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* ''FanFic/ClashOfTheElements'': Gemini, [[spoiler: [[{{SuperMarioRPG}} Geno]]]], and [[spoiler: Alpha]] pull off one of these moments in the very chapters that they end up joining the group in, saving the heroes from the outer guardian of the Lightning Palace, [[spoiler: Joe Dark]] and [[spoiler: The Dark Crystal King]] respectively.
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* ''FanFic/ClashOfTheElements'': Gemini, [[spoiler: [[{{SuperMarioRPG}} [[Videogame/{{SuperMarioRPG}} Geno]]]], and [[spoiler: Alpha]] pull off one of these moments in the very chapters that they end up joining the group in, saving the heroes from the outer guardian of the Lightning Palace, [[spoiler: Joe Dark]] and [[spoiler: The Dark Crystal King]] respectively.
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* In ''FanFic/{{Carpetbaggers}}'', Edmund shows up ''[[DragonRider on dragonback]]'' to rescue his siblings from mercenaries in what is pretty indubitably the fic’s most [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome moment]].
* In ''FanFic/{{Carpetbaggers}}'', Edmund shows up ''[[DragonRider on dragonback]]'' to rescue his siblings from mercenaries in what is pretty indubitably the fic’s most [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome moment]].
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* In ''FanFic/MegaManDefenderOfTheHumanRace'', ProtoMan borders on this when [[spoiler:he saves Mega Man from Bass in Episode 7]].
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* In ''FanFic/MegaManDefenderOfTheHumanRace'', ProtoMan [=ProtoMan=] borders on this when [[spoiler:he saves Mega Man from Bass in Episode 7]].
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* ''[[Fanfic/WelcomeToTheWorldOfPokemon Rebirth]] shows Ethan saving Whitney from Team Rocket in the nick of time.
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* [[HalfLife Alyx and Barney]] get this in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7466762/1/Between-Minds Between Minds]]'' when they [[spoiler: navigate an aerial battle against several gunships with a single helicopter, to drop an EMP on some Advisors.]]
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* [[HalfLife Alyx and Barney]] get this in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7466762/1/Between-Minds Between Minds]]'' ''FanFic/BetweenMinds'' when they [[spoiler: navigate an aerial battle against several gunships with a single helicopter, to drop an EMP on some Advisors.]]
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* In ''Theatre/PokemonTheMewsical'', Misty and Brock save Ash from Giovanni at the end.
** Earlier, Mr. Mime saves Ash and Gary.
** Earlier, Mr. Mime saves Ash and Gary.
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* ''FanFic/MegaManReawakened'' has Rush and Bon Bonne save Megaman in Arc 4, chapter 2.
** In Arc 4, chapter 4, Wily, Glyde, and Protoman help save Megaman from a rampaging Quentin Emerald.
** In Arc 4, chapter 4, Wily, Glyde, and Protoman help save Megaman from a rampaging Quentin Emerald.
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* ''FanFic/MegaManReawakened'' has Rush and Bon Bonne save Megaman Mega Man in Arc 4, chapter 2.
** In Arc 4, chapter 4, Wily, Glyde, and Protoman help saveMegaman Mega Man from a rampaging Quentin Emerald.
** In Arc 4, chapter 4, Wily, Glyde, and Protoman help save
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* [[HalfLife Alyx and Barney]] get this in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7466762/1/Between-Minds Between Minds]]'' when they [[spoiler: navigate an aerial battle against several gunships with a single helicopter, to drop an EMP on some Advisors.]]
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* Two fairly inexperienced adventurers in ''Fanfic/WarriorsOfTheWorldSoldiersOfFortune'' appear just in time to [[spoiler: save the protagonist before he gets caught up in the destruction of the portal]] at the climax.
* Two fairly inexperienced adventurers in ''Fanfic/WarriorsOfTheWorldSoldiersOfFortune'' appear just in time to [[spoiler: save the protagonist before he gets caught up in the destruction of the portal]] at the climax.
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* In ''FanFic/SlyWitsParadise'', [[TheyCallHimBarkeep the Shaman]] came just in time to save Celestia before a pack of hungry wolves killed her.
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* In ''FanFic/SlyWitsParadise'', [[TheyCallHimBarkeep [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep the Shaman]] came just in time to save Celestia before a pack of hungry wolves killed her.
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* In ''FanFic/SlyWitsParadise'', [[TheyCallHimBarkeep the Shaman]] came just in time to save Celestia before a pack of hungry wolves killed her.
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* ''{{Drifting}}'' has plenty of these moments. They usually result in Naruto earning friends or having another girl fall in love with him.
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* ''{{Drifting}}'' ''FanFic/{{Drifting}}'' has plenty of these moments. They usually result in Naruto earning friends or having another girl fall in love with him.
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* ''{{Drifting}}'' has plenty of these moments. They usually result in Naruto earning friends or having another girl fall in love with him.
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** [[VisualNovel/AceAttorney Phoenix]] gets saved just in time from [[spoiler:being attacked by timberwolves while he's lost in the forest]] by [[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Fluttershy]]]], of all people.
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** [[VisualNovel/AceAttorney Phoenix]] gets saved just in time from [[spoiler:being attacked by timberwolves while he's lost in the forest]] by [[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Fluttershy]]]], of all people.ponies.
