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A heroic character wants to do something dangerous. Dangerous as in "you might be Killed Off for Real, or at the very least, maimed" peril. Before he can get started, one of his friends will knock him out and go to do the dirty work himself. Their reasoning as they do will fall along the lines of how their friend is more important than themselves and thus if one of them has to die, it shouldn't be him. Cue the Heroic Sacrifice. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Atoner is likely to pull this hoping for Redemption Equals Death. It's also likely to be someone with a Convenient Terminal Illness. It's often preceded by a More Hero Than Thou dispute, or deliberately pre-empting such a dispute. Usually part of an Only I Can Kill Him scenario — The Hero is too important to waste on this minor sacrifice preceding the big showdown. Alternatively, it could be needed to avert Shoot the Medic First. Puts the "Cannon Fodder" in We Are "Team Cannon Fodder" and is a standard Job requirement for the Hero Secret Service. Contrast Martyr Without a Cause. See also The Needs of the Many. Compare Men Are the Expendable Gender when gender matters more than character importance. Can overlap with Death Seeker, where characters are willing to die, but they cannot take their lives. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Death Trope. Spoilers ahoy. Examples: |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Midna is tormented through light exposure and left for dead; Link brings her to Zelda for help. Midna, reconciled to her own death, only asks Zelda to help Link complete the quest. Instead, Zelda gives up her own life, transferring her essence into Midna to restore her to full health. She gets better - both of them. | |
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In the Adventure Time episode "James", Finn, Jake, PB, and the titular James find themselves in a pit filled with radioactive candy zombies, and the only way out is if one of them performs a Heroic Sacrifice and distracts the zombies. Finn volunteers, but PB knocks him unconscious and sends James out instead, later telling Finn she did it because she can just clone another James, but she can't clone another Finn. | |
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In the Puella Magi Madoka Magica fanfic To the Stars, it is recognized in military policy that magical girls are more valuable to the war effort than entire platoons of ordinary troops, and so those troops are taught that it would be dishonourable for them to allow a teenagenote though some of them are Really 400 Years Old girl to die to save their skin. Medals are often given to soldiers who save magical girls, even if they had to disobey orders to do so. | |
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A classic storyline in The Mighty Thor featured Thor insisting on covering the escape of his colleagues and several innocent human souls from Hel, only to be cold-cocked by his former enemy Skurge. Cue extremely awesome You Shall Not Pass! moment. | |
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In Bleach, when Orihime and Sado are about to go and save some innocent bystanders from Yammy and Ulquiorra, he asks her to grab her friends and run, and leave the fighting to him - because she can heal people and he can't, so he's more expendable. She agrees but comes back just in time to stop the scene from doubling as a Heroic Sacrifice. "Just in time" being about a minute later. |
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Attempted in Wild ARMs 4, when Raquel (with her Incurable Cough of Death) tries to order Arnaud to leave her behind when the pocket dimension they've been trapped in begins to collapse. Arnaud essentially says "Nuts to that!" and drags her with him anyway, both narrowly escaping in time. | |
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Angel: In "Hero", unable to talk the title character out of risking his life, Doyle knocks him off the ledge instead, then disarms the bomb himself, dying in the process. | |
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A common theme in Chuck. Since the eponymous character has all the government's secrets in a computer in his brain, his handlers Sarah and Casey often tell him that his life is worth more than theirs when he objects to them risking their lives to protect him. | |
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When our heroes on Star Trek: Enterprise find the Xindi superweapon, they come up with a plan to destroy it—but doing so would be a Suicide Mission. Trip and Travis each argue to be the one to go on the mission, but Archer chooses himself, deciding that, after everything he's done in the Expanse, he won't order anyone else to die. | |
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Honor Harrington gets assigned a Cadre of Foreign Bodyguards who have great trouble convincing her of this. | |
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In Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea Ash and May are both trying and failing to repair the Sea Crown without being drowned in the flooding temple, until Ash finally tricks May into getting into an airtight emergency capsule ahead of him and locks her inside, explaining that she has to take care of Manaphy and Pikachu, and dives back into the depths of the temple alone to finish the repairs himself (as he expected, he winds up drowning in the attempt, although he is revived). | |
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The 1964 Looney Tunes short "Dumb Patrol"note not to be confused with an identically-named Looney Tunes short from 1931 starring Bosko begins with World War I pilot "Smedley", being selected to fly out the next day and take on Baron Sam Von Schpamm. The next morning, as Smedley is suiting up, Bugs Bunny knocks him out to take his place, claiming Smedley's "got a wife and six piglets at home." | |
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In order to get the plot-necessary magic power "Anfini" in Breath of Fire II, Ryu is told he must sacrifice the life of one of his friends. Naturally, everyone volunteers (after all, they're trying to save the world). As it turns out, you have to refuse to sacrifice anyone, since Anfini is The Power of Friendship and cannot be given to anyone who would sacrifice a friend in return for power. | |
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In High Plains Invaders, Jules lies about how serious his wound is, and about the fuse being damaged thus making the dynamite unusable, to make Sam change his mind about staying behind. Once Sam and Abigail are out of town, he sets of the dynamite, triggering the chain reaction that destroys the Bugs and the town. | |
