/lit/ - Literature

Give it to me straight. How ""subverted ur expectations"" would it be if during a hero's journey, after the inciting incident and the cast are at their lowest lows, the hero decides to fuck off and abandon the plot? Like instead of him pulling himself up from the boostraps or getting slapped around by his best friend reminding him of his resolve, he just utterly gives in and drops out. In a way that the story now shifts to the remaining cast and how they continue on without this linchpin?