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Martyr Without a Cause

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Martyr Without a Cause	comment	Heroes are heroic; it goes without saying. So it shouldn't come as a surprise when one makes a Heroic Sacrifice or takes the shot to protect a friend or loved one; even his allies might form a Hero Secret Service to protect him before facing the Big Bad. Then, there's heroes who seem to have a near-suicidal insistence on being the one to die... even if the situation isn't all that dire! They'll put the Papa Wolf and Mama Bear to shame in their zeal to ensure no one around them but themselves is in any risk. They'll discourage alternate plans for a given threat if any friends have to be in the slightest danger, even if they increase the odds for success and their own survival, and said friends are willing to take the risk. If someone gets hurt (or his little sister forbid, dies) he'll be eaten up with guilt. This is often the Character Flaw of a Messianic Archetype and often combines with Chronic Hero Syndrome. Expect friends, family, and loved ones to scold him repeatedly on this risk-hogging behavior, and villains to use Flaw Exploitation to make the most of it by engineering threats. If it's that kind of show, expect an episode or two about how the hero needs to learn to trust his teammates and realize he can't control fate and protect them from all harm. Generally, this is also part of the motivation for why a hero will give themselves up without a fight when a love interest is held hostage at knifepoint and give said love interest up afterwards, to save them from any perceived danger. Occasionally, such a character may be a member of a Martyrdom Culture for whom death is not necessarily a bad thing, potentially resulting in misunderstandings when dealing with those with different backgrounds. See Honor Before Reason for the idea behind this trope, and compare Suicidal Pacifism. For the more depressing and less heroic version of this, see Death Seeker. Characters like this with combat skills may also be The Berserker. This may be the fate of a Small Steps Hero if they can't rescue an innocent without sacrificing themselves. Compare Inspirational Martyr for when they do have a clear cause, and Greater Need Than Mine for when this is portrayed as noble rather than a Fatal Flaw. Also compare Senseless Sacrifice and Self-Punishment Over Failure.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_131af0da	comment	Nagi Kirima from the Boogiepop Series sees herself as a vigilante meant to clean up the world, and often goes to great lengths to deal with things herself. At one point she even temporarily gets killed by Manticore but Echoes' intervention saves her life. Notably, in her backstory, her dying father's request for her was that she not be normal, and she seems to have taken it to heart (perhaps a bit too much).
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_18a81596	comment	Kimba the White Lion acts like this at times.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_1a4b3ea2	comment	In the Digimon franchise, the heroic death of heroic Proud Warrior Race Guy Leomon has become a Running Gag, happening at least once every season, even in different continuities. It's usually a sign of things getting dark and serious, even.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_1b021fcb	comment	Explored in characteristically dark fashion in Tokyo Ghoul via the protagonist Ken Kaneki, who's lived his whole life by his mother's advice: "Rather than a person who hurts others, become the person getting hurt." Unfortunately, his unwavering adherence to these words starts to cause real problems when he transforms into a man-eating ghoul, and after his torture at the hands of Yamori, he begins to question the philosophy he's lived his life by.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_1bdeba5a	comment	Colossus is noted to have this problem in 2014's Amazing X-Men, where the rest of the cast point out/poke fun at his faintly absurd tendency to try and sacrifice himself at the drop of a hat. While this might seem a little cruel, several of the team had died at least once (usually in a Heroic Sacrifice), and his habit was beginning to drift towards absurdity. He lampshaded this in his inner monologue while fighting the Juggernaut, and after winning (by dodging as the Juggernaut ran off a cliff), assumed he was about to die and collapsed near the edge... then realized that everyone was patiently waiting for him to get up (they weren't going to lift him up because, as Nightcrawler pointed out, he's their friend, but he's also very heavy).
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_1beda93b	comment	Torg of Sluggy Freelance will literally sacrifice himself at the first hint that any one of his friends might be in danger if he doesn't. This actually puts his teammates in a lot more danger because every time he tries this, they (duh!) have a mad scramble to rescue him. Then he yells at them for putting themselves in danger while he was trying to die but is too stupid to take the hint that they're going to keep saving him. They're all messed up that way.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_1f76648	comment	Touma of A Certain Magical Index. He helps anyone who comes to him with trouble and inevitably ends up in the hospital after helping. He even helps his enemies, refusing to hold grudges against people who tried to violently murder him and his friends for no good reason. He's also completely unaware that this tendency lands him lots of powerful friends (not to mention dozens of admirers). It comes to a head in the Magic God Othinus arc, where it turns out he feels he has so little self-worth that when Othinus alters reality so the world is perfect and everybody else is safe and happy, and all he has to do is die, he agrees. It takes The Will of the Misaka Network interfering and telling him he deserves to live as well for him to fight back.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_1fca96ce	comment	Umi and Fuu (well, mostly Umi) in Magic Knight Rayearth are constantly yelling at Hikaru for this. She wants to intercept every attack and scout for danger on her own rather than in a group, and will always insist she's fine when she is not.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_1ff419c5	comment	Subverted in Kingdom Hearts II, Axel will sacrifice himself during a cutscene to save you from hordes of Dusks, even though they aren't much of a threat and you could continue fighting for hours. This is a consequence of Gameplay and Story Segregation because all the characters act as though the nobody 'horde' was incredibly dangerous even though they're small fry as far as the player is concerned by that point. Kingdom Hearts III has Braig accuse the entire main cast and their friends of this, sacrificing themselves for those who will sacrifice themself in turn, with no ultimate payoff in the end.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_20fe03ad	comment	In Double Arts, the apparently cheerful and playful Sister Heine turns out to be one of these. She gave up all her hobbies and became determined to keep healing people until it killed her, to atone for arriving too late to save a Troi-infected patient, even ignoring the advice of her superior Sisters to slow down.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_21938c93	comment	In Avengers: Age of Ultron, this is outright discussed as Captain America's Fatal Flaw. For all his heroism and valor, he feels he needs to be fighting for something in order for his life to have meaning. Tony Stark even accuses him of opposing peacekeeping initiatives such as Insight, Ultron, and the Vision out of fear they'll render him obsolete (though in fairness to Cap, he ended up being right about the first two).