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An accidental version in the mini-series Game, Set & Match. Bernard Samson is sent to do a black bag operation. It's pointed out that if Bernard is caught there will be questions in the House of Parliament, so one of his men offers to do the job instead as he's a nobody. Which is just as well for Bernard as a Booby Trap kills the safe-cracking team. | |
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At one point in D.Gray-Man, most of the cast is packed aboard a ship that is only kept afloat by Miranda's power, which keeps everything in a stopped-time state from before the damage was incurred. When the ship is attacked, several crewmembers fling themselves in the way of deadly attacks to protect her, on the reasoning that they've already taken mortal wounds and will die as soon as the spell is released anyway, but if Miranda dies, then everyone dies. | |
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Naruto: In a flashback, Hiashi Hyuga kills a Cloud ninja who'd tried to kidnap Hinata, resulting in the Cloud village demanding his death to appease them. The elders of the clan propose passing off Hiashi's twin brother Hizashi as him, since Hiashi is the head of the clan, while Hizashi is part of the branch family (i.e. more or less a servant to the clan). Hizashi himself approves of this plan and knocks Hiashi down with a blow to the solar plexus when Hiashi objects. There's a later one with Asuma and Shikamaru where Shikamaru wants to use a more sure-fire strategy that also happens to put himself at greater risk. The plan is shot down because of this. Oddly enough, it's actually more like 'Kotetsu and Izumo and more expendable than you' because Asuma would be on the frontlines anyway. But Asuma is the one who dies. |
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At the end of Fullmetal Alchemist, Greed and his human host Ling are being absorbed by Father. Greed, who is known for always telling the truth, falsely reassures Ling that they are going to fight together. With Ling distracted, Greed separates himself and allows himself to be absorbed, and then pulls a Taking You with Me on Father. | |
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Kamen Rider Zero-One: In order to complete Zero-One's Mid-Season Upgrade and stop the rampaging Assassin, Aruto's Humagear secretary Izu prepares to upload her memories of Zero-One's battle data; this will destroy her current body, and since her memories can't be copied into a new one it would effectively be the same thing as death. At the last second her "older brother" Wazu steps in and takes her place, saying that Aruto needs her by his side and her duties as his assistant can't end in such a way. | |
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In Metroid: Other M, Adam disables Samus with his ice gun, and specifically says "I'm no galactic savior" to her before going on to sacrifice himself in the destruction of Sector 0 and its ice-resistant Metroids. | |
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In Highlander, Duncan MacLeod is challenged by someone he seems ready to lose to, so Methos calmly shoots him dead and sets off to kill the guy himself. Duncan resurrects just in time to intervene, much to Methos' frustration. | |
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Went the Day Well?: The local policeman insists on being the one to risk trying to Bring Help Back because the Germans have threatened to execute the family of anyone who resists and they already killed his son. | |
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Discussed in In Another World I Am Called The Black Healer. Since healing magic is so rare, Cyan tells Renee that she simply cannot allow herself to die and that she must be prepared to let people die so that she can save more people in the future. | |
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In Attack on Titan, entire squads of soldiers are tasked with throwing their lives away if it means keeping Eren safe, because of how valuable his special abilities are. After learning about the circumstances under which his father stole the Coordinate ability and gave it to Eren, Eren deeply regrets coming to accept these sacrifices, and wonders if he deserves to be humanity's hope. | |
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In ½ Prince, when preparing to compete in a melee battle, the members choose the person most likely to survive and decide to protect Doll at all costs so they can win. When they later decide to split into groups of two to escape more easily, they're divided so one of them can sacrifice the other if they have to. | |
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In Cold Snap, the hero, Richard Jeperson, agrees to an Enemy Mine situation with the Diabolical Mastermind Derek Leech to deal with an inhuman prehistoric intelligence threatening the world. When they figure out how to communicate with it, Leech attempts to give Richard the slip so he can talk to it alone; when Richard catches up with him, Leech claims he did it because the procedure is risky but he's willing to give up his life to save humanity. Richard immediately and accurately calls this out as a lie. | |
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Franz in Gankutsuou (an anime variation of The Count of Monte Cristo), intentionally gets Albert too drunk to attend a duel with Edmond that Franz knows Albert wouldn't be able to win. Knowing that he also has no chance, he then puts on the armor, attends the duel in Albert's place, and is killed. | |
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The Golden Age: When the heroes learn the truth about Dynaman and Tex Thompson, they come up with a plan to reveal it on national television, knowing whoever does it will almost certainly be killed in the process. Hourman chooses to do it, but Miss America beats him to the punch. Then Robotman kills her, leaving Hourman to lament he should've been the one to die instead. | |
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In the The Dresden Files book Death Masks, Shiro faces Nicodemus and the Denarians at the airport while Harry goes to his duel with Ortega. When Harry returns with the other Knights of the Cross, they find Shiro severely tortured, and he soon dies of his wounds. Later on, Harry gets a letter that reveals that Shiro was Secretly Dying of cancer and intended to sacrifice himself all along. | |
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Air Force One plays this straight, inverts it, and then subverts it. The Secret Service agents on board the plane perform Heroic Sacrifices to get the President to safety but in the end, it is the President who stays on board to fight the terrorists after the rest of his (expendable) staff are evacuated. It's played straight again at the end of the movie where the damaged plane is about to crash and the remaining military personnel on board insist that the President evacuate the plane before them. However, The Mole is not willing to die for the President and fights him for the last evacuation slot. The President wanted to get his family off and MEDIVAC a wounded staff member before saving his own life. | |
