Somebody in the group suggests they willingly surrender, claiming that this way, they'll live to fight another day.

This trope is used by both villains and badass heroes or Anti Heroes, particularly the loner action-hero kind. They're cornered. They know it.

After discovering her spouse was cheating on her, a woman decides to dive into a daring universe: BDSM. The first two chapters were made available for VIP ...

This is when we're told a character has no choice but to surrender, even though we've seen the character easily get out of worse situations before.

The Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys trope as used in popular culture. The Anglophone stereotype that France sucks at war and surrenders at the drop of a hat ...

You might want to surrender. A good way to do so non-verbally is to hoist and wave a white flag. Advertisement: Don't use it just to lure your enemies ...

A defeated character laughs or snarks at the one who beat them, often when they're in no position to do so, possibly broken in pain on the floor or behind bars.

A page for describing YMMV: Surrender. And You Thought It Would Fail: The BDSM premise of this book has turned off many players, who find it to be squicky.

Sometimes, You Can't Fight Fate. And when things aren't going your way, it's good to know when to call the whole thing a wash and quit.

Hostage Situation: Vadic gives Jack an ultimatum: surrender in the next ten minutes, or she'll start executing members of the Titan-A's bridge crew until he ...