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_2250e67e	comment	Malcom Reed on Star Trek: Enterprise is obsessed with dying heroically, moereso than other security chiefs in Starfleet. He apparently got this from a great-uncle in the Royal Navy who sealed himself in the engine compartment of his crippled nuclear submarine to allow the rest of his shipmates to escape.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_25f8b9d5	comment	One episode of This is Wonderland involved an ex-cop, played by Ron White, who was caught in a self-destructive cycle after someone shot a gun at his face. The gun didn't go off, but he seems to have felt that it should have.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_2b70efd4	comment	Old World of Darkness game, Hunter: The Reckoning, has the aptly-named Martyr creed. Their abilities all aid others at the cost of damage to themselves, and they tend to be pretty short-lived because of it. The book mentions that at least some Martyrs, if not all of them, have egotistical ideas of martyrdom, and it isn't fighting the good fight or the salvation of mankind that drives them, as much as it is the desire for sympathy, attention, and praise.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_2c773285	comment	Dai-Guard: Akagi Shunsuke's salaryman ethos extends to piloting Dai-Guard: during the competition with Kokubogar, he's the only one even trying despite being delirious with fever. He's also willing to tear his robot apart for impromptu "rocket punches" when nothing else seems to be working.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_2f9517bf	comment	Allen Walker in D.Gray-Man wants to save everyone. He usually forgets in the process that he's one of only about 20 Exorcists fighting off millions of Akuma. At one point his friend Lenalee had to Bright Slap him to get him to act remotely rational about it.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_30316a54	comment	It seems that, following the ending of Avengers vs. X-Men, Cyclops seeks to be this way. Why? Because he wants to be the martyr for the reborn mutant race
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_30a5ebfd	comment	The titular character of Naruto leans in this direction occasionally, especially during the Pain arc, telling everyone else to stay the hell away. When Hinata doesn't and almost gets killed right in front of Naruto... needless to say, it's not pretty. He is better most of the time though, trusting his teammates, but he'd rather fight the most dangerous enemies himself.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_35e05f2a	comment	RWBY: Jaune Arc fell into this for a time in the Mistral Arc (Volumes 4-6), due to the death of his partner and Love Interest Pyrrha in the Fall Of Beacon. His teammates are eventually able to pull him out of it once they realize how self-destructive he's becoming.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter has elements of this, sometimes exasperating his friends. Making it worse is that Voldemort quickly figures that out. In one of the few times he shows any savvy, he uses Harry's willingness to rescue loved ones by sending fake memories of capturing Sirius Black in Order of the Phoenix. By the time of The Deathly Hallows, Voldemort accuses Harry of letting others die protecting him in order to guilt-trip Harry into sacrificing himself during the Battle of Hogwarts.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_3bce4381	comment	Trigun: Vash The Stampede takes this to ludicrous levels. His body is covered with scars he's suffered while protecting others — including his enemies. He'd rather die than allow ANYONE around him to get killed, and the people shooting at him are not exempt from that. Good thing his Improbable Aiming Skills are just as overpowered as his morals... In a rare subversion of the trope, both his Improbable Aiming Skills and his near-immortality are completely justified by the story. When finally, near the end of the series run, he's forced to choose between killing an enemy or letting the two girls he has befriended (and he might well be in love with one of them) die instead, he pulls the trigger, kills the guy, and saves the girls — and then promptly breaks down crying. Vash also subtly deconstructs the trope, with many subtle arguments being presented that this is unhealthy behavior and stems from Vash's root psychological issues.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_3c761480	comment	Destiny is a Hazy Thing. One of Naruto's Internal Monologues points out that Sakura's obsession with Sasuke might lead her to this.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_3d67ab11	comment	Brynhildr in the Darkness: Neko Kuroha has an extreme case of Chronic Hero Syndrome that makes her very willing to self-sacrifice. Kuroha's self-sacrificial nature reaches such extremes that she takes no measures to keep herself alive even if she is warned by Kana about a chance that she'll be killed. This always means that Ryota has to keep finding a way to keep Kuroha from being killed while still preventing any other casualties.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_3d93edd6	comment	Deconstructed in Usogui with Kaji's zeal for throwing himself into the life-threatening gambles that the protagonist leads them both into, despite having no personal motivation and often being terrified out of his wits. This is revealed to be because of his abusive mother, who instilled in him the idea that he's only useful if he's throwing away his life so that others can benefit from it. This complete lack of self-worth holds him back as a gambler, and discarding his reckless martyrdom is the culmination of his character development.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Krista Lenz from Attack on Titan. Her friend Ymir chews her out for it, telling Krista that her subconscious need to prove her morality to people is going to get her killed.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_3f44e3d7	comment	In Princess Tutu, Mytho is a prince from a fairytale that destroyed his own heart to seal away an evil raven. Because of his heart being missing, he's emotionless, but one key part of his personality remained intact—his desire to protect others. Because of this, he mindlessly throws himself into danger in order to protect anything and everyone: jumping out of a window to protect a baby bird (which can fly, by the way), running into a burning building to save a bird in a cage, throwing himself in front of a little girl in danger... for the people that care for him, it's one of the things that makes them love him, but many of them also express frustration with it.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_43576f5	comment	The three Winchesters in Supernatural are all quite prone to this. It's even gotten to the point where when one dies, another family member will make a Deal with the Devil (and they know they'll pay a high price) to bring them back to life. The Yellow Eyed Demon even comments that they make it "too easy". In all three cases, however, the motivation hovered somewhere between this and that of the Death Seeker — (Sam's death-wish stemmed from the loss of his girlfriend, John's from the loss of his wife and the realization of the damage he'd done to his sons, and Dean's from... oh, everything.) Dean is particularly gifted in this area. In Faith, he willingly doesn't fight back against a Reaper who came to kill him in exchange for another (because he thinks she deserves to live more) and then seems disappointed and upset when the Reaper is stopped, he tries to sacrifice himself to stall the Seven Sins in 3x01 (much to Sam and Bobby's displeasure), deliberately uses himself for bait to catch the MotW's attention, and so on. All of the Winchesters run the fine line between this and the Deathseeker but Dean's is even finer than most. Castiel displayed this as well through his whole stay on the show, made worse the more he sees himself as expendable and thinks risking his life, dying, being possessed by Lucifer on season 11 are the only ways to help and make himself worthy because he is not as powerful as he used to be after Metatron took his grace and damaged it. In season 12,he deemed that giving the Winchesters 3 minutes of distracting Lucifer by offering himself to be beaten up then killed is a fair enough sacrifice.