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Birds of Prey: Huntress chooses to challenge Lady Shiva to a death duel, arguing that Black Canary would be more sorely missed. | |
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In Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew: Ash and Lucario at first both seem to cooperate in sacrificing themselves to power up a suicidal aura move to heal Mew and save the Tree of Beginning. However, as Ash's life force drains away and he begins to die, Lucario forcibly shoves him away and finishes the healing himself, and dies from it. It's strongly implied, from his body language and previous moments of foreshadowing, that he wants to spare Pikachu the same grief of losing a trainer that he suffered. | |
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Towards the end of Super Paper Mario, you lose companions one by one to this, until you're left to fight the boss battle yourself. It doesn't last, though. | |
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24: In season 7, Jack Bauer tries to kill himself to save the president, but Bill Buchanan points out the true masterminds of the day's events are still out there and only Jack can stop them and then sacrifices himself before Jack can argue. In season 2, George Mason, who was already almost dead from radiation poisoning, talked Jack into letting him make the Heroic Sacrifice, giving Jack a parachute and letting him jump to safety while George piloted the plane (and the nuke onboard it) to detonate away from Los Angeles. |
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This is pulled off twice in a row in MGLN Crisis. Chrono plans on staying on board the Claudia to fire off the Arc-en-ciel one more time but Griffith punches him in the face. Then when he's getting an unconscious Chrono into the last escape pod, Lucino pushes Griffith in as well. It later turns out that she survived. Both cases were preceded by the words It Has Been an Honor. | |
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Subverted at the end of the "Public Enemies" story arc of Superman/Batman: Captain Atom knocks out Superman so that he, Cap, can be the one to fly the weird Superman/Batman action-figure spaceship into the giant kryptonite meteoroid that's hurtling toward the earth, not because he sees Superman as less expendable, but because he knows Superman will fail. | |
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White Wolves II: Adam insists on making a dangerous climb down a cliff to look for Mr. Brennan when Scott volunteers first. This is partially because Adam wants to make up for accidentally knocking Mr. Brennan off the cliff and partially because Scott is the only teenager with experience in navigating the wilderness and the others will be in trouble if they lose him and Mr. Brennan. | |
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Homestuck: Rose does this to Dave during the sequence with Doc Scratch's scrapbook. Using a ball of yarn, no less. Then things get weird. Well, weirder. | |
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Nodwick: The title character, being a mere henchman, is considered far more expendable than the rest of the team in the eyes of teammates Yeager and Artax, who regularly do things like use him to disarm traps by throwing him into them when Piffany isn't looking. Piffany has to heal and/or resurrect him disturbingly often. And the whole plot of "A Kind of Tragic" stems from a side effect of Nodwick's frequent resurrections: The Immortals mistake him for one of them and his head rolls often throughout the book. While Nodwick has it worse than usual for henchmen, his situation in general is typical for the trade. Only one henchman has ever lived long enough to die of natural causes. |
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At the end of Armageddon, the crew draws straws to see who will stay behind to detonate the nuke on the asteroid. AJ draws the short straw, but Harry sabotages his suit at the last second to take his place, thinking it more important that his daughter have her husband than her father. | |
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In Dragon Age: Origins, if you reject Morrigan's proposal and take Alistair with you (and are female and pursued a romance with him), Alistair will sacrifice himself instead of you in order to kill the Big Bad. Prior to that Riordan volunteers, reasoning that since he has been a Gray Warden for far longer than the other characters, he has much less time left before the taint kills him. However, Riordan ultimately fails to kill the Archdemon, necessitating one of the other characters to make the sacrifice. |
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A rather horrifying case in Warbreaker, dozens of Hallandren priests attack a squad of Lifeless unarmed to protect Susebron for a few more seconds. | |
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Final Fantasy Legend III: One of the underlings of the Big Bad is defending the barrier machine that prevents the heroes from traveling to the Mt. Goht, the heroes try using the Mystic Swords that would kill the beast, but the barrier prevents even that from occurring, A bomb was planted in Dion in case of an emergency and he charges the machine and destroys it. Allowing the Heroes to defeat the enemy and advance. He is brought back to life through biomedical cloning at the end of the game. | |
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In Phantom Brave, Ash is prepared to perform a Heroic Sacrifice to prevent Sulphur from entering Ivoire. Walnut shoves him aside and does it instead. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Ant-Man: Why Hank wants Scott to pilot the Ant-Man suit instead of his more experienced daughter. It speaks of how distant they are that he never communicates it well. Scott, being a father himself, is quick to catch on. Avengers: Endgame: Clint and Natasha are on Vormir to retrieve the Soul Stone, which requires its would-be wielder to sacrifice someone they love. Both heroes insist on making the sacrifice themselves — Clint because he's seeking to atone for his violent fall from grace as Ronin, and Natasha because Clint has a family and she doesn't. They come to blows over it trying to prevent the other from going to their deaths, but ultimately it's Natasha who takes the fall. |