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* A LOT of these happen in ''[[Fanfic/AceCombatEquestriaChronicles]]''. Lampshaded during the first group moment in chapter 6 of ''The Equestrian War'':
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* A LOT of these happen in ''[[Fanfic/AceCombatEquestriaChronicles]]''.''Fanfic/AceCombatEquestriaChronicles''. Lampshaded during the first group moment in chapter 6 of ''The Equestrian War'':
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* A LOT of these happen in ''[[{{Fanfic/AceCombatEquestriaChronicles}} Ace Combat: The Equestrian War]]''. Lampshaded during the first group moment in chapter 6:
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* A LOT of these happen in ''[[{{Fanfic/AceCombatEquestriaChronicles}} Ace Combat: The Equestrian War]]''. ''[[Fanfic/AceCombatEquestriaChronicles]]''. Lampshaded during the first group moment in chapter 6:6 of ''The Equestrian War'':
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* In ''FanFic/MegaManDefenderOfTheHumanRace'', in Episode 11, chapter 11, [[spoiler:Mr. Black saves the President from Wily's execution]].
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* In ''FanFic/MegaManDefenderOfTheHumanRace'', ProtoMan borders on this when [[spoiler:he saves Mega Man from Bass in Episode 7]].
** [[spoiler:Bass inadvertently saves Mega Man from the Killers in Episode 10]], restating his claim that he is the only one that is going to kill Mega Man.
** [[spoiler:Bass]] does this again in Episode 11, saving Roll from a collapsed building.
** In Episode 11, chapter 11, [[spoiler:Mr. Black saves the President from Wily's execution]].
** [[spoiler:Bass inadvertently saves Mega Man from the Killers in Episode 10]], restating his claim that he is the only one that is going to kill Mega Man.
** [[spoiler:Bass]] does this again in Episode 11, saving Roll from a collapsed building.
** In Episode 11, chapter 11, [[spoiler:Mr. Black saves the President from Wily's execution]].
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* ''FanFic/MegaManRecut'' has Duo slamming down to the moon to take out Wily and his minions in "The Mega Man in the Moon".
* In ''FanFic/MegaManDefenderOfTheHumanRace'', in Episode 11, chapter 11, [[spoiler:Mr. Black saves the President from Wily's execution]].
** Also in Episode 11, [[spoiler:[=ProtoMan=] saves Mega Man and the world by turning on Wily and detonating the Mad Grinder]].
* ''FanFic/MegaManReawakened'' has Rush and Bon Bonne save Megaman in Arc 4, chapter 2.
**In Arc 4, chapter 4, Wily, Glyde, and Protoman help save Megaman from a rampaging Quentin Emerald.
** Arc 5, chapter 1, has Roll save Robert from Magnet Man's Gravity Squeeze.
* ''FanFic/MegaManRecut'' has Duo slamming down to the moon to take out Wily and his minions in "The Mega Man in the Moon".
* In ''FanFic/MegaManDefenderOfTheHumanRace'', in Episode 11, chapter 11, [[spoiler:Mr. Black saves the President from Wily's execution]].
** Also in Episode 11, [[spoiler:[=ProtoMan=] saves Mega Man and the world by turning on Wily and detonating the Mad Grinder]].
* ''FanFic/MegaManReawakened'' has Rush and Bon Bonne save Megaman in Arc 4, chapter 2.
**In Arc 4, chapter 4, Wily, Glyde, and Protoman help save Megaman from a rampaging Quentin Emerald.
** Arc 5, chapter 1, has Roll save Robert from Magnet Man's Gravity Squeeze.
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* ''Fanfic/{{World As Myth}}'': Zenkichi comes to Kumagawa's rescue during his fight with [[spoiler:War God Mode Medaka]], and later [[spoiler:Hyuga]] does the same.
* ''Fanfic/{{World As Myth}}'': Zenkichi comes to Kumagawa's rescue during his fight with [[spoiler:War God Mode Medaka]], and later [[spoiler:Hyuga]] does the same.
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* ''Fanfic/FateRevelationOnline'': [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Shirou Emiya]] exists solely for this early on in the fic, to the point that he became known as the SixthRanger.
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* The fanfic collection FanFic/TheMonsterMash features a number of BigDamnHeroes moments particularity in ''Rarity: Blood and Water'' and ''Rainbow Dash: The Big Battle''.
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** Hobbes manages to save Calvin from Moe this way while riding his bike iTn ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesGetXtreme''.
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* Examples from Fanfic/{{the Calvinverse}}:
** Hobbes manages to save Calvin from Moe this way while riding his bike iTn ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesGetXtreme''.
** From ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'':
*** Hobbes and Socrates rescue Calvin from Sheila this way in [[Recap/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeriesS2E26TheAlienHuntress "The Alien Huntress"]].
*** Calvin bursts in with the box to rescue the others from a death trap in [[Recap/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeriesS4E6PartThree "Part Three"]], shortly after Andy says this:
--> "CALVIN, YOU'D BETTER BE AROUND HERE WAITING TO ''GET US OUT OF HERE!!''"
* Examples from Fanfic/{{the Calvinverse}}:
** Hobbes manages to save Calvin from Moe this way while riding his bike iTn ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesGetXtreme''.
** From ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'':
*** Hobbes and Socrates rescue Calvin from Sheila this way in [[Recap/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeriesS2E26TheAlienHuntress "The Alien Huntress"]].