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_475972f0	comment	Yorick from Y: The Last Man. He had an actual death wish for a while, being the last man on earth and all, but he got over it after a session of good old-fashioned S&M-themed psychiatric assistance.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_482ba098	comment	In PandoraHearts, the fact that he cares nothing for himself is both Oz's strength and weakness. The Abyss holds no fear to one who doesn't give a damn what happens to himself.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_49a88442	comment	Final Fantasy XIV: The Crystal Exarch in the Shadowbringers expansion. After the main story quest, a few conversations will make it apparent that quite a few of his plans end with "and then I die heroically, saving everyone else, and am mourned afterwards." One character who has known him for some time says that this has been a recurring trend with him, and several characters are quite tired of it.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_50bcf7a6	comment	In Homestuck, after achieving God Tier, it's become a Running Gag that John repeatedly tries to sacrifice himself to save people on the basis that he's now immortal, even though he's repeatedly reminded that a Heroic Sacrifice would invalidate his immortality.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_53b30902	comment	Alicia of Valkyria Chronicles. As soon as she realizes she has a Suicide Attack up her sleeve, she goes and tries to put it to use against an enemy vehicle that she had almost crippled with a regular attack.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_5c3b1859	comment	And by Captain America: Civil War Stark points out to Steve that he's not going against the Sokovia Accords because he fears that they will be used against the Avengers and they will risk having bad people being their overseers and thus they will turn into tools of oppression, but because that means he will have fewer fights to throw himself at hoping to martyr himself. Rogers still turns out to be somewhat right about the Accords in Avengers: Infinity War when the oversight group showcases itself to be a Head-in-the-Sand Management fuelled by "Thunderbolt" Ross' pettiness.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_5d354f8	comment	Kryten of Red Dwarf is practically made of this trope. Whenever danger threatens he offers to kill himself and save the crew, this being the only logical solution. (Such as suggesting he be loaded into the reverse-thrust tubes so that his body be used as decoy fodder for a pursuing spacecraft.) Rimmer will then agree immediately.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_60515a97	comment	Rikk Oberf in Fans! has an obsession with ensuring that the people he cares for come to no harm in his adventures, and seems inclined to do this at times.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_610a694a	comment	In PokÃ©mon Adventures, Team Galactic once trying to kidnap Platinum aside, Pearl tells Diamond that there's no reason to put themselves in danger by being involved with them after Diamond nearly gets himself killed stealing a camera from Cyrus. Diamond states that he refuses to stand by and do nothing when there's an obviously evil and dangerous group running around.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_65d07453	comment	Steve Rogers has quite a bit of this in Captain America: The First Avenger, desperate to join the army because he can't stand the idea of not risking his life along with other soldiers (even though he was rejected 4F for a laundry list of perfectly valid health reasons) and diving on a (dud, but he didn't know that) grenade to protect his squad when it wasn't exactly out of the question to just flee along with everyone else. However, it's explicitly pointed out by Bucky, who sarcastically remarks "sure, you have nothing to prove" that he takes stupid risks and it's partly because Steve has self-worth issues due to his frailness.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_67ce5a04	comment	In Fire Emblem Fates Azama accuses his potential girlfriend Effie of being this in their Revelation supports. It's not helped by how they met when she shielded him from an enemy attack so he has to heal her, and in their A support protects an enemy almost at the cost of her own life, after she realised he was a very young kid who had been borderline Forced into Evil.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: Steve Rogers has quite a bit of this in Captain America: The First Avenger, desperate to join the army because he can't stand the idea of not risking his life along with other soldiers (even though he was rejected 4F for a laundry list of perfectly valid health reasons) and diving on a (dud, but he didn't know that) grenade to protect his squad when it wasn't exactly out of the question to just flee along with everyone else. However, it's explicitly pointed out by Bucky, who sarcastically remarks "sure, you have nothing to prove" that he takes stupid risks and it's partly because Steve has self-worth issues due to his frailness. Taken further in the sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier, where he tells Agent Hill to blow up the helicarrier with him in it, and making no attempt to even try to escape. And let's not forget that he is perfectly willing to die by the Winter Soldier's hands once millions of lives are no longer in jeopardy. In Avengers: Age of Ultron, this is outright discussed as Captain America's Fatal Flaw. For all his heroism and valor, he feels he needs to be fighting for something in order for his life to have meaning. Tony Stark even accuses him of opposing peacekeeping initiatives such as Insight, Ultron, and the Vision out of fear they'll render him obsolete (though in fairness to Cap, he ended up being right about the first two). And by Captain America: Civil War Stark points out to Steve that he's not going against the Sokovia Accords because he fears that they will be used against the Avengers and they will risk having bad people being their overseers and thus they will turn into tools of oppression, but because that means he will have fewer fights to throw himself at hoping to martyr himself. Rogers still turns out to be somewhat right about the Accords in Avengers: Infinity War when the oversight group showcases itself to be a Head-in-the-Sand Management fuelled by "Thunderbolt" Ross' pettiness.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_6a4bddd6	comment	Tony "Iron Man" Stark's third answer to everything appears to be "Electrocute/asphyxiate/experiment on myself" right after "Build more guns" and "Jump in front of the thing being aimed at my better-armored teammate famous for his use of a shield." Given the amount of awful shit he's been subjected to, it's quite possible that another trope is at play here. Interestingly, the Avengers film makes this part of his Character Development: Captain America initially calls him out on his un-willingness to sacrifice himself (while Stark claims he can always Take a Third Option), making his (almost) sacrifice to save the city from a nuke at the end a pretty big turning point for him.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_6c1d09b3	comment	One of the biggest strikes against Fallout 3 is that you inexplicably turn into one of these in the ending by going into an irradiated room, instead of sending in one of your radiation-immune companions to do it instead. Broken Steel remedies this, in addition to adding a Playable Epilogue quest line (though choosing the option to let a radiation-immune character do the job is considered a cowardly option by the narrator rather than a practical one).