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Iron Man does this for Captain America, at one point asphyxiating himself in the process of (successfully) giving CPR. That time his reasoning is explicitly, 'He's more important', although he's tried to kill himself to save Cap several times. | |
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Annoyingly averted at the end of Fallout 3, where the three NPCs who are the most likely to actually survive the dangerous task all refuse to do it for you and the only NPC who is willing to do it but will die for sure has to be begged to go through with it. Retconned and played straight with the Broken Steel expansion, where the three companions can now go through with it. Annoyingly, the game still plays the ending cutscene that, basically, calls you a coward for doing the smart thing. Honor Before Reason indeed. Of course, even if you do it yourself in the expansion, you survive. |
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A very sad occurs in Farscape when someone has to initiate a process that will separate Moya from another ship and save the lives of everyone aboard her. The catch is that the person who starts the process has to do so from the other ship, which will be ripped apart. Both Crichton and Aeryn try to intervene, but Zhaan (who is already dying from having saved Aeryn's life earlier in the season) insists on doing it and is killed in the process. This Heroic Sacrifice was made for production reasons. Actress Virginia Hey, who played Zhaan, had been suffering allergic reactions to her extensive makeup. For some time, she was given limited face time to limit her exposure to the irritating cosmetics, but ultimately they decided to write her out of the show and chose this as the point to let her go out heroically. |
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In M.Y.T.H. Inc in Action, all of Skeeve's gang have reasons why they should be the one to kill the Queen. Big Julie cuts through it all by saying that as an old man he's the most expendable; the fact nobody would survive an assassination attempt on the Queen being the one thing that was going unmentioned, although it was the real reason none of them wanted to let someone else do it. As it turns out everyone sneaks off to do it in order to spare everyone else, but Skeeve turns up and resolves things without bloodshed. | |
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In Smallville, this mentality towards Clark is so firmly ingrained into Chloe she must have a dozen of near-deaths (and a handful of actual deaths) for him throughout the seasons. | |
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A non-lethal example in Stargate SG-1, where the team finds a second Ancient database, which can only be accessed by uploading it in its entirety into a brain. Unfortunately, modern humans haven't quite evolved to the point of surviving such an upload for long periods of time. Daniel tries to use it on himself when they are attacked, but Jack, who previously had one in his head, tells him that Daniel is the only one who can't do it since he's their only expert on the Ancient language and has to translate the ramblings of the "possessed" person. Jack then uses the device on himself again and ends up saving the Earth from an alien invasion. The two-parter ends in a sad moment when Jack has the team put him into a suspended animation chamber indefinitely in order to survive the sheer amount of knowledge. It is later revealed that no one else would've likely survived the upload, as Jack actually is the most advanced human on Earth, from an evolutionary point of view, possessing the Ancient gene and having intuitive control over their technology. |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Worf is about to sacrifice himself to delay a pursuing enemy. The aged and crafty Dahar Master Kor knocks him out and takes his place piloting the damaged ship (Worf is a young warrior in his prime, with many battles left to fight in this war and others, while Kor's mind is starting to slip and he has no more chances for a glorious death). His last words to the unconscious Worf are a promise that when he gets to Sto'vo'kor, he will tell Worf's dead wife of his bravery. Subverted during an escape from a Cardassian prison camp when four Bajorans stay behind to hold off the guards so that Li Nalas, a hero of the Bajoran resistance, can escape. Turns out Nalas is an Accidental Hero and carries a lot of guilt over people sacrificing themselves or looking up to him when he's not worth it. Nalas ends up gratefully Taking the Bullet to protect Sisko, who as The Emissary really is more important. |
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While the ending of Quest for Glory V is more Gondor Calls for Aid, the aid people will gladly sacrifice themselves if the hero tries to do so. | |
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The title character, being a mere henchman, is considered far more expendable than the rest of the team in the eyes of teammates Yeager and Artax, who regularly do things like use him to disarm traps by throwing him into them when Piffany isn't looking. Piffany has to heal and/or resurrect him disturbingly often. And the whole plot of "A Kind of Tragic" stems from a side effect of Nodwick's frequent resurrections: The Immortals mistake him for one of them and his head rolls often throughout the book. | |
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The season four finale of Archer sees Archer, Lana, Cyril and Ray trapped in a room at the bottom of the ocean that's quickly filling with water and only three sets of submarine suits available to swim out and to the surface. The dying station captain they're with tells them that one of them will have to drown and die, hopefully temporarily, while the other three get themselves to safety and try to resuscitate the volunteer. Archer immediately volunteers after Lana reveals that she's pregnant. | |
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In Mass Effect, on Virmire, Ashley tells Shepard to save Kaidan over her because he outranks her. Unfortunately, Kaiden makes the same plea, not wanting one of his soldiers to die because of him. It's up to Shepard whether to decide who to agree with, but neither is a desirable choice. | |
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The entire party in Tales of Symphonia pull off this trope, one by one in succession against the Malevolent Architecture of the (presumably) final dungeon, to make sure Lloyd makes it to the (presumably) final fight with the game's Big Bad. He is the only one who can properly wield the Sword of Plot Advancement that's needed to save the world, so if he died at any point in the process, nothing else anyone did would make any difference to the eventual outcome. Everyone's aware of this, which is why none of them hesitate to do everything necessary to make sure Lloyd is able to get through, no matter the price. | |