*** Calvin bursts in with the box to rescue the others from a death trap in [[Recap/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeriesS4E6PartThree "Part Three"]], shortly after Andy says this:
--> "CALVIN, YOU'D BETTER BE AROUND HERE WAITING TO ''GET US OUT OF HERE!!''"
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* Since she's constantly [[RaceAgainstTheClock racing the clock]] Pinkamina from Fanfic/SeeingThePattern gets a number of these moments. The most impressive is when she saves Apple Bloom from a [[HeroicFireRescue burning barn]] by launching herself out of the Party Canon.
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* Since she's constantly [[RaceAgainstTheClock racing the clock]] clock]], Pinkamina from Fanfic/SeeingThePattern ''Fanfic/SeeingThePattern'' gets a number of these moments. The most impressive is when she saves Apple Bloom from a [[HeroicFireRescue burning barn]] by launching herself out of the Party Canon.
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* Since she's constantly [[RaceAgainstTheClock racing the clock]] Pinkamina from Fanfic/SeeingThePattern gets a number of these moments. The most impressive is when she saves Apple Bloom from a [[HeroicFireRescue burning barn]] by launching herself out of the Party Canon.
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* In ''[[Fanfic/PokemonMysteryDungeonReflectingBalance Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Reflecting Balance'', the main characters end up walking unprepared into a Monster House in Chapter 14 while looking for the Flygon who can help them find one of the missing crystals that is hidden somewhere in the desert. Luckily, the other two rescue teams that came along to help with the search show up, and distract the wild Pokémon while the main characters look for the exit to the dungeon.
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* In ''[[Fanfic/PokemonMysteryDungeonReflectingBalance Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Reflecting Balance'', Balance]]'', the main characters end up walking unprepared into a Monster House in Chapter 14 while looking for the Flygon who can help them find one of the missing crystals that is hidden somewhere in the desert. Luckily, the other two rescue teams that came along to help with the search show up, and distract the wild Pokémon while the main characters look for the exit to the dungeon.
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* In ''[[Fanfic/PokemonMysteryDungeonReflectingBalance Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Reflecting Balance'', the main characters end up walking unprepared into a Monster House in Chapter 14 while looking for the Flygon who can help them find one of the missing crystals that is hidden somewhere in the desert. Luckily, the other two rescue teams that came along to help with the search show up, and distract the wild Pokémon while the main characters look for the exit to the dungeon.
** In Chapter 19, the main characters end up in a Monster House again, and while better prepared this time, still find themselves in a difficult spot. Luckily, their friend Azure, who had recently evolved into a Marill, shows up and helps them fight off the wild Pokémon.
** In Chapter 19, the main characters end up in a Monster House again, and while better prepared this time, still find themselves in a difficult spot. Luckily, their friend Azure, who had recently evolved into a Marill, shows up and helps them fight off the wild Pokémon.
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** Similarly, in Part 15, a Hooviet army is about to wipe out the village that Misfit Actual and the Anti-Hooviet Rebels are protecting, when Commander Shepherd shows up with ''every'' armed ship in Cadence's flotilla and scares them off.
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* ''[[Fanfic/ConceptRoad Concept Road]]'' - Averted. Louis attempts to rescue the {{damsel in distress}}, [[spoiler: Mami Tomoe during her Heroic BSOD while facing Charlotte,]] but she winds up being the one to get the job done.
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* ''Fanfic/{{Downfall}}'': Ichigo sure thinks he's one when he arrives moments before Orihime's kidnapping is completed . Then [[spoiler: Nell]] shuts him down, hard. Makes sense, she ''is'' the Primera, after all.
** But in ''Fanfic/FateBlackReflection'', Ichigo '''DOES''' pull this off impressively. How impressively? He holds '''Excalibur''' at bay with a Getsuga Tenshou.
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* ''FanFic/{{Tiberium Wars}}'' has an ''epic'' moment when the [[SemperFi GDI Marines]] appear at the Langley AFB battle.
** [[spoiler: Havoc does this for Sandra Telfair in Chapter 16, as she escapes from Nod.]]
*** [[spoiler: During the battle for the Pentagon, GDI forces are being worn down by Nod's superior numbers and seven Avatars. And then the Mammoth tanks and annihalate Nod's forces.]]
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* [[OriginalCharacter Tiger]] pulls one in ''FanFic/DungeonKeeperAmi''. Ami was battleing [[GodOfEvil Crowned]] [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Death]] telepathicly, during the battle of Crowned Death's High Temple. Battleing and looseing, badly. Tiger possessed Ami while she is possessed by Crowned Death, a move so [[RefugeInAudacity inherently suicidal]] that she manages to (metephorically) sneak past the dueling minds and fill the massive, swimming fortress with high explosives useing Ami's link to Crowned Death. She even breifly goes OneWingedAngel doing it, too.
* A LOT of these happen in ''[[{{Fanfic/AceCombatEquestriaChronicles}} Ace Combat: The Equestrian War]]''. Lampshaded during the first group moment in chapter 6:
--> '''Firefly''': Seems like we've arrived in the nick of time. What does that make us, Thunder?
--> '''Lightning Bolt''': [[JustForPun Big Mane Heroines]], Flash!
