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* ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]'': At the climax Roy Neary enters the alien ship, disappears into the light and the ship departs Earth. Which is kind of awkward for his wife and kids. <ref>Looking back, [[Word of God]] agrees its a rough move. Spielberg: "I would never have made Close Encounters the way I made it in '77, because I have a family that I would never leave," he said in a 1997 making-of documentary. "That was just the privilege of youth."</ref>

* In [[Francis Carsac]]'s ''[[Those From Nowhere]]'', a young doctor encounters [[Humanoid Aliens]] in a forest and, after helping them fix their ship, agrees to go with them to their homeworld. There, he finds out that they are fighting a losing war against a race of [[Cosmic Horror|Cosmic Horrors]]s. They need his help to defeat them, as "those with red blood" are the only ones capable of resisting the enemy. After defeating them, the doctor goes home with his [[Love Interest]] (from a race of red-blooded [[Humanoid Aliens]] with four fingers) in order to put his affairs in order before leaving Earth forever to live on her planet. He also offers the writer a chance to join them.

* In Dana Stabenow's ''Second Star'', the aliens--aaliens—a race of ultimate knowledge-collectors nicknamed The Librarians--wereLibrarians—were initially attracted by their discovery of a [[Instant AI, Just Add Water|newly-sentient]] computer system, but when he turns down the offer to go with them, they extend it to the protagonist's [[Teen Genius]] niece; she accepts in a heartbeat.