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In Star Wars: The Old Republic, When the Jedi Knight and his group plan to attack Korriban to kill or imprison the Emperor, Scourge mentions that the Jedi Knight's life takes priority because he is the only one who can face the Emperor. | |
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Exiles: During the V-Locks arc, someone needs to fly a plane full of bombs at the V-Lock base. Nocturne volunteers, only to be knocked out by Mimic, who's been feeling depressed for some time, and is down over what's happened to his lover Blink. Fortunately, thanks to some Asgardian cavalry, Blink recovers enough to save Mimic before the bombs explode. | |
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The end of the first season of Ronin Warriors has this happen when each of the main characters sacrifices themselves to save Ryo until only Ryo is left to face Talpa. | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh!: Capsule Monsters Yugi's friends argue that they're more expendable than he is and Alexander may have a point in saying to sacrifice them to win, but Yugi says that while he knows there's a lot at stake, they're his best friends and there's no way he'd desert them. Yugi then sends his monsters to help his friends, leaving himself defenseless. | |
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At the end of season 3 of Lost, Charlie volunteers to swim to the Looking Glass, which Sayid had intended to do. Then Sayid convinces Jack to lead the group to the radio tower while Sayid takes on the invading Others because Jack is the leader. | |
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In an episode of The Real Ghostbusters, Peter, Ray, and Winston use a device to go to the Netherworld to rescue Egon from a demon named Tolay; while searching the demon's dungeon complex, they meet another prisoner, an alchemist named Heironymus who has been there since 1690. Heironymus offers to help them find Egon and escape, but he has a condition - he wants to go with them. This becomes a problem when they manage to bust Egon out because the device they used can only transport four people back to Earth (no more, no less). Unwilling to break their promise, the four heroes start a four-way argument like this (not the best time, as a demonic army is closing in) but Heironymus then says he prefers to stay, saying that from what they've told him about how Earth has changed, he'd be even more out of place there. (They give him a proton pack before leaving to give him a fighting chance.) | |
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Perhaps the most famous example of the trope is found in A Tale of Two Cities when Sydney Carton takes the place of his look-alike Charles Darnay to be executed on the guillotine. He did this because he loved Darnay's wife and because he'd never before done anything he considered truly worthwhile. The origin of the "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done..." quote. | |
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Various Animorphs do this for Jake at various points, with or without his consent - especially toward the end of the series, when things are getting critical and losing him really would mean the end of the world. | |
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In Serpent Mage, when some women find out that they need to go alone in a submarine to an unknown destination to save their people, the boyfriend of one of them knocks her out and takes her place, managing not to get discovered until the ship has left. His reasoning was that he thought she would die and couldn't bear the thought of living without her. Everyone who goes in the sub ends up surviving the trip (though not necessarily the whole story), the girl left behind kills herself, believing her beloved to be dead and their people doomed. | |
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This happens to Thalia Ng in The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds. She's trapped with a bunch of civilians in an orbital habitat that's been taken over by rogue robots; she comes up with an escape scheme that begins by blowing up a bunch of structural supports, and then discovers that the timer on her explosives isn't long enough to make it away safely. The civilian she's been confiding in knocks her out, drags her away from the supports and sets the explosives himself. | |
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A couple of Star Trek: The Original Series examples: In "The Empath", aliens intend to use either Spock or McCoy for an experiment that is highly likely to cause death or permanent insanity. Spock declares that he is volunteering; McCoy overrules that decision by jabbing him with a hypo when he's not looking. Subverted in "Obsession", after Ensign Garrovick tries to knock out Kirk to take his place as bait for a blood-draining Monster of the Week. Kirk points out he wasn't planning to stick around long enough to actually be dinner for the creature. |
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In Les Misérables, the rebels try to keep Gavroche away from the line of fire since he literally is a child compared to them, and they say his life is more valuable. He doesn't listen. | |
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Played straight by Conseil and Ned Land when they give Aronnax some precious oxygen in the Almost Out of Oxygen situation, then conversed: | |
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In Pokémon 2000, Team Rocket, of all people, pull one of these. Lugia is flying over the ocean while trying to calm down the world-threatening fighting of Moltres, Zapdos, and Articuno, but is being weighed down by Jessie, James, and Meowth clinging to his leg after he rescued them. They realize this, and knowing that Lugia is the only one who can save the world, they let go, plummeting into the ocean with the full expectation that they're going to die. (They don't). Best of all, it's Jessie, the most mean-spirited and selfish of the three, who suggests it. In Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew: Ash and Lucario at first both seem to cooperate in sacrificing themselves to power up a suicidal aura move to heal Mew and save the Tree of Beginning. However, as Ash's life force drains away and he begins to die, Lucario forcibly shoves him away and finishes the healing himself, and dies from it. It's strongly implied, from his body language and previous moments of foreshadowing, that he wants to spare Pikachu the same grief of losing a trainer that he suffered. In Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea Ash and May are both trying and failing to repair the Sea Crown without being drowned in the flooding temple, until Ash finally tricks May into getting into an airtight emergency capsule ahead of him and locks her inside, explaining that she has to take care of Manaphy and Pikachu, and dives back into the depths of the temple alone to finish the repairs himself (as he expected, he winds up drowning in the attempt, although he is revived). |