* In Chapter 6 of ''Fanfic/EqualAndOppositeAttraction'', [[spoiler: Hayate]] is trapped in a pocket dimension of dark magic, slowly being mind-raped into a coma. In the next chapter, Negi hears her cry for help and acts accordingly. However it isn't so much his entrance that's flashy, but rather his EXIT.
* With a name like ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'' you'd expect [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Kyon]] pulls this trope often. You'd be right: saving Tsuruya from a some {{Yakuza}} ''twice'', Kanae from an upperclassman a few days later or to Sasaki when she was being kidnapped he can certainly do the titular trope.
** In Open Battle Arc IV, [[MagicalGirl Kyon's sister]] and [[MegaNeko Shamisen]] have one such moment.
* ''[[Fanfic/TheManWithNoName The Man with No Name]]'' crosses over ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' and ''Series/DoctorWho''. It would be weird if BigDamnHeroes ''didn't'' apply.
* ''FanFic/{{Renegade}}'': Kaidan Alenko [[spoiler: takes down Zaeed Massani in a mini mecha singlehandedly after the latter attempts to double cross Shepherd.]]
* [[FanFic/ThousandShinji "I]] ''[[FanFic/ThousandShinji hate]]'' [[FanFic/ThousandShinji playing the Big Damn Hero."]] (Emphasis and Capitalisation Academia Nut's)
* ''WebAnimation/TurnaboutStorm'':
** [[VisualNovel/AceAttorney Phoenix]] gets saved just in time from [[spoiler:being attacked by timberwolves while he's lost in the forest]] by [[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Fluttershy]]]], of all people.
** What witness pulls the obligatory ''Ace Attorney'' Big Damn Heroes moment by showing up just as Phoenix is about to lose the trial? [[spoiler:Surprise, it's Fluttershy again!]]
* Just as Calvin is sentenced to life in Azkaban in ''Fanfic/TheBestSevenYears'', Galaxoid and Nebular rescue Calvin by freezing time and teleporting him onto their ship
** This happens again in the sequel ''In Love and War''. Calvin breaks into the [[TransformersBeastWars Predicons]] base to rescue Susie. They do a pretty good job until they get to the air duct, which eats up a lot of time and ultimately causes them to get caught and captured by Waspinator of all people. And then the Maximals manage to rescue them.
* ''FanFic/JusticeLeagueOfEquestria'': In ''Mare of Steel'', Princess Luna breaks into [[GeneralRipper Steel Wing]]'s base to save Rainbow Dash/Supermare, and arrests him just after he essentially called her useless.
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* In ''FanFic/AndAgain'', Asahina gets one when she jumps in and kicks away Monobear when he tries to [[spoiler:murder Chihiro while their strongest classmates are off gathering weapons]]. This is followed quickly by [[spoiler:Mukuro, Sakura and Mondo getting back and opening fire before he can retaliate]].
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* In ''FanFic/PointOfSuccession'' when Beyond Birthday has the rookie Matt cornered in the basement of a creepy abandoned building and is about to start cutting him up-cue Light Yagami [[JustInTime making his]] [[GunFu guns-blazing]] DynamicEntry.
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* In ''DragonAgeTheCrownOfThorns'', Sten gets one and [[spoiler:it overlaps with a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind and BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind, since he is helped inside the mind of the resident GuileHero / MagnificentBastard dwarven prince Warden Commander, by a spell of the elven mage. Once inside, he helps him fight off a psychic attack on the Archdemon's part that would have lobotomized the Warden otherwise, if not killed him.]]
** A more recent chapter has not just Sten, but also Alim Surana (the elven mage Warden) and Leliana doing something quite similar, although, in this case, they have to [[spoiler:save him from his mind breaking down since the Archdemon's psychic attack is already over.]]
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* In the ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' story ''FanFic/HonorTrip'', this is best described as when Goku comes from otherworld and rescues Trunks from Future Cell just before the latter kills him.
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* ''FanFic/{{Forward}}'' uses this extensively, but being a ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' fanfic, that's no surprise, and its lampshaded and subverted as often as it is played straight.
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* ''FanFic/{{Enemy of My Enemy}}'' has two good ones: Vtan & Zerat [[spoiler:saving Perry from the desperate Outlander Elites]], and later [[spoiler:the Hunter pair [[DynamicEntry busting in]] to save a group of children from a Brute pack]].
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* ''Fanfic/TheLionKingAdventures'' features a lot of these moments between [[PowerTrio Simba, Nala and Haiba]]. There's hardly a moment where they're not rushing in to save the day.
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* ''[[FanFic/FriendshipIsMagicTheAdventuresOfSpike Friendship is Magic: The Adventures of Spike]]'': There's one early on when Spike saves Fluttershy from a group of Timberwolves.
** Rainbow Dash and [[spoiler: Princess Luna]] save Spike from the Diamond Dog grunts harassing him.
** The Doctor saving Ditzy from a group of changelings during their invasion.
* ''FanFic/TheImmortalGame'', being a WarFic, naturally is full of these. The crowner, however, belongs to ''[[ShrinkingViolet Fluttershy]]'' of all ponies -- in the third-to-last chapter, during the [[FinalBattle Battle of the Everfree]], she [[spoiler: saves the remainder of the [[LaResistance Loyalists]] from [[BigBad Titan's]] monster army by showing up riding ''the oldest and most powerful dragon alive'' and ''scaring the monsters away''.]]