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_6c5e0560	comment	Miaka from Fushigi Yuugi does this every single time she and her friends are attacked. "This is all because of me!"
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Zhaan does this in an episode of Farscape. Somebody had to activate the separate-the-ships sequence, so of course the one person too weak to even bother trying to cross back into Moya is the one they choose to do it. Given the twenty-minute before-death speech, why couldn't they just get a ten-foot pole and press the buttons from across the room? Because the writers needed to find a way to write Zhaan out of the series, due to the fact that her actress's health was being severely damaged by all the blue body paint she had to wear. You'll note that in the season leading up to her death, Zhaan tended more and more towards full-body clothing whereas in the first season she'd been seen mostly (sometimes entirely) naked. Virginia Hey's kidneys were reacting startlingly badly to something in her makeup. One might call it Executive Meddling, if one considers her doctor to be an executive. In any case, the character was already dying, so, as she reasoned, why risk anyone else's life if she was going to be dead in a few weeks at most anyway.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_71a2d83d	comment	Stefan from The Vampire Diaries fits this trope. He constantly offers himself up to be sacrificed in the place of others or puts himself in the most dangerous situations in order to protect others from getting hurt or killed. Elena as well. She wouldn't hesitate to sacrifice herself in order to protect the people she loves. Bonnie could also classify as well. She often puts her life in the line of fire for everyone.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_73dd3d5	comment	Jean Grey in X2: X-Men United, who sacrifices herself while holding back a giant wall of water to allow the rest of the team time to escape. There were at least three other team members (Storm, Iceman, and Nightcrawler) with powers that would have been useful in this situation, and with all four of them working together, they at least stood a chance of getting everyone out alive. She never gave them the chance to try. In the original script she just does it from inside the jet.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_7616a253	comment	Watanuki from Ã—Ã—Ã—HOLiC has more than a few elements of this, though it is brought up eventually, and even more eventually justified into a backstory-defining plot point. As early as volume 8 of the Manga, he offers to give up his left eye to a spider demon if she'll release a friend, the Zashiki-Warashi, who was trying to recover his stolen right eye, leading to the monster deconstructing this trope and giving him an epiphany.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_7ae78fc7	comment	In Bakemonogatari, Koyomi Araragi's defining flaw is a hidden lack of self-worth, which leads him to always try to sacrifice himself, even when he doesn't have to or it would even make things worse. In Kizumonogatari, the chronologically first story, he becomes a vampire because he knowingly chose to die for a complete stranger simply because he believes it's a virtue to die for someone else. It only occurred to him much later that vampires eat people and what he did was insane. His first instinct is to try to die again. When it comes to Hanekawa's issues, before he thinks of anything else, he comes up with a plan that depends on her ripping him in two and accidentally touching the sword he hid inside his body. It works but nearly gets her killed and requires someone else to bail them both out. Even if it had worked, he completely fails to realize the effect his death would have everyone. For Kanbaru Suruga, he goes into a fight he has no real chance of winning believing that if he just dies everyone else will be happy. He survives, but in the process, he convinces her that deep down she's a murderer who only avoided killing someone because of blind luck, which leaves her mentally scarred for some time. In the end, it's when he averts this trope that he has the greatest success with helping people: He brought Senjogahara to a genuine specialist, he decided to risk his life for his sister because he genuinely loves her and does not care that she's some kind of body-hopping parasite spirit and when he chose to talk things out with a con man rather than doing anything stupid.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_8cea2648	comment	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Partway through the movie, a problem becomes clear. All the Spider-People who were dragged into Miles' universe are slowly disintegrating. The only way home is through a supercollider: one of them has to stay behind and keep it working while the others escape and live. As soon as they figure this out, all of them (the teenage girl, the detective, the pre-pubescent girl, the cartoon pig) immediately volunteer to make the sacrifice. Peter B Parker is the most extreme example, though, owing to his own situation: he "wins" the argument to stay behind and die, then, when that situation's resolved, tries to sacrifice himself again to face the Big Bad and buy Miles a little more time. It takes Miles grabbing him and throwing him into the portal to convince him things are handled and send him home.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_8d817ccb	comment	Jack from Lost always insists on personally going on the most dangerous missions, despite being the doctor and unofficial leader of the survivors, and thus arguably the most indispensable one. He especially insists that Kate never ever risk her life by coming on these missions, despite the fact that she's handy with a gun and a skilled tracker.