everything that has to do with the Silent World, refuses to go outside the walls of his home town and is , pleads for Tuuri to stay home. In the end, neither manages to sway the other.
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blog (A spin off of the
series) Jappleack would regularly abuse her sister Apple Bloom for various reasons. One reader finally demanded that she stop mistreating Apple Blooom and love her, dammit! Jappleack ponders for a minute, then yells for Apple Bloom. She stares down at Apple Bloom, who's clearly expecting another beating. Instead, she wraps her arms around her neck and says "Don't you leave me. Don't you dare fucking leave me." Confused, Apple Bloom tells her that she loves her too. Jappleack herself seems relieved that she's finally been nice to her sister. Naturally, Apple Bloom is crushed by Discord in SHED.MOV almost immediately after.
Done through song in 's date with . After it dies a crashing death with Critic having a
breakdown and both of them running offscreen, you'd think the ship had sunk if it weren't for the chorus of "Baby Come Back" playing over the ending credits.
chased after Tamara after she tortured him in
review, not angry that she'd hurt him but annoyed because she left and he wanted to give her a job.
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does this in "" during his "death" scene, which makes Elmer Fudd wallow in self-pity after Bugs "dies."
episode Lost, Harchi does this to Oscar when he gets separated from his friends.
Played for laughs in the
episode "Mechanised Mayhem." As Greenback's transport, the Frog's Head Flyer, is rebelling against him and Stiletto kicking down the door of their hideout, Stiletto issues an S.O.S. which DM retrieves. As DM and Penfold prepare to backtrack to London:
Stiletto: Oh, don'a leave me! Wha'm I gonna do?!
DM: Just keep your beak crossed and hope the Flyer gets cramp before the door gives in.
Unlimited,
to stay with her in her final moments before the same condition that gave her powers ultimately kills her. He does.
In , we have Betty's heartbroken reaction as her fiancee, Simon Petrikov (who would later become the Ice King) goes insane due to the influence of :
Betty: Simon...
episode "God Rest Ye Merry Gentle-Mannequins". After Bob tells the unstable-but-harmless vagrant they've invited into their home for Christmas that , the man runs from the room in tears. Linda is pissed at Bob for ruining the man's Christmas and angrily orders the kids out of the room, which Bob asks them not to do. This goes back and forth with Bob getting more desperate for them to stay, culminating in him shrieking "Don't leave me!", probably because he figured Linda wouldn't kill him in front of the kids.
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As Alexander Graham Bell lay dying, his deaf wife signed, "Please don't leave me." Bell signed the word "No" and died.
Supposedly, "Please don't leave me" were Chris Farley's last words to a prostitute who was with him during his fatal drug overdose. She left anyway, .
One of many, many eerie parallels between Farley and his hero John Belushi. They died at the same age, of the same cause, and had very similar dying words. Belushi's were "Just don't leave me alone."
He died alone too.
Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller's teacher and lifelong guide, was reportedly haunted by the memory of these words from her tubercular brother James, who was shut up with her in the
and died at the age of eight.
The last known person to see
alive was former bandmate Mike Starr. According to him, about a week and a half before Layne's corpse was discovered, he visited with him briefly and saw that he was deathly ill. He urged Layne to call 911, but he refused, threatening to break off their friendship.
and Mike stormed out. Mike later stated that as he was leaving, he heard Layne calling after him "Not like this! Don't leave like this!" He is believed to have died that same night or the day after.
sometimes intentionally provoke this reaction in their children. The parents' own low self-esteem causes them to crave a sense of being "needed", so they may convince the child that they cannot be left alone, in a situation where the parent is absent, or doing anything independent, lest something terrible happen. And if it does, they blame the child's foolishness for thinking they could do anything by themselves. Replace "parent" and "child" with "spouse", and the situation is the same.
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