* Happens several times in ''FanFic/InnerDemons'':
** First, [[spoiler: adult]] Apple Bloom, Lezard, and Spike save Applejack from a group of [[TheEmpire Neo Canterlot]] [[{{Mooks}} soldiers]] that have captured her.
** Likewise, Fluttershy saving Rainbow Dash from another group of soldiers about to finish her off [[spoiler: after [[TheStarscream Scootaloo]] left her for dead]].
** Shortly after, it looks like [[spoiler: Scootaloo]]'s forces are going to finish off the remaining protagonists, only for [[spoiler: Rainbow Dash to save Pinkie Pie, causing their Elements of Harmony to evolve to armor]], which is followed by destroying the soldiers and sending [[spoiler: Scootaloo]] running.
** Applejack breaks Rarity out of the dungeon and as they're escaping they're cornered by [[spoiler: the brainwashed Princess Luna]], who begins to wipe the floor with them before the other Element bearers burst through a window, and turn the situation into a successful fighting retreat.
** The Element bearers confront Queen!Twilight in Fillydelphia just before she -- in the middle of a VillainousBreakdown -- can execute Cadence in an [[VillainousIncest incestuous]], [[ClingyJealousGirl jealous]] rage.
* In the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'', [[spoiler:The FinalBattle with Fluttershy's SuperpoweredEvilSide, Princess Gaia/Nightmare Whisper, is going badly. The group are battered, beaten, and bloody, Rarity's pretty much completely out of it with broken legs and no energy left to use magic, and the only way to stop Nightmare Whisper seems to be Rainbow Dash performing a MercyKill. Thankfully, Fluttercruel [[LikeABadassOutOfHell fights her way out of]] the JuryOfTheDamned she was being tried by and manifests in the physical world. Not only does she give the others the motivation to summon the Elements, she fills in for Fluttershy as the Element Of Kindness, allowing them to defeat Nightmare Whisper with them.]]
** Part 6 of Shining Armor's Arc has a moment that combines this with GunshipRescue. When Shining and his griffon allies are about to be killed by [[BigBad General-Admiral Makarov's]] forces, the rest of Shining's squad shows up, followed shortly thereafter by the rest of the forces under his command, including several attack shuttles. Makarov wisely [[VillainExitStageLeft retreats]] at that point.
*** Directly before that, Thunderchild, one of Shining's squad, saved Shining from Makarov, who had him trapped in an AntiMagic force field spell and was going to beat him to death.
* The Battle of Cloudsdale in [[Fanfic/FaithAndDoubt The Abundance]]. The abstract Loyalty has brainwashed the masses, Twilight is down for the count and just for fun he decides to drop The Doctor and Dinky to their deaths. Cue two heroic arrivals: first, Derpy Hooves performs a SONIC RAINBOOM to save her daughter and The Doctor... then Trixie arrives with Faith, an army of former prisoners, and a massive airship to turn the tide and win the battle.
* ''FanFic/ThePowersOfHarmony'': Luna saves the Mane Six and their allies from [[BigBad Cetus]] and [[TheDragon Eclipse]] with a DeathFromAbove attack (they survive), followed by [[spoiler: teleporting them away and scattering them.]]
** Rainbow Dash pulling off the Sonic Rainboom (in this continuity, for the first time since she got her cutie mark) in order to save Esra and Tastar from a giant dragon.
* {{Subverted}} in ''FanFic/TheMixedUpLifeOfBrad''; when Twilight's boyfriend is being held imprisoned, she arrives and knocks out the guards. Brad imagines that any minute now she'll burst dramatically through the door and deliver a badass one-liner, but it turns out she just wants to talk to him--there's no point in freeing him anyway, as there's nowhere they can escape to. He has to persuade her to burst dramatically through the door (and deliver the one-liner).
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* ''FanFic/AGrowingAffection'' has multiple examples, but most notably: [[spoiler: the Jonin backup teams save the Naruto Rescue Squad from the One and Three-Tails. Team Kakashi saves the original Ino-Shika-Cho from the Paths of Pein.]]
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* In ''[[FanFic/TheSunSoul The Sun Soul]]'', there are more than a few moments when the heroes swoop in to save the day at the last possible second. Although the author seems to like making [[HeroWithBadPublicity them]] [[WasItReallyWorthIt pay]] for their [[ChronicHeroSyndrome constant heroics.]]
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* ''[[FanFic/TwoWeeksNotice Raccoon City Mosh Pit]]'' invokes this trope for a [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. [[spoiler:Matt, who has not been seen for the whole story up until now]] appears out of nowhere to [[spoiler:save Kate from Nemesis]] at the Clock Tower. The best part? They even say the dialogue, with [[spoiler:Matt]] as Mal and Kate as Zoe. Plus [[LampshadeHanging the chapter is titled 'Written by Joss Whedon'.]]
[[AC:''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'']]
* ''FanFic/ClashOfTheElements'': Gemini, [[spoiler: [[{{SuperMarioRPG}} Geno]]]], and [[spoiler: Alpha]] pull off one of these moments in the very chapters that they end up joining the group in, saving the heroes from the outer guardian of the Lightning Palace, [[spoiler: Joe Dark]] and [[spoiler: The Dark Crystal King]] respectively.