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In Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor, Luke willingly and gladly risks his life for a stranger, who as it turns out knew Anakin Skywalker, being mind-controlled by the villain. A couple chapters on, that character, no longer controlled, is about to kill thirty other mind-controlled characters to save Luke when he realizes that Luke won't shrug it off like Anakin would have. He would be disappointed and sad. Luke would sacrifice himself to save thirty innocents. He'd sacrifice himself to save one innocent. He'd just almost sacrificed himself to save one not-so-innocent. Luke isn't expendable, but he doesn't seem to realize that at all. So this character has to take out the mind-controlled characters the hard, risky way. | |
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Early in the second season of Code Geass, Urabe uses this as justification to execute a suicide attack against Rolo in order to give Zero and the others time to escape and topple Babel Tower. Much later in the series when the Black Knights turn on Lelouch, Rolo sacrifices himself to rescue him, which he does by overuse of his geass. | |
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Avengers: Endgame: Clint and Natasha are on Vormir to retrieve the Soul Stone, which requires its would-be wielder to sacrifice someone they love. Both heroes insist on making the sacrifice themselves — Clint because he's seeking to atone for his violent fall from grace as Ronin, and Natasha because Clint has a family and she doesn't. They come to blows over it trying to prevent the other from going to their deaths, but ultimately it's Natasha who takes the fall. | |
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Game of Thrones: Daario is sent to fight Meereen's champion despite being the fourth to volunteer after Dany declared Grey Worm, Barristan Selmy, and Jorah Mormont too important to risk. | |
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Practically spoofed in Danny Phantom, when somebody has to wear the Exo-suit to defeat the Big Bad, but doing so might drain the wearer to death. Danny plans to knock everyone out to use it for himself, but that proves to be unnecessary as everybody else knocks each other out, each claiming that he'd do it. | |
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Used and then discussed in the Young Justice episode "Failsafe". The Earth is being invaded by aliens, which have already killed off 99% of the Justice League. Our heroes are making an evacuation via teleportation, but can only do so one at a time. A normal human general they've come across insists on going last since the super-powered individuals are more valuable than him, but The Leader Kaldur insists to at least let a wounded private escape first. When the aliens arrive, Kaldur than sacrifices himself so that Superboy could escape. Later, the characters realize that saving the private's life at the expense of their leader's was not a good tactical decision. Fortunately for everyone involved, it turns out to just be a training simulation gone wrong. | |
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Legion of Super-Heroes: Classic example from a Jim Shooter Legion of Super-Heroes story in which Ferro-Lad punches Superboy unconscious so that Ferro-Lad can be the one to martyr himself stopping the Sun Eater instead, on the grounds that the world needs Superboy more. This has since been aped repeatedly. There's also the first Comic Book Resurrection, Lightning Lad's - Mon-El reveals a process that can revive a person, but it requires that person to be struck with a powerful bolt of lightning, which will kill the person struck but revive the dead. Saturn Girl, blaming herself for Lightning Lad's fate, plots to use a special metal that attracts electricity more so she can revive the fallen Legionaire, but Chameleon Boy's pet, the shapeshifting Proty, decides otherwise and lures Saturn Girl away, taking her place and sacrificing itself. |
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In the Warhamer 40,000 background fluff, it's implied Sanguinius did this to Horus so the Emperor could win. This being 40k, however, things didn't go quite as planned... | |
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In The Amazing Story Of Superman Red And Superman Blue, the Man of Steel is going to use a dangerous, untested device. Supergirl tries to convince him to let her take his place, since the world cannot afford lose its greatest hero, but Superman argues he cannot allow his cousin to risk herself for him. | |
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In Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, the situation of the kids' captivity is such that one who kills another will almost certainly die themselves. Even so, in chapter two, Fuyuhiko still wants to take revenge on Mahiru for her role in his sister's death...but just as he's about to strike, his bodyguard/assassin/best friend Peko steps in and attacks her on his behalf. Fuyuhiko is devastated; Peko doesn't care. Something similar happens during chapter four. All the kids have been trapped in a building devoid of food and water and are told that they won't be able to leave until someone dies. They all try to stave off starvation until they wake up and see that Nidai has been murdered, and when Gundam is eventually unveiled as the culprit, he reveals that he and Nidai had met in secret and agreed that one of them had to die so everyone else could live, so they engaged in a Duel to the Death to decide. |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Princess Twilight Part 2", when the Mane Six and Spike venture into the dangerous Everfree Forest to investigate why it's expanding uncontrollably, they are attacked by a Cragodile. After defeating it, Applejack suggests (and the other ponies agree) that Twilight should go back to Ponyville and let the others continue the mission without her, because she is the only princess left in Equestria at the moment and they can't afford to lose her. | |
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In The Undesirables, this is essentially the reason why Starlight Glimmer joins the team Luna puts together as an alternative to using the Elements of Harmony — she feels that the Elements are too important to risk as a first response to every potential threat, but sees herself, due to her past actions, as less important and okay to risk before the Mane Six. | |
