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Shanira: Added an extra note to the Grom Hellscream entry. A lot of people keep forgetting that Night Elves were corrupted by demons in a similar manner as the Orcs. Makes me rather iffy when folk paint Grom as some innocent hero, given he's the whole reason Orcs needed to break away from the blood curse in the first place.
I always wanted to kill off Adric. Definitely a Kimberly. Wouldn't Boromir from Lord of the Rings be a good example?
Ununnilium: The last example should probably be somewhere else.
Tabby: Agreed, pulled, pasted here for future reference:
Of course, the writers normally wouldn't let a regular die, so sometimes someone who does this turns out to be alive — turning it into a Disney Death:
- Ozzy And Drix, "Street Up": Drix has just caused a zit. The twosome decide to suck up some toothpaste and spray it at the fat in the zit. After spraying for a while, Drix decides to drop it all (plus himself!) on the zit. It works... and just when Ozzy and Maria are mourning him, he comes out alive. "Thanks to my protective coating!"
Travis Wells: So what's the deal with the spoilers here? B5 isn't spoilered, but Evangelion is. Gundam SEED is, Gurren Lagann (which JUST FINISHED AIRING THIS MONTH, IN JAPAN, no translations yet) isn't.
Kilyle: Not to mention, is the troper who spoilered The Bible trying for irony?
Fake Nog: Or just for funny. (I chortled at it m'self. Then realised that I wouldn't have caught the reference ten years ago, and was humbled).
Hydro Globus: I like having fun with spoiler tags and I remember spoilering some Bible... spoilers You Should Know This Already-es, so maybe I was it. I don't remember this one though.
Echo Hotel : Is there a page for when one hero has to knock out the other to take his place in a Heroic Sacrifice cause the other has "too much to live for"? Something like Pistol Whip Of Love or something?
Elzarynn: That would be More Expendable Than You.
Fallingwater: I added an entry to Ghost in the Shell's Tachikomas sacrificing themselves in the end of 2nd GIG to save the island from an atomic bomb. Said entry has vanished. I'd like to know why it was removed, since it really seemed to fit the trope.
Servbot: Did you add it recently, or sometime before January? If it's the latter, there's a good chance that The Great Crash ate it.
Fallingwater: Yeah, has to be that. Re-adding it now.
I read Tassadar's sacrifice here. While in the first game, it was indeed a heroic sacrifice, in the expansion, I can't help it was completely useless, given that the protoss flee Aiur soon after, and the Zerg just regroup and attack even sooner. Am I the only one who thinks this? If not, he may not deserve this trope!
Hydro Globus: Tassadar won precious time for the Protoss to evacuate and the Zerg forces became disoriented for quite a long time before Kerrigan came along. Tassadar could not possibly foresee the UED coming, so I think, even while ultimatly unsuccessful, Tassadar does fit here.
Fallingwater: removing the example of Kerrigan from Starcraft. She doesn't perform a heroic sacrifice - she gets sacrificed by Mengsk, against her will. There's nothing heroic, especially considering the final result of the whole operation.
For the record, if I'd been the one sorting the page I'd probably have made a "Web Fiction" instead of a "Webcomics" section, and lumped Armageddon and Survival of the Fittest in there. It just makes more sense to me. —Document N
Anonymous troper: Add an example from In Bruges under Films. Hope I didn't overuse the Spoiler tag, I don't want to spoil the heartbreaking moment for anyone who hasn't watched it yet. ;)
Not The Anonymous Troper That Was Above: Would anyone mind adding some examples that the English-speaking people who will predominantly be reading this can identify? It's odd reading the "Three kinds of Heroic Sacrifice" and seeing the 'Beginning' and 'Middle' examples consisting of names I simply don't recognise. Surely it isn't that hard finding some good American/British works of fiction with this trope coming before the end?