** [[spoiler: Rosalina]] does this as well in Chapter 46, saving Mario from dying at the hands of [[spoiler: Joe Dark]]
** In return, Mario does this for Alex in Chapter 54 [[spoiler: by stopping and destroying Joe Dark's sword from killing him in [[{{SingleStrokeBattle}} one-blow]]]]
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* ''{{FanFic/Respawn Of The Dead}}'' gives us [[spoiler:Scout]] rushing in whacking the [[spoiler:traitorous RED Spy over the head with his bat]], when the latter had the Engineer and Sniper at both gun and knifepoint, and had just before been suggesting that [[spoiler: he and the Engineer gang-rape Sniper]].
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* The beginning of the "Big Damn Heroes" moment in chapter 20 of Warhammer40000 fanfic {{FanFic/ToyHammer}} starts off with the main character running over a Daemonhost (an EldritchAbomination that has been summoned from a NegativeSpaceWedgie to [[DemonicPossession possess]] an already unlikeable monster) with a battered pickup truck. Then offloading the elite of the Warhammer40000 universe's armies (who have been miniaturized).
** Semi-subverted in that he still gets his ass handed to him about five minutes later, giving way to a ''second'' BigDamnHeroes moment in the ''same chapter'' by a ''10 year old girl'' (who has the unmodifiable psychic 'fingerprint' of [[spoiler: The God Emperor of Mankind.]]).
[[AC: ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'']]
* In ''[[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-fan-fiction/828948-transformers-meta.html Transformers Meta]]'', Wheeljack has one of these moments in the pilot episode, shortly after [[spoiler: Hound was contemplating having the team evacuate the ship while they were getting attacked by the ''Darksyde'']].
* ''Fanfic/{{Downfall}}'': Ichigo sure thinks he's one when he arrives moments before Orihime's kidnapping is completed . Then [[spoiler: Nell]] shuts him down, hard. Makes sense, she ''is'' the Primera, after all.
** But in ''Fanfic/FateBlackReflection'', Ichigo '''DOES''' pull this off impressively. How impressively? He holds '''Excalibur''' at bay with a Getsuga Tenshou.
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* ''FanFic/{{Tiberium Wars}}'' has an ''epic'' moment when the [[SemperFi GDI Marines]] appear at the Langley AFB battle.
** [[spoiler: Havoc does this for Sandra Telfair in Chapter 16, as she escapes from Nod.]]
*** [[spoiler: During the battle for the Pentagon, GDI forces are being worn down by Nod's superior numbers and seven Avatars. And then the Mammoth tanks and annihalate Nod's forces.]]
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* [[OriginalCharacter Tiger]] pulls one in ''FanFic/DungeonKeeperAmi''. Ami was battleing [[GodOfEvil Crowned]] [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Death]] telepathicly, during the battle of Crowned Death's High Temple. Battleing and looseing, badly. Tiger possessed Ami while she is possessed by Crowned Death, a move so [[RefugeInAudacity inherently suicidal]] that she manages to (metephorically) sneak past the dueling minds and fill the massive, swimming fortress with high explosives useing Ami's link to Crowned Death. She even breifly goes OneWingedAngel doing it, too.
* A LOT of these happen in ''[[{{Fanfic/AceCombatEquestriaChronicles}} Ace Combat: The Equestrian War]]''. Lampshaded during the first group moment in chapter 6:
--> '''Firefly''': Seems like we've arrived in the nick of time. What does that make us, Thunder?
--> '''Lightning Bolt''': [[JustForPun Big Mane Heroines]], Flash!
* In Chapter 6 of ''Fanfic/EqualAndOppositeAttraction'', [[spoiler: Hayate]] is trapped in a pocket dimension of dark magic, slowly being mind-raped into a coma. In the next chapter, Negi hears her cry for help and acts accordingly. However it isn't so much his entrance that's flashy, but rather his EXIT.
* With a name like ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'' you'd expect [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Kyon]] pulls this trope often. You'd be right: saving Tsuruya from a some {{Yakuza}} ''twice'', Kanae from an upperclassman a few days later or to Sasaki when she was being kidnapped he can certainly do the titular trope.
** In Open Battle Arc IV, [[MagicalGirl Kyon's sister]] and [[MegaNeko Shamisen]] have one such moment.
* ''[[Fanfic/TheManWithNoName The Man with No Name]]'' crosses over ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' and ''Series/DoctorWho''. It would be weird if BigDamnHeroes ''didn't'' apply.
* ''FanFic/{{Renegade}}'': Kaidan Alenko [[spoiler: takes down Zaeed Massani in a mini mecha singlehandedly after the latter attempts to double cross Shepherd.]]
* [[FanFic/ThousandShinji "I]] ''[[FanFic/ThousandShinji hate]]'' [[FanFic/ThousandShinji playing the Big Damn Hero."]] (Emphasis and Capitalisation Academia Nut's)
* ''WebAnimation/TurnaboutStorm'':
** [[VisualNovel/AceAttorney Phoenix]] gets saved just in time from [[spoiler:being attacked by timberwolves while he's lost in the forest]] by [[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Fluttershy]]]], of all people.
** What witness pulls the obligatory ''Ace Attorney'' Big Damn Heroes moment by showing up just as Phoenix is about to lose the trial? [[spoiler:Surprise, it's Fluttershy again!]]