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Doctor Who: "The Ark in Space": Minor character Rogin knocks the Doctor out and puts him a safe distance away from the ship, which will kill anyone underneath it once they release the locking mechanisms necessary to send the Wirrn out away from the Ark. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart does this to the Doctor in "Battlefield", punching him to the ground with the exact words "Sorry, Doctor, but I'm more expendable than you are." It was also averted in the classic series on occasion. One time, a UNIT Ascended Extra suggested he be the subject of a dangerous experiment instead of the Doctor, and the Doctor promptly refused. "The Poison Sky": The Doctor is about to make a Heroic Sacrifice when Luke Rattigan switches places with him so he can do it instead. In Luke's case, it's also Redemption Equals Death, as he wants to make up for helping the Sontarans to begin with. In "Forest of the Dead", the Tenth Doctor is saved from frying his brains out in order to save the day when an old friend he hasn't met yet, River Song, handcuffs him to the wall and sacrifices herself instead. An inversion occurs in "The End of Time", when the Doctor sacrifices himself for Wilf, a minor recurring character who happens to be pushing eighty. Wilf even begs him not to do it, basically citing this trope. In "The Time of Angels", Amy tries to tell the Doctor to go on without her, thinking that she's about to die because she can't move. The Doctor, has other ideas, breaking the illusion that was keeping Amy in peril. In "The Almost People" it is the "gangers" (clones) who make the heroic sacrifice, including the Doctor's ganger. |
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At the end of Thoroughbreds, When Lily and Amanda are sitting together watching TV, Amanda moves to take a sip from the glass she's holding, but Lily suddenly stops her and confesses that she drugged it so she could go murder her stepfather upstairs and pin the crime on Amanda, who would have no alibi. She apologizes for trying to throw her under the bus, but Amanda just looks at the glass and chugs it anyway, content with being locked up if it means that the best and only friend she's ever had will go to college and be happy. | |
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Gran Torino contains an excellent example. The protagonist locks the kid in his basement, then goes out to the gangsters' place and intentionally gets murdered in front of many witnesses, getting the gangsters put in jail. He was dying of cancer and did not want the kid to destroy his future by trying to get revenge on the gangsters. | |
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Reese has a habit of doing this in Person of Interest, especially when it comes to Finch, taking on stupid amounts of Mooks and jumping into the line of fire to protect his friend; even going so far as to come back for a Big Damn Heroes moment to save his best friend after he quit the team. His excuse? | |
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In a Shadow Game on Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yugi and his friends (who have all been turned into monster cards) are facing Bakura's Man-Eater Bug, which will destroy whoever attacks it. Tristan's ready to take the hit for his friends, but Joey gut-checks him and launches the attack instead. | |
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In The Young Victoria, Albert takes a bullet that was meant for Victoria. When she later asks him why he did it, he says, "I am replaceable and you are not." | |
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Superman: Subverted at the end of the "Public Enemies" story arc of Superman/Batman: Captain Atom knocks out Superman so that he, Cap, can be the one to fly the weird Superman/Batman action-figure spaceship into the giant kryptonite meteoroid that's hurtling toward the earth, not because he sees Superman as less expendable, but because he knows Superman will fail. In The Amazing Story Of Superman Red And Superman Blue, the Man of Steel is going to use a dangerous, untested device. Supergirl tries to convince him to let her take his place, since the world cannot afford lose its greatest hero, but Superman argues he cannot allow his cousin to risk herself for him. |
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In the Exosquad episode aptly titled "Expendable", the Able Squad outright invokes this on Sean Napier, saying that despite being an elite unit, they are still more expendable than the leader of the entire Terran resistance. | |
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At the climax of Disney's The Black Cauldron, the Cauldron Born have been created and dispatched to conquer the world, and the only way to prevent them from doing this is that someone must jump into the titular cauldron, and thus, die. The hero, Taran, is ready to do so until his ally Gurgi stops him. After explaining that "Taran has many friends, Gurgi has no friends", the furry guy makes his heroic leap, halting the undead warriors in their tracks. Even though this is a dark Disney animated film (arguably THE darkest), it is still a Disney animated film, so Gurgi's life is brought back in trade for the Black Cauldron at the end of the movie. The book has the Jerkass Prince Ellidyr do it instead, for a very permanent Redemption Equals Death. |
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Sailor Moon: In the first season, the Sailor Senshi all sacrifice themselves, protecting Sailor Moon and preventing her from rescuing them, just to get her to Queen Beryl. Done again in the final season, with all the Senshi giving up their star seeds (and thus dying) so that Sailor Moon can fight Galaxia. | |
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Ant-Man: Why Hank wants Scott to pilot the Ant-Man suit instead of his more experienced daughter. It speaks of how distant they are that he never communicates it well. Scott, being a father himself, is quick to catch on. | |
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While Arthur’s fate in Red Dead Redemption II was sealed with his TB diagnosis, he stays behind right before his death to let his friend John escape unscathed because John has a wife and a child to worry about while he doesn’t. | |
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Mean Rabbit: When the League of Villains assaults the USJ, Izuku attempts to save his Sadist Teacher Aizawa from the Nomu. Aizawa painfully spits out "Why?", and Izuku responds that it's "You or me. Better a fuck-up than some pro, right?" | |