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_8eb38ffa	comment	In Secondhand Lions, Hub McCann expresses little interest in waiting to die of old age, and it is strongly implied that he possesses a severe death wish, as his only love died years before while giving birth. However, he is old and retired to a ranch with his brother, and those impulses cause him to risk his life for no reason. Eventually he gets his wish, dying with his brother in a reckless plane crash.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_90f42a9b	comment	In Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time, Rand al'Thor suffers badly from this, at least if it's a woman on the line. He wangsts on endlessly if even a single woman is killed and he is sort of to blame — regardless of whether said woman was trying to kill him and everyone else around him. This is much to the reader's chagrin, since most women in Wheel of Time are jerkasses whom no reader would miss. Much of this is due to Rand's growing insanity over the course of the series; once he clears that up, he stops discriminating by sex and becomes much more pragmatic, although he still insists on focusing as much risk onto himself as possible to keep others safe. It isn't until Egwene's dying spirit convinces him that this is selfish (in that it denies others the chance to be heroes, too) that he finally relents.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_957a7896	comment	Averted in A Very Potter Musical: As in the original Harry Potter, Voldemort asks Harry whom he will be using as a human shield this time. Harry has already told everyone not to interfere, but Ron steps forward to volunteer before Hermione yanks him back.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_960062b7	comment	The above bullet point of My Hero Academia canon tends to encounter Flanderization in fan fiction. Whether or not he has powers, whether or not his intelligence has increased, and whether or not he is comparatively a bigger badass than canon, Izuku Midoriya tends to be even more suicidally reckless in his heroism (to the point that in some stories it's flat-out stated that he's got a death wish). To supply some examples: Viridian: The Green Guide, in which in one chapter Izuku is in a situation in which he may get killed and he's more concerned about how this may ruin Kacchan's (a.k.a. the bully who wants him gone just because he exists) chances to be a Hero than the fact he may die or what his mother may suffer from finding out he's dead (and a vigilante). In Think Before You Speak (MHA), "Eraserhead" Aizawanote who in this particular fic universe has his jerk levels up to eleven by trying to exploit a training accident (caused by Bakugou and that hurt Iida) to get Deku kicked out via Malicious Slander because he's not allowed to expel him himself tries to defend his decision when he's being given the third degree by his higher-ups in the Hero community by pointing out that Deku has a very visible martyr complex and he shouldn't be a Hero, only for Endeavor (of all people) to ask Aizawa if it really is going to help his reputation as it currently stands to let Izuku go - the kid will still be a Hero or literally die trying, training or not, so Aizawa trying to manipulate things so Deku won't get any help is beyond merely irresponsible.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_9a67b688	comment	Case Closed Ai Haibara will repeatedly put herself in harm's way if she feels it will protect someone she cares for. Early on, she was prepared to remain on an exploding bus because she felt she was endangering those around her because of the organization hunting her. Character Development helps with the worst of this but still shows itself when, during the Mystery Train arc, she is so confident she will die she resolves to do so only after temporarily undoing her Fountain of Youth so her grade school friends won't kick up enough of a fuss at her death to catch the organization's eye.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_9a7f85f3	comment	In Think Before You Speak (MHA), "Eraserhead" Aizawanote who in this particular fic universe has his jerk levels up to eleven by trying to exploit a training accident (caused by Bakugou and that hurt Iida) to get Deku kicked out via Malicious Slander because he's not allowed to expel him himself tries to defend his decision when he's being given the third degree by his higher-ups in the Hero community by pointing out that Deku has a very visible martyr complex and he shouldn't be a Hero, only for Endeavor (of all people) to ask Aizawa if it really is going to help his reputation as it currently stands to let Izuku go - the kid will still be a Hero or literally die trying, training or not, so Aizawa trying to manipulate things so Deku won't get any help is beyond merely irresponsible.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_9a83521d	comment	Viridian: The Green Guide, in which in one chapter Izuku is in a situation in which he may get killed and he's more concerned about how this may ruin Kacchan's (a.k.a. the bully who wants him gone just because he exists) chances to be a Hero than the fact he may die or what his mother may suffer from finding out he's dead (and a vigilante).
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_9c40134f	comment	Red Planet seems to have a spaceship full of people only too happy to sacrifice themselves for no apparent reason. You'd think NASA would pick astronauts who wanted to, you know, come back.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_9dab421d	comment	In the Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, the hero Will Turner seemed to have a curiously puppyish eagerness to sacrifice himself if that was at all likely to help matters. Jack even congratulates him as their fortunes take a dire turn, "And you get to die for Elizabeth...!"