* Just as Calvin is sentenced to life in Azkaban in ''Fanfic/TheBestSevenYears'', Galaxoid and Nebular rescue Calvin by freezing time and teleporting him onto their ship
** This happens again in the sequel ''In Love and War''. Calvin breaks into the [[TransformersBeastWars Predicons]] base to rescue Susie. They do a pretty good job until they get to the air duct, which eats up a lot of time and ultimately causes them to get caught and captured by Waspinator of all people. And then the Maximals manage to rescue them.
* ''FanFic/JusticeLeagueOfEquestria'': In ''Mare of Steel'', Princess Luna breaks into [[GeneralRipper Steel Wing]]'s base to save Rainbow Dash/Supermare, and arrests him just after he essentially called her useless.
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* In ''FanFic/AndAgain'', Asahina gets one when she jumps in and kicks away Monobear when he tries to [[spoiler:murder Chihiro while their strongest classmates are off gathering weapons]]. This is followed quickly by [[spoiler:Mukuro, Sakura and Mondo getting back and opening fire before he can retaliate]].
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* In ''FanFic/PointOfSuccession'' when Beyond Birthday has the rookie Matt cornered in the basement of a creepy abandoned building and is about to start cutting him up-cue Light Yagami [[JustInTime making his]] [[GunFu guns-blazing]] DynamicEntry.
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* In ''DragonAgeTheCrownOfThorns'', Sten gets one and [[spoiler:it overlaps with a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind and BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind, since he is helped inside the mind of the resident GuileHero / MagnificentBastard dwarven prince Warden Commander, by a spell of the elven mage. Once inside, he helps him fight off a psychic attack on the Archdemon's part that would have lobotomized the Warden otherwise, if not killed him.]]
** A more recent chapter has not just Sten, but also Alim Surana (the elven mage Warden) and Leliana doing something quite similar, although, in this case, they have to [[spoiler:save him from his mind breaking down since the Archdemon's psychic attack is already over.]]
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* In the ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' story ''FanFic/HonorTrip'', this is best described as when Goku comes from otherworld and rescues Trunks from Future Cell just before the latter kills him.
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* ''FanFic/{{Forward}}'' uses this extensively, but being a ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' fanfic, that's no surprise, and its lampshaded and subverted as often as it is played straight.
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* ''FanFic/{{Enemy of My Enemy}}'' has two good ones: Vtan & Zerat [[spoiler:saving Perry from the desperate Outlander Elites]], and later [[spoiler:the Hunter pair [[DynamicEntry busting in]] to save a group of children from a Brute pack]].
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* ''Fanfic/TheLionKingAdventures'' features a lot of these moments between [[PowerTrio Simba, Nala and Haiba]]. There's hardly a moment where they're not rushing in to save the day.
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* ''[[FanFic/FriendshipIsMagicTheAdventuresOfSpike Friendship is Magic: The Adventures of Spike]]'': There's one early on when Spike saves Fluttershy from a group of Timberwolves.
** Rainbow Dash and [[spoiler: Princess Luna]] save Spike from the Diamond Dog grunts harassing him.
** The Doctor saving Ditzy from a group of changelings during their invasion.
* ''FanFic/TheImmortalGame'', being a WarFic, naturally is full of these. The crowner, however, belongs to ''[[ShrinkingViolet Fluttershy]]'' of all ponies -- in the third-to-last chapter, during the [[FinalBattle Battle of the Everfree]], she [[spoiler: saves the remainder of the [[LaResistance Loyalists]] from [[BigBad Titan's]] monster army by showing up riding ''the oldest and most powerful dragon alive'' and ''scaring the monsters away''.]]
* Happens several times in ''FanFic/InnerDemons'':
** First, [[spoiler: adult]] Apple Bloom, Lezard, and Spike save Applejack from a group of [[TheEmpire Neo Canterlot]] [[{{Mooks}} soldiers]] that have captured her.
** Likewise, Fluttershy saving Rainbow Dash from another group of soldiers about to finish her off [[spoiler: after [[TheStarscream Scootaloo]] left her for dead]].
** Shortly after, it looks like [[spoiler: Scootaloo]]'s forces are going to finish off the remaining protagonists, only for [[spoiler: Rainbow Dash to save Pinkie Pie, causing their Elements of Harmony to evolve to armor]], which is followed by destroying the soldiers and sending [[spoiler: Scootaloo]] running.
** Applejack breaks Rarity out of the dungeon and as they're escaping they're cornered by [[spoiler: the brainwashed Princess Luna]], who begins to wipe the floor with them before the other Element bearers burst through a window, and turn the situation into a successful fighting retreat.
** The Element bearers confront Queen!Twilight in Fillydelphia just before she -- in the middle of a VillainousBreakdown -- can execute Cadence in an [[VillainousIncest incestuous]], [[ClingyJealousGirl jealous]] rage.
* In the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'', [[spoiler:The FinalBattle with Fluttershy's SuperpoweredEvilSide, Princess Gaia/Nightmare Whisper, is going badly. The group are battered, beaten, and bloody, Rarity's pretty much completely out of it with broken legs and no energy left to use magic, and the only way to stop Nightmare Whisper seems to be Rainbow Dash performing a MercyKill. Thankfully, Fluttercruel [[LikeABadassOutOfHell fights her way out of]] the JuryOfTheDamned she was being tried by and manifests in the physical world. Not only does she give the others the motivation to summon the Elements, she fills in for Fluttershy as the Element Of Kindness, allowing them to defeat Nightmare Whisper with them.]]