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In yet another variation, one Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water story has Grandis volunteering to take her tank (and her two minions) out to clear a minefield that's pinned in the Nautilus, mostly to show off to Nemo. Her boys' reaction? Sanson cold-cocks her and leaves her in the cabin while they go out on a near-suicide mission. Fortunately Jean stows away on the tank, and he is NOT expendable, even in a Gainax show. | |
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In Ciaphas Cain's first adventure, when his attempt to escape ran into a Tyranid horde, he explained that he had guessed it and scouted; when his commander said he could have sent someone else, Cain says that he's the most expendable officer in the company. | |
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Empowered: When given the choice between using a single-use, low "bandwidth" teleportation device to escape a crippled space station as a colleague with a deep-space capable alien battlesuit flushed herself out the airlock to try gliding to safety or insuring her own death by hijacking said colleague's limbs and forcing her to teleport out; the telepath Mindf**k cited this trope when picking the latter. | |
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In The Bridge, when Grand King Ghidorah assaults the Xilian homeworld, the Xilians devise a means to transform one of them into a kaiju to try and fight him off. The original plan by the empress, Controller 011, was for her to ascend as her duty to her people and because her genetic augments gave her a better chance of survival. Her bodyguard and husband however begged to differ, knocking her out and taking the transformation in her place to become Monster X. | |
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Dragon Ball Z: Vegeta knocks Trunks and Goten out before using his suicide attack against Buu. He did the same thing to Goku earlier, but that was when he still planned to survive and get the glory. Also, much earlier in the series, Gohan (who is only five years old at the time) doesn't actually knock Piccolo out, but tells him to stay out of the fight because if he dies, they lose the Dragon Balls meaning that everyone who has died so far will be Killed Off for Real. Not that it stops Piccolo once Gohan is in danger... Also, in Trunks's timeline, Gohan does this to Trunks before the fight where the Androids finally kill him. Another interesting example during the Saiyan Saga where Yamcha volunteers to fight the Saibamen before Krillin, as the latter had already been wished back to life with the Dragonballs during the original series, whereas Yamcha hadn't. This - along with a case of failing to make sure his enemy was down - leads to Yamcha's death. |
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In X-Men, Wolverine and Cyclops argue over who should sacrifice himself to resurrect Jean after her Heroic Sacrifice. The Phoenix nips the argument in the bud by explaining that the lifeforce needed to save Jean can be taken from multiple donors without anyone immediately dying, though all of their lives would be shortened. | |
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At the end of the second season of Primeval, Cutter attempts to stop the escape of several prehistoric beasties: but is only able to do this by sealing a door from their side. Stephen Hart knocks him out and takes his place instead. In this case, Stephen atones for sleeping with Cutter's wife. |
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ElfQuest runs a similar bit early in the Troll war arc. The Elves are escaping from overwhelming numbers and Kahvi, the chief of the local tribe is set to play rear-guard. Vaya, one of her warriors, knocks her down and orders the other elves to take her, "She'd fight till they tore her to pieces, and that's a warrior's privilege, not a chief's!" before taking over the rear-guard. Later we learn that Vaya is Kahvi's daughter. | |
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The Epic of Gilgamesh: Before Gilgamesh and Enkidu set off on their first adventure, the people of Uruk makes Enkidu promise to bring their king back alive. | |
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Merlin: In the series 1 finale this happens twice, first with Merlin declaring that Arthur's life is worth a hundred of his own and then - when it becomes clear that the deal was for a life, not necessarily Merlin's, and his mother becomes dangerously ill - Gaius sacrifices himself in Merlin's place. It doesn't last, as Merlin realizes that killing the witch who cast spell in the first place also worked and used her as the sacrifice. Happens in the fourth series premiere. They need to sacrifice someone to heal the veil between the worlds, and Arthur thinks it should be him. Merlin wants to take his place, since, as a servant, his life is more expendable. When the time comes to sacrifice someone, Merlin knocks Arthur out and offers himself to the gatekeeper of the spirit world. As they're talking, Lancelot sneaks behind him and walks through, providing the necessary sacrifice. A non-lethal example occurs in "Lancelot and Guinevere" when Gwen trips while escaping from bad guys with Morgana. Morgana wants to help Gwen keep going, but Gwen insists on staying behind so Morgana can escape. Presumably, Gwen thinks she's more expendable since she's a servant and she wants to protect her best friend. |
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In the Battlefield Earth Film of the Book, Jonnie explains that the only way to ensure the Psychlos don't return is to wipe out their homeworld with a nuke, as their breath-gas reacts explosively with nuclear radiation. He decides to divert the nuke himself, but another man (a little cowardly) offers to go in his place, as there's no rebellion without Jonnie. Jonnie eventually agrees. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry offers to make a blood offering instead of Dumbledore, only to be told "Your blood is is worth more than mine." For the same reason Dumbledore drinks the poison instead of Harry, and the last spell Dumbledore casts is an immobilization charm to keep Harry still under his invisibility cloak, and thus, unnoticed by the Death Eaters who were coming to kill Dumbledore, which made him unable to defend himself from them. A variant in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, spelled out in the film, when Ron sacrifices himself in the chess game because he knows that Harry is the one who needs to confront Snape and Voldemort. "Not me, not Hermione, you!" |
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At the end of Ultima VII Part II: Serpent Isle, a life must be sacrificed to restore the Chaos Serpent. The Avatar draws the short straw, but his companion Dupre dives into the crematorium in his stead. | |
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