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_a00491b8	comment	Escape From The Hokage's Hat: Naruto, natch. Due to his crappy childhood, No Social Skills, and Chronic Hero Syndrome, the kid is so messed up he feels the need to save EVERYONE and being unable to do so means he's useless (in his mind). When Hinata calls him on this and points out she protects him because she WANTS to and Shizune says they care and are trying to fight with him not for him, he has a hard time processing these facts because he doesn't consider himself worth it.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_a465e6bd	comment	Megumi Fushiguro in Jujutsu Kaisen tends to think about sacrificing himself the moment he starts losing a battle by summoning Mahogara, trying to summon it during a brief sparring match against Todo in school and later summons it in Shibuya against Haruta. Gojo points out this extreme self-sacrificial nature, telling Megumi to stop trying to throw his life away for no reason and advising him to break out of this mindset.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_a6a6e998	comment	A minor character in the Star Trek: Stargazer novels comes from a race that has a belief in Heroic Sacrifice as their Hat, and is constantly volunteering for suicide missions. And Picard and Gilaad keep turning him down, either because a science specialist wouldn't be the best option in the current circumstances, or because there isn't even a dangerous situation to send him into.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_aba7ffb9	comment	Rean in The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel will readily sacrifice himself at the drop of a hat if it allows other people to be safe. He's called out on this by nearly everyone with Jusis calling out Rean by trope name.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_b9b796cf	comment	Shirou Emiya of Fate/stay night, to an intentionally infuriating degree. Many characters call him out on this, and it comes back to bite him in more ways than simply being smeared across the pavement. Archer, and by extension Shirou himself, is a walking deconstruction of this trope, as is most clear in the Unlimited Blade Works route in the Visual Novel. The big reason this comes across as stupidity is that the first anime (and by extension, the Fate route) never explains or explores Shirou's behaviour and mindset like UBW does; In one rather disturbing example, Shirou is stabbed in the arm, and he's more concerned that Rin is now covered in his blood than the fact that he's got a giant stab wound in his arm.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_bb1b8e8c	comment	Critical Role: In Campaign 3, Ashton insists on being the one to absorb the shard of Rau'shan, even after he had been warned multiple times that it could have a catastrophic reaction with the shard of Ka'mort already in his body. Ashton's rationalization for this is that he is sick of losing people and was not willing to risk losing any of his friends, despite the fact that the ritual was uniquely dangerous for him and would have killed him if not for his Ring of Temporal Salvation and a stroke of extreme luck. The party is justifiably furious with him afterward, especially since he lied to them to get the shard in the first place. As soon as he's coherent again, Ashton admits that their reasoning was flimsy at best, and that in reality, they just wanted to feel hard done by so they could blame their problems on somebody else.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_bb55a676	comment	Legion of Super-Heroes's post-Zero Hour continuity gave Leviathan (Colossal Boy) something of this mentality, resulting in tragedy when Shrinking Violet attempts to use the Emerald Eye of Ekron to give her teammates their "hearts' desires". Leviathan's heart's desire turns out to be "to die a hero".
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: The Imperium has this trope as official government policy, with phrases like "it is better to die for the Emperor than live for yourself" as their mottos. Naturally, considering the setting, Senseless Sacrifices abound. May be justified, as there's plenty more where that came from. And taken even further with the Kriegers, Gas Mask Mooks with a WWI aesthetic and combat mentality from a planet that rebelled millenia ago and suffered massive atomic warfare. The survivors are a Martyrdom Culture to the point where their Commissars are there to stop them from performing suicidal actions instead of threatening them into the same.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_c2463c53	comment	Lenna in Final Fantasy V will commit any act of self-poisoning or self-injury on herself in order to help dragons, even when it's unclear why hurting herself will help them. This is taken to extremes that even Bartz finds himself rolling his eyes about. Very late in the game, when obtaining the Phoenix Summon, the player will discover that this is caused by extreme guilt over an abortive attempt to kill the last dragon.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_c2463c55	comment	Final Fantasy X: The resident Cid's first instinct when presented with any problem seems to be "catastrophically crash the airship into it". Other characters treat this with a mixture of humor and exasperation. Rikku lampshades this when they learn Guado and fiends have infiltrated the airship: All of Yevon is based on this. Not only do the martyrs' sacrifices not work, they give the local Eldritch Abomination a new host body.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The Doctor is known to get so passionate as to put themself right in the face of death to save someone or something they care about, be it a group of people they've barely met or one of their companions. The Tenth Doctor does this the most, daring the Daleks to go ahead and kill him in Evolution of the Daleks after they impassively murder a man who made an honest heartfelt plead for mercy. He also does this in The Poison Sky, when he is prepared to destroy an entire Sontaran Fleet, which is about ready to end all human life. But being so determined to give his enemies a chance to make a better choice, he insists that he goes up with the bomb to give the Sontarans a chance to surrender. The Sontarans themselves point out how stupid this is. This fact is even addressed in a fourth series episode, "Turn Left", where the Doctor dies before he can regenerate. Earth is then pretty much shot to hell, the Torchwood team all dies, and various other happenings occur that weren't supposed to. The episode does show the Earth could survive without the Doctor for a while, but only because he was able to teach former companions what they needed to know to save the world. Even then the world took substantial damage before it finally ended. The Doctor's tendency to do this is parodied in one of the comic strips, wherein in order to defeat the monster he steals a helicopter equipped with canisters of nerve gas and plans to make a suicide crash-run into the beast itself. After his farewell speech to his friends, one of his friends points out that the helicopter comes equipped with an ejector seat, which he then sheepishly uses. In the finale of the "Silence in the Library" two-parter, the Doctor explains that he'll have to hook his brain up to a computer and fry his brain to save the day. River Song then knocks him out and handcuffs him to a pole so she can sacrifice herself instead. He proceeds to throw a fit about someone else sacrificing their life for the good of others, without any apparent irony. There are MANY instances of this in the classic series as well, though the most egregious might be in "Mawdryn Undead" when he's willing to sacrifice his life so the villains can succeed in their plan (which happens to be their own deaths), in order to save two companions from extreme aging/de-aging (depending on which direction through time the TARDIS travels). Luckily the Brigadier touches himself (not in THAT way)...
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_c62995ba	comment	Child of the Storm has Harry, like in canon, as being unfortunately prone to this. By the sequel, however, he's being trained out of it, with many of his friends and family repeatedly (and loudly) reminding him that he doesn't have to do everything alone, let alone perpetually try and sacrifice himself. However, he does still tend to deem himself more expendable, on the grounds that he reckons that he's most likely to survive otherwise impossible to survive situations, or at least be resurrected by the Phoenix fragment within him - though that carries its own issues.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_cb6abea3	comment	Ryou Bakura of Yu-Gi-Oh! fame has a couple of moments like these.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_cb7392b7	comment	A Court of Thorns and Roses: Rhys will give anything and everything of himself at the first opportunity, even if it's unnecessary or if he'd be better off letting his loved ones help him.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_cc79f0e4	comment	Us and Them: Discussed in the sequel Life Renewed, Love Renewed, where Aeris and Sephiroth have a heart-to-heart where Seph brings up her self-sacrificial tendencies, but she protests that she's not just some tragic altruist waiting to go down in a blaze of glory.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_cd8905f6	comment	Baccano!'s Jacuzzi Splot has regularly demonstrated that he is willing to risk (or even hand over) his life for someone he's known for hours at most. His Victorious Childhood Friend has this to say about it, "He comes out on the losing end a lot but he's got a lot of friends."