** Part 6 of Shining Armor's Arc has a moment that combines this with GunshipRescue. When Shining and his griffon allies are about to be killed by [[BigBad General-Admiral Makarov's]] forces, the rest of Shining's squad shows up, followed shortly thereafter by the rest of the forces under his command, including several attack shuttles. Makarov wisely [[VillainExitStageLeft retreats]] at that point.
*** Directly before that, Thunderchild, one of Shining's squad, saved Shining from Makarov, who had him trapped in an AntiMagic force field spell and was going to beat him to death.
* The Battle of Cloudsdale in [[Fanfic/FaithAndDoubt The Abundance]]. The abstract Loyalty has brainwashed the masses, Twilight is down for the count and just for fun he decides to drop The Doctor and Dinky to their deaths. Cue two heroic arrivals: first, Derpy Hooves performs a SONIC RAINBOOM to save her daughter and The Doctor... then Trixie arrives with Faith, an army of former prisoners, and a massive airship to turn the tide and win the battle.
* ''FanFic/ThePowersOfHarmony'': Luna saves the Mane Six and their allies from [[BigBad Cetus]] and [[TheDragon Eclipse]] with a DeathFromAbove attack (they survive), followed by [[spoiler: teleporting them away and scattering them.]]
** Rainbow Dash pulling off the Sonic Rainboom (in this continuity, for the first time since she got her cutie mark) in order to save Esra and Tastar from a giant dragon.
* {{Subverted}} in ''FanFic/TheMixedUpLifeOfBrad''; when Twilight's boyfriend is being held imprisoned, she arrives and knocks out the guards. Brad imagines that any minute now she'll burst dramatically through the door and deliver a badass one-liner, but it turns out she just wants to talk to him--there's no point in freeing him anyway, as there's nowhere they can escape to. He has to persuade her to burst dramatically through the door (and deliver the one-liner).
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* ''FanFic/AGrowingAffection'' has multiple examples, but most notably: [[spoiler: the Jonin backup teams save the Naruto Rescue Squad from the One and Three-Tails. Team Kakashi saves the original Ino-Shika-Cho from the Paths of Pein.]]
[[AC:''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'']]
* In ''[[FanFic/TheSunSoul The Sun Soul]]'', there are more than a few moments when the heroes swoop in to save the day at the last possible second. Although the author seems to like making [[HeroWithBadPublicity them]] [[WasItReallyWorthIt pay]] for their [[ChronicHeroSyndrome constant heroics.]]
[[AC:''Franchise/ResidentEvil'']]
* ''[[FanFic/TwoWeeksNotice Raccoon City Mosh Pit]]'' invokes this trope for a [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. [[spoiler:Matt, who has not been seen for the whole story up until now]] appears out of nowhere to [[spoiler:save Kate from Nemesis]] at the Clock Tower. The best part? They even say the dialogue, with [[spoiler:Matt]] as Mal and Kate as Zoe. Plus [[LampshadeHanging the chapter is titled 'Written by Joss Whedon'.]]
[[AC:''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'']]
* ''FanFic/ClashOfTheElements'': Gemini, [[spoiler: [[{{SuperMarioRPG}} Geno]]]], and [[spoiler: Alpha]] pull off one of these moments in the very chapters that they end up joining the group in, saving the heroes from the outer guardian of the Lightning Palace, [[spoiler: Joe Dark]] and [[spoiler: The Dark Crystal King]] respectively.
** [[spoiler: Rosalina]] does this as well in Chapter 46, saving Mario from dying at the hands of [[spoiler: Joe Dark]]
** In return, Mario does this for Alex in Chapter 54 [[spoiler: by stopping and destroying Joe Dark's sword from killing him in [[{{SingleStrokeBattle}} one-blow]]]]
[[AC:''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'']]
* ''{{FanFic/Respawn Of The Dead}}'' gives us [[spoiler:Scout]] rushing in whacking the [[spoiler:traitorous RED Spy over the head with his bat]], when the latter had the Engineer and Sniper at both gun and knifepoint, and had just before been suggesting that [[spoiler: he and the Engineer gang-rape Sniper]].
[[AC:''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}}'']]
* The beginning of the "Big Damn Heroes" moment in chapter 20 of Warhammer40000 fanfic {{FanFic/ToyHammer}} starts off with the main character running over a Daemonhost (an EldritchAbomination that has been summoned from a NegativeSpaceWedgie to [[DemonicPossession possess]] an already unlikeable monster) with a battered pickup truck. Then offloading the elite of the Warhammer40000 universe's armies (who have been miniaturized).
** Semi-subverted in that he still gets his ass handed to him about five minutes later, giving way to a ''second'' BigDamnHeroes moment in the ''same chapter'' by a ''10 year old girl'' (who has the unmodifiable psychic 'fingerprint' of [[spoiler: The God Emperor of Mankind.]]).
[[AC: ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'']]
* In ''[[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-fan-fiction/828948-transformers-meta.html Transformers Meta]]'', Wheeljack has one of these moments in the pilot episode, shortly after [[spoiler: Hound was contemplating having the team evacuate the ship while they were getting attacked by the ''Darksyde'']].
