The Adventurer Archaeologist has gone through all manner of Death Course hazards and exhausted himself narrowly escaping from certain death, but he has succeeded in retrieving the idol! ....except that he emerges to find his arch-nemesis aiming a gun point blank at him, casually ordering him to hand it over. Polar opposite of Keep-Away. Compare You Can't Thwart Stage One. Subtrope of Nice Job Breaking It, Hero. Not to be confused with MacGuffin Escort Mission, where the good guys give the heroes a mission to deliver the item somewhere. This is an inversion of that trope.