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_d1fbfbbc	comment	Bella in The Twilight Saga is a variant — it's not that she wants to be a hero, it's that, as other characters sometimes lampshade, she blames herself for anything and everything that goes wrong. This leads to the same type of self-hatred (if not the same quantity) as The Atoner, and while she doesn't often have the opportunity to risk her life, she clearly considers herself more expendable than those around her, particularly Edward, but also her mother, father, unborn baby...
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_d3381e70	comment	Taken further in the sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier, where he tells Agent Hill to blow up the helicarrier with him in it, and making no attempt to even try to escape. And let's not forget that he is perfectly willing to die by the Winter Soldier's hands once millions of lives are no longer in jeopardy.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	Ash from PokÃ©mon: The Series has a major habit of doing this as one of his first options rather than a last resort, usually to protect pokemon. Examples include, but are in no way limited to: throwing himself between the death blows of Mew and Mewtwo to stop the life-threatening fighting going on between all the pokemon in the ring; trying to make his pokemon go into their balls to protect them from the cold while stranded in a blizzard and leave him to freeze to death outside without the protection of their body heat; and leaping off the roof of a skyscraper after Pikachu is knocked off it, catching Pikachu in mid-air, and then trying to put himself beneath Pikachu to shield him from the impact with the ground. In skirmishes outside of formal battles, he will also often block attacks on his pokemon with his own body, even though pokemon are almost invariably tougher and less hurt by physical attacks than humans are.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_de8f1f24	comment	Kingdom Hearts III has Braig accuse the entire main cast and their friends of this, sacrificing themselves for those who will sacrifice themself in turn, with no ultimate payoff in the end.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_defedb34	comment	In Shadow Hearts: Covenant, Gepetto accuses Yuri of being this. Given Yuri's guilt over Alice's death, he may very well subconsciously be a Death Seeker.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer Faith is a firm believer in redemption by death, particularly in Angel. It comes to a head in "Orpheus" where it's revealed she was a little too willing to go along with Wesley's dangerous plan.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_e34d9eac	comment	In Turgor Sister Death becomes this halfway through the game. Partly justified as it's a Heroic Sacrifice / Driven to Suicide.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_e4732abc	comment	Stargate Atlantis:
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Negi, the protagonist of Negima! Magister Negi Magi, is repeatedly scolded by Asuna for that. Kurt Godel may be one of these too. According to Nodoka's artifact, he himself was not involved in the attack on Negi's village, however Godel says that he has no intention of running from his sins and promises, once everything is over, to let Negi beat him to death if that's what it takes to satisfy Negi's desire for revenge.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_ebffc81f	comment	Mage: The Awakening has a Legacy called the Tamers of the Cave, who train themselves to be martyrs, then spend the rest of their lives looking for a cause to die for. If they become powerful enough, they can get the ability to bring someone back to life in exchange for their own death.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_f2bfed86	comment	Chrono from Chrono Crusade constantly feels the need to do this. Almost every time there's an attack on his group, he'll push away his comrades and jump in front of the attack. Arguably this is justified since Chrono is a demon with the ability to heal himself, but he still seems almost ridiculously obsessed with being the only one to take any damage.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_f3368832	comment	Buffyverse: Angel. If there's no evil around to throw himself in front of protecting innocents, he will either run out and find some more or he will wind up defending lesser evils while tormenting himself for doing so. It's a complex.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_f46fa37	comment	Cyrano de Bergerac: This trope is Lampshaded, Deconstructed, and justified with Cyrano. Lampshaded by Le Bret when Cyrano fights against one hundred men when all Ligniere asked was to sleep at his house. Later, Cyrano will rescue De Guiche's white scarf from enemy linesâ€¦ just so he can boast to De Guiche. Cyrano is badass enough to survive and win, but then the play deconstructs this trope showing how this attitude arises not only in perilous situations but in all aspects of the life of a person: Cyrano throws away every chance of glory or love he has. Le Bret continuously scolds Cyrano about this attitude. Cyrano simply says that he is trying to live without compromises, but the sad truth is that this trope is justified because Cyrano's attitude is the logical conclusion of a badass without any self-esteem raised in a Martyrdom Culture.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_f724b70d	comment	In Code Lyoko, Aelita is always ready to sacrifice herself when the situation becomes too much to handle for the heroes. Somewhat justified in that, throughout seasons 1 and 2, she's the only reason Team Lyoko keeps the Supercomputer on instead of just cutting the juice to finish off XANA — and also, Aelita believes she's an artificial being and not a human. She actually makes the Heroic Sacrifice in the episode "Just in Time", although JÃ©rÃ©mie manages to bring her back. Even after learning she's human after all, she still tries to cut off the Supercomputer in the season 2 finale "The Key".
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_f74b5f80	comment	In Babylon 5: Commander Jeff Sinclair actually gets called out for this by the fourth episode of the first season. Delenn's willingness to sacrifice herself at the drop of a hat is one of her defining characteristics. Paradoxically, it was Delenn's willingness to die that saved her and Sheridan from the Vorlon's inquisitor. He expected Delenn to simply be another "I'm the one to do this because I was born for a special destiny"; instead she flatly states that she's just doing what she can in the circumstances she's in, and it doesn't matter if she dies in the process (and even if she fails miserably) because someone else will just step up and take her place. Turns out the Vorlons were more interested in making sure they had a cause than a hero/martyr.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_f9b9dfe4	comment	In Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn: King Pelleas displays definite traits of the trope; he's quite happy to discover his death means freeing his country from the Deal with the Devil he unwittingly signed. The heroine Micaiah too; she can prevent the above by throwing herself in front of the weapon meant for Pelleas. It doesn't help that Micaiah's special ability is Sacrifice. She can take her own HP and transfer it to an ally. For a mage character with low HP and defense, this doesn't work too well...
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_fb9c177d	comment	Transformers. Optimus Prime (in various incarnations) has heroically sacrificed himself so many times, it's become a running joke. Of course, given that he's guaranteed to come Back from the Dead... This was deconstructed in the text story Prime Spark, where, after dying in the show, Armada!Prime meets the ghosts of his Generation 1 and Beast Machines counterparts; both tell him that it's more important for a leader to lead his troops than to sacrifice himself for some perceived mistake. This tendency may have hit its limit way back in the 1980s Marvel comic in which the big red truck sacrifices himself after discovering he has accidentally cheated in a computer game. To make it worse, here's how he "cheated": Megatron dodged one of his shots, which hit an opaque, featureless structure in the background. This structure happened to be a building in which some civilian models were. That's right! Despite winning and Megatron admitting defeat, Prime found out he accidentally hit some non-sentient non-people inside a video game, and that prompted him to forfeit for "cheating" and TEAR HIS OWN HEAD OFF IN FRONT OF EVERYONE. It should be noted that the situation that inspired the page quote was an aversion. While Optimus Primal was going to attempt a near-suicidal mission by ramming a Kill Sat with an exploding stasis pod, he had every intention of bailing out before he could die. Megatron sabotages the pod, which turns this into an unintentional Heroic Sacrifice. (Don't worry, Optimus got better.) In the Japanese exclusive series The Headmasters, Optimus sacrifices himself to bring a berserk Vector Sigma (the supercomputer at the heart of their home planet of Cybertron) back under control. Again, this situation was an aversion, as throughout the episode the Autobots are desperately trying to bring him the Matrix of Leadership so he won't have to use his own lifeforce (Optimus is Touched by Vorlons from carrying the Matrix for years, and so his lifeforce can act as a key to Vector Sigma). It unfortunately fails due to Decepticon interference: despite the Autobots successfully bringing him the Matrix, Vector Sigma begins to go nova before he can actually use it and Optimus is forced to sacrifice himself once again. This is played with in the IDW comics. Optimus is a lot more pragmatic there (to the point where the destruction of planets during battles with Decepticons is chalked up as acceptable collateral damage), but is still prone to doing things like throwing himself at the biggest, baddest threat on the battlefield. It turns out that he was once a super cop and did that sort of thing anyway since he really could handle just about any situation. When he's depressed or despondent (e.g. after the All Hail Megatron storyline) he acts like this, giving himself up to the humans in the hopes they'll forgive the other Cybertronians for the Decepticon invasion. IDW Optimus is a lot better about this in the Death of Optimus Prime oneshot, where he symbolically dies (i.e. gives up the name Optimus Prime) so his Autobots can remain on a restored Cybertron while he is exiled for being a living symbol of the now-ended war. He takes his old name of Orion Pax and immediately begins wandering space, doing good wherever he can like a knight errant. He's actually quite happy since he is no longer weighed down by The Chains of Commanding.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_fcf34eec	comment	Kaname chews Sousuke out for this behavior in the first volume of Full Metal Panic! after he insists she leave him behind and escape Sunan alone. As far as she's concerned, noble Heroic Sacrifices are neither noble nor heroic when you clearly don't care if you live or die, and if he really wanted to do something for her, he ought to live for her. So he does.
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Martyr Without a Cause / int_fda9c8b	comment	Bates from Downton Abbey has fit this trope on multiple occasions, making two false criminal confessions to spare other people and passively accepting a number of other undeserved punishments.
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Martyr Without a Cause	processingCategory2	Knight in Shining Tropes
Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Gall Force / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel - Northern War / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Transformers: Cybertron / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Aquaman (1991) (Comic Book) / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Avengers vs. X-Men (Comic Book) / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
SevenYearsAsAHufflepuff	seeAlso	Martyr Without a Cause
Danganronpa: Memento Mori (Fanfic) / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Fate/Harem Antics (Fanfic) / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Freefall (FarrenMaddox) (Fanfic) / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Friends by Your Side, Within and Without. (Fanfic) / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Think Before You Speak (MHA) (Fanfic) / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Game of Death / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Grizzly Man / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Oppenheimer / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Space Mutiny / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Transformers (Franchise) / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
A Certain Magical Index / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Boogiepop Series / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Crime and Punishment / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Down a Dark Hall / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Smile of Condemnation / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Spells, Swords, & Stealth / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
The Stranger / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
The Vampire Chronicles / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
The Vampire Diaries / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Weaveworld / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Chincha Islands War	seeAlso	Martyr Without a Cause
Ptitlegygw9hsyv7n5	seeAlso	Martyr Without a Cause
Case Closed (Manga) / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Double Arts (Manga) / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Fabricant 100 (Manga) / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Fushigi Yuugi (Manga) / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Mink (Manga) / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
PandoraHearts (Manga) / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Rurouni Kenshin (Manga) / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Smile Of Condemnation (Manga) / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Vampire Knight (Manga) / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
×××HOLiC (Manga)	seeAlso	Martyr Without a Cause
Castus Hollow (Roleplay) / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Mongrels / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Star Trek: The Original Series / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Cyrano de Bergerac (Theatre) / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Turgor (Video Game) / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth (Video Game) / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
True Remembrance (Visual Novel) / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Aurora (2019) (Webcomic) / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Code Lyoko / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Ashita no Nadja / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Transformers Alter Verse / Fan Fic / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- (Manga) / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause
×××HOLiC (Manga) / int_fc36853c	type	Martyr Without a Cause

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